The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 158 Competition (8)

After King Kong picked up the Zen stick and repelled another wave of attacks, he turned around and shouted to Gui Teng Longguang: "Hey, Mr. Gui Teng, these things are endless! Why is it like this? These evil spirits are completely different from the ones I have encountered before."

Gui Teng replied hoarsely, "Because they are not evil spirits in the true sense, but just the echo of this house, just like a video tape put into a player. As long as the time is up, these images will be replayed here over and over again... The real problem is this house."

King Kong was surprised and said, "So, we are like mice that accidentally broke into a factory machine. If we are not careful, we will be crushed by the gears. And this is entirely our own fault?!"

Gui Teng smiled bitterly and said, "That's true. Now that I think about it, Qian Xiaoyi had proposed to the agent during the day that they should use the method of renovating the house to solve this problem. I originally thought that he just wanted to participate in the competition in a way that he was good at, but I didn't expect that his purpose was actually this. He had already seen through it! I am such a fool. If I had discovered it earlier, I wouldn't have fallen into this situation. The exorcist who handled this commission before must have not discovered this, so he died."

"Go to hell, monster... stop saying those useless things!" King Kong repelled the family of three again, then turned around and said, "Since this is a machine, there must be a switch or a power source or something, right? As long as we find that thing, we might be saved."

Gui Teng Long Guang sighed: "But we have to be able to get out... Now we are trapped by the barrier, the only way is to wait until dawn."

"Damn it! Damn it!" King Kong raised his Zen stick angrily and hit the flat-headed woman's head hard, smashing it to pieces. But King Kong was already a little out of breath at this time, his arms were shaking, and he couldn't stand swinging the heavy Zen stick for a long time.

His body was covered in blood, which was the blood of the enemy. Now he could no longer evaporate it with his fiery aura as he did at the beginning, so even the Vajra tattoo on his back was stained with scarlet, becoming sinister.

"Hold on!" Gui Teng Longguang shouted, "Don't let up, King Kong. Life and death depend on this moment."

King Kong gritted his teeth and waved his Zen stick with great effort, trying in vain to eliminate the three ghosts again and again, but they would soon come back again. Gui Teng Longguang quickly wrote the Tantric symbols of the Nine-Character Mantra on his palm, and then combined with the hand seals, he helped King Kong fight in the candle barrier.

As time passed, they were almost exhausted. King Kong was covered in blood and looked unrecognizable. The tattoo on his back was completely covered by filth. Gui Teng's face was black and the sweat blurred the scriptures on his face. The candle beside him seemed to be swaying in the wind and was about to go out.

"I... I can't do it anymore, Mr. Gui Teng." King Kong sat down with a pale face and said, "I have no strength left..."

His strength comes from his body and will. Now his body has reached its limit and his spirit is exhausted. He is at the end of his rope. No matter how brave he was before, he can't exert his full strength now.

The female ghost and the little ghost all pounced on King Kong, biting and attacking him continuously with great hatred for living humans. King Kong could no longer break free and could only hold down their heads with trembling hands, and the situation remained in a stalemate.

"Think of a solution quickly, Mr. Gui Teng!" King Kong shouted.

Gui Teng did not respond to him, because at this moment, he could not care about others.

The male ghost holding the kitchen knife was already standing in the circle of extinguished candles, just quietly looking at the ghost vine.

Gui Teng's lips moved, but he couldn't make any sound. He felt vaguely that he had become the original owner of this house. Gray scenes flashed through his mind, and those despair and anger were constantly irritating his nerves.

He saw himself standing in front of the corpses of women and children. His life was hopeless. He was the one who killed them. So Gui Teng held the kitchen knife with both hands backwards and slowly stabbed his own neck.

The mold in the room expanded further, and countless cracks appeared in the void. Countless translucent hands stretched out from it, reaching out to Gui Teng Longguang who wanted to commit suicide, and King Kong who was pinching his own neck and was about to suffocate, as if trying to drag them into the void.

"There is a flaw, and it's now! Inuyama, I feel it! The core is right there!" Ajian shouted.

Inuyama Heita took off the talisman and jumped into the room through the passage created by the Bagua Seal. Under the guidance of Ajian, he took out a yellow talisman from his arms at lightning speed and threw it into a black crack.

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The moment the talisman was thrown in, the whole house shook violently, and the mold on the wall began to fade quickly. King Kong and Gui Teng woke up suddenly and looked at the huge changes in the room in surprise.

Inuyama Heita clenched his fist excitedly and said: "Okay, the house-guarding talisman is effective!" This was the house-guarding talisman that Qian Xiaoyi had given him before. It had been activated and he just had to throw it to the right place.

Ah Jian said in the jade pendant: "We have finally waited for this moment! This house really has self-awareness. It wants to devour the prey that steps into it. When the prey cannot move, it will reveal its true face. Inuyama clan, we succeeded!"

"Hmm!" Inuyama Heita was still frightened but also very excited. His lips were purple and his face was pale, as if he had been frozen in the snow for a day. This was the aftereffect of using the purple talisman. If he waited a little longer, he might be backfired by the talisman.

King Kong turned over, looked at the ceiling, his face ashen, and gasped for breath, muttering in disbelief: "We are alive...it was you who saved us! Thank you so much, brother!" He expressed his gratitude to Inuyama Heita.

Before Inuyama Heita could answer, Kidou said angrily, "Idiot! Haven't you figured it out yet? We've become bait! They didn't do anything, they were just waiting in the dark for us to fall into the trap, and then they attacked!"

King Kong said helplessly: "But didn't we set up the trap ourselves?"

Guido Ryuko was suddenly speechless. Even he couldn't hold back his pride at this moment. He could only cover his chest and cough awkwardly, not daring to look at Inuyama Heita.

"In this case, are we safe?" King Kong sat up, looked at the talisman on the wall, and said tiredly: "The surrounding environment has returned to normal, which means we have returned to reality, right?"

Gui Teng Longguang turned his head away and didn't look at Inuyama Heita. It would have been fine if he was saved by Qian Xiaoyi, but now he was actually saved by someone else's underage high school student assistant. He had no place to put his face. He could only turn his head to look at the talisman and said:
"It should only be safe temporarily. Is this a house-guarding talisman? Although it is attached to a key position and can temporarily suppress the house, it can only suppress it. In other words..."

He took a deep breath, turned around and said to Inuyama Heita: "The matter of this house has not been resolved yet, so you haven't won this competition yet, don't get carried away."

(End of this chapter)