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582. Kid, do you even know what the strongest priestess is?

"Human-faced Fruit".

"The closer we got to Peach Blossom Village, the more of these fruits we found on the river flowing downstream. According to Kikyo's explanation, the Human-Face Fruit is produced by feeding humans to the Human-Face Fruit Tree, a kind of yokai."

"After getting to within a kilometer of Peach Blossom Village, Shirogane Miyuki finally had to admit that these fruits had definitely drifted down from that mountain."

"Miss Tsubaki once said that Master Momo was a good person who cultivated the righteous path."

"In other words, either the Peach Immortal is no longer the same as he was fifty years ago and has gone astray in his pursuit of immortality; or he has met with an accident and Peach Blossom Village has been occupied by another group of forces, including the Human-Faced Fruit Tree."

"Regardless of which one, Peach Blossom Spring is the enemy, that much is certain."

"Because Kikyo, the strongest priestess in the world, is there, Shirogane Miyuki has nothing to worry about. Apart from the legendary great demon, he doesn't think anyone can defeat Kikyo. What he is concerned about is that his goal may not be achieved."

"Whether it's the Peach Blossom Immortal or the innocent people captured and turned into fertilizer... the thing occupying Peach Blossom Spring is the second monster in a long time that I'd like to tear to pieces."

"Desperate that they would return empty-handed, Shirogane Miyuki was determined to slay the demon. After finding the exact location where the Human-Faced Fruit had fallen, he and Kikyo were carried by the Soul-Dead Insects and flew up from the edge of the cliff."

"Sure enough, a very lush human-faced fruit tree stood on the cliff."

"This kind of spiritual power... she must be a very powerful priestess."

"It wasn't the human-faced fruit tree that spoke, but a potted plant placed to the side. This potted plant had a human face, but it didn't have the smell of a monster."

Shirogane Miyuki stared at the face for a long time, combining it with the features of the Peach Sage that Tsubaki had mentioned, and found them to be exactly the same: "You're the Peach Sage?"

"You know me?" Peach Fairy asked in surprise, then became happy. "In that case, I don't need to say much more."

"What exactly happened here, to Peach Blossom Spring? Why did you become like this, and what about this human-faced fruit tree?" Shirogane Miyuki pressed for answers. To be honest, seeing the scene from this eerie mountaintop was quite terrifying.

"But as I said before, with Kikyo around, all my anxieties are dispelled."

"It's all the fault of the Shikon Jewel." Master Peach sighed. "Twenty years ago, I took in a disciple named Peach Fruit Man and taught him everything I knew, but he was lazy and greedy, wanting immortality but unwilling to cultivate diligently."

"Until one day, that monstrous creature found two Shikon Jewel fragments on the mountaintop behind the mountain. He embedded one in himself and the other in this tree, and the ordinary fruit tree mutated into a fruit tree with a human face."

"The Human-Faced Fruit Tree deceived that wicked creature, claiming that one could gain immortality by eating the Human-Faced Fruit. He believed it immediately, so he stole my things, ambushed me when I wasn't looking, and transformed me into this form before planting me."

"During this time, he has been deceiving ordinary people to come here, raising them in captivity to use as fertilizer for the human-faced fruit trees. Recently, he's been plotting to sacrifice me, the best fertilizer, hoping to produce the finest human-faced fruit and achieve immortality."

"What a delusional beast! Alas!"

"The Peach Immortal was both angry and sad. He never expected that the end result of his deep care for his disciple and his imparting of all his knowledge would be that this rebellious disciple would commit patricide and murder him."

"What's even more ridiculous is that the traitor actually believed the nonsense that eating human-faced fruit could grant immortality. If eating human-faced fruit could grant immortality, given the generally ruthless nature of the nobles during the Warring States period who didn't care about human life, they would have planted human-faced fruit trees long ago."

"This means that he is inadequate in two aspects: he is not good at imparting knowledge, and the relationship between master and disciple is even more inadequate."

"Although it's all because that rebellious disciple was disobedient and selfish, it was Tao Xianren's blindness to have taken such a person as a disciple. He now deeply regrets it."

"After hearing what Peach Master had to say, Shirogane Miyuki was naturally duty-bound to help rescue him. At the same time, he breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he finally arrived in time. If Peach Master had turned into fertilizer, everything would have been over."

"While Peach Sage was explaining, the Human-faced Fruit Tree, which was afraid of Kikyo's powerful and dazzling spiritual energy, could no longer pretend to be dead. Several thick roots shot out from the ground, trying to strike first, but were stopped by Shirogane Miyuki."

"At the same time, it let out a sharp whistle and shouted for help to the Peach Fruit People who were also on the mountain."

"Kikyo had already taken out her bow and arrow, drawn the string, and aimed at the human-faced fruit tree, but the peach-fruit people who received the distress signal rushed over at an extremely fast speed, so she had to change her target."

"With a whoosh, the arrow struck the Peach Fruit Man in the chest, instantly killing him and breaking him into fragments smaller than dust. The Human-Faced Fruit Tree then took the opportunity to retrieve the Shikon Jewel fragment from the Peach Fruit Man and put it into its own body."

Its size increased dramatically in an instant, and it became mobile, the entire tree rising from the ground. Laughing loudly, it swelled up: "Either you run away, but this old thing can't; or you fight to the death and become my fertilizer, watching me become an even more powerful King of the Human-Faced Fruit Trees. As for my suggestion, come at me all together!"

""call out--""

"The next second, a simple arrow was shot out, passing through the tree without any difficulty. The human-faced fruit tree, which possessed two Shikon Jewel fragments, stared blankly at its own body, which had suffered the same fate as the peach-fruit man."

"How is it possible... to be this strong?!"

"Kikyo had no intention of taking the Shikon Jewel shards, so Miyuki Shirogane kept them and safeguarded them himself."

"A demon-slaying battle without any twists and turns... no, it's less of a battle and more of a one-sided, unsurprising crushing victory. In this world, unless you encounter a very small number of truly top-tier combatants, or if the number of opponents is extremely large, Kikyo is invincible."

"After that, Shirogane Miyuki went to investigate the house that the Peach Fruit People had taken over, and found dozens of adults who were being held captive inside. He then released them."

"After the relentless pressure from the faceless fruit tree and the peach fruit people, the peach fairy gradually recovered from the plant to a human state. However, when Shirogane Miyuki asked him for help with high expectations and told him the purpose of his visit."

"The answer given by the Peach Immortal was a disheartening sense of helplessness."

583. I regret not heeding Fujiwara Chika's advice.

"I see. You just want immortality... no, you're ready to kill your master without hesitation just because you want to take a shortcut to immortality."

In Peach Blossom Village, after witnessing the future Peach Immortal, he remained silent for a long time before letting out a sigh filled with the sorrow of a life of failure and utter despair.

What he had been teaching the Peach Fruit People was the most authentic, longest-lasting, and most efficient method of cultivating immortality. A clear and straightforward path to immortality was laid out openly before this rebellious disciple.

If the Peach Fruit Man originally had no path to immortality but succumbed to the allure of the Human-Faced Fruit Tree in his quest for it, then the Peach Immortal would be pleased, for it would demonstrate that his disciple possessed a steadfast desire for immortality.

But no.

He was just lazy, purely lazy. He was too lazy to cultivate but still wanted to live forever. For this reason, he killed his master without hesitation.

If it ended there, Peach Immortal would only be disappointed. But this rebellious disciple actually planned to use his master as fertilizer to nourish a mere demon tree, making himself the nourishment for its longevity. How could he tolerate such a thing?

The pain was excruciating.

"Spare me! Spare me, Master! I know, I beg you, I beg you! It was that tree that bewitched me! I'm innocent, I'm innocent! I promise I'll cultivate diligently from now on and I won't attack you again, Master!"

As the peach-fruit man, shrunk a hundredfold, watched his master's face grow increasingly somber and his aura increasingly terrifying, he couldn't help but tremble. It was the first time he had realized that his master was so imposing and terrifying.

He was going to die, he was going to die, this old man was really going to kill him—realizing this, Peach Fruit Man defecated and urinated, tears and snot came out of his eyes from fear, and he kept begging for mercy.

But having already revealed his true colors, he could no longer obtain the forgiveness of the Peach Immortal.

He completely severed his master-disciple relationship with the traitorous disciple, took the Shikon Jewel shard from him, put it into a gourd and slowly soaked it, intending to make him wish he were dead.

Afterwards, Peach Immortal took all his equipment and went fully armed to deal with the Human-Faced Fruit Tree on the top of the back mountain to avenge the fertilizer.

After finishing these tasks, he would leave Peach Blossom Village and seek refuge elsewhere—because it was entirely foreseeable that various demons, including Naraku, would come to cause trouble and try to steal the two Shikon Jewel shards.

That would be very troublesome.

If they were to meet again, he would like to give the Shikon Jewel shards to Inuyasha and his group; he'd rather leave this troublesome thing to them.

As for Shirogane Miyuki... to be honest, he was tempted and really wanted to take this young man as his disciple.

Whether it's staying friends with Inuyasha, marrying Tsubaki who's destined to take the wicked path and stay young forever, or supporting each other as a ceramic doll like Kikyo.

Having spent time with three immortals, Shirogane Miyuki will inevitably need to become immortal himself in the end. This grateful, ambitious, and hardworking young man is someone his good master would naturally want to take on.

"I'm looking forward to the day when we become master and disciple, Shirogane Miyuki."

Peach Immortal is still alive, and he even killed his traitorous disciple—something only he knows.

To outsiders with preconceived notions, Taoyuan Township now seems to be the domain of peach-fruit people and human-faced fruit trees. As a result, many ordinary people who intend to come here have to leave disappointed and give up their goal.

They did the right thing; they escaped with their lives.

At this very moment, a massive horde of miscellaneous monsters have already swarmed towards Peach Blossom Spring, and if they encounter ordinary people on the same path, they wouldn't mind having an extra meal.

As for the enlightened masters and high monks like Yunya, they naturally anticipated this scene. They were happy to let the demons fight each other like dogs over the Shikon Jewel fragments, thus greatly reducing their numbers.

Therefore, they had no intention of getting involved in Taoyuan Township's affairs; they were simply impressed by their own good judgment in choosing such excellent apprentices.

As for the inevitable death of Immortal Peach, there is some regret, but it's just a passing mention. After all, Immortal Peach only cared about his own cultivation and never went out of the mountain to subdue demons and monsters, so he made no contribution. Therefore, his death is just his personal matter and not worth lamenting too much.

It's not that they're cold-blooded; it's just that in their eyes, the Peach Fairy is now a plant, and once the Peach Fruit People see the future, they'll definitely kill the Peach Fairy immediately.

No matter how fast these monks and shamans were, they couldn't possibly save the Peach Immortal who was about to die.

Inuyasha, who had initially held onto hope, became even more determined to kill Koga in order to vent his anger after seeing Momoshijin claim that he was powerless. He did this in order to distract himself from thinking about Shirogane Miyuki and Kikyo.

Of all the worlds, the person most concerned about the Peach Fruit People's murder of their mentor at this moment is Theresa, the young and beautiful former Sword Saint, in the Sword Saint's mansion in the Kingdom of Lugnica.

When she saw what the Peach People were doing, she thought of her son in the original future, who was full of complaints and had distorted values, and who mocked his father Wilhelm and his son Reinhard all day long.

Although he had already been hung up and beaten once before, and was asked to correct his behavior immediately.

But now Theresa remembered it again, and she had a strong urge to hang up her bastard son who didn't love his father or his children again and give him a good beating.

"..."

Inside the Karlsten mansion, Crusch gave a slight, bitter smile, speechless.

The rollercoaster of hope followed by disappointment could easily lead Shirogane Miyuki to give up entirely and stop trying to suppress his feelings for Kikyo. In other words, the possibility of things continuing to develop is quite high.

Despite Kikyo's seemingly indifferent demeanor, the first time is always special and memorable for both men and women. She must have felt something for Shirogane Miyuki.

"If Miss Tsubaki from fifty years in the future doesn't appear soon, within a month or half a month, and directly snatch away Shirogane Miyuki, then it will be very difficult."

Crusch looked distressed. Why? Why was Tsubaki, who was once so promising, about to be slaughtered by Kikyo in the blink of an eye?

Now that things have come to this, even if it's just because she feels a sense of empathy for Tsubaki as a "loser," Crusch will definitely support Tsubaki, this "loser," no matter what, and look forward to her comeback.

Meanwhile, in the Shuchiin student council, the quick-thinking Yu Ishigami had already launched into a fierce condemnation of the ungrateful and murderous teacher of the Peach Fruit People, leaving Kaguya Shinomiya no chance to interject.

At this moment, Kaguya Shinomiya didn't even have the energy to sob like the president.

Her legs went weak, and she collapsed to the ground in a duck-like position, already understanding the situation... Compared to any Miss Tsubaki, Fujiwara Chika was right, absolutely right.

I regret not listening to Qianhua's advice sooner!

584. Fiancée? What's that?

Unlike his foolish younger brother, who doesn't enjoy many conveniences because his demonic power isn't strong enough, Sesshomaru is flying high in the sky with his demonic power and is already very close to the little girl's village.

During this time, having nothing else to do, he watched the future being played with great interest.

Frankly speaking, he believes that nothing in the parts that have been shown so far has been of any use to him, because everything in them, except for Kikyo, the strongest priestess, is something he can easily deal with.

Worthless.

As for the love quadrangle between Shirogane Miyuki, Kikyo, her foolish younger brother, and Kagome, Sesshomaru remained completely unmoved.

It's true that you can have multiple siblings, but since your foolish younger brother is completely incapable of handling two women at the same time, it's only natural to give one up. There's nothing to feel aggrieved about; blame Inuyasha for being incompetent.

Of course, even so, Kikyo is, after all, a woman with a romantic entanglement with her foolish younger brother. If any other man were to foolishly attempt to develop a romantic relationship with Kikyo, it would be tantamount to insulting the Toga clan.