My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 511: Dragon Club

Jiang Xinghuo wandered around the town for several hours but still couldn't find the whereabouts of the altar. It would be a waste of time to continue, so he thought about leaving.

"Are you going to leave Lingtai Town?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought for a moment and chose no, thinking that he would explore it one last time. If he still hadn’t found the spirit platform, he would leave here and go somewhere else.

"You chose to stay in town and continue exploring."

"Exploring, please wait..."

Time passed by minute by minute.

Fifteen minutes later.

New game text popped up on the screen.

"You have turned Lingtai Town upside down, and you are just short of digging three feet into the ground to raze the town to the ground, but you still can't find any trace of Lingtai. Do you still want to persist?"

Jiang Xinghuo sighed softly. Although he felt a little disappointed, he was not too depressed. As he said, he couldn't have all the good things happen to him. If he couldn't find that thing, it might mean that he was not destined to have it. Maybe if another player came over, he would be able to find that thing without much effort.

"What are you going to do next? Leave Lingtai Town immediately, or continue to wander here?"

This time, Jiang Xinghuo chose to leave. Since he couldn't trigger any relevant interactions, there was no point in staying.

As soon as Jiang Xinghuo made the decision to leave, the subsequent plot appeared on the screen.

"You chose to leave Lingtai Town, but just as you were walking out, you suddenly saw a figure walking towards you from outside."

"You have triggered the Tathagata's talent."

"You have found it, the exile 'Mountain Drover'."

"Do you want to launch an invasion and hunt it?"

Seeing this game text, Jiang Xinghuo frowned slightly and chose no without thinking too much.

He was not a perverted murderer. Since the other party did not actively attack him, why should he attack him? He should leave Lingtai Town as soon as possible and explore other places.

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"Are you planning to launch an invasion hunt against the exile 'Nameless'?"

In a residential area in Binhai, Zhou Ze was lying on the bed, looking at the message that popped up on his phone. After hesitating for a moment, he chose no.

He has just started playing the game and his strength is not that strong. Besides, the other party has not attacked him. If he goes over to flirt with them and accidentally runs into a tough guy, he will get himself into trouble.

"You thought it was better to have less trouble than more, so you passed by the exile called 'Nameless' and did not take the initiative to hunt him down."

"You have entered Lingtai Town. According to the information obtained earlier, the most precious treasure in this town is the unknown Lingtai, which can produce spiritual medicine spring water, which can improve your physical fitness and restore your physical state."

"You were walking in the alleys of the town, and suddenly you felt a chill in your chest. You looked down and saw that half of the sharp tip of a knife had pierced through your chest without you knowing when."

"Your internal organs were taken away, leaving only an empty shell, which fell into the sewage puddle on the ground."

"You are dead."

"You have triggered the effect of the Resurrection Pill. In five minutes, you will be resurrected at the place where you died..."

Looking at the glaring bright red words on the screen, Zhou Ze put down his phone helplessly, thinking that he was dead again. Since entering the game, the map has hardly been unlocked, and the ways of dying are all kinds of strange.

Zhou Ze was lying on the bed looking at the ceiling, and couldn't help but think of what happened two months ago. After he experienced a nightmare at work, he accidentally received a text message, which was an invitation code for a text game called "Folk World".

He originally thought it was a boring Trojan link and didn't plan to download the game, but he didn't expect that the phone would operate in the background and download the game APP to the phone. (Chapter 392, Hometown)

When Zhou Ze saw it, he became interested. After testing and making sure that the software was safe, he opened it and started playing.

A new extraordinary world was gradually opening before his eyes.

The inherited relic he obtained was called 'Mountain Hunter', a professional relic of legendary quality, which allowed him to communicate with the monsters in the mountains and forests, thereby greatly increasing his event triggering rate.

After he completed several tasks, not only did his physical fitness improve significantly, turning him into a little superman, he also obtained a weapon of rare quality and triggered map clues about Lingtai Village.

He just came here to explore, but he didn't expect to meet another player as soon as he entered the town. Fortunately, he was not a troublemaker, so he was not bewitched by the game text.

"Open your eyes in the alleys of Lingtai Town."

"You followed the clues left by the Queen Mother of Heaven and found the hiding place of the spiritual platform..."

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"You are back to the center of the three-way intersection. Where do you plan to go next?"

"Are you going to go straight along the middle-aged road and head to the Ping'an Village recorded in the Kitchen God's notes?"

"Or do you choose to take the path on the left and head towards the mountain shrouded in fog?"

The game gives two options. After exploring the path on the right, the only paths left are the middle and the left.

Jiang Xinghuo pondered for a while, then looked up at the time. It was already past seven o'clock in the evening. After thinking for a moment, he decided to get the map of Ping'an Village first, and then explore the path on the left when he came out of Ping'an Village. This would save both time.

"You chose the middle path."

"This path is extended from the official road, and is inlaid with a lot of gravel and pebbles. Even in Jiangnan after the rain, the road is not muddy. There are wild grasses growing in the gaps, which makes it look full of vitality."

"After walking for about a cup of tea, you came to the end of the path and saw a village standing in front of you."

"You have discovered Ping'an Village."

"You walked outside the village and looked around. You found a shrine. Different from the ones you had seen before, this shrine was filled with various offerings. It was obvious that someone had been offering sacrifices and taking care of it regularly. It had not fallen into disrepair due to the passage of time. Do you want to go over and light it up?"

"You have lit up the shrine of Ping'an Village." "Do you want to enter the village and explore?"

Jiang Xinghuo controlled the game character and walked into the village. According to the records in the Kitchen God's notes, Ping'an Village was just like its name. In today's secular world where rituals and music are in decline, it was a rare peaceful and pure land, and it had not been invaded by disasters and evil spirits from the outside world.

Moreover, Jiang Xinghuo remembered that Ping'an Village was also on the three maps he obtained from the great elder of the Altar God Sect in the Kitchen God Temple on the back mountain of Taoyuan Village.

The Kitchen God and the Great Elder of the Altar God Cult both believed that there was something wrong with Ping'an Village, which meant that there was really something abnormal here.

I don’t know if I can find some clues with my own Tathagatagarbha.

While Jiang Xinghuo was thinking about these things in his mind, he controlled the game character and walked into the village.

"You walked into Ping'an Village. The villagers were chatting outside the doorway, enjoying the cool air. When they saw you coming back, they didn't show any surprise on their faces. They just smiled and nodded at you. Some even invited you to have dinner with them. No matter whether they were men or women, young or old, they were all full of kindness towards you."

"At this time, the village chief walked over, smiled and took you to his home, enthusiastically arranged a sumptuous dinner for you, and found you a comfortable place to stay. He said that it is better to come at the right time than to come early. Tonight is the Dragon Festival in Ping'an Village. There will not only be dragon dancing and iron flower making, but also a grand bonfire banquet. The fact that you can come to Ping'an Village at this time means that you are an honored guest of the village and have a deep connection with the village."

"What are you going to do now?"

"Do you choose to stay in the village and see what the dragon is up to, or leave Ping'an Village as soon as possible? Anyway, you have unlocked this map and can teleport here at any time. You don't need to stay here all the time."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the two options given by the game and chose the former, the Dragon Meeting, without hesitation. This was obviously an opportunity to trigger a new plot. It would be a pity to leave.

"You chose to stay in the village to attend the Dragon Festival tonight."

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo entered a semi-idle state. It might be because the Dragon Club had not started yet, and the game never gave any follow-up interaction.

Jiang Xinghuo had no choice but to wait slowly until around nine o'clock in the evening in reality, when new information popped up in the game.

"The Dragon Festival in Ping'an Village has already begun. The village chief has come to invite you to watch. Do you want to go with him?"

Jiang Xinghuo quickly chose yes and controlled the game character to walk out of the house.

"You and the village chief walked towards the square behind the village, and saw something on the roadside along the way."

"You have discovered the intermittent grass."

"The intermittent grass (rare material) was originally an ordinary bone-setting grass, but by chance, it was infused with the energy of the dragon vein and transformed into the intermittent grass. Even if a limb is cut off, as long as the intermittent grass is taken, the broken limb can grow back."

"Please note that the use of Intermittent Grass has strict requirements on the patient's condition. First of all, the injury cannot be more than ten years old. Otherwise, the effect of regenerating the broken limbs will be very weak. It will take a long time to grow new limbs. Even on the day of death, the broken limbs may not be able to grow back completely."

"Do you want to go over and gather up that teasel grass on the side of the road?"

Jiang Xinghuo hesitated for a moment. He was a guest in Ping'an Village, and the village chief was watching him. If he went over to pick the fruits, he would have to greet the host first. Taking things without asking would be considered stealing. It didn't feel right to just go over and pick them so openly.

Fortunately, another text appeared on the screen at this time.

"You asked the village chief beside you if you could go over and pick the intermittent grass, but the village chief said doubtfully that it was just a roadside weed. People in their village usually used it to start fires for barbecues, or to sew pillows, or to make sachets. It was completely useless."

"However, if you like those wild grasses, I can give you a few bags of them when you leave. They are not valuable anyway. I can't say I can give you as much as you want, but it won't be a problem to get a few dozen kilograms."

Tsk tsk, Jiang Xinghuo looked at the content described in the text and thought that he was really rich and powerful. He even sold rare and precious medicinal herbs by the bag.

How did you say that... Yes... It's so scary! It's really so scary!!

"Continue moving forward..."

"Not long after, you arrived at the venue of the Dragon Dance Contest. You saw fire dragons flying and lights everywhere. The dragon dancers used some unknown trick to almost disappear in the darkness. Even though the surrounding firelight was bright, it was still difficult to see the figures of the dragon dancers."

"You opened the Tathagatagarbha in the small pupil of your right eye, and used the Tathagatagarbha's vision to spy on the masters who were dancing the dragons. You soon understood why they were able to merge with the night."

"You have discovered the clues to the Night Walk of the Wandering Gods."

"The Night Traveling God is a legend that has been circulating in the secular world for a long time. It is said that when the great god Fengdu conquered the underworld, he had two generals under his command, one called the Day Traveling God and the other called the Night Traveling God. The Day Traveling God walks in the daytime and can release a blazing light comparable to the sun, while the Night Traveling God walks in the dark night and can bring a silent shadow to all things."

"According to folklore, as long as one can obtain the blessing and protection of the Night Wandering God, one can obtain the innate ability of 'Wandering God at Night'. Not only will one's physical fitness be greatly improved in the dark, but one can also hide one's figure in the darkness. Even strong light cannot illuminate the figure of such a person."

This reminded Jiang Xinghuo of something, and he immediately opened the text record to search for it.

When he was traveling from Peking to the Miao region in the secular world, he encountered a traveling Yin God on his way and ended up obtaining an ivory carving of a night-wandering god.

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"Ivory carving of the Night Wandering God (special prop). The Night Wandering God is a great god recorded in folk beliefs. He is also the god of the night in the secular world. He supervises the good and evil in the world, punishes evil and rewards good. He hides during the day and appears at night."

"This ivory carving was accidentally lost by the Night Wandering God in the secular world. If you integrate it into your body, you will receive the Night Wandering God's blessing (status)."

"Blessing of the Night God (status), after night falls, physical fitness and various abilities can receive a 20% increase bonus."

"........."

"........."

"This ivory carving was originally a creation that the Night Wanderer deliberately left in the secular world, with the intention of allowing others to find it and integrate it."

"But once someone fuses with this ivory carving, it will become the cauldron anchored by the Night Wandering God, and it can seize the body of the person who fuses with the ivory carving at any time."

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Later, because of the disadvantage that ivory carvings could possess other bodies, he threw the ivory carving into the ruins of the old secular world, completely eliminating the possibility of the ivory carving reappearing.

However, no one knows how many ivory carvings the Night Walker God made, nor does anyone know where those ivory carvings are.

The dragon dance masters in Ping An Village have mastered the ability to parade the gods at night. Could this be related to other ivory carvings?
Jiang Xinghuo couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

If the two parties are related, does it mean that the Night Wandering God can descend on Ping'an Village at any time?
That would be a bit troublesome.

(End of this chapter)