Xia Xi's plans were actually simple and blunt.
He wasn't strong enough.
That came down to two possibilities.
Either his stats had fallen behind the current meta.
Or his current skill deck wasn't good enough.
As for execution and game sense?
The Dawn Hashira was quite confident that he lacked neither.
His first plan was to put serious work into his stats.
When Dawn Breathing reached level 6, it had increased his energy level by around 100.
When it broke through to level 7 after his fight to the death with Kokushibo, the increase had exceeded 130.
Following that pattern, when it reached level 8...
The increase in attributes probably wouldn't exceed 200, with somewhere around 170-180 being most likely.
And if it rose from level 8 to level 9...
The increase probably wouldn't exceed three hundred points either.
Even counting generously, Dawn Breathing could probably still offer him around five hundred points of growth over the next few foreseeable years.
But that was far from the limit of what Xia Xi could achieve.
Because he was proficient in more than one Breathing Style.
Although none of the other Five Basic Breathing Styles had maximum compatibility with him, and each granted fewer points than Dawn Breathing...
If he earned enough Achievement Points or proficiency in the future...
And raised the levels of the Five Great Breathing Styles alongside it...
He could probably push his overall panel attributes to a rather terrifying level.
And if he grew for another few years...
Until his body finished developing and reached its theoretical physiological peak...
Around three years after joining the Demon Slayer Corps, with his body only just reaching adulthood, he could already fight Michikatsu Tsugikuni, who had trained painstakingly for four hundred years, on equal terms.
Then, after another five or six