Demon Progenitor Development Project

Chapter 110 The Demon Slayer Corps Master's Worries

Deep in the mountains.

The mountain range is bare; all the trees have been cut down, leaving only some seedlings and weeds, making it almost completely bare.

Fu Jun had been here before and marked this place as safe, with no suspicious individuals.

Sparse villages are scattered around, nestled against the mountains, cultivating barren land.

A head suddenly appeared at the bottom of a cliff deep in the mountains.

A red and yellow head looked around to make sure there was no harm before lowering the rope, the whole action full of stealth.

The owl-man landed on the ground like a gecko.

The cliff is not far from the ground, about a hundred meters away, but it is extremely steep.

He is none other than the Flame Pillar of the Demon Slayer Corps, Kojiro Rengoku.

Kojiro Rengoku silently erased the footprints he had left when he jumped down, looked at the sun, found his direction, and headed towards his goal.

Walking along the mountain path, Kojiro Rengoku was truly lost, not only about himself but also about the Demon Slayer Corps.

The deep mountains behind him are where the knife-forging village is located.

As per the lord's prophecy, the sword-forging village hid itself deep in the mountains and expanded the caves inside the mountains into dwellings.

The project was massive, but out of trust in their lord, the forging village worked day and night and successfully moved in before the falcon could investigate, without being detected.

Nevertheless, Kojiro Rengoku was very worried about the future of the Demon Slayer Corps.

Fewer and fewer people are joining the Demon Slayer Corps.

The number of pillars is also decreasing, and he is finding it difficult to even choose a stepson.

And ghosts are becoming increasingly difficult to find.

Many of the newly trained swordsmen didn't even know what ghosts were like.

Rengoku Kojiro recalled his lord's words.

"Muzan Kibutsuji has changed. He now allows demons to operate in groups, eating people and then leaving directly, making it difficult for us to track them down."

The pale-faced, disfigured man coughed incessantly, his eyes filled with sorrow.

"Everything has become very strange."

"The fact that the demons are still eating people means that they are still active. The fact that we occasionally discover them is more like a cover, and their numbers are far fewer than the records of the Demon Slayer Corps."

My lord still remembers how prosperous and large the Demon Slayer Corps was, as recorded in the remaining records.

The larger the Demon Slayer Corps becomes, the more rampant the activities of cannibals become.

In recent years, however, cannibals have almost disappeared.

Are there fewer ghosts?

Has Muzan Kibutsuji changed his nature and stopped becoming a demon?

Don't want the blue spider lily?

This is really unrealistic. The older a person gets, the harder it is to change, and Muzan Kibutsuji is no exception.

"...Ghosts are just, cough, they operate in the shadows. Only a powerful force can conceal their cannibalistic behavior."

The lord explained his thoughts in detail: "Currently, many ghosts are active in remote areas, which also proves that their main base is in bustling towns."

"And the fact that the shogunate once controlled the scarlet iron sand and scarlet ore, cough, it was the work of that demon king, which means that there were people within the shogunate who colluded with the demon king."

The lord looked exhausted as he pondered this matter; the strict control over the outflow of Nichirin Blade raw materials was a major problem.

They had difficulty bypassing the shogunate to obtain raw materials.

Although the Demon Slayer Corps itself had a lot of ore stored up, swords are consumables for demon slayers.

The trouble lies in the future.

"Kojiro, I have a request for you, and I hope you will grant it."

The ugly-faced but otherworldly lord slowly spoke, his face full of sincerity, and he even knelt down and kowtowed deeply to Rengoku Kojiro.

This sudden action startled Rengoku Kojiro. He never expected his lord to bow so humbly and ask for help. Panicked, he quickly reached out his hands to help his lord up.

"My lord, please rise! I cannot accept such a great honor!"

As Rengoku Kojiro spoke, he tried his best to support his lord. However, his lord seemed determined not to get up and remained in the bowing position.

"I hope that you, as the current Flame Pillar, can go to Tokyo to investigate this matter."

The Flame Pillar position in the Demon Slayer Corps is almost always held by members of the Rengoku family.

Kojiro Rengoku received direct instruction from the previous Flame Pillar, making him one of the strongest members of the Demon Slayer Corps. Moreover, he has served the Demon Slayer Corps for generations, ensuring his loyalty. Furthermore, Kojiro Rengoku already has a son, Makijuro Rengoku.

Even in death, the legacy remains.

He was a very suitable candidate in the lord's mind.

"This mission is extremely dangerous, tantamount to infiltrating enemy territory to find those who are colluding with the Demon King within the Shogunate."

After careful consideration, Rengoku Kojiro readily agreed, as exterminating demons was the mission of the Rengoku family for generations.

Upon seeing this, the lord also rose and continued, "According to my premonition, the person who colluded with them is related to the Fujiwara family."

Even Kojiro Rengoku couldn't help but become cautious.

The Fujiwara family, a family that has been passed down for thousands of years, has survived for many generations and has a great reputation. There are countless families that have intermarried with them, and they are quite powerful within the shogunate.

If that's true, then it's really bad.

The lord's worries don't stop there. Demons are immortal beings. If a powerful figure is obsessed with immortality and makes a deal with Muzan Kibutsuji, then that would be the real end. It would mean that the Demon Slayer Corps' enemy would become this country.

After that, Rengoku Kojiro was given a crash course on the division of power within the shogunate and political knowledge by someone arranged by his lord.