With a reputation of 70,000, one leader travels across countless worlds with his adventure team.

Tanjiro, along with Nezuko, Zenitsu, and Inosuke, followed the scent and found the 'pot' surrounded by bloodstains halfway down the mountain.

Tanjiro drew his sword and said to Zenitsu and Inosuke:

"The ghost's scent is coming from the 'pot,' so be careful!"

Zenitsu, looking at the motionless 'pot', said to Tanjiro and Inosuke:

"let me try!"

Zenitsu immediately closed his eyes, half-squatted on one leg, stepped back on the other, activated the Yi Jin Jing, took a deep breath, and lightning appeared all over his body;

"Breathing of Thunder - First Form: Thunderclap Flash"

Zenitsu instantly darted out and slashed at the 'pot' with his sword. Just as Zenitsu's blade was about to touch the 'pot', a hand emerged from the pot and pressed down on the ground. The 'pot' flew up and successfully dodged Zenitsu's attack.

"Hooray! A few more swordsmen using breathing techniques have arrived. I wonder how you taste~"

Two green lips appeared where there should have been eyes, and a pale white head with eyes on its forehead and mouth twisted and emerged from the pot.

Where hair and arms should be, several arms the size of baby hands have grown out, making it look extremely bizarre.

"Upper Moon! Fifth! It's an Upper Moon demon!"

Tanjiro saw the words in Gyokko's eyes and shouted them out to Inosuke and Zenitsu.

Nezuko also grew rapidly into an adult size, and a single horn grew on her forehead. She whimpered and attacked Gyokko together with Tanjiro.

"Killing a Thousand Needle Fish"

Yu Hu took out his waterweed patterned pot and summoned two fat-faced goldfish. Countless poisonous needles shot from the goldfish's mouths toward Tanjiro, Nezuko, and Inosuke.

"Hinokami Kagura: Crimson Mirror of the Blazing Sun"

Tanjiro activated Sun Breathing and swung his sword repeatedly to block most of the poison needles flying at him and the other two. Some of the needles pierced Nezuko and Inosuke on either side of him, and Nezuko felt the poison on the needle.

Nezuko used her Blood Demon Art to burn the area where the needle had pierced, instantly neutralizing the poison. Then, Nezuko flicked her blood at Inosuke, also neutralizing the poison in him.

Tanjiro, seeing Nezuko activate her Blood Demon Art to begin the detoxification process, called out to Zenitsu behind Gyokko:

"Zenitsu, watch out for the goldfish's poisonous spiky needles!"

Zenitsu crouched down, about to unleash Thunder Flash and rush towards Gyokko, but the goldfish on Gyokko's head had already turned its head and puffed out its mouth at Zenitsu, ready to spray poison needles. Zenitsu took a deep breath.

"Breath of Thunder, First Form: Thunderclap Flash - Six-Hit Combo"

Zenitsu quickly changed his position and unleashed a six-hit combo towards Gyokko;

"Blood Demon Art: Octopus Pot Hell"

Just as Zenitsu and Tanjiro were charging forward opposite Gyokko, Gyokko swiftly switched the pot in his hand, and the dark, speckled pot summoned several enormous octopus tentacles that coiled towards Zenitsu and Tanjiro.

Zenitsu dodged the two giant tentacles with his third and fourth flash attacks, and then charged towards the jewel in the middle of the tentacles with his fifth flash attack. However, the octopus tentacles that were stabbing Zenitsu from under the jewel blocked the direction of Zenitsu's attack.

Zenitsu had no choice but to use his final slash on the octopus's tentacles, allowing the baton to fall to Inosuke and Nezuko.

Tanjiro's path forward was blocked by several tentacles. To prevent the tentacles from wrapping around him, Tanjiro raised his sword and activated "Hinokami Kagura: Scorching Sun" to cut off the octopus tentacles that were coming towards him from three directions, and quickly retreated.

Gyokko sensed the fiery sword aura attached to Tanjiro and the others' swords;

In particular, after Tanjiro used his Sun Breathing to cut off the octopus tentacles, the tentacles did not immediately regrow like they did after Zenitsu cut them off. Instead, a strong burning sensation prevented the tentacles from growing back.

Yu Hu narrowed her eyes and spoke in a sarcastic tone:

"So you're the swordsman with the sunshine earring that Lord Muzan asked us to find? Is today my lucky day? Hehehe~ Not only did I manage to kill all the swordsmiths who make weapons for your Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen, but I also found the swordsman that Lord Muzan specifically ordered to be killed."

As he spoke, Yu Hu produced a dozen or so pots like Doraemon, with a bunch of tiny hands on his head and body, one in each hand;

"Blood Demon Technique - Ten Thousand Gliding Fish"

More than 10,000 black, toothy sticky fish lunged at Tanjiro and his companions. When Tanjiro saw the approaching swarm of black sticky fish, he walked to Zenitsu and the others, half-squatted down, took a deep breath, and gripped the hilt of his sword tightly with both hands. The flames on the sword condensed into sword energy, making the sword almost turn red.

"Hinagami Kagura: Dragon Halo - Head Dance!"

A fire dragon appeared from Tanjiro's sword. Tanjiro used one leg to propel himself towards the flying school of fish.

Zenitsu and Inosuke weren't idle either; they ran to Tanjiro's left and right sides respectively, activating their breathing techniques and rushing towards Gyokko.

Gyokko was surprised that Tanjiro could launch an attack with an area of ​​effect almost the size of his own school of fish. The figures rushing towards him from the left and right were also seen by the eyes above his head. Gyokko hurriedly switched the pot in his hand.

"Damn brat! The whole school of fish has been chopped to pieces! That brat's attack speed and range are even greater than my school of fish!"

Just as Tanjiro's attack was about to reach them, Gyokko held two different jars on either side, preparing to use the Blood Demon Art;

"Killing a Thousand Needle Fish"

"Blood Demon Art: Water Prison Bowl"

Gyokko released goldfish that spat out poison needles towards Inosuke and Zenitsu respectively, and then released a slime water ball in the direction Tanjiro was attacking, trying to trap Tanjiro.

Just as Tanjiro was about to touch the slime ball in the pot, Nezuko jumped up from behind Tanjiro, her claws, covered in her own blood, stabbing into the slime ball in the pot. Then, Nezuko frowned, and the slime ball was ignited. Tanjiro rushed past the slime ball and continued his attack on the pot.

As Gyokko watched her Blood Demon Art being broken, Tanjiro's sword, radiating the power of Sun Breathing, was about to reach her.

"Damn you little devil!"

"What!"

Tanjiro's sword missed its mark, and Gyokko, through its pot, changed position and disappeared from its original spot.

Zenitsu and Inosuke, who had just managed to frantically block the goldfish's poison needles, arrived in front of Tanjiro. Without saying much, Tanjiro slashed down and shattered the 'pot' of the jewel pot.

At this moment, in the village of swordsmiths, a bunch of huge, long-armed, long-legged goldfish of various colors were darting around, preying on the swordsmiths. The swordsmiths were fleeing everywhere, carrying the swords they had forged.

After delivering the weapons to the three Pillars, Kotetsu was also trapped in the village by the goldfish. Tanjiro and the others, who had come looking for the pot by following the scent, hurriedly began to kill the strange fish in the village, but even after cutting off several fish heads, the fish did not stop moving.

Inosuke accidentally chopped the pot above the monster fish's body, and the monster fish instantly fell silent. Inosuke shouted excitedly:

"Hahaha! I'm still the best! I can kill the monster fish by cutting off the ugly pot on its body!"

The pot-shaped vessel that could control the potfish naturally heard Inosuke's words. In an instant, the pot-shaped vessel's veins bulged, and it burrowed into the pot, teleporting to the village that had been crushed by the fish monster.

"Octopus Pot Hell"

A bunch of octopus tentacles suddenly emerged from not far behind Inosuke, pushing aside the rubble and debris and sweeping towards him.

Tanjiro pointed in terror behind Inosuke and shouted:

"Inosuke, watch out behind you!"

As he shouted, Tanjiro stomped on the broken wall, squatted down abruptly, and used the momentum to fly towards the tamagu behind Inosuke.

Inosuke sensed the octopus tentacles attacking from behind, stretched out his arms and twisted his elbows, causing the blades of his twin swords to point backward:

"Beast's Breath - Picked-up Fang: Round Spinning Fang"

Two crescent-shaped blades spun behind Inosuke, slicing the incoming octopus tentacles into pieces that flew everywhere.

"Hinokami Kagura: Radiant Grace"

Tanjiro flew to the front of Gyokko, fearing that Gyokko would escape into the pot again, and used a spiral slash from top to bottom to block all of Gyokko's body, including the pot under Gyokko.

The small hand at Gyokuko's waist raised a light blue pot and sprayed a high-speed stream of water at Tanjiro, blocking Tanjiro's Sun Breathing. Gyokuko then went back into the pot and teleported to a tree on the edge of the village.

It poked its slippery head out, grinning:

"You can't catch me at your speed~ Hehehe..."

"Breath of Thunder, First Form: Thunderclap Flash - Eight-Strike Combo"

Zenitsu, who was already prepared to attack, slashed directly at the point where Gyokko would land. Gyokko's small hand, which had just taken out the new pot, had not yet had time to release the Blood Demon Art before it was interrupted by Zenitsu's continuous slashes.

Several of the pots in his hands were instantly shattered, forcing Yu Hu to abandon his attack and continue his escape.

Tanjiro, Nezuko, and Inosuke quickly chased after Gyokko, leaving the village and heading into the forest.

The jewel that had changed positions wasn't idle either, leaving behind one or two strange fish in the bushes every now and then. The three little ones had to be wary of fish suddenly emerging from the bushes when they passed by. Zenitsu then chopped off the jewel on the head of one of the strange fish and said to Tanjiro:

"Tanjiro, chase after them! Focus on your feet!"

Tanjiro also remembered Zenitsu's explanation of how to use Thunder Breathing to increase speed:

"We need to ensure that every muscle fiber and every blood vessel is breathing and circulating."

Tanjiro activated the Yi Jin Jing to direct his inner energy to his legs, took a deep breath, and stomped his foot hard on the ground.

" channel your power into your legs, then unleash it all in one breath!"

Tanjiro darted between Nezuko and Inosuke in an instant, carefully discerning the scent emanating from the gyokotsu and tracking its location.

Just as Yu Hu darted onto a tree, his slippery head about to emerge, a flash of light appeared, and the upper half of Yu Hu's head flew off. Yu Hu quickly reversed into the parking space and then used his teleportation ability to change his position.

"Didn't they cut your neck?"

Tanjiro turned to look at the part of his head he had cut off—just a small section of his head with an eye still attached—and said regretfully.

Then, Gyokko, who had run to another tree, looked at Tanjiro and said with a grin:

"What a pity, kid!"

At that moment, Nezuko leaped from the other side of the tree and rushed towards Gyokko. Gyokko had already seen Nezuko's position. "Blood Demon Art: Water Prison Bowl" - a huge ball of slime instantly enveloped Nezuko. The slime ball landed and rolled to the edge of the forest.

Nezuko, trapped inside the slime ball, was like someone who had fallen into jelly; no matter how much she struggled, she couldn't break through the slime ball.

Inosuke charged toward Gyokko from the opposite direction of Nezuko;

"Beast's Breath - Fang of the Fourth Order: Shattering Slash"

The two small hands of the pot turned the spout around and continued to spray sticky liquid in the direction Inosuke was slashing. Although it didn't cover Nezuko's big one, it successfully blocked Inosuke's attack.

"Breath of Thunder, First Form: Thunderclap Flash - Divine Speed"

Zenitsu attacked Gyokko from below, severing the branch Gyokko was standing on. Gyokko then teleported away into the distance. Zenitsu, seeing Gyokko about to escape again, shouted:

"It's not over yet!"

Zenitsu stepped onto the tree trunk and unleashed a lightning-fast double slash. Before Gyokko could gain any leverage in mid-air, he turned his head and saw Zenitsu slashing towards him. "Oh no!"

"bass!"

Zenitsu successfully struck the 'pot' of the jewel, and the pot, now split in two, fell to the ground. Only a thin shell remained of the pot. Tanjiro, seeing the pot on the ground, looked up and said:

"He's not dead yet, he's shed his skin!"

At this moment, the sky not far from the forest began to lighten slightly; the night was over and dawn was about to break.