The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 185 Final Battle (7)

An inexplicable aura emanated from the main hall, causing all the exorcists present to look over there. Although this aura was not strong, it was extremely conspicuous and abrupt, forcing everyone to pay attention.

"This fluctuation..." Qian Xiaoyi thought, "Is it a cursed object unique to the shrine? It doesn't have the aura of resentment, but instead has a faint vitality, just like a newborn baby. No wonder it can attract spirits, especially evil spirits, who are most sensitive to this kind of breath of life. The resentment towards the living will make them gather like crazy."

Immediately, Yan Ci of the mourning hall pushed open the door and walked out, saying, "The ceremony has begun. This state will last for about three hours. The evil spirits in the surrounding area will be attracted to another place. Please follow me. I will take you to the place where the spirits are removed."

Qian Xiaoyi followed Yan Ci in the mourning hall silently. The venue of the competition certainly couldn't be in someone else's shrine, otherwise it would be difficult for both him and the other party to take action.

Moutang Yanci led everyone from the back door of the shrine to the foot of the back mountain. There was an abandoned station here. Moutang Yanci said: "The venue arranged by Lord Ashiya is here. Please keep this and take good care of it. This is something very important for your safety."

He took out a stack of talismans with the nine horizontal and vertical patterns of the Ashiya Style and distributed them to everyone, then explained: "When in danger, the talisman will guide the caster to the Yellow Springs House. I believe everyone knows what the Yellow Springs House is. If you are there, you don't have to worry about attacks from evil spirits. And..."

He then said to Gui Teng Long Guang and Qian Xiao Yi: "Lord Ashiya will also use this talisman as a medium to judge the results of the competition when you two compete. Please don't lose it, otherwise it will be impossible to calculate who has eliminated more evil spirits in the end."

Gui Teng Longguang and Qian Xiaoyi nodded to show that they understood.

"Well, I wish you all good luck in martial arts." Yan Ci turned around and left, leaving behind a dozen exorcists with different thoughts.

Qian Xiaoyi looked at the talisman, and from a perspective that ordinary people could not see, he could vaguely see a capital letter "贰" on it.

"Is it contestant No. 2 or am I an idiot?" Qian Xiaoyi smiled, raised his head and looked at Hiruda.

Hiruda made a gesture of wiping his neck towards Qian Xiaoyi, his eyes full of mockery and the pleasure of impending revenge.

Qian Xiaoyi was just about to sneer back when two spots of light suddenly flashed from the distance on the track and slowly came over. The two spots of light were like the eyes of a monster, flickering and giving people an unreal sense of terror.

It was a tram, a tram that could be seen everywhere in Japan. It did not make any sound and slowly stopped quietly at this abandoned platform. It opened its automatic door to the crowd, just like a monster opening its mouth, waiting for its stupid prey to deliver itself into its mouth.

When Qian Xiaoyi saw the number of the tram car, he suddenly realized that this was the meaning of the "贰" on the talisman.

"A train to another world." Qian Xiaoyi thought, "Are they actually going to the ghost realm to exorcise ghosts through this kind of urban legend? It seems that Mr. Ashiya also has his own research on urban legends."

"Wait, I'll let you know what it means to live a life worse than death." Suddenly, Hiruda said to Qian Xiaoyi with a sneer. Then, without waiting for his reply, he quickly entered his own carriage.

Qian Xiaoyi sneered, shook his head, exchanged a secret look with Gui Teng Longguang, and then entered carriage number two.

The train compartment looked no different than usual, but Qian Xiaoyi knew that this was already in the realm of ghosts, because the talisman in his hand had turned into a square-headed, white bird-shaped Shikigami, flapping its wings and flying in the air beside him. Soon the train continued to move, and Qian Xiaoyi ignored the Shikigami following him and walked straight into the compartment. As he expected, although he saw others entering the train, he could not see other exorcists when he walked into the other compartments, only several passengers who looked normal.

Qian Xiaoyi observed the passengers, all of whom were looking out the window with expressionless faces.

"They are all very common spirits, and there is no need to eliminate them." Qian Xiaoyi quickly came to the conclusion: "I didn't sense any evil spirits in the car. Did the race start after I got off the car... huh?"

He turned his head and saw a woman covered in blood, with her lower body missing and half of her intestines dragging behind her, crawling towards him with difficulty, her eyes full of hatred for the living.

Qian Xiaoyi sighed and said to the shikigami beside him: "I think that guy is a little too impatient, isn't he?"

"Just saying hello, don't get killed at this time." In another empty carriage, Hiruda felt extremely happy when he thought that Qian Xiaoyi would be torn into pieces by the evil spirits. That man actually dared to insult him like that, he deserved to be killed!

At this moment, he was sitting on a chair, fiddling with a human-shaped piece of paper with a few short hairs stuck on it. These short hairs were given to him by Gui Teng Longguang. They were the hair that he secretly collected from Qian Xiaoyi during the live broadcast at Lin Guangyilang's house. Through this medium, he could cast some interesting spells.

——For example, letting the cursed spirit attack the owner of the hair.

What is a cursed spirit? It is a spirit that is tortured by a curse. It will be tortured to the point of going crazy and losing its last bit of sanity. Then, by blaming someone else, the cursed spirit can attack the target.

The cursed spirits would entangle their targets as if they were their enemies, which was Hiruda's favorite kind of curse. This reminded him of when he was in high school, he fanned the flames of the two guys who had bullied him and successfully provoked a fight between them. In the end, one of them was seriously injured and hospitalized, and the other was expelled from school because of the fight.

When Hiruda saw the result, he felt extremely happy, and at the same time he firmly believed that he had the ability to curse others.

Hiruda placed the paper figure on the ground, then bit his finger with his teeth, letting the blood drip near the paper figure.

I saw those drops of blood gradually gathered into the shape of half a person, dragging its body towards the paper figure representing Qian Xiaoyi.

Bang! Before the human figure made of blood drops could crawl in front of the paper man, the blood drops broke into pieces and scattered radially around. It seemed that the cursed spirit died a miserable death.

"Yes, that's right, this is interesting!" Hiruda laughed and said, "If you don't have any skills, then it's a waste of my time to help you! Since one isn't enough, then how about more?"

On the ground, drops of blood kept pouring out from somewhere, gathering into blood snakes, which turned into a human shape and crawled towards Qian Xiaoyi from all directions.

(End of this chapter)