Maple Village is located at the junction of Sagami, Kai, and Musashi. Because the original site was the "Musashi Tsunei Shrine", it was classified within the Musashi territory.

Perhaps because the village has produced witches for generations, there are a large number of believers. With sufficient labor and abundant fields, the life of Maple Village is very good. At least every family can have enough food and clothing, and there are many young and old.

It is also far away from the jurisdiction of the daimyo and close to the mountains and forests. Village samurai often take farmers into the mountains to hunt, and when they are lucky, they return with full loads.

Although the nobles regard animal meat as filth, when the class is transferred to the villages, who still abides by so many rules?

People need strength to work, and they need to eat more meat to go to the fields. Over time, Maple Village has more animal meat trading offices, and there is also a fur trading outlet.

However, because it is far away from the big city and the roads along the way are dangerous, the goods can only be circulated in a few nearby villages. For a long time, the price is not high, but it is so cheap that it is rare to come here.

"Brother, are you going to Maple Village?"

"Don't let the bastard kill you."

Yuan was stunned to understand the erroneous question and answer. His brother didn't want to enter a human village, but he was worried that the shrine maiden of Maple Village would be harmful to him, so he reminded him in a very unpleasant way.

"I understand, brother." In short, just listen to what brother says in reverse.

Seeing that his brother was not too useless, Sesshomaru said calmly: "Kill them all if they dare to get in the way."

Yuanyi:……

There is no need to listen to this sentence.

He landed in the mountains and left Ah Hung to find food on his own. He only took off his knife and backpack and trotted towards Maple Village.

As a mature white dog with strong self-management ability, Sesshomaru walked himself. He moved forward in a straight line and soon scared away the monsters and prey in the entire mountain.

Of course, Yuanyi didn't know how many bastards his brother had trampled to death. Even though he was wearing a turban when he entered the village, he was still recognized as a half-demon.

No way, Maple Village has produced shrine maidens from generation to generation, and they have a deep foundation. They have their own barrier method to distinguish between humans and non-human beings. At the moment when the shrine maidens are at their peak, Enichi is blocked by the barrier.

The witch was in the village, originally raising her bow and arrow as if to attack, but she found that the non-human standing outside the barrier was just a child, a young half-demon...

"What are you doing here?"

Yuanyi put down his backpack and knocked on the prison door. When the cursed object spit out coarse salt, honey, sauces and vegetables, he pushed his backpack towards the barrier and said gently: "I want to exchange something with you."

After a while, the barrier opened for him.

The villagers tentatively exchanged honey and sauce, and after discovering that the half-demon was really here to do business and not to cause harm to people, Yuan Yi was immediately surrounded by people.

"This is the fur I have saved for a year. Can I exchange it with you for a pearl flower?" A young man said, "If it's not enough, I can give you all the prey and copper coins..."

Pearl flowers are not cheap, but judging from the man's expression, he seemed to want to give them to his sweetheart.

Yuanyi agreed to the deal.

This approach seems to have opened up an opening, and his transactions are getting smoother. Maple Village is rich in bows and arrows and furs, Hanami Castle is rich in hairpins and jewelry, Chikuzen Land is rich in gold and silver minerals, and Nagato is rich in condiments...

By adding, adding, and subtracting, Yuanyi made a lot of money.

There was a lot of fur and animal meat stuffed in the prison gate, which presumably would provide the Demon Slayer Corps with a lot of warm cloaks for their night operations, and food for him and his brother was also provided.

The popular Yuanyi was warmly received by the villagers.

The honest boy was careless. Seeing that the villagers were no longer wary of him, he directly revealed his purpose.

"I came to Maple Village because I wanted to see the Bone-eating Well." Yuan said, "I heard that monster bones will slowly disappear when thrown into the well. Is this true?"

"So I want to see the Bone-Eating Well." The villagers didn't make a fuss, obviously they were not surprised. After all, they had encountered too many curious people like Yuanyi.

"May I?"

"It's not a big deal."

The villagers led Yuan Yi forward towards the bone-eating well outside the village: "The rumors are true. Monster bones placed in the bone-eating well will slowly disappear. But living animals such as rabbits and wild boars will fall into it.

After that, he will never disappear. Even if he is locked at the bottom of the well for a day or two, he will still be alive when he should be alive."

Yuanyi listened carefully: "Is it rejecting living creatures?"

"That should be the case," the villager said. "If a living creature would disappear if it fell, the Bone-eating Well would have been sealed by the miko-sama a long time ago."

The Bone-eating Well does not swallow living creatures, but Su Nuo's finger cannot be said to be a living thing. In other words, if you throw your finger into the well, everything will be fine.

"Can spells be thrown at the Well of Bones?"

"We need to ask the miko-sama for instructions."

The villagers took Yuanyi to their destination and pointed to an unprotected ancient well and told him that it was the Bone-Eating Well.

Yuan Yi was quite shocked. He thought that the Bone-eating Well was jointly guarded by witches and priestesses. The barrier was unbreakable, guarding ten levels inside and outside, and sealing countless important places.

As a result, the bone-eating well in reality is a wasteland overgrown with weeds, inhabited, with broken stone walls and only a tall sacred tree in the distance.

The gap was too great and he fell into silence.

"It's hard to believe, but this is the Bone-Eating Well," the villager said. "Although it is a place where monster corpses are disposed of, people of all generations have dealt with it carelessly because it can 'escape'."

"Can you run?" Yuan tilted his head, why did Jing run?

"It is said that two hundred years ago, the Bone-eating Well fell in Musashi's Tatelin. Then one day it suddenly disappeared, along with the sacred trees. When they appeared again, they were in Maple Village.

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The villagers couldn't explain why, and Yuanyi couldn't figure it out either. He just lay down at the mouth of the well and looked down under the care of the villagers. He moved his nose lightly and smelled the smell of rotting bones and moist earth.

The smell that had settled for a long time was very turbid and definitely not pleasant. But vaguely, Yuanyi felt a gust of wind coming from the bottom of the well.

"Is there a cave underground?"

"No, it's closed." The villager said, "I'll ask the miko to come over. No spells have been thrown into the bone-eating well."

Yuanyi responded and stood quietly by the well waiting. However, when he lay down on the well mouth, he could still feel the wind blowing against his face.

wind……

It rises from the bottom of the well, but it's not like coming from the bottom of the well. The smell it brings is very clean, not the smell of rotten bones.

It was as if there was another passage underneath, slowly opening towards him.

Yuanyi scratched the mouth of the well, and the dog ears on his head twitched. He wanted to see more carefully, and more carefully... He stretched his neck little by little until his entire upper body was resting on the mouth of the well.

It's really windy and the smell it brings is incompatible with this place.

Surprisingly, he captured an extremely slight sound coming from the bottom of the well.

"Sister, Grandpa, there was a voice from the bottom of the well just now." It was a boy's voice, slightly older than him.

"Souta, don't talk nonsense." It was a girl's voice, with some helplessness, "It really scared me, I almost smashed grandpa's jar!"

"Don't smash the jar, there's a kappa's foot inside, it has a lot of history!" was the old man's frantic voice.

There are really people...

Yuanyi's dog ears twitched even more cheerfully.

There was a smell of soap locust in the wind, but it was more pungent than the soap locust made from plants, and it was also mixed with the smell of water. Yuanyi curiously leaned out, from a little bit to a large length, and then -

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The basket on his back tilted suddenly, and the prison door inside fell unexpectedly.

Yuan Yiyi instinctively kicked his feet and hugged the prison gate. When he turned around and tried to use his strength to jump up to the wellhead, he found that his legs were too short and could not reach the stone wall.

Yuanyi:……

After just a moment of distraction, he saw that the sky above his head was getting smaller and smaller. He thought he would fall into the wet mud, but he didn't expect that there was no real feeling of landing under him, and instead he turned into a void.

The sky above the well disappeared and turned into a blue, swirling vortex of planets.

Countless lights and shadows scattered around him, piercing through the front and back like rays. Yuanyi felt that he was traveling through a long corridor, so long that for the first time he had the illusion that "maybe he will never see it again."

He could no longer smell his brother's breath, as if he was a world away.

"Brother..." Yuanyi disappeared at the bottom of the well.

At the same moment, in the distant barren mountains, Sesshomaru suddenly stopped while walking, his eyes suddenly widened, and for the first time he had an obvious expression of shock.

The smell of the half-demon disappeared...

After being stunned for three breaths, he directly coiled up the demonic clouds and flew towards Maple Village, as fast as lightning. Then, he completely shattered the barrier of Maple Village with a blast of territory, carrying indescribable anger.

, following the breath, he landed next to the Bone-Eating Well.

At this time, humans and witches arrived.

"Who are you?"

"He broke the barrier, it's the invading monster!"

"Don't make a move yet, his demonic aura..." The miko trembled all over and stopped sternly, "Don't make a move!"

The villagers had to retreat. Under the murderous aura of Sesshomaru, cold sweat broke out all over their bodies. No one dared to move, no one dared to say anything. When they calmed down and faced the big demon, the humans discovered

What a terrifying existence we were confronting just now!

Really... I wish I could grow eight legs and run!

Sesshomaru was in a very bad mood, and the whip on his fingertips was ready to move. He smelled the smell of the half-demon and disappeared at the bottom of the well, but there was no half-demon in the well.

"Where is that half-demon?" Sesshomaru opened his claws and veins bulged on his arms, "Human!"

The witch said calmly: "I heard that he wanted to see the bone-eating well in the village, so the villagers brought him here. We don't know his whereabouts, but we are willing to help you find him."

They are no match for this monster. If the other party really wants to take action, they won't even have a chance to resist.

what to do?

"Human, he's full of lies." Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes, "You sealed him, where is he?"
To be continued...