Rhythmic footsteps came from the woods, and a straight, soft-faced young man in a black blazer stepped out of the shadows and appeared in the moonlight.

He is none other than the eldest of the four upper strings currently under Onimai Tsuji, Nightmare.

"Ah, it's so comfortable."

He opened his arms and let the moonlight soak his body, and the soft moaning sound set off a small ripple in the night.

Since a few weeks ago, his body has undergone a mutation - not only is it nourished by the moonlight, which accelerates digestion and growth, but also extracts a strange black substance from his body after eating.

Nightmares refer to the heavy, warm nature of the thing as a "black precipitate of despair".

Nightmare is a clever ghost, and he knows very well that the source of this anomaly is not himself, but the one who gave his blood.

Although that black precipitation can't make his body stronger, it has the power to corrupt people's hearts, which is very suitable for his blood ghost arts, and when used on humans, it often has miraculous effects.

For example, Kasa and Goro's change that is not a ghost, but is more brutal than a ghost, is the result of being affected by this sediment.

Every time I think of those human mutations, Nightmare's worship of Onimai Tsuji's miserable heart fills in one more point.

Therefore, the moment Yoshiwara saw the blue flower, Nightmare made up his mind to get it as a gift to the adults.

If he can still get new blood, his blood ghost skills will be even stronger.

When he becomes stronger, he will definitely be able to get more opportunities to serve by the side of adults, just like the previous ones.

"I can't help but tremble when I think about that kind of thing......

Nightmare lets out an eerie laugh as she makes up for herself as Onimai Tsuji's right-hand man.

However, what he didn't expect was that the reason why Onimai Tsuji no longer met them was because he didn't want other ghosts to know where he was hiding, so that he could develop lewdly with peace of mind, and it had nothing to do with their strength......

On the other hand, if his ghosts become too strong, he will worry that these ghosts will become the target of Zhu Shi, and he will become a fool who sends help to the enemy.

That's why he's only been adding two winds lately, and keeping them with him and not letting them go.

"The merchant told me that there should be eight people in this family, and it would be enough to leave only the woman's life and get information."

He walked up the rugged mountain road, and soon came across the houses of the Zaomon family on the slope.

"Although I usually mercifully let you die in your dreams, I didn't bring a helper today......

"I'm sorry, it seems that this time, you can only be scared to death in a nightmare.

"That way, I can get more of that warm, dark, sticky sediment.

"But as compensation, since we are a family, then I will let you enter the same dream and spend the last time together!"

As he spoke, Nightmare was like an orchestra conductor, swiping his fingers in the void from a distance of more than thirty meters.

"Blood Demon Technique: Dream Catching and Weaving Web!"

As he finished his movements, a large, illusory blue dreamcatcher appeared above the stove's house, completely enveloping the entire area.

As the name suggests, for those who have already fallen asleep, Nightmare can use this blood magic to read their dreams, and then gain control of the dreams, weaving everyone's dreams into the same dream.

After all, the less dreams he controls, the easier it is to manipulate them.

"Ah, I feel the sweet dreams in the deep sleep, and it is indeed eight good...... Fireworks, good food, old women, is this a child's dream? It's boring. “

He was the only one talking to himself, but Nightmare still yawned.

"What I want to hear more is your screams in your sleep!"

As the words fell, a thick black ink-like thing suddenly oozed from the center of the dark blue dreamcatcher.

That's a diluted form of sediment, which is a more economical way to use, but it's enough to affect the human mind.

As the "ink" began to spread around the network, the dream of becoming one began to change with it.

"Soba turned into maggots, kind grandma turned into hanged ghosts, beautiful fireworks turned into fires, and you all became rotting corpses in each other's eyes......"

A look of intoxication welled up on Nightmare's face, "Scream hard!" Run as fast as you can! Desperately try to survive! Desperately trying to break free from this tragic fate!

"The more desperate you are, the richer the sediment becomes!

"Don't be stingy! Satisfy me with this scream of despair! ”

As there are more and more terrifying things in the dream, the ink on the dreamcatcher dreamnet is eroding faster and faster.

According to past experience, when the ink completely blackens the entire dreamcatcher, all dreamers will lose their minds due to extreme despair.

Or in the words of Nightmare - the spiritual core collapses and dies.

But just when he was engrossed in the dream, intending to build some more terrifying scenes in the dream-

Nightmare's body was suddenly overwhelmed by a swarm of golden butterflies flying from nowhere!

However, this is only a façade!

Dozens of butterflies flew all over Nightmare's body, and at the same time, they also set off terrifying blood flowers!

One of the butterflies even pierced out of the back of Nightmare's head, bringing out one of his eyeballs!

"What is this ......?"

Nightmare was full of doubts, and looked at his body with one eye—but there were no butterflies on his body!

This thin body is actually full of thin Qianben, all the acupuncture points that are vital to the human body, not one of them fell, and all of them were blocked by Qianben.

Even if the gods are ghosts, it is a very troublesome thing for the blood vessels to be amputated.

"Ghost Slayer?"

Nightmare asked as she recovered her body as she looked into the air around her.

These thousand books have a faint warmth on them, and they are obviously made of Niklun iron, and they are also coated with poison that can paralyze the upper strings, which is definitely the handiwork of the Demon Slayer.

But how could they be here? Could it be that the news of the blue flower spread and also attracted their attention?

"You guessed it."

Diagonally above Nightmare's treetops, the Butterfly Ninja Trait Sunwheel swooped down, piercing Nightmare's other eye with a single blow, stabbing deep into his brain, and then twisting the hilt of the sword, pouring all the newly configured poison into it.

Don't give the ghost a chance-

This is the experience that everyone knows how the ghost dance Tsuji no miserable escaped under the knife of Ji Guoyuan, don't listen to the ghost, it's probably not a good thing anyway.

After completing this action, Butterfly Shinobu pulled out the blade, and with some disgust, took off the eyeballs strung on it, pinched it in his hand and looked at it.

There is a word "wanton" written on it.

And on the ground, on the eyeball that was taken away by Senbon before, it was written "Winding".

Glancing at the nightmare that quickly melted without saying a word, Butterfly Shinobu suddenly felt a sense of unreality in his heart.

"Winding ghost, does it really have to be so weak? Even if Onimai Tsuji is miserable and no one is available, isn't this guy a bit rubbish......"

The reason why Butterfly Shinobu appeared here was because she and Tanjiro didn't sleep at all.

Although Ichiro seemed to be fine, he had a high fever that persisted. Although Tanjiro helped him manually lower the temperature once, the effect only lasted for a short time.

And the sleeping Genichiro does not have the baggage of belonging to the generals, and it is inevitable that he will moan in pain.

So, as a doctor, Butterfly Shinobu and Kamado Takeo swapped rooms, and he took care of Genichiro by himself, while Tanjiro had to stay together.

In this way, the two of them sat on Ichiro's body and observed his vital signs, one fanned to dissipate heat, and the other used a towel to manually cool down, and there was no chance to fall asleep at all.

Until two minutes ago -

Tanjiro suddenly smelled an extremely terrifying stench, and Butterfly Shinobu came out to check.

After discovering that this ghost was using a blood ghost, she immediately used the transparent vision of her entry to throw dozens of thousands of books to restrict its movements, and then "killed" it.

It's just one go.

I thought it was just an ordinary ghost......

But when she saw the number representing the upper wind, Butterfly Shinobu instinctively felt that something was wrong.

Sure enough, when she turned around, the huge dark blue dreamcatcher still hung over the head of the stove door house.

It's just that the black ink stopped spreading because it lost its controller.

But the blood ghost magic is still there, and it has already proved a point.

"That ghost isn't dead!"

Butterfly was startled, and looked at the poisoned corpse beside her, which was clearly real flesh and blood rather than illusion.

"Could it be the same as the ghost called Bantengu before, a ghost with multiple clones?"

With this thought, Butterfly Shinobu immediately tapped the kunai in his sleeve, and his figure disappeared into invisibility, but in fact, he searched through the surrounding woods at a speed unimaginable to ordinary people.

But she still got nothing!

There was no way, she glanced at the unfinished blood ghost technique, and couldn't help but be a little worried about the situation of other people, so she could only return to the stove door house worriedly.

She knocked on the door at the same pace as Tanjiro, who immediately opened the door, but the solemn expression made Butterfly Shinobi's heart sink suddenly.

"Miss Shinobi!"

There was a hint of helplessness in Tanjiro's voice, "Dad, Mom, and your bean Koichiro, they can't wake up no matter how they scream!" ”

"What?!"

Butterfly Shinobu exclaimed, and immediately rushed to each room to check, only to find that things were similar to what Tanjiro said, except for Genichiro's body was still hot, everyone else was in a state of moaning and babbling, cold sweat, obviously in a terrifying nightmare, and Tanjuro's expression was quite calm.

She tried shaking and shouting, but no matter what way she could, she couldn't wake the sleeping person from her dream.

"I can only take a little risk."

Butterfly Shinobu patted his head and said to Tanjiro, "Move them all to the open space where Genichiro practiced swordsmanship before, and see if you can get out of the range of blood ghost arts." ”

After all, the blood demon magic seemed to have just shrouded the stove family's house.

Tanjiro Kamado didn't quite know what the blood ghost technique was, but he did it immediately, holding Rokuta in one hand and Hanako in the other, running in the direction of the earthen kiln.

Butterfly Shinobi carries your beans on her back, and she follows.

However, when she looked up at the sky, she was disappointed to find that the dreamcatcher had also become bigger!

Sure enough, it was following the recipient instead of a fixed area!

Tanjiro followed her line of sight, and naturally discovered this strange sight.

"Go ahead and move them all out!"

Hu Enemy gritted her teeth, at least outside, she could see the changes in the dreamcatcher. If the ghost wants to continue his blood ghost art, he will most likely have to come to the vicinity of the recipient as before. Once the ink starts to stretch, he'll know that guy is back.

With the combined efforts of the two, eight people were moved to the open space in less than two minutes, and the dreamcatcher nets in the sky naturally moved along with them, and the deep colors were unsettling.

"Can't wait for that ghost to come back."

Butterfly Shinobu arranged for the crow to fly back to the Hirata Mansion to call for help, and then took out some wisteria flower liquid and fed it to a few people to see if they could improve their resistance to blood ghost magic.

However, this time the wisteria flower liquid was useless, and it was unrealistic to feed poison to these untrained ordinary people, so Butterfly Shinobu could only give up.

She had tried everything she could, and looking at the unconscious eight people, her heart was extremely impatient.

"Miss Shinobi......"

Tanjiro was obviously aware of her helplessness, and his heart became uneasy, "Is there really no way to do it?" ”

"Kill that ghost, undo the blood ghost spell, and they will wake up naturally.

Butterfly shook her head in embarrassment, "But this ghost is very cunning, and I can't find his place." If he doesn't take the initiative to attack, we'll have to wait until dawn to see the results.

"After all......"

She raised her head, and the Nihon Wheel Knife in her hand flew into the sky, but it passed directly through the dreamcatcher, "It's useless to attack this thing." ”

"But in the morning, will everyone wake up?" Tanjiro stared closely into Butterfly Shinobi's eyes.

"I'm sorry, I'm ...... Not sure. ”

Knowing that it was useless to lie, Butterfly Shinobu told the truth, and his tone was full of guilt.

Why? Obviously, I have learned so many new things, and I have become so strong that I have even become a pillar of worms!

But in the face of this situation, I am as powerless as I was at the beginning! Impotence! Impotence!

It's useless!

Anger towards oneself burns in the heart of Butterfly Shinobi with unprecedented intensity.

Could it be that the tragedy of Tanjiro's family is inevitable?

However, haven't my sister's fate and my fate been reversed?

I will not allow it! This must not be allowed! This must not be allowed to happen!

Butterfly Shinobu closely observed the surroundings -

Just kill that ghost! All problems will be solved!

This time, she will never allow anyone to die before her!

Meanwhile.

Butterfly Chanae and Scales Left have just set foot on the road up the mountain.

"This is the way the village chief said."

Scaly snorted a little, "That ghost's breath is very strong, we have to hurry." "Go read a book