Deprived of the protection of her little pets, the undead miko inwardly sensed trouble.
The Red Soul Collectors Naraku had raised were a natural counter to the dead souls of young girls within her.
At her peak, she would have been able to put up a fight.
But after wearing herself down repeatedly...
"It's over, Kikyo."
The five fingers of Naraku's right hand writhed, then transformed into five sharp tentacles with coldly gleaming tips that extended beyond the barrier before darting forward like spearheads.
Hum...
Just as the tentacles were about to pierce straight through Kikyo, a pure radiance suddenly bloomed before the girl's chest.
Then, as the milky-white radiance swept over the sharp tentacles shooting toward her, every one of them crumbled to dust.
"Is this... that purification power from Mount Hakurei?"
Naraku knitted his brows.
His expression immediately darkened.
He had nearly died when he faced a similar light of purification before.
"Hmm? No!
"This sacred purification power is formidable, but its strength falls far short of what I first encountered a few months ago!
"This must have come from someone else.
"Could it be Li Xia's power?"
Naraku had guessed correctly.
During his time with Kikyo, Li Xia had gotten along fairly well with her. Knowing Naraku would inevitably target her, he had naturally prepared an emergency lifesaving measure like this in advance.
It was a sutra scroll Li Xia had written himself, with a measure of purification power contained in every character.
As the purification power within the sutra scroll was consumed, the characters would dim.
Only when every character on the sutra vanished would this protective power cease to function.
In other words, as long as a single character remained on the sutra scroll, even if Kikyo lost the ability to so much as move