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162. Chapter 162: Guess if you can escape from my grasp?

Inside the Room.

Mukago, whose mouth and nose were sealed by Xia Shang, suddenly showed a painful expression.

A slit appeared on her right face, and crimson, viscous blood flowed down the wound, dripping onto the floor like threads.

Suddenly, a strange voice sounded from the slit.

"I am Muzan Kibutsuji. It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Xia Shang."

"Mu... Muzan!"

Hutaro, standing on Murata's shoulder, was greatly startled. It instinctively spread its wings and exclaimed Muzan's name.

Murata and Yushiro reacted similarly to Hutaro. Murata nervously drew his Nichirin blade and pointed the tip at Mukago, while Yushiro shielded Tamayo, preventing Muzan from approaching Miss Tamayo.

"Same here."

Xia Shang wasn't surprised by Muzan's arrival at all. Ever since he noticed the change in Mukago's heartbeat and breathing rhythm, he guessed that Muzan might have taken over her body. He just tried it out casually, and Muzan was indeed lured out by him.

"You seem to have expected my appearance?"

Muzan asked with some curiosity.

Xia Shang didn't answer, seemingly acknowledging his guess.

"Since that's the case, I won't hide anything. Tell me the location of the Blue Spider Lily, and I can give you anything you want. Authority, money, beauties... or some other things. How about it? Would you consider entering into a cooperation with me?"

Muzan's tone was full of temptation, exactly the same tone he used when he deceived Tamayo back then.

"My lord, please don't believe his nonsense."

Murata on the side quickly advised against it.

"Shut up! You have no right to speak here!"

*Rip!* The slit on Mukago's face expanded again. Flesh and blood wriggled within, and half of Muzan's face was slowly pushed out.

Muzan turned his scarlet eyeball to look at Murata, as if warning him to control his mouth.

"My lord, you must consider this carefully."

At this moment, Murata couldn't care less about Muzan's warning. If Muzan obtained the Blue Spider Lily, it would be an incredibly heavy blow to the Demon Slayer Corps. It wasn't impossible for the Demon Slayer Corps to be destroyed because of it.

"I said, you have no right to speak here!" Muzan's eyes instantly turned extremely cold.

In an instant, a hideous tentacle condensed from flesh and blood rushed out of Mukago's body in a twisted state.

Couldn't dodge!

As a Geng Rank Member, Murata could only watch helplessly as the tentacle was about to pierce his neck.

In an instant, a sense of fear of death surged into his heart.

Just when he thought he was certain to die.

Xia Shang moved. His speed was so fast that even Muzan couldn't see him clearly. After all, Muzan wasn't his main body. The reason he could appear was entirely thanks to the demon blood contained within Mukago's body. But Mukago was only a Lower Rank after all, and the amount of Muzan's blood in her body was pathetically little.

However, having said that, if Mukago wasn't a Lower Rank.

Muzan might not have been able to manipulate her body so easily.

"Don't be so arrogant. I haven't spoken yet." Xia Shang crushed the tentacle with one hand. The toughness of this thing was far less than his tentacle.

"You want to refuse me?!"

Muzan's expression gradually became ferocious.

"However." Xia Shang changed his tone. "Telling you the location of the Blue Spider Lily is not impossible."

"Good! Good! Good!" Seeing his wish of many years about to be fulfilled, the extremely excited Muzan shouted "Good" three times in a row. Then, he asked impatiently, "What do you want?"

"My lord!" If his strength wasn't insufficient, Murata would have wanted to rush over and cover Xia Shang's mouth.

Even Tamayo on the side furrowed her delicate eyebrows. It could be said that everyone present, including Mukago, whose body was controlled by Muzan, did not want Xia Shang to reveal the whereabouts of the Blue Spider Lily.

The corner of Xia Shang's mouth curved slightly upwards. "What I want is very simple."

He came before Muzan and said softly, "I want you."

"What?" Muzan suspected he had heard wrong.

"You didn't hear wrong, I want you, hahaha." Xia Shang's mouth split to behind his ears. When he laughed wildly, he revealed sharp and dense ferocious sharp teeth. He reached out and dug Muzan's face out of Mukago's face, and facing his pupils that were like red spider lilies, he laughed madly.

"Guess if you can escape from my grasp?"

Muzan seemed to realize something at this moment. He said in shock, "You were stalling for time!"

"Smart!" Xia Shang spread his Parasyte Sensing to the limit and finally found Muzan's location from the edge area.

*Bang!* Xia Shang crushed Muzan's face with one hand.

And his figure instantly disappeared from the Room.

...

"This..." Murata's hand holding the blade trembled slightly. For a moment, he couldn't tell who was the true Progenitor of Demons.

At the same time.

Because Mukago said Muzan's name, it triggered the curse in the bloodline.

"Ugh...!" Mukago suddenly raised both hands and tightly choked her own neck.

"Save... save me." When Xia Shang left, he also withdrew the flesh and blood that remained in Mukago's body.

Hideous and terrifying darkened bulging veins spread from the corner of Mukago's eyes all the way to the back of her hands, like exposed tree roots, gradually crawling all over her entire face. At the same time, the subcutaneous muscles under her skin were wriggling, as if some kind of monster was moving around, restless and about to move, seemingly about to drill out of her skin and come to the Outside World in the next second.

"This is Muzan Kibutsuji's blood curse."

Tamayo immediately cut her palm and used her own blood to help Mukago delay the collapse of her body.

"Quick! Yushiro, prepare for surgery."

Tamayo had previously gotten rid of the curse in Muzan's blood through self-modification of her body, and the same went for Yushiro. So for Tamayo, removing Muzan's curse was not difficult, it just required some time.

Furthermore, there was also a benefit after getting rid of the curse.

That was being able to replace eating human flesh and blood by drinking a small amount of human blood.

"Hutaro, should we tell Oyakata-sama this news?" Murata originally wanted to chase after him, but just thinking of Xia Shang's terrifying speed, he gave up. With that kind of speed, let alone him, any member of the Demon Slayer Corps would not be able to see Xia Shang's back.

"Caw! I think we should forget it."

Hutaro scratched his head with his right wing. "Muzan isn't that easy to kill. We should wait here for a while. In case Lord Xia Shang doesn't catch up to him, he'll probably come back after a while."

"Makes sense." Murata nodded quite seriously.

That was Muzan Kibutsuji.

The meaning of the Demon Slayer Corps' existence was the hope that one day they could kill him.

Although Murata had witnessed Xia Shang's terrifying strength with his own eyes, he still didn't believe that Xia Shang could do something that the Demon Slayer Corps had been unable to do for over a thousand years.

(end of chapter)