Yamada stood on high, his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan reflecting the lightning-filled sky.
"Have you ever seen thunder?"
Yamada's right hand, which had been raised to the sky, suddenly swung down.
"Disappear along with this thunder."
"Roar!!!"
The lightning Kirin above the clouds let out a long howl that shattered the firmament, transforming into a blinding beam of light, crashing down.
The attack arrived in only one-thousandth of a second. There was no possibility of dodging, nor any room for defense.
The moment the Kirin touched the ground, there was no sound.
Everyone only felt a vast whiteness before their eyes, and the entire world lost all its color in that instant.
This was immediately followed by a destructive shockwave that withered and crumbled everything.
Rumble!!!
The earth collapsed in a wail.
The location where Zōhakuten was, along with the rocks, trees, and even the underground hot spring veins within a hundred meters, were all instantly vaporized under this violent thunder of hundreds of millions of volts.
The blinding lightning lasted for several seconds before slowly dissipating.
When Tanjiro and the others barely recovered their vision and peeked out from behind the boulder they were hiding behind, the scene before them caused them to completely lose the ability to think.
It was gone.
The originally flat open space had now become a terrifying charred crater more than ten meters deep and nearly a hundred meters in diameter.
At the edge of the crater, rocks had been melted by the ultra-high temperature into dark red magma, which was slowly flowing down the slope.
The air was filled with a thick smell of burning, and Zōhakuten, who had originally been arrogant and domineering, didn't even have a single hair left.
Under that level of divine punishment, every single cell had been completely erased of life.
Yamada stood at the edge of the crater, slowly lowering his right hand.
He took a slight breath, his breathing still steady.
Although Kirin was world-destroying in power, it essentially utilized readily available lightning from the natural world, so the Chakra consumed was actually very little.
This was also why it was called the ultimate Lightning Release Secret Technique.
"Yamada-san..."
Tanjiro gulped, his legs weak as he walked to the edge of the crater.
Looking at the giant crater that could be described as changing the terrain, the understanding of power in his mind was completely shattered and rebuilt.
With this kind of power that could level a hilltop with a casual move, even if Muzan sent all the Upper Ranks, it would probably just be a matter of striking a few more bolts of lightning.
"Stop spacing out." Yamada's voice interrupted Tanjiro's shock.
He jumped down into the charred crater and walked to a pile of rubble at the very center.
"The decapitation rule for Upper Rank four is quite special. That kid just now was only a collection of emotions he split off. The real body is still playing hide-and-seek."
Yamada lifted his leather boot and casually kicked away a rock that was still steaming.
Under the rock, a little old man the size of a mouse with horns on his forehead was hugging his head and shivering.
Hantengu's main body!
The moment the Kirin fell just now, even though he was only brushed by a tiny edge, the tattered clothes on his body had already been burned to ash, and his whole body was twitching in fear.
"Don't kill me... I am so pitiful, so weak, why must you push me to the brink of death..."
Even at this moment, Hantengu's main body was still using the most humble tone to say the most twisted lines.
"Weak?" Yamada looked down at him.
"When your clone said you were weak just now, I felt disgusted. You killed so many people, and now you put on the appearance of a victim. Your pathetic soul is too dirty for this land, even if it's burned to ash."
The Kusanagi Sword was drawn half an inch, and a cold light flickered in the night.
Without even having time to let out a scream, that head, only the size of a walnut, was separated from its body.
With the death of the main body, the terrifying demonic aura that had shrouded the sky over the Swordsmith Village finally dissipated completely like an ebbing tide.
[Ding! Detected Host has killed Upper Rank four 'Hantengu'!]
[Achieved a perfect clear with Lightning Release Secret Technique: Kirin, absolute force shocked the entire field!]
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining Dimension Points: 12,000!]
The system's notification sound rang in his mind right on time.
Yamada sheathed the Kusanagi Sword and looked up towards the other end of the village.
At the same time Hantengu died, a series of rapid sounds of breaking air and splashing water suddenly came from the direction of the blacksmith workshop on the other side of the Swordsmith Village.
"Let's go, let's see how the battle is going on Tokito's side."
Yamada turned around and beckoned to Tanjiro and the other two who were still stunned at the edge of the crater.
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