My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 451 Fire Officer
Jiang Xinghuo left the secret room under the City Lord's Mansion, walked out of the dark secret passage, and returned to the ground again.

The new game text also popped up.

"You have walked out of the entrance to the secret passage. What are you going to do next? Cover it up again, or leave it open for others to explore?"

Two options: bury the entrance or ignore it.

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and decided to cover up the entrance. It wasn't that he had any plan, he just did it for the convenience. If it was left open, it would be discovered in no time.

The mechanisms and traps in the secret passage will be almost exhausted in a short time, but if it is covered up, the situation will be different, because fewer people will discover it, and naturally fewer people will enter.

When he comes back when he has nothing to do in the future, he might get some unexpected gains, and the things on the intruders will become his.

"You chose to cover up the entrance to the secret room, and used the Five Ghosts Moving Technique to move the brick and stone ruins that had been moved away earlier back, blocking the entrance to the secret room tightly, leaving no trace."

"As for whether someone can find the entrance to the secret passage here, it depends on their luck."

"Where do you plan to go next?"

"Do you want to leave Huojun City and go to other places, or stay in the city and take a quick look?"

There are still two options: leave Huojun City and take a quick tour.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't think too much about it and simply chose the latter, strolling around the city.

"You chose to just walk around the city."

"You saw a drunk corpse driver on the street, sleeping soundly in the corner of the alley. What would you do?"

"Do you pretend you didn't see it, or go over and wake it up and buy it a drink, or take off its clothes while it's fast asleep..."

Jiang Xinghuo thought to himself, what a wicked option, the person is sleeping soundly there, how does it bother you, why do you have to go up and strip off his clothes.

After thinking for a while, Jiang Xinghuo decided to go over and wake it up, wanting to see what kind of plot would be triggered next.

"You went over to wake up the sleeping corpse driver and gave him a pot of aged Bamboo Leaf Green. The mellow and sweet aroma of the wine immediately aroused his interest. He took the pot and started drinking in big gulps."

Jiang Xinghuo got this pot of Bamboo Leaf Green Tea in Xishen City. It can slightly restore his physical strength. He doesn't need it on weekdays, so he has kept it in his magic bag. Now it is just right to use it to trigger subsequent tasks.

"The corpse driver drank up the pot of Bamboo Leaf Green and felt more refreshed than ever before. Even his body, which had been soaked in corpse qi, seemed to have improved."

"But it can't drink your wine for nothing. A few days ago, it saw something that shouldn't exist on Tianguan Street in the north of the city. If you are brave enough, you can go over and try your luck. You may get something."

"After the corpse driver finished saying this, he fell asleep again with the wine jug in his arms, as if he didn't care about his own safety at all."

"But you noticed that in the dark and damp alley next to you, there were several stiff figures standing there, with a bronze-like sheen on their bodies."

"You have discovered the bronze-armored corpse."

"Bronze Armored Corpse (Rare). The corpse-raising and training methods of the corpse-driving lineage are generally divided into four levels, mostly divided by gold, silver, copper and iron. The bronze armored corpse is not only invulnerable to swords and guns, but also has the ability to burrow underground and is immune to thunder and fire."

"What are you going to do now? Are you going to go to the Tianguan Street that the corpse-drivers mentioned, or are you going to find a way to take these bronze-armored corpses for yourself?"

"Be careful, there are many different ways to raise corpses in the corpse-driving vein, and each vein has its own unique features. The zombies that are cultivated also need to be sacrificed and refined with special methods, otherwise they will backfire on their masters."

When Jiang Xinghuo saw the description in the text, he thought that this would only cause trouble for himself. Besides, he didn't know how to raise corpses, so the bronze-armored corpse would not be able to exert its corresponding power in his hands.

"You chose to go to Tianguan Street."

"On the way, please wait..."

"You have arrived at Tianguan Street."

"This was once the place where the great god under the Kitchen God, the Fire Officer, lived. He controlled all the laws of Fire God City and was also the Kitchen God's most proud disciple."

"After the night of dawn, the Kitchen God mysteriously disappeared, and the safety of Fire God City fell on the shoulders of the Fire Officer. As a result, during the war between ghosts and gods, he was entangled by the five desires and karma of the Pure World Tathagata, and was unable to extricate himself. In the end, he burned himself to death in the kitchen fire."

"Since then, rumors of ghosts have spread on this street. Someone once swore that they saw the Fire Officer here, but no one has ever actually found any trace of him."

"So, do you want to continue exploring?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it for a while and felt that the Fire-Bearing Heavenly Official must be really dead, because he had seen the inherited relics of the "Fire-Bearing Heavenly Official" in reality.

At that time, several people from the Longyin Society came to see him, and one of them had the inherited relic of the Fire-Wielding Heavenly Official.

If the Fire-Bearing Heavenly Official in the secular world had not died, how could the other party's identity become a heritage relic?

Jiang Xinghuo flipped through the text again. The corpse chaser had said clearly in the game that it saw something on this street that shouldn't exist. Could it be referring to the ghost of the Fire Officer? ?
There was no point in thinking this way, so Jiang Xinghuo decided to go in and explore. Then some things would naturally come to light.

"You chose to explore it."

"You are exploring the map of Tianguan Street..."

"Please wait……"

This place is not as dangerous as the bombing zone. There is almost no danger here, and there are still some scattered gains, but these gains have some local characteristics.

"You have obtained an unknown carbonized relic +1+2+1+3..."

Jiang Xinghuo took a look with Tathagata Zang and saw that they were all used firewood and charcoal. They seemed inconspicuous, but they were all excellent materials for refining pills and could be sold to those who made and sold medicines.

It may be because the map of Fire Lord City is more advanced. After all, it was built by the Kitchen God himself in ancient times, so there are quite a lot of things harvested, and the price of hanging it on the niche is also good.

“你已获得，香火＋139＋127＋89＋125＋112……”

Jiang Xinghuo spent more than half an hour searching Tianguan Street and collected nearly a thousand incense sticks in total.

However, before Jiang Xinghuo's excitement wore off, new game text popped up on the screen.

"You have come to the end of Tianguan Street. This is the residence of the Fire-wielding Tianguan. The half-open door reveals a deadly atmosphere, as if a demon that chooses people to devour is waiting for outsiders to enter. Do you want to enter?"

Jiang Xinghuo certainly wouldn't choose to refuse. Since he was already here, why would he go back? "You pushed the door open and walked in. The space wasn't very big. It was probably because no one had lived there for so long that the yard was covered with rotten dust. The structure of the house was also very simple. There was only one shabby house and a dry well in the yard. There was nothing else."

"Where do you plan to explore first?"

"You came to the side of the dry well and looked down into the well. You saw that the bottom of the well was covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves and nothing else."

"You opened your eyes to hunt for treasures again and found that there was no secret room hidden under the well. It was just an ordinary dry well."

"Then you walked into the house again. The dark house was also full of dust. Do you want to explore?"

"You explored the house and found some things, but they were no longer useful."

"However, you noticed that there was a locker against the wall. You moved the locker and found an entrance to a secret room behind it. Do you want to enter this secret room?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought for a moment and chose no first, wanting to see what changes would occur.

"You did not rush into this secret room rashly, but opened the Six Heavenly Ghost Eyes between your brows and discovered that the construction technology of this secret room actually used the space compression technology."

"There are only two people in the world who understand this unique manufacturing process. One is the long-dead Zhu Sui Xing Jun, and the other is the master of Tian Gong Kai Wu, who is later called Tian Gong Ye."

"This technology can magnify a limited space dozens of times, but when viewed from the outside, there is no abnormality at all."

"Moreover, you also found a secret trap at the entrance of the secret room. Although it is not fatal, once it is triggered, the instigator will be affected."

"Do you want to try to break this trap?"

"You have triggered the talent of Tathagata."

"Through the magical ability of Tathagata to see through the origin of all things, you quickly figured out the principle of this trap and learned how to avoid it."

"You avoided the trap at the entrance to the secret room and carefully opened the door to enter. The scorching heat in the secret room did not do any harm to you, but it still made you feel a little uncomfortable."

"But what attracts your attention more is the bronze tripod placed in the middle of the secret room. There is a flickering fire inside the tripod, and it seems that some treasure is humming and vibrating."

"I have to say that you came at the perfect time. The treasure inside the cauldron is about to be unveiled."

"But this is also when the temperature of the bronze tripod is at its highest. Even if your resistance to fire is greatly improved, you will not be able to resist the burning of that terrifying high temperature?"

"So what are you going to do next? Are you going to take the risk and take the treasure out of the cauldron, or are you going to let nature take its course and wait for the treasure to come out on its own?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought to himself that there was no need to think about it. He was an exile who was not afraid of even death. This treasure was given to him for free, so why should he hesitate?

"Greedy exile, I don't know whether to say you are brave or impulsive, but your courage is worthy of admiration. You walked to the side of the bronze tripod and wanted to open the furnace to take out the treasure inside."

"But at this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the secret room. The person who came seemed to have sensed that the treasure was about to come out, and wanted to come over to compete with you."

"You tried to take away the treasure hidden in the cauldron by force before anyone outside came in."

"However, your reckless behavior alarmed the being outside the secret room. A terrifying and hoarse roar came from the other side of the door, and a beam of fire suddenly rushed in."

"Before you could even see the other person's appearance clearly, you were already entangled in the Kitchen God's Fire. Your skin and muscles quickly dried up and turned into charcoal. Your Kitchen God's Fire was simply no match for the other person's flame."

"You are dead."

What a great speed!

Jiang Xinghuo was also shocked. He didn't expect that the man outside the secret room was so powerful. He died before he could even block a single move.

However, this also proves the preciousness of the treasure in the secret room. Thinking of this, Jiang Xinghuo immediately activated the effect of the scapegoat.

"Please select the location where you want to be resurrected."

Jiang Xinghuo chose the secret room without hesitation. If he had chosen another place, the treasure would have been taken away by the time he came back from running the map.

"You were resurrected in the secret room."

But before he could react, the death notice popped up again.

He was killed again by that unidentified existence, and even the game text of death was almost the same, all of them were burned to death by the Kitchen God's Fire. Jiang Xinghuo's Kitchen God's Fire had no effect at all.

Fortunately, this time, Jiang Xinghuo learned the identity of the person who killed him through the talent of Tathagata Zang.

"You have discovered it, Fire Lord."

"Although the Fire-wielding Celestial Official had long since died, he was a great god after all, so his body did not decay after his death. As time went by, a new consciousness was born."

"This consciousness inherited the body and some of the memories of the Fire-Bearing Heavenly Official, and learned about the existence of this secret room and the treasure inside the tripod."

"But because the treasure has not yet been fully formed, the other party has been hiding in the dark."

Jiang Xinghuo understood the whole story and began to think about how to kill the Fire Official.

Judging from the description in the text, it is obviously impossible for the other party to give up this thing. If you want to obtain that treasure, you can only find a way to kill the other party.

Jiang Xinghuo opened the magic bag and began to search.

He would definitely not be able to succeed by just charging head-on, as he simply could not beat the opponent. Poisoning the opponent would also be a problem, as he would have no chance.

Jiang Xinghuo rummaged through the magic bag for a long time before finally something caught his eye.

"Ghost Candle (rare consumable item), a legendary ingenious creation from the underworld, completely different from the forging process in the human world. It is said that there are only 64 of them in the world, which coincides with the number of Tiangang." (Chapter )
"Function: A one-time consumable item. After use, you can ignore the current level of life and directly blow out the three life flames. One candle represents one life. If the lamp goes out, the person dies. It is often used to guard against thieves who steal gold and tombs."

This thing is a prop that Jiang Xinghuo found in the ancient tomb underground in Baishui River when he was exploring Longcheng. It can ignore the level of cultivation and extinguish the opponent's three life fires.

If the game text is not exaggerating, this ghost candle should be able to kill the Fire Officer who has usurped the throne.

(End of this chapter)