As Muzan Kibutsuji arrived, Dōma had completed his final transformation.
From a humanoid form, he had become a giant, at least one hundred meters tall, with a gaunt, skeletal frame!
He had lost his legs, and his body was supported by eight thick arms that grew from his lower body.
His upper body also had eight arms, distributed on either side of his body. From a distance, Dōma now looked like a dirty, ugly centipede!
More frighteningly, his face had lost its human features, and only a transparent membrane remained!
If you looked closely, you could see the foul-smelling, black blood flowing through the dense network of blood vessels inside!
“Roar!”
Dōma…
No, he should now be called “Multi-Armed One”!
The Multi-Armed One vibrated the membrane and roared, his head, covered in boils and pus, directly broke through the soil above the Infinity Castle.
All sixteen arms flailed wildly. In just a few swings, he almost turned the entire Infinity Castle into ruins!
The entire underground space began to convulse!
Yellow pus continuously dripped down as the Multi-Armed One moved violently.
One unlucky Demon happened to be hit by a drop, and in an instant, he was assimilated into a decaying corpse, covered in rot. He roared as he lunged towards the other Demons, spreading the curse.
For a moment, the entire Infinity Castle was thrown into chaos!
The remaining few Upper Moon Demons were also alarmed.
“What is this?!”
Kokushibo, carrying his long blade, felt genuine fear and helplessness the moment he saw the Multi-Armed One!
What were Demons compared to such a monster?
They were just ants, just a little bigger than humans!
Akaza, Gyokko, and Hantengu, followed closely, arriving at the scene.
Unfortunately, they were not so lucky, and they were all splashed with a large amount of pus!
“Be careful, don't touch that…...”
Before Kokushibo could finish his warning, the three Upper Moon Demons were all hit!
They, like the Demons before them, were instantly assimilated into decaying corpses, roaring as they lunged towards Kokushibo, engaging in a chaotic fight!
Although Kokushibo’s individual strength was the strongest among the Upper Moon Demons, he couldn't possibly face three decaying corpses, transformed from Upper Moon Demons, at the same time!
The decaying corpses not only inherited the powerful vitality of Demons, but also possessed a terrifying infectiousness!
The pus flowing from their bodies was like a highly contagious virus, and as long as you touched it, you would immediately be transformed by the pus.
Become one of the decaying corpses!
“Damn it! How can they be so troublesome!”
Kokushibo swung his blade and severed the decaying corpse of Gyokko, but he saw Gyokko forcibly piecing his body back together in mid-air.
The wound healed at a visible speed, and before he landed, he had already recovered completely!
The decaying corpses of Akaza and Hantengu attacked from both sides, and Kokushibo didn’t even have time to change his stance before he was pierced through the heart!
The pus flowed into his body through the wound, and the next second, Kokushibo was transformed into a decaying corpse!
“Kokushibo!”
Muzan Kibutsuji widened his eyes, watching helplessly as his entire team was transformed.
A great fear welled up in his heart.
He was afraid that he too would become a monster like Kokushibo, a monster without even self-awareness!
Under the pressure of death, Muzan Kibutsuji shifted his gaze to the direction of the billions of stars.
“My God, please help me!”
The billions of stars did not respond, but they did send down a river of stars to make Kocho Kanae the new Witch.
Then, they turned into dazzling starlight and disappeared from the Demon Slayer world.
The departure of the God made Muzan Kibutsuji realize something terrifying.
——God will not save the world.
Escape!
I must escape the Infinity Castle immediately!
This was the second thought that flashed through Muzan Kibutsuji’s mind.
The Infinity Castle had been taken over by the Multi-Armed One, and it would eventually become a cradle for monsters!
As the former owner of the Infinity Castle, no one knew better than Muzan Kibutsuji how many Demons were hidden in this city!
You see, Muzan Kibutsuji had lived for at least a thousand years!
In such a long period of time, even if the Demon Slayer Corps constantly cleared out the Demons, there would still be at least tens of thousands left!
What does this mean?
If the Demons all completed their transformation, there would be tens of thousands of decaying corpses in the world!
Just thinking about it in his mind made Muzan Kibutsuji’s hands and feet go numb with fear!
“As long as I can escape, I can perform a second sacrifice!”
“At that time, no matter what happens to the world, at least I can live safely!”
Whether human civilization will be destroyed, whether the world will survive..............
These things were not even within Muzan Kibutsuji’s consideration!
He was undoubtedly a very selfish person.
He was like this when he was a human, and he remained so after becoming a Demon.
He never changed!
Muzan Kibutsuji only wanted to live, and he didn’t care about anything else!
To ensure his escape, this trash boss once again used his signature move!
“Self-destruction!”
Just like he had escaped from the hands of Yoriichi Tsugikuni hundreds of years ago, Muzan Kibutsuji shattered his body into eighteen hundred pieces of flesh and blood!
They scattered in different directions, fleeing!
This was the best solution he could think of at the moment!
As long as he could escape, even if it was just one piece of flesh and blood!
He, Muzan Kibutsuji, could survive!
This method itself wasn’t actually problematic.
After all, what is the probability of one person escaping, compared to eighteen hundred pieces of flesh and blood escaping together?
If it were any other situation, Muzan Kibutsuji might really have escaped without a problem.
But the problem is..............
Pus isn’t just about infection and assimilation!
It is a terrifying curse.
Muzan Kibutsuji didn’t know that as long as one piece of flesh and blood was contaminated by the pus, all the remaining flesh and blood would be immediately assimilated!
In this way, splitting into eighteen hundred pieces of flesh and blood became a blunder!
It greatly increased his chances of death!
It was basically the same as seeking death.
In fact, this was indeed the case. Before Muzan Kibutsuji’s flesh and blood had escaped far, several pieces were contaminated by the pus.
Then, a terrifying scene unfolded before the only two survivors in the Infinity Castle, Kocho Shinobu and Kanae.
The moment his flesh and blood came into contact with the pus, the rest of Muzan Kibutsuji’s flesh and blood, as if someone had pressed the pause button, solidified in mid-air.
The terrifying curse spread through some kind of connection, infecting and assimilating all eighteen hundred pieces of flesh and blood into eighteen hundred separate decaying corpse individuals!
After these decaying corpse individuals formed, they began to gather continuously.
They piled on top of each other, one after another, eventually accumulating into a decaying corpse giant even bigger than the Multi-Armed One!
In the center of the decaying corpse giant’s head, Muzan Kibutsuji’s face slowly emerged.
Except, now the trash boss was like a person with a mental illness.
He was screaming and shouting like a madman, crying one moment, laughing the next.
“Waaaaaaa, hee hee hee...............”
“I’m finally not afraid of the sunlight anymore, hee hee hee.”
“Waaaaaaa, God, why don’t you save me? You could clearly save me.................”
“God, God, God!”
“Hahahahaha!!!”
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“What is he…... doing?”
Kocho Shinobu swallowed hard. Her pupils trembled uncontrollably as she spoke!
It wasn’t because she was cowardly.
Someone who had chopped off dozens of Demon heads couldn’t possibly be cowardly!
It’s just that everything that happened now was too bizarre!
Dōma said he wanted to become a god, and he turned into the Multi-Armed One, spreading curses.
Then, the Upper Moon Demons were all wiped out, assimilated into decaying corpses.
Now even Muzan Kibutsuji had become this way!
To be honest, if her sister, Kocho Kanae, wasn’t still in the River of Stars cocoon, Kocho Shinobu would have already run away!
“Those who peep into the realm of God will eventually be punished as they deserve.”
Compared to Kocho Shinobu, Kanae was relatively calm.
After all, God had just left, and before the aura near the altar dissipated, the decaying corpses, the Multi-Armed One, and Muzan Kibutsuji dared not approach.
Their safety could be guaranteed for now.
The only fear was that after the aura dissipated, the transformed Kanae wouldn’t be able to deal with these two monsters.
After all, Kanae had never seen Mei take action, so she didn’t have much confidence in the Witch’s strength.
‘There shouldn’t be any problems, right?’
Looking at the group of decaying corpses that had already surrounded the entire altar, Kanae took another step closer to the River of Stars cocoon with Kocho Shinobu.
Only this way could they get a little sense of security.
“Hungry! I’m hungry!”
As time ticked by, the aura left behind by God began to fade.
Muzan Kibutsuji howled as he dragged his massive body, pressing on the space of the altar.
One by one, decaying corpses fell off him, crashing to the ground, their flesh and blood splattering. They immediately crawled back, filling the gaps.
Kanae and Kocho Shinobu watched, their faces pale, their sanity plummeting!
“Sister, is she okay yet!?”
Kocho Shinobu asked anxiously.
“She should be almost done!”
Kanae calculated the time and replied.
As if to confirm her words.
Kanae had just finished speaking when there was a cracking sound from the River of Stars cocoon behind them.
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