"Roar!"
Before long, Tanjiro, pinned beneath layer upon layer of Gate of the Great God, let out a heart-wrenching roar.
The sound pierced the Four Violet Flames Formation and struck everyone present to the core, making their hearts pound with inexplicable dread.
And it didn't sound like a human roar. It was more like the dying howl of a beast!
Whether they were the Hokage inside the barrier or Orochimaru and the others outside it, they all understood the situation clearly.
The Upper Moon One before them was a truly terrifying, unstoppable monster.
If this had happened anywhere else, and they hadn't been facing the First, then even an army of tens of thousands of shinobi probably couldn't have stopped Tanjiro in his most frenzied state.
Lying on the ground, the Second lamented, "He really is a monster capable of threatening the Shinobi World!"
The black smoke emanating from Tanjiro was corroding his body, so the Second still hadn't fully recovered. He could only lie on the ground.
The Third couldn't help but shudder at the thought. "If he'd escaped, the Shinobi World would have been laid waste!"
The Fourth nodded.
The enemy's regenerative ability, attack power, and sheer strangeness were all beyond anything he had ever seen.
They were lucky the First was there. Otherwise, he wasn't sure he could have handled this monster.
Just then, the First shouted a warning. "Everyone, be careful!"
Perhaps realizing that even if his body disintegrated, he still wouldn't break free from the Gate of the Great God if this continued, Tanjiro stopped holding back. He burned away some of himself—including his experience, his memories, and even his soul!
Boom.
As Tanjiro sacrificed everything, the black smoke around him swelled instantly. In a flash, it corroded four Gates of the Great God in