"Do you want to revive this tree demon?"
Seeing Li Xia take out a large handful of Shikon Shards, the girl's eyelids twitched.
"I like its ability."
Li Xia nodded, making no attempt to hide it.
He had snatched the Life-Melting Tree away partly because he would need it later, and partly to keep Naraku from possessing it.
After all, if events followed the original timeline, Naraku's transformation would inevitably involve separating out [Onigumo's human heart] and [the demon heart of the myriad-demon amalgamation].
In the original story, Onigumo's human heart had been hidden within the collapsed Mount Hakurei.
It was a case of "the most dangerous place" being "the safest place."
Nobody had expected Naraku to pull that move.
Once Naraku separated Onigumo's human heart from his myriad-demon body, he immediately lost every restraint and became a full-fledged demon, free to attack Kikyo as he pleased. Onigumo's lingering attachment would no longer soften his heart and keep him from striking.
Moreover, Onigumo's human heart was the bond connecting the myriad demons. As long as that heart remained intact, Naraku could pull himself back together, no matter how grave his injuries or how badly his body was ravaged.
For example, no matter how thoroughly the Adamant Barrage riddled him with holes, he could reassemble himself.
Likewise, no matter how badly Hiraikotsu smashed him or the Poison Immortal's poison corroded him, he would recover sooner or later.
That was right.
This ability to reassemble and heal himself endlessly was precisely what the human heart gave Naraku.
The bond connecting the myriad demons had never been demonic strength.
It was Onigumo's human heart.
If that heart could be destroyed, Naraku would lose his endless self-healing, and his demonic body would disintegrate into countless separate entities.
(Why didn't great demons like Sesshomaru have