My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 381: Crazy Fire and Ashes

Looking at the prompts given in the game text, Jiang Xinghuo did not pay much attention to them, but insisted on going to the Ministry of Justice to explore.

"You have arrived at the Ministry of Justice."

"The Ministry of Justice is located in a remote area of ​​Beiping City. Although there are several alleys around it, not many people dare to live here, for fear that they will be killed if they are not careful."

"Are you planning to sneak into the Ministry of Justice and conduct secret explorations here?"

"Or do you intend to break in openly and enter the Ministry of Justice through the main gate?"

There were two options. Jiang Xinghuo thought about it briefly and finally chose to sneak in.

The current situation is still unclear, and we don't know the identities of the monsters in the Ministry of Justice. If we just barge in like this, it might lead to some unpredictable consequences.

"You used an invisibility spell and sneaked into the Ministry of Justice. All you saw was a desolate and dilapidated place with broken ruins and scattered bones everywhere."

"Fortunately, when the Ministry of Justice was first built, the roads were specially treated. Although there are many weeds in the yard, the water-ground blue bricks on the ground can still be identified."

"You walked deeper along the stone path on the ground, and unexpectedly found a fresh corpse in the grass."

"No, to be precise, it's not dead yet, because you heard it groaning, but its body is covered with all kinds of sores. It must have been bitten by some evil beast, and the poison has already entered its heart. It won't live long."

"You have found the groaning dying man,"

"Do you want to go up and listen to its last words?"

Jiang Xinghuo hesitated for a moment. According to the malice this game had towards players, if he chose to go forward to listen to the last words, there was a high chance that he would be killed directly.

Of course, Jiang Xinghuo still chose to step forward and listen. At most, it was just a life, and he didn’t particularly care about these little things now.

"Exile, you came to the side of the dying person and heard his last whispers and last words."

"It was originally an unknown person under the seat of the usurping immortal. Since the night of dawn, it has been following the usurping immortal and living in seclusion here."

"But I don't know when it started, but the usurper immortal gradually fell into madness, with only very few moments of clarity."

"Moreover, as time goes by, the time that the Usurping Immortal is awake is getting shorter and shorter. If this continues, it won't be long before the Usurping Immortal becomes completely crazy..."

"The unknown people hope that you can help the usurping fairy to be free, or find a way to remove the madness curse on it."

"It is willing to give everything it has as a reward and reward to you."

After hearing this unknown word, Jiang Xinghuo thought to himself, I do want to free it, but the key is to have the ability to do so. With my current skills, I'm afraid I won't be able to survive even a single encounter and will be killed by that usurping immortal.

Jiang Xinghuo was thinking about this in his mind when new text popped up in the game.

"The Unknown Clan said that they have followed the Usurping Immortal for many years and are considered to be veterans among the Unknown Clan. They have also received blessings and guidance from the Usurping Immortal."

"It has a secret book of the "Locking Veins Technique" on it, a human skin inherited from the Lord of the Secular World, 10000 incense sticks, and a drop of blood of the Usurping Immortal. In addition, it can also leave its body to you. I'm sure you can get a lot of incense sticks from those corpse drivers and alchemists."

Seeing the last paragraph of game text, Jiang Xinghuo's eyes gradually lit up, a drop of the essence of the usurping immortal! ! ! ?
He didn't expect that this unknown person who was on the verge of death would actually possess the essence and blood of the usurper immortal. Coupled with so many props and skills, the rewards were already very generous.

And even if he didn't have those props and skills, he couldn't refuse this mission just based on this drop of the immortal's blood.

"The unknown is willing to give up everything in exchange for you helping it fulfill its long-cherished wish."

"The Usurpation Fairy lives in the hall at the back. If you can help it get rid of its wrath now, that would be the best thing to do. But if you don't have the ability to do so for the time being, it hopes that you can make a vow that when you are able to solve this matter, you must come back to help the Usurpation Fairy get rid of its wrath, lest it sink into the flames of madness and never be able to be reborn... Are you willing to help it fulfill its last wish before it dies?"

Jiang Xinghuo fell into deep thought. He felt that there was nothing wrong with it and it seemed quite reasonable.

Even great value for money.

He certainly couldn't solve the problem with the usurper now, but Wuxiangzhong didn't force him. He just asked him to swear an oath and come back to solve it when he had the ability to do so.

This is equivalent to a blank check. It is up to you whether to complete the task or not. In a sense, you are the one who gets the advantage.

"You accepted the other person's last wish before he died."

"The Unknown Clan could die at any time now. It has no other options but to place all its hopes on you."

"The Exiles and the Usurper Immortals are mortal enemies. They won't bet on your ability to keep your promise and help them fulfill their last wishes. Instead, they'll bet on your ability to find the Usurper Immortals to avenge your ancestors."

"It's not the process in between that it's after, but the result of that process. As long as you can help the usurping immortal to be liberated, it doesn't matter what your purpose is."

"You have obtained a secret book of "Locking Veins", a piece of strange human skin, a drop of blood of a usurper immortal, 10000 incense sticks, and a corpse of an unknown person who died of illness."

Seeing the prompt in the game text, Jiang Xinghuo knew that he had obtained those things, and this unknown person also breathed his last.

"Locking Meridians (rare technique), also known as shrinking meridians, is a forbidden spell developed by the usurping immortals based on the feudal laws they govern. Although it has no lethality, it is far more vicious than offensive spells."

"As long as someone is struck by this spell, the meridians in the body of the person will be locked by the caster's magic power. Not only will the power be blocked, but the meridians will also gradually wither and shrink over a long period of time until the person becomes an ordinary person."

"When those usurpers were expelled, the usurper immortal planted the meridian-locking technique in their bodies."

Jiang Xinghuo's eyes narrowed. The usurpers mentioned in the game's copy should be the humans who were exiled to the earth.

It's really a case of an enemy being killed on the road.

This magic technique actually fell into his hands.

"Do you want to learn this meridian locking technique?"

Jiang Xinghuo didn't hesitate at all and immediately clicked on the text and chose to study.

After a moment, the trick of the meridian-locking technique appeared in Jiang Xinghuo's mind as if it had suddenly dawned on him.

Then, Jiang Xinghuo looked at other things.

"Strange human skin (unknown). The usurper immortal was once the most respected monster by the Lord of the Secular World. This human skin is the treasure bestowed upon it by the Lord of the Secular World."

"And there is a story about this human skin that has been circulating for a long time."

"That was when the Lord of the Secular World first ascended the throne. A vassal saw that the country was unstable and the court was in turmoil, so he wanted to raise an army to rebel and overthrow the rule of the Lord of the Secular World." "The Lord of the Secular World personally led the army to fight against him. It took three years and finally broke through the city where the vassal was."

"Not only did he kill him with his own hands, but he also collected all the treasures he had collected over the years and put them in the treasure pavilion in the inner courtyard of the palace."

"This strange human skin is one of them. I don't know what creature it was peeled from. It is as thin as a cicada's wing and extremely flexible."

"The Lord of the Secular World seems to have discovered some secrets. Not only did he personally take the Immortal of the Forbidden Kingdom and several of his trusted followers to Jiangnan on New Year's Eve, but when he came back, only he and the Immortal of the Forbidden Kingdom were left. The rest of his trusted followers are nowhere to be found."

"Later, there were rumors that the Lord of the Secular World was seriously injured when he came back. It took Patriarch Molong three months to recover from his injuries."

"During that time, the Immortal of the Yue Family also stayed indoors and refused all outside visitors. However, some people saw the Old Ancestor Mo Long appear at the door of the Immortal of the Yue Family's residence."

"But these are just rumors. There is no confirmation. What secrets are hidden in this human skin? I am afraid only the Lord of the Secular World and the Usurping Immortal know."

"After the night of dawn, although the treacherous immortal managed to survive, his personality changed drastically. He began to stay at home and rarely showed up in public."

"This human skin was also picked up by that unknown person in the ruins. I plan to return it to the Usurping Immortal after he is freed."

"I never thought that the madness of the Immortal of the Forbidden Realm would become more and more serious, and the time he was awake would become shorter and shorter. Those unknown people could not get close to the Immortal of the Forbidden Realm's residence at all."

After reading the description of the human skin in the game text, Jiang Xinghuo sucked his teeth, took the thing out and took a look at it. It was indeed as transparent and smooth as a cicada's wing.

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo tried Tathagatagarbha and Sky-Peeking Eye, but he still could not find any mystery in this human skin.

There was no other way, Jiang Xinghuo had to put the human skin into the storage space first. It was not that he didn't care about this thing.

The key point is that it is useless to worry about it now, Jiang Xinghuo thought in his heart, since the Lord of the Secular World is leading people out in a big way.

Perhaps, only on New Year's Eve can we discover the secret of this human skin.

It is only the tenth month of the lunar calendar, and there are still nearly three months until New Year's Eve. Let's talk about it when the time comes.

Finally, it was what Jiang Xinghuo had always dreamed of, the essence and blood of the usurping immortal.

"The blood of the Usurper Immortal (legendary material). This is a drop of blood from the Usurper Immortal. It is also the purest and richest blood of the heart."

"On the night of dawn, the Immortal of the Unruly used the feudal laws that he mastered to fight against the 'Six-Law Taoist' among the thirteen Taoist masters. The two fought for hundreds of moves, and the Immortal of the Unruly was defeated and fled with serious injuries."

"This drop of blood was left behind at that time, and was later given by the Immortal Yue to several of his elder believers."

Jiang Xinghuo clicked on the text, took out the thing and took a look at it. He took the crystal clear bloodstone like agate in his hand, held it up to the light, and it reflected colorful and dazzling light.

So far, the last material for casting the Dharma image, the blood of the usurping immortal, has finally been obtained.

A fragment of a shattered law, a skin of Marichi, a relic of an old civilization, a drop of blood of a usurper immortal, a hundred tons of metal of more than ten materials, and the skeletons of a thousand different creatures.

All the materials have been gathered and prompts have been received in the game.

"You have all the forging materials needed to create the 'Limb Splicing Dharma Image'. You can now start creating the Dharma Image. Do you want to start right away?"

Looking at the prompts given in the game text, Jiang Xinghuo hesitated for a moment and temporarily chose no.

He decided to first investigate the Ministry of Justice to see what the usurper immortal was like, and then proceed with casting the image of the deity.

"You have come to the hall behind the Ministry of Justice."

"This is the secluded place of the Xianyue Immortal. No one usually comes here. Even those unknown people dare not get close to it before receiving the summons. Do you want to come forward and take a look?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without hesitation. Since he was already here, it would be a shame if he left without taking a look.

"You quietly walked outside the hall and peeked into the dim hall. You saw a hunched figure sitting cross-legged quietly on the ground."

"You have discovered the usurper fairy."

"But the next moment, the Usurping Immortal sensed your presence. It suddenly raised its head and looked towards you, while an endless golden flame ignited on its body."

"You glimpsed the principles of the birth and death of all things in this flame, but because your fate cannot bear such vast and great knowledge, your spiritual platform was quickly burned out by the flames. You lost your clarity and rationality, and only pure madness remained..."

"You died of madness outside the palace."

"You are dead."

"Your soul has been polluted by the power of the Mad Fire. The secular power you possess will also be burned into pure ashes by the Mad Fire..."

"The ash continues to grow..."

The moment the game text flashed, Jiang Xinghuo immediately realized that something was wrong. He felt that something in his body was slowly disappearing.

Since entering the game, he has acquired many skills and spells, some of which he uses frequently, some he has never used, and some he has used occasionally.

He has always adhered to the principle that it is better to have many skills, and has learned almost everything he can.

But now those magic skills are disappearing from his body!

What's more important is that he can't stop this change at all!!
At the same time, countless miserable and terrifying funeral sounds rang in Jiang Xinghuo's ears, as if the cries and wails of millions of creatures had condensed together.

At that moment, Jiang Xinghuo almost thought that he was going to be completely drowned by those miserable funeral sounds.

Fortunately, it was just a momentary illusion.

"You have triggered the Golden Rule."

"The golden law in your body has taken effect, devouring the madness fire and eliminating the disaster caused by the madness fire polluting your soul."

"You have obtained the ashes of civilization."

Jiang Xinghuo felt his mind suddenly become clear, his ears instantly returned to silence, and all abnormalities completely disappeared.

It was as if nothing had happened, even the various skills that had disappeared before were mostly restored to their original state, with only a few inconspicuous ones disappearing without a trace.

(End of this chapter)