My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 338: The Legacy of King Sushen
Tsk, dead again. Looking at the death prompt given in the game text, Jiang Xinghuo didn't feel surprised because he had already prepared himself mentally.

Just like the body of the Tanka villager in the Eagle House, it has been many years since he died, but the poison in his body has not yet completely dissipated.

What's more, this Zhenmu Pool is the source of mercury toxins. It was beyond his expectation that it could last so long.

However, the last sentence caught Jiang Xinghuo's attention.

Secret passages?

Is there a secret passage in Zhenmu Pool?

This is interesting.

"You woke up next to the shrine of Zhenmu Pool. Your body flashed and turned into a stream of water, and you entered the cave again."

"You walked deeper into the cave and found the entrance to the secret passage. Do you want to go in and find out what's inside?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes.

But this time, he didn't last that long. As soon as he entered the secret passage, a death message came from the game.

Jiang Xinghuo tried it several times, but there was no change in the result, which meant that the mercury pollution behind the secret passage was much more serious than the pollution inside the cave.

In other words, the toxic mercury in the cave only leaked out from behind the secret passage, and the real danger is still in the secret passage.

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and did not resurrect directly. Instead, he went to the niche shop first and walked around it for a few times to see if there were any props that could resist mercury pollution.

But unfortunately, Jiang Xinghuo did not find any relevant props, so he specially found the player named "Craftsman" to ask him if he had any solution.

After all, the last time we explored the tiankeng in the Yellow River Underground Palace, I bought the anti-radiation suit from him. What if he also has props to prevent mercury pollution?

But the other party said that he did not have the relevant props. Although he had the drawings for making mercury protective clothing, it was difficult to find the relevant materials.

The most important thing among them is the essence ore born from mercury.

But that thing is hard to come by, and the other party explored the mining city map for three months but found no relevant clues.

Jiang Xinghuo had no choice but to look online and bought a few biochemical protective suits, but he didn't know if they would work.

As for how to bring things from reality into the secular world, it can be achieved through the item transfer function of the Wishing Cauldron.

Biochemical protective suits are not living objects and are not within the scope of the teleportation taboos.

However, it would take another two days for the online purchase to arrive, and the earliest it would arrive would be the morning of the day after tomorrow. Jiang Xinghuo couldn't just sit there and do nothing, so he started exploring the Eagle House again.

"You woke up at the shrine in Eagle House."

"You carried the Yellow Spring Lantern in your hand, walked into the Eagle House, came to a dungeon, and explored the place."

"This dungeon is used to imprison escaped Tanka people and other evildoers with ulterior motives."

"But this dungeon has been abandoned for too long. Apart from some scattered bones, there are not many valuable things."

"You have triggered the Yellow Spring Lantern talent."

"The dungeon was enveloped in dim light. In a cell at the end of the dungeon, you found a withered skeleton hidden under straw and some messy scratches on the wall."

"You have triggered it, the Sage Inkstone." "A beam of emerald light swept across the marks on the wall, and the ancient text symbols began to be recompiled and evolved into text that you can understand."

"By reading these words, you learned the identity of the skeleton and why it died here."

"You found the skeleton of a spiritualist."

"The spiritual Taoist priests came from the monsters and demons of Xianzhou in the secular world. Their Taoist tradition was inherited from the Taoist method of the Heavenly Master. Later, they learned some shamanic techniques and integrated them with the local witchcraft of Xianzhou, thus giving rise to the spiritual immortal sect."

"Those chaotic scratches on the wall are the ancient characters of Xianzhou. They are obscure and difficult to read. Only the Lingxian Dao Sect can pass them down."

"The reason why this spiritualist died in the dungeon was because he followed the order of Princess Xianzhou to come to Guandong to search for the treasure of King Sushen."

"That was the era when the Lord of the Secular World ruled. As the birthplace of this dynasty, Guandong's importance naturally goes without saying."

"As soon as these spiritual Taoists set foot on the land of Kanto, they were targeted by the palace assassination organization Bloody Guillotines."

"At first, those blood-dropping darts were just watching from the dark and did not alarm these spiritual Taoists."

"But the Blood Droplets soon realized something was wrong. They found that these spiritual Taoists were traveling around, but secretly searching for dragons and caves. It seemed that they were looking for something."

"So, these blood-dropping darts attacked this group of spiritual Taoists in the dead of night."

"After a bloody battle, most of the spiritualists were killed on the spot. Only a few survived and were locked up in the dungeon of the Eagle House."

"However, these spiritual Taoists were too tight-lipped. No matter how severely the Blood Dropper tortured them, they would not reveal the slightest intention of their visit. They just said that they were just sightseeing."

"In the end, only this one survived, and he was thrown into the dungeon and left to die."

"After the night of dawn, the secular world fell into endless turmoil and strife. The princess of Xianzhou was also overthrown by many ghosts and gods, and no one knew where she fled to."

"After the spiritualist Taoist learned about this, he carved the clues they found on the wall in ancient characters."

"I hope that one day, other fellow disciples can come here, find the clues it left, and uncover the treasure left by King Sushen, so as to help the princess regain the land of Xianzhou."

"But its plan failed in the end, and the clue hidden in the wall fell into your hands."

"You have obtained the clue to King Sushen's treasure."

"According to the ancient legends of Guandong, the first leader of the Sushen tribe unified all the nomadic tribes and left more than a dozen treasure houses in the mountains outside the pass, which contained countless rare treasures and powerful weapons."

"The reason why the secular dynasty was able to overthrow the previous dynasty and become the new master of the secular world was because it obtained part of the treasure of King Sushen."

"According to the royal secrets passed down from generation to generation in Xianzhou, there is another treasure house deep in the Lesser Khingan Mountains in Guandong, but the exact location is unknown because before these spiritual Taoists could find it, they were all captured by the Blood Droplet."

"If you want to find the treasure of King Sushen, you can go to Xiaoxing'anling to find out, but whether you can find relevant clues depends on your luck."

After reading this game text, Jiang Xinghuo touched his nose and thought that this was another endless task. The Lesser Khingan Mountains was so large, where could he find the treasure left by King Sushen?

Moreover, it is not certain whether this treasure exists or not.

The description prefixes of the game text are either "it is said" or "legend", which means it may exist or it may not exist.

Therefore, let’s put this task aside for now. It won’t be too late to explore the Lesser Khingan Mountains after finding definite evidence and clues.

(End of this chapter)