My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 373 Yellow Liang
"Do you recognize this?"

Jiang Xinghuo took out the paper money from his pocket and shook it towards the little girl.

When the little girl saw the paper money, her eyes suddenly brightened up, her gloomy expression became bright, and she quickly took it in her hands.

"This is the paper money that grandpa cut!"

When Jiang Xinghuo heard this, he understood that the little girl in the red embroidered clothes was the granddaughter of the old man who died at the entrance of the village.

But for some unknown reason, the little girl was trapped in this haunted temple, and only a pair of red embroidered shoes was left in the ancient town.

Now that we have found the person, it is a good opportunity to bring her back. Who knows, we might get some unexpected gains.

However, just as Jiang Xinghuo was walking to the front with the little girl, he suddenly discovered that the remaining incense in the incense burner had been completely burned out at some point.

At the same time, a loud sound like tearing cloth was heard outside the temple, and the bright white lightning cut through the darkness, turning the dark and silent temple into daylight in an instant.

Jiang Xinghuo heard gusts of cold wind outside the temple and a rustling sound, so he hurried to the door and looked outside.

The stone statues on both sides of the ancient bluestone road began to vibrate continuously, and the iron chains on their bodies rattled, as if they were trying to break free from the incense burners.

"How is this going?"

Jiang Xinghuo immediately turned around and looked at the little girl.

The little girl took two steps back with a pale face, a trace of pain on her face, as if she was recalling something.

"Incense... the incense cannot be extinguished... suppress... imprison... escape..."

Listening to the little girl's almost dreamlike mumbling, Jiang Xinghuo quickly understood what it meant.

She should have meant that the incense in the temple must not be extinguished, otherwise the suppressed evil spirits outside would break the seal and escape from here.

Jiang Xinghuo turned his head to look at the incense burner in front of the stage. The remaining incense had already burned out.

So what to do now?
Jiang Xinghuo searched around but found nothing. The noise outside was getting louder and louder, so he had no choice but to close the temple door tightly.

At this moment, Jiang Xinghuo suddenly heard a series of shattering sounds outside the temple, as if something was completely shattered.

The next moment, a roar that was not human was heard outside the temple.

Jiang Xinghuo raised his eyes and looked outside, and saw a terrifying monster flying over and crashing into the temple door.

Bang!
The entire temple was shaken three times by the opponent, and it seemed that it would collapse into broken ruins at any time.

Jiang Xinghuo's heart sank, and suddenly wind and thunder surged around him, protecting the little girl behind him.

The five evil figures of Black and White Impermanence, Dragon-Swallowing Silver Mother, and Yunlong were also looming in the wind and thunder.

Fortunately, this temple was built solidly enough, and no matter how hard the strange figure outside hit it, it didn't show any sign of collapsing...

It just kept shaking back and forth, like an earthquake.

But even so, Jiang Xinghuo did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

Those evil creatures can be suppressed in such a place, so they are definitely not ordinary monsters.

But now that things have come to this, he has no better solution. Once the temple can no longer resist the evil outside, he can only leave it to fate.

Jiang Xinghuo held his breath and waited attentively. After a long stalemate, the collision sounds outside gradually subsided.

"have they gone?"

Jiang Xinghuo raised his eyebrows slightly and wanted to go over to take a look, but found that the corner of his clothes was pulled by the little girl.

"Don't worry, it's okay, I'm here."

Looking at the little girl's tender face, Jiang Xinghuo whispered a few words of comfort.

Although he didn't know why the little girl appeared in this temple, he was not about to abandon her and run for his life.

But just as Jiang Xinghuo was about to go over to see what was going on, the huge monster appeared outside the temple again.

But in the blink of an eye, countless black shadows spread out, completely enveloping the temple, and continuously exerting pressure inwards...

Under the influence of a huge force, the entire temple began to creak and tremble. The temple became pitch black and you couldn't see your hand in front of you. It seemed as if it would be crushed at any time.

But this situation only lasted for a few seconds.

Before Jiang Xinghuo could react, he heard an unwilling roar from outside, and the darkness in front of him quickly faded away like a tide, and the temple returned to its original appearance, as if nothing had happened.

"what happened?"

This sudden change left Jiang Xinghuo completely confused and bewildered. He had no idea what was going on.

Moreover, the little girl also disappeared. Jiang Xinghuo searched around the temple for several times but still found no trace of her.

Instead, there was an additional two-foot-long yellow incense stick in the incense burner in front of the statue. The flickering incense gave off a faint scent of sandalwood.

In addition, there was a complete wedding dress on the ground, red embroidered dress, red veil, red embroidered shoes...

"You have obtained the relic of the Old World Civilization, +3."

Jiang Xinghuo frowned, as one mystery after another flashed through his mind. How could that little girl suddenly disappear?
and also,

Where did the incense in the incense burner come from?

Jiang Xinghuo pondered for a long time but couldn't find any clues. He looked at the gate leading to the back of the ghost temple again, and it was still closed.

No way.

Jiang Xinghuo had no choice but to walk out of the temple. The stone statue, which had been shaking continuously, had now returned to normal.

It seems that the incense is the key to suppressing these evil creatures.

I don't know how long this fragrance will last.

one day?
Two days?

Or a month?

Or a year,
Even more than ten years?

At this time, Jiang Xinghuo found many murals on the wall next to him. He walked over and took a closer look. He saw a picture of ten thousand Buddhas carved on the mottled wall. There were majestic heavenly kings, Buddha holding flowers, enchanting heavenly maidens, and angry Vajra eyes...

However, Jiang Xinghuo discovered that there was a blank space in the lower right corner of the picture of ten thousand Buddhas, as if something had escaped from the mural.

Jiang Xinghuo's fingertips brushed across the blank space, and his mind suddenly moved. He leaned over and searched in the weeds under the wall. Unexpectedly, he actually found something.

It was a dull bead.

Jiang Xinghuo was playing with the bead in his hand, but he didn't expect that something strange would happen. The bead turned into a stream of light and went into his forehead.

"Ok?"

Jiang Xinghuo was also shocked.

But before he could react, an unbearable and intense pain gathered from his body to his forehead! !

Even with Jiang Xinghuo's current level of endurance, he couldn't bear the severe pain and could not help but collapse to the ground.

It felt as if someone had stabbed a sharp knife into his forehead and was stirring his brain frantically.

At the same time, Jiang Xinghuo also felt an inexplicable force that was constantly rotating between his eyebrows and gradually condensed into shape between the skin texture.

Jiang Xinghuo covered his forehead, gritted his teeth, sat on the ground half leaning against the wall, and endured the waves of severe pain coming from under his skin.

Filing bones and peeling skin is nothing more than this.

I don't know how long this feeling lasted, maybe more than an hour, maybe just a few minutes. At a certain moment.

Jiang Xinghuo suddenly felt a sharp pain in the center of his eyebrows, which disappeared without a trace like a thread being pulled out. He put down his hand that was covering his forehead, and felt as if something was about to penetrate his skin.

next moment.

The skin between the eyebrows suddenly cracked, revealing a pair of bloodshot, dim yellow eyes.

The eye was spinning around between the eyebrows, scanning the world up and down and left and right, giving Jiang Xinghuo a strange feeling.

Jiang Xinghuo stood up from the ground, patted the dirt on his hands, and condensed a water mirror.

But for some reason, he looked clean in the water mirror, and there was nothing strange between his eyebrows.

"Are you kidding me?"

Jiang Xinghuo's brows furrowed more and more. He could clearly feel the change in perspective and the presence of an eye between his eyebrows.

Why is it invisible in the mirror?
Jiang Xinghuo tried to touch the eye again. The moment his fingertips touched the eyeball, he immediately felt a sour pain!

It’s not an illusion!!
Jiang Xinghuo was certain that there was indeed an eye between his eyebrows, but for some reason, this eye did not seem to exist in reality.

Think of this.

Jiang Xinghuo took out his cell phone from his pocket again. A flame flashed across his palm and he looked at the reflection on the screen in the light of the flame.

The strange horizontal eye still did not appear.

Jiang Xinghuo silently put away his phone, and another doubt appeared in his mind. This inexplicable horizontal eye should be evolved from that bead.

Too bad I don't know what the specific abilities are.

Jiang Xinghuo controlled the horizontal eyes between his eyebrows and looked around.

When his eyes swept across the twenty-four stone statues not far away, his expression suddenly froze and his face became solemn.

Because in the vision of that horizontal eye, the twenty-four stone statues actually appeared to be flesh and blood! !

Their bodies were pierced by chains flashing with runes and spells, firmly fixed on the twenty-four bronze incense burners.

Moreover, the twenty-four bronze incense burners also lit up their fires, and were continuously absorbing the blood from the evil spirits through iron chains.

The evil spirits showed looks of pain and tried to break free from the chains, but were suppressed by another force.

Jiang Xinghuo looked towards the source of that power and saw the sandalwood slowly burning in the small incense burner in the temple.

But when Jiang Xinghuo shifted his attention and looked with his own eyes, everything seemed the same as before, and there was nothing unusual.

After repeated experiments, Jiang Xinghuo looked thoughtful, as if he had roughly understood the purpose of the horizontal eye between the eyebrows.

Since this horizontal eye does not exist in reality, then what it can see naturally does not exist in reality.

Simply put, the function of this horizontal eye is to allow him to observe the world from another perspective.

As for whether that world really exists, how to enter it, and what it is called, no one knows now.

Jiang Xinghuo pondered for a while and decided to call it the Huangliang Realm.

As the saying goes, it's just a dream.

Everything is illusory and does not exist in reality.

Jiang Xinghuo tried to close his eye again, and it took a lot of effort for him to slowly close the crack between his eyebrows.

At this time, the familiar bell rang again, and the scene in front of me began to become blurry.

But this time, Jiang Xinghuo noticed the source of the bell sound, which seemed to come from the depths of this "Three Lives Ghost Temple".

This is a discovery. If I have the chance in the future, I will really go in and take a look.

The temple at the end of the ancient road is only the first temple in the temple complex. There are countless overlapping temple towers behind it, which must have hidden many secrets.

But there is no chance this time.

"It's time to leave."

Jiang Xinghuo let out a long breath and watched the huge temple disappear before his eyes. In its place was a bare open space overgrown with all kinds of weeds.

"You have obtained the relic of the Old World Civilization, +1."

Jiang Xinghuo found the paper money on the ground, but the blood stains on it had disappeared, and instead it exuded an inexplicable smell.

"It's not a wasted trip. I should go back and report."

Jiang Xinghuo picked up the paper money and put it in his pocket, then walked back along the path he came from.

There were still many evil spirits coveting his flesh and blood in the dark woods, but as long as Jiang Xinghuo glanced at them from between his brows, those evil spirits would run away like mice avoiding cats.

Jiang Xinghuo returned to the village safely. The dead silent village was so quiet that it was a little scary.

But Jiang Xinghuo discovered that in those seemingly empty houses, there were always a few pairs of numb eyes occasionally spying on him.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't take it to heart. He hummed a little tune and walked towards the village entrance.

He has always been unwilling to cause trouble. As long as those things don't take the initiative to provoke him, Jiang Xinghuo is too lazy to deal with them.

Soon, Jiang Xinghuo arrived at the old man's house at the entrance of the village.

"Dong dong dong..."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the two closed wooden doors, went over and knocked, and soon footsteps were heard from inside the house.

"Crench!"

The door was ajar, and a hoarse, dry voice came from behind.

"Have you found my grandson?"

"found it."

Jiang Xinghuo said casually.

Hearing this, the two wooden doors suddenly opened wide, and an oil lamp was lit in the dark room.

The old man, whose body was covered with corpse spots, sat at the table, staring at Jiang Xinghuo in the dim light.

I have to say, this scene looks really creepy. Jiang Xinghuo is quite brave, but he was a little nervous when he saw this scene.

"This is what your granddaughter left behind."

Jiang Xinghuo took out the dowry from the magic bag, including the red embroidered dress, red veil, and red embroidered shoes, and placed them all in front of the old man.

The old man gently stroked the clothes on the table, and the deathly aura on his body began to dissipate rapidly, and his body also decayed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At this rate, the old man would disappear into thin air in less than two minutes.

"thanks, thanks……"

The old man raised his cracked and wrinkled face, and the numb expression disappeared, replaced by a deep gratitude.

"I don't have time anymore. Everything you want to know is in the Hall of Rebirth. This is part of the map leading to the Hall of Rebirth. The remaining fragments are in the hands of a few other old guys..."

I updated late today, sorry. I went to the police station. When I was on the bus home from get off work, a grandson stole the phone from my pocket and I dislocated his shoulder. I called the police and went to the hospital until after seven o'clock. The police officer gave me a lecture and told me not to be so cruel in the future, otherwise I would be sued and have to pay money if I broke something.

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