Chapter Summaries

Sesshomaru faced Blood Demon, who had awakened as an Ancestor Demon, but Mirror Demon, Shadow, and Lava soon joined the battle. As the Ancestor Demons’ powers shattered the King of the Underworld’s frozen domain, Sesshomaru retreated to the King’s corpse and found its freezing power protecting him.

• Blood Demon drained Blood Eyes of his blood and challenged Sesshomaru, whose Bakusaiga strike Blood Demon shattered with a wave of his hand.
• Mirror Demon appeared and blocked Blood Demon from absorbing the frozen domain’s blood, then exposed Shadow when she attacked him from concealment.
• Lava burst from underground and attacked the other Ancestor Demons, igniting the frozen domain.
• Mirror Demon, Shadow, and Blood Demon unleashed their domains and armies against Lava, and their clash destroyed the bodies of Guigu, Snow Emperor, Manten, and the other Greater Yokai.
• Sesshomaru retreated to the King of the Underworld’s corpse, where the lingering freezing power protected him.

Mingye returned from the Underworld after his clone’s death and effortlessly killed the four Ancestor Demons, ending the great battle. He resumed refining the Underworld’s source power while his clone ruled the human realm and Demon World, and centuries later he sat on Bluestone Mountain as the story ended.

• Blood Demon tried to seize the King of the Underworld’s corpse, but Sesshomaru attacked to stop him.
• Mingye emerged from the Netherworld Path and revealed that the dead King of the Underworld was his clone.
• Mingye used Space-Time Freeze to kill Mirror Demon, Ghost Shadow, Lava, Blood Demon, and the enemy forces on the battlefield.
• Sesshomaru vowed to become Mingye’s rival and left to continue his own path.
• Mingye revived his clone and returned to the Underworld to refine its source power, while Kōga and Inuyasha resumed their training journeys.
• Several hundred years later, Mingye sat on Bluestone Mountain and recited that enduring solitude made one truly strong.