Chapter 182: I Really Don't Know What to Do with You!
You have pushed your cells beyond their limits! Some of your cells can no longer endure it. They let out a cry of agony before suddenly "bursting and dying"!
A large mouthful of blood suddenly surged from Ren's mouth.
Had he actually injured himself through meditation and exercise?
However, Ren didn't give up.
Because he had already seen a glimmer of hope!
You discover that some cells have survived and begun to radiate new vitality!
You discover that these transformed cells possess astonishing vitality. You begin observing these cells and name them "Thousand-Mechanism Cells"!
You begin repeating this process, and your body starts to change as well!
You have achieved enlightenment!
You have comprehended and developed a brand-new Total Concentration Breathing technique: Total Concentration — Thousand Mechanisms!
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang—
A series of cracking sounds came from within Ren's body.
But this time, the problem wasn't that he was growing taller, nor that his muscles were continuing to develop.
He was genuinely injured.
Countless cells had broken through their own limits, and most of them instantly shattered.
At the same time, however, countless other cells were reborn.
These newly regenerated cells began dividing continuously, releasing enormous amounts of energy.
One.
Ten.
A hundred.
A thousand—
The energy seemed inexhaustible, extracted from the very depths of his cells.
They were like countless inexhaustible cores of energy, endlessly pouring power out from within the cells.
Then that energy flowed into Ren's limbs and bones.
A soothing sensation surged from the soles of his feet all the way to the top of his head.
Under the influence of this immense energy, the injuries Ren had sustained earlier began healing rapidly.
A warm current spread throughout his entire body.
Before long, his injuries had completely healed.
Ren's gains this time were considerable.
Total Concentration — Thousand Mechanisms.
Just as its name suggested, it allowed his cells to regain their vitality.
It was a technique that pushed the body to the brink of death in search of rebirth, then used that rebirth to pursue new power.
He had never expected that merely observing Douma's facial expressions could allow him to comprehend such an advanced technique.
Ignoring Akaza's concerned expression beside him, Ren closed his eyes once again.
Within the memory scene, Ren looked at Douma.
This time, he overcame the disgust in his heart and stared directly into Douma's eyes!
"Total Concentration — Thousand Mechanisms!"
This powerful Breathing technique immediately brought Ren into an entirely new state of breath control and concentration.
At this moment, Ren finally entered a state of complete selflessness.
You observe your opponent's face and enter the Regression State!
You observe the traces of movement across your opponent's face and deduce their psychological activity and changes in expression!
You observe even more deeply, beginning to search your opponent's face for traces of energy activity!
You observe for a period of time, sense something, and then achieve enlightenment!
You have observed traces of imitation appearing on your opponent's face!
You are currently using details to regress through the "Imitation" technique!
At this moment, there was nothing else in Ren's eyes but him.
It seemed as though the truth of the world itself lay before his eyes.
As the young man concentrated completely, the secrets hidden within Douma's face gradually began to reveal themselves.
After several hundred years, Ren was about to uncover a tremendous secret of the demons.
Gradually, the flow of time before his eyes slowed down.
Douma's expression suddenly disappeared.
At the same time, all the surrounding memory space vanished as well.
In the end, only a blank canvas remained where Douma's face had been.
Almost all of his facial features had disappeared.
But this didn't affect Ren's observation in the slightest.
Ren stood before Douma.
He stared motionlessly at the other man's face.
Then, a thought emerged in his mind.
On Douma's face, the other's expression changed.
A mouth suddenly appeared on that blank, featureless face.
At the same time, Ren's expression on the train outside also began to change.
Ren possessed the Devourer of Demons physique and understood certain aspects of Blood Demon Arts. Logically speaking, that meant he should be capable of learning Blood Demon Arts himself.
Time continued to pass.
Ren continuously deduced the energy behind Imitation within the Memory Palace.
In reality, people spent far more time studying how to reproduce a face so vividly that every contour and feature looked lifelike.
But there was one important point.
Ren was using Douma as his subject.
As a result, without realizing it, Ren had also reconstructed Douma's facial structure.
The next moment—
In the outside world, Ren sat cross-legged on the train.
His expression suddenly changed.
His face directly transformed into Douma's.
He suddenly grinned.
The smile and expression were exactly the same as the real Douma's.
It was practically impossible to distinguish him from the genuine article.
Ren simply didn't know how effective this method would be, or whether it would actually work in reality.
He couldn't evaluate that yet.
Ren thought to himself...
Meanwhile, Akaza outside had already been completely stunned.
As he drove, he had been keeping an eye on Ren's condition, occasionally glancing back at him.
Just moments ago, while he was driving, he had looked back again.
Ren had disappeared.
In his place was an incomparably familiar face.
A face so familiar that it was infuriating.
Douma!
When had Douma gotten here?!
Akaza clearly remembered that Ren was a human.
A human shouldn't have been capable of imitation.
Could this person really be Douma?
Akaza's fury erupted instantly.
He didn't care whether the person in front of him was actually Ren or not.
As long as it was a demon, it was almost certainly bad news.
Then Akaza nearly beat Ren to death!
Ren: "What the hell?!"
At the critical moment, Ren quickly exited the Memory Palace and narrowly dodged Akaza's attack.
Ren was stunned.
"What are you doing?"
Akaza, however, was burning with rage, his expression practically screaming that he wanted to tear the other man apart.
"Is that you, Douma?!"
[No!] Ren shouted furiously.
He was extremely curious about how Akaza's eyes actually worked.
After Ren's Expression imitation failed, Akaza also reacted.
He seemed about to say, "Ren?"
Ren thought about it.
In the end, he nodded.
A deduction immediately surfaced in his mind.
It turned out that his imitation ability was extremely powerful.
It had even managed to fool Akaza.
So Ren once again put on Douma's signature smile and looked at Akaza.
"Lord Akaza, how well do you think I imitated him?"
Akaza immediately clenched his fists.
Through gritted teeth, he answered:
"Yes!"
That was correct!
Ren immediately canceled the imitation.
Then he began teaching Akaza some of what he had learned about imitation.
He taught him for a long time.
In the end, Ren succeeded.
He successfully discovered a fact.
Namely—
Akaza simply couldn't learn it.
Ren said regretfully, "What exactly is wrong with you? How did you ever become one of the Twelve Kizuki?!"
Ren was utterly frustrated.
Akaza's ability to learn was simply too poor.
Was his head filled with nothing but fists?
Could he really only fight?
Akaza was somewhat embarrassed.
"I don't know, Ren. Muzan said he was recruiting people at the time, so I came."
Akaza was embarrassed as well.
He glanced out the window and realized that it still wasn't very late.
The train was almost at the station.
By then, Ren had already explained the process countless times.
Yet Akaza simply couldn't learn it.
Aside from martial arts, he seemed to know absolutely nothing about anything else!
Ren helplessly sighed.
"I really don't know what to do with you!"