The first round of [Dawn Hashira Hunt].
Xia Xi had a remarkably easy time of it.
Without a strong enough leader, the Swordsmen were nothing more than a disorganized rabble.
Some fought alone, while others threw together haphazard teams of two or three.
Calling them a heap of loose sand would not have been an exaggeration.
After Tanjuro and Sabito were eliminated, whether Kanae led Provisional Hashira like Kuang Jin in a sneak attack,
or a whole crowd of hotheaded Elites and Senior Swordsmen launched their so-called "banzai charge" at Xia Xi,
the results were no different.
Their beloved Dawn Hashira simply mowed them down like enemies in a hack-and-slash game.
Whoever he happened to grab got a thorough thrashing.
They could neither pin him down nor beat him.
As he dodged and darted around, it was practically a game of an eagle catching chicks.
No one could last more than a few moves against him.
In the end, he single-handedly knocked every Swordsman participating in the hunt to the ground.
But in the second round,
having learned yet another lesson, everyone started using their heads.
As soon as it began, they surrounded Xia Xi in layer upon layer.
Then three Hashira-level fighters attacked simultaneously.
The others stayed around them, throwing in scattered attacks whenever they found an opening.
The formation looked quite terrifying.
It was Xia Xi against thirty.
But in reality, in melee combat without coordinated attack techniques or ranged weapons,
this so-called all-out rush still posed no substantial threat to Xia Xi.
After all, a person's reach was only so long, even with a Nichirin Blade in hand.
There were no battlefield weapons like long staffs, spears, or halberds to watch out for, either.
The Dawn Hashira only needed to face the three to five opponents surrounding