"Merge?" Kagome's face changed as she looked urgently at Inuyasha fighting the demon in the blood pool. "Miss Kikyo just said this is a trap set by Naraku!"
"A trap? Looking at the intensity of this evil energy, it must be." Miroku nodded at her words, then suddenly realized the surrounding evil energy had vanished.
He looked up sharply and realized that Kikyo's body was emitting a vast, shimmering white Spiritual Power, acting like an invisible Barrier that continuously purified the surrounding evil energy.
"Miss Kikyo, thank you," Miroku said, shocked by the strength of Kikyo's Spiritual Power, that she would choose such a taxing method to disperse the evil energy.
However, not having the evil energy continue to corrode his body did indeed make him breathe a sigh of relief.
Kikyo ignored his thanks, looked at Inuyasha fighting the demon, and shouted coldly, "Inuyasha, wake up! Don't be an idiot, get out of there immediately."
"Kikyo!" Hearing the familiar voice, Inuyasha's movements suddenly paused. He subconsciously turned to look and saw Kikyo standing at the cave entrance above, staring at him with a calm expression.
While Inuyasha was dazed again, the demon opposite him seized the opportunity and struck him hard on the back with a claw.
With a loud "Boom," Inuyasha was sent flying, his body slamming heavily into the nearby rock wall, causing rubble to fall.
Retsu couldn't help but criticize in his heart upon seeing this; this dog really is fair to everyone.
Just now, Kagome shouted, and he was slapped to the ground by the demon.
Now Kikyo shouted, and he was slapped into the cliff wall by the demon.
One can only say that while this dog's strength isn't great, he can really take a beating.
Kikyo didn't care about Inuyasha lying on the cliff wall. Seeing him knocked away from the blood pool, she immediately took the bow and arrow from her back, notched an arrow, and turned to Retsu. "Retsu, get ready. Don't let it escape. I'm going to break the seal."
"Understood!" Retsu was already prepared. Pale blue Chakra suddenly erupted from his feet, and he leaped from the cave entrance like an arrow from a bow.
At this moment, the demon was about to charge at Inuyasha on the rock wall, completely unaware of the threat above its head.
Retsu condensed Chakra in his right foot while in mid-air and, with a sharp whistling sound, kicked the demon hard on the top of its head.
"Boom!" With a deafening roar, foul-smelling blood suddenly splattered from the demon's head. Its massive body crashed into the blood pool filled with demon remains, kicking up a huge wave of blood.
Retsu used the momentum to soar into the air, landing on the cliff wall. With Chakra attached to his soles, he moved quickly along the cliff wall as if on flat ground to reach Inuyasha's side. He grabbed him by the collar, lifting him like a chick, and returned to the cave entrance in a few leaps, tossing him onto the ground.
"Done," he clapped his hands and said to Kikyo.
"Mhm." Kikyo nodded, her bow suddenly drawn wide. She aimed the arrow at the opening above and abruptly let go.
The shimmering white arrow, carrying immense purification power, shot toward the opening, precisely striking an invisible sealing Barrier and instantly exploding.
"Bang!"
The violent explosion instantly destroyed the Barrier. The dense evil energy compressed in the cave, as if finding an outlet, turned into a pillar of gas soaring upward.
Standing at the cave entrance by the cliff, everyone only felt their clothes flapping loudly in the gale triggered by the explosion of evil energy, but they were not substantially affected.
With an even louder roar, the opening above was completely forced open by the evil energy. All the evil energy in the cave, the filth in the blood pool, and the demon that had already recovered its injuries from the blood pool were all swept out of the cave by the gas pillar, dissipating into the night sky.
"Kikyo! What on earth are you doing?!" With the Barrier broken and The Art of Kodoku dispelled, Inuyasha instantly regained his senses. Once the evil energy in the cave dissipated, he rushed to Kikyo and asked.
"No time to talk nonsense with you." Kikyo didn't have time to pay him any mind. Every second delayed meant Naraku might finish reconstructing his body and escape. She turned to Retsu and said, "Retsu, it's up to you next."
"No problem, let's go!" Retsu nodded, stepped forward, and picked Kikyo up in a bridal carry. Chakra erupted from his feet, and his figure ascended the rock wall like a flash of lightning, heading straight for the opening at the top of the mountain.
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