Reincarnation as Lower Rank Five in Demon Slayer

Half an hour later, under the silvery moonlight, a crow as black as coal streaked across the night sky above the dark and dense forest.

The little bird is flying back to its master. Just now, it found the river, and not only the river, but also the small village living by the river. For doing this so perfectly, its master will surely reward it.

A moment later, Xiao Wu flew to Li Lei's side, only to find Li Lei sitting on the ground, controlling a spider and a grasshopper in a fierce battle that was evenly matched. Just then, the grasshopper leaped outwards with its hind legs.

Want to run.

Li Lei sneered, "You can't escape now." Instantly, the controlled spider spat out a large web a meter in diameter, trapping the grasshopper that was trying to flee. Then, the spider used its two forelegs to lift the grasshopper up in front of it.

The spider grabbed the grasshopper's hind leg and used a move reminiscent of Hulk and Loki's iconic scene. A series of snapping sounds followed, and Li Lei, controlling the spider, brought it to a stop. Looking down, he saw the grasshopper, who had been alive just moments before, was now motionless. Hmm! The grasshopper's soul had been sent to heaven.

Watching Li Lei bully other insects with his little spider, Xiao Wu felt a chill of fear. "Will he treat me like that again?"

"Little Wu, you're here. Did you find the river?" Li Lei put away the little spider he had just caught and calmly asked Little Wu, who was already waiting nearby.

Upon hearing the voice, Xiao Wu trembled and cautiously looked at Li Lei. Then, his voice trembling, he said, "I found a river 10 kilometers to the north, and I also found a village."

Li Lei looked at Xiao Wu with a strange expression. He hadn't hit it, so why did it seem so afraid of him?

"Well done, Xiao Wu. Let's set off immediately for the river to the north to catch fish," Li Lei ordered.

About 10 minutes later, Li Lei and Xiao Wu arrived at the riverbank that Xiao Wu had mentioned.

In the darkness, a bright moon hung in the sky, bathed in its silvery light. Li Lei and the little black bird on his shoulder sat on a large rock by the river, fishing. In their hands, they held a fishing rod made of bamboo and their own silk thread. The bamboo was found by the little black bird, while Li Lei was responsible for the fishing line, bait, and fishing rod.

Looking at Li Lei, who was sitting on a rock fishing calmly, Xiao Wu suddenly asked, "Master, can you catch fish by just tying grasshoppers with silk thread without using a hook?"

Li Lei calmly replied, "Legend has it that an old man once caught a big fish with a straight hook. If a straight hook can catch fish, there's no reason why I can't catch fish with bait."

Suddenly, the float on the fishing line sank. Li Lei quickly reeled in the line and said to Xiao Wu beside him, "See, it's hooked!"

As the little bird watched its owner reel in the line, it wondered to itself, "Can you really fish without a hook?"

"Little Crow, look what your master caught!"

Xiao Wu snapped out of her daze and looked at Li Lei's hand, whereupon a large lobster came into view (@_@)

Looking at the huge lobster in Li Lei's hand, Xiao Wu's brain suddenly went blank. Lobster? How could he catch a lobster, and one that was the same size as Xiao Wu?

Li Lei held the giant lobster he had caught, and looking at his clueless black crow, a satisfied smile crept across his face. (??ヮ??)?

After all, most people don't know that you can catch lobsters by tying a piece of meat to a line, let alone crows.

Alright, he'd had his fun with the crows; it was time to catch some fish. Li Lei used his Blood Demon Technique—Formless Parasitism—to create a small piece of flesh as bait. He tied the bait with silk thread and threw it into the river to prevent it from being washed away, then controlled the flesh to grow eyes. As the images from the eyes appeared in the river, Li Lei was able to see the situation inside.

Li Lei pinpointed the location of the fish in the river, stretched out his hand towards them, and activated the Silk Thread Blood Demon Technique. A large net connected by silk threads shot out from his palm, accurately hitting the fish. With a pull, the fish were caught in the net, and Li Lei forcefully yanked it back to the shore.

Little Wu, instead of thinking about how he managed to catch lobsters, was staring at the fish in the net, his mouth watering.

Li Lei looked at the drooling Xiao Wu, grabbed a small fish, and called out to Xiao Wu, "Xiao Wu, catch this!"

When Li Lei tossed the live little fish to the drooling little Wu, it was obvious that the fish would disappear instantly.

Little Wu was squinting, savoring the taste of the small fish he had just swallowed.

Li Lei said to Xiao Wu, "One more time."

Another small fish was thrown out.

Little Crow watched the little fish flying towards it, its feet slightly sinking, and then it forcefully flapped its hind wings downwards. Instantly, Little Crow shot towards the little fish like a rocket, and with a snap, swallowed the fish whole.

After swallowing more than ten small fish in a row, Little Wu finally couldn't eat anymore.

"No, I can't eat anymore."

Xiao Wu lay flat on the big rock and said.

Seeing the little bird lying on the rock, unable to eat, Li Lei also put down the small fish in his hand.

He retrieved a large fish from the net and parasitized it with the flesh and blood he had previously split off using the Blood Demon Technique—Formless Parasitism. Then he casually tossed it back into the river.

After leaving Xiao Wu, Li Lei picked up Xiao Wu, who was lying dead on the big rock, and returned to the big tree where his flesh and blood had been parasitizing. The fish they caught were left for the small village by the river.

About half an hour later, Li Lei returned to the tree to which his flesh and blood were parasitized.

Under the big tree, a black bear weighing over 100 kilograms was lying down resting.

Li Lei looked at the black bear resting under his tree and felt a surge of joy. Great, now he had a means of transportation.

Li Lei watched the black bear sleeping soundly, slowed his pace, and cautiously approached it, intending to catch the black bear with his bare hands.

After all, I've never caught a bear before, and I want to experience the fun of catching one now.

As Li Lei got closer and closer to the black bear, just as he was about to make his move...

"Click"

The sound of dry branches snapping came from beneath his feet. Hearing the sound, Li Lei immediately looked towards the black bear.

Startled by the sudden noise, the black bear immediately stood up and looked towards the source of the sound. Seeing Li Lei only a few meters away, it was greatly alarmed.

The black bear looked at Li Lei, who had appeared not far away, opened its mouth wide, and threatened him, trying to stop Li Lei from coming any closer.

But for Li Lei, who had already become a ghost, it not only had no effect on scaring him, but was even a little cute.

Seeing that intimidation was ineffective against Li Lei, the black bear immediately prepared to launch an attack.

Meanwhile, Little Wu, who could take off on his own ten minutes earlier, stood on a branch of a big tree watching the black bear launching a suicidal charge at Li Lei, and inwardly chuckled.

"How could a little black bear like you possibly shake the power of your master?"

Li Lei calmly watched the black bear charging towards him. Just as it was about to pounce, he slapped it with his backhand. With a snap, the 100-kilogram black bear fell to the ground.

How much psychological trauma is the black bear on the ground right now?

Black Bear: "Do you know how much damage a slap can do to my young heart? Do you know how painful and speechless it is to be knocked down by a defenseless human with a single slap?"

Looking at the black bear that had collapsed to the ground after he had just hit it, Li Lei said speechlessly, "I didn't use much force! How come it collapsed like that?"

Never mind, just tie it up with thread and drag it away.

The black bear felt itself being bound and tried to get up to resist, but with a snap, it fell to the ground again, offering no resistance. It was quietly bound by Li Lei.

Li Lei used the silk thread to lift the black bear to the foot of the big tree. Looking at the tree to which his flesh and blood were parasitized, he thought to himself that since he transmigrated to the Demon Slayer world, apart from not being able to see sunlight, his life had been pretty good.

"Alright, enough of that, let's get to work." Li Lei walked to the black bear beside him, stretched out his right hand, and said to it, "Blood Demon Technique - Formless Parasite." Instantly, a ball of flesh flew out of his palm, burrowed into the black bear's body, and completed its parasitism.

It was almost dawn; it was time to hide. "Little Wu, come here," Li Lei called to him.

Hearing its owner's call, the little bird flew down from the branch and landed on its owner's shoulder.

Looking at the little bird perched on his shoulder, Li Lei said nothing. Instead, he walked towards the large pit he had been in. Under Li Lei's control, dozens of tree roots emerged from the pit, forming a two-meter-tall, rising and falling tree ball.

As Li Lei and Xiao Wu entered the tree ball, it slowly descended into the ground. The ground was sealed off by intertwined tree roots, and the surface was camouflaged with soil.

The sun rose from the east, its rays filtering through the treetops and transforming into golden threads that fell to the earth. The threads around the black bear burned and turned to ash, but they did not harm the bear in the slightest.

Li Lei, underground, felt the sun rise and immediately controlled the black bear, making it walk in the sunlight and feeling how much control he had over the bear under the sun.

As Li Lei controlled the black bear to complete a series of actions, he had no problem controlling its body. The next step was to control its eyes, ears, and nose.

Li Lei uses parasitic flesh to take over the transmission of information through the eyes, ears, and nose, enabling him to share the senses that the black bear sees, hears, and smells from a distance.

He sensed the sounds, images, and smells coming from the black bear. Li Lei was extremely excited and immediately steered the black bear to face the sun.

Such reckless behavior would naturally not end well. With a miserable cry from the black bear, Li Lei lost most of his control over it.

The reason was that upon seeing the sun, the activity of Li Lei's parasitic flesh within the black bear's body dropped too drastically, causing him to lose control of the bear. It took several minutes for his parasitic flesh to regain control of the black bear.

It seems that in the future, when using the visual senses of living beings, we can't look directly at the sun!

The black bear rolling around in the sun has something to say: "Can you please not drag me into this mess? My eyes hurt so much right now."

You human, just you wait. When I become stronger than you, I'll make sure you see the sun for a whole day.

"Black Bear, do you have any complaints about what I've done?" a voice entered the black bear's brain.

The black bear exclaimed in surprise, "ヽ((◎д◎))ゝ He heard it!"

"Yes, I heard it." Another voice echoed in my mind.

Suddenly, the black bear realized he wouldn't survive the night.

Seeing the black bear's utterly dejected expression, Li Lei withdrew his senses, satisfied. Having completed his experiment, he stopped teasing the large black bear.

Next, Li Lei lay down peacefully in the ball made of tree roots to rest, while Xiao Wu, out of boredom, began to count how many tree roots made up the ball.

Slowly, the sun sank behind the mountains, and night fell. Li Lei and Xiao Wu emerged from the ground.

Li Lei walked towards the tree he controlled with his Blood Demon Art - Formless Parasite. Under Li Lei's control, the tree began to change shape, and slowly the tree eventually turned into a carriage.

Xiao Wu asked Li Lei: "Master, this carriage has no horses! What should we do?"

Li Lei looked at the corpse lying to the side and said, "Isn't there a bear here?"

Black bear _(′_`」 ∠)_

"I haven't moved or made a sound, why is it my turn now?"

Out of desperation, the black bear took on the task of pulling the cart.

Li Lei got into the carriage and sat down. He said to Xiao Wu beside him, "Xiao Wu, you can fly. Lead the way. If there are any special circumstances or you discover any trace of ghosts, immediately send me a message through your parasitic flesh."

"Understood, Master. Little Wu will carry out every command you give." With that, it flew forward.

“Little Black, you can move now,” Li Lei said to the black bear. Little Black was the name Li Lei had just come up with for the black bear.

Upon hearing Li Lei's voice, the black bear reluctantly pulled the carriage towards the direction where Xiao Wu was.