Chapter 440: Ultimate Freedom and Breathing Techniques (Update 1)

The next day, early in the morning.

When the first ray of light shone into the room through the window, Hawking slowly opened his eyes and then loosened his hands that had been clenched all night.

"It's hard to grasp, it's hard to grasp!"

He carefully looked at Wanda, who was in a deep sleep next to him because she was too tired last night, and couldn't help but sigh.

"From now on, I have a new identity - husband.

It may not be long before I become a father."

With his current body, as long as he doesn't deliberately restrain himself, it can basically be said that he will be successful, so it is not possible, but certain.

He did not restrain himself last night. If he hadn't cleaned it up, the sheets would have to be changed several times.

"I guess I will sleep until the afternoon."

After getting up from the bed and having a simple breakfast, Hawking opened his panel.

He had unlocked a new protagonist template before, but he never took the time to check it. Now he finally has some free time.

"Load the Kamado Tanjiro template."

In an instant, the boy's fifteen years of memories appeared one by one in his mind.

Tanjiro is a kind and gentle man. He was born in a poor charcoal-selling family. He is the eldest son in the family. His father died of illness when he was young. He has three younger brothers and two younger sisters.

He was born with a sense of smell that is superior to that of ordinary people. He makes a living by selling charcoal in the town at the foot of the mountain.

However, one day when he returned home from selling charcoal, he found that his mother and three younger brothers and one younger sister were brutally killed, leaving only the eldest sister Nezuko alive.

But on the way down the mountain to seek medical treatment with his sister on his back, he found that his sister had become very strange and attacked him.

Finally, he met the water pillar Tomioka Giyu of the Demon Slayer Corps and learned the truth.

It turns out that there is a monster called demon in this world. Demons are immortal and powerful creatures transformed from humans. They are eager to eat human flesh and blood and have no memories and emotions before they died.

The more people they eat, the stronger they are. In addition, they can hardly be killed by any physical method except cutting off their necks with a special metal sun wheel sword.

Once they are transformed into demons, they will kill and eat all their family members without hesitation.

However, unlike the zombies, zombies and vampires Hawking knew in his previous life, the ghosts in this world are basically transformed by an original ghost named Muzan Kibutsuji, who is also the most powerful ghost.

Not just any ghost can transform humans into ghosts.

And all ghosts, including the most powerful Muzan Kibutsuji, have a fatal weakness, that is, they are afraid of the sun. Once they are exposed to the sun for too long, they will be killed by the sun.

Tanjiro's family died at the hands of Muzan Kibutsuji, and his sister Nezuko was also transformed into a ghost by Muzan Kibutsuji.

But the strange thing is that her sister seems to be different from normal ghosts, because she still has family feelings for Tanjiro, and because Tanjiro restrains his desire to suck blood, she will sleep instead of eating people to recover from injuries.

So under the guidance of Tomioka Giyu, he took his sister to apprentice to the former Water Pillar, learn breathing techniques, and join the Demon Slayer Corps that specializes in killing ghosts and protecting humans.

I hope that one day I can find Muzan Kibutsuji to avenge my family and find a way to turn my sister into a human.

Along the way, he met Zenitsu Agatsuma, the inheritor of the Lightning Breathing Technique, who was usually timid but could burst out with powerful strength once he fell unconscious, and Inosuke Hashibira, the creator of the Beast Breathing Technique who wore a pig head mask and was raised by a wild boar.

He also met Kanao Kurikara, the inheritor of the Flower Breathing Technique, who was unable to make independent choices due to psychological barriers at the headquarters.

His memory ended when he was fifteen years old, when Tanjiro carried his sister and two friends to the Infinite Train to support the Flame Pillar Rengoku Kyojuro.

The strongest swordsman of the Demon Slayer Corps is the "Pillar", and there are currently nine of them, and the following are ranked according to the ten heavenly stems of Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, and Gui.

The strongest among the demons is Muzan Kibutsuji, followed by his subordinates, the Twelve Demon Moons, the Upper Six, and the Lower Six.

On the Infinite Train this time, Tanjiro and others first encountered the Lower Six One Nightmare, and finally killed the demon while protecting the train without the death of ordinary humans.

But they soon met Akaza, the third Upper Rank.

Then they fell into a tough battle. The upper ranks were powerful, many of them had the blood of the previous pillars in their hands, and even ate more than one pillar, but they were rarely killed by the Demon Slayer Corps.

"Breathing method?"

After reading Tanjiro's memory, Hawking showed an interested expression on his face.

In fact, this world is one of the weakest worlds he has encountered so far, much weaker than the previous Jujutsu Kaisen world.

Logically speaking, it should not be of much help to him, at most it will add a new power to his small universe.

The key is that the breathing method of humans in this world is not something that can cultivate energy such as chakra, magic, and cursed power, but just a way to control breathing to improve control over the body and unleash potential.

But it is precisely this kind of breathing method that subtly controls the body that aroused his great interest.

He is even more interested in them than the so-called ghosts and the so-called blood ghost arts.

Because in his opinion, ghosts, as powerful as they seem, are actually nothing.

Blood ghost arts are similar to superpowers, which are all abilities that ghosts are born with. There is nothing to say. Instead of studying that stuff, he might as well study the mutants and aliens in the Marvel world.

Look at the strength of ghosts, their bodies that exceed the limits of humans, and their terrible recovery abilities, which seem to be very powerful.

But in Hawking's eyes, they are no different from the humans who have been mutated by various genetic drugs injected in the Marvel world, and they are even inferior because of their fatal weakness of being afraid of sunlight.

Throwing Hulk in can probably beat these so-called ghosts.

And with such a big advantage, he can't beat the ghost swordsman who has no energy in a normal one-on-one battle. It can be seen that the ghost swordsman's breathing method is indeed very unique.

Of course, with Hawking's current body, he doesn't need breathing methods to explode the potential of the body. To explode the potential of the body, he can directly open the Eight Gates of Dunjia.

In the final analysis, the reason why he valued the breathing method was the absolute control it provided to the body.

His strength increased too quickly, so his control over his body and the energy in his body was not very precise, and he basically used great strength to perform miracles.

This was nothing, as long as the effect could be achieved, there was no need to spend a lot of time on such precise control.

However, the emergence of the breathing method reminded him of the Ultra Instinct in the Dragon Ball world.

He was going to develop to Super Saiyan 4, not Super Saiyan Blue, but that did not stop him from wanting to learn Ultra Instinct, the divine control technique in the Dragon Ball world.

Because Ultra Instinct was not the evolutionary direction after Super Saiyan Blue, but a divine control technique mastered by the angels, anyone could learn it as long as they had talent and ability.

The key point of Ultra Instinct was to separate the body from consciousness, so that each part of the body could sense the danger around it beyond instinct, and the brain no longer needed to think before acting.

But the prerequisite for reaching this level was that you had to have enough control over your body first.

If you can't even fully control your own body, how can you expect to make your body act beyond your consciousness?