Miroku is lured off to the shrine to the village's patron goddess, with the intent on making him a sacrifice. Sango follows a group of the village women to the lake, where she is set upon and captured.; Miroku discovers that the villagers are possessed by the eggs of a salamander demon imprisoned in the scroll of the goddess Kannon. One of the villagers tries to force Sango to ingest an egg.; Miroku must battle Sango, who is possessed by a salamander demon.; After freeing Sango from the salamander demon, Miroku proposes - - sort of.; While slaughtering priests through the countryside hoping to use their spiritual auras to track down the last Shikon Shard, Akago runs into a priest who manages to split him into two beings.; The death of a priest frees a demon horse from captivity. The horse seeks out Akago's sundered half, who has renamed itself Hakudoshi.; Dissatisfied with the sight granted him by slaying priests, Hakudoshi switches to slaying lesser demons and collecting their heads.; The gang come upon a river otter demon named Kanta, whose father was killed by Hakudoshi for his head. Shippo convinces them to try to rescue the head. But first they must stop the demon's headless body from rampaging through the countryside.; Sesshomaru can use the Tenseiga to restore Kanta's father to life, but he refuses.; Learning from Kanta's father that the last shard is in his father's skeleton in the Cemetery of Demons, Inuyasha seeks out Myoga and Totosai to find a way there.