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165. Chapter 165: As Expected of You, Muzan (Two-in-One)

To force Xia Shang out, Muzan swung his right hand.

In an instant, countless rope-like tentacles left trails of afterimages in the air, accompanied by the sound of tearing wind, shooting towards Xia Shang! Seeing this, Xia Shang did not dodge.

Instead, he wrapped his wings around himself, blocking in front.

Almost the next second, Muzan's attack followed closely, the continuous bombardment causing dust to fly around Xia Shang. Countless tentacles, like a violent storm, unleashed Muzan's anger to their heart's content.

"I refuse to believe you can block my attack!" Muzan's expression became increasingly twisted. Amidst his roars of anger, the tentacle attacks grew faster and their frequency higher.

Boom boom boom!!!!

Under Muzan's almost frantic attack, even Xia Shang's blazing wings struggled to endure.

Soon, the dark red bone spikes were covered in cracks, one, two, three... the cracks spread rapidly like a plague.

As the cracking sounds grew louder.

Muzan immediately realized that the opponent's strange wings were on the verge of collapse. So, he gathered the strength of his whole body into the last tentacle. With a boom, the sharp bone spike at the tip of the tentacle, carrying all of Muzan's strength, slammed onto Xia Shang's wings.

The blazing wings, already on the verge of collapse, could not withstand this blow.

Bang! The next second, the shattered dark red wings splashed outwards, sending countless high-temperature bone spike fragments in all directions.

Xia Shang, who had been building up power for a long time, shot out along with the fragments. His leg muscles contracted rapidly, then exploded. In almost an instant, he arrived in front of Muzan.

At this moment, Muzan still wanted to manipulate his tentacles to block the flying fragments.

He completely failed to anticipate Xia Shang's sudden appearance.

"You..." Before he could finish speaking, Xia Shang swung his right hand. Under the moonlight, the cold glinting blade grew larger and closer in the center of Muzan's plum-red pupils. This strike... he couldn't dodge it!

Puff... hiss! The extremely sharp blade instantly sliced through Muzan's head, then his neck, his chest, all the way down to his abdomen!

After Xia Shang withdrew his blade.

Muzan fell to the ground like a watermelon cut in half, his two sides falling in different directions. Thick blood mixed with shattered and scattered internal organs, splashing out and dyeing the mud beneath Xia Shang's feet red.

"Gurgle..." Half of Muzan's face still wanted to say something, but could only spit out dense blood bubbles.

"Killing you now really feels a bit regrettable." Flesh buds grew from Xia Shang's severed arm, but his self-healing speed was clearly not as fast as Muzan's on the ground.

Muzan, cut in half, did not seem to have his aura weakened in the slightest. Countless tiny flesh and blood tentacles surged out from inside his body, like wriggling sickly blood vessels, slowly pulling the split Muzan up from the ground.

"Cough! Cough cough!! It seems your regeneration ability isn't very good." Muzan, now reattached, coughed up a few clots of clotted blood. The red marks running vertically across his whole body dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye. When he saw that Xia Shang's severed arm had only grown a flesh bud, he couldn't help but mock him.

It seemed the opponent wasn't perfect either.

Thinking of this, Muzan's mood couldn't help but become cheerful.

"You talk too much." After Xia Shang's right arm returned to normal, he slowly drew the Nichirin Blade from his waist.

Damn it!

I actually forgot that the opponent could also use Sun Breathing! Muzan, who had been somewhat smug just moments ago, instantly turned gloomy. Fortunately, he sensed Hantengu's position constantly approaching him. However, one Upper Rank wasn't enough insurance. If there were two or more, he might be able to fight the opponent, especially since the opponent had already exposed his weakness.

"Water Breathing..." Bang! The ground instantly collapsed downwards, unable to withstand the strength Xia Shang was unleashing at this moment.

And the Nichirin Blade in his hand gradually turned red due to the high temperature. As Xia Shang's arm muscles tensed, every single muscle fiber within them was like a bowstring ready to fire. When two streams of white steam rose from the corners of Xia Shang's mouth.

He moved! "Tenth Form: Constant Flux!"

Bang! In an instant, a ferocious and massive Water Dragon roared out, its momentum incredibly vast, as if it wanted to completely engulf Muzan!

Water Breathing? What the hell?

A hint of confusion flashed across Muzan's face. He thought Xia Shang would use Sun Breathing against him.

He knew that no matter how strong Water Breathing was, it couldn't kill him.

Muzan's figure constantly shifted and moved, while Xia Shang followed relentlessly. The Water Dragon wrapped around his blade grew larger and larger. This was the characteristic of Constant Flux, which could increase blade speed and power by continuously revolving.

As long as the body could withstand, it could theoretically stack infinitely.

However, in Xia Shang's opinion, the stacking speed was still a bit slow. Except for some special circumstances, there was no need to use it.

"Why? Why would he use this move?"

Muzan was completely bewildered.

However, he could also feel the dangerous aura overflowing from Xia Shang intensifying.

No, he couldn't let the opponent's sword qi stack any further. Muzan leaped backward, then manipulated the tentacles behind him to charge towards Xia Shang.

"Did you notice? Then I won't pretend anymore. Hinokami Kagura! Sun Halo Dragon Head Dance!" A hint of flame flickered in Xia Shang's eyes.

Boom! The originally ferocious roaring Water Dragon actually began to transform into a Fire Dragon from its head! In an instant, the temperature in the area centered around Xia Shang soared! Even a gust of gale ignited the weeds on the ground. In an instant, a heatwave, like a surging tsunami, swept up the debris and gravel on the ground and slammed towards Muzan! Muzan's extended tentacles were cut off one by one by Xia Shang.

The severed ends of those tentacles were completely charred, truly losing their regeneration.

This feeling! Muzan was instantly terrified. He felt as if he saw that man's figure again. His cells trembled, and a strong fear of death surged into his heart once more.

At this moment, he only wanted to escape! However, Xia Shang's speed was superior to his. Even when Muzan unleashed his full strength, he still couldn't shake off Xia Shang.

On the wilderness shrouded by the night, a dazzlingly bright giant Flame Dragon was swimming its body, roaring wantonly! The next second! Splat! The Red Blade in Xia Shang's hand cut into Muzan's right shoulder, slicing off his entire arm.

As the familiar burning sensation came from the wound, Muzan's expression twisted uncontrollably. Bulging veins popped out on his neck. The pain made him burst out with even faster speed. Just one arm was nothing to him; as long as he could escape, the arm could regenerate at any time.

The arm cut off by Xia Shang exploded like a cannonball. Countless flesh thorns spewed out from it, but these thorns had very poor vitality and could only delay Xia Shang for less than a second.

Fortunately, at this moment, Muzan suddenly discovered that Hantengu was not far in front of him.

"Useless! Why are you only arriving now!"

Hantengu, who had just walked out of the forest, saw the dishevelled Muzan-sama in front of him and didn't know what had happened. Just as he was about to speak, Muzan grabbed him and threw him backward. His tone was icy cold: "Help me hold him off. I will send other Upper Ranks to support you."

"What?"

Hantengu, who was thrown out, was completely bewildered at this moment. He couldn't imagine who could force Muzan-sama to this extent.

However, he soon found out.

Because a terrifying giant dragon made of flames was opening its bloody mouth towards him! "This!!" Hantengu was so scared he detached his head, then subconsciously threw his head away. His head grew flesh and blood and a cervical spine in mid-air, and in almost an instant, it grew a new body. The new body was in the form of a young boy, holding a feather fan that was red in the middle, green on the outer ring, and purple at the tip.

"Hahaha, it feels great to be free of you." Karaku, whose hair was tied with white flowers, faced the incoming Fire Dragon and fanned the feather fan in his hand.

With a boom, a gale surged out from the fan.

"To actually throw your subordinate over to die, as expected of you, Muzan." Xia Shang's legs exerted force violently, instantly avoiding the incoming gale and constantly approaching Karaku while circling the gale.

"Interesting, truly interesting." Hantengu's clone, Karaku, laughed loudly while continuously waving the feather fan in his hand.

It must be said that the gale unleashed by the feather fan was extremely powerful.

Even Xia Shang, moving at several times the speed of sound, found it somewhat tricky. Seeing that there was no avoiding it, he could only push against the gale, leaving deep footprints on the ground.

Not only that, but the gale also carried debris, branches, and other miscellaneous items. These things, amplified by the gale, became deadly weapons. But these were nothing to Xia Shang. Even Muzan found it difficult to break through his defense, let alone these miscellaneous items.

Seeing that Xia Shang was not blown away by the gale.

Karaku's laughter grew even louder. "As expected of the guy who can force the master to retreat, truly interesting."

"But I don't find it interesting at all. I'm very angry right now and just want to kill him." Beside him, Hantengu's main body had transformed into the clone Sekido. He held a golden staff, his pupils blood red and inscribed with the words Upper Rank Four. His expression was furious, as if anything could cause him displeasure.

He charged towards Xia Shang and swung the gilded staff at Xia Shang's head. In an instant, countless lightning bolts shot out from the tip of the staff.

They struck Xia Shang in the gale.

"Quite a good ability, it's just a shame it requires a weapon to use. It doesn't seem to have a very high upper limit." Xia Shang, struck by the lightning, revealed a mouth full of sharp teeth. A few sparks of electricity shot out from between his teeth. This level of lightning was far less than one-tenth of Stormfront's, probably not even enough to strike Tanjiro dead.

"Hantengu told us to stop playing and find an opportunity to retreat." Karaku was indifferent to Hantengu's command.

"Who cares about him, I just want to vent the anger in my heart!"

Sekido raised the staff in his hand and brought it down towards Xia Shang's head.

However, before he could bring the staff down, a reddish Red Blade pierced through his head! Rip! The part pierced by the blade instantly carbonized and spread countless cracks downwards.

[Sekido - Dead!]

Before the cracks could spread to his neck, Sekido's lower body automatically detached, and a new head grew.

"Pathetically weak." Before the new head could speak, Xia Shang sliced apart his entire body with a single strike.

[Aizetsu - Dead!]

"They were killed so easily, but this is clearly a sad thing, so why am I so happy?" On Karaku's tongue, the character for 'joy' was imprinted. His body gradually split open, and soon, Urogi split off.

Urogi had a pair of brownish-yellow wings on his back and claws like an eagle on his feet. He also didn't want to escape. "Hahaha, let me slaughter him from high altitude."

Soon, he soared into the air, revealing the character for 'joy' on his tongue as he laughed wildly.

As he laughed wildly, waves of psychic waves blasted towards Xia Shang.

"You guys are really persistent." Xia Shang's other arm had long since grown back. At this moment, he raised his left hand and swung it violently! An invisible psychic wave instantly slammed Urogi, who was flying in the sky, into a pile of mangled flesh! A rain of blood mixed with broken bones fell, symbolizing Urogi's death.

[Urogi - Dead!]

"Is it finally my turn?" Karaku turned around and fled without hesitation. Even though he was Hantengu's 'joy' emotion, a hint of fear was unavoidable in his eyes.

"Your bodies are really fragile." Xia Shang's tone was flat. He felt that Hantengu's clones could be killed with a gun. Compared to the physiques of those superheroes from The Boys, they were pitifully fragile.

However, this thing would be excellent for saving one's life.

Unfortunately, Hantengu's clones all had their own consciousness, which Xia Shang didn't like.

"Isn't it a bit late to try and leave now?"

Behind Karaku, who was running desperately, Xia Shang's voice suddenly sounded, like a ghost, causing Karaku, who always had a smile on his lips, to twitch at the corner of his eye. Who between him and the opponent was the demon? He couldn't tell, he really couldn't tell!

Hiss! The blade in Xia Shang's hand sliced off Karaku's head very smoothly, but his body still didn't stop, continuing to run wildly.

[Karaku - Dead!]

"Why! Why are you chasing me relentlessly? I hate it! I hate you! I hate why no one is coming to support me! I hate everything!!" The figure that was escaping suddenly stopped. His body swelled violently, his newly grown head's expression incredibly twisted. He suddenly turned his head and slammed a palm towards Xia Shang.

"Here we go again..." At Muzan's speed, it was almost impossible for Xia Shang to catch up again. Within the range of his Parasyte Sensing, he could no longer detect Muzan's location, indicating that he had escaped the area covered by the radio waves.

"Caw! Caw! Here, here, Xia Shang-sama, I finally found you." A black Kasugai Crow flew from a distance, and behind it followed an identical black Kasugai Crow.

"This is Hantengu, Upper Rank Four of the Twelve Kizuki. Why would he appear here?" Yao asked, puzzled.

"Did Murata also follow?" Xia Shang chatting while swinging the Nichirin Blade in his hand. The blade, wrapped in flames, sliced through Zohakuten's palm, instantly cutting through his flesh and blood and heading towards Zohakuten's neck.

(End of Chapter)