Starting Shared Heavens from Douluo Continent Chapter 41

After learning swordsmanship, the survivors could slash down zombies in close combat while scavenging for supplies, avoiding deadly surprises when opening doors.

Ever since the survivors had learned martial arts, the survivor base had gradually gotten on track. Dai Changsheng no longer needed to personally handle trivial matters like clearing ordinary zombies or searching for supplies and other survivors.

Only when the survivors encountered powerful zombies such as packs of zombie dogs or Lickers did they need to trouble Dai Changsheng, their leader.

Unfortunately, what no one knew was that as the survivors' numbers and range of activity continued to expand, they had also fallen under the Red Queen's surveillance.

Chapter 87: Sun Breathing

Since the T-Virus had been deliberately released by Umbrella Corporation, with the goal of wiping out the rest of humanity so that Umbrella Corporation's upper management could monopolize the entire planet, the company had long established branches in countries all over the world. China was naturally no exception.

At first, the Red Queen had paid no attention to those barely surviving survivors. It was only when it accidentally discovered that they could easily leap onto walls three or four meters high that it began to focus on them.

The Red Queen did not know that the survivors had learned lightness skills. It assumed they had perfectly fused with the T-Virus, just like Alice.

When Umbrella Corporation's upper management received the surveillance footage sent back by the Red Queen, they hurriedly dispatched a mercenary squad from the Chinese branch to capture the survivors for research.

What Umbrella Corporation's higher-ups did not know was that Dai Changsheng had deliberately allowed the survivors to expose themselves to the Red Queen's surveillance in order to lure them into taking the bait.

Having read the original work, Dai Changsheng knew very well that Umbrella Corporation now controlled the entire world. Not only did they have their own satellites, they could even deploy nuclear missiles.

No matter how solidly Dai Changsheng built the survivor base, it could never withstand Umbrella Corporation's nuclear gift package.

Rather than defend passively, it was better to strike first!

That was why Dai Changsheng had deliberately laid down the bait. Once Umbrella Corporation's mercenary squad came knocking, he would use the Soul Shifting Great Method to control them and infiltrate Umbrella Corporation from within.

After all, Dai Changsheng was very interested in Umbrella Corporation's black technologies, such as mature cloning technology, memory transplantation technology, and the artificial intelligence technology used to create the Red Queen.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba World

Demon Slayer Corps Headquarters, rear mountain training ground.

"Rumble..."

Accompanied by the thunderous crash of heavy objects collapsing, every boulder within dozens of meters was split in half by Dai Changsheng, who had transformed into a fire dragon.

"So strong! As expected of Brother Changsheng!"

Seeing that Dai Changsheng had not only learned the Sun Breathing that Tanjiro himself had only barely grasped in just a few hours, but had also mastered all twelve corresponding sword forms, Tanjiro's face was filled with admiration.

During the earlier battle against Lower Rank One, Enmu, Tanjiro had already gained a preliminary grasp of Sun Breathing. After returning to the Demon Slayer Corps, he had begun switching over to Sun Breathing.

Unfortunately, Sun Breathing was exceedingly difficult to cultivate. Even after training painstakingly for several months, Tanjiro was still unable to perform all twelve sword forms.

Thus, Tanjiro had sought Dai Changsheng's guidance. In the process of instructing him, Dai Changsheng had learned Sun Breathing as well.

Sun Breathing was a Breathing Technique created by Yoriichi Tsugikuni. It was also the origin and foundation of all Breathing styles.

Since Sun Breathing could release energy identical to that of the sun, it had an extremely powerful suppressive effect on demons.

However, Sun Breathing was incredibly difficult to cultivate. Aside from Yoriichi Tsugikuni and Tanjiro, no other demon slayer had managed to learn it.

Derived Breathing Techniques such as Thunder Breathing were weakened versions created to make cultivation easier for other demon slayers.

The reason Dai Changsheng had been able to learn Sun Breathing was that the Nine Yang Divine Skill he cultivated was itself an internal martial art of utmost hardness and pure yang. It complemented Sun Breathing perfectly.

"Tanjiro, keep your eyes wide open. What I'm about to perform is the thirteenth sword form of Sun Breathing!"

Before the admiration had faded from Tanjiro's face, Dai Changsheng said something that shocked him even more.

"The thirteenth sword form?"

The Hinokami Kagura passed down through the Kamado family for generations only had twelve forms. Even Tanjiro did not know that it possessed a thirteenth.

Facing Tanjiro's puzzled gaze, Dai Changsheng did not rush to explain. Instead, he swiftly performed all twelve sword forms of Sun Breathing from beginning to end.

As Tanjiro watched Dai Changsheng, flames and blade light swirling around him as though he had transformed into the sun itself, a look of sudden realization finally appeared on his face.

So the thirteenth sword form of Sun Breathing was the ultimate secret art: continuously using the first through twelfth forms to complete one grand cycle!

"What a powerful sword technique! Was Muzan Kibutsuji nearly killed by this chain of attacks back then?"

Having successfully performed Sun Breathing: Thirteenth Form, Dai Changsheng gently stroked his jet-black Nichirin Blade and muttered, "But this level of power still isn't enough to destroy that guy. I need to become stronger!"

Yoriichi Tsugikuni had been able to nearly kill Muzan Kibutsuji in an instant not through Sun Breathing alone. His naturally awakened Demon Slayer Mark and Transparent World had also been indispensable.

If Dai Changsheng wanted to crush Muzan Kibutsuji with absolute strength as Yoriichi Tsugikuni had, then he too needed to awaken the Demon Slayer Mark and Transparent World.

With Dai Changsheng's current physical constitution, awakening the Demon Slayer Mark would be easy. He only needed to raise his body temperature to thirty-nine degrees Celsius and make his heart beat more than two hundred times per minute.

Although awakening the Demon Slayer Mark could greatly increase one's strength, it would also severely reduce one's lifespan.

Other than Yoriichi Tsugikuni, who had been born with the Demon Slayer Mark awakened, demon slayers who awakened it usually did not live past the age of twenty-five.

Dai Changsheng was not sure whether he could ignore the side effects of awakening the Demon Slayer Mark, so he was in no hurry to awaken it. He planned to wait until he had transformed into a perfect life-form before doing so.

In the original work, Yoriichi Tsugikuni's twin brother had chosen to fall into demonhood precisely because he feared the side effects brought by awakening the Demon Slayer Mark.

After Michikatsu Tsugikuni became a demon, he successfully became immune to the Demon Slayer Mark's side effects and became Muzan Kibutsuji's strongest subordinate: Upper Rank One—Kokushibo!

As for the Transparent World, also known as the "transparent world," it was the highest realm that only battle-hardened experts could comprehend.

After opening the Transparent World, the user's speed in predicting movements and evading attacks would increase greatly. At the same time, it was like gaining X-ray vision, allowing them to clearly see the rise and fall of their opponent's lungs, as well as the flow and contraction of their blood vessels, thereby seeing through their movements and weaknesses completely.

Perhaps because Dai Changsheng lacked enough real combat experience, he had yet to comprehend the Transparent World.

Hopefully, the versions of himself in the other worlds would be more capable and share enough combat memories with him the next time he entered Gray Mist Space, helping him comprehend the Transparent World!

"Tanjiro, the main reason you can't perform the complete sword forms of Sun Breathing is that your physical constitution can't keep up."

Halfway through his sentence, Dai Changsheng revealed a somewhat teasing smile. "Next, I'll help you devise a training plan focused on improving your physical fitness. Don't start crying about being tired!"

"Yes! Brother Changsheng, I'll train hard."

Hearing that, Tanjiro immediately felt a sense of foreboding rise in his heart, but he could only agree through gritted teeth.

Thanks to Novel-Loving Passerby for the 100 Qidian Coins, and thanks as well to the other readers for their support.

Chapter 88: The Seventh Newcomer

Hong Kong Film World

Repulse Bay Villa, underground chamber.

The spacious underground chamber contained many oddly shaped tools.

Besides black-tech items such as an Iron Man suit, there were also quite a few objects that exuded an air of mysticism, including coin swords, Bagua mirrors, and talismans.

The most eye-catching item was a glass jar over two meters tall. It was filled with clear tap water and contained the corpse of a woman dressed in a blue opera robe, her long hair covering her face.

That's right!

That pale, eerie female corpse was Chu Renmei's body.

The reason Dai Changsheng had moved Chu Renmei's corpse into the underground chamber of his villa was naturally not because he had some special fetish. It was because he could use it to kill people without anyone noticing.

Dai Changsheng had now acquired several technology companies and had begun producing mobile phones like Little Smart. He would inevitably offend many people's interests next.

Cutting off someone's source of wealth was like killing their parents!

As the industries under Dai Changsheng's control grew larger and larger, many people would surely risk everything to get rid of him.

Some of them would inevitably have special identities, making it inconvenient for Dai Changsheng to directly send someone to kill them. When that time came, Chu Renmei could make her move.

The simplest method was to add some of Chu Renmei's corpse-soaking water to the alcohol those people drank, then have Chu Renmei visit their homes at night to sing opera.

Detective Conan World

Beika City, an underground laboratory.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak..."

Accompanied by sharp, ear-piercing cries, over a hundred white mice fed APTX4869 began struggling frantically inside their glass enclosure.

Ai Haibara, dressed in a child-sized white lab coat, sat on a nearby sofa with one leg crossed over the other. She ate a blueberry lollipop while flipping through the latest fashion magazine, clearly already accustomed to the scene.

The piercing cries continued for more than half an hour before gradually subsiding, and Ai Haibara unhurriedly set down the fashion magazine in her hands.

Wearing cartoon slippers, Ai Haibara put on gloves with practiced ease, picked up a pair of metal tweezers, and transferred the surviving white mice into another clean glass enclosure.

In the end, only a little over twenty white mice had successfully reverted to their juvenile state. The remaining mice had all died violently.

Ai Haibara showed no disappointment at all. Instead, she revealed a satisfied smile.

After all, a success rate of over twenty percent was already a huge improvement compared to the less than one percent success rate from over a month ago.

However, Ai Haibara also knew very well that she could not have achieved such obvious results in such a short time without Dai Changsheng and the others' help.

If Dai Changsheng had not secretly copied the APTX4869 research materials from the organization, Ai Haibara would have needed at least half a year just to reconstruct those documents.

Combined with the research samples provided by Conan and her sister, Ai Haibara had been able to identify the differences and further improve APTX4869.

After recording the data from this experiment, Ai Haibara glanced at the white mice that had died violently and left the underground laboratory.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

The moment she left the soundproofed underground laboratory, Ai Haibara heard fierce gunfire coming from the living room.

Seeing Dai Changsheng in casual clothes reclining halfway on the sofa in front of the television, eating potato chips while watching a gunfight movie, Ai Haibara could not help rolling her eyes at him.

"Ahem!"

Ai Haibara first coughed twice to draw Dai Changsheng's attention, then waved her hand impatiently. "Today's experiment is over. The survival rate is twenty-four percent. Go dispose of those mouse corpses!"

"Oh? The survival rate has already exceeded twenty percent?"

Dai Changsheng's eyes brightened slightly. Smiling, he stood up and walked over to Ai Haibara, then rubbed her little head. "You worked hard, Xiao Ai~"

"Xiao Ai, are you done with the research?"

Akai Shuichi, who was cooking dinner in the kitchen, heard Ai Haibara's voice and hurriedly poked her head out. With a bright smile, she said, "Dinner won't be ready for a while. Go take a bath first!"

"Mm!"

Ai Haibara nodded obediently, then speechlessly shook off Dai Changsheng's large hand and shuffled toward the bathroom in her slippers.

What a tsundere little girl~

Watching Ai Haibara's departing back, Dai Changsheng could not help revealing the smile of an old father. He then entered the underground laboratory and skillfully began cleaning up the white mouse corpses.

Just as Dai Changsheng had gathered the mouse corpses into bags and was planning to take them to the incinerator after dinner, the scene around him suddenly twisted.

By the time Dai Changsheng regained his senses, he had appeared beside the bonfire in Gray Mist Space.

Aside from Douluo-Dai Changsheng and the others, Gray Mist Space now contained another new figure.

That figure looked eighty percent similar to Dai Changsheng and the others. He was a short-haired young man in his twenties, dressed in a gray-blue long robe.

"You are?"

Faced with the newcomer's surprised and wary gaze, Dai Changsheng and the others spoke in unison. "We're you from other worlds. Come share with us!"

After speaking, Dai Changsheng and the others smiled as they formed a circle, stacking their hands atop one another.

Seeing this, the newcomer also roughly guessed the truth. He hurried over and placed his hand on top.

As their memories began to be shared, everyone also learned the newcomer's origins.

It turned out that the newcomer had transmigrated into the world of Mr. Vampire. His parents had died when he was young, and by a fortunate coincidence, he had been adopted by Uncle Nine and become his chief disciple, as well as Man Choi and Qiu Sheng's senior brother.

Unfortunately, Zombie-Dai Changsheng's talent for cultivation was mediocre. After studying Daoist arts under Uncle Nine for more than twenty years, he had only reached the middle stage of Refining Essence into Qi.

In the world of Mr. Vampire, cultivation realms could roughly be divided into four levels. From lowest to highest, they were: Refining Essence into Qi, Refining Qi into Spirit, Refining Spirit into Void, and Refining Void into Dao.

Each major realm could further be divided into four levels: early stage, middle stage, late stage, and perfection.

Refining Essence into Qi was the entry-level realm. It was similar to martial artists in the world of Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, allowing one to refine the essence of food into qi—the so-called 'mana.'

Refining Qi into Spirit, meanwhile, involved further cultivating qi and transforming it into spirit, mainly strengthening one's mental power.

Based on Zombie-Dai Changsheng's indirect probing, Uncle Nine's current cultivation should be around the late stage of Refining Qi into Spirit.

As for the next realm, Refining Spirit into Void, it involved further cultivating one's spirit until the mind reached a state of emptiness.

Chapter 89: Mr. Vampire