My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 498 An unexpected discovery...

Jiang Xinghuo took a look at the things found on Wu Gujun's body. The quality was pretty good, but he didn't know what specific abilities they possessed.

"The Five Grains Harvest Bag (rare item). The food god of Guanglu Temple, 'Five Grains Immortal Master', was once invited to participate in the Luotian Grand Ceremony of the Taoist sect. He witnessed the power of the Righteousness Bag at the conference and imitated the Five Grains Harvest Bag based on it. Every day, it can randomly produce one pound of grains with different medicinal effects, but the medicinal effects can only last for seven days. After seven days, the produced grains will become ordinary goods."

After reading the content of the game text, Jiang Xinghuo's eyes lit up slightly. He took the Grain Bag to the real world. From the appearance alone, it was just an ordinary cloth bag, gray and nothing special.

But when he opened the bag and looked inside, he saw that the empty bag now contained a pound of fragrant golden rice.

Jiang Xinghuo opened the Tathagatagarbha in his right eye, and his small pupil sparkled with bright light. The data and information of the pile of golden rice immediately appeared on Jiang Xinghuo's retina.

"Literary Rice (consumable materials), a rice grain grown outside the Confucian Temple, contains a trace of Confucianism and Taoism. After taking it, it can slightly improve one's talent and enhance one's ability to comprehend poetry and words."

"Note that if you can eat Wenqi rice as your staple food for a long time, there is a small chance that you will obtain the innate magical power 'Wenhaiyuanzhi'."

"Wen Hai Yuan Shi (innate supernatural power) can be inherited and comprehended without a teacher, the civilization and thoughts of different races in the secular world."

Jiang Xinghuo read the description in the text and thought that it would not be easy to obtain this magical power.

The types of grains produced by the Grain Bag are random. Maybe today it produces Wenqi rice, and tomorrow it may produce other types of grains.

What's more important is that the effect of the medicine can only last for seven days. After seven days, these grains will become ordinary ingredients and will have no other function except filling the stomach.

Jiang Xinghuo pondered for a while, but he didn't feel depressed. After all, it was something he got for free. It would be best if he could obtain that magical power. If he couldn't, he wouldn't force it and just let everything go with the flow.

Jiang Xinghuo walked to the kitchen downstairs and poured the rice in the Grain Harvest bag into a bowl, planning to remove the rice husks on the surface and steam a pot of rice tomorrow to see the effect.

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo returned to the bedroom on the second floor and began to count other things.

"The Essence of the Turbid Qi of Five Grains (Special Item). The Lord of Five Grains was once the Kitchen Master of Guanglu Temple. He was already proficient in the use and cultivation of the Qi of Five Grains. Later, he obtained part of the inheritance of the Lord of the Reincarnation of Five Grains, and combined the two methods together to create a new method and researched the method of cultivating the turbid qi of five grains."

"However, due to the limitations of his own vision and strength, Lord Wu Gu has not thoroughly studied this technique, and there are many unknown flaws and drawbacks. However, some of its essences can be used as reference, such as the method of plundering the vital energy of others' internal organs to improve one's own cultivation."

"What are you going to do next? Will you choose to rely on your own talents to deduce and improve the shortcomings of this technique? Or will you take its essence and discard its dross, unravel this technique, and integrate it into the methods you have mastered?"

Looking at the two options in front of him, Jiang Xinghuo had already made up his mind which answer to choose.

He doesn't know which cloud in the sky will bring rain, but doesn't he know how many bowls of rice he can eat? ?
If he chooses the former, he probably won't have any hope in his lifetime to completely perfect the technique of removing the turbid qi from the five grains. So, instead of wasting time and energy in vain, it is better to settle for the second best and take the essence for his own use. This can also save a lot of unnecessary trouble.

"You chose to use this item, but you did not practice the method directly. Instead, you used the ability of Tathagata to analyze the origin of all things, extracted the essence of it, and integrated it into the Dragon Catching Hand that you practiced."

"Your dragon-catching skill level is improved by +2."

"You can use the Sumeru Power of the Dragon Capturing Hand to absorb the target's internal organs and essence for your own use, and automatically filter out the impurities and toxins in them."

Tsk, this time the Dragon Catching Hand is a bit weird, this method that can plunder the target's internal organs and essence out of thin air is definitely an evil practice, harming others to benefit oneself. If it gets out, the name of evil practice will definitely be lost, and the Public Opinion Bureau may even come to cause trouble.

However, even though that is what he said, it is impossible to make Jiang Xinghuo give up, so when he uses this method in the future, he must be careful to destroy the body and try not to leave any clues or things for others to talk about.

At least... the body cannot be left intact.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the remaining things again.

"Guanglu Temple Chef Identity Card (Ordinary Item). Guanglu Temple is the oldest organization among the three major food giants in the secular world. The assessment of its disciples is extremely strict and cautious. No one is allowed to enter Guanglu Temple without passing the various tests. This identity card is a token of entry into Guanglu Temple. It can grant exemption from the test and some primary authority."

This is an exclusive item for the Guanglu Temple map, and it can be regarded as a certificate for entering and exploring that map. You won’t have to look for it when you go to the Guanglu Temple in the future.

Jiang Xinghuo threw the thing into the magic bag. He was afraid that this prop would not be used in the short term, so he decided to wait until he finished exploring the several maps on hand.

"The Book of Five Grains Delicacies·Fragments (Special Item), the method of preparing five grain delicacies compiled by the Five Grains Immortal Master himself. Even with the most common grains, a variety of delicacies can be prepared. While satisfying the appetite, it also has a positive effect on improving physical fitness."

"Do you want to use this item?"

Jiang Xinghuo took out the remaining fragments of the book "Five Grains and Delicacies" and patted his body lightly. The electric current flowed through the nerve fibers, controlling the temperature, the proportion of materials, the increase and decrease of drugs, and a series of conditioned reflexes were quickly established in the nerves.

"Your cooking skills have been slightly improved, level +1."

"You have mastered the method of making three kinds of five-grain medicinal delicacies."

"Please note that although you have mastered the three medicinal diet recipes recorded in the book of Five Grains and Delicacies, your cooking skills are far from being at the master level, so it is not enough to perfectly reproduce this exquisite medicinal diet."

"Moreover, your success rate in making these three medicinal dishes is shockingly low, with a probability of less than 1% success. However, as long as you work hard to cultivate your cooking skills, you can increase the success rate of the medicinal dishes."

Less than 1% success rate?
Jiang Xinghuo sucked his teeth and thought that the success rate was indeed very low. He felt that his cooking skills were pretty good, but in front of the chefs in the game, they were not good enough. To put it bluntly, even if he became an apprentice, they might not be willing to take him in.

Jiang Xinghuo shook his head, and could only comfort himself by saying that every inch has its own merits, and then looked at the last thing.

"The stomach sac of a crystal demon (excellent material). The stomach sac of a crystal demon in the northwest of the secular world. After being integrated with one's own organs, one can gain the ability to see through others and directly see the changes in one's internal organs."

"Be careful. The physical abnormalities that occur after fusing with the crystal demon stomach cannot be reversed or hidden. You must not eat too much meat or fish. Your eating habits will also change subtly, and you may even develop some minor habits that you didn't have before."

"Do you want to merge the stomach of the crystal demon?" Jiang Xinghuo took a look at the precautions described above and chose no without hesitation without thinking.

Are you kidding me? If I really want to absorb this thing into my body, wouldn't that just be asking for trouble? ?
Jiang Xinghuo directly threw this thing into the teahouse niche. Whoever wanted it could buy it. If no one wanted it, it could just be left there. Anyway, he was not worthy of enjoying this thing.

At this point, everything has been counted.

Jiang Xinghuo also reaped a lot of rewards, especially by using the power of firearms, he killed a large number of monsters and demons and obtained a considerable amount of incense.

In addition, these things found on Wu Gujun are also valuable props.

"Where are you going to go next? Are you going to wander around in this abandoned sewer ruins? Or are you going to continue to the location corresponding to the third map fragment according to your previous goal?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought to himself, since he was already here, he might as well search here and see if he could find anything.

The place where Wu Gujun hid was the site before the sewer was rebuilt. Later, when the sewer system was rebuilt, this place was abandoned. Perhaps some ancient relics remained.

"You chose to stay here and explore."

"You took out the white lantern from your magic bag, and then used the dim light of the phosphorescent fire to spy on the clues left by the predecessors here."

"You're lucky. We soon found a row of suspicious footprints. This is in the corner of the entire sewage system. After it was abandoned, there is no sewage flowing, so the environment is extremely dry. That row of faint footprints has therefore been preserved intact."

"Do you want to follow those footprints and head into the unknown dark depths?"

Two options, yes or no.

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without much thought, and then continued to move forward with the plot.

"You hold the lantern and walk into the unknown depths of darkness. The surrounding environment is also dead silent, without any sound. Soon, you come to the end of the row of footprints. A heavy stone door appears in front of you, engraved with various ancient spells and scriptures."

"You carefully identified the spells and scriptures engraved on the stone door and found that they all came from different lineages. There were Taoist mantras, Buddhist seals, and even the mantras of the ancient Tibetan city's esoteric Buddhism, as well as the mantras of various folk religions."

Um? ?

Looking at the description in the text, Jiang Xinghuo became interested. A stone door was so powerful that it almost contained the power of all the major Dharma veins in the secular world. Could it be that something was sealed behind the door? ?
"Do you want to destroy the incantations and scriptures on the door and go behind the stone door to find out what's going on?"

Jiang Xinghuo subconsciously wanted to choose yes, but just when his fingertips were about to click "yes", he suddenly stopped his action and then chose no.

"You refused to destroy this stone door. What are your plans next? Pretend you didn't notice this place and go somewhere else? Or stay here and think of other solutions?"

Jiang Xinghuo narrowed his eyes. The reason why he chose to stop was not because he was afraid of anything, but mainly because he was unsure.

After all, the description of this stone door was a bit too mysterious. It was obvious that there was something fishy going on when so many lineages of Dharma came together to seal this stone door.

Moreover, we still don’t know what is suppressed behind. What if the seal on the stone door is broken and the things inside run out? Then all our efforts would be in vain.

Therefore, it is better to think of some way to go in and take a look without destroying the stone gate.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xinghuo opened the backpack panel of the game and found a "wall-penetrating talisman".

"You have used the Wall-penetrating Talisman."

"Wall-penetrating Talisman (Excellent Consumable Item), a talisman passed down from the Laoshan Sect Altar. As long as you stick the talisman on your body, you can pass through walls and doors without being bothered by tangible objects."

Jiang Xinghuo used the wall-penetrating talisman to test whether he could enter the stone gate.
In fact, he was not very confident in his heart, because there were so many spells and scriptures engraved on the stone door, and the wall-penetrating talisman would most likely not work. He just wanted to give it a try, but he didn't expect it to actually succeed, and the game text popped up.

"You used the ability granted by the Wall-Passing Talisman to easily pass through the stone door and came to the secret room at the back."

"After you enter the secret room, look around and you will find that it is a very wide space with many murals on the walls. In the middle of the secret room, there is a broken body. Its limbs are chained to the wall and its bones are pierced by coffin nails. However, the fatal wound of the body is a broken finger between its eyebrows, a broken finger that exudes the afterglow of the Golden Law!"

"You have discovered the severed finger of the Lord of the World."

hiss……

Jiang Xinghuo took a breath of cold air. He knew there must be a secret behind this stone door, but he didn't expect to find the severed finger of the Lord of the Secular World here! !

Earlier when he was in Lingshen Village, he found a severed finger of the Lord of the Secular World in the secret room under the stone pavilion in the village.

And now, he found another severed finger...

Jiang Xinghuo was thinking about this in his mind, and new text options appeared on the screen.

"You walked over to observe the corpse, trying to use your Tathagata's gift to uncover its identity and origin, but to no avail. Instead, the murals on the surrounding walls seemed to depict some of the events that happened back then. Do you want to take a closer look?"

"Go over and observe the mural. It records an incident that occurred in Daliang City during the reign of the Lord of the Secular World..."

Dinner at night, came back late
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(End of this chapter)