The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 684: The Journey to the Mountain of Osorrow (37)

"Let's go~" Qian Xiaoyi shook the bell, and the zombie took a step. He shook it once, and the zombie jumped once. Although the speed was not fast, it was moving steadily towards the Naihe Bridge.

On this path leading to the underworld, countless half-translucent ghosts loomed and floated past the zombies, passing through the Naihe Bridge to the other side, and the zombie wrapped in layers of yellow talismans finally came to the front of the Naihe Bridge.

Qian Xiaoyi stared at the zombies. This was the most crucial step. He shook the copper bell in his hand and shouted carefully, "Go!"

He didn't know whether the "Naihe Bridge" built with his half-baked skills could withstand this zombie, but he had to give it a try. If it succeeded, that would be the best. If not, he also had a follow-up plan.

With this most important jump, the zombie leaped high into the air and landed on the white paper bridge, pressing the entire bridge down a lot. The arch bridge was almost touching the water of the Sanzu River below.

As everyone watched in silence, the paper bridge finally stopped collapsing and just managed to stabilize before collapse.

"Huh~" Qian Xiaoyi wiped the cold sweat from his head. He knew that his paper-making skills were not good, so he had no idea whether the bridge could withstand the zombie, but now it seemed to be just enough.

Kongo and Suzuna also breathed a sigh of relief. Kongo clenched his fist excitedly and said, "Success!"

Ling Na said calmly: "It's not over yet, it's just the beginning. We need to send that zombie to the other side, right?"

"Yeah~ It's not time to relax yet." King Kong stared at the back of the yellow rice dumpling and pouted: "It jumps so slowly. I really want to rush over and push it, and just knock it to the other side of the bridge..."

Ling Na said with some amusement: "I heard from Mr. Qian that the bridge is not for living people to walk on. It might collapse if you go up there. Do you want to take a bath in the river?"

King Kong hesitated and said, "Forget it. This river is not very suitable for bathing."

Not far away, when Qian Xiaoyi saw the zombies actually successfully step onto the Naihe Bridge, he felt relieved and felt the pressure to suppress the zombies' actions greatly reduced. The Naihe Bridge is not an ordinary bridge. According to legend, as long as you step onto this bridge, you will begin to recall your past life and then walk all the way to the end of the bridge.

After walking onto the bridge, the zombie obviously stopped struggling. The yellow talisman wrapped around it slowly shortened and returned to its original size, firmly sticking to the zombie's head. At this time, the zombie looked dull and stupid, just like how it looked when Qian Xiaoyi and the others first saw it, as if it was lost in memories because of walking onto the Naihe Bridge.

Upon seeing this, Qian Xiaoyi put a talisman on the copper bell in his hand, pushed it forward, and threw it out.

The copper bell fell in front of the zombie and hovered in the air.

"Let's go." Qian Xiaoyi said while pinching the magic formula, and then the copper bell rang.

The zombie stupidly jumped forward, took a small step forward, and caused the paper bridge to tremble.

Qian Xiaoyi calmed down and said, "Let's go."

The copper bell remained in front of the zombie and rang again. The zombie then took another step and the paper bridge shook again. It looked very dangerous, but even so it did not sink into the river.

Qian Xiaoyi was relieved, and he went back and forth like this. The zombie was guided by the copper bell and came to the center of the Naihe Bridge. The most difficult time finally came. "Ah? Why did it suddenly stop moving?" King Kong asked, because the zombie just stood there motionless.

Qian Xiaoyi stared at the bridge and said, "Because the bodies of zombies belong to the real world, they cannot cross the Naihe Bridge. Generally speaking, zombies themselves have no souls, but this one does. It is special... We must send away the soul in its body first, and then we can treat it as an ordinary zombie... Let's go!"

Qian Xiaoyi controlled the copper bell and shook it again, and the zombie's body trembled as well. However, this time it did not jump up, but shook symbolically.

"Go!" Qian Xiaoyi shouted again.

This time the zombie swayed a little more violently, and a shadow swayed from the zombie's body, as if it was being attracted by the copper bell and was trying to break away from the body and go to the other side.

Seeing the paper bridge in danger, Qian Xiaoyi narrowed his eyes. He didn't know how long the bridge could last, but it seemed that it would not last too long.

So Qian Xiaoyi rang the copper bell again in a somewhat impatient manner, but it seemed that the interval between the rings was too short. This time, the shadow was pulled even less than before, and the paper bridge sank another inch. It seemed that the plan was about to fail.

At this moment, a peaceful murmur came from far away.

"Is this... the Mantra of Rebirth?" King Kong immediately recognized what these voices were chanting. These voices turned into star-like words, floating from the sky towards the zombie in the center of the Naihe Bridge, surrounding it, making the separation between the zombie's body and soul even more obvious.

Many Jizo statues appeared on both sides of the Sanzu River from time to time. They faced the zombies on the bridge calmly and remained silent, but their appearance seemed to make the trembling paper bridge stop shaking, and there was no sign of sinking for the time being.

"It's Ms. Miba and Master Kidou and the others!" Suzuna said in surprise. She heard familiar voices among them.

Qian Xiaoyi stared at the zombies intently and shook the bell rhythmically. With so many psychics chanting the mantra for the dead, this power was enough to send any evil spirit back to hell!
Just when the situation was going well and everyone thought that the salvation was about to succeed, Terao Yu suddenly opened his eyes.

His eyes were dark, his face was filled with fear, and he shouted tremblingly: "Wrong! All wrong! Teacher Qian, that thing is not just an evil spirit! It does not belong to hell!"

"Heh..." At this time, the zombie suddenly chuckled.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment. After hearing this laughter, the blood in the bodies of the people present seemed to freeze and they were unable to move.

The zombie easily broke the ink lines that bound its body, and the yellow talisman on its forehead fell off. It just waved its hand as if to shoo away a fly, and the words of the Rebirth Mantra that looked like stars in the sky were scattered and then disappeared with the wind.

In the temple, the psychics led by Wei Bo felt a palpitation almost at the same time, and the chanting stopped at the same time. The whole yard was silent, as if the pause button was pressed.

Except for Wei Bo, the other psychics had no idea what was going on. They just felt that tonight's ceremony was very strange and completely different from usual.

Wei Bo's face turned pale. She looked in the direction of "Hell" and said to herself: "Master...what on earth did you create..."

(End of this chapter)