"How is this possible!?"
"Upper Rank One? He's still alive?"
"Such fast swordsmanship!"
The sudden change in the situation caught everyone off guard.
Present at the scene were not just Ryuran, Ryuzetsu, and Mui, but also hundreds of people from both the Ninja Village Alliance and the Akatsuki organization, scattered in the inner and outer circles.
Yet not a single person detected the surprise attack of 'Upper Rank One' in advance.
The opponent was like a ghost in the night, appearing abruptly behind Muku and completing the sneak attack.
If Muku being plotted against could be attributed to a sneak attack.
Then 'Upper Rank One' slashing Mui was a truly terrifying sword technique, exquisite enough to make one shudder.
One must know that Mui was one of the top elite Jonin in the Grass Ninja Village, definitely not some small fry Jonin.
Just by his sealing jutsu that turned Muku back into human form from the 'Satori' state, his strength could be seen.
Yet such an expert, at such a close distance, not only failed to succeed but had an arm easily severed instead.
This made the surrounding ninjas intuitively feel the terror of 'Upper Rank One'!
In the distance.
The equally shocked Yakumo wondered: "Why did he appear here? And what's with that face on the back of his head?"
Unlike others, Yakumo possessing the 'Ketsuryugan' observed more carefully, so she immediately noticed that on the back of Tanjiro's head, there was actually a face with 'Upper Rank Three' engraved in the pupils.
It was as if 'Upper Rank One' had deprived 'Upper Rank Three' of her face!
Noticing this, there was also Ranmaru possessing the mutated 'Red Eye'.
While secretly surprised, the thought of taking away the heavily injured Kakuzu and Hidan, as well as Muku controlling the 'Box of Ultimate Bliss', by taking advantage of the opportunity created by 'Upper Rank One' disrupting the battle situation, sprouted in his mind.
At this time, after severing the arm Mui used to try to seal him with a sword strike, Tanjiro reached his hand towards Muku's head, preparing to follow the same procedure, fusing Muku just like fusing Nakime.
Through the sensing just now, he had discovered that Muku controlling the 'Box of Ultimate Bliss' was different from ordinary Demons. If he could absorb Muku completely, his power would be qualitatively improved.
Snap...
Tanjiro's hand pressed on Muku's head. Instantly, the flesh and blood on Muku's body began to melt and flow towards Tanjiro's hand.
Ryuzetsu closest immediately formed seals: "Fire Release: Demon Lantern!"
Shoo shoo shoo...
High-temperature fireballs the size of basketballs smashed towards Tanjiro with whistling sounds of breaking wind.
But Tanjiro swung his sword with the other hand, cutting down the incoming 'Demon Lanterns' one by one!
Ryuzetsu's eyes widened: "How is this possible!?"
Just then, a slender blood blade slashed towards Tanjiro!
"Hmph!"
Tanjiro showed disdain and swung his sword again to meet it.
However, at the moment the blood blade clashed with the long sword in Tanjiro's hand, the blood blade suddenly turned into blood drops, splashing all over Tanjiro.
Rumble!
In the next instant, all the blood drops on Tanjiro's body were ignited simultaneously by the pupil power of 'Ketsuryugan', causing a series of explosions.
Taking advantage of the smoke from the explosion, countless vines burst out of the ground, some entangling towards Tanjiro, some towards Muku.
Undoubtedly, this was the 'Wood Release' cast by Yakumo. She wanted to take this opportunity to bring Muku out first.
However, just as countless vines burst out of the ground, a blurred phantom also rushed into the smoke of the explosion, reaching out to grab Muku.
Obviously, Ranmaru, who had cast 'Transparent Release', also had the same idea!
Strum...
Just as Yakumo and Ranmaru simultaneously prepared to take Muku away from Tanjiro first, with a melodious biwa string sound, everyone found that the surrounding scenery changed. It was no longer the endless grassland but turned into a strange and eerie city.
"This is the Infinity Castle!?"
Yakumo was stunned for a moment, recalling intelligence about the 'Infinity Castle'.
Back then, 'Upper Rank Two' among the 'Upper Rank Demons' cooperated with this 'Infinity Castle' which could displace space at any time to cause serious casualties to the Ninja Village Alliance.
In another place.
Ranmaru stood stunned on the spot, sizing up the strange houses in front of him.
Just now Muku was clearly within reach, but with a biwa string sound, everything around changed.
Ranmaru thought to himself: "Space-Time Ninjutsu? This is trouble!"
To avoid being disturbed while absorbing Muku, Tanjiro activated the Blood Demon Art 'Infinity Castle'.
And the power of Blood Demon Art was positively correlated with the Demon's own flesh and blood power. So Tanjiro, who was originally 'Upper Rank One', after being corroded by the Fear Hegemon's power and then fusing with 'Upper Rank Three' Nakime, his strength had surpassed Ubuyashiki Ryuhei who was the 'Demon King' back then.
So the 'Infinity Castle' he activated had an amazingly large range.
Whether it was Muku, Ryuzetsu, Ryuran, Mui, Ranmaru nearby, or Yakumo, Chino further away, and a large number of Ninja Village Alliance ninjas, all were transferred into his 'Infinity Castle' in one go.
Even Deidara and Kurotsuchi in the air couldn't escape. Like everyone on the ground, they were swept into the 'Infinity Castle'.
Soon, the news of 'Upper Rank One' taking action and 'Infinity Castle' reappearing reached the main battlefield at the Land of Grass camp.
Learning that 'Upper Rank One', who had disappeared for years, suddenly appeared and attacked both the Ninja Village Alliance side and the Akatsuki organization side simultaneously with 'Infinity Castle', both sides fighting fiercely on the main battlefield disengaged from battle and rushed towards the direction of 'Infinity Castle' tacitly.
Whether the Ninja Village Alliance or the Akatsuki organization, there was a consensus on targeting 'Upper Rank Demons'.
The battle in the Land of Grass back then could actually be seen as the Ninja Village Alliance and the Akatsuki organization joining hands to uproot the 'Upper Rank Demon' forces.
Because even ignoring past grievances, just the behavior of 'Upper Rank Demons' treating humans as food was intolerable to all forces in the Ninja World.
Of course.
Both sides stopped tacitly and rushed towards 'Infinity Castle' together this time, besides solving 'Upper Rank One', also to rescue their own personnel and snatch Muku controlling the 'Box of Ultimate Bliss'.
After attracting reinforcements from the Ninja Village Alliance and weakening the strength of the Ninja Village Alliance headquarters, the battle at the Land of Grass camp had lost its meaning. Continuing to tangle there was just purely consuming the military strength of the Ninja Village Alliance.
And after all, the formal members of the Akatsuki organization were numerically inferior. Such consumption was disadvantageous to them because a careless mistake could really lead to falling in the military formation. So rather than confronting the massive ninja army, it was better to exert the advantage of strong individual strength, retake Muku, and let Muku, the true monster, consume the Ninja Village Alliance...