Chapter 5: Breathing styles with the original ones and new ones
Sun Breathing (Hinokami Kagura):
Dance: A powerful, singular vertical slash.
Second Form: Clear Blue Sky: A swift, 360-degree vertical spin slash.
Third Form: Raging Sun: Two horizontal slashes delivered at high speed.
Fourth Form: Fake Rainbow: The user twists and dodges to evade attacks, creating afterimages.
Fifth Form: Fire Wheel: A concentrated, circular slash performed while flipping in the air.
Sixth Form: Burning Bones, Summer Sun: A circular defense that protects the user from incoming attacks.
Seventh Form: sunflower Thrust: A powerful, precise thrusting attack.
Eighth Form: solar Heat Haze: A spiraling slash that appears to shimmer and distort, making it hard to predict.
Ninth Form: etting Sun, Luminous Dance: A descending, powerful vertical slash that aims to decapitate the opponent.
Tenth Form: Burning Sun: A continuous, circular motion of slashes that defends against and counterattacks enemies.
Eleventh Form: Solar Halo Dragon Dance: A high-speed, powerful attack creating a dragon-like flame figure that can rapidly adjust direction.
Twelfth Form: Flame Dance (Combined with Dance): A combined attack of two horizontal slashes followed by a continuous, spiraling flame dance.
Water Breathing:
First Form: Water Surface Slash: A single, powerful horizontal slash.
Second Form: Water Wheel: A vertical, 360-degree spinning slash.
Third Form: Flowing Dance: The user flows and weaves through attacks, unleashing graceful slashes.
Fourth Form: Striking Tide: Multiple, continuous slashes that ripple like waves.
Fifth Form: Blessed Rain After the Drought: A precise, painless slash that is often used to grant peaceful death to demons.
Sixth Form: Whirlpool: A twisting vortex of slashes that cuts down anything caught in its current.
Seventh Form: Drop Ripple Thrust: A quick, accurate thrusting attack.
Eighth Form: Waterfall Basin: A powerful vertical slash that mimics the force of a crashing waterfall.
Ninth Form: Splashing Water Flow, Turbulent: The user moves gracefully and rapidly without fixed footing, adapting to terrain.
Tenth Form: Constant Flux: A continuous, ever-accelerating swirling attack that grows in power with each rotation.
Flame Breathing:
First Form: Unknowing Fire: A dash forward followed by a single, powerful slash.
Second Form: Rising Scorching Sun: An upward-curving slash.
Third Form: Blazing Universe: A powerful, arcing vertical slash.
Fourth Form: Blooming Flame Undulation: A defensive technique that deflects attacks with a circular flame-like movement.
Fifth Form: Flame Tiger: A series of wide, powerful slashes resembling a roaring tiger.
Ninth Form: Rengoku: A devastating, high-speed dash followed by a single, immensely powerful thrust that generates a dragon-shaped flame.
Wind Breathing:
First Form: Dust Whirlwind Cutter: The user dashes forward and performs a powerful cyclone of slashes.
Second Form: Claws-Purifying Wind: The user lifts their blade upwards towards the right, unleashing four consecutive slashes from above.
Third Form: Clear Storm Wind Tree: A spinning attack that generates a whirlwind of slashes.
Fourth Form: Rising Dust Storm: The user sweeps their blade upwards, creating an upward-rising wind current.
Seventh Form: Gale - Sudden Gusts: The user leaps into the air and swings their blade at high speed, generating gale-force winds.
Eighth Form: Primary Gale Slash: A powerful, wide-range attack that cleaves through enemies with immense force.
Stone Breathing:
First Form: Serpentinite Bipolar: The user spins their flail and axe in opposite directions, creating a wide-range attack.
Second Form: Upper Crushing Smash: The user throws their axe upward, then brings it down with immense force, followed by the flail.
Third Form: Stone Skin: The user hardens their body and spins their weapons rapidly to create a robust defense.
Fifth Form: Arcs of Justice: The user swings their flail and axe in a wide, sweeping motion, hitting multiple targets with crushing power.
Thunder Breathing:
First Form: Thunderclap and Flash: The user performs a lightning-fast dash and single thrust, often too quick to perceive.
Sixfold: Performs Thunderclap and Flash six times in quick succession.
Eightfold: Performs Thunderclap and Flash eight times in quick succession.
Godspeed: An even faster version of Thunderclap and Flash, executed with superhuman speed.
Second Form: Rice Spirit: Multiple electrical slashes are generated from the user's surroundings.
Third Form: Thunder Swarm: A series of rapid, electrical slashes that form a swarm-like pattern.
Fourth Form: Distant Thunder: A long-range electrical attack that strikes from a distance.
Fifth Form: Heat Lightning: A swift, upward-curving slash imbued with electricity.
Sixth Form: Electric Lightning: A powerful, arcing slash that discharges a wide burst of electricity.
Seventh Form: Honoikazuchi: The user creates a powerful, concentrated burst of electrical energy that can decimate opponents.
Flower Breathing:
Second Form: Honorable Shadow Plum: A defensive technique that deflects attacks with a beautiful, swirling movement of the blade.
Fourth Form: Crimson Hanagoromo: A single, powerful, and elegant upward slash.
Sixth Form: Whirling Peach: A swirling, evasive maneuver combined with swift, continuous slashes.
Final Form: Equinoctial Red Eye Higanbana: The user focuses all their vision to perceive the world in slow motion, but at a severe physical cost.
Insect Breathing:
Dance of the Butterflies: Caprice: The user leaps into the air and delivers multiple graceful, yet deadly thrusts, aiming to inject poison.
Dance of the Dragonfly: Compound Eye Hexagon: Six powerful, precise thrusts are delivered at a demon's weak spots, maximizing poison delivery.
Dance of the Bee Sting: True Thrust: A single, powerful thrust delivered at blinding speed to a vital point, aiming to inject lethal poison.
Dance of the Centipede: Hundred-Legged Zigzag: The user moves in an unpredictable, zigzagging pattern to confuse and disorient the enemy, before delivering a thrust.
Serpent Breathing:
First Form: Winding Serpent Slash: The user performs a winding, serpentine slash.
Second Form: Narrowing Heads: The user performs multiple, quick slashes in a focused area.
Third Form: Coil Choke: The user twists and coils their body and blade around an opponent, trapping and constricting them.
Fourth Form: Twin Headed Serpent: The user performs two parallel, coiling slashes simultaneously.
Fifth Form: Slithering Serpent: The user moves in an unpredictable, slithering pattern while delivering multiple slashes.
Love Breathing:
First Form: Hatsukoi no Warabaki (First Love Sidewinder): A long-range, winding slash that wraps around the opponent like a whip.
Second Form: Ounou Meguru Koi (Anguish-Inducing Love): A wide-ranging, powerful slash that extends in an unpredictable fashion.
Third Form: Koi Sokkou (Catlove Shower): Multiple rapid, agile slashes that rain down on the opponent from various angles.
Fifth Form: Yurameku Renjou - Midarezume (Fluctuating Love - Wildclaw): The user performs a series of unpredictable, flexible slashes that resemble a wildcat's claws.
Sixth Form: Nekokata Hukakoi no Tenpuu (Kitty Paw Love Breeze): A quick, agile series of evasive movements combined with light, rapid slashes.
Mist Breathing:
First Form: Low Clouds, Distant Haze: A quick, forward thrust.
Second Form: Eight-Layered Mist: The user unleashes eight quick, successive slashes that appear to form layers of mist.
Third Form: Scattering Mist: A wide-ranging, circular attack that disperses in all directions.
Fifth Form: Sea of Clouds and Haze: The user charges towards an opponent at high speed, unleashing a flurry of slashes.
Sixth Form: Lunar Dispersing Mist: A powerful, wide-arc slash that creates a broad mist effect.
Seventh Form: Obscuring Clouds: The user rapidly changes their pace and location, moving stealthily to disorient the opponent, making them seem to disappear in a mist.
Sound Breathing:
First Form: Roar: A powerful, explosive slash that generates a concussive blast.
Fourth Form: Constant Resounding Slashes: Multiple, rapid slashes that create booming explosions upon impact.
Fifth Form: String Performance: The user creates a powerful, long-range attack by rapidly swinging their blades, generating an explosive soundwave that can detonate.
Beast Breathing:
First Fang: Pierce: A rapid, dual-wielded piercing attack.
Second Fang: Rip and Tear: Two simultaneous horizontal slashes designed to rip through a target.
Third Fang: Devour: A simultaneous dual-blade attack from both sides, designed to cleave.
Fifth Fang: Crazy Cutting: The user performs a rapid, chaotic flurry of slashes in all directions.
Sixth Fang: Palisade Bite: A simultaneous dual-blade slash, trapping the opponent.
Seventh Form: Spatial Awareness: The user identifies the location of enemies by sensing disturbances in the air.
Eighth Form: Explosive Rush: A sudden, explosive dash followed by a powerful, unyielding charge.
Ninth Fang: Extending Bendy Slash: The user dislocates their joints to extend the reach of their slashes, allowing for unpredictable attacks.
Tenth Fang: Whirling Fangs: A spinning, circular attack that creates a whirlwind of slashes.
Moon Breathing ( 16 forms Demon only, 11 know for now the rest will get revealed later.)
First Form: Dark Moon - Evening Palace: A single, crescent-shaped slash that creates several chaotic moon-blades in its wake.
Second Form: Pearl Flowers Moongazing: Multiple crescent-shaped slashes are unleashed in a defensive and offensive flurry, creating a swirling vortex of blades.
Third Form: Loathsome Moon - Chains: Two large, crescent-shaped slashes are created in a downward motion, causing a storm of smaller, chaotically shaped moon-blades to descend.
Fifth Form: Moon-Spirit Calamity: Multiple curved slashes generate a wide, crescent-shaped zone of chaotic blades that shred anything within range.
Sixth Form: Perpetual Night, Lonely Moon - Incessant: A continuous, relentless barrage of crescent-shaped slashes that seem to extend indefinitely, overwhelming the opponent.
Seventh Form: Mirror of Misfortune - Moonlight: The user makes a large, powerful slash that creates multiple, mirrored crescent-shaped blades that reflect and multiply their attack.
Eighth Form: Moon-Dragon Ringtail: A gigantic, single crescent-shaped slash is created, resembling a fierce dragon's tail.
Ninth Form: Waning Moonswaths: The user performs several wide, arcing slashes that manifest as crescent blades resembling a waning moon.
Tenth Form: Drilling Slashes - Moon Through Bamboo Leaves: A three-layered, spiraling slash that drills into the opponent, generating chaotic crescent blades.
Fourteenth Form: Catastrophe - Tenman Lunar Demise: A powerful, devastating series of slashes that creates a massive, multi-directional storm of crescent blades, resembling a cataclysmic event.
Sixteenth Form: Moonbow - Half Moon: A powerful, arcing slash that creates a massive crescent moon-shaped blade, sweeping across a vast area.
Eclipse Breathing (11 Forms):
First Form: Penumbral Slash: The user executes a swift, almost unseen opening strike, blurring the line between existence and non-existence.
Second Form: Umbral Dance: A user moves with fluid, evasive motions, appearing to phase in and out of an enemy's perception like shifting shadows.
Third Form: Corona Flare: A sudden, blinding burst of energy or speed accompanies a devastating strike, momentarily overwhelming the senses.
Fouth Form: Celestial Embrace: A defensive technique that swiftly parries and counters with overwhelming, celestial force, drawing the opponent into a crushing hold.
Fifth Form: Lunar Arc: A wide, sweeping crescent slash covers a broad area, following an unpredictable, arcing trajectory.
Sixth Form: Solar Descent: A powerful, piercing downward strike descends with the focused intensity of a sunbeam cutting through darkness.
Seventh Form: Syzygy Strike: A rapid, multi-directional attack unleashes a barrage of blows that appear to originate from all sides at once, mirroring a cosmic alignment.
Eight Form: Shadow Dominion: The user subtly manipulates their immediate surroundings, creating temporary blind spots or obscuring vision to gain a decisive advantage.
Ninth Form: Ring of Fire Extinction: A devastating, close-quarters rotational attack unleashes a burning vortex that consumes everything within its reach.
Tenth Form: Total Obscurity: The user achieves absolute evasion, becoming virtually undetectable for a brief moment before launching a critical, unblockable counter.
Eleventh Form: Cosmic Convergence: An ultimate, all-consuming form that merges light and shadow into a single, overwhelming strike, draining the user but unleashing unparalleled destructive power.
Sand Breathing (9 Forms):
First Form: Shifting Dune: The user executes a rapid, low-ground dash or evade, making them appear to glide over the terrain.
Seconf Form: Sandstorm Barrage: Multiple, quick slashes create a disorienting dust cloud around the user and opponent.
Third Form: Quicksand Sinkhole: A defensive maneuver that subtly draws enemy attacks into a void or destabilizes their footing.
Fourth Form: Desert Serpent's Fang: A sudden, piercing thrust erupts from an unexpected angle, striking with serpentine speed.
Fifth Form: Eroding Slash: A strike designed to wear down defenses over time, subtly affecting a demon's regeneration like relentless wind and sand.
Sixth Form: Mirage Mirage: A technique used for swift misdirection and creating fleeting afterimages to confuse the opponent.
Seventh Form:Desert's Embrace: A binding or trapping move, using slashes that seem to 'net' the opponent in a restrictive grip.
Eigth Form: Whirlwind Vortex: A powerful defensive and offensive spin deflects incoming attacks while creating a concussive force.
Ninth Form: Oasis of Despair: A powerful, draining attack that saps the demon's strength and vitality, leaving them parched and weakened.
Paper Breathing (6 Forms):
First Form: Origami Slice: A series of incredibly quick, precise cuts targeting a demon's vital points.
Second Form: Fluttering Leaf Veil: A defensive move using rapid blade movements to create a visual shield, deflecting or obscuring attacks.
Third Form: Thousand Cranes Dance: A rapid, intricate flurry of light, agile attacks delivered from multiple angles.
Fouth Form: Paper Doll Decoy: A movement technique that creates fleeting afterimages or misleads the opponent about the user's true position.
Fifth Form: Bladed Gale Scroll: A powerful, focused thrust or sweeping attack that carries surprising, cutting force.
Sisxth Form: Hundred Fold Death: A rapid, intricate series of small, deep cuts that accumulate damage quickly, like countless paper cuts, leading to swift demise.
Blood Breathing (7 Forms Demons only):
First Form: Crimson Flow: A foundational strike emphasizing the user's internal energy and focus.
Second Form: Sanguine Mist: A technique for rapid, disorienting movement, leaving a faint, visually distorting trail.
Third Form: Arterial Spray: A powerful, wide-arc strike designed for multiple targets, spreading crimson devastation.
Fourth Form: Hemorrhage Thrust: A piercing attack aimed directly at disrupting a demon's regeneration and internal structure.
Fifth Form: Clotting Guard: A defensive move that stiffens the user's body for a brief moment, making it incredibly resistant to impact.
Sixth Form: Bloodlust Frenzy: A temporary, strength-enhancing technique that pushes the user past their limits, granting savage power at a physical cost.
Seventh Form: Crimson Sacrifice: An ultimate, devastating, all-or-nothing attack that draws deeply on the user's life force for unparalleled destructive power.
Cloud Breathing (8 Forms):
First Form: Whispering Gale: A silent, swift approach or evasive maneuver, like a soft breeze.
Second Form: Cumulus Cutter: A series of light, rapid slashes delivered from various, unpredictable directions.
Third Form: Nimbus Glide: A technique for swift, silent movement over uneven terrain or through the air, light as a cloud.
Fouth Form: Thunderhead Burst: A sudden, explosive burst of speed and power, culminating in a decisive strike.
Fifth Form: Silver Lining Blade: A defensive counter that skillfully turns an opponent's attack into a unique opening for retaliation.
Sixth Form: Stratosphere Slash: A powerful, sweeping vertical or horizontal attack that cuts through the air with immense force.
Seventh Form: Veil of Mist and Shadow: A technique to obscure the user's presence or movements, creating a localized area of visual distortion.
Eight Form: Zephyr's Judgment: A devastating, multi-directional attack, as light and elusive as a breeze yet sharp and impactful as a storm, leaving no opening.
Ice Breathing (5 Forms):
First Form: Hoarfrost Slash: A single, incredibly sharp and precise strike that leaves a trail of chilling energy.
Second Form: Glacial Shard Barrage: Rapid, piercing thrusts delivered with chilling speed and accuracy.
Third Form: Crystal Veil: A defensive move that allows the user to deflect attacks or briefly harden their own body like ice.
Fourth Form: Absolute Zero Blade: A powerful, chilling strike that aims to slow or momentarily immobilize the target, freezing them in place.
Fifth Form: Diamond Dust Extermination: A flurry of precise, shattering blows targeting a demon's weaknesses, freezing them from within or making them brittle before impact.
A quick note: Eclipse Breathing is the combination of mastery of both sun and moon Breathing. It's also more powerful than Sun Breathing and it's very rare to get and no one currently has it.