With a swift motion, Ethan Shu hooked his fingers outward, pulling a blood-red lotus from Li Moxuan's brow, its twisted energy clinging stubbornly. Squire Li and Ah Fu looked on in shock as this karmic tumor manifested, refusing to break free entirely.
"This is the essence of the karmic tumor," Ethan Shu said, his fingers pulling against the blood-red lotus, even as scarlet threads stretched between it and Li Moxuan, resisting extraction. Frowning, he realized how deep this attachment ran.
"Could it be my Buddha techniques are lacking, unable to draw forth the karmic tumor fully?" he wondered. "No, something else is interfering—this must be the work of that Daoshi Ku Xuan!"
Far from Qingyu Town, deep within a damp, dark cave, a grey-haired Taoist priest, Ku Xuan, meditated with a malevolent smile on his face, surrounded by arcane implements on a yellow-clothed altar. Before him lay a straw doll with Li Moxuan's name and birth details inscribed on red paper. Suddenly, the doll trembled, flickering with golden fire.
Ku Xuan opened his eyes, a glint of malice flashing. "Who dares tamper with my ritual?" he muttered, grasping a bell from the altar. He began to shake it violently, chanting to summon his ghostly minions.
"Red, Black, White, Yellow, and Green—obey my command!" he growled, yet the cave remained silent. Frowning, he commanded again, his voice sharper, only to watch in horror as his talisman ignited on its own, crumbling into ash.
"The five ghosts are... dead?" Ku Xuan whispered, dumbfounded. "Who could be powerful enough to disrupt my work here?"
Back at the Li residence, a sudden dragon's roar reverberated as a blood-red jade pendant around Li Moxuan's neck emitted a dark, serpentine aura, condensing into a spectral dragon above the room. Squire Li gasped, recognizing it.
"That's the dragon pendant Daoshi Ku Xuan gave to my son!"
With a thunderous roar, the shadowy dragon filled the room, exuding a terrifying presence that drove Squire Li and Ah Fu to the ground, quaking in fear. Even Squire Li's wife entered, crying in triumph, "Behold! Ku Xuan's dragon spirit has come to vanquish this false monk!"
Amid the chaos, Ethan Shu faced the dark dragon, unyielding.
"You think you, a mere wyrm, can challenge me?" He cast off his robe, and the golden dragon tattoo on his back flared to life.
"By the Great Dharma of Heaven's Dragon, by the venerable Earth-Store, by the wisdom of all Buddhas—Heavenly Dragon Ascend!"
With a resonant roar, a powerful golden dragon materialized, radiating a majestic presence that dwarfed the dark phantom. As Ethan Shu's Heavenly Dragon charged, the dark dragon panicked, tearing through the roof to escape.
"Oh, no you don't!" Ethan Shu's voice was commanding. "Protective Cassock, grant me safety! By the World-Embracing King's Seal, let my soul emerge!"
Bathed in holy light, Ethan Shu's spirit exited his body, mounting the Heavenly Dragon in hot pursuit. Before long, they overtook the shadow dragon mid-flight, reducing it to dust in a blaze of divine fire.
In that moment, both the dragon pendants—one around Li Moxuan's neck, the other in Ku Xuan's cave—shattered into powder. Ku Xuan's face twisted in rage as he overturned his altar.
"Whoever you are," Ku Xuan seethed, "I will make you regret this!"
But Ethan Shu had already located him.
"By the Eye of Dharma, reveal all karmic connections!" Ethan Shu declared, his spiritual eye tracking a strand of karma straight to Ku Xuan's cave.
In an instant, Ethan Shu, as a beam of golden light, traversed a thousand miles, appearing before Ku Xuan. The Taoist recoiled in terror.
"Mercy, Monk! I am a disciple of the Pure-Hearted Sect; you cannot......"
"Enough," Ethan Shu interrupted. "You are a disgrace to the Tao. As a monk, I will cleanse your corruption from this world."
His voice echoed, summoning his dragon mount to unleash a fiery torrent that reduced Ku Xuan to ashes, his malevolence vanquished by the pure flames of the Heavenly Dragon.
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