The Legend of Tokyo Taoist

Chapter 73 Urban Legend Part 6 ()

The slit-mouthed woman opened her mouth wide, and a silent scream came out from her dark mouth that was as deep as the abyss. Although there was silence around, Qian Xiaoyi still felt the invisible torrent of evil thoughts rushing towards him.

The moment he felt the impact of this evil thought, Qian Xiaoyi quickly made a finger gesture with both hands and touched the two ends of the black line that popped out on the ground. Then, he simultaneously exerted force towards the center with his fingers. The black line that was originally drawn on the ground was like a real object. Qian Xiaoyi bent it bit by bit, forming an "Λ"-shaped pattern. The torrent of fear and malice was like hitting a sharp and solid reef. The invisible torrent flowed past him from both sides and could not hurt Qian Xiaoyi at all.

Seeing this, the woman with the slit mouth simply closed her mouth. Her body had been torn to pieces by the previous two collisions, and she could not run like a normal person, so she simply half-crawled on the ground, like a big human-shaped spider, with her twisted hands holding scissors high, moving quickly on the ground, as if she wanted to slip to the side and attack Qian Xiaoyi.

Qian Xiaoyi immediately pulled out the ink line, faced the slit-mouthed woman and quickly retreated backwards, trying to keep a distance from her. Although the ink line had extremely strong control capabilities, it was not very aggressive. He could repel the slit-mouthed woman countless times, but he would be in trouble if she stabbed him once with the slit-mouthed woman.

Swish! But what he didn't expect was that the arm of the slit-mouthed woman holding the scissors suddenly grew longer, and stabbed towards Qian Xiaoyi's face like a poisonous snake. The scissors flashed with cold light and opened, just like the fangs of a poisonous snake. As long as it stabbed, it could inject venom and make the prey doomed.

"Gan Lang." Qian Xiaoyi raised his foot and stomped heavily on the ground. There was a crisp sound of bone breaking, and the arm of the woman with the slit mouth was involuntarily bent. The scissors passed by Qian Xiaoyi's face at a strange angle and missed!

Qian Xiaoyi did not miss this opportunity. He stretched the ink line in his hand and pushed towards the arm of the woman with the slit mouth beside him with both hands. A black straight line connected to the arm of the woman with the slit mouth appeared on the courtyard wall beside him. Her arm was tightly stuck to the black line and locked to the wall. Qian Xiaoyi took the opportunity to reach out and pinched a hair of the woman with the slit mouth. The woman with the slit mouth reacted immediately, opened her big mouth full of fangs and bit towards Qian Xiaoyi's hand.

"Ju Men." Qian Xiaoyi took a step back calmly, as if shrinking a ruler into an inch, and in one step he retreated to ten meters away, completely creating distance between them.

The woman with the slit mouth was no longer a human being. She tried desperately to rush towards Qian Xiaoyi, but she actually tore off her arm that was locked on the wall. The broken arm and the scissors turned into black dust and dissipated. At the place where her arm was broken, another arm holding a pair of scissors grew out.

"Die!" She rushed towards Qian Xiaoyi madly, her face becoming even more hideous, like a devil.

But unfortunately, Qian Xiaoyi had already put some distance between himself and the woman with the slit mouth. He had enough time to draw a line on the ground with the ink line before the woman with the slit mouth rushed to him.

The ink line matched Qian Xiaoyi's strange steps. For a while, the woman with the slit mouth couldn't get close to Qian Xiaoyi at all.

Finally, after another unsuccessful attack, the slit-mouthed woman wanted to pounce on Qian Xiaoyi who was not far away, but she could not get any closer. She turned her head and saw that her feet had stepped into a strange rectangular pattern composed of straight black lines. It was like stepping into a muddy pit made of cement and she could not get out. She looked around again and saw that the ground with her as the center was already covered with countless black lines. These black thin lines were intertwined in an orderly manner, just like a chessboard with stars all over it, and she was in the center of the chessboard.

“Kill you!” The slit-mouthed woman roared, wanting to rush over and tear Qian Xiaoyi into pieces, but she could no longer get out. She could only struggle continuously, hitting the invisible barrier in front of her. The force was so great that even the black lines on the ground began to tremble.

Qian Xiaoyi shook his head: "Sure enough... Is this the only way to stop it? Fortunately, I still have a backup plan~"

He took out a yellow talisman and with just a light tap, the talisman automatically folded into a little man. Then, Qian Xiaoyi tied a black hair that twisted like a parasite to the paper man and placed it in the black line formation on the ground.

Just after it was put down, the paper man began to twist, and its movements were just like the struggling woman with the slit mouth in front, wanting to get out but unable to.

"Die! Die! Die!" the slit-mouthed woman shouted. Qian Xiaoyi smiled and produced a rusty copper coin with the four characters "Yongle Tongbao" clearly written on it. He threw the coin high up and held it between his index and middle fingers, like a Go chess piece.

"If the ink line represents the cognition of rules and can resist fear," Qian Xiaoyi murmured, "then the copper coin, which represents the cognition of desire, can help people suppress fear. As the saying goes, money can move people's hearts..."

"Heaven and earth are one!" Qian Xiaoyi dropped the copper coin in his hand heavily. The copper coin flashed a golden light and drew a trajectory in the air, just like a chess piece falling on the chessboard, pressing down the paper man.

Buzz~ The woman with the crack in the center of the chessboard seemed to be pressed down by an invisible mountain. She fell to the ground with a slam, unable to move. Only her limbs were still waving in vain, like a giant insect that was dead but not yet stiff.

Qian Xiaoyi didn't look at the embarrassment of the slit-mouthed woman, but just squatted there, looking down at the paper figure pressed down by the copper coin. This is still a technique handed down from the ancient Zhuyou Branch, called Yansheng Technique, which uses a certain medium to influence the master's magic. The commonly known Xiaoren piercing technique is actually a kind of Yansheng Technique. There are countless variations. No matter what school, there are one or two similar spells. It is also the favorite type of many evil spirits.

"This is the slit-mouthed woman. She's really hard to deal with. I almost got screwed..." Qian Xiaoyi scratched his head. He didn't expect that this woman with a pair of scissors in the ghost story would be so strong. It seems that he still underestimated these new generation of ghosts.

"But... why is this thing so powerful? The legend didn't say that she had those abilities, right?" Qian Xiaoyi frowned as he looked at the struggling woman with the slit mouth, and said to himself, "Did I overlook something?"

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"Ah, Sato is back." Kawasaki adjusted his glasses and got rid of the female member's entanglement.

"The Slit-mouthed Woman! The Slit-mouthed Woman is real!" Sato rushed to Kawasaki in panic, shaking his shoulders and shouting, "I saw her! She's right there! Teacher Qian saved me!"

Kawasaki was surprised at first, then said excitedly: "What?! You actually met her? Where is she? Did you take a picture? No, I have to go over and take a look!"

"Run! Run!" Sato pulled the other two people and ran outside desperately, wanting to leave this terrifying area as soon as possible.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Kawasaki shouted unwillingly, "Let go! That's an urban legend that has been circulating for nearly fifty years! Countless people grew up listening to her legend and were afraid of her from the bottom of their hearts. I didn't expect that I would be able to see her in person today. If I can get evidence of her existence, I will definitely become famous..."

"We're going to die, we're really going to die! Let's go!" Sato shouted in fear, "What you said is not as important as our lives!"

At this moment, in Qian Xiaoyi's eyes, a crack was slowly spreading on the copper coin pressing on the paper man.

(End of this chapter)