The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 695: The Journey to the Mountain of Osorrow (48)

Qian Xiaoyi narrowed his eyes. The real highlight was finally coming!
He came from afar to help Granny Tao find what she had forgotten, and even helped kill a top-level zombie. Wasn't it for this?
"Wei Bo, please go out first." Granny Tao said, "Mr. Qian and I have something to discuss. It's better if you don't know about it."

"I understand." Although Wei Bo was very curious, she still listened to her master's words. She put the cut apples on the plate on the bedside table, then got up and left the ward, closing the door, leaving Qian Xiaoyi and Grandma Tao alone in the room.

The atmosphere in the room became serious, and Granny Tao's smile disappeared. She looked at Qian Xiaoyi with scrutiny and asked, "Before that, I want to ask you one thing, Mr. Qian. Who are you to that guy? His son? His disciple?"

“Neither.” Qian Xiaoyi said, “He is from the same school as me, and is of the same generation as my master. He can be considered my uncle… Let’s put it this way, I came here this time just to find him.”

"What do you want to see him for?" asked Granny Tao.

"Kill him." Qian Xiaoyi said.

The ward fell silent. After a while, Granny Tao smiled brightly. "I believe you. If you find him, teach him a lesson for me. Now it seems that he has really hurt me."

"I will." Qian Xiaoyi nodded.

"Then let's get started. Just ask whatever you want to ask." Granny Tao's gaze drifted away, lost in reminiscence. After being confused for so many years, her mind had never been so clear as it was now. Memories came flooding back like a tide, all vivid in her mind.

Qian Xiaoyi asked: "When did you first meet him? What was his identity at that time?"

As a "traitor" of the cognitive school, Jingde would never use his real identity to travel around the world. He must have disguised himself. Just as Zhang Chunfa said before, when he saw Jingde again in Japan, the other party was no longer wearing a Taoist robe. He must have had a new identity.

Granny Tao thought for a while, then replied, "When I first met him, I hadn't inherited the dojo yet. At that time, I was training at the foot of the mountain, just like you are now, working as an exorcist in Tokyo. At that time... he came to me as a guest. His name... was Li Jianguo, a businessman from China."

Upon hearing the name, Qian Xiaoyi curled his lips. From this aspect, we can see Jingde's caution. Even the pseudonym he chose is such a common name. Qian Xiaoyi asked, "What did he entrust you to do?"

"It was a very difficult exorcism commission." Granny Tao recalled, "It was an evil spirit. Now that I think about it, the appearance of that evil spirit was very strange... But I didn't think too much about it at the time. I just fought with the evil spirit according to the commission and exorcised it. It was just like any other commission, nothing special."

Qian Xiaoyi asked, "Mother-in-law, you were already quite famous at that time, right?"

Granny Tao replied, "It may sound a bit boastful, but at the time, I was one of the top exorcists in the Kanto region with Mr. Ashiya and the others. If I hadn't returned and inherited the dojo, we might have already taken root in Tokyo."

"I see..." Qian Xiaoyi stroked his chin and thought, "He must have just arrived in Japan not long ago, so he wanted to observe the combat methods of the powerful psychics in Japan. Maybe he created the evil spirit himself."

The image of her master's zombie flashed through Granny Tao's mind. She said faintly, "It's really possible. It's really too much." "What happened next?" Qian Xiaoyi asked, "What else did he do?"

"Nothing." Granny Tao said, "After I completed the commission, he never contacted me again. I just thought of him as an ordinary guest who encountered an evil spirit. Two years later, because my master was seriously ill, I returned to Osorezan and inherited the dojo. Then, at my master's funeral, I met that guy again."

"What did he ask you to do?" Qian Xiaoyi asked.

"A deal." Granny Peach said, "He made a deal with me... I was so stupid at the time. It was like making a deal with the devil."

"He showed you how to 'resurrect' the dead, right?" Qian Xiaoyi said, "He taught you the secret method of how to raise corpses and create a powerful container that can even accommodate the faith of the mountain god. Then, as long as you, the psychic, summon the souls of the dead, theoretically you can 'create' an artificial mountain god."

Granny Tao sighed: "It's exactly as you said. Because of Master's death, my mind was broken and I even became a little crazy, so I was convinced by him..."

"He is doing an experiment." Qian Xiaoyi said, "An experiment to see if he can turn a human into a God."

From this point of view, the route of transforming into a monster was probably only taken after this. After all, if a Taoist priest can ascend to become a god, who would want to become a monster?

"But..." Qian Xiaoyi said, "It seems that he failed. Belief is not a good thing, especially those beliefs that are too complicated. Once you are contaminated, these beliefs will pollute you... These impure beliefs are poisonous, just like your master, who is a complete failure."

Granny Tao remained silent about this. Qian Xiaoyi could imagine her change of mind. At the beginning, maybe her "master" was still the same as she remembered, which made her extremely happy. She thought this method could really work and she could stay with her family forever.

But soon, with the interception of the mountain god's faith day after day, although the soul in the zombie's body was consolidated, it was also polluted by the faith, causing unbearable pain, and eventually turned into a chaotic and bloodthirsty monster. What's more terrifying is that this monster has the identity of her master and possesses the ability to think.

Granny Tao, who witnessed all this, was probably affected in her thinking and began to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. She could only recall a little bit when she was presiding over the grand ceremony or in her dreams, and then she continued to make mistakes.

"Since it's a deal, then what did he ask you to do?" Qian Xiaoyi asked, "From what I know, he's not the kind of selfless person."

Granny Tao said, "As a price for teaching me the methods of [Corpse Raising] and [Spirit Refining], I need to perform a spiritual ritual at the location he designates... The first location is where you have been, it is the Fujiyoshi Mansion."

"Spiritual ritual...you mean..." Qian Xiaoyi asked thoughtfully.

Granny Peach replied, “To awaken the memory of that land and shape it into a special place in the spirit world.”

(End of this chapter)