Even Xia Xi, upon seeing the Demon King in this state,
could not help letting out a "Ha."
What... was this lump of stuff?
Although the Transparent World quickly revealed the true nature of this demonic infant form,
it was external biological armor made from vast quantities of flesh and blood.
The Demon King himself was at the infant's center, trying to recover his strength.
And in that instant when everyone froze,
the demonic infant let out shrill wails as it crawled rapidly toward the outskirts of the Infinity Street ruins.
Although it looked ferocious and grotesque,
it actually had no desire to keep fighting.
And this form was the final manifestation of Muzan's inner world.
It was also the past he had never wanted to recall or acknowledge.
While still in his mother's womb, his heart had stopped several times because of illness and pain.
At birth, the midwife had even pronounced him stillborn.
His own exceptionally powerful desire to survive had allowed him to overcome death for the first time as an infant.
Only when he was about to be cremated
had he let out a piercing cry, making everyone realize he was still alive.
And afterward,
relying on that incomparably tenacious desire to survive and his will to keep living,
he had almost conquered death...
At the very instant the giant infant crawled out of the district,
Xia Xi, who had already leaped high into the sky and was descending with a swing of his Nichirin Blade,
hammered an unrivaled surge of Sword Aura into the earth.
It was Dawn Breathing's seventh form.
Layer upon layer of heavy shock waves spread in every direction from the point of impact.
In contrast to the tumult on the ground, the night overhead... seemed to have had all its dark