In the distance, amidst the dust.
"Cough, cough... Hahahaha!"
Akaza quickly flipped up. His sunken sternum, amidst a disgusting squirming, completely recovered in less than two seconds.
He wiped the blood from the corner of his lips. Looking at Yamada, his eyes didn't show retreat but became even more fanatical and crazed.
"Wonderful! Such a powerful body, such perfect dodging techniques! You are definitely the strongest human I've encountered in a hundred years!"
Akaza roared madly, his legs suddenly exerting force. "Come! Use your sword! Let me see your true strength!"
Destructive Death: Air Type!
Akaza jumped into the air and threw dozens of punches in succession at Yamada.
Boom! Boom! Boom...
Dozens of visible, terrifying compressed air cannons, like heavy artillery shells, bombarded toward Yamada from all directions.
Facing this wide-range long-distance bombardment, Yamada sighed with utter boredom.
"I played along with some taijutsu, and you really think you're something?"
"These limp-fisted amateur punches are ten thousand miles behind a certain bushy-browed guy in a green jumpsuit I know."
While speaking, Yamada extended his right hand.
Zzzzt—
Violent blue lightning instantly gathered in his palm, turning into a blinding flash of thunder.
Facing the dozens of whistling air cannons, Yamada didn't even dodge, swinging his hand toward them.
Lightning Release: Chidori Current!
Rumble!
Blinding lightning surged out like a bursting flood.
Those compressed air cannons, capable of crushing a train into a pancake, were instantly torn apart by the domineering Lightning Chakra the moment they touched the Chidori Current.
Not only that, the violent lightning net's momentum didn't fade, acting like an inescapable web that trapped Akaza in mid-air.
"Aaaaaah!!!"
Accompanied by a shrill scream, Akaza's skin turned charred black under the extreme heat of the lightning. His muscles spasmed uncontrollably, and he crashed back to the ground like a piece of charcoal.
"Your regeneration ability is somewhat interesting."
Yamada stepped forward, walking to the smoke-emitting Akaza and looking down at him.
"However, let's end the child's play here."
Akaza struggled to prop up his body. His charred skin peeled off rapidly under his powerful regeneration, growing new flesh.
He stared fixedly at Yamada. In those originally proud golden eyes, a clear hint of anger appeared for the first time.
This man had only used one hand from start to finish. He hadn't even drawn the sword at his waist.
"Don't look down on me!!!"
Feeling his martial arts dignity greatly insulted, Akaza let out a hysterical roar.
He pushed all the blood in his body to the boiling limit, and the snowflake pattern beneath his feet expanded to its maximum.
Destructive Death: Annihilation Type!
This was Akaza's strongest single-target killing move.
All his power and all his Fighting Spirit perfectly converged on his right fist at this moment.
With a terrifying sonic boom, Akaza's figure vanished from his spot. Even the air was compressed into a visible white shockwave under this punch.
He wanted to use this punch to completely crush this extremely arrogant man into pulp.
"Watch out!!!" Tanjiro and Kyojuro shouted anxiously from afar.
However, facing Akaza's peak strike that wagered everything, there wasn't a single ripple in Yamada's gaze.
In those strange crimson eyes, the three tomoe suddenly connected end-to-end.
A dark red pattern resembling a hexagram instantly formed in Yamada's pupils.
Mangekyo Sharingan!
"Since you're so confident in your fists..."
Yamada watched coldly as Akaza rushed in front of him, less than half a meter away.
"Then I will use absolute power to crush your ridiculous pride."
Boom!!!
A surge of tangible purple Chakra erupted without reservation from Yamada's body. This cold, violent, and destruction-filled energy was something people of this world couldn't possibly understand.
Under the unbelievable gazes of Tanjiro, Kyojuro, and the crazed Akaza, the purple Chakra instantly condensed and materialized around Yamada.
Thick purple skeletal ribs grew from the void, perfectly enveloping Yamada at the center.
Susanoo: Skeletal Form!
"What is this thing?!"
Akaza's pupils shrank to the size of pinheads, but his strongest punch, which he had already thrown, could no longer be retracted.
"Break for me! Aaaaaah!!!"
Akaza roared madly as his right fist, carrying destructive power, slammed hard against the thick purple skeletal ribs.
Clang!
A deafening ring echoed through the skies. A terrifying shockwave centered on the two, instantly scraping away a thick layer of soil within a dozens-of-meters radius.
However, when the dust cleared rapidly, a scene that left everyone horrified appeared.
That massive layer of purple skeletal ribs didn't even have a single tiny crack under Akaza's strongest strike.
Crack... Crack...
At the same time, the crisp sound of bones shattering rang out in the deathly silent wasteland.
It was the sound coming from Akaza's arm.
Under the terrifying counterforce, Akaza's proud right arm actually shattered inch by inch starting from the fist. Pale bone fragments pierced through the skin, blood sprayed wildly, and the entire arm was completely ruined.
"Im... impossible..."
Akaza stared blankly at his ruined right arm, then at Yamada, who stood in the center of the purple ribs without even a wrinkle on his clothes.
His martial arts, his strongest strike, his proud strength...
Before the defense of this purple skeleton, it was all so laughable.
"Is that all the strength you have?"
Yamada, within the protection of Susanoo, looked down at the nearby Akaza.
Then, the purple Chakra surrounding him churned violently. On the outside of the ribs, a giant skeletal arm condensed from purple Chakra suddenly took shape.
"You're done hitting. Now, it's my turn."
Yamada casually raised his right hand and slammed it down.
Boom!
That massive purple skeletal hand, with a terrifying sound of rushing wind, descended from the sky and slammed onto Akaza.
Bang!
The earth trembled violently and a massive crater instantly formed on the spot.
"Pwah!"
Akaza, pinned firmly to the bottom of the crater by the heavy purple skeletal hand, let out a miserable wail.
Seventy to eighty percent of his bones were instantly broken under this slap, and his internal organs were crushed into pulp. A large amount of blood mixed with organ fragments sprayed from his mouth.
No matter how good his regeneration ability was, under this terrifying absolute pressure, he could hardly move a single finger.
Pride? Dignity?
Under the absolute power of Susanoo, Akaza's mental defenses were completely crushed into powder at this moment.
[Ding! Detected that the host has violently crushed the martial arts pride of Upper Rank Three 'Akaza' with absolute dominance!]
[Forcefully changed the original tragedy of Flame Hashira 'Rengoku Kyojuro' dying from heavy injuries!]
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining a very generous amount of dimension points: 6,000!]
Yamada dissipated the purple skeleton around him. He stepped onto the edge of the crater, looking down at Akaza who had completely lost his will to fight, a cold smile on his lips.
"Now, do you still want to make me a demon?"