My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 530: Heavenly Soldiers Map

Jiang Xinghuo stood by the dry well, quietly waiting for further developments. After about ten minutes, the movement in the well gradually disappeared, and the roar of fear also disappeared.

The disaster list from the underworld also flew out from the well again and landed steadily on the palm of Jiang Xinghuo.

At the same time, new text prompts were sent from the game.

"You have successfully completed the commission of the Lord of the Underworld and captured the evil spirits that escaped from the underworld. You can go to the Lord of the Underworld to complete the task at any time and get the corresponding reward."

Jiang Xinghuo glanced at the message on his phone and casually put the phone into his pocket.

Then, he unfolded the disaster list in his hand, and saw a flash of light on it, revealing the specific information of the monster.

But before Jiang Xinghuo could take a closer look, the outline of a large hand suddenly emerged from the disaster list and grabbed Jiang Xinghuo's face fiercely.

But a dim golden light flashed across the surface of the disaster list, and the big hand was immediately suppressed back.

"Very arrogant..."

Jiang Xinghuo muttered a few words.

The evil spirit imprisoned in the disaster list gradually stopped its activities, as if it was completely imprisoned and suppressed by the disaster list.

Jiang Xinghuo then turned his gaze to the words on the disaster list and saw the specific information about that monster.

"The King of Gold and Wealth Ghost (legend) was originally a weak gold and silver monster, born from gold and silver. However, after entering the underworld, he became a ghost king by chance. Because he didn't like the dead and boring life in the underworld, he escaped from the underworld along the Yellow Spring. Because he was seriously injured by the Lord of the Yellow Spring, in order to recover from his injuries, he must use gold, silver, wealth and human essence as nourishment."

Looking at the words on the disaster list, Jiang Xinghuo had a rough idea as to why this golden and silver ghost king was hiding in the temple.

In today's Internet age, mobile payment has become the norm, and children and the elderly can all use it. It is not like before when everyone traded in cash. So if you want to find a place with enough cash, you either have to go to the bank vault or go to a temple.

As the saying goes, monks do not love money, the more the better. Compared with a bank vault, the latter far exceeds the former in terms of anonymity, security, and the aura attached to the money.

However, this Gold and Silver Ghost King was unlucky. He had to use means to absorb the essence of others, and ended up encountering him. He encountered him, so he encountered him. Anyway, he could not be the opponent of the Gold and Silver Ghost King if he fought alone. Fortunately, he had a list of disasters from the Lord of Huangquan in his hand, so he caught this ferocious guy without any effort.

Jiang Xinghuo threw the disaster list into the magic bag, then walked to the well and looked down. What he saw was different from before. This time, in addition to coins and copper coins all over the ground, there was also a lifelike corpse, which was the pretty woman who had knocked on the door before.

She looked like she was sleeping at the bottom of a well, there was no decay on her body, she was wearing a white dress, had long black hair, and a serene and beautiful face, she was probably in her early twenties.

Jiang Xinghuo was not very interested in the origin of the corpse. He simply waved his hand to remove the isolation spell next to it, then took out his phone and called the Public Opinion Survey Bureau.

After half an hour.

A jeep stopped on the street outside Putuo Temple. Lin Tianshou and several agents from the Public Opinion Survey Bureau, led by the temple manager, came to the backyard. Jiang Xinghuo was sitting on the stone steps waiting.

Although it was freezing cold outside, Jiang Xinghuo had a rosy complexion. If you got close to him, you could feel a heat like that of an oven.

“The stuff is there.”

Jiang Xinghuo pouted angrily, motioning them to go over and take a look for themselves. After Lin Tianshou walked over, he used his innate ability of Qimen Wu Dun to pull the corpse out of the well.

The temple manager and several monks were shocked when they saw this scene. What was going on? Why did a corpse appear in the temple? And it was a female corpse?
If this gets out, it will probably be drowned in spit and Putuo Temple will probably have to close down.

"This... leader... this corpse has nothing to do with us!"

An elderly monk came out and said repeatedly: "Although the temple allows outside visitors to stay overnight, it is limited to men. There is absolutely no way that women can stay here."

"Why are you panicking?"

Lin Tianshou looked back at the old man and said, "I didn't say that this corpse has anything to do with the monks in your temple. She has been dead for hundreds of years, but her body has not decayed. Don't worry, I won't cause you any trouble."

After hearing what Lin Tianshou said, the people in charge and other monks in the temple breathed a sigh of relief. As long as it had nothing to do with them, it would be fine.

As for the others, it doesn't matter. Even if they have been dead for thousands of years, let alone hundreds of years, as long as the crime is not pinned on them, they will hardly say a word.

Lin Tianshou ordered the agents who came with him to take out the body bags, put the bodies in them, and then carry them to the jeep outside.

Then, he walked to Jiang Xinghuo and did not ask for specific details, but simply went through the process.

But at the end, Jiang Xinghuo suddenly asked: "You know the origin of that corpse, and I see you don't seem to be surprised at all?"

Lin Tianshou nodded and said, "In the archives of the Public Opinion Survey Bureau, there are records of some strange stories in each city. You can download the archive software of the Public Opinion Survey Bureau to check it yourself."

As he spoke, Lin Tianshou sent him a software via WeChat, which was the internal APP that Jiang Miaozhen had downloaded for him earlier.

Afterwards, Lin Tianshou led his men away from Putuo Temple. Jiang Xinghuo also returned to his room, took out his mobile phone, opened the file, and started searching using Putuo Temple as the keyword.

After searching, he found that there are quite a few temples with this name in China, and there are hundreds of related entries. He searched carefully and finally found the entries related to Binhai Putuo Temple.

According to archival records, Putuo Temple was first built during the Ming Dynasty, but there is no record of which emperor was in power.

At that time, there was a woman who entered the palace for selection. Because of her beautiful appearance, she won the emperor's favor, thus offending the empress. In order to save the life of the concubine, the emperor ordered someone to replace her with another one and secretly sent her to Putuo Temple. Of course, on the surface, she had already been executed.

But after the concubine was sent here, she found out that she was pregnant. She originally thought that she would gain status through having a son, and when she gave birth to a prince, maybe she could return to the palace and even obtain a higher status.

But she ultimately underestimated the ruthlessness of the imperial family. After learning that she was pregnant, the emperor ordered people to serve her closely and not to leave the temple at all. After she was pregnant for ten months and gave birth to a prince, the emperor ordered the midwife to manipulate her pregnancy and forced her to drink a bowl of safflower, which caused her blood and qi to collapse and she died on the spot.

The body was buried in the dry well, and no one else knew about it except a few people.

Later, the Ming Dynasty fell and the Qing Dynasty took over the Central Plains. No one knew about this matter. Until the Qianlong period, a wandering Taoist priest passed by this place and found that there was a resentful evil spirit in the temple. He thought that these monks were after money and wanted to kill people, so he wanted to use his sword to exorcise the evil spirit. As a result, he found that the monks here were all good monks who ate vegetarian food and chanted scriptures. Finally, after a search, he found that the source of the evil spirit was from the dry well.

The Taoist priest subdued the evil ghost that the concubine had transformed into, and learned about the past events from its mouth. Feeling sorry for its ill-fated fate, he did not disperse the evil ghost, but instead performed a ritual to help its soul to be reincarnated.

This incident was also recorded by the Taoist priest, passed down to later generations, and fell into the hands of the Public Opinion Survey Bureau.

Jiang Xinghuo read a short story but didn't take it too seriously. There were many people who died unjustly in those days, and he didn't need to feel pity for someone who had been dead for hundreds of years.

Jiang Xinghuo left Putuo Temple early the next morning. Before leaving, he went to the dining hall to have a breakfast of porridge, steamed buns and pickles, which was quite delicious.

After returning home, Jiang Xinghuo turned on his mobile phone, logged into his account, and started his game for the day.

First of all, we should follow the old rules and look for the rabble on the street to see if they have found the whereabouts of Longpi Taibao.

More than half a month has passed, and Longpi Taibao seems to have disappeared without a trace, with no trace of his whereabouts.

The mob spent a lot of effort but found no clues. Jiang Xinghuo asked every day but had no hope in his heart.

But I never thought that when I went to ask the mob today, a new game text popped up.

"You came to ask about Longpi Taibao's whereabouts as usual. Wuhezhong shook his head and said that they still hadn't found him. But last night, they found more than a dozen bodies of their colleagues in the wasteland near the Forbidden City. Although they don't know who killed them, the wounds on their bodies look like they were caused by Longpi Taibao's Dragon Roar Palm. They suspect that those companions may have discovered Longpi Taibao's whereabouts and were killed by him to silence them."

"You have obtained the route map of the wasteland outside the Forbidden City."

The wasteland outside the Forbidden City?

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and realized that Longpi Taibao obtained some of the remains of the Lord of the Earthly World, definitely not for collection. He probably wanted to go in and look for the treasure left by the Lord of the Earthly World, so it was normal for him to appear near the Forbidden City.

"Do you want to explore the Forbidden City right away?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose no. He was not in a hurry to go there. He had more important things to do today, which was to find Mr. Dao to ask about the content of the Yunji text.

Some time ago, he obtained the classics and documents related to Yunji characters from Mr. Dao. He thought that he would be able to master the secrets in less than three days, but he overestimated his learning ability. More than half a month later, his recognition of the three thousand Yunji characters was less than one-tenth.

If I continue like this, I will probably have to wait until around November 1st of this year to learn all the Yunji characters.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't want to delay that long, but the Yunji characters seemed to be quite special, and many props couldn't work on them. Even if they were barely infused into his brain, they would disappear without a trace the next moment.

Therefore, Jiang Xinghuo was too lazy to waste any more time. Instead of waiting for nearly a year, it would be better to hand the skin directly to Mr. Dao and ask him to help decipher the content on it.

If Mr. Dao really has other ideas, he is not a pushover. At worst, he will launch another Beidou space-based attack. He doesn't believe that Mr. Dao can withstand it.

"You came to Mr. Dao's residence, walked up and knocked gently on the door, and soon the boy opened the door and led you in to find Mr. Dao."

"Explain your purpose to Mr. Dao and give him the skin with the Yunji characters recorded on it."

"Mr. Dao took the skin and looked at it carefully, frowning slightly, because the Yunji characters on this skin are the oldest initial version of the Taoist school. Even it cannot recognize them all. It needs to be deciphered by referring to a dictionary, which will take two hours. Do you want Mr. Dao to help decipher it?"

Two hours?

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and decided that since there was nothing to do today, two hours would be fine.

"You chose to ask Mr. Dao to help you decipher the Yunji characters on this skin."

"Decoding in progress, please wait..."

Jiang Xinghuo controlled the character to sit in the yard, quietly waiting for the text message to be triggered two hours later.

During this period, the game text was not idle either, constantly tempting him to search the yard carefully while Mr. Dao was deciphering the text.

Jiang Xinghuo, as usual, just thought the text was nonsense and ignored its instigation.

This went on for about two hours.

Jiang Xinghuo was waiting for the sequel to the plot boredly when he suddenly heard a message prompt sound coming from inside the game.

"The decoding has been completed. Please go find Mr. Dao to learn the decoding results."

Jiang Xinghuo followed the prompts in the game text and found Mr. Dao, from whom Binhai obtained the deciphered content.

"You have obtained the Dao Zun's suicide note."

"Dao Zun, the first disciple that Dao Zu accepted when he preached the Dharma in the past. He is also Dao Zu's favorite disciple. Not only did he teach him various wonderful methods, he also gave him his own magical weapon, the 'Three Hundred and Thirty Thousand Heavenly Soldiers Map'. He can be said to be a person with great magical power second only to Dao Zu."

"But countless years ago, Dao Zun disappeared from the secular world. No one saw him alive, and no one saw his body after his death. Even the Heavenly Masters and Dao Lords of all generations did not know Dao Zun's specific situation."

"This piece of skin with the Yunji characters is the will left by the Daozun before he passed away. It records the whereabouts of the 'Fragments of the 330,000 Heavenly Soldiers' and an event that happened in the underworld that year."

"You have obtained the whereabouts of the fragments of the 330,000 Heavenly Soldiers Map."

"Attention, since the text on this skin was deciphered by Mr. Dao, the other party also learned the location of the 'Fragment of the 330,000 Heavenly Soldiers Map'."

"But before the Taoist passed away, he left a seal on this magic weapon. Only by finding the missing half of the Heavenly Soldiers Map can you find the remaining fragments that he sealed. Otherwise, even if you find the hiding place of the Heavenly Soldiers Map, you will not be able to break the seal and obtain this magic weapon."

(End of this chapter)