After turning Shiori into another member of the team, Li Xia first sent her to Mount Hakurei.
Thus, he gained a little half-demon girl with considerable potential and two fifteen-meter-tall Stone Statue Demons under his command.
The two Stone Statue Demons naturally had no potential to speak of, but both father and son possessed the combat strength of ordinary great demons.
More than once, Li Xia had regretted it: if he had fired Ōgamaru and Tsukuyomaru into Stone Statue Demons and revived them sooner, there would not have been so many aggravating incidents with Inuyasha and the others.
"Shiori, come here. Make a tiny cut on your palm, then drip some of your blood into the Blood Coral Jewel..."
A complex of palaces stood halfway up the cloud-wreathed Mount Hakurei. Outside one room, Tsukuyomaru, who had already become a Stone Statue Demon, was teaching his precious daughter to use the Coral Jewel's power to uncover and draw out her own potential.
Drawing out bloodline potential to a certain extent was one of the Blood Coral Jewel's abilities.
Now, at Tsukuyomaru and Ōgamaru's insistence, little Shiori had begun following Li Xia to train, becoming part of the team's core. More precisely, she was a reserve member with at least five-and-a-half-star demon power potential.
Once she unlocked the potential in her bloodline, she would qualify for full membership.
And Shiori was a good child who listened to her father.
So, encouraged by Tsukuyomaru, and with Li Xia willing to lend a hand, she voluntarily cut her palm and dripped her blood onto the Blood-Red Sango Jewel in her arms.
This jewel could absorb external blood-or rather, the demon power in demon blood-to strengthen itself.
Only through generations of guardians continually feeding it high-quality blood had the jewel grown powerful enough to