My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 529: Disaster List
Looking at the thick layer of coins at the bottom of the well, Jiang Xinghuo thought that this was a lot of money, at least tens of thousands of yuan. It turned out that these monks were so rich.

But it doesn't matter. It's a matter of one willing to fight and the other willing to be beaten. They all volunteered to join in. No one is forcing you to pay with a knife. As an outsider, he has no right to comment.

What he was worried about now was whether there was anything fishy about the well, but the Tathagatagarbha in his right eye did not find anything wrong.

This made Jiang Xinghuo a little troubled. After thinking for a while, he raised his head and looked around. Maybe it was because it was almost time for dinner, there was no one around.

So Jiang Xinghuo took out a few yellow talismans from his magic bag and threw them into the dry well, but there was still no change.

These yellow talismans are the most common talismans to ward off evil. If there really is something unclean in the well, the talisman papers will burn on their own. However, when a few talisman papers fell to the bottom, there was no burning. This means that the well is clean and there is nothing in it, at least, there is no dirty stuff.

"Weird..."

Jiang Xinghuo stroked his chin and gently waved his right hand, and the air around the dry well was immediately stirred.

A strong wind came from all directions and merged into the dry well. The coins in the well began to rustle and were lifted into the air by a tornado.

Jiang Xinghuo took the opportunity to look down into the well, and saw that the bottom of the well was clean. It was not cracked silt, but a millstone-shaped stone slab that blocked the bottom tightly without any gaps.

Jiang Xinghuo raised his eyebrows and snapped his right fingers.

The coins that were rolled into the air returned to the dry well, then turned and walked towards the dining hall as if nothing had happened.

The vegetarian meals in the temple are mainly light, and ingredients such as onions and garlic are considered meaty. In addition, the weather outside is quite cold, so the evening meals are mainly stews, and there are two pots of home-made pickles. The steamed buns are placed in a basket next to them, and there are special people to serve the rice and vegetables.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't hold back, took a bowl of food and five big white steamed buns, found a place and started to feast.

Chinese Buddhism has a precept of "silence" during meals, so the entire dining hall seems very quiet, with only the occasional sound of bowls and chopsticks colliding.

As for the taste of the food, everyone has their own opinion. After eating a lot of fish and meat, eating such a vegetarian meal makes the stomach feel quite comfortable.

After dinner, Jiang Xinghuo wandered around the temple again. He did not go to attend the Buddhist evening classes. He just came to join in the fun and had no interest in the essence of Buddhism.

At around six o'clock in the evening, Jiang Xinghuo returned to his room, Zen Room No. 3, and took a special look at the well, but found no unusual changes.

"Just wait a moment..."

Jiang Xinghuo closed and locked the door. Wang Minglong heard the knock on the door at around nine o'clock that night.

It's just getting dark outside now, not even seven o'clock yet. Maybe it's not time yet. Maybe after nine o'clock, I can hear the knock on the door.

Jiang Xinghuo was thinking wildly in his mind while taking off his coat and lying on the bed. He was about to take out his mobile phone to log into the game and play for a while, but then he seemed to remember something and suddenly turned over and sat up from the bed.

"How about... give it a try?"

Jiang Xinghuo opened his magic bag and found a rusty bronze oil lamp.

Heirloom lamp.

It is said that this magic tool was developed by Taoist priests at the end of the last civilization. It possesses mysterious time power and one can even use this lamp to travel through the past and the future.

In the ancient house in Yanshi Town, he obtained a fragment of the heirloom law. Although it was only a tiny bit, it might play a role in the heirloom lamp.

He wanted to try and see if he could use the power of the heirloom lamp to see what happened that night, and perhaps discover the problem and the truth.

Once this thought came up, I could no longer suppress it.

Jiang Xinghuo placed the rusty oil lamp next to his pillow, and then lit it with the Kitchen God's fire. The dim flame slowly spread out, wrapping Jiang Xinghuo perfectly, just like a transparent dark golden cocoon.

Jiang Xinghuo closed his eyes and his consciousness gradually emptied. It felt as if he was suddenly pushed down from a cliff. The strong sense of weightlessness made his body tremble suddenly.

Then, Jiang Xinghuo had a feeling in his heart that he seemed to be able to open his eyes.

Do you want to open it? ?
Jiang Xinghuo hesitated for a moment, but finally opened his eyes. The scene before him also gave him a hint of surprise.

Success! ?

Jiang Xinghuo looked at everything in front of him. It was still the "No. 3" meditation room, but the person lying on the bed was replaced by a thin young man in his thirties.

"Wang Minglong..."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the thin young man and slowly uttered his name. It was the man who lived here that night.

The heirloom lamp really did send him back to that night. No, that's not right. To be precise, it replayed in front of him what happened that night.

Because Jiang Xinghuo discovered that he was the only one who could see the other person, but Wang Minglong, who was lying on the bed, ignored him.

It was like he was watching a 3D movie again.

At this time, Wang Minglong was lying on the bed looking at his mobile phone. According to his recollection, there should be a knock on the door soon.

"Dong dong dong..."

"Dong dong dong..."

Before Jiang Xinghuo could finish his thought, he heard two knocks on the door outside the meditation room.

Moreover, the knocking sound was neither fast nor slow, but a very steady sound. Wang Minglong, who was lying on the bed, turned over and sat up, and seemed to say something, but Jiang Xinghuo could not hear the other party's voice.

"Or a silent movie?"

Jiang Xinghuo raised his eyebrows but didn't take it too seriously. Even if he couldn't hear the sound, he could guess what the other party was saying. It was nothing more than asking who was knocking on the door.

But the knocking still did not stop and continued to knock on the door at that frequency. It was quite strange. Jiang Xinghuo could not hear what Wang Minglong said, but he could hear the knocking sound clearly, and even the sound of the wind outside the house.

"Dong dong dong..."

"Dong dong dong..."

Wang Minglong seemed to be annoyed and went over to open the door. Jiang Xinghuo also came to the door.

There was no one outside.

There was only a row of wet footprints on the steps at the door. Judging from the traces, it should be a barefoot woman with beautiful and slender feet, not like the three-inch golden lotus of ancient times. She must be a rare beauty. However, these footprints and the big-faced monster in the photo could not be associated together.

I don't know which great person said that a woman may be beautiful, but her feet may not be nice-looking. However, a woman with nice feet will definitely have a good-looking face.

While Jiang Xinghuo was daydreaming, Wang Minglong had already walked out of the meditation room and was following the footprints on the ground towards the well.

So, Jiang Xinghuo immediately followed. Although he couldn't influence anything, it was good to see the big-faced monster. At least his Tathagatagarbha would have a chance to see the other party's background.

Soon, Wang Minglong came to the well and was about to look into it.

Jiang Xinghuo also walked to the well. According to Wang Minglong's description, he and the big-faced monster only had a brief encounter, and the monster disappeared immediately afterwards. If he had been a step slower, he probably would not have seen anything.

When they reached the dry well, Wang Minglong looked down into the well, and Jiang Xinghuo also looked over there.

A pale, swollen face immediately appeared at the bottom of the well, with scarlet lips as if smeared with blood, and it was looking at Wang Minglong and laughing.

Jiang Xinghuo got goosebumps watching nearby, let alone Wang Minglong, the unlucky guy who was unprepared. He was so scared that he sat down on the ground. When he came to his senses and looked again, the big face had disappeared.

However, although he did not see how the face disappeared, Jiang Xinghuo, who was watching from the side, saw it carefully.

Surprisingly, a big hand reached out from below, grabbed the big-faced monster's hair, and pulled it back to the bottom of the well, where it disappeared.

What’s more, what made Jiang Xinghuo feel even more surprised was that his Tathagata Zang could not see through the other party’s background.

I don’t know if it’s because of the heirloom lamp. After all, the world he is in at the moment can only be regarded as a projection of the past, not a real world.

At this time, Wang Minglong had already crawled back to the meditation room. Jiang Xinghuo looked at the surrounding environment and wanted to go to other places to see if there was anything unusual.

But the moment he walked out of the Moon Gate, the ground began to shake violently, and cracks like broken glass appeared all around him.

A sudden realization arose in his mind that this illusory projection world was about to collapse!
The moment this thought flashed through his mind, Jiang Xinghuo suddenly woke up from his sleep and turned over and sat up.

Looking back at the heirloom lamp beside my pillow, I saw only wisps of smoke rising from it, and the candle had gone out.

"call……"

Jiang Xinghuo breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand to put away the heirloom lamp. As for why he woke up from his dream, he had a rough guess in his mind.

Maybe it was because he wanted to go to other places. Although the heirloom lamp had the ability to transcend time, it also required the corresponding power to control it.

There were only some fragments of the inherited laws in his body. He was already very satisfied to be able to see what happened that night with this weak power of the laws.

But at this moment, Jiang Xinghuo heard the familiar knock on the door again.

"Dong dong dong..."

"Dong dong dong..."

Jiang Xinghuo turned around in surprise and glanced outside the door. With his visual talent of seeing through fire, he saw the person knocking on the door.

It turned out to be a pretty girl with pink cheeks and red lips. She was standing outside the door barefoot and knocking gently, with a charming look in her eyes.

"That arrives so fast?"

Jiang Xinghuo muttered something, took out his phone and checked the time. It was already nine forty-five in the evening.

"It's been so long?"

Jiang Xinghuo frowned slightly. In the past kaleidoscope world, it felt like he had only stayed for less than ten minutes, but he didn't expect that more than three hours had passed in reality.

It was around half past six when he returned to his room after dinner, and now it was almost ten o'clock.

The knocking on the door outside did not stop. The woman was still knocking on the door, and the people in other rooms seemed to have not heard it at all.

Jiang Xinghuo was too lazy to play hide-and-seek with the other party anymore. He opened the door in a flash, but he only caught a glimpse of a white shadow from the corner of his eye, and it disappeared into the dry well in the corner.

"You run pretty fast..."

Jiang Xinghuo glanced at the footprints on the ground, and they were exactly the same as what he saw in the kaleidoscope.

Then he came to the side of the dry well, looked down, and found it empty. There was no big-faced monster that he had seen in the kaleidoscope.

Eh?
What do these mean?
So you look down on me, right?

Jiang Xinghuo snapped his fingers and a purple lightning flew out and landed on the coin at the bottom of the well, but the result still did not change.

But at this moment, Jiang Xinghuo suddenly felt the magic bag vibrate, as if something wanted to come out of it.

When he opened the magic bag, he saw a white skin glowing with red light flying out of the magic bag by itself.

"The Disaster List of the Underworld (special item), a list of disasters that drifted from the underworld to the living world. It records the information of a ghost from the underworld. Two months ago, for some unknown reason, the ghost escaped from the Yellow Spring in the underworld to the human world. The Lord of the Yellow Spring severely injured the ghost, but still could not catch the escaped ghost. He had to take a wisp of breath from the source of the Yellow Spring and made this list of disasters."

"This list of disasters can guide the holder to find the whereabouts of the ghost and deity and imprison it in the list of disasters. In return, you can put forward a condition to the Lord of the Underworld. As long as it is within the Lord's ability, the Lord of the Underworld will fulfill your wish."

The small pupil of Jiang Xinghuo's right eye flickered with a bright light, and specific information about this skin appeared on his retina.

"So that's what happened... I'm really lucky..."

Jiang Xinghuo couldn't help but admire his own luck.

This list of disasters was made by the Lord of the Underworld in order to capture a monster. It can guide the holder to find the monster and imprison him/her on this list of disasters.

Jiang Xinghuo originally planned to complete this task in the secular world, but he didn't expect that the monster actually escaped to the earth and hid under this dry well. If it weren't for this disaster list, he probably wouldn't be able to discover the other party's existence.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xinghuo no longer hesitated. He waved his right hand and threw the disaster list in his hand into the well.

Then, a terrified roar came from the bottom of the well, accompanied by brilliant and dazzling golden light, which lasted for about ten minutes.

If Jiang Xinghuo hadn't put up a few talismans to block out sight and sound, I'm afraid the residents in the surrounding rooms would have been attracted out, which would have caused another trouble.

(End of this chapter)