Demon Slayer: Can I add points to my Breathing Technique?

With Thunder Breathing pushed to its limit, the Nichirin Blade unleashed countless crisscrossing lightning strikes, tearing a gap in the vine net in front of the demon.

He broke through the encirclement, his entire body enveloped in lightning, and struck Lingyuzi like a real lightning bolt.

Undeterred by the momentum, Lu Zhixing's final slash nearly cleaved her in two!

Lingyu screamed as he was cleaved away and crashed heavily into the rubble.

Xia Xi also stopped, slightly out of breath.

Because of the poison... was that stab slightly off-target?

"Big radish! I'll give you the antidote right away." Shinobu Kocho rummaged through her medicine box, anxiously extracting toxins from the surrounding vines, trying to concoct a new medicine.

Upon hearing this, Zero, who had fallen to his feet, glared and was about to attack Shinobu.

However, upon seeing Igarashi beside her, she could only grit her teeth and pretend not to have heard, turning her gaze towards Natsumi.

"I know! Thunder Breathing only has six forms, right?"

"The six techniques have been used up, and you've been poisoned too..."

Seeing that the Storm Pillar and Shinobu Kocho did not intervene, she stood up unsteadily and clasped her hands together again.

"And I can regenerate! This battle is..."

Her words stopped abruptly.

She saw the swordsman opposite her change his Nichirin Blade to a one-handed grip.

With his other hand, he slowly drew a second knife from his waist.

The blade reflected the lingering lightning, as intense as noodles soaked in broth.

It's Uni-President Pill.

"The Thunder Breathing technique passed down by the Demon Slayer Corps and Nikaido only has six forms."

He lifted the three generations of Master Kang to his upper body with one hand, and swayed them diagonally from his back shoulder like carrying a sword.

With his other hand, he tilted the Tongyi Maru forward, pointing the sword at Lingyuzi.

"But now, it is my Breath of Thunder."

Chapter 76 Zero Leftovers, I'm already done.

In the history of Kendo in the Far East.

There is a tradition of embellishing swordsmanship with poetic language.

This results in many sword moves sounding incredibly powerful, but the actual movements are quite simple.

For example, the kasaya-zhan (袈裟斩).

Essentially, it involves a diagonal cut along the shoulder, and it is named for its resemblance to the front of a kasaya (Buddhist robe).

Another example is the reversed kasaya.

It's an upward slash that follows the same path as the previous kesa slash, but in the opposite direction.

Ultimately, it's all about having a nice-sounding name.

Just like the same sword move, the phrase "falling from the heavens into the abyss" used by cultured people sounds more profound than the common people's "black whirlwind slashing down".

However, the sword techniques that accompany the breathing method are quite different.

They are not just a combination of skills and force.

Instead, it involves following the rhythm and frequency of the breathing method itself, and moving in accordance with the natural flow.

In other words, when certain breathing techniques are required, one must actively adjust the rhythm of their breathing to match them.

The sword stance is derived from breathing techniques.

Breathing techniques created sword stances.

This is a principle that Xia Xi gradually came to understand after reaching LV.4 in Thunder Breathing and undergoing arduous training with Igarashi.

Just like stretching makes you feel more comfortable when you yawn.

Or, when people feel cold, they unconsciously shake their legs to warm themselves up.

When one's spiritual cultivation is insufficient, one never feels that there is anything wrong with these instincts, but when one's level reaches a certain point, one will gradually realize that they are essentially two different things.

They just happened to work together under certain rules.

All the inherited breathing techniques and sword stances.

These are all special paths found among countless rhythmic points during the operation of the breathing technique.

It is a [high-speed channel] that unleashes power and slashing techniques in conjunction with breathing exercises.

Use different sword techniques in battle.

It involves continuously combining these rhythmic fragments of breathing techniques to create temporary "high-speed channels," allowing power to erupt in the most efficient way.

It's also the [Water Surface Slash] from the Water Breathing technique.

If the breathing technique is not activated, or if the breathing technique is activated incorrectly, it will just be an ordinary horizontal slash.

A horizontal slash performed by randomly manipulating breathing techniques cannot be called a "water surface slash".

It means "after practicing the breathing technique, perform a horizontal slash".

Only by combining the techniques passed down from ancient times with the correct power application can one create a perfect arc that is calm as a mirror and swift as a flowing stream.

This is the standard [First Form: Water Slash].

But this... implies something else.

As long as you can understand and combine the correct rhythm of breathing, follow its inherent flow, and then combine it with appropriate attacking movements.

It can also produce an effect similar to the [Sword Style].

Or rather, it's about creating your own sword shape.

Even if it's not the best combination, it's enough to unleash the power of "1+1>2".

At this moment, Xia Xi was already wielding two Nichirin Blades, operating a "breathing X sword technique" combination that no other Thunder Breathing swordsman had ever tried.

For beginners, knowing how to use the breathing technique in sword stances is sufficient.

Experienced practitioners begin to understand the connection between breathing techniques and sword stances.

And Xia Xi, at this moment, is about to perform his own version of Thunder Breathing.

It's not Iaijutsu.

It wasn't a thrust.

But...

【Full episode...】

He lunged forward.

With even greater decisiveness and smoother speed than before, he lunged towards Zero's defensive circle!

It follows the most natural and coordinated power generation logic of muscles and bones when wielding dual swords.

It is a unique fighting style belonging to Xia Xi.

It wasn't a straight line of violent lightning.

Instead, it was a constantly pulsating, leaping, brilliant arc of electricity.

Brushing against the edges of layers of vines, gliding nimbly through the gaps in their surging onslaught.

Ultimately, like a passionate and rugged warrior, he forcefully entered the girl's heart and body.

Ignoring the other party's resistance.

They also ignored the other party's modesty.

Under Ling Yuzi's astonished gaze, Xia Xi had already moved close to him.

It is a combined strike that combines two attacks into one.

The two intersecting bolts of lightning were not unleashed simultaneously, but rather their speeds varied yet remained perfectly integrated.

With a right slash, he swept away all her hasty defenses and tore apart the last layer of vines.

The left slash traced along Ling Yuzi's fair and delicate upper body.

This sword is named...

Breath of Thunder

[Seven Type: Ga-ryu·Nikaido Tsunasasa! 】

If the slash power of an ordinary swordsman is set to 10.

With the aid of breathing techniques, it can reach 15.

Under full concentration, it may be possible to exceed 25.

If the slash is replaced with a sword technique based on breathing, it can approach the 40 mark.

At this moment, Xia Xi, whose energy level has exceeded 200, swung his sword with a breathing technique under the full concentration.

There can only be one outcome.

In that tiny time difference when the lightning struck, the demon was cleaved in two diagonally along its shoulder.

The ghost's blood gushed out like a waterfall.

The entire sanatorium was stained like a bloody execution ground.

The zero remainder became an "infinite remainder," and the two bodies fell onto the dilapidated ground.

"What...what happened?"

The demon girl's pupils dilated violently, and she screamed repeatedly, "It hurts! It hurts! You brat, how dare you hurt me like this!"

Xia Xi turned around and looked down at the evil spirit.

The moonlight shone down from behind him, completely obscuring his face in shadow.