A few minutes later, on the vast wilderness, no sound could be heard anymore.
Only the black flames, capable of burning even soil and rock, danced quietly.
The Demon King, Muzan.
Upper Rank one, Kokushibo, who had survived for four hundred years.
Upper Rank three, Akaza, who was obsessed with martial arts.
In this one-sided crushing defeat without any suspense, they were burned, skin and bone, along with their ambitions and pride, into ashes.
Yamada stood inside the Susanoo crystal, looking at the land below, its topography rewritten and its sins burned away.
The red glow of the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan slowly faded, returning to those deep, calm black pupils.
"It's over." He sighed softly and moved his mind.
The black flames covering the earth quickly gathered and extinguished like a receding tide.
The hundred-meter-tall Susanoo also turned into specks of starlight, dissipating into the night wind.
Yamada landed steadily on a piece of remaining boulder.
The first ray of dawn light just happened to pierce through the clouds, shining on his black Haori.
In his mind, the crisp notification sound of the system rang out frantically, flooding his screen.
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Clang!
Someone's hand lost its strength, and a nichirin blade fell onto the rubble, letting out a crisp ring.
This crisp sound seemed to press a certain switch.
Tanjiro's legs gave way, and he knelt on the dew-covered grass. He stared blankly at the rising sun on the horizon, and his eyes instantly overflowed.
He didn't cheer, he just buried his head deep into the soil, his shoulders shaking violently as he let out a suppressed, agonizing cry.
It was a cry of joy, a tribute to his tragically killed family, and a sense of relief that this cruel fate had finally reached its conclusion.
Not far away, Nezuko, carrying the wooden box on her back, ran over and hugged her brother tightly in the sunlight.
"Amitabha..." Gyomei pressed his palms together, two lines of clear tears streaming down his face.
"It's over. The long-held wish of generations of swordsmen has finally severed the karmic debt today."
Sanemi looked up at the blue sky, and a smile that looked worse than crying appeared on his usually fierce face. He closed his eyes, as if seeing his mother's smiling face in the clouds.
Giyu stood silently in the wind, his lips curling into an extremely rare, yet relieved, faint smile.
Kyojuro, Tengen, Mitsuri... all the surviving Hashira and ordinary members were venting the thousand-year burden in their own ways.
And the man who had ended all of this was currently standing on a remaining giant boulder, quietly closing his eyes.
In his mind, the system's notification sounds were frantically flooding the screen like never before.
[Ding! Detected that the host has killed Upper Rank one 'Kokushibo' and Upper Rank three 'Akaza'!]
[Ding! Detected that the host has killed the Progenitor of Demons, Kibutsuji Muzan!]
[Lethal blow confirmed! The core combat power of the Infinity Castle has been perfectly annihilated!]
[The current world's main storyline has completely collapsed and reorganized! The haze of demons that has shrouded humanity for a thousand years has been forcibly ended by the host with absolute martial force!]
[Final settlement in progress...]
[Settlement complete! Congratulations to the host for achieving the ultimate milestone: Terminator of an Era!]
[Obtained basic clearing rewards and milestone totals: 100,000 Dimension Points!]
[Obtained a unique special reward item: Little Garden, Miniature Divine Realm!]
Hearing the long string of zeros reported in his mind, the corners of Yamada's lips couldn't help but turn up.
One hundred thousand points!
Adding the 15,000 points from assisting Shinobu in killing Doma in the Ice Chamber earlier, his current assets had instantly ballooned to an outrageous level.
[Dimension Points: 133,990]
However, what truly surprised him wasn't these points that could be spent freely in the shop. It was the special reward named "Little Garden, Miniature Divine Realm."
With a thought, Yamada immediately pulled up the detailed description of this item.
[Little Garden, Miniature Divine Realm]
[Item Description: This is an absolute private dimension belonging to the host.]
[Effect 1. Absolute Laws: The physical, energy, and time flow laws within the Divine Realm are all determined by the host's thought. Any existence without the host's permission, even conceptual entities, absolutely cannot intrude into this Divine Realm.]
[Effect 2. Divine Realm Anchor: The host can open a star gate to the Divine Realm at any time in any world and take 'companions' recognized by the host into it. Companions within the Divine Realm will be immune to all external curses, erosion, and the passing of their lifespan.]
[Effect 3. Infinite Growth: The initial area of the Divine Realm is a medium-sized island, which can be infinitely expanded by consuming Dimension Points, eventually growing into a true universe!]
The moment he clearly saw these three effects, Yamada's breathing paused imperceptibly.
This was simply a priceless treasure tailored specifically for him.
As a transmigrator, he was destined not to stay forever in this low-power world he had already cleared. In the future, he would inevitably travel to higher-level worlds to hunt for new templates and Dimension Points.
But cross-world travel had one major difficulty—how to settle the people around him.
If he left Shinobu in this world, in just a few decades, she would grow old, get sick, and die, turning into dust.
And if he took her forcibly through the world barrier, an ordinary person's body and soul simply couldn't withstand the rejection and erosion of different laws from another world.
Now, this problem was easily solved.
The Miniature Divine Realm, a portable world completely under his control.
By placing recognized companions into the Divine Realm, he could not only grant them a form of immortality but also provide them with an absolutely safe haven. When he reached a new world, he could open the gate at any time to let them out for fresh air.
Not to mention the first effect, "Absolute Laws"—in the Divine Realm, he was the omnipotent Creator God.
"Now, I even have a private island for a honeymoon."
Yamada opened his eyes, his dark pupils reflecting an irrepressible joy. He raised his right hand, and a diamond-shaped mark emitting faint starlight faintly appeared in his palm. That was the anchor to open the Divine Realm's star gate.