Chapter Summaries

Lu Qiming confronted Yukari Yakumo after learning she had sent Yuuka Kazami to test him, then learned the Moon Surface War would begin in a week. He left Inuyasha and Kagome behind and traveled with Yukari and Yuuka to the gathered youkai army, where the war preparations reached their final stage.

• Yuuka Kazami admitted Yukari Yakumo had promised her powerful opponents in exchange for joining the Moon Surface War plan.
• Lu Qiming confronted Yukari Yakumo for giving Yuuka his location, but they set aside their dispute after he demanded more spiritual iron and tried to kiss her.
• Yukari Yakumo revealed she would open a passage to the Moon Capital on the next Moon Garden Night, one week later, and asked Lu Qiming to protect her and Yuyuko.
• Lu Qiming told Inuyasha and Kagome he was leaving and promised to return after Yukari's plan was over; Yukari briefly appeared to reassure Kagome.
• Lu Qiming, Yukari Yakumo, Yuuka Kazami, and their companions crossed a Gap to a lake where a vast youkai army awaited them.

Yukari Yakumo forced the gathered youkai to submit as she prepared for the Moon Surface War, while Lu Qiming and the others shared a meal by the lake. Eirin Yagokoro returned to the Moon Capital to oppose Yukari, and the chapter ended at sunrise with Yuyuko asking Lu Qiming for breakfast and wine.

• Yukari Yakumo used her power to intimidate the assembled youkai, and Yuuka Kazami killed an ushi-oni and many others who stood before her.
• A masked crow-winged Great Demon apologized and knelt, and Yukari warned the youkai not to defy her again before declaring that the war would begin on the next full moon.
• Lu Qiming invited Yukari Yakumo, Yuuka Kazami, Ran Yakumo, and Yuyuko to eat, then gave Yuuka a Rainbow Fruit seedling.
• Eirin Yagokoro secretly watched the gathering, returned to the Moon Capital, and resolved to stop Yukari's plan.
• Yukari told Lu Qiming that Eirin was the Sage of Moon, while Lu warned Yukari about the Moon Capital's countermeasures.
• At sunrise, Yuyuko asked Lu Qiming to share breakfast and asked whether he had any wine.

Suika Ibuki joined the youkai gathering before Yukari Yakumo opened a passage to the Moon Capital, while Kaguya Houraisan tricked Fujiwara Mokou into swallowing the Elixir of Immortality and then vanished. After the youkai invasion began, Yukari sent Lu Qiming to move freely, and he set off to plunder the Moon Capital.

• Lu Qiming shared wine with Suika Ibuki, who said the other Oni Tribe Four Heavenly Kings were preparing to move their people into Old Hell.
• Yukari Yakumo warned the assembled youkai that she would open the passage to the Moon Capital that night, while Lu Qiming expected many of them to die in the war.
• Fujiwara Mokou stole and swallowed Kaguya Houraisan's Elixir of Immortality, becoming a Hourai immortal before Kaguya disappeared.
• Yukari Yakumo opened the lunar passage with Mirror Flower Water Moon, and the youkai army charged through the lake's reflection.
• Lu Qiming learned that Yukari had sent the main force to draw the Moon Capital's attention, then set off alone to search for its treasures.

Lu Qiming infiltrated the Moon Capital but was discovered by Tsukuyomi, who offered him a trade for knowledge of other worlds; he agreed to provide it in exchange for resources and a Mecha. On the battlefield, Yuuka Kazami nearly killed Watatsuki no Yohime and shattered the Moon Capital’s barrier, forcing Toyohime Watatsuki to intervene as the battle continued.

• Lu Qiming slipped into the Moon Capital to search its Treasury, and Tsukuyomi sensed his presence before he reached the Divine Temple.
• Tsukuyomi confronted Lu Qiming, then offered to trade Moon Capital resources for knowledge of other worlds; Lu Qiming requested Spirit Iron, Precious Ore, and a Mecha.
• Lu Qiming began telling Tsukuyomi about other worlds while the battle raged outside the Moon Capital.
• Watatsuki no Yohime fought Yuuka Kazami, whose attacks damaged the moon and left Yohime gravely wounded.
• Yuuka Kazami fired a massive magic cannon that broke the Moon Capital’s barrier, and Toyohime Watatsuki saved Yohime by diverting the blast through a spatial rift.
• Toyohime Watatsuki confronted Yuuka Kazami, who rejected the threat and unleashed her killing intent over the battlefield.

Reisen fled the devastated battlefield with the badly injured Inaba Tei as Yuuka Kazami and Suika Ibuki fought the Watatsuki sisters. Toyohime Watatsuki was gravely wounded defending the Moon Capital, and Eirin Yagokoro arrived, treated her with a medicine that left her babbling, and confronted Yuuka Kazami and Suika Ibuki.

• Reisen carried Inaba Tei away from the battlefield toward the surface while youkai pursued them, and the Watatsuki sisters noticed their desertion.
• Yuuka Kazami attacked Yorihime Watatsuki, but Toyohime Watatsuki used her spatial power to move them out of danger.
• Suika Ibuki blocked Toyohime Watatsuki's devastating strike, and Yorihime Watatsuki trapped Yuuka Kazami and Suika Ibuki inside a blade seal.
• Yuuka Kazami broke the seal and formed a huge sun, forcing Toyohime Watatsuki to risk her life protecting the Moon Capital until Eirin Yagokoro arrived.
• Eirin Yagokoro gave the badly wounded Toyohime Watatsuki medicine that left her babbling, then faced Yuuka Kazami and Suika Ibuki as a new battle loomed.

Nue Gashadokuro avoided the Moon Surface War after realizing the battle between the sages had closed the Moon Surface Channel, leaving the invading youkai trapped. On Earth, Kaguya Houraisan took the crashed Moon Capital rabbits Reisen and Inaba Tei as her pets, while the injured youkai who made it to the Moon Capital confronted Yorihime Watatsuki and Yukari Yakumo.

• Nue Gashadokuro led his youkai away from the Moon Surface Channel as the lunar reflection shrank and the Moon’s orbit changed, cutting off the invaders’ retreat.
• Kaguya Houraisan found Reisen and Inaba Tei after their ship crashed on Earth and claimed them as her pets.
• Reisen and Inaba Tei told Kaguya Houraisan about the Moon Surface War, and Kaguya explained that the Moon Capital had powerful defenses and that the Moon was recovering.
• The Moon Surface Channel crushed many youkai as they forced their way through, and the survivors arrived badly wounded in the Moon Capital.
• Eirin Yagokoro sent the injured Yorihime Watatsuki to hold off the arriving Great Demons while she faced Yuuka Kazami and Suika Ibuki.
• A furious Great Demon demanded an explanation from Yukari Yakumo, who answered by asking what explanation he wanted.

Yukari Yakumo confronted the Great Demons while Eirin Yagokoro sealed her to protect Yorihime Watatsuki, who then slaughtered the demons. As Yuyuko’s deathly power erupted and Yuuka Kazami fought Eirin, Lu Qiming and Tsukuyomi appeared to stop their battle, leaving Yuuka eager to fight Lu Qiming instead.

• Yukari Yakumo resisted the Great Demons’ attacks, but Eirin Yagokoro struck with an arrow and trapped Yukari in a barrier to protect Yorihime Watatsuki.
• Yorihime Watatsuki charged into the demons, while Yuyuko’s deathly aura made nearby youkai kill themselves and nearly compelled Yorihime to do the same.
• Yuuka Kazami and Eirin Yagokoro began fighting, trading devastating attacks as Eirin used time-spanning arrows and dangerous medicine.
• Lu Qiming appeared and blocked Yuuka Kazami’s attack with “Musou,” while Tsukuyomi caught the medicine Eirin had thrown.
• Eirin lowered her bow, and Yuuka Kazami turned her attention toward Lu Qiming, eager to fight him.

Lu Qiming and the others ended the Moon Surface War after Yukari Yakumo tested whether he would stand by her, then Yukari used the slain youkai to strengthen a new creature and paid Lu Qiming with Spirit Iron. Back on the surface, Nue Gashadokuro began conquering the territories of the Great Demons who had died on the Moon.

• Yuuka Kazami attacked Lu Qiming, but his activated “Musou” let him block her effortlessly, and she vowed to become stronger so they could fight again.
• Yukari Yakumo confronted Tsukuyomi, then ended the standoff after Lu Qiming chose to stand beside her, revealing that the confrontation had tested his loyalty.
• Yukari Yakumo fed the corpses of the fallen Great Demons to her tentacled creature and gave Lu Qiming Spirit Iron as payment, while Lu Qiming explained that Tsukuyomi had traded him the Moon Capital’s Star Iron for information about other worlds.
• Lu Qiming and the others left the Moon Capital, and Nue Gashadokuro attacked a neighboring Great Demon’s territory, forcing its youkai to join the Nura Clan through Demon Pact Wine.

Kikyo reunited with Inuyasha in Kaede’s village, while Kagome returned to her own era. Meanwhile, Lu Qiming and Suika Ibuki discovered that Gashadokuro had seized the Great Demons’ territories and treasuries, and they arrived at the Nura Clan’s base to claim the stolen treasures.

• Kaede welcomed Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, and Shippo back to the village, where Kikyo and Inuyasha reunited and embraced.
• Kagome watched Inuyasha and Kikyo together, then returned through the Bone-Eater Well to her own era with Shippo.
• Yukari Yakumo gave Lu Qiming a map to Great Demon treasuries before leaving with Yuyuko and Ran Yakumo, while Suika Ibuki accompanied him.
• Lu Qiming learned from a Centipede Demoness that Gashadokuro had conquered the Great Demons’ territories, taken their treasures, and recruited their yokai.
• Gashadokuro led the Nura Clan’s growing army toward another Great Demon territory, confident that he would unite the continent’s yokai.
• Lu Qiming and Suika Ibuki appeared at the Nura Clan’s main base above its collected treasures, and Lu Qiming declared that the treasures belonged to him.

Lu Qiming and Suika Ibuki attacked Nura Clan headquarters after Gashadokuro took Lu Qiming’s Star Iron, killing many yokai and forcing Ox Demon to yield. When Nue Gashadokuro returned as Lord of Yokai, he learned the reason for the attack and concealed his growing hatred toward Lu Qiming, who openly recognized it.

• Lu Qiming and Suika Ibuki entered Nura Clan headquarters, where Ox Demon’s forces attacked them and Lu Qiming annihilated many yokai with his lightning swords.
• Lu Qiming spared the survivors, promised Suika Ibuki the clan’s wine, and sent Divine Judgment to devour the Star Iron in the treasury.
• Nue Gashadokuro returned with his army, saw the devastation, and vowed to avenge his dead subordinates.
• Ox Demon explained that Lu Qiming had come to reclaim his Star Iron, and Nue Gashadokuro approached Lu Qiming while forcing down his rage.
• Lu Qiming explained that he had attacked because the yokai showed killing intent, then told Nue Gashadokuro that he could see the hatred in his heart.

Nue Gashadokuro led the Nura Clan into battle against Lu Qiming, but Lu Qiming overwhelmed them. After the Yuki-onna and the clan’s officers sacrificed themselves to protect Gashadokuro, he sent the surviving members away and prepared to face Lu Qiming with greatly increased power.

• Nue Gashadokuro gathered the Nura Clan and declared war on Lu Qiming, while Lu Qiming and Suika Ibuki chose to face them.
• Lu Qiming attacked the yokai army, and Nue Gashadokuro used Mirror Flower Water Moon to shield his clan before the barrier began to break.
• The Yuki-onna sacrificed herself to protect Gashadokuro, leaving him a new power and a snowflake-shaped mark on his forehead.
• Ox Demon and the Nura Clan officers gave their power to Gashadokuro, then burned their bodies and souls in a final attack on Lu Qiming, who killed them with Purgatory Wave Sword.
• Gashadokuro drained the demonic energy and essence from the newly joined Nura Clan members, ordered the remaining clan members to flee, and asked Lu Qiming to spare them.
• Lu Qiming agreed to let the survivors live peacefully, and Gashadokuro ignited blood-colored flames and unleashed power dozens of times greater than before.

Lu Qiming killed Gashadokuro, marking the end of the yokai age, then headed toward Kaede’s village with Suika Ibuki. Eirin Yagokoro reunited with Kaguya Houraisan at Eientei, while Kohaku fled a spider youkai and followed a mysterious pull toward the barrier-protected village.

• Lu Qiming defeated Gashadokuro with a final strike, and Suika Ibuki watched as the land around them sank beneath seawater.
• Lu Qiming told Suika Ibuki that the yokai age had ended, then flew with her toward Kaede’s village to meet Inuyasha and the others.
• Eirin Yagokoro returned to Eientei, told Kaguya Houraisan about the Moon Capital and Yukari Yakumo’s plans, and discussed moving Eientei into Gensokyo.
• Eirin Yagokoro tested a drug on Reisen, leaving her disoriented as she pounced on Tewi Inaba, while Kaguya and Eirin ignored their cries.
• After being expelled from the Fujiwara territory, Kohaku hid in a forest cave, escaped a spider youkai, and ran toward a village that seemed to draw her in.

Lu Qiming returned to the village with Suika Ibuki, who learned that Toga King had died and left her a map to the wine he had collected for her. As Lu Qiming began feeding Spirit Iron to his weapons, a vast Spiritual Energy vortex formed over the village, while Fujiwara Mokou faced her pursuers by plunging from a cliff with them.

• Inuyasha and Kikyo prepared to defend the village from two approaching lights, but Lu Qiming and Suika Ibuki landed inside the barrier.
• Suika Ibuki learned from Myoga that Toga King had died and that Inuyasha had killed Dragon Bone Spirit, then received the map to Toga King's stored wine.
• Suika Ibuki shattered Tessaiga with her bare hand, and Inuyasha planned to find a swordsmith to reforge it.
• Lu Qiming returned to his house, fed Spirit Iron to Divine Judgment and Fan Yu, and drew Spiritual Energy from across the region into a huge vortex above the village.
• Yukari Yakumo and other powerful beings noticed the Spiritual Energy gathering around Lu Qiming's village.
• Fujiwara Mokou lured pursuing youkai off a cliff, survived the fall through her immortality, and put on clothes taken from a corpse.

Fujiwara Mokou escaped a canyon and followed a mysterious pull toward Lu Qiming’s village, while the Man-faced Spider Demon pursued her. Lu Qiming’s weapons transformed into living girls, and as the chapter ended, the Man-faced Spider Demon caught up with Mokou outside the village barrier.

• Fujiwara Mokou escaped the canyon and headed toward the place drawing her, while the wounded Man-faced Spider Demon followed her for a chance to feed on her.
• Lu Qiming’s Divine Judgment, Fan Yu, and A-Yin finished evolving into human forms, and Divine Judgment appeared as two little girls while A-Yin became a silver-haired girl.
• A-Yin threatened Inuyasha with lightning, and Divine Judgment’s killing aura overwhelmed him until Lu Qiming restored him with Holy Light.
• Lu Qiming learned that Fujiwara Mokou was pounding against the village barrier, and he and Yukari Yakumo recognized her as an unusual human.
• The Man-faced Spider Demon reached Fujiwara Mokou at the barrier and placed a claw on her shoulder.

Lu Qiming rescued Fujiwara Mokou from a Man-faced Spider Demon and brought her to the village, where she found people who did not fear or reject her. He decided to give Mokou the power to protect herself and choose her own life, while letting her believe for now that he shared her immortality.

• Fujiwara Mokou was poisoned and wrapped in spider silk by the Man-faced Spider Demon after a barrier prevented her from entering a village.
• Lu Qiming and Yukari Yakumo arrived, and Lu freed Mokou and cured her poison before the demon attacked him.
• Divine Judgment blocked the Man-faced Spider Demon's strike, then killed it while Lu carried Mokou into the village.
• Mokou asked Lu why he knew her and mistook him for a fellow immortal who had eaten Kaguya's Hourai Elixir; Lu chose not to correct her yet.
• Yukari tested for signs of Kaguya Houraisan and Eirin Yagokoro nearby, then Lu introduced Mokou to Kagome and the others.
• Lu reflected on Mokou's lonely future and decided to help her gain the power to protect herself and choose her own life.

Lu Qiming welcomed Kohaku into the village and discovered that Divine Judgment and A-Yin had gained a new ability after becoming youkai. He left Kohaku to rest and learned that Divine Judgment’s Demonization trait had given the weapons new life and the potential to grow stronger.

• Kagome invited Kohaku to join the search for the Four Souls Jewel Shards, but Lu Qiming reminded her that Kohaku was still physically an ordinary person and asked what she thought of Battle Axes.
• Kohaku followed Kaede back to the village to rest while Lu Qiming and Yukari Yakumo returned to the wooden house.
• Divine Judgment accidentally caused devastation while fighting, and Lu Qiming repaired the land and comforted the two weapons after they worried he would scold them.
• Yukari Yakumo, Yuyuko, Youmu, Ran Yakumo, and Chen arrived, and Lu Qiming served them food while checking his system panel.
• Lu Qiming examined Divine Judgment’s new Demonization trait and realized it had turned Divine Judgment and A-Yin into living beings capable of growing stronger.

Yuyuko’s memories of her human life stirred as Yukari Yakumo recalled how Yuyuko had died and become the princess of the dead. Lu Qiming tested whether Kohaku could absorb a Gourmet Demon, discussed the fading Spiritual Energy and Gensokyo’s plans with Yukari, while Suika Ibuki retrieved her late brother’s wine and built him a tomb.

• Yuyuko glimpsed memories of Yukari Yakumo grieving beneath the Saigyo Ayakashi, and Yukari recalled how Yuyuko had taken her own life at eighteen and become a ghost.
• Lu Qiming gave Yuyuko God's Cuisine and sent Kohaku a portion containing a Gourmet Demon, but Kohaku’s body could not absorb it and the demon dissolved into nourishment for her.
• Lu Qiming gave Yukari Yakumo a seed of God's Blessing, and they discussed establishing Gensokyo before Spiritual Energy vanished and the balance between humans and youkai broke.
• Suika Ibuki reached a mountain range and killed the lesser demons that attacked her, then found the cavern where she and the Toga King had once stored wine.
• Suika Ibuki collected the wine, bid farewell to the Toga King, collapsed the mountain with a punch, and erected a tombstone for her little brother.

Fujiwara Mokou awoke in Lu Qiming’s village, where she learned about the children’s spiritual training and discovered his lively gathering of guests. After Yuyuko invited Lu Qiming to Hakugyokurou, he told Kohaku that the Penglai Elixir had made her body permanently unchanging, renewing her fury at Kaguya.

• Fujiwara Mokou woke in the village and told the children that the outside world was dangerous, but they hurried off to Kaede’s spiritual-power class.
• Fujiwara Mokou entered Lu Qiming’s hut and found Yuyuko, Yukari Yakumo, Suika Ibuki, Youmu, and others eating and drinking together.
• Lu Qiming explained that Kohaku had become a Human of Penglai after taking the Penglai Elixir, and Suika Ibuki realized that a Moon Princess still lived on the surface.
• Kaguya Houraisan felt that Kohaku was thinking of her, while Eirin Yagokoro prepared another potion as Reisen carried an unconscious Inaba Tei into her laboratory.
• Yuyuko invited Lu Qiming to view the cherry blossoms at Hakugyokurou, and he agreed before she and the others departed.
• Lu Qiming told Kohaku that the Penglai Elixir had stopped her body from changing, and Kohaku angrily cursed Kaguya over the loss of her hope of growing.

Lu Qiming brought Kohaku to Kaede to learn how to cultivate Spiritual Energy, and Kohaku rapidly gained enough power to destroy a forest full of lesser youkai. Her new strength made her eager to challenge Kaguya, so Lu Qiming took her to the Sunflower Field to teach her how weak she still was.

• Lu Qiming took Kohaku to Kaede, who taught her how to cultivate Spiritual Energy beneath a cherry tree.
• Kohaku absorbed Spiritual Energy at an astonishing rate, surpassed Kaede and Kikyo, and blasted a three-meter-wide crater into the ground.
• Kohaku boasted that she could defeat Kaguya, so Lu Qiming took her into a deep mountain to fight lesser youkai.
• After a wolf youkai and a snake demon ambushed her, Kohaku unleashed her Spiritual Energy, slaughtered the surrounding youkai, and devastated the forest.
• Lu Qiming heard Kohaku declare that she could defeat Kaguya and transported her to an endless Sunflower Field.

Lu Qiming brought Kohaku to Yuuka Kazami for brutal combat training, where Kohaku died and revived over a thousand times while learning to refine her spiritual cannons. After Kohaku fell asleep from exhaustion, Lu Qiming entered his Divine Kingdom and discovered that Klee and the Flower Sprites had built him a grand temple as a surprise.

• Lu Qiming asked Yuuka Kazami to train Kohaku by killing her, and Yuuka immediately struck Kohaku down before she could finish explaining the half-hour challenge.
• Kohaku repeatedly revived and attacked Yuuka, gradually learning to condense her spiritual power, but she still could not last a minute against Yuuka after more than a thousand deaths.
• Lu Qiming stopped the training when Kohaku reached her limit, comforted her, and carried her home to sleep; Kohaku silently resolved to grow stronger and find Kaguya.
• Klee called Lu Qiming into his Divine Kingdom, where he discovered that Klee, Lamirelis, and millions of Flower Sprites had built a magnificent temple for him over more than a year.
• Lu Qiming praised the surprise, summoned Divine Judgment, A-Yin, and Fan Yu, and let Divine Judgment go fight monsters before preparing to take Klee outside.