I am Jinshan Youxia

Looking at the girl's face, Inuyasha buried his reluctance and sadness deep in his heart and said, "You don't need to leave. I won't stay in Kaede Village."

"Kikyo, would you like to come with me?"

He turned his head to look at his lover and asked with all the courage he had in his life.

The Shikon Jewel is not important, nor is it important whether he can become a complete youkai. What matters most is whether he can still have his beloved by his side in his life.

All eyes turned to them. Kikyo remained silent for a while before softly saying, "Hmm."

Being able to come back to life and continue living as a human being, she did have some regrets that she wanted to make up for.

As expected, Kagome still falls far short of Inuyasha's affections at this point.

Zhang Chengyi wasn't surprised by the final result; he was just a little disappointed. No matter how interesting the content of a shoujo romance manga was, the characters and plot ultimately couldn't escape the constraints of monogamy.

Logically speaking, in another world, as a proper, bouncy zombie, he already had three wives and four concubines. Yet, a descendant of a powerful demon who could kill hundreds of monsters with a single swing of his sword was caught in a love triangle and ultimately only chose one.

abstract.

"Okay." Kagome seemed relieved, stretching and saying casually, "Honestly, I really don't know what to do if I suddenly have to leave. Ha~ Ah, I'm so tired, I'm going to rest now."

She then yawned, squeezing out the tears that had been welling up in her eyes. The glistening, tiny droplets fell, and it was as if a rainbow, refracted from behind her, rolled down and shattered.

It was a very elegant and polite exit.

"Excuse me." Granny Feng bowed slightly, then turned and followed.

It would be a good thing if my sister could find happiness, if that happiness didn't come at the cost of Kagome's concessions.

Inuyasha forced himself not to shout out loud, nor did he turn around to look. He said, "Lord Rat God, I will definitely help you find Totosai."

He wasn't used to using honorifics to address a mouse he had previously looked down upon, but now he felt he could never repay such a debt of gratitude.

"Forget it." Zhang Chengyi waved his hand and said, "I'm going to find a place to sleep soon. If I wake up in the future and you're still alive, we can discuss it then. Oh, here it comes."

A woman wearing full armor landed.

[Wearing a mask at a time like this, could it be that Midori...?]

Zhang Chengyi thought to himself and said, "Cuizi, we just killed Naraku. Check if there are any remnants of evil energy or miasma nearby."

"Yes." Cui Zi replied respectfully, and an unimaginable amount of spiritual power instantly filled the surrounding space.

Those who can sense spiritual energy feel as if the air becomes viscous when they breathe.

Kikyo looked at Midori for a while, her expression changed, but she didn't say anything.

"It's been resolved, Lord Rat God," Midori replied quickly.

You really did have a backup plan, Naraku.

Zhang Chengyi felt it was normal. If he didn't know that Naraku had too many tricks up his sleeve, he wouldn't have waited for Cui Zi to come and check him over.

"Well then, that's settled." He ascended into the sky on the white clouds that the white dumplings had transformed into, looked down at Inuyasha and Kikyo, and said meaningfully, "We'll meet again in the future."

It doesn't matter. Even if they're all dead, he can still resurrect them in his underground world when he wakes up.

I'm getting more and more excited about the future.

Zhang Chengyi, brimming with pride, controlled the white ball of fluff as it flew toward the Land of Volcanoes, while Cui Zi stood silently behind him.

Chapter 205 'Midori'

"Cuizi."

After leaving Maple Village, Zhang Chengyi suddenly said, "I'm going to sleep after I finish assembling the Shikon Jewel."

"Lord Rat God, I will protect you."

Cui Zi said respectfully.

“No.” Zhang Chengyi smiled. “Erlang has recently been retracing the path that Yamabushi once walked. In the future, he will go to more mountains. He will not stay by my side, nor will he stay in this small place in Japan.”

There are many majestic and magnificent mountains outside.

I hope you feel the same way.

Cui Zi remained silent, noticing that the white ball of fluff that had turned into a cloud was slowly slowing down.

Zhang Chengyi turned around and decided to be more specific: "Cuizi, do you still remember what you look like?"

"..."

"Click~"

After a period of silence, Midori reached out and removed the mask from her face, revealing a blank expression. Her voice was low as she said, "I'm sorry, Lord Rat God, I'm not the real Midori. I'm just a... a..."

"A monster that can use spiritual power?"

Zhang Chengyi said what Cui Zi couldn't say, and then said, "The power of the Shikon Jewel is truly amazing; it can even make a youkai use spiritual power."

“I’ve been wondering for a long time: if the same souls were to merge and overlap, I should be able to create more powerful souls. Why is it that only your soul is getting stronger?”

“If you are not Midori, but a youkai born from the combination of Midori’s obsession and the broken Shikon Jewel, then it seems to make sense.”

He shouldn't have thought of it so late. The only other Midori that appeared in the manga, besides not having a rotting corpse, was the faceless Midori that Inuyasha encountered in the final chapter.

If Cui Zi has forgotten much after hundreds of years of fighting, leaving only her obsession, and after being strengthened by external forces and purifying Qu Ling, could she still survive?

Or rather, is there still a desire to continue living?

It's highly likely that it's gone.

The Shikon Jewel is an object where holiness and evil coexist. The 'Midori' in front of him, the 'Midori' who had been inside him before, was a special life form, or rather, a special youkai, that possessed both holiness and evil.

Cui Zi lowered her head and said, "I'm sorry, I've been deceiving you all this time."

Why was she so certain from the beginning that the other party was a deity?

Because she simply doesn't have the potential to be born. The real Midori is an absolutely powerful priestess who could never become a monster. Even if she survives out of obsession, she would be like Kikyo, who was resurrected by the demon woman Uta, a dead priestess with zero chance of becoming a monster.

But the real Midori was too exhausted. She should have died immediately after the battle, instead of her soul remaining. Moreover, the soul fragments inside the Shikon Jewel shards were not the complete Midori soul at all, so how could they remain? Dissipating on the spot and finding peace was Midori's final destiny.

However, Zhang Chengyi's ability allowed Cui Zi's soul fragments to not only not dissipate or shatter, but also to be stubbornly preserved, only the real 'Cui Zi' was already dead.

The blank yet powerful soul is the remnant that was forcibly preserved by the mod after the Shikon Jewel was completely purified.

Note that at that time, many Shikon Jewel fragments were copied from Zhang Chengyi's stomach. One of them was purified, which naturally attracted the attention of the other fragments. Logically speaking, Cui Zi should not have been able to take the initiative. After all, no matter how strong and determined she was, she had forgotten how to speak and what she looked like after hundreds of years. How could she possibly gain the initiative?

Just as the Shikon Jewel can only grant powers to humans and yokai, even though both the sacred and the evil coexist, Midori simply has no ability to respond to others.

Ultimately, the only option was to utilize the properties of jade, sacrificing himself and Qu Ling together when someone made a correct wish, thus causing the jade to disappear completely.

The appearance of a powerful, blank soul gives the Midori and the others inside the Shikon Jewel shards an opportunity.

It's unclear who started it, but the likes poured their obsessions into the blank soul, absorbing the miraculous properties of the Shikon Jewel and nurturing an unprecedentedly powerful being capable of wielding spiritual energy...

"I am a half-demon, a half-demon who has not yet been born and only has a soul."

'Midori' uttered a surprising word.

"..." Now it was Zhang Chengyi's turn to be speechless. He guessed it might be a monster, but he never expected it to be like this, and he never expected that the one in his belly was also a half-demon.

"Why didn't you say so sooner?" he sighed.

This explains why Midori became stronger after each soul overlap; ultimately, what truly determines the strength of a soul is its obsession.

Half-demons who only have a soul and no body have not yet completed their transformation. Just like Onigumo who was devoured by demons but has not yet become Onigumo, they can continue to grow stronger. The Shikon Jewel that is constantly provided is used by the Midorikos inside to repeatedly imbue them with resentment and give them a soul.

It was through the countless sacrifices of Cui Zi that this half-demon 'Cui Zi' continuously grew stronger.

It has absolutely nothing to do with overlapping souls, because what determines the strength of a soul is the heart. No matter how many souls there are, as long as the hearts are the same, there will be no change when they overlap. The half-demon Midori and the real Midori's remnant soul are not the same soul at all, which is why they can obtain different nourishment from the obsessions in different fragments.

This process is so absurd, it's practically a combination of Jiro and Naraku.

"Midori" said somewhat shyly, "At first, I didn't know I wasn't the real 'Midori,' and later when I found out, I didn't have the chance to confess to you, so..."

"Never mind, never mind." Zhang Chengyi was too lazy to argue about it, and suddenly looked up and said, "Shouldn't you have your own name too?"

'Suiko' immediately recalled the strange names that Lord Rat God had given to Erlang, and said immediately, "I think I should still use the name Suiko."

She paused, then said earnestly, "Lord Rat God, I have inherited everything from them, and I will also inherit their name."

According to Japanese tradition, important figures would give one character from their own name to their descendants, which is called a "tōki" (通讳). For example, Oda Nobunaga and Oda Nobutada share the character "Nobunaga" (信). Midori was a shrine maiden without a surname, so naturally, only her name could be passed down.

"Sigh, alright then." Zhang Chengyi was a little disappointed that he had failed to name the cloud again. He needed to speed things up this time. Sesshomaru was almost there, but they were still quite a distance from the Land of Volcanoes.

Behind the cloud, several openings mimicked the jet nozzles of flight, and a large amount of demonic energy was replicated from the sealed 'internal space' inside the cloud. The cloud layer bulged slightly, and then the internal space opened up, compressing the airflow and spraying it out through the jet nozzles.

"laugh!"

"Hey, Cui Zi." Zhang Chengyi's voice was somewhat muffled and distorted during the high-speed flight. "You can't keep using this blank face, it's too awkward to look like Erlang."

Cui Zi was somewhat confused: "Lord Rat God, I don't know either..."

Chapter 206 You didn't want to either...

"We've finally met, Sesshomaru. All you need to do is—"

"Whoosh!"

They were having a good chat through the white dumpling, but as soon as they met, before Zhang Chengyi could finish a single sentence, Sesshomaru rushed over and attacked with his claws without any mercy.

"Boom!"

Midori erected a barrier, and Sesshomaru's claws snapped off one by one as he struck, blood streaming from his palm.

Zhang Chengyi stood calmly on Cui Zi's shoulder and said, "You don't want me to kill your mother, do you?"

Sesshomaru didn't waste any words. According to the demon's concept, if someone dies, it's because they were incompetent and no one else is to blame. Without hesitation, he used his transplanted human arm to pull out the Tessaiga and swung the sword to unleash the Wind Scar.

"boom!"

Despite the rampant demonic power, the barrier remained unmoved. Even though Sesshomaru could unleash a terrifying Wind Scar on a person and a rat without any demonic energy vortex, he still had no chance of breaching Midori's barrier.

They're not even in the same league.

"Cuizi." Zhang Chengyi's unique yet irritating voice rang out.

Sesshomaru's human arm had been injured by the Tessaiga's counterattack, preventing him from swinging it continuously like Inuyasha. Sensing the abnormal spiritual energy fluctuations, he immediately withdrew and retreated.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

The white balls imbued with spiritual power swarmed forward, and under Midori's control, they quickly wrapped Sesshomaru into a white cocoon. Midori even pressed a spell to ensure that the guy would have no room to resist before releasing the barrier.