Fox Demon: Heaven rewards diligence; I will eventually achieve divine mastery of martial arts.

Towards the end, they talked about very ordinary things.

Tanjiro Kamado talked on and on, while Nezuko listened with great interest.

Although she cannot speak, Nezuko always expresses a variety of emotions through facial expressions or body language.

Tanjiro Kamado felt that time was always exceptionally peaceful.

This period of time alone between the two naturally ended with the return of Urokodaki Sakonji.

Sakonji Urokodaki, still wearing his tengu mask, instinctively froze upon seeing Tanjiro Kamado return and smile. He then quickly walked over, extended his hand, paused again, and finally said:

"Welcome back. It seems the trial went very well."

"Yes, Mr. Urokodaki, I also unexpectedly learned about the experiences of your disciples during the trials over the years."

Tanjiro Kamado said solemnly.

"My disciple...how did you know..."

Urokodaki Sakonji paused for a moment; this matter had always been a knot in his heart.

He believed that all the disciples he taught were capable enough to pass the trials. After all, he had participated in the capture of ghosts before and knew the true strength of the ghosts in the trials.

Over the years, many of his disciples died in the trials, so he began to doubt whether his judgment was wrong. Therefore, he would raise the strength threshold for his disciples to participate in the trials every time he taught them, hoping that some of his disciples would be able to break through this barrier.

However, after Tanjiro Kamado appeared, he stopped worrying, but Tanjiro Kamado brought it up again.

"Is such that……"

Tanjiro Kamado recounted his encounter with the Hand Demon, detailing the events in great detail.

Although he wouldn't tell Makomo and Sabito that they still existed on Mount Sagiri, he felt he should tell Urokodaki Sakonji about the Hand Demon.

After he finished speaking, Urokodaki Sakonji fell into a long silence.

He never imagined that the cause of what he had been so troubled by was the evil spirit he had personally captured.

The world is full of wonders, or perhaps it's a cycle of cause and effect?

"Mr. Urokodaki, I think this is just a coincidence, please don't overthink it."

Tanjiro Kamado saw through Sakonji Urokodaki's inner turmoil and spoke up.

"No, I just think about cause and effect, and reincarnation."

Urokodaki Sakonji shook his head.

His momentary daze was fleeting. To him, perhaps his disciple did die partly from the evil spirit's resentment towards him, but the real culprit was the Hand Ghost.

He had no regrets about his ghost-catching mission.

After all, many people do not become ghosts voluntarily. If the blame is to be placed on one person, then there is only one person who can be chosen.

That is the King of Demons who created evil spirits.

Unfortunately, he was unable to kill the opponent back then, and he couldn't even find any trace of the King of Demons.

He couldn't find it back then, and now in his twilight years, he can't do much more.

Fortunately, the current Tanjiro Kamado has shown him this possibility.

He patted Tanjiro Kamado on the shoulder and said:

"Tanjiro, I've always believed you could pass the trial, but now it seems you might be able to slay the Demon King."

"It's not a possibility, it's a certainty. If it doesn't work, I will spend my whole life searching for a way to defeat them."

Kamado Tanjiro said seriously.

Moreover, he genuinely believed that the following remarks were just polite formalities, since with Lin Yu as a powerful backer, slaying the King of Evil Demons was only a matter of time.

"That's good, that's good."

Urokodaki Sakonji said it twice, and by this time he was completely at ease with the boy in front of him.

"By the way, Mr. Urokodaki, the girl I mentioned to you before, Ms. Ubuyashiki Nikko, who was in charge of the trial, said that my notification regarding joining the team would be a little later. I don't know the specifics. Are you aware of anything similar?"

After discussing the Hand Demon, Tanjiro Kamado naturally recalled the incident involving Hika Ubuyashiki.

Urokodaki Sakonji was very interested in his joining the Demon Slayer Corps, so naturally he had to tell him about it.

Will the team joining notification be later?

Urokodaki Sakonji was taken aback. He recalled that these problems hadn't occurred in recent years' trials, and he couldn't help but ask, somewhat puzzled:

"Did Miss Nika say anything else?"

"She said it was because of my exceptional performance during the trials."

Tanjiro Kamado thought for a moment and then answered.

"Special performance? Hmm... Slaying the demon does prove your strength far surpasses your peers, but at most you should be considered excellent..."

Urokodaki Sakonji felt even more confused.

"Ah, no, actually it's because on the first day, I killed all the ghosts in Mount Wisteria by myself. I think that's what Ms. Ubuyashiki Nika is referring to."

Tanjiro Kamado thought about everyone's behavior when they first came out and guessed that it shouldn't be the Hand Demon's problem.

"On the first day, all the ghosts were killed?!"

Urokodaki Sakonji was somewhat dazed.

"Well, to be precise, within three hours."

Tanjiro Kamado nodded and corrected him.

The actual time should be shorter, but Tanjiro Kamado included the time he spent wandering around the trial grounds beforehand, so it was counted as three hours.

"Three hours?"

Urokodaki Sakonji's tengu mask appeared to be distorted, completely turning into the shape of a question mark.

Three hours?

At his current pace, he's probably only just finished exploring the entire Wisteria Mountain.

In other words, if he were to follow his pace, he would have to slay the evil spirits with a single sword strike almost non-stop, and pinpoint the location of each and every one of them.

This is simply impossible!

How exactly did Tanjiro Kamado accomplish this?

Sakonji Urokodaki looked at Tanjiro Kamado as if he were a monster.

After a long while, he slowly shook his head.

I'm getting old, really old. This world will truly belong to young people from now on.

"Mr. Urokodaki, is there a problem?"

When Kamado Tanjiro saw that Urokodaki Sakonji hadn't spoken for a long time, he couldn't help but ask.

"No problem. I guess the delay in notification that Ms. Rixiang mentioned is probably because those people are figuring out how to handle your situation."

Urokodaki Sakonji gave a wry smile.

Tanjiro Kamado really brought a huge problem to the entire Demon Slayer Corps as soon as he became a member.

He guessed that Mr. Ubuyashiki must also be quite troubled about how to define Tanjiro Kamado's position.

"Are they investigating my affairs?"

Tanjiro Kamado was somewhat puzzled; he didn't quite understand what Sakonji Urokodaki meant.

As Urokodaki Sakonji said, the entire Demon Slayer Corps headquarters is now shocked by Kamado Tanjiro.

One person defeated all the evil spirits within just a few hours of entering the trial!

This doesn't look like something a beginner should do.

This news, after being reported through multiple layers, reached the hands of the Demon Slayer Corps leader, Kagaya Ubuyashiki.

In the vast courtyard, a sickly man sat at his desk, silently watching his subordinates convey messages to him through crows.

He wasn't actually that surprised about Tanjiro Kamado, or rather, he was already past the point of surprise, since Hika Ubuyashiki was his daughter, and she had already verbally informed him of the situation when she returned.

Of course, he wasn't particularly surprised.

After all, he had personally discovered a genius before.

That genius displayed formidable strength from the very beginning and quickly earned the position of Mist Pillar.

In contrast, Tanjiro Kamado was facing demons in trials, and his strength was not high. What was shocking was the speed of his opponents.

Kagaya Ubuyashiki had to question just how strong Tanjiro Kamado really was.

More than being shocked by the opponent's strength, Kagaya Ubuyashiki was actually more interested in how to handle the situation.

After all, the Demon Slayer Corps has been fighting demons for so many years, but there haven't been many exciting breakthroughs.

The emergence of a genius is absolutely exciting news.

If handled properly, it might inspire many young people in the Demon Slayer Corps.

After thinking for a moment, Kagaya Ubuyashiki felt that the most important thing was to thoroughly test Tanjiro Kamado's strength so that he could better arrange his work.

"Perhaps it can be done like this..."