As the raging Hell Dragon Break swept over him, Naraku, whose barrier had been destroyed by the Diamond Spearheads, decisively withdrew into a completely sealed turtle shell.
The storm swept past.
Large numbers of demons at the foot of the mountain were killed or injured by the attack.
Fortunately, the storm only grazed the village, sparing the villagers who had been struck unconscious.
A mountain breeze blew past, quickly dispersing the billowing dust and revealing Naraku, every inch of his body protected by dark green armor.
"Hm? Is that... the Underworld King Beast's armor?"
Hovering in midair with a spear in one hand and a sword in the other, Li Xia raised an eyebrow.
He was rather surprised.
He truly had not expected Naraku to recover all his bodily injuries and depleted demon power in such a short time, and hunt down powerful demons to devour and absorb on top of that.
The Underworld King Beast was no ordinary demon.
A turtle demon, the Underworld King Beast possessed an enormous body and tremendous demon power at four-star-and-a-half, approaching five-star.
It also had three abilities:
The first was flight.
The second was the hardest armor publicly known in the Island Nation Demon World—its turtle shell. Hard enough to snap Tōkijin, this shell was hailed as the ultimate shield, said to “resist any attack simply by withdrawing the limbs and head inside.” Even Adamant Barrage struggled to inflict meaningful damage on it. By spinning, it could also use the shell to reflect an enemy's attacks, or crush enemies with its rotating body.
The third was considerable power over lightning, with its ultimate technique being the "Underworld Thunder Cannon."
In the manga, when the Underworld King Beast used this technique against Inuyasha, it could conjure five or six black thunder balls the size