The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

After the Episode 276 (4)

Liuli Temple Hongming began to tell Qian Xiaoyi about a famous event that happened eighteen years ago.

It all started with a seemingly ordinary commission, and the person who took on the commission was Ruriin Hiroaki's father, Ruriin Mitsuteru.

Ruriin Mitsuteru is the heir of Meikoji Temple. The history of Meikoji Temple can be traced back hundreds of years ago. Since a long time ago, it has been a very famous family of exorcists. Ruriin Hiroaki's father, Ruriin Mitsuteru, is known as the strongest person in the Ruriin family for a hundred years. He is a well-known figure in the whole Tokyo and has handled countless difficult exorcism commissions.

"At that time, I was still very young, and my relationship with my father was not good. I was living outside." Liuliyuan Hongming said with some nostalgia: "He wanted me to inherit the temple. I was very rebellious at that time and wanted to pursue my dreams outside...ah, I'm getting off topic. Anyway, at that time, my father accepted a commission."

"Is there a commission regarding the slit-mouthed woman?" Qian Xiaoyi asked.

"Yes." Liuliyuan Hongming nodded. "It is said that a man's daughter was killed by the Slit-Mouthed Woman, so the man sold his house, raised money and found my father, wanting him to kill the Slit-Mouthed Woman and avenge his daughter. You should know that commissions about urban legends are generally very rare, so my father accepted the commission driven by sympathy and curiosity. But a problem soon arose - he couldn't find the Slit-Mouthed Woman."

Qian Xiaoyi nodded. This is the characteristic of urban legends. Only when rumors that enhance group cognition appear around will the ghost domain related to urban legends appear. The legend of the Slit-mouthed Woman is spread all over Japan, but there are still conditions for her appearance, that is, students who are afraid of the Slit-mouthed Woman. After all, the Slit-mouthed Woman was probably created by this group.

Liuliyuan Hiroaki continued, "Since my father had no experience dealing with this type of ghosts, he went to Mr. Ashiya and asked him for advice on related matters. After all, he was the descendant of Ashiya Doman and had a long heritage, so he might know something. But he didn't know clearly either, so Mr. Ashiya went to ask other people... Soon, the five strongest exorcists in Tokyo gathered together."

"The five strongest exorcists?" Qian Xiaoyi was a little curious.

"That's right." Ruriin Hiroaki nodded. "The five people are my father, [Meiko-ryu] Ruriin Mitsuteru, [Ashiya Doman's descendant] Ashiya Yoshisuke-senpai, [The cursed witch] Terao Keiko, [The chief priest of Iwama Shrine] Ryoudo Tsutsutaro, and [Ghost Doctor] Hoshiba Makoto. They were the top exorcists in Tokyo at the time, and each of them had their own unique abilities."

"Iwama Shrine..." Qian Xiaoyi asked, "Isn't it the Iwama Shrine I visited last time? The one in Saitama Prefecture?"

"That's right." Ruriin Hiroaki said, "Ryoudo Tsutaro is the previous chief priest of Iwama Shrine and the father of the current chief priest, Ryoudo Yanci. By the way, you also know the son of Miss Terao Keiko."

"Carrying a curse... that guy is Hiruda, right?" Qian Xiaoyi sighed, "I never thought that such a gentle person would give birth to Hiruda. There must be some confusing reason behind this."

Liuliyuan Hiroaki said: "Maybe. Anyway, the five strongest people in Tokyo, some out of favor, some out of curiosity, and some out of sympathy, so under the leadership of my father, they planned to complete this commission together. They found the trace of the slit-mouthed woman through the body of the person killed by the slit-mouthed woman."

There is actually such a method. Qian Xiaoyi nodded and asked, "Then what? It is impossible that five such powerful people cannot defeat a slit-mouthed woman, right?"

When talking about this, Liuliyuan Hongming's face suddenly darkened. Qian Xiaoyi was stunned and asked, "No way? They really can't beat her? How did they beat her?" Liuliyuan Hongming said slowly, "At first, they thought it was just a piece of cake. After all, compared with those difficult evil spirits they have encountered, the number of people killed by the Slit-Mouthed Woman and the influence she has on people are insignificant..."

When Qian Xiaoyi heard this, he knew where that group of people had fallen into trouble. The reason was that these classical people treated the modern urban legend of the Slit-Mouth Woman as a "ghost" with a physical entity. The more people these traditional ghosts killed, the stronger their gathered power would be. However, the Slit-Mouth Woman was different.

From the perspective of cognitive theory, the urban legend of the Slit-Mouth Woman is more like a "supernatural phenomenon" and they are fundamentally wrong.

"The content of this commission is to 'eliminate the slit-mouthed woman.'" Ruriin Hiroaki said, "After finding the slit-mouthed woman, they began to work together. Mr. Ashiya and Senior Reidou were responsible for controlling the slit-mouthed woman, Miss Terao and my father were responsible for the attack, and Senior Hoshiba, who is known as the 'Ghost Doctor', was responsible for the defense. If an unexpected situation occurs, he will use the family's sealing technique to seal the opponent."

"Perfect division of labor." Qian Xiaoyi said. With this lineup and arrangement, they would surely be able to fight against the big monsters in ancient legends, but unfortunately... Qian Xiaoyi had already predicted the ending.

As expected, Liuliyuan Hongming said solemnly: "This should have been a foolproof commission, but no one took it seriously. By the time they found out something was wrong, it was already too late."

At the beginning, they used commonly used spells to attack the Slit-Mouth Woman, which was very effective and suppressed the Slit-Mouth Woman almost instantly. But the next second, the Slit-Mouth Woman burst out with greater power, broke free from the suppression, and launched a counterattack against them.

Several top exorcists continued to attack and suppress in an orderly manner, only to find that no matter what kind of attack, they could not completely defeat the Slit-Mouthed Woman. She was always able to show a stronger posture, recover, and then fight back.

Her power seems to be infinite, there is no way to completely destroy it!

So the heavy burden fell on Xingba Ken, who was responsible for the support. The others created opportunities for him to use the sealing technique passed down from his family to seal this powerful monster. This was also a very effective way to fight against powerful enemies who were too far away.

Xingchang Ren naturally rushed forward first, wanting to seal the monster, but the power of the Slit Woman was too strong, and Xingchang Ren could not complete the seal alone, so other people came to help. They used all their spiritual power to help Xingchang Ren seal this guy.

Then, they failed to seal it.

There is another chapter in the afternoon

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(End of this chapter)