The door of the room was gently pushed open, and in the darkness, a miko wearing white clothes and scarlet hakama stepped out gently.
She looked around the village, then turned back and closed the door without making the slightest movement. Just like that, near midnight, the witch left her house and walked towards the outside of the village. Although her movements were very slight,
I didn't realize that when I passed a room, the little girl inside was not asleep at all.
Xiao Ye has been thinking about what happened during the day, and she tossed and turned without falling asleep.
Although she got an answer from Sister Platycodon, her sister's worried look was something she had never seen before...it was all in the afternoon. That monk is not good!
Then at this moment, she happened to see the figure of the witch passing by the window.
Xiao Ye was stunned for a moment, her little heart suddenly jumped rapidly, and an uncontrollable thought emerged in her mind, and then firmly occupied all her thoughts - It's so late, Sister Kikyo is going to
Where are you going? Could it be... are you preparing to leave here?
The little girl couldn't lie down any longer and immediately got up. Without waking up her parents and younger brother who were sleeping soundly on the mat, she quickly walked to the door and looked out through the crack in the door.
She realized that she was not wrong, but that the witch sister was indeed walking towards the outside of the village. The slender figure was slowly walking through the fields, getting further and further away, and was about to disappear into the dark night.
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Gritting her teeth, she quietly opened the door and tiptoed into the night.
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The night is silent and as dark as ink.
Under this night, Platycodon grandiflorum walked quietly on the path in the field, looking calm.
It's just that she didn't notice the little tail following her far behind. From this, it can be seen that she is not as calm as she appears on the inside, and she doesn't know what she is thinking. Otherwise, it would be difficult to imagine her
His perception would be so dull that he would not even notice a little girl following him.
Leaving the village like this, she walked into a forest in the dark night. Soon she came to an empty river bank. The witch stopped and looked around casually. She felt that there was a forest covering it. If there was any movement, she would wait.
, the village side should not be affected.
She listened to the gurgling sound of the river beside her, with a calm expression on her face, and gently raised one hand toward the sky.
The white clothes of the witch costume had wide and long sleeves, which slid down along with her movements, revealing her jade-white forearms. At this moment, some faint mottled light spots appeared in the night sky, echoing her movements.
Action.
They appear in the sky like fireflies flying on a summer night, heading straight for the river bank with clear goals.
After quickly approaching, you can see that they are five or six snake-like things with slender and graceful bodies. Their heads have delicate and small flying wings, and each of them firmly grasps a softly shining,
A ball of light with an illusory outline is flying towards this side.
On the bank of the river, the moonlight is bright.
These smart "flying snakes" came to the witch's side, circled around her several times, and dropped the light group they caught, which was caught by the witch's hand.
Platycodon's soul has been reincarnated a long time ago, and now it has become another person. During the resurrection, it was the ghost Litao who used her spiritual bones and tomb soil to bake the body, and used magic to extract the reincarnated soul to resurrect it.
, but in the subsequent fight, the soul was still taken back by Higurashi Kagome.
The shrine maiden who fell short can only leave with the resentment of her life. However, the incompleteness of the soul cannot last forever. She needs to collect the dead souls of girls to fill her body before she can act.
However, the dead souls will eventually ascend to heaven, and she cannot keep them in her hands forever, so after a short period of time, she will collect new dead souls...
"Poor dead girls, come to me." Muttering to herself, the witch carefully caught the light groups with a very gentle movement. Since they were the dead souls of girls, it meant that they were all still alive.
A girl who dies very young is indeed a very pitiful fate.
Of course, he was not qualified to pity them... Kikyo didn't know what he was thinking of, and a self-deprecating smile appeared on his calm face.
Shaking her head gently, she looked at the dead soul insects that were gradually scattering, and frowned slightly. One of the dead soul insects didn't come back. Did something happen?
And at this time——
"Miko girl, are you... going to die with your eyes open?"
A sudden hoarse voice appeared in the woods behind her, and Kikyo sighed softly. She recognized that it was the wandering mage who had come to preach to her this afternoon.
The other party still refused to give up. He was driven out of the village in the afternoon, and countless angry villagers threatened to beat him to death. But now, they still came to him. This determination can be said to be quite determined... There is no way to tell for sure.
I have been waiting for the opportunity since I left the village.
But my heart was not calm either, and I didn’t realize this...
Thinking this way, Kikyo looked straight ahead and saw the spacious and calm river surface sparkling with sparkling waves under the bright moonlight.
She did not look back, but said softly: "Master, can you please let me go?"
"Are you a dead person? Forgive me, I can't pretend I didn't see it!" Old monk Qinghai's voice became extremely serious. He had already made some speculations during the day, and now he saw the scene of dead soul insects collecting dead souls, it was even more serious.
After being convinced of this, the aura exuding from him became obvious, and he seemed to be about to take action.
Frowning, Kikyo felt a trace of unspeakable annoyance in her heart. She turned around and was about to continue saying something, but after seeing the old monk's appearance clearly, she couldn't help being stunned.
The old monk opposite stood there solemnly, and behind him were the young monks. However, they were in a much more embarrassed state now than during the day. The monk's robes on their bodies were torn into tatters, and even if they tried hard to tidy them up, they were still in a state of disarray.
It was damaged in many places and turned into pieces of rags.
The young monk had several bruises on his face, and the old monk also had one eye socket turned black and blue, and there was a piece of cloth stuffed in his nose, which seemed to be used to stop bleeding...
Even if he was standing there with a righteous and solemn look at this moment, holding the magic weapon in his hand, the aura of magic power fluctuating strongly, or showing an aura of uprightness and hatred of evil, it could not change this.
The embarrassing appearance... even forms an extremely sharp contrast.
Although the witch didn't laugh, she was obviously stunned for a moment, and the expression on her face suddenly looked very strange.
There is a flaw!
This is the moment!
His eyes flashed with light, and the old monk shouted loudly. He suddenly raised his hand and clenched the magic weapon in his hand. It was a spherical object, engraved with a dragon-shaped pattern, like a dragon wrapping around a pearl. Accompanied by
With the infusion of mana, the magic weapon blooms with dazzling light.
From the overflowing light, a dragon-shaped figure roared out and quickly grew in response to the wind, turning into an outline several feet long!
Although it was summoned in the form of a divine dragon, the summoned object used the same method as a giant python to strangle its prey. The huge dragon-shaped shadow suddenly wrapped around the witch who was caught off guard on the opposite side, and a claw also clawed at her.
Slender and graceful slender neck!
"Rest in peace, miko!"
The old monk shouted loudly. He felt the intense consumption of his own magic power, and he was also frightened. The terrifying level of the witch opposite him was far beyond his imagination! However, he did not intend to retreat, but continued to increase his strength.
The infusion of great mana.
"You can't escape the Soul Binding Technique! Just ascend to heaven! Don't miss this world anymore, I'm saving your soul!"
He yelled loudly, hoping that his words would have some effect, even just a little bit. As long as the miko listened a little bit, her mind was shaken, and she no longer resisted so much, it would be much easier for him to transcend the other party. However...
There is indeed an effect, but it is a counter-effect.
After reacting, Kikyo's eyes suddenly turned cold, and even her tone rarely contained a hint of obvious anger: "Save me? - It's just you?!"
"Master, look here!"
Two voices sounded at the same time, overlapping at this moment.
At this moment, the old monk heard the sound of wind in his ears, and his eyes widened in astonishment. As soon as he turned his head, he saw a fist zooming in his field of vision!
On the other side, the witch waved her sleeves vigorously, and the huge divine dragon tightly wrapped around her body was instantly stretched open by the terrifying and huge spiritual power! And that's not all, even under the impact of the huge spiritual power, the entire body of the divine dragon
It was split every inch on the spot, as if it had been dismembered!
Instead of luminous fragments of flesh and blood shooting out in all directions, there seemed to be a rain of fragments by the river!
"Ah!"
The old monk screamed in pain, and his whole body flew backwards and fell heavily to the ground. The magic weapon in his hand also flew out, rolled on the ground a few times, and then shattered and cracked into pieces.
A few pieces... Of course it's not that it's of poor quality and was smashed, but that the mana dragon was directly shattered to pieces by the witch's spiritual power, causing the backlash.
"Ahhhhhhh..."
Seeing the old monk's decisive defeat, the young monk behind him was frightened, screamed, turned around and rolled into the woods, but no one stopped him.
"You...you..."
The old monk was extremely distressed. He immediately looked at the magic weapon that he had thrown away, but he didn't know that he had escaped. With his eyes turning black and blue, he raised his head from the ground and looked at that person in shock and anger.
I don’t know when the half-demon young man appeared, but he saw that the opponent had just enough time to retract his fist.
This is still the result of Gu Mo not trying his best, otherwise——
An old monk with an average physique is still so old. His 15 points of strength are really enough to punch someone to death, and their heads will explode.
"Master, why are you struggling so hard? I thought you had learned enough lessons during the day..."
Gu Mopi said with a smile. He did not look back at the witch behind him, but he could still feel the cold and low pressure emitting from Platycodon at this moment: "I was not stabbed to death by the villagers with a dung fork in the afternoon. I was able to run out.
It’s already pretty good, why do you have to think so hard about it?”
"You...you..." The old monk was angry and anxious, but he was also a little breathless because of the old punch just now. He lay on the ground on all fours and panted for a long time before he was unwilling to give up.
He raised his head and looked at the miko who was looking at him indifferently with a cold expression.
"I don't know...but, but, you can't pretend you haven't seen it, and what on earth do you want to do when you stay in this world?"
"Only the living are qualified to continue to create the future, but the time of the dead has stopped, and there is no future..."
The old monk didn't seem to be afraid of the fate he might encounter next. Even at this time, he was still saying this with sorrow. He was not afraid of his failure or the fate of being killed. He just felt sincerely that what was happening in front of him was
This dead man is very pitiful.
"..."
"..."
There was a brief silence in the air.
Kikyo looked at the embarrassed old monk coldly. Under the white moonlight, her temperament seemed to have become colder. But in the end, she didn't do anything, and there was no emotion in her tone. She was just the same as before.
Tranquil and ordinary——
"Go away and don't appear in front of me again."
She was indeed extremely angry just now, but even in the original fate track, the old monk's death was just an accidental injury. The mana was bounced back, and the sharp claws of the broken mana dragon penetrated her throat. She died because she was rebounded
And under the magic of returning.
So now that I have calmed down, it is naturally even more impossible to take action.
"You..." The old monk looked up in shock. After realizing what he heard, he opened his mouth again as if he wanted to say something else.
"Give up, Master."
Gu Mo leaned against a tree over there, lowered his head and picked at his nails, and said calmly and casually: "If obsession can be resolved with a few simple words, then obsession will not disappear.
It’s obsession, you obviously can’t do anything...why don’t you understand?”
Reason cannot resolve obsessions, and force is far from an opponent. What else can the old monk do?
He is indeed a good person and a virtuous monk, but there is really no need to kill himself on this steel plate...
"The world is so chaotic. Master, wouldn't it be wrong for you to remain useful and save other people?" He stared at Master Qinghai and said this very straightforwardly.
His face suddenly turned gloomy, and the old monk's lips moved a few times. In the end, he didn't say anything, but let out a long sigh.
The old monk got up from the ground in a very embarrassed manner, patted the dust on his body, wiped the blood on his face, then silently picked up the dragon ball-shaped magic weapon that was broken into several pieces on the ground, and looked to the opposite side.
The two people seemed to have lost all their energy at once, their rickety bodies turned around and slowly left.
"..."
"..."
The air became quiet and silent again.
Gu Mo turned his head and looked at the cold-looking witch, and found that perhaps due to the burst of spiritual power just now, her long hair had fallen down, and the water that bound her hair had gone somewhere.
Under the bright moonlight, that black, waist-length, textured hair seems to be emitting light.
Seeing that Kikyo didn't move for a long time, he hesitated for a moment, coughed slightly, causing the miko's attention to turn slightly, and then pointed in a certain direction on the other side of the woods.
Kikyo, who looked calm, looked in the direction he indicated, and then the cold and calm look on her face suddenly disappeared, replaced by complete surprise——
"Xiao, Xiaoye? How could you..."
Behind a big tree, the dumb little girl realized that she had been exposed. A look of fear immediately appeared on her face. Faced with the witch calling her name, she subconsciously took a step back in fear.
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She is a child after all, and the scenes that just happened were beyond her imagination.
And she has never seen such a terrifying miko sister——
His expression was so cold, and the feeling was so depressing. It was completely different from the gentleness and kindness in the past, making her feel extremely strange.
"..."
"..."
Seeing the little girl's instinctive fearful expression and retreating movements, Kikyo's expression suddenly became slightly gloomy, and the steps she was about to walk over subconsciously stopped.
"I'm sorry, I scared you..." she said softly, her tone full of apology.
After a pause, the miko didn't seem to know what to say.
She was silent for a moment, then looked at the ground not far away. There were several tiny pieces of magical artifacts lying there quietly. The old monk was not able to take them all away. And what happened just now, the old monk said
The past words seemed to reappear in front of her eyes again.
She lowered her eyes slightly and said calmly: "Let's go."
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The long nightclub has passed, and the sun will always rise as usual.
Among the unknown barren mountains and ridges, on a rocky beach also close to the river, a square picnic cloth with a printed pattern was spread out on the flat open space, and several people sat on it and ate.
, there are various ready-to-eat snacks placed in the center of the picnic cloth, such as chips and mineral water bottles.
The painting style seems out of place for this era, and there is even a women's bicycle parked next to it.
Wearing a sailor uniform and a dark blue pleated skirt, the girl standing next to the bicycle looked at Inuyasha and Master Maitreya sitting on the picnic cloth with the old gods still there, and couldn't help shouting: "Hey! Don't sit there.
Hey, when you’ve finished eating, let’s go quickly, we have to save the souls of those girls!”
"Where can I go to rescue..." Inuyasha held his tattered and rusty demon sword and looked at Higurashi Kagome angrily, "I had been chasing the monsters all night last night, and they lost them all at once.
There is no trace...and this matter will not be of any benefit to us, and we will not get the fragments of the Shikon Jade."
"Hey! Are you afraid of trouble?"
Higurashi Kagome's eyes widened. This person is here again. He wants the fragments of the Shikon Jade. If there are no fragments, he won't want to do anything.
"We have already chased them here. At least we know the direction of those monsters. Why don't we just keep looking for them? They might be nearby..."
The girl from five hundred years in the future was not willing to give up. She stood full of energy and looked around, looking for directions that might contain evil spirits. Last night, a group of them stayed in a town, and a wealthy family in that town took them in.
They also asked them to take action to eliminate the demon.
Because it is said that a monster that will take away the soul of a dead girl has appeared recently, and the daughter of that family also happened to die at a young age, so I want to ask them to take action.
While waiting until late at night, they did see the monster that came to collect the souls of the dead. It seemed to be a weak and weak monster, but Inuyasha killed it with a single blow.
I originally thought that the matter would end here, but I didn't expect that there were more than one, and there were more outside, flying through the sky with the light of the dead souls... As a result, they chased all the way through the night, all the way here.
"Eh? There are people in front of me. How about we ask them?"
Higurashi Kagome, who was looking around, suddenly brightened up and pointed forward.
Everyone looked around and found that at the end of the winding road along the river bank, two figures appeared. They seemed to be two wandering monks. The young monk supported the old monk and was walking towards them in a discreet manner.