"How dare you scheme against Kagome?
You've got some nerve."
Li Xia was both shocked and furious.
He put the Crying Face Sacred Tree Mask on his face. Guided by the magical power within him, Demon Power flowed smoothly and rapidly throughout his body, slightly enhancing his physical attributes and greatly increasing his movement speed. Immediately afterward, he applied a Lightness Talisman and a Divine Wind Talisman to his legs, boosting his speed yet again.
Although he did not know exactly whose Evil Aura it was, the fact that they had arranged for a demon Shikigami to bite Kagome and take her blood meant they had come with hostile intentions.
He would kill them first and worry about the rest later.
"Poison Flood Dragon, stay behind and protect Kagome."
Li Xia gave the order.
As he ran, he tossed a golden-green card bearing the Great Katsura Tree Mask behind him. Once a gentle glow faded, the Poison Flood Dragon appeared and swiftly coiled around Kagome, sheltering the young girl within its coils.
"Mr. Xia?!"
The girl stared at the Poison Flood Dragon in astonishment, then blankly watched Li Xia's retreating figure disappear.
She could not quite understand why this companion of hers seemed so angry.
A little white snake with two horns on its forehead slithered rapidly through the grass.
With weeds everywhere concealing it and gusts of mountain wind rustling the grass to mask its movements, someone with slightly duller senses might truly have failed to notice the snake.
Unfortunately for it, the one who had locked onto it was Li Xia, whose cultivation had made a breakthrough and who was also enhanced by the Sacred Tree Mask.
To Li Xia's senses, the white snake radiating Evil Aura as it tried to escape was like a twinkling star