Chapter 10 Cultivating Henchmen
Chapter 10 Cultivating Henchmen
Therefore, the Pillars in the Demon Slayer world may not have internal energy, but that doesn't mean they are weak in combat.
If these pillars were placed in Jin Yong's martial arts world, they would be renowned masters in their own right.
Moreover, when these pillars are used for sword techniques, they can create all sorts of magical illusions.
These illusions are just illusions and will not actually produce physical phenomena such as water, fire, or thunder.
It's more like a state of mind, a state of mind that people can see and feel.
If this kind of artistic conception were placed in the world of martial arts and given a different name, it would be called "sword intent," "knife intent," "fist intent," etc.
Throughout Jin Yong's martial arts world, none of the martial artists who can comprehend the essence of sword intent are simple; almost all of them are capable of making a name for themselves in the martial arts world.
In addition, the breathing techniques in the Demon Slayer world also include the Demon Slayer Mark, a powerful ability that forcibly overdraws the body's resources to enhance physical attributes several times over.
Finally, the concept of a transparent world pushes the brain's neural perception to its limit.
This allows one to penetrate flesh and see the enemy's muscle contractions, blood flow, and internal organ movements—a god-like skill.
To say that the breathing techniques in the Demon Slayer world have no unique features and are completely unnecessary to learn is a joke.
If Li Ke could master total concentration breathing, he could continuously improve his physical fitness and gain greater physical strength.
Physical strength is also strength. Is the Golden Wheel Monk, who mainly cultivates the external martial art of Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill, weak?
The Golden Wheel Monk is not weak. With his powerful physical strength alone, he would not be afraid to face any of the Five Greats.
Visible physical strength is also strength, although physical strength is not as magical or fancy as internal energy.
But killing doesn't require so many fancy tricks; it's just a knife, a sword, a punch, or a kick.
Furthermore, by learning the breathing techniques of the Demon Slayer world, one can hope to master the Demon Slayer Mark and the Transparent World.
If Li Ke can master these two skills, the improvement in his combat power will be visible to the naked eye.
Therefore, no matter what, Rick must learn the breathing technique of Demon Slayer.
Moreover, in order to know yourself and your enemy and win every battle, simply learning one Thunder Breathing technique is not enough.
You must learn and master at least all five breathing techniques, and it is best to learn the Sun Breathing Technique at the same time.
Then, relying on the five basic breathing techniques and the Sun Breathing Technique, plus the support of the martial arts internal energy system.
His strength is considered to be at the pinnacle of this world, so he doesn't have to worry about being forcibly killed by an enemy one day.
Of course, upon discovering that Kaiyue actually possessed internal energy, a plan vaguely emerged in Li Ke's mind.
As for what this plan is?
This plan is precisely a power cultivation plan!
The reason he wanted to cooperate with the Demon Slayer Corps was essentially to use their intelligence network for his own purposes.
After all, a mere Lower Moon demon is not Li Ke's goal. Li Ke's goal is to become a demon king who is not afraid of sunlight and lives forever as if he were immortal.
To achieve this goal, one needs to obtain a large amount of Muzan's blood, increase the concentration of demon blood, and complete the evolution of the demon body.
Finally, the Blood Demon Art: Parasite, each time it is used, actually dilutes the concentration of demon blood in one's own body.
This forces Li Ke to obtain a large amount of ghost blood, but where does this ghost blood come from? In the end, doesn't it still depend on the contributions of those evil ghosts?
The problem is that those evil spirits only operate at night, and when they strike, they often leave no survivors. Their crimes and movements are extremely secretive.
Finding out where the ghosts are is a huge challenge for Li Ke.
After all, Li Ke doesn't have Tanjiro's unscientifically sensitive nose, which can smell the "stench" of demons from a great distance.
Under such circumstances, the best way to obtain more demon blood is naturally to cooperate with the Demon Slayer Corps.
Although the Demon Slayer Corps did not receive support from the Japanese government, it has existed for over a thousand years and still wields considerable influence among the people.
If a demon is suspected to have appeared in a local area, local gentry, temples, police, and other relevant entities will often contact the Demon Slayer Corps.
They provide support such as intelligence, operational convenience, and material protection to help the Demon Slayer Corps successfully eliminate evil spirits and restore peace to the area.
This is why Rick wanted to cooperate with the Demon Slayer Corps—simply because they had information about demons, which was exactly what Rick wanted most.
But now, seeing that Kaigaku, after being parasitized by the flesh buds, actually possessed internal energy, Li Ke saw hope in building his own demon-hunting organization.
His time and energy are limited, and it is impossible for him to appear in multiple places at the same time to catch ghosts, consume ghost blood essence, and increase the concentration of ghost blood.
However, if his subordinates hunt down evil spirits for him and consume the essence of the evil spirits' blood, and then transfer the essence of the evil spirits' blood back into his body through the flesh buds, then he can achieve this.
In that case, the efficiency of obtaining ghost blood essence would be several times, or even dozens of times, that of hunting evil ghosts on his own.
After all, he was only one person, and it was impossible for him to appear in the entire island nation at the same time to hunt down evil spirits.
No matter how efficient he is at working alone, he can't work as efficiently as a group of people.
This is why Li Ke wanted to establish a ghost-hunting organization and cultivate his own henchmen.
The temptation of reaping a large amount of ghost blood essence while lying down is irresistible; no one could resist it.
What's even more amazing is that after the granulation tissue is implanted, not only does he control the lives of those people, but Li Ke can also sense their emotional state.
There's no need to worry about the granulation tissue parasites turning on you.
However, while the plan is a wonderful idea, it is not so easy to actually implement it.
First, there's the issue of the strength of the flesh bud parasites. Even if those flesh bud parasites obtain his flesh bud cheat,
Not only has their physical fitness been greatly improved, but they also possess powerful self-healing abilities and can fight using the magical energy of internal force.
The problem is that every time Blood Demon Art: Parasite is released, creating a flesh bud parasite, it actually reduces the concentration of demon blood in the person's body.
This concentration of demon blood comes from Muzan; it is a non-renewable source of demon blood, and once used, it is gone.
Otherwise, the Lower Moon demons in the original story wouldn't have been so eager to receive Muzan's blood.
Therefore, when Li Ke released the Blood Demon Art: Parasite, it was impossible for him to put a large amount of demon blood essence into the flesh bud.
This also resulted in congenital defects in the granulation tissue, which could not grow wildly along the meridians and spread throughout the meridians of the human body as soon as it completed parasitism.
As a result, the internal energy of the flesh bud parasite will naturally be insufficient. Insufficient internal energy means insufficient strength, and ultimately there is a possibility that it will be killed by the ghost.
Therefore, this plan is actually risky.
If the flesh bud parasite is too weak and is killed by the enemy, then Li Ke's "investment" will be a loss.
If this plan is to be implemented, the strength of the granulation parasites must be enhanced, and Li Ke's "investment" must not be allowed to fail.
Thinking of this, Li Ke recalled the two Lower Moon demons in the original work who possessed mental interference-type blood demon arts: Ubume and Enmu.
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