The Fruit of Surgery

"I won't let you die so easily." The sword ghost said with a cruel smile, and then swung the blade of his right arm towards Shen Fei's right shoulder, seemingly cutting off Shen Fei's right arm first.

"There's no one around." Shen Fei, who felt that there was no one else around, formed seals with both hands, and immediately swung the golden chain towards the sword ghost.

Bang.

Shen Fei pulled the locked sword ghost, and appeared at the side of the prepared Sage Stone Alchemy Array, then swung the sword ghost with force, and kicked him into the alchemy array.

As early as after sensing the breath of someone, Shen Fei had drawn the alchemy array. On a night when many people disappeared, and in the deep mountains, it was not normal no matter how you looked at it. There was basically no other possibility except a ghost.

Clang, Shen Fei unsheathed the Sun Wheel Sword on his waist, and then immediately cut off the left and right arms of the sword ghost, and then inserted the Sun Wheel Sword aside, and then activated the alchemy array.

Although the sword ghost struggled hard and was not weak, he had no way to deal with the magic chain. In addition, his mouth was entangled by the chain and he could not make any sound. As the alchemy array was activated, under the red alchemy light, the sword ghost's struggling body stopped moving and turned into a crystal clear philosopher's stone.

"It's bigger than the last one. This ghost has eaten more people than that guy." After putting the philosopher's stone away, Shen Fei immediately used earth alchemy to destroy the philosopher's stone alchemy array.

"It's a pity that there is no way to take blood. By the way, I remember that Tanjiro seemed to be able to take the blood of ghosts. How did he do it?"

Watching the blood on the Sun Wheel Sword slowly disappear, Shen Fei couldn't help but think of another problem. There was no problem taking Nezuko's blood. Nezuko was still alive, but there was no problem with other ghosts when they were alive, but once the ghost died, the blood would disappear.

This caused a problem for Shen Fei. If he wanted to do research, he couldn't kill ghosts.

"A special way to get blood, or a special tool to get blood?" If he was alone, Shen Fei would definitely catch the ghost for research, but with Tomioka Giyuu around, he could only kill it directly.

Fortunately, there are many ghosts, so even if Shen Fei wants to study the specialness of the ghosts, he is not in a hurry. These are just ordinary ghosts, and there are still the Twelve Demon Moons.

"Solved?" Tomioka Giyuu, who was sitting cross-legged on the tree, flashed a hint of surprise in his eyes after feeling Shen Fei's appearance. It was Tomioka Giyuu who let Shen Fei guard alone because he trusted his teacher Urokodaki Sakonji. After all, a person who can be highly praised by the teacher should be able to support him even if he accidentally encounters the Twelve Demon Moons.

Although Tomioka Giyuu did not say it clearly, neither of them was stupid. Once a ghost that they could not deal with really appeared, they would definitely not hold on by themselves, but call their teammates.

However, the ghost that was solved so quickly and made the Demon Slayer Corps return twice was still a little surprising to Tomioka Giyuu. As for why Tomioka Giyuu knew that Shen Fei had solved the ghost, the reason was very simple. If it had not been solved, Shen Fei would not appear.

Waiting for ghosts at night and resting during the day is the daily routine of most of the Demon Slayer Corps, because ghosts don't come out during the day.

"Yes, it's a sword ghost." Shen Fei said calmly.

"Rest." Then the two found a clean place and began to rest. Tomioka Giyuu didn't say anything after that, and he was resting with the breathing method of constant breathing and concentration.

Constant breathing and concentration is the prerequisite for becoming a pillar. If you don't know this, don't want to become a pillar. The so-called constant breathing and concentration means that you are always in a state of using breathing methods for 24 hours a day, that is, using breathing methods to replace daily breathing.

Breathing methods can improve basic physical strength. Being in a state of constant breathing and concentration can greatly increase a person's basic physical strength, make the strength greater, the speed faster, the balance better, and even control the blood circulation in the body.

In this way, once injured, you can stop bleeding with breathing methods.

It can be said that if you don't engage in high-intensity combat, breathing methods are a good way to strengthen your body and prolong your life.

Shen Fei quickly achieved this constant breathing concentration when he was learning the breathing method, but in order not to shock others, he slowly increased the time of using the breathing method.

It is very difficult for an ordinary person to achieve this with constant breathing concentration. Even the protagonist team succeeded after a lot of hard practice.

The blood vessels and internal muscles in a person's body have strengths. Once this strength is exceeded, it will cause problems such as blood vessel rupture and internal organ damage. There are many people in the history of the Demon Slayer Corps who are eager for success and over-practice breathing methods, thus causing fatal injuries to themselves.

In general, whether the breathing method will cause results is like holding your breath. If it exceeds a certain limit, you will definitely breathe. However, some people use coercive means to increase the time of holding their breath, and it is not uncommon for them to suffocate themselves to death.

These problems are not a problem for Shen Fei, who has practiced in the pirate world. The strength of his blood vessels and internal muscles has long surpassed that of ordinary people.

The practice of breathing methods has made Shen Fei's lung function amazing. Things like blowing up a big gourd are just child's play for him.

"By the way, if Luffy learns this breathing method, it should be able to greatly increase his strength." Luffy's rubber physique, internal organs, blood vessels, muscles, etc. are all rubber. Before, he could use the third gear by taking a deep breath. If he had a breathing method, although it can't be said to be like adding wings to a tiger, it can definitely increase his strength.

"If Fury knew that there was such a breathing method that could improve the strength of ordinary people, he would definitely want to get it at all costs."

"I killed another one in vain, what a waste." Shen Fei secretly said in his heart that it was a pity to watch the demon's body begin to collapse and disappear as his Nichirin sword slashed across its neck.

Tomioka Giyuu and him did not have to separate every time, and he might have to train Shen Fei, so he didn't do much, only letting Shen Fei do it. In this case, he could only kill.

Along the way, he had killed three demons with blood demon arts in vain.

As a pillar, there is never a lack of tasks.

In a manor located deep in the mountains, a young man with strange and terrifying marks on his forehead sat on the floor, looking at the information sent by the crow in his hand, and a gentle smile appeared on his face.

"It looks like there is good news." A beautiful woman wearing a shrine maiden's clothes walked to the young man and sat down. She didn't seem to care about the mark on the young man's forehead at all, and held the young man's hand gently.

"The Demon Slayer Corps has another powerful swordsman, maybe this generation can end Muzan Kibutsuji." The young man who looked very gentle originally, when talking about Muzan Kibutsuji, his voice couldn't help but become cold.

"We will definitely succeed." The woman held the young man's hand tightly and comforted him softly.

This young man is the one who stopped Ubuyashiki Yoya from the Demon Slayer Corps. Because of Muzan Kibutsuji, the people of the family suffered a curse. They were weak and sick since childhood, and most of their children died. It was not until the Ubuyashiki family married the priest's shrine maiden that the family was able to pass on.

However, even so, no one in this family has lived to the age of 30 so far. Most of them died painfully at the age of 25 or 26 because of the curse.

The Ubuyashiki family formed the Demon Slayer Corps, in addition to eliminating the scourge of demons and protecting humans, there is also a reason to lift the family curse. But unfortunately, since Muzan Kibutsuji escaped more than 400 years ago, even if the Ubuyashiki family mobilized all their forces, they did not get any clues about Muzan Kibutsuji in the past 400 years.

Speaking of hiding, Muzan Kibutsuji can be called the king of hiding.

The head of each generation of the Ubuyashiki clan died in extreme reluctance. When it came to this generation, in fact, Ubuyashiki Yoya had no confidence in whether he could find information about Muzan, and his wife was the same.

To this day, the curse on Ubuyashiki Yoya has become more and more serious, and he will not live for a few years. The curse of the Ubuyashiki clan, before the age of 20, is only manifested as frailty and illness. This frailty is so weak that even the breathing method cannot be practiced.

Because the body is too weak, it is so weak that it can't even withstand a single practice of the breathing method.

"I hope so." Ubuyashiki Yoya, said, and couldn't help but think of the report that Urokodaki Sakonji had given him before, about the ghost Nezuko.

If the Demon Slayer Corps knew about this kind of thing about a person with a ghost, why wouldn't they report it to Ubuyashiki Yoya? For Ubuyashiki Yoya, an unusual ghost may be an opportunity for change.

This generation of pillars, because most of them were found and recruited by him personally, can be said to be the strongest pillars in the Demon Slayer Corps within a hundred years. With such a lineup, if he cannot meet the Demon King Muzan in his lifetime, he may not have such an opportunity next time.

As the head of the Demon Slayer Corps, through the information left by his predecessors, Ubuyashiki Yoya knows very well that the strength of the pillars of the past generations is mostly to kill the lower-string demons alone, which is also one of the conditions for becoming a pillar.

Another condition is to kill about fifty demons. As long as one of the two conditions is met, you can become a pillar.

But this generation is different. All the pillars have the strength to easily kill or even kill the lower-string demons in seconds, and there are even a few who can have the strength to fight the upper-string demons.

If this batch of pillars grow old and have not seen Muzan, the next generation of pillars may not have such strength.

In the past few years, the Demon Slayer Corps has killed many lower-string demons. Of course, after encountering the upper-string demons, the Demon Slayer Corps also made a lot of sacrifices. For example, the former flower pillar was sacrificed when he encountered the upper limit.

Of course, the Demon Slayer Corps is not without achievements, that is, they have killed many lower-rank demons, Muzan's Twelve Demon Moons, and the upper-rank demons, which have been unshakable for so many years.

But all the lower-rank demons are different, they are replaced very quickly, almost all replaced in a few years.

The lower-rank demons are the most miserable among the Twelve Demon Moons. They are either killed by the Demon Slayer Corps or laid off by our big boss Muzan every few years.

Muzan treats all the upper-rank demons well. After all, they have been with boss Muzan for so long and are considered veteran employees. They can do whatever they want, but the lower-rank demons, that depends on performance.

If there is no performance, then sorry, layoffs.

What is performance? Killing the pillars of the Demon Slayer Corps is performance. As for killing ordinary members of the Demon Slayer Corps, Muzan doesn't care, just as Muzan doesn't care about the life and death of ordinary demons. If they die, they can just be created again. The ordinary members of the Demon Slayer Corps are also constantly replenished.

But the pillars are different. Although it was a bit difficult to kill the lower-rank demon pillars in the past, they were not without opportunities due to the immortality of the demons. They could also kill the pillars by consuming them. But now the nine pillars are different. The lower-rank demons can't be consumed to death.

In addition, the boss Muzan does not allow demons to gather in large numbers. Under such conditions, killing the pillars is not to die. Except for a few demons who pursue different things, most demons are afraid of death.

Knowing that they are going to die, of course they can get by. Even many demons use the bloody battles between demons to give up the position of the lower-rank demons.

The Twelve Demon Moons sound very high-sounding, and this is also the goal of many demons. However, only demons who really become lower-rank demons know how bad the treatment of lower-rank demons is, and they are not pleasing to both sides.

Although they can't continue to become stronger, at least they can live. In this case, there is a situation, that is, demons who are not lower-rank demons are not necessarily weaker than lower-rank demons.

There is only one exception among the lower-rank demons, that is, the lower-rank five, who can gather demons around, and he doesn't have to kill the pillars. Muzan lets him play as he pleases.

This is the treatment of people who can please the leaders, and other lower-rank demons can't envy it. Didn't you see that after the lower-rank five was killed, Muzan, who was in a bad mood, immediately had a big layoff.

In addition to killing the pillars, the lower-rank demons have another way to satisfy Muzan, that is, to be promoted to upper-rank demons and launch a bloody battle with the upper-rank demons.

However, because the combat power of the lower-rank ghosts and the upper-rank ghosts is too different, this bloody battle is basically a pitfall for the lower-rank ghosts. The upper-rank ghosts are all ghosts who have lived for at least a hundred years. Of course, their strength is not something that these lower-rank ghosts who are often replaced can deal with.

Is this simply a leader who makes things difficult for people?

Although ghosts will not be killed directly when fighting with ghosts, it will still hurt if their bodies are broken. Besides, if the ghosts really want to kill ghosts, there are ways to do it. Just cripple the ghosts and throw them under the sun.

Along the way, Tomioka Giyu also told Shen Fei about some things about the lower-rank ghosts, because they all have powerful blood demon arts, which are not something that ordinary members of the Demon Slayer Corps can deal with.

"Who said that? It seems that the head pillar killed the original lower-rank ghost alone. Speaking of it, the lower-rank ghosts are simply the laborers who are exploited by this unscrupulous boss." Thinking of the lower-rank ghosts who were laid off by the big boss Muzan, Shen Fei was speechless.

"This is the insect pillar Kocho Shinobu." While resting at another Fujiya, Shen Fei met the insect pillar Kocho Shinobu who happened to be resting there.

Black hair and purple eyes, wearing a butterfly-like haori, not too tall, with a mint-colored butterfly hairpin with a dark purple edge on her hair, squinting her eyes, with a faint smile on her face.

Next to her is an expressionless girl, wearing an emerald green butterfly hairpin that is exactly the same as Kocho Shinobu, but with a different pink edge. She is Kocho Shinobu's stepson, Kocho Kanao. No, her real name should be Kurika Raku Kanao, but as far as Shen Fei knows, most people call her Kocho Kanao, and I'm afraid not many people know her real name.

Kanao's face shows a smile that is very similar to Kocho Shinobu.

"Who is this?" Kocho Shinobu looked at Shen Fei who was following Tomioka Giyuu with great surprise. As she knew Tomioka Giyuu's character very well, she was very surprised that Tomioka Giyuu would actually take people with her.

Kocho Shinobu and Tomioka Giyuu had acted together back then, but it was even more surprising because of this.