Chapter 21: Tenderness in the Rain
Under the efforts of the shrimp crickets, Inuyasha reluctantly stayed in the demon removal village for three days.
These three days are naturally not in vain. Inuyasha received specific information about the Jade of the Four Souls from the Shrimp Crickets, such as its origin, history, and powers. Inuyasha can be sure that the Jade of the Four Souls can make him achieve his wish to become a real youkai and increase his strength infinitely. The only pity is that Inuyasha can't enter the cave shrouded in enchantments at all, so I guess Tsuiko refused to let him in. The current Inuyasha has not yet been accepted by Tsuiko's divine thoughts.
In return, Inuyasha also used his teeth to help the shrimp cricket reforge the flying bones during the two days he lived in the demon slayer village, and at the same time had a good exchange with mica, established a good friendship, and gave it a collar that could withstand miasma and some attacks. It was one of his collections, a magic weapon of the Yin-Yang Dao style god demon beast.
Two days later, the villagers of the Demon Removal Village had cleaned up the remains of the youkai killed by Inuyasha, and Inuyasha said goodbye to the shrimp crickets and embarked on a journey to find the Jade of the Four Souls. Moreover, Inuyasha already has eyebrows, although the shrimp cricket did not accurately say the specific name of the jade shrine maiden who can purify the four souls, but in Inuyasha's impression, there is only one person who can purify the jade of the four souls with such powerful demonic power!
Kikyo!
The pure white, holy, noble and clear, beautiful as if a dream bellflower, only her! Only she has the powerful strength to repel countless monsters peeping at the jade of the four souls, and the terrifying inhuman strength that makes Inuyasha taboo.
There's no need to look for it at all, Inuyasha only needs to catch a few local yokai, or follow the direction where a large number of youkai gather, and you will definitely be able to find the village where Kikyo is located.
It's just a coincidence that the book is not written, and I don't know if it's the arrangement of fate, just when Inuyasha followed the trail of the youkai who captured the jade of the four souls to find the village where Kikyo was located, the night of the new moon, came!
"If you don't hurry, it's going to be a lot of trouble tonight!"
Inuyasha quickly rushed towards the forest in the mountains behind the village where Kikyo was located, although even if he turned back into a human, his strength was still strong, plus the trace of the waning moon, he still had the power to fight against the top youkai, but the human body was limited, he had already smelled enough to consume himself with a huge number of youkai, if he couldn't hide it before being discovered by these youkai and wait until the sun set, it would be bad.
This made Inuyasha more and more eager for the jade of the four souls! Of course, it also includes the bellflower that guards the jade of the four souls!
"What? Thick demonic spirit! Damn, the sense of smell is slowly waning! No...... It's ......"
Inuyasha, who was running towards the forest, finally saw the huge demonic energy floating over the forest as he approached the edge of the forest. As the sun gradually sets, Inuyasha's own canine monster ability is gradually disappearing, otherwise it would be impossible not to find such a huge demonic energy, and it will have to be identified by the naked eye. However, just when Inuyasha decided to take advantage of the fact that the sun had not completely set, he kept himself as a half-demon and destroyed these youkai entrenched in the forest. In the forest, the place that exuded a sky-high demonic aura suddenly bloomed with a burst of brilliant purple light, and then, a loud boom came out of the forest with a huge wave of qi.
After a while, Inuyasha's nose, whose sensitivity had decreased more than ten times, smelled a strong smell of blood.
"That light is the Devil-Destroying Arrow! Is it ......?"
Realizing that Kikyo might be fighting youkai inside, Inuyasha immediately burst out with the little demonic energy left, and rushed into the forest in a few flashes in a row, quietly coming to the location of the smell of blood.
"Sure enough, it's a bellflower!"
The battle wasn't completely over yet, and Inuyasha took advantage of the fact that Kikyo had eliminated the last few fish that had slipped through the net, and dodged to a large tree behind Kikyo in an instant, leaning against the trunk of the tree, carefully hiding, and looking at the exhausted Kikyo from the crack in the tree with concern.
This is the second time Inuyasha has seen Kikyo, and unlike the first time, the Kikyo at this time is full of wolf bรจi. The clean white shrine maiden's blouse was stained with dust and blood, and the red hakama on the lower body was not bloody, but it was also tattered, and judging from the scratches on it, it should have been torn by the sneak attack of the youkai underground. Coupled with the corpses of youkai all over the ground, you can imagine the fierceness of the battle just now.
"It's a bellflower, and with a human body, he killed so many monsters! No wonder...... Damn it! Here we go! โ
Just when Inuyasha lamented the strength of Kikyo, the sun! The mountain finally set, and Inuyasha's claws and ears quickly faded, changing the appearance of ordinary humans, and even the hair became the same black as the bellflower underneath.
"How long do you want to hide?"
And just when Inuyasha changed into a human, Kikyo also realized the existence of Inuyasha from the trace of movement that leaked when Inuyasha transformed. Although her spiritual power has been completely consumed, her intuition is extremely sensitive when she was still in a state of fierce battle just now.
"Damn, this is the worst of things!"
Inuyasha cursed to himself, but didn't answer, and didn't look back, for he could clearly feel a cold gaze staring straight at him. It was Kikyo's, and with her intelligence, once Inuyasha responded, she immediately recognized herself as the one who was spying on her in the first place. Kikyo, who was already wary of him, was afraid that he would be injured when the time came, and he would definitely not let go of the huge threat of Inuyasha.
Especially now, Inuyasha is still in a human state.
However, at this moment, Inuyasha's heart is not worried that his secret may be known by Kikyo. He just wanted ...... I hope that Kikyo will stop pestering him here and go back to the village to rest immediately.
"Come home, have a meal, take a warm shower, and get a good night's sleep!"
"As for the other youkai, I'll help you solve them!"
That's all Inuyasha's mood at the moment.
But he couldn't really say it.
With Kikyo's state at the moment, she was able to stand strongly, and warned Inuyasha with such a sonorous voice, all thanks to her tenacious and tenacious heart to support her. Because she didn't know Inuyasha's true thoughts, she was worried that once she showed the slightest fatigue, she would be taken advantage of by the youkai hiding behind the tree, and when the time came, her own death would be small, and the jade of the four souls would be taken away by the youkai, which would be the most dangerous.
Crackling...... Thundered......
A huge lightning bolt slashed across the night sky, a deafening roar descended on the land along with the gloomy night and black clouds, under the lighting of lightning, there were still blood stains and stains on the face after the fierce battle, and the solemn expression of slaughter, like a Valkyrie on the battlefield just now, had a different kind of charm.
Drain ......
Heavy rain, pouring down! The cold rain poured on the weakened bellflower without pity, washing away the remaining blood and stains on the bellflower's body, and also washing away the filth and lead of this battlefield.
I didn't hear any answer, and Kikyo, who was about to run out of both body and spirit, forced confirmation again.
"Are you also here for the Jade of the Four Souls?"
"The Jade of the Four Souls! What is that, what is the Jade of the Four Souls? โ
Although he couldn't see it, Inuyasha's intuition told him how weak the bellflower was at the moment. Listening to Kikyo's angry voice, Inuyasha only felt a heart-wrenching pain, and longed to replace Kikyo with his body and bear the endless exhaustion. But he couldn't! In order to get Kikyo to leave and go back, Inuyasha had to lie against his will, his first lie after his rebirth.
Quiet, except for the dripping rain, this forest seems to return to the nature where no living beings have set foot, without the slightest strange sound.
Kikyo stared quietly in the direction of Inuyasha, as if to discern the truth of the other party's words. After observing for a while, her intuition told her that the other party seemed to ...... There was no malice towards her, and she didn't find the demonic energy on the other party. Kikyo guessed that the other party might just be an ordinary little monster, thinking that he was probably frightened by the scene where he killed countless monsters just now, so he was so timid. At this moment, Kikyo's heart finally settled down a little.
"If you don't know, forget it! But! If you don't want to die at my hands, don't come near me!" โ
Kikyo took a deep look at Inuyasha's hiding place again, not even realizing that he was defending the youkai he hadn't even met. The icy rain hit Kikyo's weak body, and the damp kimono was tightly attached to Kikyo's skin, and a cold wind blew, and the biting chill instantly spread to every corner of her body, making her shiver.
It's already going to the limit!
Kikyo could already clearly feel that a wave of dizziness was hitting his brain and destroying his mind. But Kikyo knew that at this moment, she couldn't relax, even if the hidden monster had no ill will towards her and the Jade of the Four Souls, she didn't dare to guarantee that there were other monsters hiding in the shadows. The attraction of the Jade of the Four Souls to monsters has been completely visible in the battles of the past few days. Even if she uses the Jade of the Four Souls to attract the surrounding monsters this time, and then catches them all, the monsters in the distance will definitely come over immediately.
Now she must rest, and then recuperate, regain her spiritual power and body, and prepare for the next wave of monster attacks.
"Huh!"
However, after turning around and taking a few steps, due to a burst of icy rain, the bellflower body was exhausted before she expected to resist the cold. Coupled with the composure and conversation just now, she finally exhausted the last trace of her strength. First, the longbow that was tightly held in his hand fell to the ground first, and then, Kikyo's weak body also slowly fell to the ground, splashing a splash.
"Hey! You okay! Kikyo! โ
Inuyasha, who was secretly watching Kikyo's back, saw Kikyo fall into the water, and immediately jumped down from the tree, ran to Kikyo's side, and helped her delicate body. The clean rain washed away the stains on Kikyo's face, revealing Kikyo's fair and beautiful goose egg face and delicate facial features. Inuyasha pulled out the handkerchief his mother had left for him from his pocket, and carefully wiped the stained rain on Kikyo's face as if he were facing a rare treasure.
"Stupid, it's all like this, and you're still dying!"
Kikyo's body,There's no temperature at all.,After Inuyasha probed with spiritual power,,It was found that the jade in her arms had almost reached the point of running out of oil and drying up.,If it weren't for her own good foundation.,Weekdays have been moisturized and strengthened by pure spiritual power to the extreme.,The physique is excellent.,Otherwise, she would have fallen at the end of the battle with the youkai.ใ
Now that he knows the reason for Kikyo's weakness, Inuyasha naturally came up with a solution, and now that he is in a human state, he can use the spiritual power he cultivated before to drive away the coldness of Kikyo's body, as well as replenish her depleted spiritual power. However, I don't know that the quality of the pure spiritual power that has been refined for a hundred years with Inuyasha is not as good as the spiritual power possessed by the bellflower itself.
Input a hundred copies of spiritual power, and when entering Kikyo's body, it was slowly absorbed and transformed to half of the original by her body, that is to say, Kikyo's spiritual power, its purity is twice as strong as that of Inuyasha.
It's no wonder that for hundreds of years, only Kikyo has perfectly inherited the way to break the demons. The mere spiritual power that supports the power of demon breaking can almost discourage people who have been trying to learn the way to destroy demons for hundreds of years. At the same time, through Guรฒ's exploration of Kikyo's body, Inuyasha also knows why the demon-breaking arrow shot by Kikyo has such great power.
Under Inuyasha's full output of spiritual power, Kikyo's body slowly regained a trace of warmth, and his pale skin became rosy.
"Ah...... Grace ......"
After a while, after receiving most of Inuyasha's spiritual power, Kikyo, who had fainted, finally let out a faint moan.
That's great!
Seeing that the spiritual power he had injected had an effect, Inuyasha's nervousness and uneasiness finally let go, and looking at Kikyo's blood-colored face, Inuyasha couldn't help but stretch out his right hand and gently stroked it.
"It's beautiful!"
"Kikyo-sama......"
Just as Inuyasha's index finger slid down Kikyo's pretty face towards her seductive cherry lips, a shout woke up Inuyasha, who had been completely lost in Kikyo's style. Moreover, the witch who was hugged tightly in his arms, the pair of tall willow eyebrows, also shouted and trembled slightly.
"Kikyo Sister ......"
"Damn, it's Kikyo Forehead, that little girl named Kaede!"
Looking at it from a distance, countless torches are slowly approaching this side, although it is not yet clear yet, but Inuyasha still remembers Kaede's voice, and it seems that Kaede has led the villagers out to look for Kikyo.
However, Inuyasha, who was in the arms of the beauty, did not want to hand over the bellflower, and even hugged the bellflower tightly, until the bellflower let out a low moan again because of his own movements, and then reluctantly looked at the strong and beautiful face of the bellflower, as if the bellflower at this time was engraved into the depths of his soul, half a ring, until the careful Kaede saw such a figure as Inuyasha from a distance, and when he shouted, he slowly hugged the bellflower to a big tree, and left helplessly.
"I'll come back to you, Kikyo!"
After meeting Kikyo again, and seeing Kikyo fighting youkai in order to protect the jade of the four souls, before you know it, Inuyasha has forgotten her original intention, forgotten the jade of the four souls, and her whole heart has been filled with the peerless elegance of the bellflower.
"Sister! Sister Kikyo! โ
Just about half a minute after Inuyasha left, the attentive Kaede first spotted the bellflower lying in the rain, and immediately ran to the side of the bellflower, and kept calling the name of the bellflower.
"Is it Kaede!"
Kikyo slowly opened his eyes and looked at his sister.
"It's all right! Hey, this handkerchief is ......"
Kaede helped Kikyo up and asked with concern, but immediately saw the white cherry blossom handkerchief on Kikyo's shoulder and hesitated.
"Hmmm! Give it to me! โ
Kikyo took the handkerchief from his sister's hand and looked in the direction Inuyasha had left, with a puzzled and melancholy look on his face, in fact, when Inuyasha helped her up, Kikyo was already a little more sober, but he was too tired, so he didn't open his eyes. Therefore, she knew all the words that Inuyasha said when he wiped her face, as well as his subsequent actions to instill spiritual power in her, especially the gentle expression on Inuyasha's face when he was leaving, which she could see clearly through her eyes.
"Humph! Not only did he let me go, but he was also thin and ......"
Speaking of this, Kikyo, who had fully recovered himself, immediately stopped, and a hint of blush appeared on his face, those words can't be said in front of Kaede, no! It can no longer be said in front of anyone. Clenched the handkerchief in his hand, and a warmth rose in Kikyo's heart.
And at this time,Inuyasha, who was quietly observing Kikyo from a distance, was finally relieved to see Kikyo being discovered.,It's only after seeing Kaede pick up his handkerchief that he remembers that he dropped the handkerchief in a hurry.,But when the handkerchief entered Kikyo's hand,Inuyasha somehow suddenly became nervous.,Although it was used by women at that time.,But it's one of the only three relics left by his mother.,But this nervous mood is not at all due to the relics being taken away by others., On the contrary, I felt a little happy about falling into the hands of Kikyo.
Inuyasha, who was hidden in the shadows, escorted the bellflower all the way back to the village, disappeared from his sight, and looked at the index finger of his right hand stupidly, and then leaned to the tip of his nose and took a deep breath, the body fragrance of the bellflower seemed to remain on it.
"What's wrong with me today, how can I be so out of shape when facing Kikyo, and this mood that hasn't completely calmed down until now, ......what is it?"
At this time, Inuyasha calmed down a little after the Kikyo disappeared, and it was only at this moment that he slowly realized how childish and ridiculous his behavior was just now. If it were to be known to others that the famous Silver Moon Sword Saint was so unbearable when he met a human girl, his jaw would definitely fall to the ground, and he would laugh out loud in his dreams.
However, Inuyasha's chagrin lasted for only three seconds, and his mind was filled with the figure of Kikyo again!
When I think of Kikyo, I think of the monsters who put Kikyo in that situation in order to seize the Jade of the Four Souls! Inuyasha didn't forget the promise he made to Kikyo before, although it was only unilateral to him, and he didn't get Kikyo's approval!
But does he need the approval of others for his actions?
Although he turned back into a human, he lost his sensitive sense of smell and hearing, and he was unable to use his powerful demonic powers, but Inuyasha's methods were more than that. Since Inuyasha was reborn more than a hundred years ago, he has been exercising his spiritual power every time he transforms, although the time is far less than that of a half-demon in general, but under the cultivation method that far exceeds this world, the accumulation and use of spiritual power is far from being comparable to the aborigines of this world, except for Nanako and Kikyo, these two demon geniuses that occur once in a thousand years.
really responded to the old saying, and two real phoenixes flew out of the poor mountain nest.
However, this is better, only such a peerless woman with Zhong Lingyuxiu can be worthy of herself today!
Although the superficial consciousness of Zhang Yu in Inuyasha's previous life has been completely integrated into this world, at that time, in the depths of the soul of this body, the pride of being the descendant of the dragon still affects Inuyasha all the time.
Although the first brother of love, Inuyasha, doesn't know what his feelings for Kikyo are, why does he care so much about this woman who has only met twice, and why is he worried about Kikyo's injury and exhaustion. But Zhang Yu knows that this ...... It's the legendary love at first sight, and if it weren't for the correction of Inuyasha who is now stepping into the plot by the power of the world, he would definitely be able to recall the original intention of his arrival.
It's a pity that even Zhang Yu's subconscious, which is not affected by the power of the world, has been completely overwhelmed by the peerless elegance of the bellflower, and he is more caught in this unsolvable game than Inuyasha.
Inuyasha really needs true love!
As Inuyasha, who has been deeply involved in it, he can't think so much at this time, he only knows that now himself, the first thing to do is:
Near the Kikyo Village, the monsters who are ready to fish in troubled waters and take advantage of the void are all completely eliminated. Inuyasha, who cultivates ancient martial arts, has a body that is far above the bellflower, coupled with the power of the trace of the waning moon, and the three conditions of many monsters have been solved by the bellflower. Let Inuyasha be completely confident.,Destroy all the monsters within a radius of ten miles.ใ
"Kikyo, I will never allow anyone to hurt you!"
Inuyasha muttered and looked at the quiet village in front of him immersed in heavy rain, and a huge spiritual power instantly gushed out from his body, quickly repelling the rain that soaked every corner of his body along with the rain of beans, forming a circular circle of light around Inuyasha's body, and flying into the air with Inuyasha. Then, Inuyasha slowly pulled out the mark of the waning moon on his waist, glanced around the mountains and forests surrounding the village, and held the knife in front of him, his body spun violently.
"Wind ...... Chinese! โ
With this soft drink, in an instant, countless silver filaments sprayed out like a storm, and the pouring rain was also cut into countless sections in the air, as if the space was cut open, like a spring breeze blowing willows, far away in all directions, heaven and earth, gently sliding past.
The monsters within a radius of ten miles, whether good or bad, strong or weak, were all turned into countless pieces under this seemingly beautiful silver filament, and then, washed by the heavy rain, returned to nature. G