Once plans had been made for the new Nine Hashira and Provisional Hashira,
everyone thought the meeting was about to end.
They had forgotten that Ubuyashiki had mentioned a third important matter to inform the Nine Hashira of not long ago.
Xia Xi nodded to Ubuyashiki.
The Demon Slayer Corps' Oyakata-sama said softly, "Xia Xi, since the credit belongs to you, you should tell everyone..."
The Mist Pillar's retirement, intelligence on the Upper Ranks, and even new Corps regulations and reserves for their strongest fighters.
The sheer amount of information in this meeting had already far surpassed any previous meeting of the Nine Hashira.
What else was worth discussing at a time like this?
Just as everyone was wondering, they heard the rest of Ubuyashiki's sentence.
"Some... speculative intelligence on Muzan Kibutsuji."
Shinjuro and Kazetoriin exclaimed, "What?!"
Gyomei tightened his grip on his prayer beads too.
He even forgot to chant the Buddha's name.
To them, Muzan Kibutsuji was an existence even more mysterious than the Upper Ranks.
Aside from legends from a thousand years ago,
they could not even confirm whether he truly existed in this world.
Xia Xi stepped forward again.
This time, he took a stack of papers from inside his clothes.
They contained all the information on "people turned into demons" he had collected during his years in the Northern Region.
When demons died,
the system displayed their real names.
This meant that quite a few minor demons from modern or relatively recent times could be traced to their specific identities in human society through their names and appearances.
He had official institutions check their records.
He borrowed the connections of local elites to search old texts.
He even mobilized the intelligence-gathering capabilities of the Kakushi and the Wisteria House.
It could practically be called the