How Muzan escaped death from Yoriichi, explained

500 years before the events in DemonsklayerMuzan Kibutsuji avoids a horrible death in the hands of Yoriichi Tsugikuni, the first solar air and the inventor of all respiratory styles. While Yoriichi failed to kill Muzan, the ancestors developed to all demons an intense fear of Yoriichi and sunbathing, which shaped the course of history in Demonsklayer.

Muzan Kibutsuji's near death meetings influenced his actions and decisions against the demon's deaths, especially Tanjiro Kamado and his family. After all, it was the only time in the history of the series that Muzan, Demon King, was completely overpowered by a lone demon layer.

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Muzan's fateful meeting with Yoriichi

Muzan avoided death several times

Muzan Kibutsuji had several close death experiences before his fateful meeting with Yoriichi Tsugikuni. Before Muzan became a demon, his heart stopped several times in his mother's uterus, and when he was born he was almost cremated since he was pronounced stillborn. Muzan's accidents did not end there; He suffered a terminal illness that may have killed him at a very young age. Unfortunately, death is constantly at Muzan's door during his human years.

After Muzan turned into a demon, he became a strength to count on despite his inability to go in the sunlight. For several years, Muzan's unmatched power made him unstoppable, and no one dared to resist him, not even Michikatsu Tsugikuni, which later became Kokushibo, the upper moon. However, there is a young man named Yoriichi, the most powerful demon Slayer in history, whose purpose in life is to end Muzan and his violent intentions.

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Muzan's showdown with yoriichi

Muzan and Yoriichi first met each other in a bamboo forest sometime after Muzan turned Michikatsu into a demon. Then Muzan was with Tamayo, who witnessed the showdown took place in her eyes. At the same time, Yoriichi felt frozen down on the spine when he saw Muzan and feared that a single scratch from the demon would be fatal because of his terrible speed and long reach. Worse, after looking into the transparent world, Yoriichi also discovered that Muzan had seven hearts and five brains.

But Muzan did not expect Yoriichi to complete all forms of his sunbathing and combine them into a single devastating strike, which left him with a cut head and a body that refused to regenerate. This led to Yoriichi believing that his light red Nichirin sword could finally end Muzan. For the first time, the proud demon king was on the edge of death in the hands of a demon layer.

Muzan's desperate attempt to escape death

But before Yoriichi was able to end Muzan, the demon's entire body broke into hundreds of small pieces, a lot to Yoriichi's surprise. Of all the 1,800 pieces, Yoriichi cut a little more than 1,500 of Muzan's body fragments and left the rest to reassemble to a lump on a human head. It was Muzan's crazy attempt to escape from Yoriichi, even though it meant leaving Tamayo behind. While Muzan managed to escape death, he could not escape the trauma caused by the meeting with Yoriichi.

For several years, Muzan escaped confrontation with sunbathing, all while turning people into demons in search of a special demon who can go in the sunlight. IN DemonsklayerYoriichi may have failed to kill Muzan, but the result of the struggle between them paved a path to victory for the next generation of Demon Slayers. And in the end, Yoriichi's legacy assured that Muzan could never run or escape forever.