Fierce Battle, Giyu Tomioka vs. Demon King Muzan (Part Three)
Muzan waved his hands continuously, not fighting to the death, but simply releasing various forms of ice-type Blood Demon Arts at a high frequency!
The ice on the ground grew wildly, transforming into countless thick ice crystal vines and blooming ice lotus leaves, wrapping around and blocking Giyu from all directions;
At the same time, hundreds of sharp, mysterious ice stalactites condensed in the Freezing Clouds above Giyu's head, crashing down with a piercing sound!
"Boom boom boom rumble--!"
In an instant, the entire mountaintop was transformed into an icy Rengoku!
For a full ten minutes, Muzan did not use the bone whip once more, relying solely on an overwhelming barrage of ice-based Blood Demon Arts —ice spears, ice walls, ice storms, ice vines, and all-pervasive poisonous Freezing Clouds —to bombard Giyu layer upon layer!
If it were any other Pillar of the Demon Slayer Corps, even if the entire team went up together, they would be frozen solid in less than five minutes by Muzan's ice-type calamity, their lungs frozen and their strength exhausted, turning them into ice sculptures!
But what Muzan more and more as the fight went on was—
Giyu Tomioka, at the very heart of the blizzard, displayed a terrifying ability to break through the impasse!
No Muzan erects or how many ice pillars he smashes down, Giyu's Red Nichirin Blade always has only one action—to shatter them!
"Moon Breathing, Seventh Form - Mirror of Misfortune, Moonlit!!"
During the charge Giyu swung his sword fiercely, unleashing five crescent-shaped sword energies, each thirty meters long, that hurtled along the ground. The ice vines and high walls of ice along the way couldn't even withstand the force for half a second before being crushed into countless flying ice powders!
Immediately following, facing the dozens of ice spears raining down from above, Giyu continued his footwork, the golden-red flames on his blade surging forth:
"Sun Breathing, Second Form - Blue Heaven!!"
"Boom--!"
A blazing, golden-red sun Fire Wheel, twenty meters in diameter, shot into the sky, instantly severing dozens of falling ice spears. The terrifying heat also vaporized the ice blocks in mid-air!
"Moon Breathing - Ninth Form - Waning Moonswaths!!"
Giyu leaped into the air, unleashing six intersecting sword energies, each over twenty meters long, that swept across fifty meters, shattering the Ice Shrine Maiden who was spewing freezing air into countless ice fragments!
They swept through the enemy lines! They crushed them all!
In just ten minutes, Giyu Tomioka withstood the endless tide of ice-type Blood Demon Arts and, with a casual swing of his hand, unleashed a terrifying sword aura that stretched for twenty or thirty meters, completely flattening the ice and snow within a radius of several hundred meters, leaving him less than thirty meters away from Muzan!
"What's wrong with this guy's stamina?!"
Muzan's eyes twitched violently, and a chill ran down his spine.
"In sub-zero temperatures, he unleashed over a hundred sword strikes in succession, yet his lungs weren't frostbitten at all?!"
"Doesn't his wrist get sore?!"
Seeing that the pure ice-type Blood Demon Art could no longer stop Giyu's advance, and that the thirty-meter distance was just a matter of Giyu's quick movement to get close to him, Muzan's eyes hardened, and he decisively pulled out a new Blood Demon Art!
"Since ice can't freeze you, then let's add thunder and earth!!"
Muzan's claws pierced into the frozen ground beneath his feet, and the flow of his internal energy suddenly shifted!
Blood Demon Art: Thunderous Lightning Slaughter!
"Blood Demon Art: Earth-Splitting Rock Burial!!"
"Boom--!"
Accompanied by a deafening roar of thunder, dozens of thick, black and red lightning bolts burst forth from Muzan's body, transforming into a raging sea of lightning!
At the same time, the entire rock strata beneath Giyu's feet instantly flipped over!
Dozens of massive granite pillars, crackling with black and red lightning, rose from all directions, like collapsing stone mountains, converging on the Giyu in the center!
Ice slows you down, black lightning paralyzes you, and giant rocks crush you!
Muzan combined three distinct Blood Demon Arts at this moment, unleashing a devastating attack on the entire mountain!
"Total Concentration: Water Breathing - Tenth Form - The Constant Flux!!"
Giyu's eyes blazed with a brilliant light. Instead of retreating, he advanced, transforming into a roaring deep blue water dragon, spinning and charging at high speed through the densely collapsed rock crevices!
The fluidity of Water Breathing and the rotational energy storage were brought to their fullest potential at this moment!
Using the terrifying force accumulated from the rotation, Giyu's Red Nichirin Blade slashed faster and heavier with each strike!
"Bang! Bang! Crack--!"
The first strike cleaved apart the incoming black and red lightning;
The second cut severed a three-meter-thick Stone Hashira;
The third strike shattered the closed stone wall into pieces!
By the time Giyu spun out of the sea of lightning and unleashed his eighth strike, the kinetic energy accumulated on the blade had reached an astonishing level!
"This guy... he actually used my Thunder Sea and Rock Burial techniques to charge up his power?!"
Muzan, watching from afar, felt his eyes twitch. His five brains raced simultaneously, calculating which Blood Demon Art he could use to stop this increasingly ferocious monster:
"Ice couldn't freeze him, lightning couldn't paralyze him, and rocks couldn't crush him... Is there any limit to this person's physical strength?!"
"Do you really want to force me to pull out my trump card, the Blood Demon Art?"
Muzan a pang of bitterness in his heart.
He had no intention of fighting to the death from the start tonight; he only wanted to use wide-range obstruction Blood Demon Art like Ice and Rock spells to stall for the full thirty minutes.
But it seems that relying on these conventional methods alone, we probably won't even be able to get close to the hem of Giyu's clothes!
"Fine! I have plenty of Blood Demon Arts anyway, let's trade one for one and see who gives up first!"
With Muzan teeth, Muzan clasped his hands together, and the energy within his body shifted once more, adding a new layer of attack on top of the sea of lightning and the burial of rocks!
At the same time,
"Sun Breathing - Eleventh Form - Sun Halo Dragon Head Dance!!"
"Boom--!"
The deep blue water dragon instantly transformed into a fifty-meter-long crimson-gold fire dragon!
With perfect harmony between man and sword, Giyu rode the roaring fire dragon and smashed through the five thick rock walls in front of Muzan!
Wherever the fire dragon passed, the hard rocks were directly melted into crimson magma by the high temperature of thousands of degrees!
"So fast?!"
Muzan and had no time to retreat. He could only harden his arms again and summon eight bone whips to block in front of him!
"Pfft--!"
The fire dragon roared as it swept past!
Muzan as paper. Even though he desperately twisted to the right to dodge at the last moment, his entire left shoulder and three hearts were still sliced off by Giyu's sword and burned to ashes in mid-air!
"Damn it! That lunatic's stuck to me again!!"
With Muzan expression, he kicked the mountain wall behind him, using the force to retreat, while splattering the ghost blood gushing from his left shoulder onto the soil beneath his feet!
"Blood Demon Art: Soul-Eating Giant Tree Formation!!"
"Boom--!"
The mountain ley lines that had absorbed the Demon King's blood essence instantly went berserk!
Dozens of thick, jet-black giant trees burst from the ground and grew wildly, with countless tough poisonous vines whipping and entwining, forcibly building a bloodwood forest between the two!