However,
When he heard the words 'destiny', he couldn't help but retort, "Destiny? How can such a thing exist?"
Orochimaru said with a firm tone, "Destiny has always existed."
"For a thousand years, you couldn't find a medicinal flower that even ordinary doctors knew about."
"Why was your family cursed, even though your demonization was merely drug-induced? And why didn't you seek a way to break the curse? Instead, as if memories were implanted, you became convinced that killing you, the one demonized by the drug, would lift the curse, leading to the formation of the Demon Slayer Corps?"
"Why did Sun Breathing, which counters demons, coincidentally appear right after you were demonized?"
"Even if Yoriichi Tsugikuni possessed Sun Breathing, as a mere human, once he died of old age, you would still be able to traverse the world without hindrance."
"But Yoriichi Tsugikuni just happened to possess the Transparent World, allowing him to see the rise and fall of human lungs and blood vessels, as well as the resonant Mark. This allowed the Demon Slayer Corps, as weak as ants, to quickly establish a strong foundation, enabling them to fight demons for hundreds of years to come."
"As a bystander who has only heard your simple account, I can sense something is off. Have you, living for a thousand years, not felt anything yourself?"
He initially didn't believe it,
Until the god-like Game Merchant personally spoke of it and displayed it before everyone,
All arguments became pale and powerless.
"This is because, I, the Demon Slayer Corps..."
Muzan Kibutsuji took a deep breath.
He couldn't explain it.
Even though he said that destiny couldn't exist, after hearing Orochimaru's clear enumeration of the Demon Slayer World's experiences,
He couldn't help but feel suspicious.
"Is it really such a coincidence?"
"If Orochimaru's words are true, Yoriichi Tsugikuni is like an envoy of destiny, created specifically to deal with and eliminate me, this defective product."
Muzan Kibutsuji's gaze was dazed.
Even if he had luckily escaped destiny's pursuit and hidden in the shadows until Yoriichi Tsugikuni died of old age,
The other party still passed down the method to kill him and the Breathing Techniques.
The weak Demon Slayer Corps,
Demon Slayers constantly appeared to hunt demons. Logically, even with the crudest methods, hundreds of years would be enough to find the Demon Slayer Corps' headquarters.
But surprisingly, he, with his Twelve Demon Moons, the strongest creature on the Demon Slayer Continent, had been unable to find it.
So, was it really as Orochimaru said, that his death was fated?
An inexplicable surge of unwillingness and anger welled up in Muzan Kibutsuji's heart,
His entire body of flesh and blood began to fluctuate violently, like waves, becoming distorted and grotesque.
"No, it shouldn't be like this!"
"If everything is dictated by destiny, then what is the meaning of my existence?"
Muzan Kibutsuji's hoarse voice,
Emerged from a constantly expanding and deforming mass of flesh.
What he feared most was death,
Similarly, if even the meaning of his existence was revealed to be a process like a puppet on strings, what difference was there between a meaningless self and death?
Perhaps his emotions were disturbed by the thought of Yoriichi Tsugikuni,
Or perhaps it was because Orochimaru, who was stronger than him, confidently uttered the prophecy that he would surely be eliminated,
And the various new changes that appeared in the Demon Slayer World after the Reincarnation Game arrived, making him feel lost and flustered,
In any case,
Muzan Kibutsuji's emotions were particularly chaotic and complex at the moment.
"There is no such thing as life necessarily having meaning."
Orochimaru's calm voice reached Muzan Kibutsuji, who was lost in a daze.
His voice was slow and deep, possessing an inherent magic that made people involuntarily believe him.
"But, by continuing to live, you can always find an opportunity to break destiny."
"Just like you accepted the game's invitation and appeared in Gran Forest."
"And just like I happened to meet you."
Orochimaru waved his necromancer's staff.
A dense aura of death poured into the distorted flesh, absorbing all the uncontrolled dark energy erupting within it.
"Come, become my subordinate."
"If you are unwilling to be the wind that turns the windmill, then surpass those windmills chosen by destiny and personally control your own fate."
Muzan Kibutsuji, in his confusion,
His outer body was already close to becoming a stillborn infant, but Orochimaru dragged out his true form, buried deep within the flesh.
Muzan Kibutsuji looked up,
Gazing at those indifferent golden snake eyes, and hearing the other party's nonchalant words, as if he could break the shackles of destiny with a mere flick of his hand.
A sense of defeat flooded his heart,
Filled with envy.
He, who had been the Demon King for a thousand years, actually felt a sense of inferiority, as if he was not as good as the other party.
Fang Yi, who was still paying attention to the Demon King and Orochimaru, showed surprise and thought to himself:
"Orochimaru, is he trying to extend his reach into the Demon Slayer World? What a huge ambition."
The current situation of the Fire Empire was that it was blockaded by the Four Nations Alliance, unable to expand further and even facing the possibility of being breached.
The Ninja World could no longer think of a way to break the deadlock.
He had initially thought,
Orochimaru would, as he had in the past, abandon the Fire Empire and go into hiding, establishing a small force similar to the Sound Ninja Village.
But unexpectedly, the other party would set his sights on the Otherworld.
First, he contacted the Straw Hat Pirates in the Pirate World, and after realizing it wasn't suitable, he now happened to encounter Muzan Kibutsuji from the Demon Slayer World.
Under normal circumstances,
Orochimaru would never waste words on the Demon King, who was treated as experimental material.
His willingness to say these words completely expressed his attitude.
"That's right, the Fire Empire, which has already launched the All-Ninja Plan, will be able to produce an unimaginable amount of reward points once it is fully formed."
"It's not like the Sound Ninja Village, which can be easily discarded and exchanged."
Orochimaru, who ruled the Fire Empire in the Ninja World,
Even if he needed to share the output with new nobles like the Hiashi Clan, he could still receive a substantial amount of reward points.
His game net worth had reached the limit of a Tier 1 player.
A million reward points.
It should be known that even the Celestial Dragons, Imu, and the Five Elders, who had more substantial assets and a vaster Pirate World, almost monopolizing the wealth of the four seas and calling themselves gods, had not reached the limit of a million reward points.
Yet Orochimaru had achieved this level by relying on a regional force in the Ninja World.
Essentially,
It was a means of fleecing the Ninja World's consciousness, which would incur the Ninja World's consciousness's displeasure and lead to targeted destiny.
That's why the Fire Empire would be besieged.
However, just as the Ninja Art learned in the Ninja World contains its origin, and the victors of battles in the Pirate World can devour the origin of the vanquished, these are rules set after the world's birth.
They cannot be easily changed.
Just like the consciousness of the Demon Slayer World, through the guidance of destiny, led to the birth of Muzan Kibutsuji, wanting to create a perfect life to help its world ascend.
But Muzan killed the doctor who helped him and failed to become a perfect life.
Even if the Demon Slayer consciousness wanted to eliminate the defective product and reclaim its origin, it could not directly violate the world's rules and act. It could only spend a large amount of reward points to guide the birth of Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
But Muzan Kibutsuji still lived well after a thousand years.
Of course,
If there were no external interference, a continuous targeting by an entire world's consciousness, even if one miraculously escaped once, subsequent forces would still constantly come to eliminate them.
Just like Orochimaru used lightning-fast methods to kill nobles and daimyo, establishing the Fire Empire. In less than a year, it had already been continuously attacked by various Wandering Samurai, Wandering Ninja, and Ninja from the Four Nations.
This was the price of fleecing the Ninja World's consciousness.
It was the same as the natural disasters caused by Imu and the Five Elders forcefully exchanging reward points beyond the Pirate World's tolerable limit in one go.
Both were punishments and counterattacks from the world's consciousness.
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