Chapter Summaries

Muzan gained a new ability and began planning to expand his demons, while Lucky watched events unfold across several worlds. Lucky then joined Beyond Netero, three versions of Ging, and a large expedition aboard the Explorer, which sailed beyond known waters and reached an island inhabited by Centaur Demi-humans.

• Muzan tested his new ability beneath dense fog, returned to Infinity Castle, and decided to pursue the Hundred Demons mission instead of urgently seeking the Blue Spider Lily.
• Two versions of Killua brought their Allukas to Keli City, while a Parallel World Hisoka also appeared there and the city descended into chaos.
• Three versions of Ging joined Beyond Netero's Dark Continent expedition, and the Explorer set sail with more than four hundred people after the personnel selection ended.
• The Explorer passed beyond known waters, where Lu Qi helped the Gourmet Association harvest a giant bird and the crew replenished supplies along the way.
• The expedition reached an island inhabited by Centaur Demi-humans, and Ging quickly learned their language while Lucky analyzed a special ore and secretly left a Divine Script Creation altar.

Lucky and Beyond Netero led the expedition into the dangerous border region, where giant creatures and violent weather attacked the ship. Lucky suspected an ancient barrier was testing them, then used Divine Script to strengthen the ship and grant the Protection Group teleportation as they fought back.

• Beyond Netero briefed the expedition on the Pisa Continent and the dangers of the border, and the group rested and trained for seven days before sailing onward.
• Lucky analyzed the region and concluded that an ancient Vow and Restriction might protect Mobius Lake while forcing unauthorized returnees to face a trial.
• Giant birds and sea creatures attacked as the ship entered the border, and Lucky shared his theory with Beyond Netero.
• A storm weakened the Protection Group, so Lucky expanded the ship’s golden Barrier and granted its members protective Nen and short-range teleportation.
• The Protection Group used its new abilities to defeat the creatures while the ship continued forward through the border.

Lucky split the violent border storm and sea with Susanoo, clearing a path for Beyond Netero’s expedition toward the Dark Continent. The chapter then showed how Lucky’s influence had transformed Japan in the Demon Slayer World, where six-year-old Shinjuro Rengoku had just obtained the Hinokami Kagura.

• As the storm intensified, Lu Qi left the ship’s Barrier and manifested Susanoo above the expedition.
• Lucky unleashed repeated giant slashes that cut through the clouds, shattered a waterspout, calmed the sea, and disrupted the border sea’s aura.
• Beyond Netero and the other expedition members watched Lucky return to the ship, and the vessel continued toward the Dark Continent with about five days remaining.
• A figure in a building on the border noticed the display and wondered whether humans had grown powerful again.
• In the Demon Slayer World, Lucky lived as Shinjuro Rengoku, the adopted son of Yujuro Rengoku and the new Flame Hashira, while demons and animal monsters spread across Japan.
• Shinjuro Rengoku practiced breathing after finally obtaining the Hinokami Kagura the previous day.

Lucky practiced the Hinokami Kagura and confirmed that it was an incomplete form of Sun Breathing with exceptional effects but demanding physical requirements. As Yujuro Rengoku revealed that Shinjuro had been injured in Kyoto, Lucky learned that yokai controlled the city and left open the possibility of refining Sun Breathing into a technique more people could master.

• Lucky practiced the Hinokami Kagura for an hour and found that its intense breathing stimulated the body far more than other Breathing Styles.
• Yujuro Rengoku confirmed that Lucky had discovered the legendary Origin Breathing, while recalling how Lucky’s guidance had improved Shinjuro and helped reshape the Demon Slayer Corps.
• Lucky asked about Shinjuro, and Yujuro explained that he was recovering at the Butterfly Mansion after being injured by yokai in Kyoto.
• Yujuro told Lucky that Kyoto had fallen under yokai control and that some officials were cooperating with demons and yokai.
• Lucky said he could simplify Sun Breathing into gradual steps and noted that mastering it could help people learn the Red Blade technique.

Lucky showed Yujuro Rengoku a Wisteria-infused Nichirin Sword, which proved able to poison an ordinary demon to death. As demons and yokai spread and the Twelve Kizuki grew more dangerous, Shinjuro Rengoku joined the Hashira gathering at headquarters after news arrived that a Kizuki dwelling had been found.

• Lucky presented Yujuro Rengoku with a new Nichirin Sword forged using Wisteria extract and explained its poison effects against demons.
• Yujuro tested the blade on an ordinary demon and watched the Wisteria poison kill it quickly.
• Shinjuro Rengoku discussed Breathing Styles and the growing threat of demons and yokai with Yohei Kocho at the Butterfly Mansion.
• Sakonji Urokodaki told Shinjuro that the master had called an early Hashira meeting after a dwelling of one of the Twelve Kizuki was discovered.
• Sakonji and Shinjuro went to headquarters, where all twelve Hashira gathered under Yaowen Ubuyashiki.

Shinjuro Rengoku reported that a powerful Kyoto yokai called Yuki-onna had defeated him and warned the Hashira that her ice could disrupt their breathing. Yaowen Ubuyashiki then briefed the Hashira on new safety measures and an intelligence lead pointing to a possible Lower Rank Six in a mountain village, where the Corps might face spatially gifted demons.

• Hisato Busujima asked Shinjuro Rengoku about his defeat, and Shinjuro described the strength of the Kyoto yokai and Yuki-onna’s dangerous ice abilities.
• Yaowen Ubuyashiki explained that the Corps had recorded demon abilities and was preparing special masks to help slayers keep breathing against attacks like Yuki-onna’s.
• Yaowen Ubuyashiki told the Hashira that Mount Fujikasane’s selection now had examiners who could rescue candidates, and that candidates could attempt it three times.
• Yaowen Ubuyashiki presented intelligence from the Kyoto yokai about a possible Lower Rank Six in a mountain village, though the rank remained unconfirmed.
• The Hashira discussed the village’s disappearances, the possible number of demons there, and whether cooperation with the yokai would provide useful intelligence.

At the Hashira meeting, Yaowen Ubuyashiki discussed the authorities’ cooperation with human-friendly monsters before turning to plans against the Twelve Kizuki. His explanation of the breathing-style founder revealed that the six-year-old child of destiny had appeared around the same time as the yokai, leaving the Hashira wondering whether the yokai were the anomaly the child was destined to restrain.

• Yaowen Ubuyashiki told the Hashira that the authorities were exchanging information and cooperating with monsters that did not eat humans.
• Masaki Onishi and the Summer Hashira refused to risk their lives against the Twelve Kizuki, while Hisato Busujima agreed to fight if he could meet the breathing-style founder.
• Yaowen Ubuyashiki explained the Ubuyashiki curse and said a child of destiny had created the many breathing styles.
• Hisato Busujima learned that the founder was only six years old and inferred that powerful comprehension had enabled him to create the styles.
• The Illusion Hashira pointed out that yokai had begun appearing six years earlier, prompting Yaowen Ubuyashiki and the other Hashira to wonder whether the yokai were the anomaly the child was meant to restrain.

The Hashira agreed to investigate the Twelve Kizuki, while Lucky learned an onmyoji technique and received news that Tamayo had arrived in Kyoto. The chapter ended as a Tengu confronted Tamayo, who had come seeking information about the yokai.

• Yaowen Ubuyashiki refused Hisato Busujima's request, but Hisato and several other Hashira agreed to participate in the mission against the Twelve Kizuki.
• Yaowen Ubuyashiki planned for Kinoe-ranked members and faction subordinates to support the Hashira, and the meeting ended before the Hashira challenged Shinjuro Rengoku to spar.
• Lucky received the meeting's details from his shadow-hiding black dog and began learning to make talismans with spiritual power.
• Tamayo came to Kyoto to investigate its yokai, and a flying Tengu spotted her in the nighttime streets.
• Tamayo recognized the Tengu as a yokai, and the Tengu asked whether she had come looking for them.

Tamayo met Moying and learned that his yokai controlled a hidden Kyoto, with some origins tied to Muzan Kibutsuji. Moying offered to turn her into a yokai and began explaining the forces behind their creation, leaving Nekomata to tell Tamayo about the voice that had directed him toward Muzan.

• Tengu and Goshinki confronted Tamayo in Kyoto, and Goshinki read her thoughts before leading her to Moying.
• Nekomata's shadow power transported Tamayo to a hidden Kyoto filled with yokai, where she met Moying and his council.
• Moying explained that the yokai's origins partly involved Muzan and warned that Muzan had been transformed by an unnamed power.
• Moying offered to turn Tamayo into a yokai, and she questioned the difference between yokai and demons.
• Moying described anomalies, Heaven's balancing forces, and Yoriichi Tsugikuni's role before Nekomata began recounting the voice that had urged him to seek Muzan.

Tamayo accepted Nekomata’s offer and became a yokai, gaining wind powers while retaining her Blood Demon Art. Kanna showed her a vision of Muzan’s eventual defeat, but Tamayo realized the future might no longer apply, and the Demon Slayer Corps began moving against the Twelve Kizuki.

• Nekomata told Tamayo that Muzan had grown stronger and offered her protection and a glimpse of the original future if she joined the yokai.
• Tamayo accepted, swallowed the Sessho-seki, and endured a painful transformation that gave her wind powers while preserving her Blood Demon Art.
• Nekomata left Tamayo in Kyoto with Kanna, who showed her a silent vision of the Demon Slayer Corps’ battle against Muzan.
• Tamayo watched the vision reveal her cooperation with the Corps, her absorption by Muzan, and Muzan’s eventual death beneath the sun, then questioned whether that future still applied.
• Kanna began guiding Tamayo through Shadow Kyoto as the Demon Slayer Corps split into teams and infiltrated places where the Twelve Kizuki were located.

Shinjuro Rengoku and the other Hashira investigated Qingping Town and concluded that a demon had helped the town prosper, while Tamayo began a mission with Junko Kishi to recover a Sessho-seki from a discovered Twelve Kizuki demon. Tamayo learned that the yokai were cooperating with the Demon Slayer Corps, and Ame-onna assured her that the yokai could handle the mission.

• Shinjuro Rengoku investigated Qingping Town, noting its many Wisteria plants, disappearances, and unusual activity at night.
• The Hashira compared their findings and concluded that a demon had helped the town develop, then reported their information to their lord before expanding their search to the surrounding forests.
• Tamayo settled into life in Shadow Kyoto, worked as a doctor, and continued researching ways to kill Muzan and turn demons back into humans.
• Junko Kishi took Tamayo on a mission to recover the Sessho-seki from a Twelve Kizuki demon discovered by the Demon Slayer Corps.
• Ame-onna told Tamayo that the yokai had leaked information to the Demon Slayer Corps and were cooperating with them, then assured her the yokai were stronger.

The Hashira lured a hidden demon into revealing itself, then pursued it to a mountain stronghold and discovered Lower Rank Six was waiting there. While the Hashira fought the demons in the mountain, Lower Rank Six attacked Qingping Town and began slaughtering the villagers he had raised as food.

• Sakonji Rinryu vanished from his room through a spatial Blood Demon Art and reappeared on a mountain, where more than a dozen demons surrounded him.
• Sakonji Rinryu fought off the demons until Jigoro Kuwajima arrived, and the Hashira rushed through the mountain after the retreating demons.
• The Hashira found Lower Rank Six’s wooden stronghold and fought through its vines, only to discover that the apparent Lower Rank Six was a puppet.
• Reiko revealed that Lower Rank Six had abandoned Idadera and planned to feast on Qingping Town, while a Kasugai Crow called the Hashira back to defend it.
• Lower Rank Six turned Qingping Town into a demon-filled battleground, and a vine swallowed the town mayor as the villagers were attacked.

Lower Rank Six unleashed his Blood Demon Art across the town and attacked Naeko Busujima, but a shrine maiden arrived and protected her with a Barrier. As Muzan watched the shrine maiden battle Lower Rank Six, the Hashira arrived and received orders to assist her and rescue the civilians.

• Lower Rank Six raised a barrier of wooden stakes around the town and sent vines and treants to attack its residents and the Demon Slayer Corps.
• Lower Rank Six wounded Naeko Busujima, then bound her with vines so he could savor her blood.
• A shrine maiden named Nonou Yakushi arrived, used an arrow to create a Barrier around Naeko, and began purifying Lower Rank Six's attacks.
• Muzan watched the shrine maiden through the Sessho-seki and wondered whether she might be another threat like Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
• Lower Rank Six fought Nonou Yakushi with trees, vines, poison gas, and wooden weapons while she defended herself with purification arts.
• The Hashira arrived, and a Kasugai Crow relayed Ubuyashiki's order for the Flame Hashira to assist the shrine maiden while the others rescued civilians.

Shinjuro Rengoku and the Hashira battled Lower Rank Six as his Blood Demon Art threatened the town, while the Artificial Human Shrine Maiden’s protections and a rainstorm helped the Demon Slayer Corps. When spiritual power awakened in Shinjuro and he turned the tide, Lower Rank Six drew on the Sessho-seki and transformed into a wooden giant, leaving him faltering as arrows struck the stone’s power within him.

• Shinjuro Rengoku attacked Lower Rank Six inside the Shrine Maiden’s Demon-Sealing Barrier while the Demon used miasma, trees, and vines to fight and feed on people.
• The Artificial Human Shrine Maiden purified Shinjuro, enabling him to resist the miasma, while other Hashira contained the Demon’s attacks and rescued townspeople.
• Ame-onna arrived with Tamayo and extinguished the town’s fires with rain, but the Barrier soon broke and the Hashira still struggled to defeat Lower Rank Six.
• The Shrine Maiden revealed that her Purification Spells could awaken spiritual power, and Shinjuro’s qi strengthened his Flame Forms and Nichirin-Maru, burning through the Demon’s miasma and vegetation.
• After a Sacred Arrow weakened Lower Rank Six, the Sessho-seki’s power transformed him into a towering wooden giant, but further arrows struck him and made him lose his footing.

The Demon Slayer Corps defeated Lower Rank Six with the help of Nonou Yakushi, whose purifying spiritual power neutralized the Sessho-seki. Tamayo and Ame-onna took the stone away, the Spring Hashira killed the fleeing Girl Demon, and Muzan began mobilizing the Twelve Kizuki against Tamayo and the shrine maiden.

• Nonou Yakushi purified the Sessho-seki and stopped the Earth-Tunneling Demon from rescuing Lower Rank Six, allowing the Hashira to kill both demons.
• Tamayo and Ame-onna arrived, took the Sessho-seki, and left after Ame-onna warned that Nonou Yakushi possessed purifying spiritual power.
• The Spring Hashira found and beheaded the Girl Demon after she fled back to the mountain.
• Nonou Yakushi healed injured townspeople, revealed her name, and drew the Demon Slayer Corps' interest in learning about yokai and spiritual power.
• Muzan summoned the Twelve Kizuki and focused his plans on Tamayo and the shrine maiden, while the Hashira discussed ways to counter demons with difficult Blood Demon Arts.

In the Demon Slayer World, Lucky shared knowledge of spiritual power with the Demon Slayer Corps while Muzan began a campaign against yokai, and Lucky investigated supernatural forces from other parts of the world. In the Hunter World, Lucky’s expedition reached the Dark Continent, established a camp near the coast, and began surveying the surrounding area.

• The Demon Slayer Corps learned from Idadera about the Twelve Kizuki’s ranks, communications, and ability to create Demons before they killed him.
• Lucky explained the Sessho-seki and the origins of yokai, then taught the Demon Slayer Corps basic spiritual power techniques.
• Lucky studied Ubuyashiki’s bloodline curse and found that it was connected to Muzan Kibutsuji.
• The Artificial Human Shrine Maiden joined the Demon Slayer Corps, while Muzan chose a new Lower Rank Six and ordered the Demons to eliminate Kyoto’s yokai.
• Lucky and Beyond Netero’s expedition crossed the Mobius Lake Barrier and landed on the Dark Continent, where the team began surveying the coast and setting up camp.
• Lucky organized Divine Script Formations to protect future camps and sent Phoenix back into Mobius Lake to investigate the Barrier.

Lu Qi’s exploration teams encountered a Blue Giant Bird feeding on Fire Ants and Giant Hornets, and Lucky sent Phoenix to meet it. The bird acknowledged Phoenix as its king and led them to a towering nest, where other birds gathered and fed Phoenix their life breath.

• A scout reported a highland ahead, but Team Three called for help after the Summon Guild team was surrounded by Giant Hornets, man-eating plants, and Fire Ants.
• A Blue Giant Bird descended, devoured the insects and the Fire Ant queen, and drove the surrounding creatures away while the humans avoided its attention.
• Lucky left camp and watched the Blue Giant Bird respond to Phoenix, whose flames expanded as it answered the bird’s call.
• The Blue Giant Bird submitted to Phoenix and led it and Lucky away from the highland as other birds joined their flight.
• The birds gathered at a tree taller than the human world’s World Tree and offered Phoenix clusters of life breath, while smaller birds emerged from the nest to welcome their king.

Lucky explored the territory of the giant birds, discovered the vitality-restoring Vermilion Fruit, and began building a Holy Grail System so he could cultivate on the Dark Continent. After guiding Beyond Netero’s team toward the swamp and Longevity Rice, the explorers reached the Hellbells and found that even their Nen Beasts could trigger the plants’ ringing.

• Lucky used Phoenix to communicate with the giant birds, learned that their blue giant bird clan ruled the region, and discovered special plants and creatures with powerful abilities.
• Lucky tested a red fruit, named it the Vermilion Fruit, and found that it restored vitality, strengthened the body, sharpened the senses, and could make people younger.
• Lucky chose the area near the giant birds as a cultivation site and began constructing the Holy Grail System while studying the Ley Lines and underground caverns.
• Lucky located the swamp and directed Beyond Netero’s team there; after two months in the giant birds’ territory, Ging Freecss earned a giant bird’s approval and rode on its head.
• Beyond Netero’s explorers crossed the dangerous swamp and reached the Longevity Rice area, where Nen Beasts searching for Hellbells provoked their ringing and affected the three Nen users probing ahead.
• Ging concluded that the Hellbells reacted because the Nen Beasts were formed from a person’s aura, and proposed using Nen Beasts created through Divine Script Creation.

Beyond Netero’s team tested the Twin-Tailed Snake: Hellbell’s effects and used an Exorcist to restore three affected scouts, though their Nen Beasts remained altered. The team then probed Hellbell with Divine Script Creations, which mutated and were swallowed, and prepared further tests of its ability range while seeking to recover the Longevity Rice.

• Beyond Netero ordered two Exorcists to examine three team members affected by Hellbell’s killing intent, and the woman found their foreign aura difficult but manageable to remove.
• The man used his Nen Beast, Angel and Devil, to exorcise the three, while the woman discovered that their Goshawk-type Nen Beasts had changed and ordered the team to keep them under observation.
• Beyond Netero deployed forty Divine Script Creation Nen Beasts to probe Hellbell and ten to retrieve the Longevity Rice, but the probing beasts mutated, lost their Nen, and were swallowed by the snake.
• Ging questioned why the Nitro Rice had not changed, and the team prepared to test Hellbell’s ability range using more Divine Script Creations and controlled swamp creatures.

Lucky confirmed that Hellbell’s influence had enhanced three Nen Beasts, while Beyond Netero’s team studied the creature, secured Nitro Rice, and tested its dangerous range. Lucky then tested Hellbell with Phoenix, whose Purification Power completely resisted its effect, leaving the explorers with questions as Hellbell intensified its attack.

• Lucky inspected the three affected Nen Beasts and found that Hellbell had enhanced them through an unknown evolution.
• Beyond Netero’s group documented Hellbell’s abilities, discovered that its effect could spread and extend through sound, and suffered casualties when it attacked them.
• Beyond Netero’s team lured Hellbell away from its growing area and obtained twenty Nitro Rice plants.
• Beyond Netero persuaded Lucky to help investigate Hellbell, and the explorers watched from a safe distance as Lucky approached it.
• Lucky sent Phoenix into Hellbell’s range, where Phoenix’s Purification Power neutralized the creature’s effect.
• Hellbell intensified its ability and killed nearby vegetation, but the Nitro Rice resisted its influence with Nen.