Who are you calling a stable boy?!

"How could you do something like this? Don't you have any self-respect or principles?!"

"..."

The smile on Zheng Jing's face slowly faded.

Suddenly, Gyutaro felt a chill creep down his spine.

"Use evil to control evil, use deception to break deception, and use killing to stop evil."

"Don't understand? Let me put it more bluntly—"

Zheng Jing raised his other hand and pressed down on Daki's shoulder.

Then, he exerted a sudden burst of strength!

“You are evil to the innocent, so I will be even more evil to you.”

Zheng Jing pulled her head, with a small piece of her neck bone still attached, out of Daki's half-body.

"If you're so capable, go and complain to Buddha and Bodhisattva, you idiot."

Gyutaro's hand trembled violently a few times, and he raised it several times, but finally put it down slumped down.

Looking at his younger sister's head now in Zheng Jing's hands, he ultimately dared not gamble.

"...What exactly do you want to do?"

The already hoarse voice became even more terrifying, and Gyutaro's bloodshot eyes were fixed on Zheng Jing.

At this point, he finally realized it.

If Zheng Jing truly possessed the ability to burn his sister to ashes as the sun, then everything should have ended when Du Ji was captured due to carelessness.

In other words, assuming Zheng Jing possesses such means, the only explanation for why he and his sister are still alive is that Zheng Jing needs them to do something.

"It's not difficult, it's not difficult."

A smile returned to Zheng Jing's face, which was still dripping with the blood of the fallen princess.

"I need you to go and deliver a message to Dog Muzan."

Chapter 42: Zheng Jing asked me to pass on a message to you

"Zheng Jing!"

When Uzui Tengen arrived at the scene, only Zheng Jing was still standing on the roof.

Following Zheng Jing's plan, he actually found underground caves beneath the three suspected shops.

Although it was a cave that most five- or six-year-old children could squeeze into, Uzui Tengen was once an excellent ninja, so he naturally knew techniques like bone shrinking.

At first, when he saw the silks that imprisoned people inside, Uzui Tengen even wondered if he had run into the Upper Moon demons hiding there first.

But after he cut the silk to rescue everyone, including his three wives, before he could do anything else, he saw the silk scatter and disappear into the small holes.

Realizing that this was very likely related to Zheng Jing's actions, Uzui Tengen sent his three wives to settle the victims who were still unconscious, while he rushed to the scene following the commotion!

"You stinky squid, where's your wife?"

"...They are all safe and sound."

Uzui Tengen sighed.

He no longer wanted to argue with Zheng Jing about the nickname.

"Judging from your expression, it's done?"

"correct."

Holding Daki's hair, Zheng Jingchong shook the demon head in his hand at Yu Sui Tian Gen.

"Upper Moon Six is ​​a brother and sister demon. I took his sister and sent that kid to deliver a message to Muzan."

Uzui Tengen glanced at Daki, who was now just a head.

The beautiful head with glistening tears still in the corners of its eyes was now tightly closed, biting its lip hard, and occasionally sobbing. It looked nothing like a cannibalistic demon.

It's more like a respectable family being bullied by a thug...

"Can it really work?"

He slung the sword back over his shoulder and crossed his arms.

"Could that so-called blue spider lily really be that attractive to Muzan Kibutsuji?"

"Yes, brother, yes."

As he spoke, Zheng Jing grabbed two strands of Doki's hair, tied them into a knot, and hung them behind his waist.

It seemed that only after finally escaping Zheng Jing's sight did Doki cautiously open her eyes.

As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw a familiar face next to me.

"..."

Akaza glanced sideways and met the gaze of Daki, who looked bewildered.

Seeing her tearful appearance, Akaza twitched the corner of his mouth.

"the first time?"

"--Wow!!"

"What are you doing, you dog! Ouch!"

Just as Zheng Jing was about to turn back to continue talking to Yu Sui Tianyuan, he turned his face back again.

"It took me so long to finally get her to stop making a fuss!"

When you say "you've had it so hard," do you mean you're threatening her with some kind of internal force to burn off her hair and eyebrows if she dares to cry, and that you'll prevent her from having any more children?

Thinking this, Akaza didn't even look at Zheng Jing, and closed his eyes again.

-

Infinite City.

Kibutsuji Muzan created this alternate dimension over a thousand years for his own convenience.

Although he possesses an ability to transform in countless ways, he always hides among humans under different identities, and over time he will get tired of it.

The Infinite City was originally created by him for his own convenience.

Of course, as his needs increased, the uses of the Infinite City also continued to expand.

For example—

"Taro."

Today, Kibutsuji Muzan, appearing as a woman, looks down at Gyutaro kneeling before her.

"puff!"

Suddenly, Gyutaro's flesh exploded, and hot blood gushed onto the ground.

"It seems I have really been too lenient with you two siblings. It's one thing to be subdued by mere humans, but you even dared to come back with your tails between your legs."

"..."

Gyutaro did not speak.

To be precise, he simply didn't have the energy to make a sound at that moment.

Since he and his sister became Upper Moon Six, the siblings have devoured no fewer than ten Pillar-level Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen. To humans, they are truly powerful demons.

No matter how powerful a demon is, it is nothing more than a weakling that can be killed with a flick of its finger in front of Muzan Kibutsuji, the progenitor of demons.

Before this progenitor of demons, not only their physical bodies, but also their minds and memories, were no longer under their own control.

For example, right now, after seeing Muzan Kibutsuji, he hadn't uttered a single word, yet Muzan Kibutsuji had already seen through everything in his mind.

"...You siblings have disappointed me utterly."

Instead of killing Gyutaro directly, Muzan Kibutsuji suddenly withdrew his power just as Gyutaro was about to collapse.

Looking down at Gyutaro, who hadn't uttered a sound yet, Muzan Kibutsuji's face was contorted with bulging veins and his brows were furrowed.

who is it?

Who leaked information about the Blue Spider Lily to the Demon Slayer Corps?

Alright, let's put this issue aside for now...

The most crucial question right now is whether that human actually knows anything about the Blue Spider Lily.

Optimus Prime... Zheng Jing?

I've never heard of a Pillar before; he must be a new member of the Demon Slayer Corps.

Also, how did that guy manage to beat Daki and Gyutaro like that without using a Nichirin Blade?

No, wait, before that—

My thoughts are jumbled and repetitive.

The more Muzan Kibutsuji thought about it, the clearer the smiling face that appeared in his mind through Gyutaro's memories became.

That smile, so unrestrained, seemed to look down on everything—it even seemed to be looking down on Gyutaro from above!

"Hey, come here, study hard! Your tone should be like this, your expression like this. Come on, repeat after me: Zheng Jing asked me to pass on a message to you..."

Even the laughter-tinged voices became increasingly clear!

Kibutsuji Muzan took a deep breath.

The Demon Slayer Corps has been chasing him for a thousand years, with the Pillars changing generation after generation.

But there are very few who can entice him to kill Optimus Prime like he does!

Of course, more importantly, his opponent finally challenged him to a duel on Mount Fuji thirty days later.

If he doesn't keep his promise, that damned Optimus Prime will burn down the last remaining blue spider lilies in the world.

...This is clearly a way of threatening him.

At the moment, Muzan Kibutsuji cannot verify whether this human named Zheng Jing truly knows the whereabouts of the Blue Spider Lily, nor does he know whether the Blue Spider Lily is truly so rare that it can be described as "the only one left in the world".

But he dared not gamble, nor could he gamble.

For over a thousand years, they have been searching for the blue spider lily. If Zheng Jing truly has a way to completely eradicate the blue spider lily from the world...

Whether it's true or false, now that this news is in front of him, Muzan Kibutsuji has to consider whether this might be his only chance!

"......Oh."

As if he had thought of something good, Muzan Kibutsuji chuckled, and the veins on his face disappeared.

That's why it's said that humans cannot imagine the power of ghosts!

Thirty days?

What need is there for thirty days?

What need is there for a decisive battle!

—If he just strikes first, wipes out the Demon Slayer Corps, and captures Zheng Jing, wouldn't that solve everything?!

Chapter 43: Wow! The Golden Legend!

Zheng Jing didn't care whether Muzan Kibutsuji would keep his thirty-day promise.

To be precise, he never thought that Muzan would keep his promise.

In Zheng Jing's mind, barring any unforeseen circumstances, once Gyutaro delivers the message, Inu Muzan will begin tormenting the surviving Upper Moon demons, working to eliminate the Demon Slayer Corps while searching for his whereabouts.

This is not hard to guess.

He is now the only officially certified Optimus Prime in the Demon Slayer Corps.

He knew the whereabouts of the Blue Spider Lily, which, in Muzan Kibutsuji's eyes, was equivalent to the Demon Slayer Corps—or at least the higher-ups of the Demon Slayer Corps—knowing about the Blue Spider Lily.

Therefore, for Muzan Kibutsuji now, unless he can capture all the high-ranking members of the Demon Slayer Corps, including Zheng Jing, he may face a desperate situation of fighting the Demon Slayer Corps to the death if he misses any one of them.

Given Muzan Kibutsuji's personality, he couldn't stand this.

On this point, Kagaya Ubuyashiki clearly shares the same view as Jeong Kyung.

Therefore, Zheng Jing only needs to focus on his assigned role in the plan for now.