In the second half of the 43rd year of the Meiji era (1910), several major events took place.

The first is that this year's natural disasters and the country's dependence on grain imports have deliberately neglected the interests of farmers, resulting in famine in hundreds of villages in various counties.

The landlords of several villages even persuaded the submissive peasants to starve to death rather than go to the cities for help, and then annex their land and sell it to capitalists who needed to open factories, under the pretext that "begging is a shame" and "it would disgrace the country and His Majesty."

It can be seen that the rapid development of commerce and industry in this country has come at the cost of the lives of a large number of ordinary peasants.

Some oppressed workers and peasants did not want to be victims anymore, so they raised the banner that "the Restoration is fiercer than the evil spirits", and under the leadership of a few people of insight, they set off a popular red movement. However, these leading figures were arrested and tried by government agents for "attempting to assassinate the emperor with a bomb", and even attracted international attention, which is known as the "Great Rebellion" incident in history.

So, what does this have to do with Ashina and the Demon Slayer?

Of course!

Finding that it was not feasible to survive through political activism, these ordinary people began to cut down and burn wisteria trees in droves, or pray in remote abandoned monasteries, using blood as bait in the hope that a demon would come to their door and turn them into one kind.

In this way, even if they don't have food, they can eat the rich people who oppress them and live.

Even if they can't become ghosts, they want to be eaten by ghosts, so that they don't have to die a worthless death on the side of the road to rot, because that's what society does to them: cannibalism.

There are tens of thousands of people in this despair all over Japan, and the negative impact has been very serious.

It is conceivable that he no longer trusts his former subordinates, and is very interested in their "invitation".

Although the ghost killing team has done their best to stop it, after checking statistics and police interrogation, it has been determined that at least 400 people have voluntarily been converted into ghosts. And more participants have become the first food for those newborn ghosts, but there are very few people who resist......

After the incident was exposed, it was called "the most tragic rebellion in the history of mankind" by foreign newspapers.

As for the second major event, it was the bottle of "human heart sediment" that Genichiro handed over to Xiao, which finally played a role.

Those officers with real power who came from the Sachang faction became irritable, irritable, greedy and suspicious because of the influence of that thing, and in just a few days, there were many extremely vicious incidents of officers injuring and killing people.

And their leaders, the two veterans of the military, Aritomo Yamaguchi and Katsura Taro, were also branded "rebels" for criticizing the emperor in public.

As a result, not only did they not apologize, but they used their influence to bypass the cabinet and privately mobilize the troops of their cronies to arrest and attack their political enemies, and even admitted the army's murderous acts in various Asian countries in an interview with foreign correspondents, and proudly and bluntly said: "This is to make the soldiers relax, and it is a completely normal thing in war," which caused an international sensation.

The consequences of their devotion can be imagined - the enraged Meiji Emperor issued an edict revoking their privileges as senators, but those directly affiliated officers who were vaguely frantic were about to mutiny, but they were killed on the spot by a group of mysterious ninjas who suddenly appeared......

After that, it was almost the same as Ichiro thought about it.

Japan's feudal lords have completely collapsed, the dead officers have been judged to be rebels, the original military establishment has been broken up and reorganized, and a large number of non-factional officers have been promoted, many of whom are re-educated reed-minded people - although the high-level military and police are still the descendants of the heroes who have fallen behind the curtain, among the middle and low-level generals in Tokyo, the reed celebrities account for about 5 percent, and there will be more in the future, but few people know this......

By the time they reacted later, it was too late.

……

Two days before the winter solstice, in the hall.

Ichiro held Tetsuruyun across his chest and was surrounded by nine men with weapons in the center of the tree.

But it wasn't him who looked wary, it was the panting pillars.

Just yesterday, the last of them, the new Serpent Pillar named Iguro Koba, also passed the assessment of the Zodiac and mastered the ability to enter the transparent world for a short time.

At this point, the nine pillars of the Demon Slayer Team (Iwa Yan Yin Hua Shui Feng Insect Kasumi Snake) - including the Yan Zhu Purgatory Maki Shourou who was so annoyed by Oni Court Masataka that he had to return - finally mastered the technique of entering a state of transparency.

This means that the eight columns present have the qualifications to stand opposite one of the upper winds without being killed instantly.

Therefore, when they heard from Zo Oza that Ichiro was now enough to match one of the upper strings, they challenged him to see how far he could stand from his imaginary enemy.

But more than ten minutes had passed, and Genichiro hadn't even used his breath, but they hadn't even been able to inflict a slightly more serious wound.

Obviously everyone can see that world, why can you just hide?

It's outrageous!

That's what everyone thinks.

"Don't be impatient."

Sorrowful Mingyu Xingming could feel the mood of everyone from the rhythm of breathing, "Mr. Reina's eyes are the same as Shinobi, they have been specially trained, and he will see things more slowly than you see. ”

Xianichiro nodded silently in his heart, this great monk's judgment was very accurate.

Unexpectedly, it was the first time they had fought each other, and Sorrow Mingyu Xingming had seen so many things.

His eyes, which have been strengthened by [Seeing Through] and [Ninja Eye] twice, have extremely strong dynamic vision.

And Butterfly Shinobu only learned to [see through] with the owl, but it is also better than others.

If the other people turn on the transparency and see things at 0.25 times the speed, and the butterfly shinobi is 0.2 times the speed, then Shinichiro is about 0.15, which gives him more reaction time and is able to dodge and counterattack.

"So, as long as he can't see what we're doing?

"Then obscure his vision!"

As Butterfly Shinobu shouted, a flash of realization flashed in Kuano Kuangjin's eyes, and the others also moved!

"Kasumi's Breath, Five's Type, Sea of Clouds!"

Suddenly, a thick mist poured into the surroundings of Hiroshi Hiroshi.

Genichiro knew that Masano was moving at high speed in the sea of fog, but he couldn't determine his exact location.

"I can't do it if I don't show some real skills!"

He raised the corners of his mouth, and struck out with his palm in the form of a bow and a fist, and scattered the thick clouds and mist into a cloud of white vortex holes—

But at this moment, he saw the shadow of the three Japanese wheel knives!

Cyan, naturally immortal Minoru Chuan; The pale cyan and whitish ones are close to the Gang Ye; And the curved blade on the very edge is naturally the unique weapon of the Ihei Xiaoba.

The three most flexible people of the ghost killing team except for Butterfly Shinobu actually hid in the fog caused by Kuano Kuangjin to carry out a sneak attack!

It seems that the failure of the previous frontal offensive has taught them quite a lesson.

But it was precisely because of the agility of the three of them that it was impossible for Genichiro to attack them at the same time with a wide range of slashes, so he chose to make a move on the straight Immortal Kawa Minoru first—a horizontal Senfeng foot swept out from the side and hit the Immortal Kawa's shoulder with a crisp click, and the shape changed.

Immortal Chuan didn't make a move with Ichiro for a long time, he didn't expect his strength to be so great, and his body involuntarily crashed towards the two people next to him, but he dodged it without surprise.

“…… Oh, it feels like my arm is broken. However, you can still move!

"Wind Breath, One Shape, Dust Whirlwind, Slash!"

Forcibly interrupted his progress, Immortal Chuan could only reluctantly swing a spiraling sword qi in place, interfering with Genichiro's vision and creating an opportunity for the other two to continue advancing.

But he never expected that Ichiro, who was most familiar with the breath of the wind, didn't even look at it, just waved his sword lightly-

With just a sound, the dust whirlwind actually flew in the other direction, shooting down the butterfly ninja hidden by illusion in mid-air, if it wasn't for the Sorrowful Mingyu Xingming who threw out the axe and gave her a point of strength, she would have fallen directly under the tree and died.

"Sure enough, he knew where I was from the beginning!"

Butterfly Shinobu frowned, but immediately let go.

She saw that Masato Inono was approaching and the clouds were rising again, and Otozu Umi Tengen sneaked behind Genichiro -

Although he is tall, his ability to conceal is also very good, and he does not even make a sound.

However, just as he raised his twin swords and tried to cooperate with the rest of the men to cut off Ichiro's shoulders, the latter turned around without warning and fired six shots at the head of the sound pillar.

Shoot in the face, Black Death Mou can dodge, can you?

The answer is yes, but not completely.

"The first one!"

Ichiro snorted coldly. So the big danger word reminds me that I can't see it?

The sound pillar was shot three times in a row, and half of his head was red with blood, but he still recognized a large handful of explosives before his body dissipated.

"This is my ...... The last gorgeous ......"

"Well done!"

Seeing the right moment, Shinobu used Chibon to accurately capture the location of those bombs and try to detonate them one by one.

Unhurried, Kokoichiro stepped on the blue blade that stabbed through the clouds, grabbed the weapon, grabbed Tomioka's shoulders and threw him towards the explosives.

Tomioka Yoshiyoshi and the explosives looked at each other, almost at zero distance, almost eating the kind in their mouths - and the thousand bens of the butterfly shinobi happened to rub sparks with the surface of the steel balls.

Tomioka didn't have time to open his mouth to speak, so he was blown to ashes and resurrected.

"The second."

At the same time as the loud bang exploded, Genichiro squatted down to open the Vermilion Bird Red Lotus Umbrella, and the bursting hot air naturally avoided him and rushed to both sides!

"Good chance!"

The flames dissipated, and everyone saw him crouching in the red umbrella and did not move, and several people except Butterfly Shinobu swarmed up.

But no one expected that when they were less than a meter away from Genichiro, the red umbrella suddenly cracked in the middle, replaced by a flaming Nichiren gun, and a sweep with a great range.

"The third."

The butterfly Chanae, who was swept away, was directly smashed into her lumbar vertebrae, and crashed into the arms of the immortal river next to her like a falling kite, and she didn't even say a word and lost her breath.

Even though he knew that he was in the Phantom Corridor, Immortal Chuan's face still visibly turned red with the naked eye, obviously angry-

But at this moment, a faint reminder appeared in my ear: "Do you think I will wait for you to open the markings in anger?" ”

In addition to the Butterfly Shinobi in the Nine Pillars, the Rock Pillar, the Flame Pillar, and the Immortal River Minoru have all had the experience of opening the markings.

This should be related to their good physical fitness and ability to maintain high temperatures for a long time.

Immortal Chuan twisted his head and swung his sword fiercely, but he slammed the blade of the sword with a purple axe!

"Zheng—"

A loud bang exploded in everyone's brains, as if a thunderbolt fell from the sky and smashed their brain circuits, and everything in front of them shook back and forth frantically, as if all the colors and sounds had lost their original meaning and turned into inexplicable chaos.

The glass axe upgraded by the source of the glass has the same mental interference ability as Naruto!

Sensing the gap when everyone had lost their ability to resist, Kuichiro stabbed the nearby Immortal River to death with his sword, and then slashed through the throats of the sneak attack duo, Masashi Isono and Iguro Koba.

"Four, Five, Six......"

While counting the numbers, Genichiro took the opportunity to quickly approach the Sorrowful Mingyu Xingying with cold sweat on his forehead, wanting to solve this biggest threat directly, but the latter's expression suddenly cooled down after Genichiro approached, and the thorny meteor hammer smashed towards Genichiro's head!

"Breath of the Rock, Type II, Shattered Heaven!"

The ball was surrounded by heavy wind pressure, and even the door of the bank's fresh-keeping warehouse would burst on the spot if it was smashed by this thing.

"You're not affected?"

Ichiro turned his head sideways to dodge, but the tips of his ears were still cut off by the spikes of the iron ball, which was the result of his use of transparency to dodge, otherwise he would definitely be killed.

Whoever thinks that this monk is just strong will definitely suffer a big loss because of this terrible attack speed.

At the same time, Genichiro immediately understood that this rock pillar was using the transparent micro-manipulation body to disguise the appearance of losing balance and sweating, just to lure him over and save several other people from suffering.

However, he, a blind man, should be the one who is most susceptible to sound in the audience, right?

Why does the noise caused by the glass axe not work for him?

"In order to be able to concentrate, the poor monk once sat in a large bell and let others knock on the clock face to exercise his mind......"

The monk said, "What I don't want to listen to will naturally not enter my ears." ”

"......" Ichiro opened his mouth for a long time before he spit out a sentence, "I thought the monk of Senfeng Temple was strange enough." ”

In the midst of the back and forth between the two, the others gradually recovered their spirits, surrounded them with gloomy faces, and surrounded Ichiro in a triangular posture.

"The afterlife is terrifying, I didn't expect you to be able to do this without even using the breathing method."

Purgatory Maki Jurou sighed, "However, if I lose to your teacher first, and then lose to you, I really don't have the face to see Kyojuro again." ”

"I'm so angry that you put such a heavy hand on my sister." This is naturally a butterfly ninja, although a little angry, but still quite calm.

"Donor, next, let's show some real skills."

After the sorrow of Mingyu finished speaking, different patterns poured out on the foreheads, cheeks and necks of the three people at the same time.

"Since you ask for it."

Genichiro put his knife into the sheath and made a slashing posture, and a circle of crimson arcs suddenly lit up under his feet.

"Then let you take a look at the results of my research on "Reed's Nameless Heartless Flow"."

"Breath of the Source: Thunder ......"

"Cut ...... in one word"

"Five in a row!"