Simultaneous travel: I am proving the great way in the heavens.

Chapter 676 The World of Rules and Strange Tales! Kayako of Ju-on!
"Ichiro, I can't have any weaknesses now. Once I've fulfilled my wish to revive Lord Taiko, those incarnations will be irrelevant." Only then was Gohime satisfied.

"I understand, please rest assured, Mother." Dr. Lin bowed deeply before hurriedly contacting the Tsuchimikado family members left behind in Japan.

Although the Tsuchimikado family was once a renowned family among the Yin-Yang Schools of the island nation, it was Gohime who spearheaded the policy of invading the mainland.

This resulted in the Tsuchimikado family being targeted from all sides before the island nation's defeat, making it impossible for the Tsuchimikado family to take control.

Princess Go was also very clever; before the defeat, she instructed the Tsuchimikado family to go from open to covert operations.

Even so, the Tsuchimikado family was still severely weakened.

While Dr. Hayashi, also known as Tsuchimikado Ichiro, was busy contacting members of the Tsuchimikado family across the island and taking care of Go-hime's many incarnations.

Tokyo, an island nation.

Luo Fu personally led the team, bringing Xiaoqian, Zhou Jie, and the Su Yue couple to the infamous haunted house of the Cursed.

It's one thing for Gohime to leave behind her other incarnations in the island nation, but Kayako in the Ju-on haunted house is what Luofu is most curious about and concerned about.

The reason is simple: unlike ordinary demons, such as Shirai or Sadako, Kayako's abilities are truly terrifying.

Ordinary wall-penetrating abilities, stamina, physical attacks, curses, teleportation, and so on are all acceptable.

What really caught Luo Fu's attention was Kayako's ability to almost distort reality, even manipulating time and space.

That's incredible.

Although there are indeed many ways to manipulate time in this world, and there are quite a few people who possess similar abilities.

What makes Kayako so special? How could a mere demon possess such terrifying and unbelievable methods and abilities?
There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

Kayako's immortality is comparable to Gouki's immortal soul.

Luo Fu certainly wanted to see such a wicked demon for himself.

When Luo Fu arrived at the mansion where the Ju-on had occurred...

A woman who looked remarkably like Nozomi Sasaki jogged quickly toward Luo Fu and the others.

"Smimasai." Stopping before Luo Fu and the others, Sasaki Nozomi bowed slightly and asked, "Are you here to enter this house?"

The moment the words left her lips, the other person seemed to realize something. She explained in a somewhat anxious tone, "My name is Yui Ikuno, and I am... I am Toshio Saeki's teacher in this house."

Luo Fu suddenly realized that they had arrived at just the right time. He hadn't expected that they would arrive just in time for Kayako and Saeki Toshio to kill another wave of JK high school girls.

If I remember correctly, this should be the beginning of the story in Ju-on: The End.

After glancing at Yui Ikuno, Luo Fu said, "You know the secret of this house?"

Yui Ikuno's expression changed drastically.

His voice even began to tremble slightly.

"I……"

Taking a deep breath and calming herself, Yui Ikuno said, "I went inside to visit Jun'o, but... but Jun'o's mother, she... she..."

Yui Ikuno stammered, truly unsure how to describe the scene she had just witnessed.

In fact, Yui Ikuno is one of the very few people who actually met Kayako.

Of course, this Kayako is not the evil Kayako who has been tortured to death, but rather one who still retains her human form.

Unfortunately, what Ikuno Yui saw was still far from normal; in fact, Kayako brought Ikuno Yui unprecedented psychological trauma.

This is why she subconsciously moved closer when she saw Luo Fu and the others approaching; there was simply no one else on the surrounding streets.

After witnessing Kayako's terrifying appearance, Yui Ikuno instinctively wanted to approach normal people and seek a sense of security.

At this moment, Luo Fu realized that this was the first time Ikuno Yui had entered the Ju-on haunted house.

"Such strong resentment." Xiaoqian only glanced at Ikuno Yui before focusing her gaze on the haunted house.

To others, this haunted house might just seem a bit eerie, but to Xiaoqian and the others, the eerie atmosphere of this haunted house could only be described as terrifying.

That's powerful enough to almost interfere with the rules.

But even if a woman died a terrible death, it's impossible for her spirit to harbor such unbelievable resentment after death.

There are many people in the world who died far worse than Kayako. Why should a mere housewife have such good fortune after death?

Unless... unless there's something wrong with the house itself, Kayako, who died here, wouldn't possess such terrifying abilities.

At this moment, Yui Ikuno seemed to have calmed down.

After apologizing to Luo Fu and the others, he hurriedly chose to leave.

Just now, she was only seeking security out of fear, but now that she has calmed down, she realizes how abrupt she was.

Watching Yui Ikuno leave, Xiaoqian teased from the side, "Is Master interested in this woman?"

Luo Fu smiled and shook his head.

She's just a woman with Nozomi Sasaki's appearance; there's nothing else about her worth paying attention to.

If the shared space didn't exist, he might still have some interest in stamp collecting, but now...

Luo Fu rolled his eyes at Xiaoqian and said, "If you could focus more on cultivation, I think your cultivation level would be far higher than it is now. Don't waste your energy on these things."

Without going into too much detail, Luo Fu said, "Let's go in and take a look."

I have just stepped into the haunted house.

Su Yue and Zhou Jie couldn't help but shiver.

Even Qingqing couldn't help but reveal her form.

The resentment within this haunted house was truly terrifying; the courtyard and the gate were like two completely different worlds.

Luo Fu reached out and patted Su Yue and Zhou Jie on the shoulders.

A gentle, masculine energy instantly dispelled the resentment and yin energy that clung to them.

At the same time, screams came one after another from inside the house.

This wasn't just one person's voice, but the screams of countless people, as if they were all experiencing terror and agony simultaneously, erupting at the same moment. Such a horrifying sight made even Xiaoqian, a demon, shrink back in fear. She said, "If my master weren't here, I probably wouldn't have dared to enter such a terrifying place."

Even in the eyes of Xiaoqian, a demon, the haunted house of Ju-on is still a terrifying place.

The resentment in this place is simply too strong.

Both the quality and quantity of the resentment far exceeded our comprehension.

At this moment, Xiaoqian became even more convinced that this place could not have been created after the death of an ordinary housewife.

Throughout history, the number of people who have suffered far worse than her is simply incalculable.

The ghost of an ordinary housewife somehow possesses the power to manipulate time and space and distort reality.

I'll say it again, what makes Kayako so special?
The situation in other worlds is unclear, but in this world, the reason why this vengeful house has such a terrifying aura of resentment is because...

However, it is definitely related to the Gohime and Tsuchimikado families.

The appearance of the Ju-on haunted house is by no means accidental, nor is it as simple as a housewife with personality problems being brutally murdered by her husband and turning into an immortal evil spirit.

If power were so easy to obtain, wouldn't that be mocking the efforts of orthodox cultivators?

Compared to Kayako, who died and became such a terrifying ghost due to her own resentment, Luo Fu is more convinced that Kayako was created by Gohime and the Tsuchimikado family at an unknown cost.

This is actually reflected in the fact that...

That is, when Kayako killed people, her actions were not like those of an ordinary evil spirit, which was manipulated by emotions. Rather, it was more like... a kind of rule-based ghost story effect.

As the number of sources of screams inside the house continued to increase.

With the naked eye, the seemingly gloomy house in front of us began to present a completely different scene with every window and every door.

Through the window, one can clearly see that not only are there many people persecuted by Kayako and Toshio Saeki, but more importantly, the clothing and appearance of each of them clearly show the differences of the era.

It contains both the exuberance of the island nation's nuclear-armed era and the decadence of the Heisei era... The scenes of these victims being murdered are presented to Luo Fu and others as if they were seen through these doors and windows, transcending time and space.

There is no doubt that Kayako possesses the power to manipulate space and time.

Many victims, though they are in other places, are suddenly transported to this cursed house in the blink of an eye.

Even more incredibly, inside the Ju-on haunted house, they were able to see their past and future selves.

Just like this haunted house, which seems to exist outside the timeline, time is disordered within it.

Now, in front of Luo Fu and the others, the time-distorting effect of the Cursed Mansion was presented even more vividly.

"These are..." As a fashion designer, Qingqing thrived in the bottle world, supporting herself and Su Yue with a comfortable life solely through client referrals and individual design jobs. Although Qingqing's expertise lay in traditional Chinese style, she also had considerable knowledge of Japanese fashion.

Just by looking at the victims' clothing, Qingqing was able to easily identify the era in which these victims lived, with the time difference between them not exceeding five years.

Don't find this unbelievable. In China, people from different generations—those born in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s—each have distinct characteristics of their era.

Specifically, this is reflected in clothing, grooming, makeup style, and even temperament.

Qingqing undoubtedly used her knowledge of Japanese clothing styles to accurately identify the era in which these victims lived.

“These people, they don’t even belong to the same era,” Qingqing said. “But I feel… these people seem… they all seem to be alive.”

Yes.

Through the windows and doors, what was presented to Luo Fu and the others was not merely a replay of their deaths, but a complete presentation of the time in which they were murdered. No, to be precise, it was the power of the cursed house interfering with spacetime, piecing together different points in time like a kaleidoscope to form the scene they were seeing now.

Behind those windows and doors, the people being murdered represent different times, each a process from a living person to being killed by Kayako.

"What a vengeful ghost!" Xiaoqian said gravely. "Master, she seems very unwelcoming to our arrival; she's trying to scare us!"

Luo Fu nodded slightly and said, "We've run out of ideas."

Luo Fu naturally realized that the astonishing time distortion created by Kayako, or rather Ju-on, was a way of indirectly demonstrating her strength to Luo Fu and the others.

This is also related to the fact that Luo Fu just dispelled the influence of the cursed haunted house on Su Yue, Zhou Jie and others with a flick of his wrist.

Kayako, despite her name suggesting an evil spirit, is more like a vessel for the bizarre mechanism of Ju-on, a rather unique manifestation.

The essence of Ju-on is the curse itself; Kayako and Toshio Saeki are merely the two most successful templates within the Ju-on mechanic.

Others killed by the curse will also be drawn into it, causing the curse to snowball and become increasingly powerful.

Like the Ikuno Yui that Luo Fu and the others encountered before, she is indeed still alive now, but after she was killed by the Ju-on, she also became an existence like Kayako, using the power of the Ju-on to persecute others. Her sister, Ikuno Mai, was the one targeted by Ikuno Yui.

However, this is also related to the fact that the haunted house on which the Ju-on mechanism is based was demolished.

However, it is certain that the razing of the haunted house was not the key factor in the curse mechanism that turned all the murdered people into vengeful spirits.

Rather, from the very beginning, the ultimate form of Ju-on could transform those who died into beings like Kayako. However, before that, due to the existence of this bizarre mechanism, they were confined to the mansion, which is why Kayako and Toshio Saeki became the dominant force. It's as if Ju-on itself was born because of this mother and son.

Now that Luo Fu and the others have arrived, especially Luo Fu, whose power is truly capable of breaking the curse mechanism.

This will inevitably trigger the vengeful instinct to resist.

The terrifying scenes unfolding at this moment are not intentional acts of intimidation; to be precise, they are more like a natural phenomenon where ice inevitably melts in hot weather.

Luo Fu's power is like a drop of water entering the boiling oil of the Ju-on house, which will inevitably cause a violent reaction.

It has little to do with subjective factors.

The various victims, spanning different times, appeared before Luo Fu and the others through windows and doors. It took several minutes for everything to calm down again.

The haunted house in front of me remained eerie, as if nothing had ever happened.

Zhou Jie, Su Yue, and the others unconsciously looked at Luo Fu, waiting for his next reaction.

Luo Fu went straight to the gate and reached out to grasp the doorknob.

It was precisely the moment he grasped the doorknob that Luo Fu's expression changed drastically.

Because he had already sensed that the door leading into the haunted house was no longer just a simple door, but a passage connecting two different points in time.

Such tricks would be incredible supernatural powers for other ghosts and monsters, but in front of Luofu, they were truly like showing off one's limited skills before an expert.

(End of this chapter)