Chapter Summaries

Around the campfire, Inuyasha defended his wish to become a full demon, while Miroku and Li Xia warned that the Shikon Jewel could corrupt him. The group reached the Demon Slayer Village the next day and learned its leaders were away, leaving Li Xia suspecting Naraku had acted early.

• Shippo argued that the group needed to gather Shikon Shards before a powerful demon collected them, and Inuyasha threatened him for mocking his plan.
• Miroku asked what Inuyasha would wish for, and Inuyasha said he wanted to become a great demon like his father so he could be strong and free.
• Miroku and Li Xia warned that the Shikon Jewel might take control of Inuyasha's mind, but Inuyasha insisted he would not be corrupted.
• The group rode Aba to the Demon Slayer Village, where they met Kirara and learned that the Village Chief, Sango, and the other demon slayers had left for a nearby castle.
• Li Xia grew alarmed that the village's elite fighters had all been drawn away and suspected Naraku had made his move early.

Li Xia worried that Naraku’s Castle was a trap and that Naraku might target him if he revealed too much, but he decided the group should go after the Demon Slayers and Sango. Before leaving, he helped arrange protection for the village and its Shikon Shards, then asked Kirara and Grandpa Myoga about a nearby cave where villagers could shelter.

• Li Xia concealed his suspicions about Naraku’s Castle and said the group should prepare for the worst because the village’s strongest Demon Slayers had gone there.
• Miroku agreed to go, eager to meet Sango, while Kagome suggested the group stay to protect the village; Li Xia argued that they should not make Inuyasha endure the villagers’ prejudice.
• Li Xia agreed that the village’s Shikon Shards should be moved, and Kirara and Grandpa Myoga brought four shards to Kagome for safekeeping.
• Li Xia entrusted his own Shikon Shards to Kagome and asked Kirara and Grandpa Myoga whether a nearby cave could shelter the villagers if demons attacked.

Li Xia led Inuyasha and the others to a cavern protected by Midoriko’s barrier and explained that the mountain was formed from the fused bodies of demons that had fought her. He chose the cavern as a safe fallback for the Demon Slayer Village, then left with the group to find the Village Chief and the others.

• Kirara passed through the cavern’s barrier, and Li Xia tested it before joining the group inside.
• The group found a chamber filled with demon remains and Midoriko’s body fused with the central demon.
• Li Xia explained that Midoriko had fought a united demon army for seven days and that the cavern and mountain were likely formed from the demons’ fused bodies.
• Li Xia identified the cavern as a protected shelter where villagers could stockpile supplies and wait out demon attacks.
• Li Xia left the cavern with the others, sensing Midoriko’s sorrow and silently promising to return.

Sango and her family confronted a giant spider demon at Naraku Castle, only for the disguised demon Lord to control Kohaku and turn him against them. Li Xia's group arrived moments too late to prevent the slaughter, after Miroku's Wind Tunnel swallowed Hiten's Saimyosho and their poison delayed the rescue.

• Sango, her father, her two uncles, and Kohaku met the Lord of Naraku Castle and prepared to fight the spider demon attacking the town.
• The group quickly defeated the giant spider, but a strand of invisible spider silk attached to Kohaku made him attack and kill Sango's father and uncles.
• Sango spotted spider silk linking Kohaku to the Lord of the Castle, realized the Lord was a demon, and attacked him while defending herself from Kohaku and the guards.
• Kohaku regained his senses as Sango lay dying, but arrows from the guards killed him before she could be saved.
• Hiten revealed that he had sent Saimyosho to intercept Li Xia's group, and Miroku's Wind Tunnel swallowed the swarm, poisoning him and delaying their arrival.

Li Xia and the others treated the wounded Demon Slayers and learned that Naraku had lured the village’s defenders away with a diversion. They reached the Demon Slayer Village to find it burning and strewn with corpses, with the battle between its people and the demons already over.

• Miroku and Li Xia assessed the four wounded Demon Slayers and concluded that Sango and one man could be saved, while the other two were beyond help.
• Li Xia reassured Kagome, warned the group that Naraku was a cautious and powerful enemy, and planned archery training for her while the wounded recovered.
• Inuyasha questioned delaying the search for Shikon Shards, but Li Xia argued that Miroku could not be left behind at the village.
• The group hurried toward the Demon Slayer Village and saw smoke and flames as they approached.
• Li Xia realized Naraku had used the group’s absence to expose the village to a demon attack, and the group found corpses of Demon Slayers and demons around the burning settlement.

Li Xia and his companions found the Demon Slayer Village devastated by a demon attack, though many women and children had escaped to Midoriko’s Cave. After Li Xia proposed that the survivors relocate and join his team against the enemy, Sango chose to stay with the group and avenge her family and village.

• Li Xia, Inuyasha, Kagome, Shippo, and Grandpa Myoga reached the ruined Village and found corpses and wreckage left by the battle.
• The group followed the trail to Midoriko’s Cave, where Kirara recognized Sango and rushed to her; Inuyasha stopped her from disturbing the injured Sango.
• The survivors welcomed Sango and the other fighter back, mourned the Village Chief, Kohaku, and another skilled fighter, and thanked Li Xia’s group for their warning and help.
• The elders worried that rebuilding the Village would expose them to another attack, so Li Xia suggested using the Cave as a refuge or migrating southwest while gathering intelligence on the enemy.
• An elder asked Sango and his second son to decide their course, and Sango chose to join Li Xia’s team to kill the demon behind the attack and avenge the dead.

Sango and Kirara joined the group after Li Xia explained why he suspected the young lord, Hiten, and warned Sango that Naraku might use Kohaku against her. The survivors began recovering while the team trained, and Li Xia, Inuyasha, and Myōga set out to visit Totosai and then a secluded Yōsen.

• Li Xia told Sango that he and Inuyasha had rescued her and her Second Uncle because the young lord’s plan to bury them in his backyard seemed suspicious.
• Sango and Kirara joined the team, and Li Xia warned Sango that Naraku might impersonate or use Kohaku to manipulate her.
• Li Xia arranged two weeks of archery training for Kagome, who scored highly at the fifteen-, twenty-, and twenty-five-meter targets on her first day.
• The wounded villagers recovered with modern medicines and enhanced herbal remedies while Inuyasha trained with Kirara to practice creating the Wind Scar’s demonic-aura rift.
• Li Xia, Inuyasha, and Myōga visited Totosai, then followed Myōga to a secluded place where a Yōsen lived.

Li Xia and Inuyasha traveled to the valley where Medicine Elder Poison Immortal lived, hoping to obtain spirit spring water and improve their weapons. They arrived at the waterfall and found a powerful source of nature energy, leaving Li Xia eager to secure its water.

• Li Xia planned to ask Medicine Elder Poison Immortal for spirit spring water and considered having immortal poison and medicine applied to Thunderstrike Blade or Tessaiga.
• Li Xia reasoned that Naraku was still weaker at this point in time and imagined using a poison-enhanced Tessaiga and Kagome's arrow to defeat him early.
• When Inuyasha asked about Li Xia's murmuring, Li Xia shifted the conversation to Tessaiga's hidden abilities and its potential for further upgrades.
• Myōga explained that the Dog General had sealed away Tessaiga's abilities so Inuyasha could master it, and he considered how Medicine Elder Poison Immortal's power might help Inuyasha.
• Li Xia, Inuyasha, and Myōga reached the waterfall valley and found wine jars immersed in its waters, while Li Xia sensed an exceptionally potent spirit spring.

Li Xia and Inuyasha visited the Medicine Elder Poison Immortal to obtain Spirit Spring water and have Inuyasha’s Tessaiga imbued with poison immortal power. After enjoying the immortal’s wine, Li Xia offered him a purified Shikon Shard in exchange for strengthening his Fire-Tipped Spear.

• Inuyasha pulled a wine vat from beneath the waterfall and poured it out, revealing the sleeping Medicine Elder Poison Immortal inside.
• The Medicine Elder agreed to give Li Xia Spirit Spring water, and Li Xia drank a bowl of his wine.
• The Medicine Elder said he could imbue Tessaiga with his power but warned that Inuyasha had not mastered its basic wind force.
• Li Xia offered a largely untainted Shikon Shard and asked the Medicine Elder to strengthen his Fire-Tipped Spear.

Li Xia tried to recruit the Medicine Elder Poison Immortal against Naraku, but the old immortal returned the Shikon Shard and sent Inuyasha into a wine vat to test Tessaiga. Inside, Inuyasha encountered a soul projection of his father, the Dog General, and greeted him with an uppercut.

• Li Xia reasoned that the Medicine Elder Poison Immortal could counter Naraku and tried to use the Shikon Shard to secure his help, but the immortal refused the jewel and warned him to use it carefully.
• The Medicine Elder Poison Immortal told Inuyasha to place Tessaiga in a vat of poisonous wine and enter another vat to face a troublesome opponent.
• Inuyasha discovered that the medicinal wine vat contained a vast water world, where a silver-haired man and the Little White Shiba Inu appeared before him.
• The Medicine Elder Poison Immortal explained that Inuyasha had activated a soul projection the Dog General had left in Tessaiga, and the Dog General asked whether the sword suited him.
• Inuyasha remembered the hardships he and his mother had endured and punched the Dog General as his father opened his arms for a hug.