My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 178 Buddhist Temple (4k)

"Where do you choose to go first?"

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the two options and didn't choose either one for the time being. He was going to take inventory of the things in his hands.

In the mahogany box at the bottom of the well, he only got a few inconspicuous things, which was somewhat beyond his expectations.

He thought that the owner of Dashengkui would leave a lot of good things to his descendants, but who knew it was just this little stuff?

Is this another pre-task for the nesting dolls?

"You opened the letter left by the master of Dashengkui and learned what was written on it."

"It turns out that Master Lingguan had an agreement with Master Dashengkui. Master Dashengkui helped Master Lingguan imprison himself in the dry well, and Master Lingguan helped Master Dashengkui to guard the things in the mahogany box."

"Moreover, after Master Lingguan passes away, the fragments of the Law of Disaster that he left behind will also belong to Dashengkui's descendants. As long as Dashengkui's descendants come to hunt for treasures, they will get the fragments of the Law of Disaster."

"Although Master Lingguan agreed to the conditions of the Great Shengkui Master on the surface, he secretly set a trap for him. In order to obtain the fragments of the Law of Disaster, only the bloodline of the clan must be obtained."

"The master of Dashengkui is also afraid that Master Lingguan will go back on his word. What if his descendants look for him when he is still alive? Wouldn't that mean he has given up his life in vain?"

"So, the owner of Dashengkui did not leave this news directly to his descendants, but left clues in his private residence in Beiping City."

"If the descendants are ambitious and enterprising, they will naturally take the clues to Longhe Village and find this dry well."

"If future generations are content with a small fortune and only care about pleasure, the wealth it leaves behind can also allow future generations to live a life without worries about food and clothing."

"But in the end, all its plans failed, and the things left behind had to be taken advantage of by an outsider like you."

Jiang Xinghuo thought that this was his fate. If he hadn't met the mourning monkey in Beiping City, none of these subsequent events would have happened.

"You continue to check other things."

"Ancient mirror (???), an ancient mirror of unknown origin, which was purchased by the owner of Dashengkui accidentally. When this ancient mirror is pointed at someone, no matter if the person is a mountain spirit or a river spirit, their true form will be revealed in the mirror."

"You have triggered the Tathagata's talent."

"You have discovered the true origin of this ancient mirror."

"The Demon-Subduing Mirror (rare item). In ancient times, the leader of the Taoist sect forged a bronze mirror with his own hands. It is blessed with many Taoist secret spells. It can not only reflect the true appearance of demons and monsters, but also cast spells to attract thunder and fire from the sky and the earth to attack and kill demons."

"You discovered the Five Seals of the True Lord."

"Five Seals of the True Lord (rare item), an ancient seal forged by the Five Mountains Spirits. It can not only subdue the spirits and wild gods in the mountains, but also use the power of the Five Mountains Spirits for your own benefit. Duration: 10 minutes."

"An ancient Tibetan painting (common prop). When the master of Dashengkui was young, he was doing business in the Tibetan border outside the Great Wall. By chance, he saved a monk. The monk was grateful for the life-saving grace of the master of Dashengkui, so he gave this ancient painting to him with both hands."

"According to legend, this ancient painting records the location of the Tibetan holy place [Mahavairocana Temple], but no one has ever found this temple."

"There's a gleam in your little pupils."

"You didn't find anything unusual about this ancient painting. It looks like an ordinary painting. Perhaps it's just a rumor spread by monks and believers."

"You discovered the ancient coins from South Asia."

"When the owner of Dashengkui was traveling around the world, he was invited by a friend to visit Southeast Asia. As a result, when he went out to sea to fish, he accidentally fished up a jar of copper coins."

"According to local fishermen, there is a dead city hidden under the sea over there. The copper coins may be the product of that dead city. They have no special use and can only be used as souvenirs."

"The master of Dashengkui engraved the coordinates of that sea area on the back of the copper coin. If you have the chance, you can go and check it out."

Finally, only the Buddha statue remained.

"This item was also obtained by the master of Dashengkui in Nanyang. It is a deserted island in the Nanyang Sea. There is a dilapidated temple on the island. The dilapidated temple is overgrown with weeds and is empty. There are only these small bronze Buddha statues placed on a few walls."

"The master of Dashengkui took away those Buddha statues and gave most of them to relatives and friends, leaving only one as a souvenir."

"You found the coordinates and sea chart of the isolated island on the lotus pedestal of the Buddha statue."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the few things, and none of them seemed to be of any particular use.

Especially the last three things, which seem to hide many important secrets, but when you look into them carefully, it seems that nothing is found.

There are only a few coordinates and a simple nautical chart.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't take it to heart. Let's talk about these things later. If there is a chance, it would be okay to go and take a look. There is no need to go out of your way to look for it.

If those places really had magical features, they would have been discovered by others long ago, not to mention those far away, just talk about the master of Dashengkui.

As the head of the largest business among the eight imperial merchants, it must have countless talented people under its command, and it is impossible for it to miss out on so many precious places.

Jiang Xinghuo put a few things into his magic bag, then looked at the new interactive options that appeared in the game.

"Where do you choose to go next?"

"Are you going to the Yangtze River Dragon Palace first? Or are you going to the Buddhist temple on the mountain outside the village first?"

Jiang Xinghuo took a quick look and chose the latter, deciding to go to the Buddhist temple on the mountain first.

"You chose to go to the Buddhist temple on the mountain."

"The journey is ongoing..."

"As the saying goes, 'If you look at the mountain, you will die if you run too fast.' This mountain seems not far from the village, but it is actually several miles away. It took you half an hour to reach the foot of the mountain."

"The mountain is densely wooded, and the original gravel path is now overgrown with weeds and thorns. It looks like no one has taken care of it for a long time."

“You’re walking on the path.”

"You suddenly feel a pain in your calf."

"A red thorn branch has wrapped around your leg at some point and is sucking your blood."

"You have triggered the Tathagata's talent."

"You discovered the blood-withered vine."

"Blood Vine (excellent material), a thorny creature watered with human blood. It likes to suck human blood and is one of the favorite materials of Gu Masters. It can be cultivated into Blood Vine Gu, which kills people invisibly."

"A flash of lightning flashed across your body, shattering the blood-withered vine wrapped around your legs. Immediately, you opened your magic bag and took out the Jie Dao Xun."

"I'd like to borrow the Taoist Xun (a rare item). The master of Dashengkui asked the shaman outside the Great Wall to refine a magical instrument. When the caravan is on the road and encounters towering mountains, rivers, lakes or seas, they can blow this Xun, and all living things will make way for it."

"You blew the Jiedao Xun, and the long and deep sound of the Xun gradually spread throughout the mountain."

“You find that the entire forest seems to come alive.”

"The weeds and vines that spread across the path gradually floated up, intertwined with each other, and turned into an arched corridor. The path covered by weeds on the ground also reappeared in front of you."

"Do you want to go up the mountain along the path?" Jiang Xinghuo was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the Xun was so useful and could actually open up a road directly.

“You hit the trail.”

"You walked towards the Buddhist temple on the top of the mountain. Without the obstruction of weeds and vines, you quickly reached the top of the mountain."

"When you look back, the corridor made of interwoven branches and vines has returned to its original appearance, without any trace of having walked there."

"You look at the Buddhist temple in front of you. The gate is cracked, and there are weeds everywhere. The name of the temple on the plaque has become blurred."

"You pushed open the collapsed temple door and walked into the temple. There was only one main hall and two dim side rooms in the temple."

"There is a huge bell hanging in the northeast of the temple, but it has been eroded by wind and rain for a long time and is now covered with rust."

"But what surprised you was that there were faint voices coming from the hall. Do you want to go over and listen secretly?"

After seeing this game text, Jiang Xinghuo was stunned. What does it mean?
Is there anyone else in this hall?

"You chose to eavesdrop through the wall. You held your breath, slowed down your heartbeat, made an invisible gesture, and tiptoed over."

"You looked into the hall through the window slit and found a monk in a black robe, talking to a few people with his back to you."

"You have triggered the Tathagata's talent."

"You've discovered it, Sky Burial Master."

"The sky burial masters are monks from the Shifang Zen Forest's Sky Burial Temple. Among the many spiritual practices in the Shifang Zen Forest, they are also a unique group that does not follow the usual path. They specialize in dealing with dead bodies."

"These sky burial masters believe that people are born between heaven and earth and should return to heaven and earth after death. The body does not need to be cremated or buried. Instead, it needs to be fully utilized and the karma from the previous life should be paid off, so that the soul can be completely liberated and return to heaven and earth."

"The reason why the Sky Burial Master appeared here is because it received a message that the remains of a great monk are hidden in this Buddhist temple."

"That monk practices the Dharma of Compassion and has saved three thousand souls. He has cultivated the immortal body of an Arhat and is a good material for making Buddhist instruments."

“But after the sky burial master arrived, he discovered that besides himself, there were also people who were interested in the mysteriousness of the remains. They were a few corpse drivers from western Hunan.”

"The practice of these corpse-drivers is mainly to drive and refine corpses. A good raw material can save them more than ten years, or even dozens of years."

"The corpse chasers wanted to snatch the remains of the eminent monk away by force, relying on their numbers. However, they didn't expect that the sky burial master would not give up."

"All kinds of weird and strange Buddhist instruments appeared one after another, and the two sides were deadlocked here."

"Now, the two sides have been deadlocked for more than ten days. They have lost their patience and are preparing to fight to decide who will own the things."

"The corpse driver shook the corpse-driving bell in his hand, and more than a dozen zombies with dark blue skin broke out of the ground. Under the control of the corpse driver, they controlled the thick corpse aura and surrounded and killed the sky burial master."

"The sky burial master showed no sign of panic as he used various magical instruments made from human bones, human skin, human blood, and human oil one after another."

"At the beginning, the two sides fought back and forth, and it was relatively evenly matched. But after those corpse drivers summoned two iron corpses, the situation changed."

"These are two iron corpses that the corpse driver has spent most of his life cultivating. Not only are they extremely agile, they are invulnerable to swords and guns, water and fire, and they also have the ability to evade the ground and leap."

"The Sky Burial Master was not afraid of the corpse drivers, but he was no match for the two iron corpses. He could only utter a few harsh words and fled in panic, without even having time to pick up the lost magic weapon."

"However, the corpse driver's life was not easy either. The Iron Corpse was extremely violent by nature. After each attack, it would suck a large amount of blood, otherwise it would turn against its master."

"But where can we find living people in this wilderness? We can only use the two apprentices around us as sacrifices to fill the stomachs of the two iron corpses."

"The corpse driver put the two iron corpses back into the coffin, and then found the remains left by the monk."

"The corpse driver couldn't help but show joy on his face. With this Arhat golden body in hand, and with the help of the corpse driver's secret method, he can refine another iron corpse, and even have the hope of training it into the legendary corpse king."

"After getting the things, the corpse driver wanted to run away from the hall. The night is long and dreams are many. He planned to get away from this place of trouble before it gets dark, but he didn't expect that someone was watching him in secret."

"You sensed a familiar aura on the remains of the great monk. It seems to have the same origin as the Law of Mercy that you mastered."

"Exile, the corpse chaser is now collecting the refined corpse. This is when it is at its weakest. Do you want to intercept it?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought to himself what nonsense, if there was an interactive option he would have done it long ago. Between the two options of letting go and taking action, Jiang Xinghuo chose the latter without hesitation.

"You suddenly attacked, and the Thunder God's Chisel emitted a blazing light, a dazzling flash of lightning that directly obliterated the corpse chaser's figure."

"You have killed the Xiangxi corpse chaser."

"You gain incense +1000."

"You have obtained the remains of the Great Compassion Monk."

"The Great Compassion Monk, a high monk in the Ten Directions Zen Forest Compassion Temple, saw the suffering of sentient beings in the secular world, so he took the name of Great Compassion and vowed to help sentient beings escape suffering and attain happiness. For decades, he saved sentient beings and finally achieved the body of an arhat in his later years."

"At this time, the remains of the great monk disappeared into the wind, leaving only a shining crystal relic."

"You have obtained the relics of the great compassionate monk."

"Do you want to fuse this relic?"

"You have merged, Sharizi."

"You have obtained the Law of Mercy (0.00005%)."

"Your current Law of Mercy (0.0001%)."

Jiang Xinghuo flipped through the text records and found that on the map of Baishui River in Longcheng, he had inherited the Law of Compassion from the Compassionate Monk.

The amount at that time was only 0.00002%.

Later, he obtained a Dzi bead from the treasure master, which increased the number of laws to 0.00005%.

Now we have obtained the same number of law fragments, and the number of zeros after the decimal point has changed from four to three.

Jiang Xinghuo couldn't help but sigh with emotion. It was a good thing that he made this trip, otherwise he would have missed these good things in vain.

At this time, new content appeared in the game text.

"Do you want to touch the corpse of the corpse driver?"

"You explored the corpse of the corpse driver and found some things. The storage bag of the corpse driver also became ownerless."

"You performed the Five Ghosts Moving Technique."

"You moved all the things on the corpse driver into your magic bag..."

This is today’s update. I still feel a little dizzy, but I feel much better. I made an appointment for an MRI yesterday and will go for a check-up next week.

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(End of this chapter)