Ghost Slayer Blacksmith's Self-Cultivation

For his sister, in order to make himself stronger, Tanjiro dragged his tired body and resolutely started the most severe special training.

Sagiri Mountain is shrouded in clouds and mist all the year round, the air gets thinner as one goes up, and Tanjiro feels like a fish dying of thirst in the water.

If the environment is harsh, there are all kinds of strange traps all over the mountain, and if you are not careful, you will lose your life.

"Hurry up, hurry up! Don't give up!"

Tanjiro kept motivating himself, but he tripped over a tree root coiled in front of him and fell to the ground. He struggled to stand up, and a row of bamboo spears went straight down towards his position.

Tanjiro, who still had lingering fears in his heart, hadn't come to his senses when he accidentally touched the hemp rope, and a wooden stake suddenly popped out from between the trees and hit him on the back.

A hint of danger enveloped him, and he felt a little retreat in his heart, but he immediately regained his enthusiasm.

He squinted his eyes tightly, and possessed an extraordinary sense of smell. When he calmed down, he could still smell the scent of Senior Lintaki on the traps. It was obvious that these traps were artificially arranged.

Tanjiro evaded many obstacles ahead of time by relying on his scent.

He quickly descended the mountain. Although his brain had already predicted various traps, his exhausted body couldn't cooperate synchronously.

"I'm back!"

Finally, Tanjiro returned to Senpai Rinaki's hut again before dawn. His body was covered in dust and scars, and he just pushed open the door, as if exhausted of all his strength, and passed out directly.

Ryodaki Sakin looked at Tanjiro who was lying on the ground for the first time, picked him up, put him in the medicinal bath pool that had been prepared, and wiped the scars on Tanjiro's body in an extremely gentle way.

He recalled that his disciple Tomioka Yoshiyuki mentioned in the letter that Tanjiro had the courage to challenge me with his bare hands. Although his sister became a ghost, she never attacked humans. I saw something different from them, Mr. Hope I can help you train Tanjirou, please.

As the sky gradually dawned, Senior Rinaki looked at Tanjirou who had fallen asleep in front of him, walked to the front of the house alone and said slowly: "I approve of you, Kamado Tanjiro!"

With the continuous contact with Senior Rinaki, Tanjirou also gradually understands the special organization of the Demon Slayer Squad, and Senior Rinaki is a person who specializes in cultivating people who can fight evil spirits, referred to as trainers.

As the days passed, Tanjiro's physical strength was also improving rapidly, and he could breathe easily and freely in the thin air of Mount Sagiri continuously up and down.

The difficulty of traps is also increasing, and Tanjiro has become more comfortable with his keen sense of smell.

During the high-intensity training during the day, Tanjiro will take out his notebook and write a diary at night, recording his life with his sister Nezuko.

"I don't know what happened to Mrs. Liu, and Takeo, Hanako and Shigeru."

He looked at Nezuko who was sleeping, although Rinaki had asked a doctor to visit him, but apart from Nezuko's deep sleep, he was fine.

One month later, Tanjiro was asked to start moving forward with a knife, and the traps that he could avoid before were not so adaptable because of the knife.

In order for Tanjiro to master the essentials of holding a sword, Rinaki-senpai asked him to practice swinging a sword early in the morning in his course.

It has to be said that Rinaki-senpai's requirements are very strict. In addition to constantly correcting Tanjirou's wrong posture when swinging the sword, he also requires Tanjirou to do his best every time he swings the sword.

In the first few days, Tanjiro couldn't lift his arm at all, and each time Senior Rinaki made strict requirements on the number of times Tanjiro swung the sword, from the initial 100 times to the current 1500 times.

After long-term physical training, Tanjiro was exhausted every time he returned to Rinaki-senpai, and sometimes he fell asleep before writing half of the diary.

In the early morning of the next day, Senior Rinaki took Tanjiro to an open field, and he told Tanjiro that he will practice actual combat with you next.

Tanjiro looked at Rinaki-senpai who didn't hold any weapons, and didn't use all his strength at first. After all, it would be bad if he slashed at Rinaki-senpai with a knife.

"Attack!"

As Senior Rinaki said, he stepped forward with both legs, posing in a fighting stance.

Tanjiro subconsciously clenched the handle of the knife, but subconsciously reminded Rinaki-senpai.

"Senior Lintaki, be careful!"

Tanjiro waved the long knife in his hand, only to feel that Ryodaki-senpai came to his side in the blink of an eye, and pushed Tanjiro a few meters away with both fists and palms.

Tanjiro lost his balance and fell to the ground.

"So fast!"

Before he could get up, a series of fist shadows had landed on Tanjirou, beating him powerless.

"Adjust your breathing, your breathing is messed up, Tanjiro!"

Kanjiro's stern voice resounded in Tanjirou's ears.

Tanjiro also learned about [Comprehensive Breathing Method] from Rinaki-senpai.

This is a kind of conscious long-term breathing, allowing oxygen to spread to every cell in the body, which can improve self-healing ability, stabilize the spirit, and burst out with strength several times that of oneself.

Senior Ryotaki is the trainer who taught [Water Breathing Method].

Seeing Tanjiro making progress every day, in order to let him clearly feel the mystery of the water breathing method, Rinaki-senpai specially took Tanjiro to a waterfall.

The stone platform under the waterfall has become as smooth as a mirror after being washed for a long time. It is already very difficult for Tanjiro to sit on it.

In addition, at all times, it must resist the water pressure five times higher than usual.

Tanjiro gritted his teeth and persevered every time he was knocked into the embankment by the waterfall that flew straight down. He would persevere for his sister and his family.

"Feel the way the water flows in your body, and adjust the rhythm of your breathing!"

Senior Lintaki in the distance patiently guided him, allowing him to gradually feel the true meaning of the water breathing method.

After a long period of training, Tanjiro is no longer the unarmed boy who holds a Japanese sword, and has mastered the water breathing method of Rinaki-senpai.

In the blink of an eye, Tanjiro has been cultivating on Mount Sagiri for a year, and the final test is to split a huge round boulder wrapped in coarse cloth in the middle of the mountain.

"Once, twice, three times..."

As if it were an insurmountable gully, Tanjiro already lost count of how many sabers he had discarded, but maybe there really is a soul in this world.

Just when he began to doubt, he saw the soul of Makoto and the masked Usagi on Mount Sagiri.

From their mouths, I learned that if you want to split the boulder, you must master the breath of concentration and hold the belief that you must die. There is no other way.

"Ka-cha!"

Tanjiro took a sharp breath, and he seemed to see a faint line appearing on the huge boulder, and then he slashed across the boulder, splitting the stone in two.

Senior Rinaki didn't want Tanjiro to participate in the final selection. After all, all the 13 disciples he personally trained died in the final selection, so he deliberately made things difficult for Tanjiro.

Seeing Tanjiro splitting the boulder, even Senior Rinaki could only agree, and handed over the disaster relief mask to Tanjiro to express his congratulations.

In the evening, Senior Lintaki cooked a delicious meal for the first time.

He kept adding meat to Tanjiro's bowl crazily, and said, "Tomorrow is the final selection, eat more, it's time to hit the road!"