Chapter 300 Orochimaru: Muzan Kibutsuji, what do you regard life as?
"Don't kill me!"

Muzan Kibutsuji was trembling all over.
After losing the disguise of the Ghost King, even after hundreds of years,
Deep down, he is still the coward who lay on his sickbed, afraid of death.

When faced with death threats,
Choose surrender without hesitation.

"I'm glad you understand the current situation, but I don't like the look in your eyes."

Orochimaru frowned tightly.
A non-human creature actually showed a cowardly look that only humans have. It has a pure natural dark bloodline, but it actually has such a huge fear of death.

He smelled the scent of fear emanating from Muzan Kibutsuji.

Very strong.

It's like he's a cannon fodder Genin who just graduated from Ninja School and is about to enter the battlefield and has never seen death.

Are all the undead creatures in the other world so despicable?
"grown ups."

Muzan Kibutsuji cursed in his heart,
He simply couldn't understand why the other party was still not satisfied even though he was willing to surrender.

"Tell me all the information about your world."

Orochimaru said,

Just twist off one of Muzan Kibutsuji's arms, complete the game authentication, and put it into the backpack after returning to reality.

Blood is flowing,

Muzan Kibutsuji endured the pain and did not dare to resist, and told the general information about the Demon Slayer World.

"Interesting, you are actually the strongest creature in your world."

Orochimaru stuck out his tongue, licked his chin, and said expectantly: "A prescription used to cure diseases can actually create a creature like a demon. It must not be that easy."

Muzan Kibutsuji dared not hide it,
Because he found out,
Although Orochimaru can't read memories and thoughts like he controls ghosts,

However, he can detect the emotions emitted by himself through subtle expressions and reactions, as well as the breath of the dead, to determine whether he is lying.

In desperation,
He had no choice but to tell the whole story of how he became a ghost.

"Can the blue red spider lily help a sun-fearing ghost to overcome the sun?"

Orochimaru frowned and thought.

He mercilessly tore off one of Kibutsuji Muzan's arms, summoned a scavenger dog, and threw it into the dog's mouth.

After the scavenger dog finished eating the arm, its body underwent obvious changes.

The originally skinny and rotten body actually began to shed flesh and blood.
Until the end, all four dog paws were wrapped with wisps of dark red flames.

Orochimaru showed a surprised look and said, "Just by eating your arm, a low-level scavenger dog could actually transform into a hell scavenger dog."

Scavenger Dog,
It is the lowest level of undead creature and needs to devour a large amount of dark attribute materials before it can transform into a higher level hellhound.

However, even a slightly more advanced Hellhound only possesses a weak hellfire ability.

The ability to fight alone is very weak.

Only when they are in groups can they become a huge threat, but it takes too much energy to train a group of hellhounds.
If it is used on other undead creatures, it can exert even greater power.

Therefore, undead creatures like the Hellhound are very useless and have always been used by Orochimaru as scouts and cannon fodder.

"As long as I can help you."

Muzan Kibutsuji no longer had the arrogance he had when he was talking to the Lower-Rank Demons in the Infinite Castle.

He suppressed his anger and agreed.

Snapped.

Orochimaru had a blank expression on his face and dismantled the newly grown arm of Muzan Kibutsuji.

This time, the scavenger dog that ate the arm did not transform into a new hell scavenger dog.

The arm that grew later did not have the same effect as the first arm.

Orochimaru's eyes flickered, his desire to study was overflowing, and he said to himself: "The first arm is the original arm you brought from the real world. It contains a lot of dark energy, so after the scavenger dog eats it, it can undergo a transformation."

"But the second one is an arm that was regenerated in the reincarnation game, so it does not have dark energy."

"So that's it."

Orochimaru showed a surprised look.

As if he had guessed something, the look he gave Muzan Kibutsuji was strange.

I didn’t expect there would be such a special world. It’s so interesting.

"Orochimaru is such an excellent scientific researcher that he was able to find out the peculiarities of Demon Slayer World in such a short time."

Fang Yi, who was paying attention to the trends of pollution sources, turned his attention to the Gran Forest.

Orochimaru's scientific research ability is the strongest in the entire ninja world.

It's different from Senju Tobirama's ability to study ninjutsu.

Orochimaru's research capabilities, whether it is curse seals, genetic modification, cell transplantation, etc., are all aimed directly at the research on the essence of the ninja world and chakra.

Even in the world of pirates, Vegapunk, who ate the Brain-Brain Fruit, may not be as broad-minded as Orochimaru.

Therefore,
It is not surprising that Orochimaru, who is so passionate about scientific research, would set his sights on Muzan Kibutsuji, this "special work of the entire world."

"Sure enough, my idea was right."

Orochimaru's eyes were eager.
He fed the rest of Muzan Kibutsuji's flesh and blood to the undead creatures like tearing bread.

It was exactly as he thought.
The original flesh and blood of Muzan Kibutsuji contains a large amount of dark energy.

"Is it Muzan Kibutsuji?"

Orochimaru looked at him with a cold gaze and suddenly asked: "What do you regard life as?"

骇。

When Muzan Kibutsuji heard the question, he trembled all over almost instinctively.

He was too familiar with this sentence.
Almost engraved into his cells, it was the angry question of the swordsman who had nearly killed him as he drew his sword.

Even after nearly a thousand years, I still feel the fear from the depths of my soul when I hear these words.

He instinctively raised his head.
The terrified gaze fell on Orochimaru, and it seemed to overlap with the figure from that year.

But soon, this sense of familiarity disappeared.

because,

Although it was the same words, Tsugikuni Yoriichi's voice was mixed with anger and questioning.

The Orochimaru in front of him seemed to treat life as a tool to be used.

As if in the other person's eyes,
Everything is important, but nothing is important, like weeds, like pearls, like gems
This is completely different from their own attitude of treating human life as worthless and claiming to be a superior creature.

more like,
Every life has its meaning and should be placed in the right place. This is an absolutely rational mentality that directly discards all unnecessary emotions.

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Muzan Kibutsuji did not answer.

This was the second time in his life as a ghost that he was asked about the meaning of life. It was not that he did not want to answer, but that he had no idea at all.

to him,

Born in the Heian period, I was threatened with death before I was even born. My heart stopped beating in my mother's womb due to weakness, and I was born into the world as a dead baby.

He survived thanks to his strong belief in life, but was diagnosed with a terminal illness and would not live past the age of 20.

Until the doctor appeared and developed a special medicine, he regained his health and became the ghost king who could dominate the life and death of others.

The only regret is that I can't walk in the sunshine.

What he wants is to make up for his imperfections and become a truly perfect creature. This is the life he wants.

"It seems that most of the world is the same."

Orochimaru looked at Kibutsuji Muzan,
It's like looking at a work that is not perfect and has flaws.

He joked: "Without the reincarnation game, the essence of life is a toy created by fate, and the ending is predetermined from the beginning of birth."

"Just like you, Muzan Kibutsuji."

"The ghost king of the demon world?"

"From the moment you killed the doctor, your death was doomed a thousand years later."

"Everything is destined by fate."

"Since you haven't become a perfect life, it means that you are a flawed product that should be eliminated by fate."

"That's why the person you fear, Tsugikoku Yoshiichi, appears, why you can't find a blue spider lily that's as cheap as a roadside vegetable for a thousand years, and why you have such a powerful force but can't destroy the weak Demon Slayer Corps."

"This is the power of destiny."

Orochimaru's hoarse voice seemed to carry a special magical power.

"However, when you came to the beginning of the reincarnation game, your fate had already changed."

Muzan Kibutsuji, who was originally terrified by the thought of Yoriichi Tsugakuni and the threat of death,
The inexplicable emotions calmed down.

The resentment I had towards Orochimaru actually gradually lessened.

(End of this chapter)