My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 495: Geomancer

"Your arrival seems to have awakened this monster from its deep sleep. Its withered body trembled slightly, and a large number of broken walls and ruins fell off. The collapsed temple seemed to be a projection of the ruins on its body. The damaged carved beams and painted pillars, the dusty and broken clay statues, and the plaques and tablets with unclear words piled up on the monster's body like flower buds..."

"However, this monster has been dead for who knows how many years, and even its soul has been worn away over a long period of time. Only a trace of remaining consciousness is curled up in the ruins, as if waiting for someone to come..."

"You have triggered the Tathagata's talent."

"Your Buddha Eye can analyze the origin of all things in the world. Although this monster's Taoism is far superior to yours, he has been dead for many years and no longer poses any threat to you. Therefore, your Tathagata Storehouse is not restricted and you quickly deciphered the other party's identity information."

"You've discovered it, Feng Shui Master."

The game text kept flashing on the screen, just like a programmer typing code, but the result that Tathagata deciphered in the end surprised Jiang Xinghuo.

Geomancer!!

According to the background setting of the game in the folk world, this geomancer should be a Feng Shui master from ancient times.

He remembered that the game text once mentioned that Feng Shui Master and Qing Nang Master had been fighting each other for hundreds of years for the authority over the Qingwu Law, but no one had a winner.

Until the dawn of the night, the two of them fought a great battle in the Forbidden City, and both were defeated. From then on, they disappeared from the world and no one knew where they went.

But Jiang Xinghuo never expected that he would find the geomancer who had been missing for many years in such a place, and that the other party had turned into a monster.

If this were to get out, it would probably cause quite a stir in the secular world.

You know, the believers of Kanfeng Gong are all over the secular world. Even in today's secular world where rituals and music are in decline, they can still occupy a place with the Feng Shui techniques passed down by Kanfeng Gong, and no one dares to underestimate them.

However, if the news of the death of the Feng Shui Master were to spread, this situation would probably be completely broken. Without the protection of this powerful Feng Shui Master, those Feng Shui believers who mastered the art of feng shui would probably be wiped out in a short time.

The secular world is a very realistic world. As long as you have a backer, you can live a comfortable life. Even if this backer disappears from the secular world, as long as there is no confirmed news of his death, it is highly likely that nothing will happen.

Jiang Xinghuo was not interested in spreading the news that the geomancer was dead. Although selling this news to storytellers might bring him a considerable amount of money, he had no intention of doing so.

"You found the body of a geomancer who had been dead for many years. Do you want to touch his body?"

At this time, the game pops up the corresponding interactive options.

Jiang Xinghuo naturally would not choose to refuse. He chose yes without hesitation and controlled the game character to walk over and start touching the corpse.

But he forgot that the map here was given to him by the inspector of the police station. Many policemen had come here to investigate before, and without exception, they all died here.

Jiang Xinghuo forgot about this matter for a moment, or rather, he remembered it but subconsciously put it out of his mind.

The most terrifying curse in the world is the power of insanity fire, but now he has completely eliminated the threat posed by insanity fire with the help of the fragments of the golden law, so he doesn't take the curses in the world seriously anymore.

"You searched the body of the geomancer for a while. There are many miscellaneous objects buried in the ruins of the broken walls and buildings. You have gained something."

"You have obtained: a geomancy map of the secular world (common), a book on the method of determining the location of the acupoint and regulating the qi to find the dragon (rare), a stone engraving of the dragon-raising technique (special), a broken dragon-slaying sword (rare), and a thousand-year-old stone marrow jade pendant (special)."

"But just when you found these things, you found that gray debris had grown from your fingertips and quickly spread to your body. In the blink of an eye, half of your body was covered with debris, and you looked like a ghost. You fell to the ground powerlessly, dying."

"You triggered the power of the fragment of the Golden Law, hoping to eliminate the unknown curse that infected your body."

"But for some reason, your golden law can only delay the spread of the ruins, but cannot completely eradicate it from your body."

"Soon, your internal organs also turned into ruins, and you completely lost the characteristics of a carbon-based creature."

"You are dead."

"The remains of your body turned into fragments of collapsed rubble and mixed in with other rubble."

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

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the description of the game text and frowned slightly. The Golden Law was unable to offset this power, which was really beyond his expectations.

Although the Golden Rule can eradicate all negative curses in the secular world, the prerequisite is that it cannot go against the purpose of maintaining order in the secular world, otherwise the Golden Rule will not take effect.

But this time he was the victim and should not have violated the principles of the Golden Law. In addition, Jiang Xinghuo discovered that the Golden Law was not ineffective, but it triggered the fragments of the law, but it was unable to eradicate the "ruin disease" that infected him.

After some thought.

Jiang Xinghuo came to the conclusion that the integrity of his golden law was too low and was not enough to resist the invasion of the ruins disease.

It seems that we must search for enough fragments of the Golden Law as soon as possible.

While thinking about this in his heart, Jiang Xinghuo activated the effect of the scapegoat and resurrected next to the body of the Feng Shui master.

This time, he did not touch the Feng Shui master's body, but counted his gains today.

"A geomantic map of the secular world (ordinary prop), a geomantic map of the secular world drawn by a geomancer himself. The geomancer spent more than ten years to draw this map, and traveled to every corner of the secular world. Finally, he drew the path he had walked, and noted the local customs and habits, as well as various folk histories and related information."

"Attention, when you carry this secular geography map, when you encounter a place or person recorded in the map, the relevant clue information will be automatically triggered, and the event triggering rate of the corresponding place can be increased."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the geographical map and was extremely surprised. He had wanted to get such a secular map for a long time, not for any other reason, but to find clues related to the Vulcan City from the map.

At first, he accidentally got the clue of Vulcan City in Taoyuan Village Kitchen God Temple in the real world, but because there was no map in the secular world, there was no way to confirm the specific location of Vulcan City, so he put it aside for the time being. But now that he has this geographical map, he will find time to compare the two maps and maybe find some clues related to Vulcan City.

Although this geographical map is just an ordinary item, its overall value to Jiang Xinghuo is not much different from that of a legendary item.

Jiang Xinghuo put away the geographical map and continued to count other things.

"The method of determining the acupoints, regulating qi and finding dragons (a rare item). This is a secret manual of mental skills compiled by the geomancer for his disciples and followers. Only his disciples can practice it. They can find dragons and acupoints by simply observing with their eyes without the help of any items or magic tools."

"Please note that this technique can only be practiced by the disciples of the Geomancer. If ordinary people practice it casually, they will inevitably become blind and disabled, and the disaster will spread to three generations."

Tsk, even though he got a skill reward, he couldn't use it himself. Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and threw the secret book into the teahouse niche for other players or monsters to bid for it.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't feel any pity either.

He has never been very interested in feng shui.

If there is nothing taboo, then he can just learn it, it doesn't matter, but since there are conditions limiting it, there is no need for him to add unnecessary trouble to himself.

Not long after, the secret book was bought by someone. Jiang Xinghuo took a glance and found that 7000 incense sticks had been deposited into his account.

Tsk, there are still a lot of rich people. Jiang Xinghuo sighed a few times and looked at other things. Skills that he couldn't use were useless no matter how good they were. Only things that he got in his hands were real good things.

"Dragon-raising Technique Stone Carving (Special Prop), one of the nine secret dragon-raising techniques passed down within the royal court. It records the method of transforming into a dragon, and can absorb the power of the dragon veins of mountains and rivers for one's own use."

"You have obtained the Dragon Raising Technique: Dragon Transformation."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the game's description of the Dragon Transformation Chapter and raised his eyebrows slightly. Judging from the description in the text, this Dragon Transformation Chapter seems to be similar to the Dragon Vein Chapter, both of which are about manipulating the power of dragon veins for one's own use.

However, when he saw the detailed description, he knew the essential difference between these two dragon-raising techniques.

"Dragon-raising technique: Dragon transformation (rare technique), attracting snakes to become dragons, raising dragons to transform into dragons. The dragon-raising technique of the clan house is divided into nine chapters, representing nine different techniques and powers. The method recorded on this stone carving is the way to absorb the power of the dragon veins to nourish oneself. It is also the most dangerous method of the nine dragon-raising techniques."

"At dawn, the Lord of the Secular World fell in the Imperial City, and the royal disciples of the Imperial Clan House also fled. Among them, a prince was carrying this stone carving, and was besieged by many monsters and demons and died tragically. The Geomancer happened to pass by this place, so he cleared out those monsters and demons and buried the prince's body. Naturally, this stone carving of the Dragon Raising Technique fell into his hands."

"This method can gather the branches of the dragon veins between mountains and rivers, and then slowly grow them in the body, connecting and merging them with each other through their own aura, forming a unique qi vein in which you are in me and I am in you, and there is no difference between the two."

"Although this 'dragon vein' that is raised by human power is far inferior to the great dragons of mountains and rivers that live between heaven and earth, it also contains supreme power. Every move of one's hands and feet can contain the true meaning of the dragon vein. When one cultivates to perfection, one can even merge into the real dragon vein and reach a state of coexistence with all things in heaven and earth."

"However, dragon veins are invisible things that gather and disperse. They have been hidden in the mountains and rivers for countless years. Even if they are just tiny branches, they contain terrifying power. If a practitioner is not careful when introducing them into the body, it will explode into pieces. Therefore, this is also the most dangerous method of the nine dragon-raising techniques."

"Do you want to practice this technique?"

The game text described this magic in exaggerated terms, but Jiang Xinghuo was not blinded by the description. If the dragon-raising technique was really as powerful as described, the Lord of the Secular World would not have died in the Forbidden City.

Jiang Xinghuo is well aware of the principle of mutual generation and mutual restraint of all things. Even the most powerful spells and skills must have corresponding ways of generation and restraint.

However, this technique seems to be somewhat dangerous to practice, and it is very easy to end up with no remains left.

But Jiang Xinghuo felt it was a pity to give up just like that, after all, this was a method that could allow one to advance to a higher level of life.

After thinking for a moment.

Jiang Xinghuo made up his mind, that was to practice this technique, but not with his real body, but with the nine-dead cicada shell. Even if something went wrong, it would only be a waste of a cicada shell.

More importantly, he and Chantui are indistinguishable from each other. If Chantui has mastered the Dragon Transformation Chapter, it is equivalent to that he has also mastered it. If he loses, it will be a small loss, and if he wins, it will be a huge profit. This deal can be done.

"You put away the stone engraving of the Dragon Transformation Technique."

Jiang Xinghuo put away the stone carving and prepared to find an appropriate time to practice this magic with the body of a cicada.

"Dragon Slaying Sword - Incomplete (Rare Item), one of the thirteen Feng Shui instruments of the Geomancer. It was originally a magical instrument transformed from a dragon vein, but now it is just a shell. The dragon vein in it has long since withered and died, leaving only the remains of a broken sword and a little bit of the remaining dragon vein aura."

"You can absorb the remaining dragon energy and use it as nutrients to improve the level of your dragon-catching hands, or as a material to strengthen your land dragon boat."

"What do you plan to do with the remaining dragon energy?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and decided to use the remaining dragon vein energy on the dragon-catching hand.

"Your dragon-catching skill level is slightly improved, +1."

At the same time, in reality, Jiang Xinghuo also felt his hands go numb. A golden aura spread out from his fingertips, flowing quickly along the palm lines in the palm, and finally turned into a phantom of a dragon claw, which flashed by and disappeared under the muscles and bones.

Jiang Xinghuo tested the upgraded Dragon-Catching Hand and found no significant change in strength, except that his fingers became longer and whiter, but there was no sense of disharmony at all.

In addition, the distance of remote object suction has also been improved. At the beginning, the range was about three meters at most, and now it has been increased to about five meters. In short, the lighter the mass of the object, the farther the controllable distance, and vice versa.

Finally, only the thousand-year-old stone marrow jade pendant was left.

"Millennium Stone Marrow Jade Pendant (special item). This jade pendant was carved from millennium stone marrow by the Geomancer. It has the effect of nourishing the mind. Before his death, the Geomancer drew out the last bit of his soul and placed it in the stone marrow for sleeping. As long as you input a bit of magic power, you can awaken the Geomancer's soul..."

(End of this chapter)