My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 409: Mountain and River Sacrifice to the True Lord
"You learned the identity of that mysterious and powerful man from the mural left by the master of the Cemetery Forest."

"You have learned the title of the Mountain and River Sacrifice True Lord."

"Shanhejishi Zhenjun is a powerful person with a very mysterious origin. No one knows his true identity. All we know is that he is in charge of the method of 'conferring gods and commanding immortals'. The mountain gods, city gods, land gods, river gods... in the secular world are all passed down by him in ancient times."

"At dawn, someone saw him briefly appear in the depths of the Forbidden City, but he disappeared in the blink of an eye. No one has seen him since then."

"But for some unknown reason, this True Lord Shanhejishi came to the ancient city in Ghost Lake. He not only completely destroyed the ancient city, but also severely injured the Lord of the Cemetery Forest and left him on the verge of death."

Mountains and rivers offer sacrifices to the True Lord of the World...

Looking at the description in the game text, Jiang Xinghuo was thoughtful. If nothing unexpected happened, this mysterious Shanhe Jishi Zhenjun should be one of the ancient powerful men mentioned by the old man in the ancestral hall.

This antique has existed since the beginning of this world and has experienced the rise and fall of countless secular civilizations.

As for why he wanted to attack the King of the Yellow River, Jiang Xinghuo had some guesses in his mind, but he did not have enough evidence to support it.

Judging from the title of Shanhe Jishi Zhenjun, the laws he governs are most likely the laws of mountains and rivers, also known as the way of imperial power to control the dragon.

According to the description of the old man in the ancestral hall of Taiping Ancient Town, the tidal law is the fragment of the imperial power to control the dragon. In other words, the reason why Shanhe Jishi Zhenjun did this is to recover the fragments of his law scattered in the secular world.

The Lord of the Cemetery might have just been unlucky to have encountered this incident, so he suffered an unexpected disaster.

Of course, all of this is just Jiang Xinghuo's speculation, and he has no idea whether this is actually the case.

Jiang Xinghuo couldn't help but secretly feel fortunate that he had found the legacy of civilization from the old secular world and cleared away those redundant fragments of laws. Even though his strength had decreased a little as a result, it was still better than dealing with those old monsters head-on.

Although it is unlikely that Shanhe Jishi Zhenjun would go to great lengths to make a big fuss for the 1% completeness of the tidal law, it is ultimately a bomb that can explode at any time.

Next, as long as we hide the fragments of the "Law of Ascension", we won't have to worry about these things for a long time.

"What are you going to do next?"

"Are you going to continue exploring in the Corpse Forest Hell, or leave the Corpse Forest Hell and explore inside the ancient city?"

Jiang Xinghuo pondered for a moment. He had not explored the Corpse Forest Hell much and had only been busy with the things in the ancient temple. It was a good opportunity for him to search around before leaving.

"You chose to stay in the Corpse Forest and continue exploring."

"You put on the cemetery mask and left the ancient temple, relying only on the horizontal eye between your eyebrows to observe the road outside. Fortunately, the cemetery master also has three divine eyes, so they do not block the vision of the horizontal eye between your eyebrows."

"Golden-red flames danced in the horizontal pupils between your eyebrows. You walked into the forest of corpses again. The inhabitants of the forest of corpses sensed the aura of the mask of the forest of corpses, so they did not come out to stop you."

"Soon, you came to a desolate place in the Corpse Forest Prison. A small earth pit appeared in front of you. Boiling blood-colored liquid was rolling in the earth pit, and there was something floating in it."

"Do you want to pick it up?"

"You walked forward and tried to take the object out of the blood, but you didn't expect that the blood was highly corrosive and almost corroded the flesh on your hand."

"What are you going to do now?"

"If you insist on picking up that thing, you will most likely be burned by the blood. Perhaps you can try to use a tool to remove the thing from the blood."

Seeing the prompt message in the game text, Jiang Xinghuo thought for a moment and took out the dragon horn drill from his magic bag.

"You took out the Dragon Horn Borer and activated the magic weapon, exerting its innate ability to calm the sea and raise waves, and took the thing out of the blood."

"You have obtained a piece of meteorite fragment from outer space."

"This meteorite fragment flew down from the outer space, smashed through the space cracks in the secular world, and quietly landed in the Corpse Forest Hell."

"The Lord of the Cemetery studied this fragment carefully, but did not gain anything from it, so he threw it here at random."

"But for some reason, a large amount of blood-colored spring water gushed out from the pit where the meteorite fragment fell, and it also carried a strong smell of death and corrosion."

"The Lord of the Cemetery is an expert in studying the way of death. He naturally wishes for this strange phenomenon. Not only does he allow the blood to spread, he also often practices here."

"But since the Lord of the Cemetery Forest was seriously injured and fell silent, the blood that was originally spreading out has gradually dried up and gathered. If you had stayed a little longer, I'm afraid this blood cave would have dried up completely."

The description in the game text is also vague, only explaining the origin of the meteorite fragments and the nature of the blood, but not mentioning what it is.

Jiang Xinghuo originally wanted to open the Tathagata Garbha to see what was going on, but the soreness in his eyeballs reminded him that the Tathagata Garbha was temporarily down and could not be activated for a short period of time, which would last at least a week.

There is no way around it. It's because he is so curious that he wants to use Tathagatagarbha to analyze everything he sees.

There was no other way, so Jiang Xinghuo had to temporarily put the meteorite fragments into the magic bag. But just as he put the meteorite fragments into the magic bag, a new game text suddenly popped up.

"It has been detected that the meteorite fragment in your hand and the treasure of the Undead Village are made of the same material, both of which come from the depths of the starry sky beyond the secular world."

"You have gained a preliminary glimpse of the secrets of the Undead Village. When you go to explore the Undead Village, you can more freely trigger and obtain the secrets of the village."

Hmm? This is an unexpected bonus.

Jiang Xinghuo never imagined that this piece of meteorite fragment was actually related to the treasure of the Undead Village.

The treasure of the Undead Village is the sphere similar to Jupiter, which is the most bizarre prop he encountered during his exploration of the game.

When Jiang Xinghuo first got that thing, Tathagata Zang suffered a severe blow, so much so that he was somewhat repulsed by the map of the Immortal Village.

According to common sense, Jiang Xinghuo should have obtained the map of the Undead Village a long time ago, but he never went to develop this map. The reason is that he was worried about encountering danger.

It was just that he was deceiving himself, and comforted himself to wait until his strength improved before going there.

Now it seems that maybe I should go there and take a look. Since this map has been opened up, I will have to explore it sooner or later. Keep hiding is not a long-term solution.

These thoughts flashed through his mind like lightning, and Jiang Xinghuo finally made up his mind. After exploring the map of the ghost lake in hand, he would go to the mysterious undead village for a visit.

He wanted to see what was so powerful about this "Immortal Lord Who Created People from Clay" that he could actually make all the people in a village escape the cycle of life and death.

But let’s start with this map first.

Jiang Xinghuo controlled the character in the game and explored the Shi Tuo Lin Cave Heaven again. He also found some rare materials. Although the quality rating was not high, most of them were ordinary or excellent. However, due to the unique environment of Shi Tuo Lin Cave Heaven, those materials could not be found outside. They were also unique to Scorpion Baba. "Are you going to leave Shi Tuo Lin Cave Heaven?"

"Be careful. If you leave here now, you will have to come to the shore of Ghost Lake if you want to enter the Cemetery Forest Cave Heaven in the future. Unless you can find the White Skeleton Taoist Soldier lost by the Cemetery Forest Lord, you can travel freely here without being restricted by space."

Jiang Xinghuo took a look at the game text and memorized the quest line of the Skeleton Taoist Soldiers. He would try to find it when he had the chance.

Then he chose to leave the Corpse Forest Hell.

"You have left the corpse forest hell."

"You are back on the shore of Ghost Lake again. Will you choose to find a place to rest, or continue to explore the ancient city where the Yellow River King fell?"

Jiang Xinghuo put down his phone and looked at the time. It was almost midnight and the cooldown of the scapegoat was about to be refreshed.

There is no need to stay up all night to catch up on the game progress. Just wait until tomorrow and go to bed first.

Jiang Xinghuo put his phone down to charge, covered himself with a thick duvet, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Although Taoyuan Village has a beautiful environment, it was in ancient times after all, and the beds are somewhat different from modern ones.

Jiang Xinghuo was used to sleeping in his own bed, and he never felt comfortable sleeping in Taoyuan Village. Even if he didn't sleep now, it wouldn't have much of an impact, but the habit accumulated over a long period of time couldn't be changed.

Jiang Xinghuo slept until nine o'clock the next morning. After waking up, he felt much more relaxed, except for a slight soreness and pain in his right eye.

After getting up, Jiang Xinghuo took care of his personal hygiene and got himself something to eat.

"Take another day off today?"

Jiang Xinghuo was chewing peanuts while thinking in his mind.

It's true that being lazy and slacking off is quite addictive. After being idle in Taoyuan Village for so many days, he really doesn't want to open the shop to welcome customers.

"Just one day, today is the last day of rest, and tomorrow we will resume normal business!"

Jiang Xinghuo admonished himself for a while, and then went to fish with peace of mind.

The store door is still locked. If the door is opened and customers come in to buy things, we can't turn them away.

The second floor.

Jiang Xinghuo sat on the sofa, took out his mobile phone, opened the Folk World game, logged into his account, and started today's game process.

"The sun rises from the east, and the warm sunlight shines on the desolate and dilapidated ancient city. Do you want to enter the ancient city and explore it immediately?"

Jiang Xinghuo directly chose yes. The reason why he was slacking off today was to explore this ancient city.

"You chose to explore the ancient city."

"You followed the palace map left by the Yellow River Dragon and started searching in the ancient city. With the help of the map, you saved yourself a lot of unnecessary trouble. It didn't take long before you arrived in front of a majestic palace."

"You have arrived at the Yellow River Palace."

"This is the bedroom and residence of the Yellow River King and his wife. No one except the Yellow River Dragon Son is allowed to approach here without permission."

"But now the hall is in ruins, the walls are covered with broken cracks, and most of the heavy door has collapsed. Even without the key, you can enter it."

"Moreover, you found many traces of battles outside the hall, as well as more than a dozen corpses of various shapes. Although they have fallen a long time ago, the aura they exude still makes you feel frightened."

"These corpses are all disciples accepted by King Huanghe. King Huanghe has thirteen disciples in total."

"On the night of dawn, two disciples died in the Forbidden City. Their bodies were not found. The remaining eleven disciples all died here."

"You went forward and examined the bodies of these people. Using the unique gift of a coroner's gross observation, you quickly identified the cause of death of these people."

"There was hardly any sign of resistance on their bodies, and the cause of death was all heart explosions. It seemed as if they all died outside the temple in an instant, and not even their clothes were torn."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the text description and couldn't help but outline the scene of that year in his mind:

The True Lord of Mountains and Rivers came to the ancient city openly and slaughtered all the monsters in the city. The disciples of the Yellow River King wanted to protect their master, but the True Lord of Mountains and Rivers waved his hand, and everyone died of heart explosion, without even a chance to resist.

Jiang Xinghuo knew very well that as disciples of the ancient Taoist master, their cultivation must be extraordinary and they were definitely not ordinary monsters.

When they faced the Mountain and River Sacrifice Master, they didn't even have the ability to resist. If it were me, would the result be any different? ?
Most likely there will be no difference.

Jiang Xinghuo was thinking about these things as the plot of the game began to move forward.

"At this moment, you suddenly heard some strange noises coming from the ruined hall. Do you want to go in and take a look?"

"You chose to go over and check it out."

Jiang Xinghuo was mentally prepared.

If there was any danger in the hall, it must be the dead King of the Yellow River, or his corpse.

The reason why the fortune teller was beaten into that state was probably because he encountered the corpse of the Yellow River King in this hall.

"You come to the door of the hall. Through the collapsed and broken door, you can vaguely see the scene inside the hall..."

"You have found the body of the Taoist Priest."

"You saw the dead Yellow River King in the palace. Although he had been dead for many years, his body showed no signs of decay and still retained the majestic aura he had when he was alive. He held a large blue hammer in his hand and his face was full of unwillingness!"

"But you noticed that the Yellow River King's chest and abdomen had been cut open, his internal organs had disappeared, and the wound was still emitting a clear light, as if he could come back to life at any time."

"In addition, on the dragon throne behind King Huanghe, there is a slender figure sitting, wearing a delicate dragon robe, holding a dragon-slaying sword, with a beautiful appearance, but there is a bloody hole between the eyebrows, which destroys the tranquility."

"You have found the body of the real dragon girl."

(End of this chapter)