Chapter 256: I am God x [First Embrace] [Flesh Sprout Technique]
Streams of information rushed in, like a breaching river crashing into Roy's mind...
Just as the red sun fully leaped out, tens of thousands of rays of morning glow shone on the boy, draping him in a rosy cloak. Roy slowly closed his eyes, standing like a reef in the morning light, slowly receiving Muzan's "Talents", while digesting Kokushibo and Nakime along with them...
Unknowingly, he fell into a state of epiphany again...
His body trembled, his soul shedding its shell, then... rising with the wind, flying upwards. Halfway up, he flipped and stepped on a white egret, soaring straight into the high heavens, piercing through the white clouds. When he opened his eyes again, looking down at the earth, observing the world from a completely new perspective, he saw...
That familiar great mountain, that familiar small courtyard. Father Tanjuro, Mother Kie, younger brother Tanjiro, younger sister Nezuko, the two little ones Takeo and Shigeru, and Hanako held in Grandma's arms... leaning against the pillars, bustling in the kitchen, chopping wood and burning charcoal, or sewing and playing...
He saw... that Mount Sagiri enveloped in thick fog year-round, over a dozen wooden dolls following an old man to catch the spring, warmly digging for wild vegetables. He heard them say... when he returns, they must make him a sumptuous wild vegetable feast...
He saw... in that secluded courtyard hidden within the wisteria forest, the Hashira looking at each other in dismay after receiving his reply at the Hashira meeting. And Kagaya Ubuyashiki looking thoughtful, while Gyomei Himejima chanted a Buddhist invocation and sighed, "As expected of Lord Eiichiro," calming everyone's hearts...
He saw Yushiro and Tamayo at the moment of Muzan's death, stunned, then one clenching a fist and the other wailing bitterly... hugging and weeping, as if celebrating and also releasing the suppression that had accumulated in their hearts for hundreds of years...
He saw peddlers and porters... flowers, birds, fish, and insects... gurgling streams... lush greenery...
In a trance...
He plunged towards the east, merging into the rising red sun, overlapping with it!
At this moment, it was unknown whether Roy was the sun, or the sun was Roy... As a realization surged in his heart, the blood color in the boy's eyes completely vanished. The Great Sun leaped out, and he said faintly, "The Demon King is dead, the world is at peace!"
A leisurely voice spread out with the sunlight.
In the mountains, a certain red-haired boy chopping wood and burning charcoal... beside a pillar, a certain coughing man holding a hand warmer year-round... under the thick fog, the dozen or so wooden dolls digging wild vegetables with Sakonji Urokodaki... as well as the Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps and Kagaya Ubuyashiki... the hugging and weeping Yushiro and Tamayo... men, women, old, and young living under the sun... all looked up at the same time!
People were stunned for a moment, craning their necks to look at the red sun. Vaguely, an ethereal figure appeared. Fiery red hair swaying in the wind was exceptionally conspicuous, and two golden pupils wantonly radiated boundless divine light outward...
Those who didn't understand were horrified, their knees going weak, falling to the ground with a thud, kowtowing like pounding garlic and saying, "God... Heavens... it's God... it's... God's descent! God... has descended upon the world!"
"Boom!" An uproar arose, like a violent storm, continuous and unceasing...
One knelt... two knelt... three... four... under a chain reaction... Whoosh~ Wherever the eye could see in the world, wherever there was human activity, wherever the sun shone, instantly... it was covered with people kneeling and praying.
[Prompt... "Faith Power" +1+1+1+1...]
Beep beep beep... The panel prompts were like rain hitting banana leaves, ringing incessantly...
After ordinary people noticed this scene, at the Ubuyashiki clan estate, the Hashira and the Ubuyashiki family abruptly stepped out from under the eaves, looking up blankly at Roy's soul leaving its body in the red sun. Someone shouted, "It's... Lord Eiichiro!"
Kyojuro Rengoku, the first believer to convert to Roy, smiled in agitation. He laughed heartily, spoke with a long voice, placed his right hand over his chest, lifted his hem, knelt on one knee, and said, "Praise the Sun!"
Subsequently, like a stone thrown into a calm lake, ripples spread... Gyomei Himejima stopped striking his alms bowl, threw his prayer beads to the ground, and with tears streaming down his face, followed Kyojuro Rengoku, bowing towards the sun and saying, "Praise the Sun!"
Seeing this, Sanemi Shinazugawa... Muichiro Tokito... Obanai Iguro... Giyu Tomioka... Kagaya Ubuyashiki and his wife Amane, his daughters Kanata and Kuina, his son Kiriya... including the Kakushi... every single one of them knelt on one knee in unison, calling out, "Praise the Sun!"
In Mount Sagiri,
Sakonji Urokodaki, carrying a bamboo basket and digging for wild vegetables, was stunned, and the trowel in his hand... clattered to the ground...
"Is this... Eiichiro?"
"It's him... it is him... our Eiichiro!" Makomo jumped up like a porcelain doll!
She stared unblinking at the red sun and shouted, "Master, Eiichiro says he killed... the Demon King!"
"The Demon King..." The old man took a deep breath. At some point... his usually dry old eyes instantly moistened... Seeming to feel his emotion, Sabito, with a wooden sword tucked at his waist, said forcefully, "I knew it, he could do it."
Behind them... Shinsuke, Fukuda, Watanabe, and the others hugging in revelry... crying and laughing...
Whoosh~ A leisurely breeze blew,
At the foot of that familiar great mountain... the axe gripped by a certain red-haired boy fell silently. He stared with amber eyes, blankly looking at the red sun and said, "Is that you, Nii-san?"
He then waved wildly at the sun... Just like Takeo and Shigeru running out from the corridor, followed by a smiling Tanjuro, Kie lifting the kitchen curtain, Nezuko supporting Grandma who was holding Hanako... all sending a smile towards Roy, and then... they laughed...
"That's right, it's Nii-san."
"It's Eiichiro,"
"It's my child,"
Excitement... surged into his heart... The boy, like a god descending upon the world, carrying the red sun on his back, attained enlightenment... This perspective... this transcendent and profound experience... is the manifestation of the world's will, and at the same time... a [God]'s perspective observing the world!
Tick... tock... The curse on the back of his hand was like a clock, counting the minutes and seconds...
The unknown existence, high and mighty, just as the world looked at him, requiring looking up, requiring bowing down, had never lacked the intention to make him... submit! "It's a pity... my Great-Grandfather didn't kneel... my Grandpa didn't kneel... Now, it's my turn... naturally, I won't kneel to you or anyone behind you... either!"
Whoosh~ A solar whirlwind blew over, wrapping around the boy's soul body as it descended... When Roy returned to his physical shell and opened his eyes again, the panel's prompt sounded, overall upgrade complete...
[Prompt: "Kokushibo's" innate Blood Demon Art has been extracted...]
["Moon Breathing" governs "Yin", [Yin Release] +175]
Yin... Yang... Life and death... Roy felt the Uchiha blood within his body stirring restlessly, and said indifferently, "Quiet." He then calmed his mind and continued to look...
[Prompt: "Nakime's" innate Blood Demon Art has been extracted]
[Detected as Spatial attribute, secretly matches with [Swamp Space], now modified and upgraded to... [Sumeru Mustard Seed]...]
[Note: Sumeru in a Mustard Seed... The Host can forcibly open a space in the real world, modify it according to his will, and within this space, the Host is the absolute master holding real power.]
With a thought, Roy reached out and condensed a black sphere at his fingertips. The black sphere recklessly radiated terrifying spatial fluctuations outward. The moment it appeared, it seemed to swallow the surrounding sunlight.
It seemed to match the hazy, chaotic void he had entered when chasing the mysterious skeleton with his Great-Grandfather Maha...
Roy once again suppressed the urge to enter the black sphere to investigate... The first thing that came to mind was a Ninjutsu — Kamui! Intangibility via Kamui... trapping people via Kamui... He could even inject fire into the [Sumeru Mustard Seed] to form a fire prison, inject water to form a water prison, inject sword light and blade shadows... to form a sword prison, rivaling [Hado] [Kurohitsugi] (Black Coffin)... In short,
The upgraded [Sumeru Mustard Seed] was far more developable and broader than [Kamui] and [Infinity Castle]...
"Sumeru contains the Mustard Seed, the Mustard Seed contains Sumeru, the macro and micro are compatible, all things are boundless... The world... is also just inches away..." Roy muttered to himself. After a moment, he snapped his fingers lightly. The black sphere vanished... as if it had never appeared, and as if it had never disappeared, turning into a stream of Nen and returning to Roy's body in the blink of an eye.
The boy took a deep breath, continued to look,
Narrowed his eyes and said, "Your turn... Muzan!"
Subsequently, the panel unfolded... A series of "Innate Skills" had their covers abruptly ripped off, slowly presenting themselves in front of Roy...
[Prompt: "Muzan Kibutsuji's" innate Blood Demon Art has been extracted...]
[One: "Bestowal", Muzan can forcibly convert others into evil demons by injecting them with demon blood, greatly enhancing their physique... Now, the side effect "cannot see the sun" has been discarded... Modified and upgraded to [First Embrace]...]
[Note: [First Embrace]: The Host can forcibly bind a believer by consuming "Nen Power", sharing talents, greatly increasing the other party's potential, truly achieving "mutual glory". That is... the object of the [First Embrace] can grow stronger along with the Host and grow stronger autonomously. If they die, everything of the First Embrace object will be fed back to the Host in the form of numerical values, mitigating losses in time.]
[Note: Current [First Embrace] quota: 3.]
[Two: "Domination": Muzan Kibutsuji has "absolute domination" over the demons under his name. With a single thought, he can read his subordinates' memories, and even delete, modify, restrict... and take away their lives.]
[Note: The Host also possesses [Absolute Domination] over the [First Embrace Object].]
[Three: "Multiple Organs": As his strength increases, Muzan Kibutsuji can cultivate "multiple organs" within his body. Unless the "organs" are completely destroyed, he will not die.]
[Four: "Self-Division": Through "self-destruction," Muzan Kibutsuji can divide his physical tissues into countless small pieces to hide. As long as one small piece remains un-destroyed, he can resurrect.]
[Note: Detected overlapping "Skills", combining Three and Four, now upgraded and modified to [Rebirth from a Drop of Blood].]
[Note: [Rebirth from a Drop of Blood]... As long as blood has not dried... tissue has not perished... the Host will not die... In times of crisis, survival can be ensured through [Self-Destruction]. The "number of tissues" split from self-destruction depends on the Host's current strength.]
[Current splittable "number of tissues": 5800 pieces.]
[Five: "Whip Technique": Muzan Kibutsuji is adept at "whip techniques". With a thought, he can turn a part of his body into a "thorn whip" or "tube whip" to whip others.]
[Note: Detected the Host only knows "Swordsmanship" and not "Whip Technique". Now, "Whip Technique" has been modified to "Sword Bone".]
[Note: "Sword Bone": Extracting bone as a sword. The Host only needs a thought to pull out a bone and turn it into a sword/blade.]
[Six: "Dead Infant Proliferation": By turning into the most primal infant state, Muzan Kibutsuji can infinitely multiply flesh and tissues (Note: In this state, Muzan Kibutsuji is extremely weak and will not easily activate it unless driven to desperation).]
[Note: Detected "Dead Infant Proliferation" overlaps with [Rebirth from a Drop of Blood], now upgraded and modified to [Flesh Sprout Technique].]
[Note: Flesh Sprout Technique: Plant a flesh sprout, harvest a fruit tree. The Host can implant his own flesh sprout into a human body, absorbing the other party's "Nen Aura" and "Physique" for his own use... The number of implanted flesh sprouts depends on the Host's current strength.]
[Note: Current number of "Flesh Sprouts" the Host can implant: 2.]
"Beep—"
Prompt complete... Roy looked at the bulging skill bar and fell silent...
After a long while, he sighed and said, "If I had known, I would have killed him sooner..."
Settling his mind, he looked at [Sword Bone], [Rebirth from a Drop of Blood], [First Embrace], and [Flesh Sprout Technique] one by one... Of the first two, one was somewhat similar to the Kaguya clan's Kekkei Genkai, and the other reflected Muzan's cowardly nature, but was a pretty good divine escape skill. The key points were [First Embrace] and [Flesh Sprout Technique], which made Roy's eyes inevitably light up.
The first person he thought of was... Gotoh.
The young butler lacked neither loyalty nor hard work; what he lacked was simply talent... If he bestowed [First Embrace] upon him, sharing his own talent with him... letting him grow stronger as he himself grew stronger, then... Gotoh's future potential would be immense. One day, it wouldn't be impossible for him to defeat Netero, or even... his own Great-Grandfather!
"God has angels, has archbishops... Muzan has Upper Ranks, has Lower Ranks... [First Embrace] is extremely fitting for Gotoh and me..." The boy narrowed his eyes, already having the urge to leave the Demon Slayer world and return to the Hunter world. But, considering Tanjuro, considering his promise...
Roy calmed down, temporarily suppressing this thought. With another glance, he looked at [Flesh Sprout Technique], a dark light faintly overflowing in his pupils... Just as "where there is light, there must be dark," "where there is righteousness, there must be evil," and the world is opposing yet unified... [Flesh Sprout Technique] was the complete opposite of [First Embrace], or rather...
Roy preferred to call it the [Parasite Technique]!
Depriving the other party of their "Nen Aura" and "vitality" through parasitism. In a way, this was even more excessive than a [God] harvesting the Nen power of [Believers]... It was truly destroying the enemy from the "root," giving them... the cruel punishment of the sun!
Truly domineering!
Having just condensed a [Sumeru Mustard Seed], Roy reached out his right hand again, opened an aura node, and released a wisp of Nen aura, wrapping it around his finger. Visibly to the naked eye...
As the finger squirmed, it formed a "flesh sprout." Attached to the end of the sprout was a long tentacle, like a mosquito's mouthpart, thirsting for "Nen power" and "vitality." Looking at it involuntarily made one's hair stand on end and sent a chill down the spine...
"Hungry... Master... I am so hungry... I want to eat..."
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