Chapter 165

What happened after that, Ao Ling is not very clear.

All he could do was to explain to his subordinates that they must do their best to help each other after seeing the token.

That's all, he didn't even have time to care about whether Nana Taoyuan had come to ask for help with the token he gave.

Because after the short period of calm before, those monsters who were asked by the major forces to hand over the fragments of the jade of the four souls suddenly broke out as if they had made an appointment.

So much so that Ao Ling was so busy in the next few years that he didn't even have time to go back to the Cloud Palace to chat with Inu Ji.

This situation made the big demon who led those forces smell an abnormal breath.

And after a little investigation, it was very easy to learn the people behind the control of these monsters.

Naraku.

This tough half-demon who is very good at hiding and scheming does not hide his existence too much.

He even took the initiative to lead the youkai who went to investigate to check on him.

Obviously, this is a provocation by Naraku to these big forces.

And what was especially targeted by Naluo was Ao Ling, who was hanging another soul jade and swaggering around the market.

Naraku wants to get the Jade of the Four Souls and become a complete youkai, this is something that everyone knows, and it is not surprising that he will make such a big move for the Jade of the Four Souls.

And among these big demon forces, the one who took the initiative to confront Naluo was Ao Ling, who was targeted.

He even took the initiative to greet the Hidden God Punishment Department next door, as well as the Abe Gomonin Temple in Kyoto, and often wandered around the Western Country, Kyoto, and Shikoku regions, strangling monsters and devouring flesh and blood.

This also led to the "Nightmare Lord of the Western Kingdom" being in the limelight for a while.

But although Ao Ling ate very happily, for Sesshomaru, Naraku's behavior of jumping like this was like slapping him in the face.

- He had told Ao Ling that he would kill Naraku.

But when I went back to the western country and went to the hiding place of Naraku's main body with Nuliang Slippery Scoop, it was already empty.

And Sesshomaru himself is not eye-catching to Naraku, so the other party ran away and ran away, and he didn't deliberately search for and kill.

Normally, when you are walking on the road and smell the smell of Naraku, you will go and beat it up.

Although most of the time it was Naraku's points that were beaten. body, but there have been a few times when Naraku's body has been seriously injured.

And after Naro found that he couldn't shake Sesshomaru's mind at all, he began to walk around Sesshomaru very carefully.

But Sesshomaru never thought that Naraku would dare to jump like this.

And also against Ao Ling.

The noble dog demon felt deeply offended, and began to hunt and kill Naraku all over the world with the pitch-black demon knife.

- What is it like to be hunted down by a dog demon with a keen sense of smell and strength?

Just look at Ao Ling, who is suddenly idle and a little dazed.

Naraku rarely had time to spare his hands to fix the moth, and without Naraku's nuisance, the Jade of the Four Souls was quickly collected and handed over to Kikyo.

Everyone is waiting for Kikyo to finish what she says about "turning Inuyasha into a human".

Many youkai think that this matter is just a cover, and although Inuyasha is a half-demon, his strength has been seen by everyone in the past few years.

How can it be said that they are all half-demons with half of the blood of big monsters, with a long life span and strong strength, how can they want to become humans?

And the iron fangs in Inuyasha's hand would certainly not have been able to admit a user with a human body.

The youkai thought it was impossible.

But the end result is true.

Inuyasha turned into a human, and Broken Tooth didn't reject Inuyasha because he became human.

The monsters were in an uproar.

And Ao Ling, who has a good relationship with Inuyasha, sent a bunch of gifts to Kaede Village with a wave of his hand, congratulating Inuyasha on being able to grow old with Kikyo as he wished.

Ao Ling is very envious of Inuyasha who can get what he wants.

I didn't think it before.

But after so many years of sober experience in this world, he gradually became clear.

It is clear why Mr. Matsuyo, who has spent 500 years on Earth, is bent on death.

- Every time Ao Ling went to Maple Village, he could clearly notice that the villagers who were familiar with him were getting old little by little.

The smell of life was gradually fading from them, and the gray of death, which was gradually encroaching on life due to old age and weakness, spread up.

The gray that only he could see gradually soaked their bodies, turning into wrinkles, turning into gray hair, into age spots on their faces, into cloudy colors in their eyes.

Those who were once full of life, laughing and happily welcoming him every day, were bent by time and straightened their backs, and the wisps of life were stripped out of their bodies, and finally turned into an old and withered corpse, lying quietly in the coffin.

When Ao Ling returned to Kaede Village for the first time after Inuyasha became a human, what he saw was the death of the village chief who had previously presided over Kikyo wedding.

The old man lying in the coffin no longer had the peaceful aura that made Ao Ling look happy at a glance.

He lay there quietly, like a withered grass.

"The village chief is more than 100 years old - a rare longevity, a joy and mourning." Kikyo said softly after reciting the prayer for the soul to die in a shrine maiden costume.

Ao Ling, on the other hand, felt a little dazed.

He had seen and experienced a lot of things about death.

He also knows very clearly that after death, people do not die, but the soul returns to Huangquan and starts anew, and even powerful souls can refuse to be reincarnated and choose to be reincarnated.

But when he looked at the dead old village chief, he felt that his heart was empty, as if something was missing.

He really understood Yoshida Matsuyo's mood at that time.

- Why do you want to die?

Why, even with the company of him, who is also a youkai, he is always looking for death.

Why desperately want to abandon the immortality that many people yearn for?

And, why would you want him to become human.

Because Yoshida Matsuyo understands too well.

He knew too well that everyone around him was being pushed away by time and gradually getting old, leaving only himself alone in this world.

- Even if there is someone who has a long life to accompany me.

But for the Altana variant, which doesn't die, it's also a volatile.

He is immortal because he cannot die, and he truly lives with heaven and earth.

No matter how long the life of a monster is, it can't last as long as the whole world.

So in Yoshida Matsuyo's seriousness, Ao Ling is the same as those ordinary humans - only he will live longer than humans.

Ao Ling now looks at the human beings around him who have changed a lot from when they first met, and empathizes with the mentality of the former Songyang teacher.

It's a perception that I'm an outlier.

Ao Ling hugged his tail, buried his head in and took a deep breath to calm down, after seeing the black-haired Inuyasha who had completely turned into a human, he stuffed him with a bunch of things that humans could use, and finally didn't even say hello, and left Kaede Village in a hurry.

He wasn't going to go back.

Because Inuyasha had become one with the humans, he would be the only outlier when he went there.

It suddenly becomes unacceptable to be stared at with strange and novel eyes by those newborn children and those who have always had a problem with youkai.

He has a world of his own.

Ao Ling thought as he walked in the direction of the western country.

He should be glad that when he was young and did not understand anything, the places he visited, the people he met, and the things he experienced were friendly and beautiful.

It is very different from the vicissitudes and sorrows that Yoshida Matsuyo has been washed away by time.

Ao Ling shook his ears and couldn't help but muttered and touched the soul jade hanging from his neck.

"Ye Wang, I think you and Teacher Songyang should have a lot in common." The black-haired canine walked through the verdant forest, muttering his thoughts.

King Ma Cang Ye is also an outlier.

It's just that he is not as gentle and self-controlled as Yoshida Matsuyo.

This psionic and powerful onmyoji is more aggressive and more extreme than Yoshida Matsuyo, who has a gentle temperament and occasionally likes to play tricks.

Even Ao Ling knew very well that the King of Macang Ye had placed the only tiny softness in his heart under the cover of indifference and clumps of spikes.

Maybe it's because of the rare peace of being around him.

Maybe it's because of his peaceful and straightforward heart.

Maybe it's because in front of him, King Asakura Ye doesn't need to continue to look at those filthy humans with a hypocritical smile.

Ao Ling rubbed the soul jade through the small cloth bag, recalling the Heiankyo era that did not last long but left a deep impression on him.

He thought of the clear moonlight and the long, bright Milky Way in the Heiankyo period, when there were no hundred ghosts walking at night.

Thinking of the onmyoji who returned with a tired face and wearing the moon.

Thinking of the Onmyoji who always pretended not to see him running to the kitchen to steal food.

Thinking of the Onmyoji, dressed in a white hunting suit and with long hair, he always had a helpless smile on his face, and tapped his head with a bat fan in his hand that looked like white jade.

Thinking of the person who sat quietly at the table in the Yin Yang Liao and carefully reviewed each file.

Thinking of the mansion owner who prepared hot water and healing talismans for him with a calm face every time he came back from a trip.

Ao Ling thought about it a lot.

In the end, he found out in a trance that his memories of the Heiankyo era were full of King Asakura Ha.

This realization made Ao Ling can't help but smack his lips.

He touched the turquoise soul jade in the bag again, and sighed.

"King Ye, actually." The black-haired canine shook his head, and the ears on the top of his head drooped in shame.

"I want to eat the cherry blossom cake made by that Shikigami girl in your house again."