The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 537: Hong Kong Past (18)

After turning his head, he did not see any light, no children, no eldest child and no father, only darkness. It was as if everything he had just done was an illusion, like a lunatic.

While he was staring blankly, countless pale hands suddenly stretched out from the darkness. They grabbed Ah Fa's whole body, as if they wanted to drag him into the darkness and turn him into the same being as them.

Ah Fa struggled continuously, but was still dragged into the darkness, no matter how hard he tried.

The candle in his hand was about to be extinguished. In this desperate situation, something suddenly broke out in the fear in Ah Fa's heart.

"Oh my god! I won't die here!"

Ah Fa shouted with a fierce look in his eyes. Just before he was dragged into the darkness, he actually moved the candle close to his clothes. Soon, his cotton T-shirt caught fire, expanding the flames!

"Haha! This is the train!" Ah Fa's forehead veins popped out and he laughed wildly, "Kids! The train is leaving! Follow me!"

The force pulling him from behind seemed to have weakened a little. He took a step forward with all his might, and with the flames burning on his body, he struggled to walk outside.

The flames burned Ah Fa's body, making him more sober and bold. When the flames burned the back of his T-shirt, his Guan Gong tattoo was exposed.

In the light of the fire, Guan Erye seemed to come alive, and glared majestically at the owners of the arms hidden in the darkness.

"The train... is about to speed up! Children, sit tight!"

Suddenly, Ah Fa felt the pressure suddenly reduced, and he almost ran forward madly.

He ran for a long time until his T-shirt was almost burned and even his hair was almost burned. Then he fell to the ground and rolled over to put out the flames on his body.

"…it really came out." The voice of Taoist Jingde came from behind.

"No matter what it is, you can't fool me!" Ah Fa shouted, "Don't try to trick me into coming back!"

Then, Ah Fa heard footsteps approaching him, and then there was a bright light in front of his eyes. If he hadn't been wearing sunglasses, he would have been blinded and closed his eyes. Through the sunglasses, he saw Taoist Lingkong squatting in front of him with a flashlight and said, "Okay, you're out now. Well done."

Ah Fa immediately got up and looked around. His car and altar were still there, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

“Well done.” Taoist Lingkong patted him on the shoulder.

At this moment, a strong burning sensation was transmitted from his body to his brain. Ah Fa screamed and tore off the remaining clothes on his body, crying out in pain.

"It's just a mild burn, not serious." Taoist Lingkong looked at it for a while, then nodded and said, "Give me the key, get in the car, I remember there is a river on the way here, you can take a cold bath in it, and then we will give you some medicine when we go back, you will be healed in a few days."

"Hurry! Hurry up, I feel so uncomfortable because of the fever just now!" Ah Fa urged with a distorted expression.

So Taoist Lingkong drove Ah Fa to take a cold shower, which would help him cool down and reduce the damage caused by the burns.

Taoist Jingde stayed where he was, apparently dealing with the things that Ah Fa had just brought out from the ghost realm.

Qian Xiaoyi and Taoist Lingkong squatted by the river and watched Ah Fa take a shower. Qian Xiaoyi sighed, "In a critical moment, his potential burst out. Has he learned to use his brain? Can this be considered changing his fate?" "It's too early to tell." Taoist Lingkong smiled and said, "This just makes his intuition sharper and more decisive at critical moments. He has just taken the first step. He has not yet reached that level to change his fate. However, his decisiveness in his previous decision was beyond our expectations. We were surprised to find that he was like a rough jade with great potential."

"So we still have to keep training him?" Qian Xiaoyi said with a smile, "Brother Zhang is really miserable when he meets you guys."

Taoist Lingkong was not convinced: "He would have been hacked to death if he hadn't met us."

“But sometimes being hacked to death is worse than encountering something worse than life or death,” Qian Xiaoyi said.

Taoist Lingkong was silent for a while, then he said: "Well... that's right, in this way, we are sorry for him."

After Ah Fa had soaked in the icy river water until his face turned pale, his lips turned black, and there was no obvious burning sensation on his body, he was taken back.

In the car, Taoist Jingde turned around from the passenger seat and asked, "How did you feel just now?"

Ah Fa leaned against the back seat with a grin on his face, and said with a wry smile: "If you ask me to do it again, I definitely won't do it..."

"Then did you feel it?" Taoist Jingde asked with a smile, "Is there something vaguely extra?"

"There's something extra..." Ah Fa closed his eyes, carefully recalling the scene at that time. It seemed that at that dangerous moment, he found a mysterious feeling, as if as long as he followed that feeling, he would be able to survive from death.

"It seems... there is a feeling that I can't describe." Ah Fa murmured.

Taoist Jingde nodded and said, "Congratulations, you have reached the first step of changing your fate. Because of what you have done, part of your fate has been completed, but it is not over yet. Do you want to continue?"

Ah Fa licked his lips and said, "Although I'm still a little nervous, but... I want to continue!"

His eyes behind his sunglasses were burning with fire. He liked the feeling of being in control of everything about himself. It made him feel free.

In the past, it was other people who told him that people should be rich, loyal, filial and brave... That's why he just went with the flow, learned from the heroes in the movies, and clumsily imitated their behavior, but he didn't understand the meaning at all.

Those were what others told him to do, but now, for the first time, he felt that it was his own choice to do it. It was his own choice to fight against those strange beings. It was his own choice to set himself on fire. It was his own choice to bring those children out.

——It was his own choice to go against the will of heaven and change his fate!

Ah Fa seemed to have discovered a new world. In his previous life, he lived for what others said, but now, he felt like he was reborn and felt the reality of "being alive".

"I want to continue." Ah Fa said seriously, "I seem to have some idea of ​​what it means to defy fate and change one's destiny... Only by relying on oneself can one truly defy fate and change one's destiny! The Second Master Guan behind me cannot be suppressed by any external objects, that is useless. Only when I can suppress him and gain his favor, can I be considered to have changed my destiny! For this, I need more tests to prove that I am qualified."

"This boy is teachable." Taoist Jingde smiled happily. He looked at Afa with admiration, as if he was looking at an outstanding junior.

It’s like…looking at one’s own work.

(End of this chapter)