Demon Slayer Manga Chapter 135

Push a boulder. That is the whole assignment. Gyomei Himejima’s stage in Demon Slayer Chapter 135 asks slayers to meditate beneath a freezing waterfall, haul great logs, and move a boulder the width of a road across a full town’s length. Tanjiro throws his whole body against the stone and it does not move a single finger’s width.

The secret, Gyomei teaches, is repeated action: fixing powerful memories and emotions in the mind until the body opens like a floodgate. Tanjiro thinks of his family, of Rengoku’s last words, of everyone waiting for him, and heat surges through his limbs. Slowly, impossibly, the great boulder begins to roll.