There are five minutes left until dawn.
Muzan Kibutsuji unleashed a third all-around shockwave.
He finally realized that his power had greatly diminished. With his abilities, he shouldn't have been able to unleash an attack of this level only three times in such a long period of time.
This is naturally because Tamayo's aging potion has aged him by more than nine thousand years.
Even for Demon King, losing so much life force in such a short time is unbearable.
Muzan Kibutsuji wants most right now is to escape as soon as possible, and then kill and eat people to replenish the life force he has lost.
There are four minutes until sunrise.
Muzan Kibutsuji gritted his teeth and unleashed the fourth shockwave.
This time, not a single pillar could stop him!
With a feeling of relief at surviving a Muzan Kibutsuji, Muzan quickly darted away into the distance.
"Uchiha Style: Sun Breathing: Sun Halo Dragon Dance!"
A massive, imposing fire dragon, exuding an oppressive aura, hurtled towards Muzan from Muzan Kibutsuji in front of him.
"Boom!"
Having used the Mystical Palm Technique Healing Technique to heal his body and regain most of his fighting strength, Uchiha Meikyō reappeared.
"Damn it, why, why do you have to stop me!"
Wu Muzan Kibutsuji to be insane.
But he was already very weak at this point, and he had little power to fight back against the Sun Halo Dragon.
Muzan Kibutsuji's head was severed once again after three hundred years.
"It's not over yet!"
As Demon King has broken through the limits and possesses five brains and seven hearts, Muzan Kibutsuji naturally wouldn't be killed simply because he was beheaded.
A demon whose physical body is strong enough and who possesses a strong obsession will not be affected even if it is beheaded. Instead, it will become even more demonic and transform into an even more terrifying monster.
Just like Kokushibo, Upper Rank Ones.
For Muzan, who has faced life-threatening dangers since childhood and could Muzan Kibutsuji at any moment, survival is his only obsession.
Muzan Kibutsuji's entire body split open, transforming into a gigantic monster with a terrifyingly large maw.
This is the true nature of Muzan, a demon who Muzan Kibutsuji knows how to survive.
"It's not over yet."
Meikyō's Sharingan shone brightly as he stared directly at Muzan Kibutsuji.
He felt he had never been in such good shape.
Even now, he still has injuries.
After the Sun Halo Dragon severed Muzan Kibutsuji's head, it did not dissipate. After the dragon's head collided with Muzan Kibutsuji and severed his head, the dragon's body, claws, and tail appeared.
At this moment, Meikyō was in the Sun Halo Dragon, continuously casting the remaining eleven forms of the Sun Breathing.
To be precise, it is New Sun Breathing born from the fusion of Sun Breathing and Uchiha Style Swordsmanship, similar to the fusion of Sun Halo Dragon and Sun Halo Dance.
At this moment, he was as if divinely inspired!
Muzan Kibutsuji has seven hearts and five brains.
Tsugikuni Yoriichi developed the Sun Breathing to kill Muzan Kibutsuji, which has twelve forms, each corresponding to one of Muzan Kibutsuji's key organs.
After exhausting Muzan Kibutsuji the point of extreme weakness, he finally could no longer suppress the scars left on him by Tsugikuni Yoriichi three hundred years ago.
The Meikyō of the Transparent World, at this very moment, can clearly see the wounds inside Muzan Kibutsuji's body, so that it can follow Tsugikuni Yoriichi's trail and continuously intensify the damage to Muzan Kibutsuji.
This gave Meikyō the illusion that Tsugikuni Yoriichi three hundred years ago was instructing him at this very moment.
Perhaps... this is also the meaning of Tsugikuni Yoriichi's saying, "Those who exhaust their paths will ultimately find the same destination?"
At this moment, Muzan Kibutsuji felt as if he were facing Tsugikuni Yoriichi.
Familiar, yet slightly different movements bring a familiar, but even more intense, pain.
Daylight broke.
The sun has risen.
The first golden rays of dawn shone through the clouds and onto the earth!
"Aaaaaahh..."
Smoke rose from Muzan Kibutsuji's body, and chunks of rotting flesh fell to the ground, turning to ashes and disappearing.
He wanted to use his powerful proliferative ability to create a huge body to temporarily shield himself from the sun's damage, and then burrow underground to escape.
However, Meikyō's continuous and terrifyingly powerful slashes instantly destroyed the flesh that had just grown on his body, let alone allow him to generate a body that could block out sunlight.
"The 971st cut."
Meikyō felt that he was already struggling to wield the Demon Slayer Blade with both hands.
This was the eighty-first time he had used the Sun Breathing.
"Meikyō! I'm here to help you!"
Rengoku Kyojuro's staggering figure appeared beside the two of them at some point.
"Sun Breathing, First Form, Dance!"
"Sun Breathing, Second Form: Azure Sky!"
"Sun Breathing - Third Form - Scorching Sun Red Mirror!"
"Sun Breathing, Twelfth Form: Flame Dance!"
Although his strength is not as great as Meikyō's, he has also mastered the complete Sun Breathing, can use the Thirteenth Form, and possesses the Transparent World. Muzan Kibutsuji Rengoku Kyojuro.
"The 1344th cut!"
The Meikyō finally perfectly replicated the damage that Tsugikuni Yoriichi Muzan Kibutsuji.
He has now performed the Sun Breathing 112 times in a row.
Originally, it would have taken more than 1,800 cuts to completely kill Muzan Kibutsuji.
However, Rengoku Kyojuro replenished some of the essence of the Meikyō, and the sunlight also successfully eroded a significant portion of Muzan Kibutsuji's flesh and blood.
At this moment, Muzan Kibutsuji, filled with resentment, completely turned into ashes and vanished.
"Finally... victory!"
A smile appeared on Rengoku Kyojuro's face; he squinted his eyes and raised his arched eyebrows.
The golden sunlight shone on his golden-red hair, giving it a dreamlike glow.
In the original timeline, he should have burned himself out and fought to the death before dawn, but this time he finally won a completely different ending.
The only thing that remains unchanged is that radiant smile under the sunlight.
"Yes, it's over."
With a clang, Meikyō, utterly exhausted, released his Demon Slayer Blade Rengoku Kyojuro who noticed in time.
All he wants now is to get a good night's sleep, rest, and maybe have a dream.
He could sense that someone wanted to meet him.
"Meikyō, Meikyō! How are you?!"
Rengoku Kyojuro shouted anxiously.
Upon Kochō Shinobu Kanroji Mitsuri help her to her side, placed her hand on Meikyō's wrist, and closed her eyes to sense her pulse.
"He's fine, just exhausted. He probably needs a good night's sleep."
Upon hearing this, Rengoku Kyojuro and the rest of the Demon Slayer Corps members breathed a sigh of relief.
Meanwhile, Meikyō felt herself arriving in a new place in her dream...