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Chapter 169 Instead of running away, he walked towards me.

A deafening roar came from beside them as a terrifying blade of energy, tens of meters long, grazed past them, crushing the spider father and sister's bodies like a dump truck, before carving a long trench in the ground with its remaining force.

The wind howled, and trees were broken.

A cloud of smoke and dust rushed towards them amidst the rumbling roar, choking Tanjiro and Inosuke, causing them to cough violently.

The two hurriedly covered their mouths and noses with their sleeves, barely managing to open their eyes through the smoke and dust, and looked at the devastated woods ahead with lingering fear.

"This was... done with your knife?"

Inosuke said with a hint of trepidation.

Tanjiro snapped out of his daze and exchanged a glance with Inosuke beside him.

Just as he was about to speak, another loud noise came from the deep mountains not far away.

The two looked at each other, and Inosuke whispered, "He didn't kill all the demons in the mountains, did he?"

Looking at the horrific scene before him, Tanjiro nodded and said, "That's possible!"

Inosuke whispered, "So... should we still go look for him now?"

Tanjiro had previously thought that the mountains were fraught with danger and that with three burdens, it would be difficult for them to make it out alive. He felt it would be safer to stay with Lin Yu.

But now, Lin Yu has already remotely killed all the evil spirits except for Lei.

Even without Lin Yu by their side, they could still bring these three burdens out of Spider Mountain...

After a moment's thought, Tanjiro firmly declared, "Follow them!"

Inosuke nodded without asking why, then picked up one of them, turned around, and faced Tanjiro with his back to him.

Tanjiro tied another person to his back, picked up the last person, and together with Inosuke, rushed towards the direction from which the Qi Blade was coming.

……

……

The auras of the three evil spirits vanished completely. Lin Yu lowered his altitude slightly and turned his gaze to the treetops below.

Among the treetops, a young man in white robes stood on sturdy spider silk, staring blankly at him.

Through the white bangs, Lin Yu could clearly see the two large characters '下伍' (Lower Rank 5) etched in the boy's left eye. He was none other than the Lower Rank 5 of the Twelve Demon Moons—the Spider Demon 'Rui'!
"Oh ho ho~ Instead of turning around and running away, you're walking towards me?"

Lin Yu looked at the boy with a smile, and said with great interest, "I really admire your courage. Knowing that you're going to your death, you still dare to come in front of me..."

"Death?"

The boy remained expressionless, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

In the next instant, his fingers, which were hanging by his side, suddenly twitched, and streaks of scarlet spider silk immediately attacked from all directions, binding Lin Yu, who was suspended in the air, into a red dumpling.

"I've already tried it!"

The boy gazed at the red spider cocoon before him and said calmly, "The air currents you unleash are powerful, but they have their limits; they can't possibly sever my Blood Spider—"

"Pfft!"

Before the words were finished, a dazzling flash of light erupted from the blood cocoon.

The blood-red spider silk, as hard as steel, snapped instantly, revealing an unharmed figure within.

The boy's pupils contracted, and he hurriedly leaped backward, creating a ten-meter distance between himself and Lin Yu. He stared at Lin Yu with a look of utter astonishment and said:
"How can this be?!"

"What's impossible?"

Lin Yu raised his Nichirin Blade, gazing at the blade as he said calmly, "You thought that sword energy just now was my ultimate move?"

"No, that was just a basic attack!"

"The reason it can kill evil spirits is because it contains a trace of sunlight. In essence, your subordinates were all crushed to death by tons of sunlight..."

Can sunlight be measured in tons?

The boy's eyelids twitched, and his face grew even more gloomy.

Lin Yu ran his fingers over the blade, causing it to glow with a soft, shimmering light. Then he looked up at the boy and said calmly, "You dared to attack me after only secretly sensing the sword energy—little guy, you've got some nerve!"

Before he finished speaking, a tremendous sense of crisis suddenly arose.

The boy's pupils constricted sharply, and he hurriedly waved his five fingers, shouting, "Blood Demon Technique - Engraved Line Prison!"

"Shh-"

In an instant, strands of blood-red spider silk attacked from all directions, wrapping around Lin Yu's arm.

Lin Yu's body shone with golden light, transforming into an amber-like protective shield. Despite the bombardment of the surrounding blood-red spider silk, he raised his hand without hesitation and pointed the Nichirin Blade at the sky.

"I've heard that ghosts in this world are only afraid of sunlight..."

Lin Yu raised his Nichirin Blade high and said calmly, "Why don't you help me verify whether the demons of this world are truly immune to the Heavenly Thunder that can suppress all evil!"

"Boom!"

Before the words were even finished, the sky changed color, and dark clouds rolled in.

The black curtain spread out like a vortex, swallowing the last ray of bright moonlight.

Amidst the deafening thunder, blue-white lightning surged deep within the clouds, resembling blue-white dragons weaving and intertwining at the center of a vortex, brewing a thunderstorm vortex with a diameter exceeding a hundred feet. Strands of electricity leaped from the Sun Wheel Blade in Lin Yu's hand, faintly connecting with the branching lightning above.

This scene resembled the legendary Thunder God descending to earth, a celestial being descending to the mortal realm, drawing the attention of everyone in the mountains as they stared in astonishment and awe at the figure entwined with lightning in the sky.

"...What is that?!"

The water columnist, Yoshiyuki Tomioka, who rushed to the rescue, looked up at the sky and, suppressing his shock, uttered these words.

Shinobu Kocho, the Insect Pillar, and the other Demon Slayer Corps members were also staring at the sky in shock.

"boom!"

The next instant, a dazzling blue-white lightning bolt crashed down, striking the terrified figure fleeing in front of Lin Yu.

"what!!"

The terrified boy fled with a pitiful wail. His demonic body crumbled inch by inch under the ravages of lightning, but was constantly repaired by his extremely strong self-healing ability.

The cycle repeats itself, with the two sides locked in a constant struggle.

In the end, lightning prevailed. In just a few seconds, his self-healing ability couldn't keep up with the speed of lightning's destruction. His flesh and blood disintegrated and vanished in the blue and white arcs of electricity, turning into nothingness...

But this was not the end. The raging lightning continued to spread, destroying the forest within a hundred meters radius, before finally stopping right in front of Tanjiro and Inosuke.

The two stopped abruptly, staring in shock at the charred crater more than a hundred meters in diameter ahead.

Inside the pit, trees, soil, and rocks were all shattered and melted by the violent lightning, turning into cooled crystals that adhered to the pit walls.

Beneath the stormy, thunderous clouds, Lin Yu lowered his Nichirin Blade, gazing calmly at the charred marks in the center of the giant crater, and said, "This proves that even the demons of Demon Slayer can't withstand heavenly lightning..."

After saying that, he glanced at Tanjiro and Inosuke at the edge of the crater, then immediately descended in front of them and said irritably:
Why haven't you two left yet?

"..."

Tanjiro and Inosuke exchanged a glance.

The former chuckled awkwardly and cautiously began, "Um, my knife..."

Lin Yu's lips twitched, and he was about to answer when he suddenly frowned, as if he had discovered something, and turned to look at the center of the pit.

If observed with the naked eye, the pit is obviously empty.

But in Lin Yu's view, a semi-transparent, thin figure suddenly appeared in that place. Judging from its delicate features, it was the same figure as when it was in human form.

Or to be more precise, we are exhausted by the human soul!

However, at this moment, Lin Yu saw more than just his soul.

Before him, a door, invisible to ordinary people, suddenly opened, behind which were two souls with faces somewhat similar to his, and a raging sea of ​​fire.

"That's... hell?"

Lin Yu raised an eyebrow and looked at the three of them thoughtfully.

In the world of Demon Slayer, there is indeed such a hell, where those who do evil in life will fall into hell after death and suffer the torment of karmic fire.

As for the current scene, it is related to Lei's backstory.

When he was still human, he was born weak and even found it difficult to walk. Muzan, who had a similar experience, gave Rui his own blood out of sympathy, turning him into a demon.

As a result, Lei did gain a strong body, but he also began to live a life where he had to eat people.

His parents felt extremely guilty and believed that they could not let their son continue to harm innocent people. Therefore, with the intention of going to hell together, they planned to kill their son first and then atone for their sins with their own deaths.

When Lei sensed his parents' murderous intent, he was consumed by rage and believed that the bond between him and his parents was false. In a fit of anger, he killed his parents in retaliation.

Afterwards, he belatedly realized his mistake and had some understanding, but in the end he was still deceived by Muzan and lost himself. He began to capture weak demons and started a decades-long game of pretend in order to find the so-called true bond.

Even now, having perished in a bolt of lightning and lost his demonic body, he has regained his human sanity.

Looking at his parents smiling and welcoming him at the gates of hell, he was overcome with grief and tears streamed down his face.

He thought he could never repent to his parents again, but he never expected that his parents' souls would linger on the edge of hell, wanting to fall into hell with him to atone for their sins.

Looking at the family of three embracing each other tenderly on the edge of hell, Lin Yu couldn't help but sigh, lamenting the terrible things Muzan had done.

Souls and hell are things that mortals like Tanjiro and Inosuke certainly cannot see.

All they could see was Lin Yu staring intently at the bottom of the pit, sometimes sighing, sometimes lamenting, as if he were seriously ill.

The two looked at each other, and Tanjiro carefully chose his words before cautiously saying, "Sir, I..."

Before he could finish speaking, Lin Yu's expression changed again.

Moreover, unlike before, this time it's a negative change.

In an instant, an indescribable sense of oppression spread out, making Tanjiro and Inosuke feel breathless and unable to help but look at Lin Yu in fear.

Lin Yu's face was grim, his dark eyes staring at the sky as if they could pierce through the void and see scenes beyond the world.

Indeed, that was the case. The reason he suddenly changed color was because he sensed the movement of that mysterious force.

After circling the silver sphere once, the mysterious power originating from the chat group suddenly veered off course, flashed a few times, and vanished into the dark and deathly silence of the void…

What does it mean?
Could it be that there are no qualified group members in this world?

(End of this chapter)