The massive Meteor Hammer slammed into the wound where Muzan's tentacle had just been severed with overwhelming force. Its tremendous momentum knocked the left half of his body backward, sending flesh and blood flying everywhere.
Kyojuro Rengoku's eyes widened, and the Nichirin Blade in his hands blazed with roaring flames.
"Flame Breathing, Fifth Form: Flame Tiger!"
A massive tiger formed entirely of searing flames opened its gaping maw and bit clean through a thick tentacle on Muzan's right that was attempting to counterattack.
The intense heat instantly charred Muzan's wound, greatly slowing his cellular regeneration.
"Don't give him a chance to breathe! Keep attacking! Cut off all his limbs!" Obanai Iguro darted out from behind him at an angle. His serpentine blade slipped around Muzan's defenses at an extraordinarily strange angle and sliced his right arm clean off.
Mitsuri Kanroji swung her ribbonlike Nichirin Blade, its edge tracing countless pink circles in the air and shredding all the tubular tentacles that had just emerged from Muzan's thighs.
Their flawless coordination left Muzan utterly on the defensive. Within two seconds, all his limbs and tentacles had been severed, leaving only a mutilated torso.
We're going to win! A powerful surge of hope rose in Tanjiro's heart.
Muzan's expression darkened to the extreme, and an almost tangible fury burned in his eyes. As he looked at the surrounding swordsmen, who were no more than ants in his eyes, the blood inside his body began surging at a wildly abnormal speed.
Muzan opened his mouth, his lungs expanding rapidly.
The next second, a terrifying surge of energy erupted from his mouth.
There were no flashy movements. This was a sonic boom attack formed from compressed, high-pressure air.
Visible ripples of air swept furiously outward in every direction, with Muzan at their center.
Boom!