Chapter 21
"It's not that easy to escape," said Liu Danchen.
He drew a Bagua on the ground with his sword, took out a thumb-length stick of incense from his cloth bag, and placed it in the middle of the Bagua. Then he grasped his left wrist with his right hand, pointed his left middle finger toward the sky, and faced his thumb, ring finger, and little finger together.
The short incense stick spontaneously combusted without fire. As Liu Danchen recited the incantation, the short incense stick fell to the ground, and the direction it pointed was the direction that Caokou Dai Wang escaped.
Now the incense head points to the "Gen" position, which is the northeast.
Liu Danchen wiped off the Bagua diagram with his feet and stepped on the short incense.
The two of us chased towards the northeast.
After running two or three miles, we found a river blocking our way. This must be the river where Yang Ming drowned. The river was now very wide and the current was turbulent, making it impossible to cross.
We saw Kusakuchi Daiou standing on the other side of the river, emitting a faint fluorescent light in the night, as if mocking the two of us.
"How to chase?" I asked.
"Looking for a bridge?" Liu Danchen said.
"By the time we find the bridge, it'll be long gone!" I said. "Let me try."
I took out the feather stone, blew on it, and pretended to drop it on the ground.
Liu Danchen was puzzled, so I gestured to him to be quiet.
Then I dragged him behind a nearby slope. We hid there, keeping an eye on the Yuhao Stone. I was much more nervous than Liu Danchen. The Yuhao Stone was a sacred object of our clan. It had been damaged and still hasn't been fully repaired. Now that it was placed by the river, even though I knew it was there, I was afraid it would get lost.
The feather stone was shining there.
One of the uses of the feather stone is to attract ghosts and demons. I'm placing it there now as bait. The attraction of the feather stone to these evil spirits is ten thousand times greater than the attraction of fine wine to a drunkard. The breath I just blew on the feather stone was to attract ghosts to its surface, because my extremely yin nature also attracts ghosts and demons. This two-pronged approach should be able to lure Kusakuchi Dai-oh back.
After waiting for half an hour, we saw the Caokou Daiwang crossing the river. Liu Danchen and I watched it excitedly. It walked to the other side of the river, looked around, and when it saw no one was around, it carefully bent down and picked up my feather stone.
The moment it touched the feather stone, the stone suddenly shone brightly, and it was a little dazzling even though we were so far away.
"Done!" I quickly ran to the river.
Liu Danchen followed closely behind.
When we got to the river, we saw that King Kusakuchi Dai's hand seemed to be caught by a huge clam in the river, and he fell to the ground and couldn't escape.
Seeing the two of us coming up, it said weakly: "Despicable!"
I laughed and blurted out, "You evil person, you have the nerve to call me despicable."
Now, all of its evil power has probably been absorbed by the Feather Stone. Watching it collapse to the ground, I asked Liu Danchen, "What are you going to do? Has Master Zhang told you?"
"Do you really think my master is a god? It was already very powerful that my uncle and the other two could calculate that there would be an evil spirit here sixty years later. How could they have known that it would be King Caokou Dai?" Liu Danchen said.
When I heard him say that, I thought to myself, it makes sense. Although Taoist arithmetic is second to none, it can't be that amazing.
"Then you can handle it as you see fit." I took back the feather stone and saw that the cracks on it had become thinner again. I couldn't help but feel happy. It seemed that this trip was not in vain.
"What are you looking at? Send it to see the master directly!" Liu Danchen raised his sword and stabbed it directly at King Caokou Dai.
"Ziz!" The sparks were extremely obvious in the night.
"Huh?" Liu Danchen and I looked at Kusakuchi Daiou at the same time.
Although the sword in Liu Danchen's hand was not the Young Master's Sword, it was definitely not an ordinary magic weapon. Now it was unable to penetrate its body.
Kusakuchi Daiou sneered, "You think you can kill me?"
"I give you face." Liu Danchen pasted a giant power talisman on his sword and chopped down at King Caokou Dai with another sword.
The sword went straight for its neck, and it could be seen that Liu Danchen attacked in anger.
To our surprise, King Kusakuchi Dai only had some skin broken.
This time it really surprised both of us. Could it be that it has already trained to the point of being invulnerable to swords and guns?
I didn't believe in evil, so I summoned a fire bell and burned it.
"Oh, oh, stop burning it." Kusakuchi Daiou rolled on the ground.
"What's going on?" Liu Danchen said as he looked at the interesting scene.
"I don't know either." Why is it so afraid of fire but not ice blades?
"Why don't you try again?" I looked at Liu Danchen.
This time Liu Danchen did not use the sword, but threw a fire talisman to King Caokou Dai.
"Stop burning it, stop burning it, please let me go, you two living devils!" Kusakuchi Daiwang begged for mercy.
Liu Danchen and I couldn't figure out what was going on. My Fire Bell Technique was karma fire, which could burn souls, but had little effect on objects like plants. However, Liu Danchen's Fire Talisman was real fire, which was very effective in burning zombies or plants, but had little effect on ghosts.
The current situation is that King Caokou is afraid of even the fire of karma.
"Could it be that it is somewhere between reality and illusion?" I guessed.
"It is also possible that it is a physical entity now, but it was a virtual entity when it crossed the river just now," said Liu Danchen.
This thing is really strange, and I have broadened my horizons.
By the time Liu Danchen's Fire Talisman was extinguished, the Caokou Dai King had been burned completely black, his face unrecognizable. Given this, the only option was to cremate him. I used the Fire Bell again, but after burning for a long time, he kept begging for mercy, but he wouldn't die.
"It's really strange. It's obviously afraid of fire, but it can't be burned to death." I said as I squatted in front of it.
The current King Caokou Dai has been burned beyond recognition by Liu Danchen and I, and is only hanging on for his last breath.
I examined it closely, finding no damaged part of its body, except for the knot holding its hair. I reached out to grab the knot, and fear flashed in Kusakuchi Daiou's eyes. I removed the knot, and a miraculous scene unfolded: its body quickly turned to ash and drifted away in the wind.
The hair knot in my hand withered immediately. When I looked again, I found that it was something similar to a ginseng flower, except that the flower was purple.
Just in case, Liu Danchen and I burned the remaining flowers before returning to the village.
When we returned to Brother Xu's house, he was lying in bed. He looked about the same age as Grandpa Zhong. Kusakuchi Dai-oh had drained his popularity, and I'm afraid he won't live long. Greed is truly the most costly thing in life. If he hadn't been greedy for beauty, he wouldn't have lost his life.
I returned to Zhongxi's home and told her about Brother Xu's current situation. She didn't believe me and followed me to Brother Xu's house. Seeing Brother Xu so old had a profound impact on her values. I told her that it was all caused by the wife he had adopted, who was actually the transformed Kusakuchi Daiwang.
Hearing about Caokou Daiwang, Zhong Xi said in surprise, "So this thing really exists."
Among them, the legend of Kusakuchi Dai-oh has always been circulating, but just like the legend of Rakshasa, not many young people believe in it anymore.
This Kusakuchi Daiou specializes in absorbing people's popularity. The more people it absorbs, the more beautiful it becomes. The only way to destroy it is to pluck the flower on its head. This flower is its natal flower, and it will quickly wither if plucked.
This legend is quite similar to what we encountered.
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