36. The beginning of the end.

After hitting the pillars, the wounds on Muzan's body healed quickly. Muzan was an incredibly powerful demon, and his regeneration was terrifying, even the wounds received from the nichrin blades healed in seconds.

Muzan, barely dodging the attacks of the pillars, was very shocked, he would never have thought that he would meet the pillars in such a wilderness. Indeed, for 1000 years, almost no one could catch him or even injure him, only a few strong demon hunters were close to killing him, and Muzan only remained alive. Apart from the red-haired monster (he is talking about Yorichi Qigikuni, the creator of the breath of the sun), no one could make him fear for his life.

While Muzan was in his thoughts, the pillars attacked again, their attacks swift and deadly. But Muzan was ready for this and immediately dodged the blades.

Although the pillars' attacks were quick and powerful, Muzan dodged and even retaliated, and the maximum damage he received was only 0.5-2 cm deep wounds that healed instantly.

Seeing that the pillars could not stand, Tengoku immediately entered the battle.

Breath of Heaven: First Style of the Sacred Wind. Immediately after these words, Tengoku's figure blurred from behind Muzan.

With a swing of the katana, his blade flew towards Muzan's neck, but when 10-20 cm remained before him, Muzan dived sharply down. Because of this, Tengoku was very surprised, according to his idea, Muzan should have lost his head without even noticing it, but Muzan was able to dodge.

But after several attacks, Tengoku realized that Muzan had well-developed instincts, that is, if Muzan dodged the attacks of the pillars, knowing and seeing them, then he dodged Tengoku's attacks at the instinct level.

A few minutes after the start of the battle, Muzan realized that he could die, all the pillars were very strong, but among them the red-haired (or purple) was the strongest, his attacks were 2-3 times faster than others, and Muzan had no choice but instinctively dodge.

- Nakime! - Muzan shouted, retreating further.

As soon as he screamed at his feet, shoji doors appeared out of nowhere, seeing them, Muzan smiled. But soon his smile disappeared from his face, just as the shoji doors immediately disappeared.

Immediately after the shoji doors disappeared, a continuous attack by Tengoku fell upon Muzan, Tengoku swung his katana about 10 times per second. Seeing that his position was terrible, Muzan growled strangely, immediately his complexion and hair turned ashy white, his body changed a lot, and strange tentacles of flesh and bone grew behind him.

Shoji doors reappeared at a height of 25-30 meters, of which 12 figures emerged. Of course, these numbers were 6 higher and 6 lower moons. All but the first three higher moons were surprised and bewildered, because many of them were in their hiding places or in cities, so that suddenly finding themselves in an unknown place, they were confused.

Seeing the 12 moons, Tengoku was not surprised, he already knew that they were suitable for battle, and came up with a plan in advance.

At his signal, the pillars split into pairs and attacked the 6 lower moons. According to Tengoku's plan, the pillars were to split first along the lower moons, and then switch to the six higher moons.

Compared to the pillars, the lower moons were very weak, and only Enmu, the first lower moon, could offer any resistance before dying. The lower moons died pretty quickly and many demons were interrupted by the Kocho duo.

Kanae and Shinobu together were able to come up with a fairly simple combination: first, Shinobu sent demons using her poison from wisteria, and then Kanae killed them with her flower breath. While it was a very simple combination, it was incredibly effective.

After the destruction of the lower moons, only 9 demons remained on the battlefield, the higher moons Kokushibo, Duma, Akaza, Hantengu, Gyokko, Gyutaro and Daki, as well as Kaigaku and Muzan. And Nakime did not have any special fighting abilities, we can say that she was the butler and transport man of Muzan. (This means that Nakime does not participate in the battle, she takes demons to the Endless Fortress and can deliver them to different places.)

¹- Shoji doors - Japanese paper doors. Anyone can google it.