Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen met Tengen Uzui at the Brothel while investigating the demon suspected to be Upper Rank Six. After overpowering Tengen and agreeing to coordinate, Ye Chen proposed a plan that would start a fight within ten minutes.

• Ye Chen recognized Tengen Uzui and learned that they were investigating a demon inside the Brothel.
• Tengen ordered Ye Chen to follow his lead, but Ye Chen resisted and overpowered him with sheer strength.
• Tengen proposed that they plan together before splitting up, and Ye Chen agreed.
• Tengen explained that his three wives were undercover inside the Brothel to find the target.
• Ye Chen proposed entering the Brothel while Tengen kept watch outside, then starting a fight ten minutes later.

Ye Chen entered the brothel and quickly found Daki, then attacked her and called Tengen Uzui in to help. After Daki survived being beheaded and insisted she was Upper Rank Six, she summoned her brother.

• Ye Chen dismissed Tengen Uzui's warnings and entered the brothel, using a Farseeing Potion to locate Daki.
• Ye Chen opened Daki's room, named her, and slashed her before she could react.
• Daki crashed through the brothel's walls, and Tengen Uzui appeared to behead her.
• Daki survived with her head separated from her body, but Tengen Uzui mocked her claim that she was an Upper Rank.
• Daki cried out for her big brother, and a hideously ugly man appeared behind her.

Ye Chen and Tengen Uzui fought the Upper Rank Six demons, Gyutaro and Daki, after Gyutaro appeared when Daki was beheaded. Ye Chen battered Daki and took over the fight against Gyutaro, who grew enraged by Ye Chen’s teasing and the scented pouch Makomo had given him.

• Gyutaro emerged after Daki was beheaded and attacked Tengen Uzui, while Ye Chen explained that the two demons shared the Upper Rank Six position.
• Gyutaro became jealous when Ye Chen told him Tengen Uzui had three wives, and he launched a furious assault on Tengen.
• Ye Chen kicked Daki away, then hurled her high into the sky; she crashed back down badly injured.
• Ye Chen left Daki for Tengen Uzui to handle and challenged Gyutaro, while Daki revealed her Blood Demon Art and attacked Tengen.
• Ye Chen and Gyutaro exchanged blows, and Gyutaro mocked the scented pouch Makomo had given Ye Chen; Ye Chen replied that a girl had given it to him.

Ye Chen and Tengen Uzui fought Gyutaro and Daki, with Ye Chen testing his enhanced sword while Tengen repeatedly beheaded Daki. After Gyutaro reattached his sister’s head, Ye Chen proposed that he and Tengen cut off both demons’ heads at once.

• Ye Chen dodged Gyutaro’s Blood Demon Art, countered with his Nichirin Blade, and activated its White Sharpness State.
• Ye Chen kept cutting down Gyutaro’s ranged attacks as Tengen Uzui fought Daki with Sound Breathing and explosive twin-blade strikes.
• Tengen overwhelmed Daki and severed her head again, prompting her to call for Gyutaro’s help.
• Gyutaro endured Ye Chen’s attacks, drove Tengen back, and reattached Daki’s head as she complained about being beheaded.
• Daki insisted that she and Gyutaro were unbeatable, and Ye Chen suggested that he and Tengen cut off both their heads at the same time.

Ye Chen and Tengen Uzui fought Daki and Gyutaro, but Ye Chen quickly overpowered the Upper Rank siblings and beheaded them both. As the demons crumbled away, Tengen questioned who Ye Chen really was.

• Tengen Uzui struggled against Daki and Gyutaro’s combined Blood Demon Arts while Ye Chen watched.
• Ye Chen charged in with Netherworld Breathing and cut Daki and Gyutaro apart, then struck again and severed both their heads.
• Daki and Gyutaro argued as their bodies crumbled, then Gyutaro comforted Daki by calling her Ume.
• Ye Chen received Exchange Points for killing the demons, including a bonus for his first Upper Rank Demon kill.
• Tengen asked Ye Chen who he was after witnessing his strength and hearing that he had beaten up Muzan.

After Ye Chen and Tengen Uzui reported the deaths of Upper Rank Six, Kagaya Ubuyashiki celebrated the Corps’ first Upper Rank victory in a century. Muzan Kibutsuji gathered the remaining Upper Ranks, warned them about Ye Chen’s growing strength, and ordered them not to provoke him while Muzan pursued the blue spider lily.

• Ye Chen agreed to accompany Tengen Uzui to Demon Slayer Corps headquarters after learning that killing an Upper Rank might help him become a Hashira.
• Kagaya Ubuyashiki received Tengen Uzui’s report and concluded that Ye Chen had also been behind earlier strange incidents.
• Muzan Kibutsuji told the remaining Upper Ranks that Gyutaro and Daki had been killed, leaving a vacancy among them.
• Kokushibo, Doma, and Akaza reacted to Muzan’s account of Ye Chen, while Kokushibo recalled Muzan’s defeat centuries earlier.
• Muzan Kibutsuji ordered the demons to search for or create the blue spider lily and avoid provoking Ye Chen until Muzan dealt with him himself.

Ye Chen accompanied Tengen Uzui to Corps Headquarters, where the Hashira gathered and learned that Ye Chen had slain Upper Rank Six and once wounded Muzan Kibutsuji. The chapter ended with Sanemi Shinazugawa demanding to know what Muzan looked like, then raging at Tengen when he tried to calm him.

• Obanai Iguro mocked Ye Chen as dead weight and hurled a pebble at him, but Ye Chen caught it and sent it back with enough force to shatter a thick branch.
• Tengen Uzui told Obanai that Ye Chen had slaughtered Upper Rank Six in a one-sided fight.
• Mitsuri Kanroji, Kyojuro Rengoku, Muichiro Tokito, Giyu Tomioka, Gyomei Himejima, Sanemi Shinazugawa, and Shinobu Kocho arrived as the Hashira gathered.
• Kagaya Ubuyashiki announced that the Corps had slain an Upper Rank and revealed that Ye Chen had once wounded Muzan as well.
• Sanemi grabbed Ye Chen by the collar and demanded details about Muzan, then shouted at Tengen when he pulled him away.

Kagaya Ubuyashiki proposed making Ye Chen the Demon Slayer Corps’ tenth Hashira, citing his record of killing powerful demons and providing valuable information. The Hashira accepted, and Ye Chen chose the title Netherworld Hashira.

• Kagaya Ubuyashiki asked Ye Chen about the demons and wisteria leaves in the Wisteria Flower Sea, and Ye Chen admitted responsibility.
• Kagaya Ubuyashiki invited Ye Chen to become the tenth Hashira, prompting several Hashira to object to changing the Corps’ traditional structure.
• Kagaya Ubuyashiki revealed Ye Chen had killed two Lower Ranks and Upper Rank Six and had supplied Muzan’s blood and information about Muzan and the Twelve Kizuki.
• Tengen Uzui, Giyu Tomioka, and the other Hashira voiced their acceptance of Ye Chen’s appointment.
• Ye Chen accepted the position and chose the title Netherworld Hashira.

Ye Chen became the Demon Slayer Corps’ tenth Hashira, settled into his new base, and completed missions before discovering Zenitsu Agatsuma training under former Rumble Hashira Jigoro Kuwajima. The chapter ended with Ye Chen introducing himself and showing interest in the unconscious Zenitsu as a prospective recruit.

• Kagaya Ubuyashiki officially appointed Ye Chen the Netherworld Hashira, and Ye Chen received 1,000 exchange points for completing his mission.
• Ye Chen moved into his headquarters villa and learned that Hashira could choose missions and were expected to train successors.
• Ye Chen rejected the idea of beginning successor training right away and sought out the intelligence staff for a mission.
• Over the next two days, Ye Chen killed two demons with Blood Demon Arts and stopped at a nearby Demon Slayer Corps base to rest.
• Ye Chen saw lightning strike Zenitsu Agatsuma, turning his black hair yellow, while Jigoro Kuwajima checked that his student was alive.
• Ye Chen greeted Jigoro and identified Zenitsu as an interesting prospective recruit.

Ye Chen met Jigoro Kuwajima and his disciples, then tested Zenitsu Agatsuma’s Thunder Breathing after urging him to stop acting cowardly. The chapter ended with Zenitsu pretending to surrender after Ye Chen effortlessly caught his attack and tossed him aside.

• Ye Chen told Jigoro Kuwajima he was interested in Zenitsu Agatsuma, while Kaigaku insulted Zenitsu and walked away after Jigoro rebuked him.
• Zenitsu woke up, and Jigoro encouraged him to perfect the one Thunder Breathing technique he had mastered, but Zenitsu broke down in fear.
• Ye Chen carried the protesting Zenitsu outside and told him to be polite to his senior before asking him to attack with his strongest technique.
• Zenitsu used Thunder Breathing, First Form: Thunderclap and Flash, but Ye Chen caught his sword hand and tossed him away.
• Zenitsu landed on his feet, then pretended he was defeated, while Ye Chen decided not to let him off so easily.

Ye Chen gave Zenitsu Agatsuma a Light Ball, which greatly boosted Zenitsu’s Breathing Style even though Jigoro Kuwajima could not activate it. Convinced Zenitsu was somehow like Pikachu, Ye Chen offered him the bead if he would say “Pikachu.”

• Ye Chen encouraged Zenitsu Agatsuma to stop dwelling on his lack of talent and handed him a mysterious yellow bead.
• The bead amplified Zenitsu’s Breathing Style, allowing him to cut down a small tree with his wooden sword.
• Ye Chen realized the bead was a Light Ball meant for Pikachu after Jigoro Kuwajima failed to activate it.
• Ye Chen offered Zenitsu the bead in exchange for saying “Pikachu.”

Ye Chen made Zenitsu Agatsuma practice Pikachu's cry before giving him a Light Ball, then returned to Sakonji Urokodaki's base after three months of missions. There he learned that Giyu had brought a new junior disciple and a strange girl, and went to meet them.

• Ye Chen made Zenitsu Agatsuma repeat Pikachu's cry in different pitches, then gave him a Light Ball and offered to consider helping if he said Pikachu in the Demon Slayer Corps.
• Over the next three months, Ye Chen completed missions, accumulated 32,678 Exchange Points, and gained Moonwalk while remaining at B+ combat strength.
• Ye Chen returned to Sakonji Urokodaki's base and told Makomo he planned to prepare before setting out to assassinate Trash Boss.
• Makomo told Ye Chen that Giyu had recently brought a new junior disciple and a strange little girl to train with Sakonji Urokodaki.
• Ye Chen decided to go meet them, saying the boy counted as his junior disciple too.

Ye Chen visited Makomo and Nezuko Kamado, gave Makomo a Mizutsune Assimilation Fluid potion, and met the new trainee Tanjiro Kamado. The chapter ended with Ye Chen claiming Tanjiro as his junior while jokingly refusing to acknowledge Makomo as his senior.

• Ye Chen saw Nezuko Kamado resting at the house and discussed her condition with Makomo.
• Makomo told Ye Chen she had been promoted to Tsuchinoto and had returned to help look after Nezuko and meet their new junior.
• Ye Chen offered Makomo his Mizutsune Assimilation Fluid potion, and they repeatedly argued over whether she should accept it.
• Tanjiro Kamado arrived, and Makomo introduced him to Ye Chen as their new junior.
• Ye Chen shook Tanjiro’s hand, called himself Tanjiro’s senior brother, and insisted that he would acknowledge Makomo as a senior only if she became stronger than him.

Ye Chen recruited Tanjiro as his Tsuguko after promising to protect him and Nezuko, with Urokodaki’s approval. He tried to give Tanjiro a precious present, but produced a piece of charcoal.

• Ye Chen told Tanjiro he had become a Hashira and offered to make him his Tsuguko.
• Makomo objected that Tanjiro was Urokodaki’s disciple, but Urokodaki agreed if Tanjiro consented and Ye Chen cared for him.
• Tanjiro hesitated because he was concerned about Nezuko, so Ye Chen promised he would protect them both.
• Tanjiro accepted Ye Chen’s offer to become his Tsuguko.
• Ye Chen went to give Tanjiro a valuable gift, but pulled out a piece of charcoal.

Ye Chen gave Tanjiro a Charcoal support item and revealed that Tanjiro could use the fire-based Breathing Style taught to him by his father. After Xiao Hua confronted Ye Chen about forgotten equipment, Makomo discovered his system storage secret, and Ye Chen invited her to teach Tanjiro combat techniques.

• Ye Chen gave Tanjiro Charcoal, which strengthened the flames on his blade when Tanjiro tried his father's Hinokami Kagura dance.
• Tanjiro realized his father's dance was a Breathing Style, while Sakonji Urokodaki and Makomo were amazed that Ye Chen had recognized it.
• Ye Chen invited Tanjiro to visit the Demon Slayer Corps Headquarters and promised to cook him a feast.
• Xiao Hua confronted Ye Chen in the kitchen about the new equipment he had promised, and Ye Chen agreed to give it to her after dinner.
• Makomo saw Ye Chen produce a Bird Egg from his system storage, and Ye Chen startled her by pretending to be angry before comforting her.
• Makomo promised to keep Ye Chen's secret, and Ye Chen assigned her to teach Tanjiro combat techniques the next day.

Ye Chen helped Makomo assimilate Mizutsune abilities, then bought a limited-time Redhelm Arzuros from the Monster Shop and discovered he had to hatch and raise it. After spending exchange points to hatch and feed the monster, he rode it with Makomo toward Sakonji Urokodaki’s home.

• Ye Chen gave Makomo Mizutsune Assimilation Liquid, and she gained strength and new abilities without suffering the pain he had experienced.
• Ye Chen explained Mizutsune’s moves, and Makomo practiced using its bubbles and agile fighting style.
• Ye Chen bought the limited-time Redhelm Arzuros item and learned the shop had given him an egg that required hatching and rearing.
• Ye Chen spent exchange points to hatch the Redhelm Arzuros and feed it until it grew to three meters tall.
• Ye Chen released Redhelm from the system space and rode it with Makomo toward Sakonji Urokodaki’s home.

Ye Chen raised Redhelm and trained Tanjiro before encountering Inosuke Hashibira in the mountains. After Inosuke challenged Redhelm, the two hit it off, leaving Ye Chen watching their strength contest in surprise.

• Sakonji Urokodaki returned and met Redhelm, while Ye Chen explained that the bear was his companion.
• The system revealed that monsters raised from eggs could be revived with exchange points, and Ye Chen trained Tanjiro alongside Makomo before leaving to hunt demons.
• Ye Chen took Redhelm into the mountains, where Inosuke Hashibira charged at the bear and was swatted into a tree.
• Ye Chen told Inosuke that Redhelm was his pet, but Inosuke decided they were both people raised by wild animals.
• Inosuke named Redhelm Kumataro and challenged him to a contest of strength, while Redhelm held back and seemed to enjoy the encounter.

Ye Chen demonstrated his dual-blade technique to Inosuke, who copied the moves and adapted them into his Beast Breathing. The two looked ahead to Inosuke using the technique against demons, and Inosuke confirmed he planned to attend the upcoming Final Selection.

• Ye Chen restored the notched edges of Inosuke’s Nichirin Blades with a whetstone, angering Inosuke.
• Ye Chen activated demon mode and used Demon Dance to reduce a large boulder to rubble, impressing Inosuke.
• Inosuke copied Ye Chen’s movements, first performing Demon Flurry and then using Beast Breathing, Eleventh Form: Fang Dance, to unleash over a dozen slashes.
• Inosuke hammered his Nichirin Blades into saw-like shapes again, performed Demon Dance, and collapsed from exhaustion.
• Ye Chen asked whether Inosuke would attend the upcoming Final Selection, and Inosuke said he had already planned to go.

Ye Chen brought Tanjiro to Demon Slayer Corps Headquarters, where Tanjiro eagerly began cleaning while Ye Chen’s demon-slaying missions refreshed with much higher requirements. Shinobu Kocho arrived to confirm Ye Chen’s account of Doma and asked him to spar; their clash began as Tanjiro watched.

• Ye Chen took Tanjiro toward headquarters, training him and having him help slay demons along the way.
• Ye Chen completed missions for killing 100 Intermediate Demons and 3,000 demons, then received new goals requiring 300 Intermediate Demons and 10,000 demons.
• Tanjiro volunteered to clean Ye Chen’s untidy villa as soon as they arrived at headquarters.
• Shinobu Kocho asked Ye Chen to confirm that Doma was Upper Rank Two and had killed her older sister, then requested a spar.
• Ye Chen accepted Shinobu’s request and began sparring with her in the clearing while Tanjiro watched.

Ye Chen defeated Shinobu Kocho in a training match and confronted her plan to sacrifice herself as poison to weaken Doma. He offered to help her find another way to get revenge, leaving Shinobu curious about his methods.

• Shinobu Kocho attacked Ye Chen with rapid strikes and Insect Breathing techniques, but he blocked every blow without using his own Breathing Style.
• Shinobu admitted defeat after Ye Chen knocked her sword away and showed how outmatched she was.
• Ye Chen realized Shinobu had poisoned her body and intended to let Doma eat her so others could kill him.
• Shinobu asked whether she could hurt Upper Rank Two, and Ye Chen called her self-sacrifice plan a pile of shit.
• Ye Chen offered several alternative ways to help Shinobu get revenge, and she asked what they were.