As Duanmu Huai's Reality Marble eroded the Demon Lord's Infinite Castle, the Demon Slayer Corps, which had originally been scattered into pieces, successfully regrouped and began a direct confrontation with the Demon army.
The Demon Slayer Corps' strongest Nine Pillars charged straight into the Demon army like fierce tigers descending from the mountains. Demons fell wherever they went. Clearly, ordinary Demons had no power to fight back before the Nine Pillars.
If the Nine Pillars were willing, they could even join forces and wipe out all these hundreds or thousands of Demons.
But that wasn't the issue.
For the Nine Pillars, there was only one target: the enormous Flesh Egg at the rear of the Demon army, and the Demon Lord sleeping inside it—Muzan!
Their Lord had sacrificed himself to create an opportunity to heavily injure Muzan. They absolutely could not stop here!
Soon, the nine of them broke through the Demon army and continued forward. They had even prepared themselves to be stopped by the Upper Moon Demons. However, contrary to the Nine Pillars' expectations, the surviving Upper Moon Demons showed no intention of stopping them. They merely stared ahead without moving, like statues.
What were they doing?
The Nine Pillars cast puzzled looks at the Upper Moon Demons. Although they had considered taking the opportunity to kill these powerful Demons, after giving it some thought, they decided that to shoot the horse, one must first shoot the rider—to capture the bandits, first capture their leader. Muzan had yet to fully recover. If they attacked the Upper Moon Demons, they would only waste time. What they needed to do now was hurry and kill the not-yet-fully-recovered Demon Lord as quickly as possible!
In fact, the Nine Pillars did not know that the Upper Moon Demons truly had no attention