"Boom!"
Giyu Tomioka didn't even give Tanjiro any breathing room.
He casually kicked off the cracked bluestone slab with his long legs.
"Bang--!"
The ground beneath his feet blasted open, creating a shallow crater half a meter deep, with rubble floating upwards as if defying gravity.
Giyu's figure, like a ferocious beast that had finally broken free of its cage, vanished from the spot in an instant with a sharp, tearing sound that ripped through the air!
That's too fast!
It was so fast that even those hiding a hundred meters away could only see a blurry, dark afterimage!
"Roar!"
Tanjiro's beastly instincts kicked in at that moment, and he screamed.
His body reacted before his brain, and he abruptly crossed his arms to protect his chest.
"Bang--!"
Giyu's unremarkable right fist landed squarely on Tanjiro's crossed arms.
"Snap! Snap!"
The chilling sound of bones cracking echoed through the sky.
Tanjiro's arm bones, which were strong enough to withstand the slashes of Nichirin Blade, were instantly shattered like ice by Giyu's punch!
The ferocious force of the punch continued unabated, piercing through Tanjiro's broken arms and slamming into his chest.
"Pfft--!"
Tanjiro's eyes bulged out suddenly, and he spat out a mouthful of demon blood.
"Boom!"
The massive artificial mountain collapsed from the middle with a deafening roar, and countless tons of granite blocks rained down like raindrops.
Tanjiro, along with countless pebbles, was blasted away by this punch, carving a terrifying deep trench in the ground.
"This... this is a human fist?!"
Hiding in the distance, the [Wind Hashira] Sanemi Shinazugawa was clutching his broken ribs tightly with his hand.
His bloodshot eyes were so wide they looked like they were about to pop out of their sockets.
Sanemi looked at his fist, then at the expressionless man in the distance who was shirtless and had casually smashed the artificial mountain with a single punch.
His worldview was severely damaged.
"That Tomioka guy... when he trained with us before, was he holding back the whole time?!"
Sanemi roared inwardly, his back instantly soaked with cold sweat.
"Roar--!"
Amidst the ruins, Tanjiro let out a piercing roar.
Although he felt no pain despite his arms being shattered, the Demon King's Blood went completely berserk.
"Sizzle sizzle..."
In just one second, Tanjiro's shattered arms regenerated in a cloud of white smoke.
He stomped his feet hard on the ground, like a mad rhinoceros, and charged at Giyu.
Since we can't win with brute force, let's defeat physics with magic!
Tanjiro spread his arms wide, and all the energy in his body instantly transformed into the hottest blood.
[Blood Demon Art: Heat Haze - Heavenly Fire Meteor!]
There was no nonsense, only pure killing instinct.
Tanjiro flailed his arms wildly in mid-air, spraying out a shower of demon blood.
The moment these bloods come into contact with air, they explode into ultra-high-temperature fireballs with a diameter of over one meter!
Hundreds and thousands of blood-red fireballs, like a reverse meteor shower, completely dyed the sky above the Ubuyashiki crimson.
--It rained down on Giyu Tomioka like a tidal wave!
"That's too dazzling! This... this kind of wide-range Blood Demon Art is impossible to dodge!"
[Sound Hashira] Tengen Uzui looked at the sky full of fireballs.
I felt like my prized explosives were nothing more than child's playthings compared to this thing.
"This kid's destructive power is simply unreasonable!"
Faced with this earth-shattering magical cleansing...
Giyu Tomioka slightly raised his deep blue eyes.
"The temperature is so-so, just right for grilling salmon. But the bullet trajectories are too scattered."
The next second.
Giyu's legs were slightly bent.
Instead of retreating, he advanced, charging directly into the rain of fire!
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Meteor showers rained down on Giyu, burning lava craters into the ground.
However, something inexplicable happened when the fireballs that were about to hit Giyu's body.
He simply swung his fist.
"Bang!"
A straight punch landed precisely on a fireball Heat Haze towards him.
The expected scene of flesh and blood being burned to a crisp did not occur.
The fireball, brimming with intense heat, was actually blasted apart by Giyu's terrifying punch using sheer physical force!
Wherever the fist passed, the force of the punch created a visible vacuum zone.
The Heat Haze flames couldn't even touch Giyu's skin before being extinguished by the violent kinetic energy!
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Giyu's figure transformed into a blue lightning bolt that traveled against the flow of fire rain.
His hands moved like afterimages, delivering punch after punch.
Those crimson fireballs, powerful enough to melt steel, were like fragile soap bubbles before him, bursting one after another in mid-air and turning into countless red sparks.
"Monster... who is the monster?!"
[Serpent Hashira] Obanai Iguro's heterochromatic eyes, one gold and one green, trembled wildly.
He gazed at Giyu's perfect physique, which had withstood the Blood Demon Art so well...
Just how dense are this guy's muscles? Is he immune to even that kind of high temperature?
Actually, it's not that Giyu is truly immune to high temperatures.
Rather, it's the vitality of the cells in his body that has reached an unbelievable level.
Even if a single flame were to burn his skin, within 0.01 seconds, the burned epidermal cells would be instantly replaced by newly generated cells!
His regenerative abilities have even, to some extent, caught up with Tanjiro's super-fast regeneration!
"Roar!"
Seeing his meteor shower being smashed to pieces by the opponent's fist, Tanjiro's beastly mind was filled with confusion.
"Still not giving up?"
Giyu's voice seemed to come from hell.
He had broken through the fire rain's blockade and instantly appeared less than a meter in front of Tanjiro.
"Then let's continue."
Giyu twisted his neck, making a crisp cracking sound.
Immediately, a one-sided violent brawl broke out in the Ubuyashiki garden!
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Giyu's fists transformed into a raging storm, devoid of any set patterns, only the extreme violence of every punch landing squarely!
A left hook slammed into Tanjiro's chin, shattering all of his lower sharp teeth!
A right hook slammed into Tanjiro's temple, and the head with dark red hair was even twisted into a bizarre ninety-degree arc!
Knee strike! Elbow strike!
Every part of Giyu's body has been transformed into the most deadly killing weapon.
Tanjiro's flawless demon body was Giyu by Giyu's inhuman, insane barrage of attacks...
Most of his body was blasted into a bloody mist by Giyu's punch!
It regenerated in a fraction of a second, and then Giyu kicked it again, breaking its spine!
"Aaaaaaah--!"
The feeling of being completely crushed and unable to even retaliate caused Tanjiro to let out a strange, incomprehensible cry.
He frantically waved his hands, trying to leave wounds on Heat Haze 'Giyu body.
Occasionally, sharp ghost claws would slash at Giyu's arms or shoulders, and as soon as blood seeped out, white steam would rise, and the wounds would heal instantly.