The Abandoned Life-Slaying Stone

As soon as those words fell, red light flared in Big Black's eyes.

He gave the hand gripping Shuten Doji's ghostly claw a savage twist!

Crack, crack, crack!

Shuten Doji's claw and arm twisted and snapped inch by inch like sugarcane being wrung apart. The force traveled all the way to his shoulder.

The terrifying rotational shockwave shredded half his monk's robe and sent the pieces flying.

Shuten Doji's pupils contracted.

"You wanted to see my 200% true form? Are you worthy?"

Big Black roared. His voice rang out with an otherworldly force, like thunder crashing beside their ears.

Then he raised his foot and kicked Shuten Doji hard in the stomach.

Shuten Doji's massive, four-meter-tall body shot away like a cannonball.

He smashed through dozens of towering trees!

Big Black leaped after him, straight toward Nurarihyon!

Nurarihyon was still using Mirror Flower, Water Moon. His illusion tried to unleash another infrasonic attack.

But it was too late.

Big Black was too fast. A blur of afterimages, and he was already in Nurarihyon's face.

The old Nurarihyon's close-combat ability—or rather, his defenses—were far inferior to Shuten Doji's.

Faced with Big Black's terrifying momentum, he could not even be bothered to dodge.

There was no escaping anyway.

All he could do was murmur wistfully:

"The last time I saw speed like this was the last time."

(The last time he had seen speed like this was the last time.)

Before he finished speaking, Big Black's claw clamped onto Nurarihyon's face.

He slammed that elongated head into the tree trunk behind him.

Boom! Splat!

Nurarihyon could be summoned again, but his Demon Tamer's head burst like a watermelon.

After killing Nurarihyon's Demon Tamer with a single blow, Big Black went straight after Shuten Doji.

He gave his opponent no time to react,