The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 186 Final Battle (8)

On the temple fair street, Inuyama Heita suddenly stopped and looked in the direction of the shrine. Just now, he felt a very tempting and strange smell emanating from there. The feeling was very strange, just like the buzzing sound before an old-fashioned TV is turned on, which inexplicably makes people feel itchy.

"What is that?" Ken murmured in Inuyama Heita's ear: "I really want to go and see it..."

Inuyama Heita whispered, "Brother O should have already started. We can't leave the street at this time, otherwise we might fall into the enemy's trap."

Ah Jian said irritably: "I know, this feeling really makes people curious."

"Hey, Inuyama, hurry up and catch up." Kawasaki turned around and shouted excitedly, "There are goldfish to be scooped up ahead."

"Here they come." Inuyama Heita walked over. His current task was to keep a close eye on these companions. From the moment he entered the temple fair street, he had a feeling that he was being monitored, but the more it was at this time, the more he could not reveal any flaws.

At another unknown station, an ordinary train slowly stopped, the door of the carriage opened, revealing a bloody scene inside, Qian Xiaoyi walked out of the carriage with a backpack on his back and a copper coin dagger in one hand, leaving a string of red footprints on the clean platform. Then, the train started and fled from here at a high speed.

"...How many cursed spirits did those beasts create?"

He shook off the bloodstains on the copper coin sword unhappily, stuffed it into the bag behind him, and then began to look around.

He was the only one who got on and off the train this time. It is also possible that everyone got off at the same time, but were separated into different ghost realms and could not see each other.

The platform he was currently on looked ordinary, but it gave people a rather inharmonious feeling, as if it was disguised by some unknown thing. This was also one of the characteristics of the ghost realm, so Qian Xiaoyi did not care about it, but took out a compass and began to determine his position.

His current mission was not to look for any evil spirits, but to find a safe place quickly, otherwise...

"Brother Qian, are you sure you really want to participate in this competition?" In the office, before Qian Xiaoyi set off, Gui Teng Longguang called him and advised: "This time it's quite bad, this is your last chance... Don't rush to refuse, listen to my reasons..."

"-Among the exorcists participating this time, nearly half were hired by Hiruda." said Ryuko Kito.

"Well, half? It's much better than expected." Qian Xiaoyi said: "So?"

"..." On the other end, Gui Teng Longguang was silent for a while, and said: "I really don't know whether you are arrogant or really sure. In this case, I will not persuade you anymore. In addition, in addition to this bad news, I will tell you an even worse news - I don't know which of the participating exorcists are hired by Hiruda and which are not. The commission of Iwama Shrine this time is for all exorcists in the industry. Therefore, it is difficult for you to distinguish who is the enemy."

This is indeed a difficult point. If Qian Xiaoyi attacks indiscriminately and kills everyone he meets, he will become the real public enemy of the industry. Those neutral exorcists who are watching will also join the battle and try their best to eliminate him as an outsider. But if he just fights back, it will be too passive. No one knows whether the enemy will disguise himself as an ordinary participant and then launch a backstab.

Qian Xiaoyi teased, "It seems that Hiruda doesn't trust you either. Master Gui Teng, he didn't even tell you who your companions are."

Gui Teng Longguang smiled bitterly and said, "So you understand my situation now, right? I am like a puppet. I only need to obey his orders. The exorcists he finds will control the evil spirits and send them to me. I only need to chant scriptures to save them, and then I can easily win..."

"Isn't this super comfortable?" Qian Xiaoyi said with a smile, "I don't have to do anything and someone else will do it for me. I want this kind of treatment."

"But the price of being relaxed is very heavy." Gui Teng Longguang said: "I will owe that group of people a favor. This kind of debt is the most difficult to repay. So since you are unwilling to admit defeat, I can only pray to the Buddha and hope that you can win."

"Thank you for your good words." Qian Xiaoyi said, "As for the method of identifying the enemy, I have my own way, so you don't have to worry about it."

Back to the present, Qian Xiaoyi walked out of the platform with a compass in his hand and came to a forest. As he left, fog began to spread around. When he looked back, the station had disappeared in the fog and was out of sight.

Qian Xiaoyi was not at all surprised by the sudden appearance of fog. In order to prevent the gathered evil spirits from escaping to other places, the competition venue must have corresponding measures. The fog in front of him was a barrier set up in advance to prevent the evil spirits who strayed into this place from leaving easily.

But this also blocked the exorcist's perception. In the foggy woods at night, with only sparse moonlight for illumination, everything seemed extremely strange. From time to time, some dark shadows flashed in the fog not far away. It was unclear whether they were evil spirits or the exorcist's figure.

Qian Xiaoyi stared at the compass in his hand, avoiding the ghosts along the way, and came to the end of the woods. There was a wall here, covered with densely packed talismans with red characters on a white background. This was the edge of the barrier. The reason why he came to this place first was to gain the advantage of geographical location.

When facing a situation where the enemy outnumbers us, the first thing we need to do is to avoid being attacked from both sides and put ourselves in an unfavorable situation. If we start a war anywhere, it will be difficult to guarantee that we will not be attacked from behind.

But unfortunately, this Feng Shui treasure land has been occupied by someone, or rather, a ghost.

The disheveled evil spirit had its back to Qian Xiaoyi. Her white dress had been dyed red. An umbilical cord fell out from her dress, connected to a bloody mass of flesh that was constantly wriggling on the ground.

"I can smell this resentment from a long distance away." Qian Xiaoyi sighed in his heart, "It's not comparable to those cursed spirits. This is a real evil spirit, and a guy with a lot of resentment... It seems that the death was caused by abortion? What a sin~"

“Although this is very rough, I have no choice but to get rid of you now.” Qian Xiaoyi performed a magic trick and a talisman appeared in his hand. He said to the evil spirit, “I’m sorry. I will help you to be liberated later.”

(End of this chapter)