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Chapter 127 Can I touch your ears?

Since Zizhi took the initiative to speak.

Uchiha Hikaru stopped being coy.

After receiving the blood jade coral from the half-demon girl, she began to ask how to use it.

"this……"

Although Zizhi was the original owner of the Blood Jade Coral, she was still young and her language skills were not very good, so she couldn't explain herself clearly for a while.

Kikyo came over again, listened patiently for a while, and then began to translate for Uchiha Hikaru:

"...This kind of magical artifact needs to be activated by the demonic power of the Hundred Ghost Bat Clan. The stronger the demonic power injected, the more solid the barrier will be."

"Although Shiori is a half-demon, her demonic power is outstanding, so she can create a barrier comparable to her father's at a young age."

—In the official Inuyasha encyclopedia, Shiori's demonic power is listed as five stars, on par with Sesshomaru, a whole tier higher than Inuyasha, who is also a half-demon and whose father is the Dog General. If it weren't for her aversion to fighting, she might have been the most powerful half-demon of her time…

"Miss Hikari, you just absorbed the demonic power of Daigokumaru, so theoretically you should be able to activate the Blood Jade Coral, although you might not be able to unleash its full potential. However, Shiori said there's another way..."

Kikyo paused here.

Zizhi picked up a long knife from the side and slashed her wrist.

"?!"

Uchiha Hikaru slightly widened his eyes and saw Shiori place her wrist above the Blood Jade Coral.

As the blood flowed, the blood jade coral shone brightly, displaying an incomparably dazzling crimson radiance.

After several dozen seconds, the light began to dim again. Zizhi's face had turned deathly pale, as if she had suffered severe exhaustion, yet she still gritted her teeth and persevered.

"That's fine."

Kikyo quickly took out herbs and gauze from her satchel, and while bandaging Shiori to stop the bleeding, she said to Uchiha Hikaru:

"Zizhi used her own blood as a medium to inject demonic power into the Blood Jade Coral, breaking its seal. Now you should be able to use the power of this magical artifact at will, just like her."

"...Is it still possible to do it this way?"

Uchiha Hikaru hesitated for a moment, then took out a Senzu Bean from his person and held it to Shiori's lips: "Eat this."

"Plop—"

After swallowing a magic bean, the little girl's wrist wound healed quickly, and the color that had been lost from her face returned to her skin.

Kikyo raised an eyebrow and turned back to look at him with some surprise: "Is this the kind of thing you gave me last time, Miss Hikari? I didn't expect it to have such excellent healing effects. It's a pity it's ineffective on my body, making you waste one."

"It's not a matter of wasting or not wasting; I still have a little bit of this stuff in stock."

Uchiha Hikaru smiled, unconcerned.

She possesses a regenerative constitution granted by wishing, so she doesn't need to frequently use Senzu Beans to treat injuries. The Senzu Beans she gave to Kikyo, Shiori, and others were less than a tenth of her stock, and she could afford to consume them all.

After confirming that Zizhi was unharmed, she picked up the Blood Jade Coral and tried to operate it.

As a faint wisp of demonic power was injected, a pale red barrier, tinged with a subtle blood-red hue, quietly expanded outwards. It continued to spread for over a hundred meters before gradually stopping.

"...Zizhi said that the size of the Blood Jade Barrier can be controlled by will. The smaller the barrier, the stronger it is. And the maximum coverage area is about a sphere with a diameter of one kilometer."

"Also, if there is someone you dislike inside the barrier, you can forcibly expel them."

"Understood."

Uchiha Hikaru tried a few more times and felt that he had almost gotten the hang of it.

She planned to test the barrier's defensive capabilities a few more times after returning home. Based on her current assessment, it should be between 70% and 35% of the Four Purple Flame Array's strength—the exact multiple depending on the barrier's coverage area.

Compared to the Four Purple Flame Array, which requires four people to maintain and has a slightly complicated activation method, the Blood Jade Coral Barrier is much easier to operate. It can be activated at any time by providing a little demonic power as a catalyst, and its size can be changed at will, making it an essential item for home and travel.

present.

After resting briefly, Uchiha Hikaru and his group, along with Shiori and her daughter, boarded a larger helicopter that Bulma had pulled out and flew towards Maple Village.

Having become accustomed to flying yokai like the Hundred Demon Bats, the mother and daughter, Shiori, were not too alarmed by the existence of the helicopter, simply regarding it as a special kind of vehicle.

During the flight, the little girl touched the glass and looked out for a while, a look of curiosity on her face.

"Miss Kikyo, is Kaede Village the area in front of us?"

Bulma asked without turning her head as she piloted the plane.

"Yes."

Kikyo took a quick look and nodded.

A few minutes later.

The plane slowly landed in a corner of the village.

Then the group jumped out of the cabin, and after Bulma retrieved the helicopter into the capsule, they entered Maple Village under Kikyo's guidance.

Villagers had noticed their arrival and reported it to the village chief, Granny Feng.

Grandma Feng's expression was clearly complicated when she saw her older sister again.

Kikyo, however, seemed to have let it go. After casually greeting her sister, she began to recount the story of Shiori and her mother. She then briefly introduced Uchiha Hikaru, Bulma, and the others.

Just then, a commotion came from the other side.

However, Inuyasha and his group returned to the village amidst much noise and commotion.

Upon seeing Kikyo, Er Gouzi's eyes widened immediately: "Kikyo, you're back?!"

Uchiha Hikaru and Bulma glanced at Kikyo simultaneously.

The priestess looked at Inuyasha quietly, then suddenly smiled nonchalantly: "Yes, it's been a long time."

Because it was a rare encounter, the two groups sat down at Granny Feng's house and exchanged information about their progress in finding the Shikon Jewel fragments.

Throughout this process, Inuyasha's gaze kept drifting towards Kikyo—after all, he was still a 200-year-old child, incredibly naive, his emotions written all over his face. Meanwhile, Kagome's subtle feelings for Inuyasha, as a 15-year-old middle school student, were completely undisguised by Uchiha Hikaru and Bulma, who were aware of the plot.

but……

"Let Kikyo handle it herself; she should have already made a decision."

While Kikyo begins purifying the Shikon Jewel shards.

Hikaru Uchiha found Inuyasha and Kagome and asked them about Totosai and Ryukotsuse.

"You mean Old Master Daodaosai? We just ran into him not long ago. He should usually be... Who is Longgujing?"

"It's alright now."

Uchiha Hikaru waved his hand, then looked at Inuyasha's dog ears with a hint of curiosity: "This request might be a bit presumptuous, but... may I touch your ears?"

"?"

Under Inuyasha's bewildered gaze, Uchiha Hikaru reached out his small hand, rubbed his fluffy ears, and gently tugged at them a couple of times before finally saying with satisfaction, "They feel pretty good, just like the real thing."

"??"

Feeling insulted about his demon status, Inuyasha snarled, "What do you mean 'just like the real thing'... Are you mocking my half-demon identity?!"

"Aren't you being a little too sensitive?"

……

After a brief stay of one and a half days in Maple Village, Uchiha Hikaru and his group left again.

This time.

She finally found the Dragon Bone Spirit as she had wished.

(End of this chapter)