Inuyasha's journey to immortality

Chapter 73 Naraku’s breath! (Please subscribe, please subscribe, please subscribe!)
  Naraku's castle.

Today there are no traces of humans left.

In some cases, there are thousands of bones lying unattended in rooms or corridors.

Corroded by the miasma, only some special monsters can survive in the entire castle.

In the central area of ​​the castle, in the spacious room exclusive to the city lord, a handsome young man wearing a white baboon sweater sat on the tatami, playing with more than forty purple-gold fragments in his hand, while looking through the open window. to the outside world.

The place this window faces is a stretch of towering mountain forest that is rarely visited.

Deep in the forest, something terrible seems to be happening.

The young man's sight seemed to be able to reach far away.

"Oh? Is the winner going to be decided so soon? It seems that we have found a very good material for the witchcraft this time."

As the young man smiled and murmured, a purple-black demonic wind emerged from the window.

He immediately headed straight for the towering mountain forest.

After a while, we came to a place that looked like a crater.

It is said to be a volcanic crater, but in fact it has been hollowed out for a long time.

Below is no longer hot rolling lava, but flowing tide. In the turbulent and purple-black tide, four behemoths of twenty to thirty meters were engaged in a brutal fight. However, the fusion monster with the giant poisonous scorpion as its main template is much more powerful than the other three ugly fusion monsters.

The giant poisonous scorpion's huge pair of pincers have amazing strangulation power. After locking the target, it can cut off a big guy at the waist with just one pinch.

The other pliers shook a fusion body formed with the dragon as the main template, and knocked the fusion monster dragon away.

Then there was the giant red scorpion tail, which could penetrate a turtle's shell when it was thrust out.

It was clearly one against three, but they still won with an almost crushing force.

It’s just a matter of saying “Who else?”

"Not bad…"

"His Royal Highness Sesshomaru spent the past two days hunting famous monsters in order to get a stronger arm; I just arranged for a clone to follow him to pick up the missing ones, and he actually picked up three good materials in a row."

"I wonder how much my demonic power will increase after this fusion?"

"Speaking of which, it was such a pity that we were not able to absorb His Highness Sesshomaru nine days ago when he was seriously injured and fell into extreme weakness..."

Below the crater, the winner is decided.

Unsurprisingly, the winner in the end was the giant fusion monster formed with the giant poisonous scorpion as its main template.

After winning, the big guy didn't forget to eat the other three losers.

Extremely cruel.

"Ho ho ho..."

I don't know if it was the characteristics of the fused monster, but three ferocious monster heads suddenly grew out of the giant poisonous scorpion's chest, which were the three previous losers. The target of their roars was a young man wearing a white baboon sweater who appeared in front of the fused beast at some unknown time.

But the strange thing is:
  After the giant poisonous scorpion roared, it did not use its powerful body to attack the ant-like young man, and did not even dare to take half a step forward! Instead, he stepped back step by step as if afraid of something.

The previous arrogance was gone now.

"Ho ho ho...!"

After another demonstration and a warning roar, the big man jumped deep into the crater above, and the giant pincers fiercely poked at the hole where the moonlight was flowing and the moonlight was scattered.

As a result, there was a crisp sound, and the giant poisonous scorpion staggered. It failed to open and expand the hole several meters in diameter. Instead, the blow was rebounded by a blue light curtain.

"Want to escape?"

Below, on the purple-black water filled with miasma poison, a young man wearing a baboon sweater took off the baboon coat, revealing the refined and strong muscles and graceful body contours inside:
  "You can't escape, just become one with me!"

"I, Naraku...accept this powerful body of yours!"

Accompanied by a scream that contained complex emotions such as sadness, fear, unwillingness, and anger, and a burst of dazzling blue and white light, the behemoth cultivated in the underground Gu refining land had disappeared, leaving only standing on the water licking. The enchanting young man licking his lips.

It seemed like he had just eaten something unparalleled deliciousness.

"Not bad, not bad. My demonic power has improved a lot."

"Speaking of which, it's time to arrange for the weak period once a month, but we can't wait until the last day to take risks. Furthermore, it's also time to use the four soul fragments obtained to strengthen the body and recruit some capable hands. .”

Reorganizing the physical body during the weak period when the demonic power is declining is a reasonable use of time.

A few more capable children can help.

There's no way around it, the wooden puppet with its demonic power is already a bit unsatisfactory.

The three wooden puppets he arranged to follow Sesshomaru were all easily found and killed by the noble prince.

That night, the large-scale barrier that Naraku originally used to cover his castle became loose.

In an abandoned shrine thirty or forty miles away, an elegant and quiet shrine maiden with delicate and beautiful facial features suddenly turned her head and looked in the direction of the castle, frowning slightly: What a heavy evil spirit!
  The woman was extremely surprised.

"Is there such a huge evil force lurking near Musashi Country?"

"Who is the other party?"

Evil spirit does not refer to evil spirit.

But most of the evil spirits are inseparable from evil spirits.

"What's wrong, Miss Kikyo?"

Beside the witch, several surviving deserters with bandages all over their bodies expressed concern.

Several of them were survivors of a team battle involving hundreds of people from two countries.

Originally, after they were seriously injured and abandoned by the large army, they would probably become food for wild dogs and wolves. Unexpectedly, he would be saved by the gentle and kind-hearted witch in front of him.

Not only did this man not dislike their status as deserters, he rescued them from the wolves; he also found a place for them to stay in this abandoned shrine, and found healing herbs for them to bandage and treat their wounds. After that, they got food for them and cooked hot food.

This miko lady named Kikyo is simply a holy light given by the gods at the most desperate and darkest moment in their lives.

Because of this, they were filled with deep gratitude to Platycodon.

"It's nothing. Dinner has been cooked. You can take advantage of it. I still have some things to deal with. You guys should go to bed early..."

The witch stood up, smiled and gave a few instructions to the deserters.

On the way down the mountain, a simple barrier was put up around the shrine.

Several people were injured and their movements were very inconvenient; the shrine had long been abandoned, and there were no priests or wandering mage stationed there, so it was also considered a wilderness; in addition, the smell of blood on their bodies would cause them to ignite if they were not careful. Here come the mountain spirits and wild monsters.

Setting up a simple barrier can be a precautionary measure.

After these people recover from their injuries, they can go live in some remote mountain villages and stop jumping into the quagmire of dirty and troubled times.

In the open space in front of the shrine, a few people seemed to have been reborn, all holding crutches and watching Kikyo walking down the stairs. Until the figure of the witch disappeared into the dense forest at the foot of the mountain, they did not take away their gazes for a long time.

"Miss Kikyo, have a safe journey!"

"Miss Platycodon, please take it very seriously..."

They were all praying silently for the little witch who specializes in slaying demons.

...

at the same time.

Dozens of miles away, a demon clan nobleman who had a small follower caught an aura that disgusted him from the mountain wind blowing.

"Huh? This smell... seems to be that of Naraku who always likes to follow me and clean up the trash...

That guy who hides his head and tail, is his turtle shell barrier loose?
  Could it be that we encountered some trouble? "

"No, it's not that simple..."

After just pondering for a moment, the noble master quickly found the correct answer:
  "Hmph, a half-demon is a half-demon. When you reach the weak stage, you can't even hide your own aura!"

This noble prince is Sesshomaru who has recovered from his injuries.

As long as he is not missing arms or legs, with his strong demonic power, he can quickly recover as before.

Previously, he challenged InuYasha's iron broken teeth in the dense forest outside the village, and was injured by the wind injury that InuYasha unexpectedly struck. Fortunately, he was protected by the barrier of the natural teeth at the critical moment, and he directly jumped to a very long space. Far away, thus escaping disaster.

During this period, many things happened.

But there is one line of fate that has not shifted.

That is: he met a down-and-out little human girl.

After the fateful encounter (encounter), the little girl becomes attached to him.

"Master Sesshomaru, what are you looking at? Are you counting the stars in the sky?"

Just when Sesshomaru was thinking about whether to trouble Naraku, a clear and playful girl's voice came from not far away.

The person who made this questioning sound was the little human girl he picked up.

"call…"

The noble prince lowered his head slightly and breathed out a breath.

Then he calmed down and sensed the incapable of killing demon knife in his waist, and murmured in a voice that only he could hear: "Tian Tianya, at that time, why did you let me pull it out and save her?"

Tian Tianya hasn't given him the answer yet.

The little girl’s voice came again:
  "Master Sesshomaru, you have finished counting the stars in the sky, do you want to count the little flowers on the ground again?"

The little girl's name is "Ling".

is an orphan.

When he was young, he witnessed his parents and brother being killed by bandits and became temporarily aphasic. He has been living alone in the village. Fortunately, the little girl's parents and brothers left her a lot of food and favors from the village. With the help of some kind-hearted aunties in the village, she has been able to survive until now.

However, her life was not comfortable and happy.

Because the adults saw her as a little mute, she would always make irresponsible remarks and gossip from time to time.

Later, he met the seriously injured Master Sesshomaru.

She was directly killed.

But she knew that Master Sesshomaru was definitely not a bad person. The bad guy would kill her just like he killed her father, mother, and brother at the first sight of her.

Seeing Master Sesshomaru covered in wounds and in a mess with blood stains, it was quite pitiful, as if he was another version of himself that no one cared about or needed. She left a piece of fresh water, ran back to the village to find some fruits and vegetables, and took advantage of the night to steal a fish from the fish pond next to the village and "feed it".

She knew that stealing fish was definitely wrong.

In the village, every household was not wealthy and everyone was in short supply. Every family would occasionally take turns to give her some food. But Master Sesshomaru, who was covered in blood and scars, seemed to be in greater need of food supplements and to fill his belly with food.

Therefore, even though she was already a burden to the village, she still risked being beaten up by the adults to steal fish.

The first time, it was not discovered;

But the second time, I couldn't escape.

This time, she was miserable.

Severe pain all over the body.

The left side of my face was even more painful.

If she couldn't steal the fish, she would have to limp to collect other food.

Later, wolves attacked the village and everyone died, including her.

But she was lucky enough to be rescued by Master Sesshomaru, and she came back to life.

From now on, she will follow Master Sesshomaru.

No matter where she travels, no matter how difficult the situation is, she will always stay with Master Sesshomaru.

By the way, her bad habit of temporary aphasia was also cured with this resurrection.

Master Sesshomaru, who looks very fierce, is indeed the gentlest.

(End of this chapter)