"Om mani padme hum!"
"Om vajrasattva hum!"
As the golden Buddha Hand appeared, Xu Taiping and Monk Chongde pressed their palms together and began chanting the True Words without pause.
"You... how did you know I was a Ghost King?!"
The blue-faced, fang-toothed Ghost King struggled incessantly as he shouted his question at Xu Taiping and Monk Chongde, his voice filled with fury.
The methods these two used, the two True Words that restrained him, and the timing of their attack were all things employed only against a Ghost King.
It was therefore not difficult for the Ghost King to guess that his identity had been exposed beforehand.
"Om mani padme hum!"
Xu Taiping paid him no heed. He continued chanting the True Words while pulling the terrified Chu Xiaoxiao and Qing'er behind him.
At the same time, he used the Object Manipulation Technique to send the mirror on the table flying into his hand, then drew a curse inscription on it with blood from his fingertip.
Monk Chongde had taught him this curse inscription as well.
It was a Chan School curse inscription that Prajna Temple and several other major temples had devised together specifically to restrain the Ghost Pagoda.
But even this curse inscription was only effective before the Pagoda Ghost Domain took effect.
"Om vajrasattva hum!"
After finishing the curse inscription, Xu Taiping raised the mirror in his hand and chanted the True Words aloud once more.
Boom!
The instant the chant rang out, rings of golden Buddha Light suffused with a sacred aura flew out of the mirror. They looped around the Ghost King like ropes, then dragged him into the mirror like so many tentacles.
In just a few brief moments, the Ghost King had been sealed inside the mirror.
"As expected of the Heavenly