Since the essence is masterless Demon Qi, the harm isn't necessarily great; it's just that ordinary people who stay too long in the forest can easily lose their senses.

Of course, for Gu Mo at present, there is no threat, and he consciously searches for the source of the miasma, moving deeper to places where the miasma grows denser, quickly venturing deep into the forest and finding a well hidden among tangled roots, vines, and grass.

He leaned over the mouth of the well and peered inside. It was pitch black, not particularly deep.

The source of the thick miasma was here, where Demon corpses accumulated over the years would be discarded and soon disappear, as if the well devoured the skeletal remains, never filling up, hence the name— "Bone-Devouring Well."

In fact, the well was constructed from the Divine Wood from nearby; the wood of that Era Tree possesses unique powers. Moreover, the well's proximity likely linked it to the Era Tree's power, granting it the strange ability to traverse time and space...

Presumably, there may be limitations, possibly only spanning from the day the well was built to its final existence in the future—

The timeline between these periods, where the well exists in history, allows time and space to connect...

Additionally, there may be other conditions to use the well for transferring back and forth between two distinct eras... As for that condition, Gu Mo thinks it might be due to the Four Souls Jade, but he isn't entirely sure.

Because in his memory, the nature of the well is rather subjective and subtle.

In the beginning, it was when Himura Kagome carried the Four Souls Jade that she could travel back and forth between the Warring States Era and the future of 1996. After losing the Four Souls Jade, she indeed could not use the well to return to the Warring States Era for some time...

At that time, Inuyasha was severely injured and targeted by Naraku, so when Himura Kagome relaxed her guard, Inuyasha unexpectedly snatched the Four Souls Jade from her and pushed her back into the real world, intending to face the upcoming battle alone… Himura Kagome, worried, indeed couldn't return to the Warring States Era, until she sensed the aura of the Four Souls Jade.

It was during a battle when the Four Souls Jade Inuyasha carried was struck by an enemy and fell into the well.

Due to the unique nature of the Bone-Devouring Well, five hundred years later, Kagome sensed the Jade's aura, ran back into the well, seized this opportunity, and managed to return to the Warring States Era… It was during this time that both of them subtly confessed their feelings to each other.

—— Moreover, time-wise, it seems this part of the plot occurred not long ago.

However, this was the case, although in the early stages, when Himura Kagome carried the Four Souls Jade back to the modern world, Inuyasha, without the Four Souls Jade, also easily crossed over and back again… This happened not once, but multiple times.

And then, at the finale, Naraku was eradicated, and the Four Souls Jade disappeared completely and forever. Himura Kagome was also sent back to her era— she originally thought the fate had ended, and they would never meet again, but three years later, the Bone-Devouring Well miraculously reconnected to the Warring States Era.

—— These circumstances have no reason at all, so it's hard to say what truly serves as the round-trip ticket.

Gu Mo pondered carefully, picking up a small pebble to throw into the well, listening for an echo to confirm that it was indeed about four to five meters deep.

He surveyed the surroundings before flipping over and jumping into the well.

"…"

"…"

The forest was quiet, with the occasional night breeze blowing, and unknown summer insects chirped cheerfully, making the silence even more pronounced. The silhouette that leaped into the well never reappeared, as if it had vanished within the well.

Until a Witch in white robe and Fei skirt furrowed her brow lightly and followed the traces to arrive there, looking into the well in puzzlement, Gu Mo's figure did not resurface.

...

...

For the person involved, the experience of time travel wasn't new at all.

There were no fancy light effects, no light emanating from the earth at the bottom of the well, no long time tunnel appeared before the eyes, and his body didn't seem weightless, constantly falling… None of these existed; he simply jumped into the well, landing firmly.

Then looking up, the well opening was no longer the forest night sky, but a dim rafter space.

Unnoticed, the era had already transitioned, a truly unimaginable and bizarre phenomenon… Gu Mo clicked his tongue in amazement, it seems indeed the Four Souls Jade counts as one of the tickets, at least an important factor affecting the well's opening of time-space passage.

He swiftly left the dried well; the surrounding building was a sealed-off room, an ancient wooden structure, the Bone-Devouring Well sunk underground, with stairs leading upward…

This must be the shrine hall of the Himura Shrine, Gu Mo speculated, walking up to lightly push the door. The seemingly tightly shut large door opened with a gentle push, it wasn't locked at all.

Perhaps due to the Himura Family facilitating Himura Kagome's traversal between two different eras, though this family really has a big heart, being so at ease letting a middle school girl handle such matters, and even covering for her to let her focus on time-traveling to the Warring States Era, embarking on a quest to find the Jade and exorcise demons.

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