"Cough, cough!"
At this moment, Sanemi Shinazugawa, who had been sent flying by Su Yan, climbed up from the ground and coughed heavily twice.
He then turned his gaze to Su Yan, saying with a look of contempt, "Hah? Don't tell me you're trying to say your strength can rival Yoriichi Tsugikuni from the Sengoku period?"
"No."
Su Yan shook his head, a confident smile rising on his lips. "I am stronger than Yoriichi Tsugikuni."
Unless Yoriichi Tsugikuni was a powerhouse on the level of the Chimera Ant King from Hunter x Hunter.
Otherwise, Su Yan was confident. With his mastery of all six Nen types, supported by the massive amount of aura fed back from over a million zombies in the Highschool of the Dead world, he didn't think he would lose to a native like Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
Immediately after, Su Yan gestured to Nezuko, who was hugging his arm, signaling her to let go.
He then walked alone to the center of the courtyard.
Slowly, he crouched down.
Everyone present was baffled, unable to understand what Su Yan was trying to do with such inexplicable behavior.
Except for Busujima Saeko and the Stone Hashira, Gyomei Himejima.
Busujima Saeko understood because she was a Nen user; through Gyo, she could clearly see the Nen surging around Su Yan's body.
As for the Stone Hashira, Gyomei Himejima?
He was a blind monk who did not rely on his eyes to see.
Instead, he relied on his other senses to observe and perceive everything around him.
In terms of Breathing Style cultivation, he had gone much further than the other Hashira.
"Ah! What an incredibly powerful aura!"
Gyomei Himejima pressed his hands together in prayer, two lines of clear tears uncontrollably streaming from his eyes as he muttered, "Namu Amida Butsu..."
Even though he didn't know what Nen was.
But the moment Su Yan stood in that spot, his aura underwent an earth-shattering transformation in Gyomei's perception.
It was as if he had instantly transformed from an ordinary person into a terrifying titan.
He had never felt such a powerful aura radiating from anyone before.
At this moment, he couldn't help but suspect that Su Yan might truly possess strength on par with Yoriichi Tsugikuni, the creator of Breathing Styles from the Sengoku period.
Hearing the Stone Hashira's words, the expressions of everyone present turned solemn.
They carefully observed Su Yan's next move.
However, his subsequent actions only confused them further.
They saw Su Yan extend his right hand, clench it into a fist, and gently tap it against the ground.
The instant Su Yan's fist touched the ground.
A violent shockwave erupted from the point of contact.
Invisible air pressure frantically expanded in all directions.
Anything touched by this invisible pressure, whether rock or soil, was instantly pulverized into dust by its sheer force.
Finally, it completely vanished under the sunlight.
Although this intense pressure didn't harm anyone present due to Su Yan's intentional control, the crowd still had to shield their eyes with their hands.
Because only by doing so could they barely manage to keep their eyes on Su Yan amidst the fierce gale.
Soon, accompanied by a deafening boom.
Everyone's bodies trembled.
This wasn't a metaphor; it was a literal description of what was happening.
When the air pressure generated by the impact dissipated.
The crowd discovered that the ground beneath their feet had formed a massive circular crater over two meters deep, with Su Yan at its center.
The surface of the crater was smooth and even, not looking man-made in the slightest.
"Impossible!!"
The hot-tempered Sanemi Shinazugawa was the first to express his disbelief.
How could such devastating destructive power be something a human could achieve?
He rubbed his eyes vigorously. He would rather believe this was all an illusion created by Su Yan using some strange ability than accept it as reality.
"Amazing!"
The Flame Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, widened his bright, spirited eyes and exclaimed, "Hahaha, what a truly powerful strike!"
"If that could land on Muzan, it would surely blow him to smithereens, wouldn't it?"
Su Yan didn't speak, instead sweeping his gaze across everyone's faces.
The reactions varied, but without exception, they were all shocked by his strike.
This was no ordinary punch.
In this punch, Su Yan had used the advanced Nen application technique, Ko.
This was an advanced technique that simultaneously combined five Nen techniques: Ten, Zetsu, Ren, Hatsu, and Gyo.
First, Ren was used to project the aura from within the body outward. Next, Gyo concentrated the aura into the right hand. Then, Ten covered the hand with this concentrated aura to increase its density.
At this point, a small amount of aura would still leak from other parts of the body.
Therefore, Zetsu was used to shut off the aura from the rest of the body, causing all of it to gather in the right hand due to Gyo.
Using these four techniques to concentrate all the body's aura into a single point, the fist was finally thrown, releasing all the aura in the hand at once using Hatsu.
This generated terrifying destructive power.
Although it was a universal technique for Nen users, in the hands of an Enhancer, it could unleash far greater power than any other Nen type.
Simple and practical.
There was nothing flashy about it; it purely depended on how much aura the Nen user could channel into their fist when using Ko.
Moreover, despite the immense power of Su Yan's punch that had awed everyone in the Demon Slayer Corps, he actually hadn't used his full strength.
If he were to cross over to the Hunter x Hunter world right now, Su Yan might not be a match for Chairman Netero in actual combat.
But in terms of the sheer destructive power generated by the Ko technique alone, Su Yan believed he definitely surpassed him.
In the Nen system, Su Yan possessed the Enhancer traits synchronized from Miyamoto Rei.
In terms of aura capacity, he had the massive amount of Nen fed back from Spirit Slash during Busujima Saeko's continuous zombie-killing over the past year.
If he were to go all out using Ko, Su Yan felt he could probably shatter a small mountain.
"Mr. Ubuyashiki, how is the power of this punch? Do you think Muzan could withstand it?"
Su Yan temporarily tossed these thoughts aside, turned his head, and fixed his gaze on Kagaya Ubuyashiki.
The Window-Opening Theory, late but inevitable.
Zhou Shuren once said that when you want to open a window in a room, you shouldn't directly propose opening a window; instead, you should propose tearing off the roof.
Since others will definitely disagree with that, you then propose opening a window, and they will compromise.
Zhou Shuren: No joke, I actually said this one.
The first question Su Yan had asked earlier—whether Kagaya Ubuyashiki was willing to pay any price to destroy Muzan—was essentially the proposal to tear off the roof.
Kagaya Ubuyashiki had agreed to it.
Now that Su Yan had demonstrated his formidable strength, his second question—whether Kagaya was willing to fully support and cooperate with him—was the window-opening proposal that followed the roof-tearing one.
Since Kagaya Ubuyashiki had already agreed to the extreme demand of tearing off the roof, what reason could he possibly have to reject the proposal of opening a window now?
Simply put, Su Yan had used his words and power to maneuver Kagaya Ubuyashiki into a position where he had no choice but to agree.
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