At the summer solstice, the smell of Platycodon grandiflorum changed.

She is a shrine maiden who protects jade. Because she has been fighting monsters all year round, it is normal for her body to have the smell of blood that cannot be washed away.

But she possesses pure spiritual power. Even though she is surrounded by the lingering smell of blood, she also exudes the fragrance of platycodon flowers. Just like her fate, she is like platycodon blooming in the sea of ​​blood, noble and sad.

But, I don’t know when, she started to have a little bit of evil.

It was as if someone had put an "evil thought" on her, like a black string that bound her in circles. She was constantly being pulled, and she was still confused.

When Yuanyi noticed it, he naturally asked: "Jikyo, have you met anyone recently?"

He and Platycodon stood together, blowing the wind, their long hair flying. The miko looked at the distant view and looked at the vermilion torii gate outside the shrine, but she didn't hide it from Yuiichi.

"Half a month ago, I rescued a robber who was covered in burns at the foot of a cliff." Kikyo said, "His hands and feet were severed, and he didn't have a single piece of skin on his body. He couldn't even move. He could only lie down on the straw mat and wait for death.

."

"I often go to take care of him, but he...maybe because he is a robber, he has very evil thoughts."

Platycodon said: "Even if he is never presumptuous in front of me and speaks politely, these evil thoughts are like maggots in the tarsal bones. After being purified once, they will come again."

She was kind-hearted and felt that the robber would not live long, so she let him go.

Unexpectedly, the robber who she thought would not survive seven days survived another seven days. A stubborn obsession supported him, as if he could last until the end of the world.

"Do you want to save him?" Yuanyi asked, "If so, I can help, and you don't have to go."

Kikyo didn't answer.

For a moment, there was only the rustling of the wind around the two of them.

"No need." Kikyo said, "Whether he lives or dies, it depends on his fate. Don't do anything, Sesshomaru does not allow you to interfere in human affairs-"

As if thinking of an interesting scene, she chuckled, with a rare girlish liveliness: "If you don't want to be angered by him, you'd better just watch."

"That robber..." Yuanyi reminded, "His evil thoughts can entangle you, and they will certainly entangle more things. Evil things will attract evil, so you have to be careful."

Platycodon nodded.

When she didn't want to turn around and leave, she saw Stepguo's second son hiding behind a tree and looking at her. This three-year-old child was very attached to her and would often follow her with a bamboo knife on his back, making a protective gesture.

attitude.

Whenever she allowed him to get closer, he was too scared to move forward.

Cute and funny.

But the child's behavior today was a bit strange. Was InuYasha bullying him? Why was he looking at InuYasha so ferociously?

"Yuanyi?" Kikyo opened her arms and leaned forward slightly, "Do you want me to hug you?"

Inuyasha:......

Whenever Kikyo makes the same movements as Kaori's mother, or says similar words, Inuyasha's little face will wrinkle into a ball, and his stomach will hurt beyond measure.

Why?

Why does platycodon bring "mother" so naturally?

InuYasha was so sad that he shed tears as a man, hid his face and left.

Kikyo: "Does he hate me?"

Yuanyi: "...No, he hates me very much."

If he saw Inuyasha standing with Shi with his skin on his back, he would also hate him.

Speaking of which, Shi was the same age as him, and should be three years old now. He still remembered that he met Shi in his previous life after he ran away from home. He ran aimlessly for a long time and met her in a large paddy field.

At that time, Shi was catching tadpoles. He caught and released them, crying with tears all over his face.

He asked her: "Won't you take them back?"

Poem: "It would be cruel to force them to be separated from their families."

It was only then that he learned that Shi's family had died of the epidemic, and she was the only one left in the family. At that time, he had a family that he couldn't return to, and he met her who had a family and didn't want to go back. They finally returned home together.

But he didn't keep his home.

The appearance of the evil ghost shattered his peaceful life...

The memory stops and Yuanyi sighs.

Time flies, and two hundred years have passed. As an immortal, he has no intention of renewing his relationship. He only hopes that Shi will have a good life and his family will be healthy.

He would go find her and help her, but he could no longer remember the road he ran in his previous life, nor the smell of Shi's body. The only image he could recall was of her lying in a pool of blood, lifeless.

"You look very disappointed."

"Yeah." Yuanyi whispered, "I just feel that life is very fragile. That's why strong people are needed to maintain and protect it."

When the wind blows, people eventually disperse. People are brought together by fate, and they are scattered by purpose. For example, now, Kikyo walks to the shrine and looks at the Shikon no Tama; Yuichi walks towards Inuyasha, and sees Iwakatsu who is focusing on practicing his sword.

The opening and closing of fate are always full of sorrow and joy. They are intertwined and full of silent coincidences.

Seeing him coming, Yan Sheng stood in front of him holding a bamboo knife: "I also want to learn the breathing method!"

【Yuanyi, teach me the breathing method.】

Yuan was startled, he knelt down and looked at Yan Sheng, and said: "Practice the breathing method, it is possible to open the markings." He lifted up his bangs, revealing the blood-red lines on his forehead, "Humans who develop markings will not live to be twenty-five years old.

"

The bamboo knife in Yan Sheng's hand fell to the ground.

"But my brother, Yuanyi... he practiced breathing techniques." Yan Sheng grabbed his hand, "What will happen to him?"

"He has a special constitution, so he should be fine." With his shell on his back, he could live to be at least eighty years old if he eats both meat and vegetables throughout his life.

Yan Sheng was silent and very sad: "Can't I practice breathing techniques?"

"I...can't be like Yuanyi?"

He saw his younger brother holding a bamboo sword and danced with flames in the forest, which was very similar to the fire dragon danced by Inuyasha when he killed the dragon bone spirit.

My younger brother has become so strong, but he is still so weak. Is this good? He will become a drag on his younger brother.

"No, we just need to be enlightened." Yuan Yiyi said, "Go find Platycodon, Yansheng. You have the talent to unlock spiritual power. If you can supplement it with spiritual power, you can make up for the loss after unlocking the stripes."

Yan Sheng raised his head: "Spiritual power?"

Yuan Yi nodded: "Everyone's talents and strengths are different. You have your own path, and others have other people's paths. You have spiritual power, dog... Your brother Yuan Yi has magical power, not because he is a brother.

The paths of both parties must match; as brothers, we do not have to practice the same thing."

After two lifetimes, Yuanyi finally said what he wanted to say the most: "Actually, you have always been excellent, Yan Sheng."

Yan Sheng looked at him, dazed.

Suddenly, tears streamed down his face.

"What's wrong?"

"I just want to cry suddenly..."

…

Sesshomaru didn't tell Enichi anything.

After staying in Seireitei for nearly two years, his mind was completely opened.

Yue Yaozhi's hidden talent of "foreseeing" was rediscovered by him. He often looked at the world with his inner eye during his rest, and he really saw strange things.

When he was in Soul King Palace, Oori Shou once said: "Spirit King is the cornerstone and wedge of the world, and controls many worlds."

At first, Sesshomaru didn't understand what "many worlds" meant. It wasn't until he had a clear mind and glimpsed one outrageous past and future after another that he understood what "multiple worlds" meant.

The past and the future overlap, the line of life and the line of death coincide. Destiny and retribution are connected, and luck and murderous intent appear together.

He saw "himself".

He was already a four-hundred-year-old demon, but he didn't know how to breathe and had never used his natural teeth. "He" came to Inuyasha, who had no markings on his forehead, and used a trick that was not very clever to get the black pearl.

Unexpectedly, after "he" entered the cemetery, he could neither pull out the Iron Fang nor kill Inuyasha. He even lifted his long hair in front of his stupid brother and asked him how he fell in love with her.

Sesshomaru:......

He really wanted to give "himself" a paw.

The most incredible thing is, what method was used to defeat the striped Inuyasha, so "he" actually turned into his original form?

It doesn’t matter if he turned into a white dog or destroyed his father’s skeleton, but what went wrong? Why did “he” get one of his hands chopped off by Inuyasha?

Absolutely not!

The broken iron teeth pierced his left arm, or chopped it from bottom to top. Shouldn't he have swung his claws to fly away the half-demon? How on earth did he let the other party chop off his arm?

What's even worse is that "he" subsequently tried to fight for Tie Suiya no less than three times, but failed every time. He didn't stop until he was seriously injured by a blow from Wind Damage.

"He" lay in the forest for an unknown amount of time. During his recuperation, he met a little girl who had lost her family and was willing to help him selflessly.

little girl?

Sesshomaru had a vague suspicion in his mind.
To be continued...