Chapter Summaries

Li Xia, a reborn boy with poor cultivation aptitude, learned that his father planned to send him to Tokyo to study and eventually manage the Li Family’s businesses. He reluctantly accepted the assignment to Water Cedar Junior High, while still longing to pursue greater power and opportunity.

• Li Xia recalled discovering the supernatural at age five and spending ten years training without receiving the family’s advanced instruction.
• Li Zhun asked Li Xia when he would leave for Tokyo and urged him to accept a comfortable life managing the family’s businesses.
• Li Xia asked to study on the mainland like Li Qin and Li Yang, but Li Zhun refused and explained that his older children were going there to make useful connections.
• Li Zhun told Li Xia he would leave the next day, and Li Xia asked which Tokyo school he would attend.
• Li Zhun named Water Cedar Junior High as Li Xia’s school.

Li Xia recognized Kagome Higurashi’s mention of the Shikon Shards and realized she might be the heroine of Inuyasha. He left school to visit Sunset Shrine and confirm whether the Bone-Eater’s Well existed.

• Kagome returned to Water Cedar Junior High, where Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi asked about her absences and Hojo gave her a gift.
• Kagome accidentally mentioned collecting Shikon Shards, then explained to her friends that she was responsible for gathering them.
• Li Xia overheard Kagome mention the Shikon Jewel and connected her to Inuyasha.
• Li Xia decided to investigate Kagome’s family and the Bone-Eater’s Well at Sunset Shrine.
• Li Xia told a classmate he had something to take care of and took a taxi to Sunset Shrine.

Li Xia arrived at Sunset Shrine in the world of Inuyasha and found a fire caused by the demon Flesh-Bodied Human Face. He attacked the demon with talismans and an iron basin, trapping it beneath the basin while Kagome's grandfather remained pinned inside the burning storehouse.

• Li Xia reached Sunset Shrine, confirmed it was the Inuyasha world by seeing the Sacred Tree's scar, and called the fire department from the Higurashi home.
• Li Xia realized the Higurashi family was likely trapped in the burning storehouse and identified Flesh-Bodied Human Face as the demon responsible.
• Flesh-Bodied Human Face flew out of the flames and attacked Li Xia, while Kagome's grandfather warned him not to let the mask attach to his face.
• Li Xia reinforced himself and an iron basin with talismans, then struck the demon and trapped it beneath the basin.
• Li Xia dented the basin over the demon, covered its rim with Evil-Repelling Talismans, and stomped on it while Kagome's grandfather waited for rescue.

Li Xia subdued the Flesh-Eating Mask, extracted his first Shikon Jewel shard, and rescued Kagome’s grandfather from a burning shed. He took the remaining shards from Kagome’s bedroom while leaving one behind, and suspected the mask would have stolen them if he had not intervened.

• Li Xia used an Ice Talisman and repeated stomps to keep the Flesh-Eating Mask pinned beneath the iron basin as firefighters approached.
• Li Xia exposed the mask’s forehead, extracted the Shikon Jewel shard, and sealed the weakened monster inside the deformed sheet iron with Evil-Repelling Talismans.
• Li Xia entered the burning shed, freed Kagome’s grandfather from a fallen beam, and carried him outside to Kagome’s mother and the firefighters.
• Li Xia slipped into the Higurashi family’s house and took the Shikon Jewel shards from Kagome’s bedroom, leaving one for Kagome.
• Li Xia suspected the Flesh-Eating Mask would have taken the shards from the house earlier if he had not come to Sunset Shrine.

Li Xia took seven Shikon Jewel fragments from Kagome’s room and returned to the Li family’s Tokyo residence, where he planned to use them to strengthen his talismans. He concluded that the Flesh-Bodied Human Face’s fragment came from a separate Shikon Jewel in the modern world, then embedded Kagome’s fragments in his talisman brushes to improve his magic.

• Li Xia left the Sunset Shrine with seven jewel fragments, leaving Sōunga with the Higurashi family.
• He returned to the Li family’s residence and asked Fourth Uncle to arrange six alloy safes in three sizes.
• Li Xia reasoned that the Flesh-Bodied Human Face’s fragment came from a separate Shikon Jewel in the modern world, not the jewel Kagome shattered.
• He set the seven fragments into talisman brushes so they could amplify his spiritual power and improve his talismans.

Li Xia used the Shikon Shards to enhance his talisman brush and spiritual elixir, seeking ways to overcome his weak cultivation and slow recovery. After discovering the elixir had become dozens of times more effective, he decided to keep its value secret until he was strong enough to protect himself.

• Li Xia empowered his talisman brush with the Shikon Shards, but his first Strength Talisman attempt failed when the brush became difficult to handle.
• Li Xia reflected on his poor aptitude and slow magical-power recovery, then drank a family elixir that increased his recovery speed by thirty percent.
• Li Xia embedded several purified Shikon Shards in a flask of elixir after recalling their safe use in objects and testing their effects on white mice.
• Li Xia tasted the enhanced elixir and found its restorative effect had improved thirty to fifty times.
• Li Xia considered selling the elixir to the family but decided to hide it until he had enough strength to guard the secret.

Li Xia realized the Shikon Shards had greatly increased his recovery and talisman-making speed, but his shortage of spirit fluid threatened to halt his progress. He planned to seek spirit springs in the Sengoku Era and returned to the Peninsula Li Family to learn how to control Flesh-Bodied Human Face and obtain resources.

• Li Xia calculated that the Shikon Shards let him recover in minutes and craft hundreds of talismans, but he would soon run out of spirit fluid.
• Li Xia considered finding unclaimed, high-quality spirit springs in the Sengoku Era through the Bone-Eater's Well and using his knowledge of modern springs to locate them.
• Li Xia took two days off from Water Cedar Junior High to make Sealing Talismans, hoping to suppress Flesh-Bodied Human Face and consult his family about using demons as Shikigami.
• Li Xia made three Sealing Talismans, sealed Flesh-Bodied Human Face inside an alloy box, and placed another talisman on the box containing the Shikon Shards as a warning.
• Li Xia accepted a plane ticket from Fourth Uncle and prepared to return to the peninsula for family guidance and resources.

Li Xia returned to the Li Family with spirit elixir enhanced by a Shikon Shard and claimed he had found it in the Island Nation, prompting his father to suspect a leak of the clan’s formula. Li Xia also reported a Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit, and three elders arrived that afternoon to investigate.

• Li Xia showed Li Zhun spirit elixir whose effects were more than ten times stronger than the Li Family’s usual version.
• Li Xia suggested the elixir had been made in the Island Nation, and Li Zhun suspected someone had leaked and improved the clan’s formula.
• Li Xia claimed he had encountered a Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit and nearly entered a passage to hell to save a child’s ghost.
• Li Zhun agreed that Li Xia’s discoveries were major contributions and said the clan elders would reward him.
• Three elders over eighty arrived at Li Zhun’s home and asked whether the report about the Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit was true.

Li Xia secured clan rewards and traveled to the Island Nation with three elders to find the Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit. There, Kagome investigated the haunting connected to Mayu and Little Gō, and Mayu appeared after a flowerpot nearly struck Kagome and Souta.

• Li Zhun asked the elders to reward Li Xia, who requested the Shikigami Technique and a large supply of spirit fluid.
• The elders promised Li Xia training in shikigami contracts and two cubic meters of spirit fluid each month if he led them to the Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit.
• Li Xia and the three elders boarded a flight to the Island Nation.
• Kagome and Souta went to Little Gō's apartment building, where Kagome learned more about Mayu's death and the accidents that had plagued visitors.
• A flowerpot fell from the apartment balcony, and Kagome pulled Souta out of its path.
• Mayu appeared beside Kagome and asked why she had done that.

Kagome learned that Mayu's resentment came from a tragic misunderstanding about the fire that killed her, just as Mayu's spirit grew more dangerous and threatened Little Gō. The chapter ended with Kagome and Little Gō's mother rushing to his darkened hospital room while three elders and a youngster arrived at the family's home.

• Mayu rejected Kagome's attempt to comfort her, destroyed part of the garden with her spirit power, and vowed to kill Little Gō.
• Kagome took Souta home and went to the hospital, where Mayu watched Little Gō and their mother and declared she would kill him that night.
• As Mayu's intent to kill Little Gō hardened, the Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit behind her changed into an open-eyed form.
• Kagome stopped Little Gō's mother outside the hospital, and the mother admitted she knew Mayu's spirit was causing the accidents.
• Little Gō's mother explained that Mayu had died in a house fire after hiding in a wardrobe, while she had rescued the feverish Little Gō without knowing Mayu was still inside.
• The light in Little Gō's hospital room burst, and Kagome and his mother hurried upstairs as three elders and a youngster arrived at the family's home.

Three Clan Elders discovered Mayu’s lingering ghostly aura at her burned-out home and waited for the Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit. At the hospital, Mayu tried to kill Little Gō, but Inuyasha saved him; the spirit bound Mayu and carried her back to the house as Kagome and Inuyasha pursued, where the elders prepared to capture it.

• Li Xia told the Clan Elders he had tracked the Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit to the burned-out house, where they found Mayu’s strong ghostly aura and recognized her potential.
• Mayu lashed out at her mother, then used her ghostly powers to throw Little Gō’s hospital bed out the sixth-floor window.
• Inuyasha caught Little Gō and saved him, while the Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit bound Mayu with red chains and carried her away.
• Kagome had a nurse care for Little Gō and rode on Inuyasha’s back as they pursued Mayu to the house where she had died.
• The Clan Elders sensed the approaching Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit and prepared to seize it.

Li Xia and the three Clan Elders ambushed the Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit at the burned house, but it pulled them into a dimensional space recreating the fire. The elders sealed the demon and then captured Mayu too, while praising Li Xia and promising him a greater reward.

• Li Xia led the three Clan Elders to the burned house, where the Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit brought Mayu and trapped them in a space between reality and illusion.
• The elders explained that the space would open a passage to Hell if Mayu’s anguish remained unresolved, then found her hiding in a wardrobe.
• The lead elder used Spirit-Sealing Talismans and an incantation to bind the Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit and seal it inside an Advanced Spirit-Sealing Talisman.
• The three Clan Elders captured Mayu with another Spirit-Sealing Talisman, surprising Li Xia.
• The elders praised Li Xia for helping them capture the demon and Mayu, and promised him a greater reward.

Li Xia accepted that the Clan Elders had captured Mayu and the Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit, then watched them purify and seal both as shikigami. He received Intermediate Spirit-Sealing Talismans and secret crafting methods, while Kagome and Inuyasha arrived too late to find Mayu.

• The Clan Elders explained that Mayu was an evil spirit near to fading and that sealing her as a shikigami would preserve her and protect people from her power.
• Kagome sensed Shikon Shards while traveling with Inuyasha, but she lied that they were not the shards they had lost, so they continued toward Mayu's home instead of pursuing Li Xia's group.
• Kagome and Inuyasha found Mayu and the Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit gone, and Inuyasha angrily learned that Li Xia had been carrying seven Shikon Shards.
• Little Gō awoke at the hospital and begged his mother to rescue Mayu, not realizing that his sister had already been captured.
• Li Xia watched the Clan Elders purify Mayu and the Demon-Worshipping Child Spirit and seal them in spirit shrines within Spirit-Sealing Talismans.
• A Clan Elder rewarded Li Xia with five Intermediate Spirit-Sealing Talismans and taught him the Spirit-Sealing Talisman Refining Method and methods for crafting shikigami altars and Spirit Shrines.

Li Xia prepared to venture into the Demon World by stockpiling talismans and seeking centuries-old Soul-Nourishing Wood to build a Shikigami Spirit Shrine for Flesh-Bodied Human Face. His Fourth Uncle found the wood, but it belonged to a North American cultivator with ties to the Peninsula Li Family’s main branch, leaving Li Xia to decide whether to meet him.

• Li Xia asked his Fourth Uncle to find Soul-Nourishing Wood and planned to make Flesh-Bodied Human Face his Shikigami, using it to devour demons and grow a powerful body.
• The Li Family delivered spirit fluid, and Li Xia stored some before strengthening the rest with the seven Shikon Shards.
• Li Xia took two weeks off school and spent two days in seclusion drawing talismans as he weighed the dangers of entering the Demon World.
• Li Xia emerged with several new fine-quality talismans and learned that his Fourth Uncle had found a rare piece of centuries-old Soul-Nourishing Wood.
• Li Xia’s Fourth Uncle explained that a North American cultivator planned to trade the wood to a talented member of the main branch, then guessed the man wanted to buy Li Family talismans cheaply.

Li Xia traded talismans with Javier Smith and Glenn Smith for rare soul-nourishing wood, intending to use it to contract the Flesh-Bodied Human Face as a Shikigami. After Li Xia left, Sean Smith sensed that he might possess a supreme treasure and began plotting to bring him under the Smith Family's control.

• Li Xia negotiated with Javier Smith and Glenn Smith over a four-hundred-year-old piece of soul-nourishing wood, resisting their probing questions about his family inheritance.
• Li Xia traded three premium low-tier talismans and twenty-two inferior low-tier talismans for the wood, and all three agreed to keep the deal secret.
• Sean Smith arrived at the manor after Li Xia departed and asked Javier about Li Xia's family background and influence.
• Sean Smith told his faction's elder that he and his contracted spirit Hardy had sensed the aura of a supreme treasure near Li Xia, and the elder ordered him to watch Li Xia until reinforcements arrived.
• Sean Smith proposed inviting Li Xia to America for an academic exchange, while the elder warned that the Smith Family would act if the Peninsula Li Family refused.

Li Xia completed the contract with the Flesh-Bodied Human Face, naming his first Shikigami the Great Katsura Tree Mask, and discovered its abilities. He began considering how its power could help him reshape and strengthen his body.

• Li Xia returned home and spent a day carving a Spirit Shrine from Soul-Nourishing Wood.
• Li Xia removed the Evil-Repelling Talismans, summoned the Flesh-Bodied Human Face into the shrine, and completed the initial contract using his blood and an Intermediate Spirit-Sealing Talisman.
• Li Xia named the Shikigami the Great Katsura Tree Mask and learned he could activate it by channeling magical power into its card.
• Li Xia found the mask granted brief flight, greatly enhanced strength, sensitivity to Shikon Shards, energy devouring, and fine control over the body.
• Li Xia considered using the mask's bodily control to strengthen and modify himself, and contemplated becoming a demon if his experiments failed.

Li Xia refused the Smith Family’s exchange offer so he could remain in the Island Nation and pursue the Demon World’s legacies. The Smiths suspected he was hiding something, and Li Xia faced a confrontation at his residence when Li Family collateral members demanded that he go to North America and help Li Zhongji obtain a Maya legacy.

• Li Xia considered the risks of modifying his body, postponed experimenting on himself, and spent two days drawing talismans.
• The Peninsula Li Family agreed to send young members to North America after the Smith Family offered them access to the Maya Trial Tower.
• Li Zhun told Li Xia to prepare for the trip, but Li Xia refused because he wanted to stay in the Island Nation and explore the Demon World.
• After Li Xia’s refusal reached the Smith Family, Javier suggested a way to handle the situation without alerting the Li Family leadership.
• Fourth Uncle brought two Li Family collateral members and two outsiders to Li Xia’s door, where the collateral members accused him of taking Li Zhongji’s Soul-Nourishing Wood and demanded that he help Li Zhongji obtain a Maya legacy.
• Li Xia disputed the accusation and asked the two outsiders who they were.

Li Xia suspected the Smith Family had engineered his trip to North America and used the Li Family’s internal politics to isolate him. After boarding Javier Smith’s private plane, he confronted the Smith experts and attacked a window as they lunged at him.

• Li Xia grew wary of the Smith Family escorts and tried to contact his father and a Clan Elder, but learned his father was drunk and neither could speak with him.
• Li Xia agreed to travel to North America after the escorts said Young Master Jung-gi had already gone ahead, then asked for a private flight.
• Javier Smith arranged for Li Xia and his companions to board his private plane, the Sky Warhawk.
• Over the Pacific, Li Xia accused the Smith Family of targeting him, and the two escorts tensed to attack.
• Li Xia activated his talismans, put on a scarred mask, and smashed the plane’s side window as the escorts lunged at him.

Li Xia faked his death after destroying the Smith Family’s private jet and planned to escape through Sunset Shrine’s Bone-Eater’s Well into the Demon World. After retrieving supplies from the school and Mayu’s home, he headed for the shrine, where Kagome sensed seven Shikon Shards approaching.

• Li Xia watched the Smith Family’s jet crash into the sea, then staged evidence that one of its experts had survived and come ashore before destroying the man’s body and soul.
• Li Xia decided to fake his death, avoid both the Smith Family and the Li Family, and travel through the Bone-Eater’s Well to the Sengoku Era.
• Li Xia retrieved spirit fluid and talisman-making supplies from the school and Mayu’s home, leaving behind the equipment stored in his industrial-district warehouse.
• Li Xia bought ordinary medicine and set out for Sunset Shrine with his supplies.
• Kagome sensed seven Shikon Shards approaching and wondered whether they belonged to the person she had sensed before.

Li Xia visited Kagome and her family, explained the danger of the Shikon Shards, and used the story of his rescue of Higurashi Grandpa to earn their trust. He left with a plan to travel through the Bone-Eater’s Well with Kagome’s help, while the Smith Family learned that their plane had crashed and the Shikon Shard had escaped their grasp.

• Li Xia introduced himself to Kagome, reminded her that he had rescued her grandfather, and revealed that he was a practitioner who knew about demons.
• Li Xia showed the Higurashi Family seven Shikon Shards and explained that the jewels brought danger, then demonstrated his talismans and reenacted the mask demon’s demand for a body.
• Kagome’s grandfather reacted with fear, and Kagome grew guilty and more grateful after Li Xia described defeating the demon and recovering the shards from its mask.
• Li Xia decided that the Higurashi Family’s goodwill and Kagome’s cooperation would help him cross the Bone-Eater’s Well, and he planned to help Kagome strengthen her Miko abilities.
• Senior members of the Smith Family learned that their private plane had crashed and that the Shikon Shard they had nearly obtained was gone.