A long time passed.
The rain was still falling.
But the figure dancing amid the wind and rain had stopped, standing motionless in place.
Kanae and the others exchanged glances, their eyes full of confusion, unsure what Kanzaki Kumo was doing.
Since he had stopped, he should have come inside to shelter from the rain and taken a hot bath to avoid catching a cold.
But remembering the profoundly mysterious state Kanzaki Kumo had been in earlier, they dared not interrupt him rashly, afraid of interfering with his insights.
At that moment, it was not that Kanzaki Kumo did not want to get out of the rain. His body was simply a little drained, so he could only stand there and catch his breath first.
Through his understanding of the laws governing lightning in nature, he had created a brand-new move, one that combined the other nine great Sword Forms of Thunder Breathing and took them a step further.
This move even reproduced a portion of natural lightning's might.
The limitation, however, was that even in the Transparent World state, Kanzaki Kumo could not execute the move in its entirety.
For a mortal body to attempt to bear the tremendous power of heaven and earth, even a tiny fraction of it, inevitably demanded an enormous price.
According to Kanzaki Kumo's estimate, truly executing this move required activating his Demon Slayer Mark.
Or rather, once he executed the move in full, his Demon Slayer Mark would naturally activate.
Kanzaki Kumo had stopped because, while putting the move in his mind into practice, he had abruptly discovered that his heart rate and body temperature had both reached the threshold for activating his Demon Slayer Mark.
In the terms of cultivation novels, he had been comprehending the Dao, only to start dissolving into