My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 286 Yellow River Lord

"You used dog food."

"You woke up in a dilapidated temple on the Yellow River Ancient Road."

"Do you want to continue exploring?"

Jiang Xinghuo took a deep breath. This death was a bit sudden. In fact, when he started to see the game text, he felt that he was going to die, but he didn't expect to die so quickly.

"You reactivated the shrine in the ruined temple and returned to the foggy Huangni Village. The deadly creatures also smelled your scent and pounced on you again."

"But this time, you were already prepared."

"You performed a ritual to summon the Five Demons' soldiers, and you cut the Five Demons' blood. A huge black wind instantly rushed into the group of corpses, and soon killed all the fake corpses."

After getting rid of the villagers who had risen from the dead, Jiang Xinghuo clicked on the screen and gathered the Wuchang soldiers.

Ever since he obtained the method of the Five-Devils Soldiers in the Ghost Workshop, he has really put a lot of effort in this regard and spent a lot of money to improve the magic power of these soldiers. At the same time, he also recruited different types of Five-Devils Soldiers from other players.

For example, hunting the Wuchang in the mountains, collecting souls and banning the Wuchang, waving flags and shouting at the Wuchang, and making friends with the Wuchang in the Nanshan Mountains...

At this time, Jiang Xinghuo's Wuchang altar housed more than a dozen Wuchang troops, and each troop had its own strengths.

Kaidao Poxue Wuchang is a very ferocious soldier among the Wuchang soldiers, and is best at close combat.

After gathering his troops, Jiang Xinghuo continued his exploration.

"You have triggered the map of Huangni Village."

"Under the guidance of the map, after some exploration, you successfully arrived at the Yellow River Goddess Temple."

"You stepped through the broken temple gate and saw two blood-stained prayer flags falling to the ground. The smell of decay lingered around, and the clay sculpture of the Yellow River Goddess was sitting cross-legged on a high platform."

"But if you look closely, you will find that the statue of the Yellow River Goddess is shedding two lines of blood and tears."

Clay is crying?

Jiang Xinghuo raised his eyebrows, thinking about something, opened the magic bag, found the spirit-calling bell, and chose to use it.

"You used the Spiritual Bell."

"A gust of cold wind suddenly swept in, and you saw a woman in white gauze with bloodshot eyes emerging from the outside of the temple into the village."

"You have summoned the ghost of the Yellow River Goddess."

"Yellow River Goddess, this is a folk deity created by the Yellow River Lord himself. It does not refer to a single existence, but a collection of the souls of many river sacrifice girls."

"Before the Yellow River God was born, the people living in the Yellow River basin held ceremonies and offered sacrifices every year in order to pray for peace, and the river sacrifice girl was a crucial part of the ceremony."

"Those who were chosen were all unmarried girls. On the day of the grand ceremony, they wore wedding gowns and gathered at the river bank like stars surrounding the moon, in order to pay tribute to the monsters and demons under the Yellow River."

"Later, the Yellow River God pacified the floods in the Yellow River, and the souls of the girls who had been sacrificed in the river were also collected by the Yellow River God because their souls were incomplete and could not be reincarnated."

"The Yellow River Lord was grateful for the suffering they had endured in their lifetime, so he used his great magical power to bring all the dead souls together, and then offered sacrifices with incense and Shinto methods, artificially creating them into gods."

"Since then, the legend of the Yellow River Goddess has spread throughout the world."

"It is said that if you encounter the danger of storms in the Yellow River, as long as you sincerely call out 'Yellow River Goddess', you can escape the danger and reach the other side safely."

Looking at the game text on the mobile phone, Jiang Xinghuo pondered for a while and wondered why this story looked so familiar.

It seems to be similar to the folk belief in Mazu, the Queen of Heaven in coastal areas. The difference is that Mazu is in charge of all marine hazards, while the Yellow River Goddess only governs her own small piece of land.

Perhaps this has something to do with the audience of faith among the people.

Just like in the real world, Mazu temples in coastal areas are extremely popular, but few people worship them in inland areas, and even Mazu temples cannot be found.

Jiang Xinghuo shook his head, stopped thinking about those trivial things, and turned back to continue his game.

"You have summoned the ghost of the Yellow River Goddess. Do you want to approach her and have a conversation with her immediately?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose to go over and talk without any hesitation, not knowing whether it would trigger the subsequent tasks.

"From the Yellow River Goddess's story, you learned what happened here and the culprit behind the destruction of this village."

"Yellow River King, one of the thirteen ancient masters, in charge of the Tidal Law and the Blue Crow Law. He was originally a resurrected ancient corpse under the Yellow River. Later, he was accepted as a personal disciple by Master Yellow River and taught the Tidal Law."

"But the Yellow River King heard a rumor from somewhere that the Tidal Law is just a fragment of an ancient law and is an incomplete law of power."

"For this reason, the young King Huanghe begged his master to pass on the complete law to him."

"Yellow River Master said that the Law of Tides is the complete law, and the rumors circulating in the secular world cannot be trusted."

"Over time, the young King Huanghe began to feel resentful, but he kept it to himself until his old age when he suddenly took action."

"Not only did he break the Yellow River Dharma Image of the Yellow River Lord, he also forcibly took away the Tidal Law from the Yellow River Lord."

"Afterwards, Mr. Huanghe dragged his seriously injured body into the underground palace. Only the Yellow River Goddess knew the exact location of the underground palace and how to open the door."

"The Yellow River King disappeared from the secular world with the Law of Tides. When he reappeared, he had become an ancient leader of monsters and demons."

"Huangni Village was destroyed by the Yellow River King himself. He killed all the villagers and banished the Yellow River Goddess to the underworld."

"Now, you have brought back the soul of the Yellow River Goddess from the underworld, which has attracted the attention of the Yellow River King."

"You have attracted the attention of the Yellow River King."

"You are being spied on by an unknown force. The divine talisman for eliminating the evil traces of cause and effect has taken effect. It has obscured the secrets of heaven for you and severing the cause and effect..."

Just like usual, the line of words only appeared for a moment before disappearing without a trace.

There was no trace of it in the game's text records, as if it had never appeared on the phone.

Jiang Xinghuo knew very well that as long as this thing was triggered, it meant that someone was spying on him.

Of course, the effectiveness of the law of cause and effect also shows that he has successfully concealed the truth from the other party.

According to his past game texts, props and spells below the mythical level are almost unable to penetrate the cover of the law of cause and effect.

Jiang Xinghuo knew most of these snoopings. They either ruined other people's good deeds or went too far and attracted the covetousness of those evil spirits.

The sources of the few snoops were unknown, but they had no effect on him, so he simply ignored them.

But after today's snooping, Jiang Xinghuo is certain that it was done by the Yellow River King. People who betray their teachers and ancestors often have something to hide, and are afraid that someone will come back to seek revenge on them.

That's why I wanted to use divination to deduce his identity.

(End of this chapter)