My journey to Konoha

"Perhaps you misunderstood what I meant..." Chu Yue said in a deep tone, "I did not deny your efforts in cultivation so far... On the contrary, it is because of your persistence and dedication that I decided to lend a helping hand..."

"You're talking nonsense!" Izumo retorted, anger flashing in his eyes, "If the Four Spirit Jades cannot fulfill my great wish of cultivating the Tao, then all my previous efforts will be in vain?!" After saying that, he turned away, his figure disappearing in a wave of spiritual energy.

Chu Yue looked at the direction where Chu Yun left, shook her head and sighed: "Alas, I will come to help you when you calm down... You trust the Four Spiritual Jade so much that you even think its power is greater than mine?"

Chu Yue realized at this moment that many of the cultivators around her indeed regarded the power of the Four Spiritual Jade as more powerful than her...

"Alas... it's because my practice is too restrained..." Chu Yue could only shake her head and smile bitterly in the end.

Outside the house, seeing Izumo coming out with a sullen look on his face, Kagome immediately stepped forward and asked, "Brother Izumo, what happened? Did Senior Chu Yue say anything that displeased you?"

"Not really..." Izumo replied indifferently.

"But you look..." Kagome asked worriedly. Although Chu Yue often made people angry, she never made people hate her; and Senior Brother Izumo always remained calm, as if he had never been angry.

"Forget it..." Izumo said, not giving Kagome a chance to continue asking questions, and left.

At this time, Shenwu quietly walked into the room where Chu Yue was, who had just left Izumo...

"Kanna...even you..." Kagome looked at Kanna's departing figure and felt helpless towards these two people.

Kagome searched alone in these training residences, hoping to find treasures that would help improve her cultivation. However, after a day, she found nothing except the remains of a practitioner in a room.

Walking out of the room, Kagome saw Izumo standing in the sunset, holding a small bird in his hand.

"It flew away..." Izumo watched the bird in his hand spread its wings and fly high, "Not because it was afraid of the night, but because it was afraid of me at night. At that time, I frightened them..."

"Um, Senior Brother Izumo..." Kagome called out.

"The Izumo you mentioned is my father. He is well-educated, good at reciting poems and composing music, and loves plants, birds and animals..."

Kagome was shocked. Could it be that the remains just now were Senior Brother Izumo's father?

"My name is Bull Demon King. To this day, during the day, I still maintain my father's human form..." As the sun sets, Izumo's body gradually changes and transforms into the Bull Demon King. "This is my true appearance at night!"

"So you are a demon cultivator..." Kagome instantly understood the truth.

"That's right, Miss Kagome." He responded in the form of the Bull Demon King, and at this moment two corpse crows landed on his shoulders.

"Back off." The Bull Demon King waved his hand, but the crows did not leave. Instead, he roared angrily, "Get out of here!" The crows then flew away in panic.

"As you can see, during the day I am in the human form of my father, and at night I am the demon body given by my mother. In order to escape the fate of being a half-demon, I must refine the Four Spirits Jade!"

"Was all this your plan?! Did you plan all this?!" Kagome asked angrily.

"That's right!" The Bull Demon King admitted, "I have visited all the places where the Four Spiritual Jades have appeared! I have long been fed up with this half-demon body!"

"So...your wish is..." Kagome seemed to have seen through the Bull Demon King's innermost thoughts.

"I want to use the power of the Four Spirits Jade to become a true human!" The Bull Demon King said firmly, "To do this, I need to borrow your souls to refine the Four Spirits Jade!"

"That's absolutely not possible!" Kagome flatly refused, "I will never allow you to do that!"

"Let's fight, witch!" the Bull Demon King shouted provocatively.

Inside the house, Chu Yue slowly opened her eyes.

"Okay, it's time for us to go out." Chu Yue said to Shen Wu.

Outside the house, the Bull Demon King had swallowed all the fake Four Spirits Jade, but was knocked to the ground by Inuyasha with a palm.

"Ah! The sun has risen! It's not time yet!" The Bull Demon King stretched out his hands towards the rising sun, "Let me stay like the Bull Demon King for a while!"

However, the sun did not stop rising because of his pleading. As the sunlight shone down, the Bull Demon King finally turned back into Izumo.

"How could this happen?" Inuyasha looked at Kagome.

"Because of those fake Four Spirits Gems..." Kagome explained, "As a human, he can't bear the power of too many fake gems..."

"This is fate..." Izumo turned and whispered to Kagome.

"It's him!" Inuyasha immediately recognized Izumo.

"Brother Izumo is a demon cultivator." Kagome closed her eyes, "At night he is the Bull Demon King, during the day he is a human..."

"Ms. Kagome...can I die as a human..." Izumo said finally before falling to the ground with cow hair growing on his lower body and a tail dragging behind him.

"Senior Brother Izumo..." Kagome looked at Izumo, her heart filled with sorrow.

"It seems that you have dealt with all the monsters." Chu Yue walked out and said.

"Senior Chu Yue?!" Kagome immediately spotted Chu Yue, "Senior Chu Yue! You know all this, right?!"

"Yeah." Chu Yue nodded in response.

"Then why don't you go and save Senior Brother Izumo?!" Kagome asked Chu Yue.

"If he is not taught a lesson, how will he realize his mistakes?" Chu Yue asked back.

"But, it doesn't necessarily have to be this way! Will you only be satisfied if Senior Brother Izumo loses his life? You don't have to pay the price of your life to understand this, right?!" Kagome was very emotional.

"Then tell me, what should I do?" Chu Yue looked at Kagome calmly.

"You..." Kagome wanted to continue arguing, but suddenly stopped because she realized that Brother Izumo had become what he was now, and unless he experienced it himself, he would probably never give up.

"But...are we just going to let Senior Brother Izumo die like this..." Kagome wiped the tears that fell from the corners of her eyes.

"Only after experiencing death can one understand the mistakes made in life." Chu Yue said calmly, and then walked to Izumo's body, "Wake up, Izumo."

Izumo's body glowed with golden light, and Inuyasha and his companions stared at the changes in Chu Yue and Bull Demon King in amazement.

"This light... looks so familiar..." Maitreya spoke first.

"Hmm..." Inuyasha thought.

"This is the same light we saw before we met Coral!" Kagome recalled immediately.

"That's right! It was that light that saved our father!" Coral affirmed.

"Ah?" Kagome looked at Chu Yue in front of her, "So... Senior Chu Yue..."

The golden light gradually dissipated, and Izumo slowly opened his eyes.

"I..." Izumo stood up, "I am..."