"Ryūkotsusei, actually, you should be thanking me."
Li Xia spoke mildly.
"What did you say? Thank you?"
You squeezed me dry, and now you want me to thank you?
Ryūkotsusei's soul seethed with rage.
He suspected he had misheard.
"That's right. You really should thank me, and don't find it so unbelievable. After all, without me, your lifelong reputation would have been ruined at a half-demon's hands. Your resentment then would only have been greater than it is now, not less."
Li Xia stared at the great dragon's demon soul imprisoned in his palm, utterly certain of this.
He really wasn't making things up. In the original timeline, Ryūkotsusei had died an utterly inglorious death to Inuyasha's Backlash Wave.
The Backlash Wave couldn't do anything to Naraku after Mount Hakurei, yet it had killed Ryūkotsusei instantly.
Didn't that mean Ryūkotsusei was inferior even to Naraku at his Mount Hakurei level?
When Naraku emerged from Mount Hakurei, he had only just entered the six-star [top-tier great demon] ranks. He was still far short of the elite six-and-a-half-star [super great demon], or [peerless demon king], tier. Only much later, after reabsorbing Onigumo's heart hidden beneath Mount Hakurei, Moryomaru, and Red Child, had Naraku become a demon king-level super great demon.
Only after finally absorbing the entire Shikon Jewel to empower himself had he reached a whole new dimension that even "Sesshomaru with Bakusaiga and the fully realized Tessaiga working together" could do nothing against.
If Inuyasha's Backlash Wave could easily kill Ryūkotsusei in one blow, this went beyond losing face.
It was an absolute humiliation.
"Hah, ridiculous! A mere half-demon could threaten me?"
Ryūkotsusei's soul wore an expression that said, "You must be joking."
"What if he was the younger son of the old enemy who sealed you? And what if that