The ninja's sword has a four-leaf tsuba (handguard), its hilt is primarily mint green, and its scabbard is white. The sword is slender, with a barb at the tip. The words "Demon" and "Extermination" are engraved on either side of the blade.

Luo Ya picked it up and weighed it in his hand. It felt a little light, but it was indeed a good knife.

Shinobu Kocho glanced at the shattered Nichirin Blade and involuntarily added, "Don't break it."

Roya's lips twitched, he nodded, and then Akaza took a deep breath, his Nichirin Blade crackling with electricity as he severed the opponent's head.

However, the severed head did not quickly turn to ashes and disappear. Even though the head was severed, the lower half of the torso still struggled very hard.

Luo Ya frowned and thrust his sword into the opponent's chest. Lightning enveloped the Nichirin Blade, and like lightning, it pierced the opponent's heart.

The corpse gradually stopped struggling, but Roya's brows remained furrowed; he still felt that the corpse was not yet dead.

He went up and delivered a few more blows, then asked Shinobu Kocho, "Aren't you the Insect Pillar? Do you have any way to turn the opponent's corpse to ashes, the kind of way that makes them absolutely dead?"

Shinobu Kocho remained silent, glanced at the sky, and pointed to the sun.

Roya paused for a moment, then understood what the other party meant. He nodded, placed Akaza's head in front of him, tossed the torso to Shinobu Kocho and Giyu Tomioka, casually sat down on the ground, glanced at Tanjiro Kamado hiding in the distance, and called out, "Come here, Tanjiro Kamado."

Tanjiro Kamado nodded and walked towards Roya's side.

Roya touched Tanjiro Kamado's forehead and praised him with a smile, "The support was very timely. Luckily you delivered the sword, otherwise I might have had to fight for a while longer. My arms are a bit sore now."

Shinobu Kocho and Giyu Tomioka both fell silent. They glanced at the mess around them and wondered what the point of their hurried journey from afar was.

Upon hearing the news of Upper Moon, Shinobu Kocho and Giyu Tomioka's hearts nearly jumped out of their chests. They rushed on their way, fearing that missing even a second would lead to Roja's death.

The Demon Slayer Corps is lacking top-tier combatants, and not just a little bit. Now that they've finally produced a powerful Pillar, if he were to die due to a lack of timely support, Shinobu Kocho and Giyu Tomioka would feel guilty for the rest of their lives.

Fortunately, Roja was so powerful that even with his Nichirin Blade shattered, he was still able to overwhelm his opponent.

But why did I travel all this way? Just to deliver a Nichirin sword?

Shinobu Kocho and Giyu Tomioka exchanged a glance, both showing a helpless expression.

Tanjiro Kamado asked with some curiosity, "And who is this?"

Roya straightened Akaza's head and pointed at him, saying, "This is Upper Moon Three. This guy is a bit troublesome. Oh, before he came, I killed another Upper Moon, Upper Moon Five. It was during the fight with him that I destroyed my Nichirin Blade. Next time, I'll ask my lord for a better Nichirin Blade. It's lucky it was me; if it had been someone else, this guy might have gotten away."

Shinobu Kocho and Giyu Tomioka fell into deep thought.

Tanjiro Kamado gave Roya a thumbs-up and said, "Wow, Roya-nii!"

Roya revealed a smug expression and continued, "Right, right? I think so too. You know, I almost killed Upper Moon Five with a sneak attack at the beginning. If he hadn't reacted in time, my sword wouldn't have been damaged so badly. Then, my Nichirin Blade wouldn't have shattered at all, and Upper Moon Three wouldn't have been a match for me."

While Roya was chatting idly, Akaza was filled with intense resentment.

The pain of humiliation, every inch of my body aches, is caused by this guy in front of me.

You're a human being, you're a little bread roll, how dare you insult me!

Akaza's intense obsession at this moment was that he must kill Roya, he absolutely had to kill Roya.

Akaza's intense obsession, coupled with his unwillingness to accept defeat, enabled him to successfully cross that line.

Ordinary demons die when their necks are severed by a Nichirin Blade; this is the limit of a demon's existence. However, if a demon possesses an extremely strong will before death, it may break through this limit, regenerate its head, and even if it is severed from its head again by a Nichirin Blade, it will not die.

Akaza had already reached this state, but when he regained consciousness, he saw that smiling face.

Akaza looked up at Roya with a somewhat bewildered expression. Roya's voice faltered as he looked back at Akaza's pale gold eyes with his crimson-gold eyes.

Luo Ya said with considerable surprise, "I was just guarding the corpse, I didn't expect you to actually be alive."

Akaza fell silent. He turned around and looked behind him, where his corpse was surrounded by Shinobu Kocho and Giyu Tomioka.

Akaza was about to burst into a tirade when two more Pillar-level swordsmen arrived.

One Roya was already too much for them to handle, and now two more Demon Slayer Corps members with considerable strength have appeared.

Roya looked up at the darkness and said to Akaza, "It's midnight. It's the darkest time of day, but it's also the time when the sun is about to rise."

Akaza remained silent.

Roya continued, "Speak, your last words."

Surprisingly, Akaza, who realized that even though he had transcended the boundaries of demons, he still could not live, breathed a sigh of relief. Akaza turned his head to look at Roya and said, "Human swordsman, you are very strong. To achieve this level of accomplishment at such a young age, I am not as good as you."

Akaza did not resist. His strong obsession and the clarity he gained before death awakened his past obsessions. He then lay quietly on the ground, unusually still.

Luo Ya was somewhat surprised. He asked curiously, "Why don't you resist a little longer? Maybe you'll have a chance to escape?"

Akaza sighed softly and said, "I made many mistakes. When I finally realized it, I found myself in this state. What was I doing to become stronger? Only in the end did I realize that everything I did was for her."

"After she died, all of this became meaningless."

"The snowflake pattern on my Blood Demon Art is the shape of the hairpin of my fiancée, Koyuki, when I was a human. The pink hair color is the same as the color of Koyuki's kimono. The name of my technique is also taken from the name of the fireworks that Koyuki and I watched together when we were alive."

“I remember everything.”

After Akaza finished speaking, his head began to spontaneously turn to ashes and burn.

Akaza breaks through the boundaries of being a demon due to intense resentment, but then gives up being a demon because of the awakening of his memories.

This is undeniably an extremely ironic situation.

-

Muzan Kibutsuji was furious. He overturned everything on his desk, his blood-red eyes flashing with a cold light.

"Roya, Roya, very good, very good!"

Muzan Kibutsuji had never been so angry as he was today, not only because of the loss of two Upper Moons, but more importantly, because he saw a threat in them.

If we let him continue like this, he will eventually grow into a swordsman like Yoriichi Tsugikuni.

Yoriichi Tsugikuni, who almost killed him with just one slash.

The swordsman who kept him hidden for nearly a hundred years.

No, we must nip this in the bud; we can't let this continue.

Waaah, today's task is complete!

Chapter 132: Pillar Meeting

Thinking of this, Muzan Kibutsuji pressed his fingers to his temples, his mind stirring.

"Kuroshibo, find this guy and kill him."

Muzan Kibutsuji looked at the messy ground and fell into deep thought.

"Should we get rid of all these annoying rats?"

-

Roya really stole the show this time, defeating two Upper Moons, one of whom was Upper Moon Three.

There are also differences between the upper and lower sections of the cock.

Before Upper Moon Three, aside from internal conflicts among them, humans almost never succeeded in killing each other.

The Pillars were all easily defeated, but let alone the Upper Moon Three and above, none of the six Upper Moons in the last hundred years have been able to be defeated by the Demon Slayer Corps.

The outcome was predictable: Roya killed two of them in quick succession.

After saying goodbye to Shinobu Kocho and Giyu Tomioka, and seeing them rushing off to the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters to give instructions, Roya pulled Tanjiro Kamado down the mountain.

After stretching his slightly sore shoulders, Luo Ya grimaced inwardly.

Upper Moon Three is really tough; his hands are still sore from all the beatings.

Walking along the road, Tanjiro Kamado asked curiously, "Brother Roya, how can I become as strong as you?"

Roya chuckled and patted Tanjiro Kamado's iron head, saying, "You're already very strong, aren't you?"

Tanjiro Kamado looked at Roja with suspicion, his actions revealing his doubt as he gazed into Roja's bright red eyes.

Roya smiled and said, "If you master Sun Breathing to my level, even you could kill an Upper Moon."

Tanjiro Kamado's face fell. At this moment, Tanjiro Kamado had nothing. He had not reached the Transparent World, had no Demon Slayer Mark, and no Crimson Blade. With this strength, he would have a hard time even cutting down the Lower Moons of the Twelve Demon Moons. If he were to directly confront an Upper Moon, he probably wouldn't even know how he died.

However, Luo Ya recalled that ghost's so-called highest realm of martial arts, the world of perfect clarity.

Regarding the opening of the Transparent World, Luo Ya didn't really know much about it, but he could sense that as the Breath of the Sun continued, his mind would gradually become clearer, and the world would become exceptionally clear. However, this process was not instantaneous, but rather took a considerable amount of time.

Moreover, the experience of opening the transparent world was not pleasant. During this time, Roya could see other people's hearts and blood vessels, which made him feel a little awkward.

The conditions for opening the Transparent World are actually quite strict; otherwise, Upper Moon Three wouldn't have lived for so many years without reaching the so-called highest level of martial arts.

But for Roya, these things were as easy as eating and drinking.

However, acquiring abilities often comes at a price, and this is true even for Roya.

He was feeling rather troubled at the moment. The Transparent World was like an enhanced version of a X-ray vision cheat, except that this X-ray vision was a bit too powerful, directly seeing through people's flesh and blood.

Roya looked at Tanjiro Kamado's body with a slightly complicated expression; Tanjiro's heart was pounding violently.

Whether it was the heart, liver, or kidneys, Roya could see everything clearly. As the Breath of the Sun progressed steadily, everything around him slowed down. With each breath, Tanjiro Kamado's every movement became slower.

No, it's not that Tanjiro Kamado slowed down.

It's because I've become faster; my neural reactions have become much quicker.

It was a strange feeling. Tanjiro Kamado's exposed veins, the beating of his heart with every breath, and even in this instant, Roja could clearly sense the other's weakness.

Meanwhile, Luo Ya's brain was passively and frantically memorizing every blood vessel and tendon in the human body, continuously absorbing this knowledge in an extremely rapid manner.

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