My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 469: Tribulation
The Shroud of the Anointed One?

When Jiang Xinghuo saw the name of this prop, he immediately thought of the crown of thorns, which were both left behind by the anointed one.

"The Shroud of the Anointed (rare item). The coarse linen used to wrap the remains of the first Anointed after his death. Because it was soaked with the holy blood of the Anointed, it transformed into a precious magical instrument."

"After putting it on, you can avoid the invasion of evil spirits. As long as an evil thing approaches, the shroud's innate ability will be activated, and you will also receive the blessing of the Lord of the Mass. Innate ability: Holy Glory."

“Holy Light: Using the dried blood on the shroud as a medium, it can release holy light. The area within a three-meter radius will become a forbidden area for evil spirits.”

"Attention: Because the blood on this shroud has been blessed by the Lord of the Mass, it has an extremely devout faith in the Lord of the Mass. If you use it for a long time, it will subtly influence your faith, and eventually you will become a loyal believer of the Lord of the Mass."

"Current health: 10%."

"Do you want to untie the shroud from the body in the coffin and see who the body lying in this coffin is?"

Jiang Xinghuo noticed that his health points had dropped below 10%, and he estimated that it would not be long before his life would come to an end.

Therefore, Jiang Xinghuo made his own choice immediately before his health points were completely lost. He untied the shroud on the corpse in the coffin and put it into his magic bag.

"You have been given the Shroud of the Anointed One."

"This shroud of the anointed one and the crown of thorns seem to be from a complete set of ritual implements."

"When you explore the secular world in the future, if there are other Anointed One series items within a certain range, these two items will automatically give you a prompt and guide you to find the remaining items."

"You put away the shroud, and the corpse inside it revealed its true appearance. It was a lifelike set of broken limbs and arms, with blood still oozing out of the wounds. You also sensed a familiar aura from these broken limbs and arms."

“Do you want to expand your Tathagata’s vision to observe the secrets beneath this incomplete appearance?”

Two options, yes or no.

Looking at the hints given in the game text, Jiang Xinghuo had some guesses in his mind, but without evidence, he didn't dare to confirm it, so he decided to continue to move forward with the plot.

"You have triggered the talent of Tathagata."

"You used your innate ability of Tathagatagarbha to observe the remains of the corpse, and soon saw through the secrets hidden beneath the surface."

"You have discovered the remains of the body of the Year-Chuxing Lord."

Seeing this, Jiang Xinghuo thought to himself that it was indeed true, the remains of the corpse were left by Zhusui Star Lord.

He remembered seeing the gold inscriptions left by Ling Guanye on the wall of the ancient tomb under the Jingyun River.

According to the bronze inscriptions recorded in the ancient tomb, after Ling Guan Ye killed Zhu Sui Xing Jun, he placed some of Zhu Sui Xing Jun's body remains in the ancient tomb, and the rest was buried in the place where the moon waxes and wanes.

But now it seems that this might be a trick left by Master Lingguan. He said on the surface that the body was divided into two and buried on the earth and the moon respectively, but in fact it was divided into three parts, and one part was hidden in the Earth Mother Cave in Qianjie Village.

In this way, even if some people want to resurrect Zhu Sui Xing Jun, they can only find the remains of the body on the moon and the earth. As for the partial remains under the tiankeng on the cliff of the Earth Mother Cave, no one can find them at all.

He discovered this by accident. As for whether the Dayan Immortal had found the body of Zhusui Xingjun, Jiang Xinghuo did not dare to confirm it now.

Because he didn't know whether the Immortal Dayan had come here again. If we judge by the time of his existence, the Immortal Dayan existed long before the time of Master Lingguan.

It is impossible for him to find the remains of Zhusui Xingjun, but there are always exceptions. If he comes again in the future, he might find the coffin in the mud pit.

However, these are not so important now, since I found the body myself anyway.

Jiang Xinghuo was thinking about these things in his mind when he saw new information pop up in the game.

"How do you plan to deal with the remains of Zhu Sui Xing Jun's body?"

"Should we throw it into the coffin, seal it again, and push it back into the mire of the tiankeng? Or should we destroy its body? Perhaps we will have a chance to obtain the laws of the stars contained in the remains of the body."

The game gives two options: either put the body back into the coffin or destroy the body.

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and chose the former. He put the remains of Zhusui Xingjun's body back into the coffin.

The reason he made this choice was not out of respect for the deceased, but simply to be cautious.

Since Lord Lingguan was able to kill Zhusui Xingjun and store his body remains in different places, he must also be able to destroy the body.

This would naturally prevent Zhu Sui Xing Jun from being resurrected again.

But Lord Ling did not do so. Instead, he scattered the bodies and buried them. Jiang Xinghuo did not know why he did so, but he could make a guess.

There are probably two possibilities.

The first one is that Lord Lingguan and Lord Zhusui admired each other. Although they were rivals, they were also confidants, so after each other's death, they buried their bodies properly.

But some aspects of this do not make sense. If the two were truly close friends who respected and sympathized with each other, Lord Lingguan would have just found a good place to bury them. There seems to be no need to dismantle their bodies into pieces, leaving no complete corpse.

The second possibility is that Ling Guanye had to do so because for some unknown reason, he could only bury the bodies separately. It was not that he did not want to destroy the bodies, but that he could not do so.

Perhaps, if the body of Zhu Sui Xing Jun is destroyed, some uncontrollable things will occur.

For example, the Yearling Star God might come back again in the wreckage of a destroyed body, or else he might cause something even more horrible.

Therefore, Jiang Xinghuo felt that he should choose the former. Those old antiques were not comparable to him in terms of strength or vision, so he should not add more trouble to himself.

"You chose to put the body back into the coffin, closed the lid again, and pushed the coffin into the quagmire again."

"I have to say that you made a very wise choice. Although greed can bring huge benefits, it will often cloud your mind and drag you into an abyss from which there is no escape."

"But when you pushed the coffin into the mud, you accidentally caught a glimpse of something under the ripples of mud and water. But because the coffin sank too quickly, you didn't see clearly what it was."

"Do you want to dive into the mud and salvage that thing?" Jiang Xinghuo took a closer look and realized that this was triggering a new plot, so without thinking too much, he chose to salvage that thing.

"You took out the Dragon King's Dao Soldier from your magic bag, and came to the quagmire. With a light wave, you stirred up thousands of overlapping waves, and the dirty muddy water in the quagmire rushed up to the sky, exposing the object. It turned out to be a rusty iron box."

"You took the opportunity to use your dragon-catching hand and grabbed the iron box from the air. Without much effort, you moved it to the shore."

"You have obtained the legacy of Master Lingguan."

"Current health: 1%."

"Your life is about to come to an end again. Black blood is flowing out of your five senses and seven orifices, and your vision is beginning to blur."

"Your brain blood vessels burst due to the blood clots, and a large amount of blood gushed out, drowning your consciousness in darkness."

"You are dead."

Jiang Xinghuo secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although his health was almost completely depleted, at least his death was not in vain. At least he got the iron box in his hands.

"Do you want to activate the effect of the scapegoat?"

Jiang Xinghuo's simple choice was to use his talent as a scapegoat and come back alive directly under the cliff.

"Current health: 100%."

"Do you want to open this iron box?"

Jiang Xinghuo naturally would not choose to refuse.

"You crushed the copper lock on the box and opened this inconspicuous box. There were only a few things inside. After a simple inventory, you found something."

"You have obtained the calamity seed of Master Lingguan."

"Lingguanye's calamity seed (special consumable). After Lingguanye killed Zhusui Xingjun, he took his own flesh and blood and the essence of the calamity law and fused them together to create this calamity seed. After fusing with himself, he can gain the power of the calamity law. However, in order to successfully fuse this calamity seed, there must be an irreversible prerequisite, that is, you must be of the same race as Lingguanye. Otherwise, you will be backlashed by the calamity law. At the very least, you will be plagued by bad luck and die on the spot, or at worst, your entire family will be exterminated and the disaster will last for nine generations."

"Do you want to fuse this calamity seed?"

Jiang Xinghuo took a look at the text description and thought that this thing was quite evil. If any monsters from other races dared to use this item at will, not only would their own lives be in danger, but the bloodline of their descendants would also be implicated. This would be equivalent to a family curse.

If nothing unexpected happens, the entire family will die out after nine generations, and this clan will no longer exist.

However, Jiang Xinghuo did not have this concern. After all, Lingguanye was also a human being and shared the same roots as him. He could completely merge the calamity seeds without any taboo.

Moreover, the law of disaster is one of the few laws in the secular world today that has no established landmarks, so there is no need to worry about becoming a puppet of others.

This was told to him by an old man in the ancestral hall of Taiping Ancient Town. His eyes could tell the good from the evil in people's hearts and the truth from the falsehood in their words. He was sure that the old man had not lied to him.

"Do you want to fuse this calamity seed?"

After some thought, Jiang Xinghuo chose to fuse this calamity seed.

"You have used the calamity seed of Master Lingguan."

"You swallowed this calamity seed into your stomach. The power of the calamity law began to decompose in your body, and finally merged into every inch of your flesh, blood and genes."

"You have mastered the Law of Doom (2.639%)."

"The Law of Disaster is one of the ancient laws in legend. It is also the supreme law second only to the Golden Law. The wielder can obtain the ability of [Resisting Ten Thousand Disasters] and can also absorb various energy substances, including the power of various laws."

"This is only part of the calamity laws left by Master Lingguan. You need to find the rest of the laws by yourself. If you can find more than 10% of the calamity laws one day, you can come back here again to obtain the blueprint for the structure of the law for casting the calamity laws."

When Jiang Xinghuo saw the prompt in the game text, he thought to himself that he was lucky. If he had not agreed to push the coffin back into the quagmire, he would not have been able to discover the mystery here.

Then, Jiang Xinghuo continued to count the subsequent things.

"You have discovered the amulet of the Evil Spirit Master."

"The Evil Spirit Master, the lord of Nanyang in ancient times, is called the Evil Spirit Master. However, this evil spirit does not refer to evil spirits. In the unique culture of Nanyang, evil spirits actually refer to people who kill mercilessly without any mercy and regard all living things in the world as grass."

"For this reason, True Lord Evil Spirit was hated by the people in Nanyang. However, because he was too powerful, no one in Nanyang dared to refute his opinion. That was until True Lord of Ten Thousand Religions appeared and practiced the methods of all the religions in the world. Finally, True Lord Evil Spirit was defeated and exiled to the outside of Nanyang."

"The Evil Spirit Master was seriously injured and hid in the secular world for a long time. Many enemies were hunting him down. When he was dying, he met the Spirit Official who was traveling in the secular world and gave him this amulet. In return, the Spirit Official asked his senior brother to come forward and perform a ritual to help the Evil Spirit Master pass away."

"The amulet of the Evil Spirit Master (legendary prop). The Evil Spirit Master was born with a jade stone that has the ability to suppress evil spirits and exorcise evil spirits. Later, the Evil Spirit Master carved it into an amulet and used evil magic to bless the amulet, making it possess boundless evil spirits and resentment."

"However, everything will turn around when it reaches its extreme, and everything that prospers will decline. Although this amulet was blessed with all kinds of evil magic and sorcery by the Evil Spirit True Lord, for some unknown reason, the amulet has undergone a transformation. Not only has the evil energy been completely consumed, but it has also gained a strong positive energy. It has a strong restraining effect on the sorcery and sorcery of the Nanyang region, and can even be immune to some of the sinister means of sorcery such as black magic."

This is a legendary amulet. After reading the detailed description, Jiang Xinghuo equipped it on his game character.

This prop may come in handy when he goes to Southeast Asia or Guangdong for exploration in the future.

In the end, only a bronze tiger talisman was left.

"Bronze Tiger Talisman (special item). This is a bronze tiger talisman. It was also used by ancient dynasties to mobilize troops and generals. At the same time, it can also be used as a key to open a mechanism."

"What are you going to do next?"

"Would you like to continue exploring under the cliff, or would you rather quit and leave here via the elevator?"

"You chose..."

Yesterday, I went back to my old house for a gathering. There were more than 30 people. We had dinner, drank tea, played cards and chatted. It lasted until about 11 o'clock in the evening. Please bear with me.

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