My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 431 Arrival
Jiang Xinghuo scrolled down the game text and checked the game records. The great elder of the Altar God Sect gave him a total of three maps.

Red Light Town, Ping An Village, Shiva Village.

This Shiva village should be one of the ten Dharma lineages passed down by Lord Shiva.

"I wonder what your plans are next?"

"Will you choose to find a place to have a good rest, or choose to explore other places?"

Jiang Xinghuo glanced at the time. It was almost midnight, but he didn't feel sleepy at all. So he decided to continue playing the game.

"You choose to explore other places. Please choose your destination."

"You decided to explore Shiva Village."

"Shiva Village is located in the southeast of the secular world, where the ten-direction Zen lineage is prevalent."

"Back then, in order to pass on his lineage, Lord Shiva found Ksitigarbha of the Ten Directions Zen Monastery and wanted to suppress the Ten Directions Zen Monastery's lineage through the Unobstructed Assembly, thereby expanding the influence of Shivaism in the secular world."

"But he did not expect that Ksitigarbha's Buddhist scriptures and practice were far superior to his. After losing ten games in a row, Lord Shiva felt so ashamed that he cut off his fingers and vowed never to come to the Buddha's land again."

"Ksitigarbha, with a heart of great compassion, felt for the suffering of Lord Shiva, and made a promise to him that he could leave behind ten Dharma lineages in the Buddha lands of the ten directions of Zen."

"And incorporate the Shiva Temple into the practice system of the Ten Directions Zen Forest, allowing Buddhist disciples to go there to study and learn at will."

"But since then, Lord Shiva has disappeared without a trace in the secular world. At dawn, Ksitigarbha and Pure Land Tathagata fought a great battle. Suddenly, a mysterious strong man appeared and blocked all the disciples of Pure Land Tathagata."

"According to folk legend, the mysterious and powerful man was Lord Shiva. After being convinced by the Buddhist teachings of Ksitigarbha, he became the Great Free Heavenly King of the Ten Directions Zen Forest and eliminated all evil demons and heretics."

"Shiva Village is the legacy left by this Lord Shiva. Do you want to go there immediately?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without hesitation and controlled the game character to explore Shiva Village.

"You left the shrine in Beiping City and started on your journey."

"We are on the road. It is estimated that we will reach our destination, Shiva Village, in about five hours. Exile, if you can have some good means of transportation, the travel time will be greatly shortened."

The game suggested ways to speed up the journey and save time. Jiang Xinghuo opened the option in the trick bag and found the upgraded God of Joy sedan chair, which should now be called the Dragon God sedan chair, and chose to use it.

"You have used the Dragon Shrine."

"On the way, please wait..."

"This time, we are expected to arrive at our destination in about two hours. Do you want to activate the Dragon God Sedan's talent effect of 'Pray to the Gods'?"

"You have triggered it, pray to God for your fate."

"Pray to the gods for fortune and misfortune, and use the spirit to predict good and bad luck. When you travel in a sedan chair, there is a chance that the effect of predicting good and bad luck will be triggered."

"The fortune and misfortune are being deduced, please wait..."

"You have obtained a little fortune."

Good luck?

Jiang Xinghuo thought that he was lucky. He had four states of fortune, good fortune and misfortune, two good and two bad, each mixed in half.

Whenever he triggered this talent, most of the things he encountered were disasters, and good things rarely happened to him.

However, there are some differences between good fortune and lucky luck.

If good fortune is deduced when riding in a sedan chair, it means that there will be no obstacles on the way and there will be no trouble along the way.

But if what is deduced is good fortune, it means that while on the road, you are likely to trigger some unexpected plots, obtain some props that are not within the normal plot, or clues to other tasks.

"The journey is ongoing..."

"The secular world is far more dangerous late at night than during the day, so most people will not choose to travel at night in the secular world."

"But there are exceptions to everything. Some people may be skilled and brave, and are not afraid of the dangers of the secular world. Some people have no choice but to travel at night."

"You have triggered the Eight Trigrams Cave Spirit Ear of the Kitchen God."

"When you walked outside a forest, you suddenly heard a faint groan of pain."

"If it weren't for your spiritual ears that can hear sounds from all directions, you would hardly hear such a faint movement. Do you want to go out and take a look?"

When Jiang Xinghuo saw the game text, he thought for a while and decided to go out and take a look. Maybe this good fortune belongs to the person outside.

"You choose to go out and explore."

"Ghosts often appear in the woods outside the wilderness. These evil spirits are best at bewitching people. Maybe the groaning outside is a trap set by them. Do you really want to go out?"

The game text is telling Jiang Xinghuo implicitly that there is danger outside and he should not go out to join in the fun. It's almost as if it's saying it out loud in plain language.

But Jiang Xinghuo refused to believe it and insisted on going over to take a look, because he knew that the folk world was resistant to players' exploration and this world did not welcome the return of the exiles.

This may be because of the Lord of the Secular World, who once held the supreme golden law. Human beings were exiled to the desolate earth in order to resist the rule of the Lord of the Secular World.

Therefore, the will of the Lord of the Secular World is the will of this world. Even though it has now fallen in the Forbidden City, this rule still revolves around the will of the Lord of the Secular World until the broken golden law is reunited.

It's just that they are not as steadfast as when the Lord of the World was alive. Otherwise, the Exile race would not have been able to return to this world in another way through the game.

Therefore, in the plots of many game texts, the writing package will lay some traps to prevent players from exploring the world.

Jiang Xinghuo suspected that the last paragraph of text was the same, so as to prevent him from triggering more interactive options and plots.

Of course, it is also possible that Jiang Xinghuo was overthinking it, and the groaning sounds outside were actually caused by those demons and monsters.

But even if that was the case, Jiang Xinghuo had nothing to be afraid of. If he really encountered those unclean and evil things, he would just kill them. He could then exchange them for some incense.

"You walked out of the sedan chair and left the protection of the Dragon God sedan chair. Listen carefully, the groaning sound came from the woods in the west."

"You strode into the woods and saw a lot of phosphorescent lights floating in the darkness. You followed the direction of the sound and found a blood-stained escort."

"You have found the seriously injured and dying porter."

"You helped the porter up, used the dead tree to revive, and asked him what happened?" "The porter also regained consciousness, and with his last breath, he told you the whole story."

"This porter was originally a clerk in the escort company in Guandong City. He followed the escort leader on a trip a few days ago. For some reason, he was targeted by a group of bandits as soon as he left Guandong City."

"That group of bandits followed the escort team day and night. The escort leader didn't want to cause trouble, so he wanted to use money to get rid of the bandits. But who knew that they didn't want money, but only the goods escorted by the escort team."

"People are inseparable from goods, and darts are inseparable from hands. As long as the darts are there, the goods are there."

"This is the rigid rule of the escort business. Everything else can be discussed. As long as you want to make a living in this business, there can't be any problems with escorting."

"As soon as the escort leader saw those people trying to steal the goods, he started fighting with them."

"But those bandits were very skilled. Although the escort leader was also a well-known expert in Guandong, he was still powerless against them. He was outnumbered and severely injured. He could only lead the escort team to where there were more people."

"But this is not a long-term solution, so the escort leader came up with a way to escape."

"During the day, it deliberately pretended to be waiting for reinforcements in the city, and at night it traveled lightly with the escort goods."

"However, this plan was discovered by the bandits. They chased us all the way, using all kinds of evil tricks, and soon dispersed the guys in the escort company."

"It managed to escape with its seriously injured body, and was planning to seek help from a nearby city."

"As the saying goes, when traveling the world, righteousness comes first."

"The Great Escort King established a rule that if a fellow escort comes to ask for help, everyone in the escort business must help. Otherwise, they will be forced to stop escorting and quit from now on."

"As a result, he fainted on the way due to his severe injuries, and was awakened by the pain in his body. He groaned and met you."

"Unfortunately, it met you too late. The injury could not be reversed. With the power of the dead tree coming back to life, it reluctantly told you the root cause of the matter and told you the place where the escort team was ambushed."

"The porter seemed to want to say something else, but the injuries on his body did not allow him to continue speaking."

"You have obtained the body of the escort agent."

"The body of a porter (common material). The body of a porter who had been out escorting convoys for many years. He had been through hundreds of battles and had more than forty wounds of varying sizes. Therefore, the body has a certain research value."

"Now that you know from the porter where the escort team is ambushed, do you want to go over and take a look? Maybe you can find some unexpected gains."

Jiang Xinghuo naturally would not choose to refuse. He first hung the porter's body on the niche to sell it, and then controlled the game character to go to the place where the escort team was ambushed.

"On the way, please wait..."

"You have arrived at the place the porter mentioned. You saw dozens of tragically dead bodies lying in the woods. Even the fallen leaves on the ground were soaked in blood."

"You walked over and carefully checked them, and found that these bodies had been dead for a long time. Judging from the clothes on their bodies, there were porters and assistants from the escort agency, as well as bearded bandits from the Kanto region, horse bandits and swordsmen from the northwest, and you even saw a few bodies of water bandits from the south."

Jiang Xinghuo felt a little surprised and thought that this was a big scene. Not only did the bandits from Guandong jump out, but even the swordsmen from the northwest and the pirates from the south came out.

Are these bandits gathering together in such a blatant manner just to practice robbing the escort agency?
Jiang Xinghuo felt that it was unlikely. It was probably because the goods being escorted by the escort team had a great appeal to these bandits, otherwise why would bandits from various regions gather together.

"What are you going to do next?"

"After those bandits killed people and robbed them, I don't know where they fled to. Are you planning to just dispose of the bodies and make a small fortune?"

"We should find a way to find out where those bandits are hiding and see what they want to do?"

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the contents of the game text, opened the magic bag, took out the summoning bell, and then chose to use it.

"You rang the bell in your hand, activated your innate ability to talk to the dead and ask ghosts, and summoned back the souls of those dead bandits."

"You learned from the dead souls that they gathered here to seize the jade pendant that the escort team was escorting."

"They have already agreed that after taking the jade pendant, they will head to the mining city in the northwest."

"Because this jade pendant is the key to an ancient tomb, and that tomb is hidden deep underground in the northwest mining city."

"This jade pendant is the entry ticket to the ancient tomb. Without it, you can't enter. That's why they surrounded and killed the escort agency that was delivering the ticket."

"You learned the whole story from the dead bodies and souls, and also found out when the ancient tomb would be opened."

"Only on the night of the Lantern Festival every year will the ancient tomb appear in the secular world. At other times, it is impossible to find the ancient tomb."

Lantern Festival?
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month? ?
Jiang Xinghuo thought to himself that it was still very early and there was no need to look for those bandits now.

It would be better to wait until the Lantern Festival. Anyway, the quest clue has been triggered, so we can just go to the mining city and wait.

Jiang Xinghuo put this clue aside for the time being, turned around and continued on his way towards Shiva Village.

In the next period of time.

Jiang Xinghuo has been in a semi-idle state and has not triggered any other plot interactions.

Two hours later.

Jiang Xinghuo heard the notification sound from the game while he was half asleep. He picked up his phone and saw a new text message popping up on the screen.

"You have arrived, Shiva Village."

"You looked around outside the village and found a shrine left by Fengdu. Do you want to touch it to light it up?"

"You have lit up the shrine of Shiva Village (incomplete)."

"The number of uses remaining for the shrine: 3."

"For some reason, this shrine is extremely damaged and cannot withstand too much abuse. At most, it can only be used about three more times before it completely collapses and loses its original effect."

"At this moment, Shiva Village is shrouded in darkness. It is a time of complete silence. Do you want to go into the village and take a look?"

"You choose to explore the village..."

Jiang Xinghuo lit up the shrine of Shiva Village. In this way, if he died in the village, he would be resurrected at the gate of Shiva Village next time, and he would not have to spend two hours running around the map again.

It’s just that this limit on the number of times makes Jiang Xinghuo extra cautious. If he fails to explore the map completely within three chances, he will probably have to run the map again.

I came back from get off work and wrote one chapter, then went to cook, and then wrote the second chapter
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(End of this chapter)