My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 419 Red Lotus Fire
Jiang Xinghuo found the old man in the ancestral hall and learned from him the method of establishing landmarks. In short, there are four different systems.

However, these four systems are interconnected and have many close connections with each other.

Jiang Xinghuo pondered it for a while and felt that the fourth option was the most suitable for him, which was to establish his own belief legend.

Moreover, the monsters and demons that were restrained in the acupoints in his body were just like those in the legends of the underworld and hell, so he didn't need to go through the trouble of looking for ghost messengers.

As long as he occupies an ownerless hell in the underworld and then turns the legend of this hell into common knowledge in the minds of the people, he can successfully establish his own landmark.

In short, the key to establishing a landmark is the recognition of the living society.

After Jiang Xinghuo heard the conditions for building the beacon, many other things suddenly came to his mind.

Just like the various legends circulating in the secular world, from the Yellow River God controlling floods and the Medicine King practicing medicine to the Kitchen God, and in ancient times, the Taoist Ancestor divided his Dharma bodies into Dharma bodies to preach the Tao throughout the world. These may all be the means for the strong to establish their own standards.

Jiang Xinghuo opened the magic bag again, and took out a book from a corner without saying a word.

"Zi Buyu (legendary prop), can turn people and ghosts upside down with a flip of the hand, and can turn over millions of ghost soldiers with the hand. It is a relic left by the ancient powerful Fengdu. It can create all kinds of ghost stories with its own magic power. The stronger the magic power, the stronger the ghost stories created." (Chapter 93)
This was something he accidentally found in a hidden map when he went to Kanto for the first time. The grade of this item has reached the legendary level. Even in today's secular world, it is a rare item that is hard to come by.

Jiang Xinghuo has already thought it through. As long as he has this book in his hand, he can use it to create all kinds of strange stories and evil things in the secular world.

Then if I take action to solve the problem myself, wouldn't that gradually expand my influence? ?
Anyway, what matters is the result, not the process. As long as he can achieve his goal, he can accumulate reputation and establish his own beacon.

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo chatted with the old man again, and the core topic of their discussion was the time and space travel in the ancient town.

Jiang Xinghuo told the old man his guess. After listening, the old man frowned and fell into deep thought.

After a while, his frown gradually relaxed.

"So, you're saying... the subject of the time travel is not the ancient town, but the living beings in this ancient town?"

"Correct."

Jiang Xinghuo nodded and said:

"Otherwise, there is no way to explain why people in the past would remember my existence. Only if I go back to the past can I explain this relatively perfectly."

"This is something I never thought about..."

The old man looked back at the tablet on the altar and sneered:
"No wonder you were able to hold on for so long. I guess you took advantage of the time when you went back and intercepted the incense power from the past, so you were able to survive until now."

As he spoke, the old man stood up from the coffin, and with his right hand he grabbed in the air, and a shriveled corpse suddenly appeared in the ancestral hall.

"I wonder how long you can hold on..."

The old man sneered and was about to throw the corpse into the coffin, but he didn't expect that the shriveled corpse suddenly opened its eyes and grabbed the old man's arms with both hands.

A grayish-white chilly aura visible to the naked eye quickly spread upwards along the old man's arm.

Jiang Xinghuo wanted to step forward to help, but the old man shook his head slightly, and a large amount of purple-red flames immediately emerged from his body, eliminating the gray-white aura and swallowing up the corpse.

At the same time, a cracking sound was heard from the altar.

Jiang Xinghuo looked up and saw a memorial tablet with unclear words on it, which suddenly cracked in the middle as if it had been struck by lightning.

But what surprised Jiang Xinghuo was that after the purple-red flames on the old man's body dissipated, the shriveled corpse did not suffer any damage, and even the clothes on his body were not torn at all.

Jiang Xinghuo subconsciously opened the Tathagatagarbha and looked at the purple-red flame on the old man's body.

Originally, his Tathagatagarbha could not be used here, but now he had the blessing of the Golden Law, so the restrictions were naturally reduced a lot.

"Red Lotus Karma Fire (Legend), legend has it that it is the original fire born in the underworld. It will not cause any damage or harm to innocent people and inanimate objects, but it has unparalleled lethality to the guilty."

"This is the Red Lotus Karma Fire..."

The old man looked at Jiang Xinghuo's stunned expression and explained:

"It is said that this flame was born together with the underworld. It uses the sins and karma of the world as fuel to burn. Within one day in the world of the living, it can inflict a burning punishment of at least 3,700 years on a guilty person."

"In addition, the pain can be increased by fifty times and the length of punishment can be doubled, depending on the amount of karma in the sinner's body."

hiss……

After listening to the old man's description, Jiang Xinghuo couldn't help but gasp. This red lotus karma fire was a bit too overbearing. Even committing suicide might be a problem.

If we convert the time, once you are entangled in the Red Lotus Karma Fire, the pain you endure in one minute is equivalent to being burned by the flames for almost three years.

My own consciousness might have been wiped out by the endless pain.

"Senior, can you give me a strand of your Red Lotus Karma Fire?"

Jiang Xinghuo suddenly remembered the Kitchen God's method of gathering fire. If he could integrate the characteristics of the Red Lotus Karma Fire into the Kitchen God's Fire, then the Kitchen God's Fire would undergo a complete transformation.

"you?"

The old man's tone fluctuated slightly:

"It's no problem to give you a few strands, but you don't have the fire source of the Red Lotus Karma Fire, so the Karma Fire will probably dissipate very quickly."

As soon as he finished speaking, the old man gently waved his right hand, and a wisp of purple-red flame on his body suddenly separated, stretching and changing in the air like a hibernating dragon, and flew towards Jiang Xinghuo's eyebrows.

Jiang Xinghuo's heart skipped a beat when he saw this. A ball of golden-red flame suddenly ignited in his palm, and he carefully wrapped the red lotus fire in it.

"Edict!"

Jiang Xinghuo let out a light shout and used the method of gathering the stove fire, wanting to merge the red lotus karma fire into the stove god's fire.

The old man was also watching quietly from the side. If there was anything wrong, he would immediately take back the red lotus fire.

Look at Jiang Xinghuo again.

The Red Lotus Karma Fire was wrapped by the Kitchen God's Fire, and the golden-red flames were also stained with a layer of purple, but the flames flickered, as if they would explode at any time.

Jiang Xinghuo concentrated and calmed his mind, slowly practicing the method of gathering fire. As time passed, the Kitchen God's fire finally calmed down and was no longer as agitated as at the beginning.

The Kitchen God's fire at this time was completely different from before. Among the flickering golden-red flames, there were a few wisps of purple flames, which added a sense of weirdness out of thin air.

"It's done!"

Jiang Xinghuo was delighted, and as he looked at the flickering flames, a hint of excitement flashed in his eyes.

Although the Red Lotus Karma Fire does not have the terrifying destructive power of the Kitchen God's Fire, nor can it eliminate the evil spirits of malnutrition like the malnutrition fire, it does not have the cold and corrosiveness of the Netherworld Ghost Fire.

However, the Red Lotus Karma Fire can be used against people, especially those who have committed serious sins. It can easily erase the other person's consciousness without damaging the body at all.

The old man standing nearby and watching this scene was also very surprised. He did not expect that Jiang Xinghuo could actually use the Red Lotus Karma Fire for his own use.

"then!"

The old man waved his right hand, and a few wisps of red lotus fire flew towards Jiang Xinghuo.

Jiang Xinghuo did not show any courtesy to the other party. He took all the red lotus karma fire into his pocket and combined it perfectly with the Kitchen God's fire.

"Thank you, senior."

Jiang Xinghuo put away the Kitchen God fire and looked at the old man beside him.

The old man nodded and said:
"You have already begun to fuse the Red Lotus Karma Fire. As long as you use the power of sin as fuel to make it burn, the power of the Red Lotus Karma Fire will become stronger and stronger. Perhaps one day, you can condense a new source of karma fire."

Then, under the guidance of the old man, Jiang Xinghuo understood the usage and taboos of the Red Lotus Karma Fire.

In addition, he also obtained some maps of the underworld from the old man, which were several ownerless hells that he had found during his exploration of the underworld.

But so many years have passed, and the old man doesn’t know whether those hells have changed. He can only wait for Jiang Xinghuo to explore them himself.

Finally, Jiang Xinghuo asked a question.

"Senior, is the underworld of your time the same world as the underworld of today's world?"

This question has troubled Jiang Xinghuo for a long time, but he has never found the exact answer.

"should be."

The old man picked up the tools on the ground, walked to another coffin, and said slowly:

"Before our civilization was destroyed, someone used the power of Diting and satellites to discover a dead planet in space." "From the images transmitted back by the satellite, that planet is very likely the legendary underworld."

"But just when the relevant personnel wanted to explore further, our civilization ushered in the end of the end."

"You mean... the underworld is actually a planet, a celestial body similar to the world we live in?"

Jiang Xinghuo did not have any extreme reaction. In fact, he had already guessed it in his mind. He even suspected that Jupiter in the solar system was the celestial body the old man was talking about.

It is the largest celestial body in the solar system, confirming the claim that the underworld is vast.

There is also the treasure of the Immortal Village.

From the appearance, it is similar to Jupiter. Plus, that thing was developed by Lord Samsara in the underworld, so it is not groundless to say that Jupiter is the underworld.

"Yes, but further verification is needed. Perhaps only by actually setting foot on that planet can we know the final truth."

After saying that, the old man continued to pick up his tools and started making the coffin, and Jiang Xinghuo also prepared to say goodbye and leave.

But before leaving, he walked up to the old man and used the power of the Golden Law to repair the old man's broken body.

Walk out of the dimly lit ancestral hall.

Jiang Xinghuo looked back again and saw that the lights in the ancestral hall had been quietly turned off. Only the sound of knocking could be heard faintly in the empty ancestral hall.

This seemingly inconspicuous and dilapidated ancestral hall is divided into at least three spaces. One is the space that can be seen by the naked eye now, and the other is the space where Jiang Xinghuo and the old man were just now.

Another one is the space where the clan members in the ancestral hall are hiding, otherwise the old man would not be able to grab a corpse at will.

Now it depends on which side can outlast the other, and the one who can outlast the other will be the real winner.

Jiang Xinghuo let out a long breath and looked up at the gray sky. It was like four or five o'clock on a cloudy day in summer. The air was filled with cold and gale-force winds. Time was simply not constant here.

He has already obtained the method to establish a beacon, and the next exploration plan has a temporary goal, which is to enter the underworld and occupy an ownerless hell, and strive to establish his own beacon as soon as possible.

There are also other investigations that cannot be put aside, such as Wanjie Village where Lingguan Ye is located, clues to Vulcan City, clues to the Black Emperor's Tomb, and maps of the Jiangnan and Nanyue regions in the secular world, which must be unlocked as soon as possible.

Since entering the game, the areas Jiang Xinghuo has explored are basically limited to the north of the secular world, and there has been almost no progress in exploring the south of the secular world.

Jiang Xinghuo walked aimlessly on the street, thinking about the subsequent game plan in his mind. He decided to move forward in parallel, not only to set up road signs, but also to unlock new maps.

We cannot favor one over the other, or focus on one aspect alone, and we must develop the plot as balanced as possible.

After he had an idea of ​​the follow-up plan in his mind, Jiang Xinghuo came back to his senses and found that he had unknowingly arrived at the back mountain of Taiping Ancient Town.

That was the mountain with the strange temple I saw last time.

"How did you get here?"

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the dead silent mountains in front of him and thought that since he was already here, he might as well go up and take a look. He wondered if the Three Lifetimes Ghost Temple was still there.

Thinking about these things in his mind, Jiang Xinghuo walked up the mountain. The long and narrow mountain road was winding. Apart from the desolation and silence, there was nothing strange about it.

soon.

Jiang Xinghuo came to an open place. It was here that he entered the ancient temple last time. He also met a little girl who called him "husband" as soon as she opened her mouth.

But it was a pity that when he came here again this time, the ancient temple did not appear.

Jiang Xinghuo still remembered that the twenty-four statues sealed with iron chains in the temple were all monsters and demons trapped alive in the temple.

With this in mind.

Jiang Xinghuo suddenly remembered what happened that day, so he immediately closed his eyes, opened the strange horizontal eye between his eyebrows, and used the horizontal eye between his eyebrows to observe the empty space in front of him.

As a result, within the field of vision of the horizontal eye between the eyebrows, an ancient temple with continuous buildings and overlapping pavilions appeared among the lush and quiet mountains.

However, this temple seems illusory and seems like it will disappear at any time, a bit like the mountain mirage recorded in ancient books.

Jiang Xinghuo wanted to go closer and take a look, but found that he could not enter at all. When his fingertips touched the gate of the ancient temple, it was like touching the empty air, and there was no way to have any substantial contact with it.

"Ok?"

Jiang Xinghuo opened his eyes, and the temple in front of him disappeared instantly. Only through the horizontal eye between his eyebrows could he see the shadow of the ancient temple.

"Pity……"

A trace of regret appeared on Jiang Xinghuo's face. It seemed that if he wanted to enter this ancient temple, he could only wait until the bell rang again.

Or you have to wait until the level of the horizontal eyes between the eyebrows is raised to a certain height. Maybe then you can break the shackles of space and freely enter and exit the ancient temple.

Now, it’s just a visual feast.

Through the dim crack in the door, Jiang Xinghuo saw the ancient bluestone road that stretched out from inside, as well as the ghosts and gods of the old world that were sealed on both sides of the ancient road...

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo walked around the ancient town again, and walked towards the areas that had not been unlocked according to the map of Taiping Ancient Town in his hand.

But as expected, an accident still happened.

Just as Jiang Xinghuo walked into a deserted old street, he suddenly felt a darkness in front of his eyes, and then he lost consciousness. When he woke up again, his consciousness had returned to the real world.

"You are dead."

The glaring red words on the phone screen reminded people that Jiang Xinghuo had died in the ancient town.

Jiang Xinghuo didn’t even know how he died. All he felt at that moment was a black screen before his eyes, and he knew nothing.

"Are you going to use a scapegoat to resurrect?"

The game popped up a prompt message.

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes. After his resurrection, he continued to explore the old street, but the result did not change. Not long after, a death notice appeared.

There is also no explanation of the specific method and reason of death, it just repeats the above game text.

Jiang Xinghuo suddenly felt a little bored and decided to give up exploring the ancient town and come back again when he had the chance.

At this time, it was already bright outside.

Jiang Xinghuo received a call from his father, asking him to come over for breakfast. Jiang Miaozhen would go to the store to pick him up later.

There was nothing to do in the next few days, I just accompanied the two old men for a stroll along the seaside.

Of course, he did not forget to explore the secular world when he was free, but Jiang Xinghuo was not in a hurry to open up a new map. He just kept wandering around Longcheng and Beiping.

That day, Jiang Xinghuo did the same as usual. After seeing off the last wave of guests, he simply made himself some food and took out his mobile phone to log into the game.

Mr. Jiang Yuanxiu returned to his hometown yesterday because Mr. Jiang Yuanqian's work was about to begin.

The two old men have already made an appointment. After the excavation here is completed, Jiang Yuanqian will go to his hometown to find Jiang Yuanxiu. At that time, they will gather all the living relatives and friends, especially the older generation, together to share the good news.

"You woke up next to the shrine in Peking."

"Where are you planning to go today?"

"Are you planning to take a stroll around the Forbidden City, or go to Huangliang Hutong to chat with the old storyteller?"

"Or, just take a quick stroll around the city of Beiping?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and chose the first answer, which was to take a walk around the Forbidden City.

Although there are many old people outside the Forbidden City, there is also a mad dog-like Nine Gates Supervisor guarding there.

But if you're lucky, you can find something good.

Of course, it is also possible that he was chopped into pieces by the Nine Gates Supervisor and then the body was thrown into the moat.

Jiang Xinghuo has suffered several losses. The Nine-Gate Supervisor God is elusive and never fights people head-on. He just comes out and strikes with a knife, without giving anyone a chance to fight back.

I went for a follow-up check today, and I am recovering well. But I felt very uncomfortable during the endoscopy in the afternoon. The doctor said that if there is other reason for gastric bleeding, there is basically no need for an endoscopic check. The only exception is gastric ulcer and gastritis. It is best to do an endoscopic check to see if there is any recovery.

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