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"It's alright, the ghosts on this mountain will be gone soon."
Xia Yan gently made a cut in his palm and squeezed out some bright red blood.
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Chapter 190 The Captive of Gourmet Food
A strange fragrance, indistinguishable to humans yet capable of driving ghosts mad, brimming with vibrant life force, instantly spread and gradually enveloped the entire mountain.
This scent is more than ten times more attractive to ghosts than ordinary rare blood.
No ghost could resist the temptation of this scent.
Even Tamayo, a special demon who had undergone multiple modifications and possessed a high tolerance for human blood, was lured home by Natsuhiko's blood.
"Don't worry, your mission is complete. You can go back and report now."
Xia Yan controlled his wound, keeping it slightly bleeding, and started walking up the mountain.
"Just say that when the plum blossoms rose from the mountain, all the ghosts had been eliminated..."
"Yes, Lord Storm Pillar!"
……
Although he was heading up the mountain, Xia Yan didn't go very far, stopping just a little way up from the foot of the mountain.
After all, Sunrise Mountain is less than a thousand meters high. As long as he stands at the foot of the mountain, he can attract all the ghosts on the mountain.
As the saying goes, a small temple has strong evil spirits, and a shallow pond has many turtles.
A small mountain called Sunrise Mountain was hiding a total of seven ghosts.
Since the first six were not within Xia Yan's hunting range and did not conform to the core socialist values, Xia Yan ripped off their heads and hung them on trees to reflect on all the bad things they had done in their lives.
The seventh one, meanwhile, carefully hid in a place where no normal person could see it, cautiously observing Xia Yan's every move.
Although Xia Yan's wound had healed by now, a strange fragrance that only ghosts could smell still lingered in the air.
The ghost, who was observing from the shadows, had a glistening liquid uncontrollably dripping from the corner of its mouth.
They look like they're about to burst with craving.
Even so, she didn't rush out like the other ghosts, as if she had lost her mind. Instead, she carefully looked at Xia Yan.
His gaze kept sweeping over the black Demon Slayer Corps uniform hidden beneath the cloud-patterned haori.
He had a clear look of retreat.
Its furtive and hesitant demeanor made it look like a clumsy kitten that had recently been separated from its mother and hadn't yet learned how to hunt.
This ghost looks like a little girl of about ten years old.
His skin had a sickly pale color.
She wore a blood-red silk kimono with small patterns, a fluffy black scarf around her neck, and had snow-white shoulder-length short hair styled in a bob, making her look very well-behaved.
Two horizontal red stripes resembling ghost marks adorned each cheek, and two small, adorable horns grew from her forehead.
The whites of his eyes were a bright red, like blood, while the irises were the same white as hair.
The word "Local" is also engraved on the left eyeball.
It was Zero-Yuko, the newly appointed Lower Moon Six, who had just risen to power after the death of the Upper Moon One, Ubume.
It has to be said that Xia Yan and Lower Moon Six are quite destined to meet, after all, the previous Lower Moon Six also died at his hands.
Strictly speaking, the ghost named Bingye should be considered to have committed suicide.
After all, Xia Yan didn't intend to kill him at the time; he just wanted to take his head back and make it into a scare box to give to the lord as a gift.
Unfortunately,
That ghost isn't very good at handling things.
Perhaps because he had been single for too long, he couldn't stand seeing people showing affection in front of him, and he committed suicide because he was so angry about the interaction between Xia Yan and Kocho Kanae.
Unbeknownst to Xia Yan, the new Lower Moon Sixty-odd, whose fact that he wasn't even wearing underwear was already exposed from Xia Yan's glare, was currently hiding behind a tree.
Because of her slender figure, the not-too-thick tree completely obscured her body.
It peeked out with only half its head out, looking furtively at Xia Yan while drooling.
'It smells so good...it smells like rare blood...no, it's ten times more enticing than rare blood!'
Watching Xia Yan leisurely leaning against the tree, Ling Yuzi kept thinking.
'Just smelling that scent from that far away was enough to make my body move uncontrollably towards me.'
'If I could eat him, I might be able to rise directly to the rank of Lower Moon One... But he's wearing a Demon Slayer Corps uniform... and he seems quite strong...'
Looking at the six unfortunate ghosts whose heads had been ripped off by Xia Yan and impaled on tree branches to make wind chimes, wailing in agony, and remembering Xia Yan's identity as a member of the Demon Slayer Corps...
Ling Yuzi felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over her, extinguishing the burning desire in her heart.
As a fellow demon living on Mount Hiki, Lingyu had some understanding of the other six demons.
Two of them had only recently become demons, and the weaker ones hadn't even mastered Blood Demon Arts yet, but the other four were demons who had eaten more than a dozen people.
Although he is the sixth Lower Moon, he would not be a match for all six of them if he were to face them at the same time.
However, due to Muzan's orders, demons are not allowed to interact privately, so this situation will not occur.
However, these six demons, lured by the blood, appeared here together, only to be easily dealt with by the Demon Slayer Corps member in front of them.
Clearly, the opponent is very powerful!
Reason told Ling Yuzi that she should get away from this place of trouble as soon as possible.
But the scent emanating from Xia Yan's blood that lingered in the air was like a shackle, firmly binding her here.
The fact that she managed to hide behind this tree and observe secretly, instead of rushing out like an idiot and ending up as a wind chime hanging on the tree, already demonstrates her strong will.
It's like someone who hasn't eaten for four days suddenly smelling the aroma of braised pork.
Making her take even a single step back now would be worse than killing her.
"What should I do...? Why are there such people! Why did this happen!? What should I do...?"
After wiping away the drool that was uncontrollably flowing from the corner of her mouth for the third time, Lingyu couldn't help but mutter to herself.
A conflicted expression appeared on his face; he looked like he was about to cry from hunger.
With her undeniably adorable little face, most people with a penchant for young girls simply couldn't resist her charm.
"Hey, hey, I was wondering why you'd been hiding behind the tree for so long. Turns out you were still debating whether or not to go for it..."
Chapter 191 Touch the Ghost's Head, and Life Will Be Much Happier
Hearing the sudden sound behind her, Lingyu was startled.
Subconsciously, I looked down at the tree where Xia Yan had just been sitting. The unfortunate souls whose heads had been ripped off and stuck in the branches were still howling in pain.
But the tall, handsome figure under the tree had vanished without a trace.
As if realizing something, Lingyuzi's body trembled violently, and the entire ghost froze on the spot.
Then, trembling all over, she slowly turned around.
He saw the demon hunter who had been sitting under the tree earlier standing behind him, with a sinister smile on his face.
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"So that's how it is... So you were afraid of me..."
Looking at the little girl-like ghost standing in front of him, with a tearful expression on her face as if she had been bullied, Xia Yan couldn't help but smile with interest.
As he cut his palm to let blood flow, he activated his Byakugan, bringing the entire Sunrise 12 Mountains into his field of vision.
The location of the seven ghosts hiding in the mountain was entirely under his control.
After dealing with the first six ghosts, Xia Yan was quite interested when he discovered that this seemingly adorable little girl ghost was hiding behind a tree and secretly observing him.
After all, this is a rare case of a ghost being able to control itself in the face of his blood.
So far, the only person he has been able to do this is Yushiro, a demon.
Even Tamayo, a demon who had modified herself and only needed a small amount of human blood to maintain her sanity and had not harmed anyone for hundreds of years, was tempted by Natsuhiko's blood to unleash her bloodlust.
He had initially thought the other party was a patient ghost who would wait until he let his guard down before launching a sudden attack.
So Xia Yan pretended to be nonchalant and stayed under the tree, wanting to see how long the other party could endure.
But they found that Lingyuzi was so hungry she was about to cry, but she didn't move an inch.
This reaction aroused Xia Yan's curiosity.
He'd been a member of the Demon Slayer Corps for two years, and this was the first time he'd ever seen a demon so conflicted and cowardly.
Drawn by the smell of blood, they couldn't leave, yet fear prevented them from launching an attack.
He could only stand there hesitantly, glancing at himself every now and then.
Then I continued to struggle with it.
"It looks plump, but is this what it feels like to touch...?"
Looking at the ghost loli standing in front of him, completely stunned by fear, Xia Yan reached out and pinched the fleshy, pointed horn growing from her forehead, gently playing with it.
Contrary to its plump appearance, it feels somewhat cool to the touch.
It feels warm and smooth to the touch, somewhat like a jade product.
It feels completely different from the small demon horn that grew on Kanae Butterfly's forehead after she turned into a demon.
Kanae's demon horn doesn't feel cold to the touch; instead, it feels warm and has a frosted texture, making it feel more like a bone product.
Although she had adapted to the habits of a demon, Kanae, like Tamayo, hated that demon form, so she usually hid her demon markings and horns.