The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 689: The Journey to the Mountain of Osorrow (42)

“Mobile ghost domain…” Qian Xiaoyi stared at the zombie intently, recalling the information about zombies in his mind: “Those top-level zombies raised through evil methods are all mobile ghost domains. As long as they are in a suitable environment, such as a remote mountain at night, if someone approaches them, a ghost domain will appear around them…”

Although Qian Xiaoyi could guess that the zombie's body was hiding in the temple, he never thought that the body was actually in the altar! The altar where the grand sacrifice was held every year was equivalent to everyone passing through the altar every year, converging their wishes, hopes, sorrows, and thoughts on this monster.

The colorful colors gathered at one point, forming an inky black, just like the darkness in its eye sockets.

"What kind of monster is that!"

"Where is this place? Am I dead?"

When the psychics who were dragged here saw the zombies, they instinctively felt deep fear. The fear turned into entity and gathered on the zombies as if being absorbed by a whirlpool. It was because of these nutrients that the zombies were able to break free from Qian Xiaoyi's suppression so quickly.

Wei Bo raised his head in embarrassment and looked at the zombie not far away, and happened to meet its eyes.

"You look a little funny right now." The zombie said, "See, I told you, you'll be surprised."

Wei Bo's voice trembled a little: "You are not an evil spirit, you never have been... You are..."

"It's me." Granny Tao's shadow appeared beside Wei Bo. She looked extremely old at the moment. Granny Tao said in a daze, "I remember... I should say that it is a monster I created through my thoughts about my master..."

Qian Xiaoyi remained silent. It was not only because of the longing, but also because of a large part of Granny Tao's cognition. No wonder Granny Tao usually looked dull and stupid. Qian Xiaoyi had always thought it was the sequelae of Alzheimer's disease and the accumulation of senior psychics. It turned out that it was because more than half of her cognitive ability had been occupied by this thing.

"Master!" Wei Bo shouted after seeing Granny Tao's figure, "Why? Why did you hide this? Hide the fact that it was under the altar? It will kill everyone!"

Granny Tao said, "I forgot."

Wei Bo was a little at a loss, this answer sounded like cheating.

"Don't embarrass her, she may have really forgotten." Qian Xiaoyi stepped forward and said, "Although she knew what was right and wrong, she subconsciously didn't want the Master she had summoned with great difficulty to disappear, so in order to protect her consciousness, she forgot about it. If she did it on purpose, she wouldn't have gone to such great lengths to do these things. Besides... the person this zombie wanted to kill the most was probably Granny Tao."

"Yes... I want to kill her all the time." The zombie looked at Granny Tao with resentment and said, "... Just because of the trivial reason of missing her, you trapped me in this body. In order for me to exist forever, you put me there. Every day, every day, I have to endure countless prayers and cries... That countless thoughts and sorrows constantly fill this body. It is an endless feeling of emptiness. Do you know how painful this feeling is?"

Granny Tao's eyes were filled with despair: "Of course I know... This is why I created you... To escape this emptiness."

"And you want me to take the brunt of this?" The zombie looked at Granny Tao with hatred and said, "I will kill you and everyone here! Only in this way can we put an end to all this!"

"Don't... stop bragging!"

"That's right, can you do it?"

The psychics also reacted and said in a timid tone: "We are exorcists after all! A mere evil spirit..."

"See how powerful we are!"

Wei Bo shouted, "Run! Everyone get out of here!"

Qian Xiaoyi shook his head sadly: "You can't escape. Don't forget, your real bodies are all near it..." Facing the provocation of these psychics, the zombie suddenly opened its big black mouth. A strong attraction came from its mouth. The psychics felt that their power was being sucked out of their bodies and flowing into the zombie's mouth.

"Wow! What is this?"

"Come on!"

But just as Qian Xiaoyi said, none of them could escape from here. All of them collapsed to the ground, extremely weak.

On the contrary, Qian Xiaoyi and the other few people who had been there from the beginning were not affected. All of their real bodies were in the "Hell" scenic area, not in the courtyard of the grand sacrifice.

As the person closest to the altar, Wei Bo had desperately prepared herself to have her power absorbed or even die, but she saw the figure of Granny Tao standing in front of her, offsetting the terrifying attraction.

"Master..." Wei Bo murmured.

Granny Tao said without even turning her head: "Wei Bo, now is not the time to be in a daze. Run away quickly now. You can escape."

“…I’m sorry, Master.” Miba took a deep breath, clenched his fists, and stood up: “If I run away like this, my home and our dojo will no longer exist…I have nowhere to escape to.”

After hearing Wei Bo's choice, Granny Tao sighed deeply.

Not far away, Lingnai and Kongo had come to Qian Xiaoyi. Kongo asked solemnly, "Mr. Qian! What should we do next? This zombie seems to be getting stronger. I may not be able to withstand it."

Suzuna clutched the mask in her hand, her knuckles turning white. She said in panic, "You must have a way, right? Please tell me, you must have a way!"

“Don’t worry, I won’t let you die here.” Qian Xiaoyi looked at the zombie in the field that was constantly absorbing spiritual energy and said, “Just like you said, I do have a backup plan...Hold on, this is the last darkness before dawn.”

At this time, Qian Xiaoyi's "backup plan" had already followed Gui Teng Longguang into the temple. A terrifying aura came from the inner courtyard. Both Gui Teng Longguang and Inuyama Heita could clearly feel that terrifying aura.

Cold sweat dripped down Gui Teng Longguang's forehead. He stopped moving forward and said awkwardly: "Well... I'll take you here. I have other things to do. The rest is up to you, Inuyama-san."

"Hey?" Inuyama Heita swallowed his saliva. He didn't want to face that powerful aura alone! Unexpectedly, Master Gui Teng ran away directly. Was this also arranged by Brother Yi?
Watching the figure of Guido Ryuko leaving in a panic, Kawasaki asked curiously: "Inuyama, what did the master mean by 'leave it to you'?"

Inuyama Heita laughed dryly and said, "I should be the one to lead the way back to the room... Senior, let's go back to the room in the side hall and rest first."

He planned to take Kawasaki and others back first, and then secretly ask Suzuki to go out to work.

"By the way, did you guys notice that everyone here has suddenly disappeared?" Kawasaki looked around and smiled wickedly, "That's perfect! My intuition tells me that there must be something fun going on at the festival. Let's go back and take a look!"

After saying this, without waiting for Inuyama Heita to stop him, he ran excitedly towards the inner courtyard like a stray dog ​​that had been freed from its cage.

“Senior!!!” Inuyama Heita screamed and followed.

(End of this chapter)