My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 553 Taiyin
"Do you want to take off the bag and bell hanging from the body's wrist?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes and took the thing down. Although he didn't know how this tomb-raiding ancestor died, since he was called the ancestor, he must have a lot of good things on him.

"You removed the bag and bell from the body's wrists."

"You have obtained a Tianguan Faqiu Bag (rare) and a Banshan Golden Bell (rare)."

“Tianguan Faqiu Bag (rare item), a token of inheritance and a magical instrument of the Faqiu Tianguan lineage, possesses the attribute of Tianguan’s blessing. Not only can it be used as a storage item, but it can also absorb the evil spirits and gods in the ancient tomb into it, turning them into a pool of pus in just a moment.”

"This magical weapon was originally a treasure of the Fa Qiu lineage. The Mojin Patriarch had coveted it for many years. Later, he found an opportunity to kill the Fa Qiu Tianguan and took this seemingly ordinary pocket, which actually contained a secret, for himself."

"The Golden Bell for Moving Mountains (rare item), a secret treasure of the Mountain Moving Sect. When entering an ancient tomb to search for gold and tombs, it can sense in advance whether there are any evil zombies around."

"If there are these evil things hiding in the dark, the bell will automatically issue an early warning and release the Taoist Samadhi True Fire to protect the owner."

"Although these two items are both treasures of the tomb-robbing business, they are completely different from the inheritance of the tomb-robbing lieutenant lineage. They were all obtained by the tomb-robbing ancestors using various methods to plunder."

"It is said that the four veins of tomb raiding have been passed down since ancient times. Each vein has a token of inheritance. If the four tokens can be gathered together, the secrets hidden in them can be cracked."

"It's a pity that people in the same profession are enemies. These four branches have always been incompatible, fighting openly and secretly with each other, so that countless years have passed, and the secrets have not been cracked yet."

"The tomb-raiding ancestor was originally the most promising, but the ancestor of the Xiangling clan seemed to have discovered the other party's conspiracy, so he took the Xiangling clan's token [Mountain Armor] and hid in the mountains and swamps under an assumed name."

"The Mojin Patriarch has been searching for him for many years but has not been able to find his whereabouts. Even the disciples of the Xiling lineage have disappeared from the secular world and rarely show up in the secular world."

After reading this description in the game text, Jiang Xinghuo controlled the character to open the Fa Qiu bag. Most of the things inside were related to tomb robbing and were of no use to him at all.

Only the token of the tomb-raiding clan attracted Jiang Xinghuo's interest.

"The Mojin Talisman (rare item), a token of inheritance of the Mojin lineage, is different from the Mojin Talismans imitated in later generations. It is made from the scales of a thousand-year-old mountain-climbing beast. It can drive away evil spirits and eliminate corpse poison. It is a natural nemesis of corpse-path monsters."

Tsk, the tomb-raiding ancestor worked so hard for so many years and finally obtained the tokens of the other two inheritances.

Unfortunately, he died before he could accomplish his mission. Before he could find the last treasure, he died in the mine, and could only give these treasures to Jiang.

He kept the clues of this mission in mind, but did not take it too seriously. He just remembered that it happened so that he could think about looking for the whereabouts of the pangolin in the future, instead of running around for this matter.

After all, I don’t know where the old man Xiangling is, so it’s useless even if I’m anxious.

Besides, the reason why Xiangling Patriarch hid himself might be because he couldn't defeat Mojin Patriarch, but that didn't mean it couldn't defeat him. After all, he was the ancestor of a force, he couldn't possibly be unable to defeat a small character like himself.

Jiang Xinghuo put these things into his magic bag, and hung the small items used for tomb robbing on the niches in his shop to sell, and then continued to advance his plot.

"You have now reached about two hundred feet below the mine. Do you want to continue going deeper into the mine?"

Jiang Xinghuo took a deep breath, clicked the yes option, and controlled the character to continue exploring.

This time, the downward speed slowed down significantly.

"Two hundred and thirty feet..."

"Two hundred and fifty feet..."

"Two hundred and sixty feet..."

"..."

"..."

"Three hundred feet..."

"You have reached the bottom of the mine. This is the hottest part of the mine. There are scattered bones and melted weapons all around. Even the digging tools made of star iron ore have melted beyond recognition and turned into irregular pieces of iron ore."

"What choice are you going to make next?"

"Would you like to continue digging the mine, or would you like to explore the surroundings and leave while it is still safe?"

Jiang Xinghuo didn't think too much about it. He came here to dig down. It was impossible for him to leave the mine without any discovery.

"You chose to keep digging deeper."

Jiang Xinghuo opened the skill bar, found the tomb-grabbing beast he had just captured, and clicked to use it.

"You opened the acupoints and released the gold-touching beast, and ordered it to continue digging underground. The high temperature seemed to have no effect on the gold-touching beast. I saw golden light flashing, and sharp auras condensed into cones, merging with the gold-touching beast, and began to dig madly downwards."

After seeing the description of the gold-touching beast in the game text, Jiang Xinghuo felt relieved. It seemed that the gold-touching beast was quite powerful. At least in this situation, the other evil spirits in the acupoints were completely useless.

If he didn't have this gold-grabbing beast, he could only use the cloud-piercing cone to dig. But he didn't know whether the high temperature here would affect the cloud-piercing cone.

Jiang Xinghuo was thinking about all those random things while quietly waiting for the subsequent plot development.

The speed and progress of the tomb-raiding beast's digging downwards also keep popping up on the game interface.

"Three hundred and twenty feet..."

"..."

"Three hundred and seventy feet..."

"..."

"Four hundred and ten feet..."

"..."

"Five hundred feet..."

Jiang Xinghuo waited for almost half an hour in reality, and the text that popped up on the game interface finally changed, and a new prompt sound and buzzing vibration sound were heard.

Jiang Xinghuo immediately put down the work in his hands, walked over and picked up the phone, only to see that the tomb-grabbing beast had dug to a position of 800 feet underground.

However, the tomb-grabbing beast was also attacked by an unknown creature and was instantly seriously injured. It retreated into its cave and fell asleep.

Jiang Xinghuo first treated the wounds of the tomb-robbing beast, and only after making sure that the little guy was fine did he move forward with peace of mind.

"With the help of the tomb-grabbing beast, you came to about 800 feet below the well. What appeared before you was an empty cave. The temperature around you was getting higher and higher. Even though you were wearing the water-soaked silk armor to protect your body, you could still feel your skin burning and your mouth dry. But it was okay for the time being."

"You looked around carefully, and saw that everything was red. Not only did it burn your eyes, but the walls of the cave were also burned black."

"Moreover, the surrounding area is filled with the pungent smell of sulfur and gunpowder. A lava river flows slowly in front of you, forming a circle. In the middle of the lava river, a huge black meteorite is floating up and down, and on it are a large number of withered and cracked tombs. The shape looks a bit like an ancient altar. At the same time, you also found a large number of deformed charred corpses rising and falling in the lava, and the ground is also covered with messy charred footprints."

"You have triggered the Tathagata's talent."

"You have discovered it, Fire Ghost Child."

"The Fire Ghost Child is a monster born from a meteorite of heavenly fire. His skin has been completely carbonized and is as hard as iron and stone. The fluid flowing in his blood vessels has also turned into magma, giving him the power to control fire."

"Your arrival awakened these sleeping fire ghost children. They struggled to climb ashore from the lava river and slowly gathered around you. The ground emitted a smelly green smoke wherever they passed. Red lava flashed under their dry and carbonized skin. It was obvious that they were very angry about your uninvited visit."

"What choice are you going to make now?"

"Will you choose to confront these fire ghost children head-on or leave here along the way you came before they completely surround you?"

Looking at the two options given by the game, Jiang Xinghuo thought carefully and felt that he could still take a gamble. Maybe he could win. "You took out the Dragon King's Dao soldiers and deployed the Sky Thunder, Earth and Sea domain. Countless water tornadoes rose into the sky and rushed towards the Fire Ghost Child in front of you like a physical entity."

"When the water and fire collided, you could hear a sizzling sound, and the cave was suddenly filled with mist. A large amount of water vapor rushed and flowed away, blocking everyone's vision. At the same time, you also engaged in close combat with those fire ghost children, and a fight broke out between you and them."

"The skin of these Fire Ghost Children is extremely tough. It is difficult for your Dragon King Dao soldiers to cause serious damage to them. Even if you smash the skin on the surface of their bodies, the magma-like blood will still cause harm to you."

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo performed the limb splicing technique and released the drought demon in the acupoint.

"The drought demon roared wildly, with blood-red light flashing in its eyes. It looked like a ghost, and rushed into the fog that had not yet completely dissipated at an extremely fast speed. Then, a shrill scream was heard from behind the fog."

"After the mist around you dispersed, you discovered that all the fire ghost children were beaten back into the magma by Hanba. There were still a lot of highly carbonized limbs and arms left on the ground, but Hanba itself was also seriously injured. It withdrew into your acupoint and fell into a deep sleep."

Jiang Xinghuo checked on Hanba and after making sure that he was not seriously injured, he once again turned his attention to the fire ghost children.

"After being severely injured by Hanba, the fire ghost children also ran back to the lava river, climbed up the meteorite, and drilled into the dry and withered graves. At the same time, you found that the huge meteorite on the graves full of potholes also began to slowly sink into the depths of the lava river. Do you want to stop it?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without hesitation. Things that were delivered to your doorstep cannot be let go!
"You used the divine movement technique to rush to the center of the magma river, standing on top of the huge meteorite, and tried to enter the interior of the meteorite through the cracked mounds."

"But those fire ghost children guarded the tomb tightly and refused to let you in no matter what. Perhaps they wanted to get rid of you, the sudden plague god. Suddenly, a fire ghost child came out of the tomb and threw something to the distant shore. Then the meteorite began to sink faster."

"What are you going to do now?"

"Will you choose to go back to the shore and pick up the things thrown by the Fire Ghost Child, or sink into the magma river vein along with the Skyfire Meteorite under your feet?"

The game gave two options. Jiang Xinghuo took a quick look and quickly made his own decision. He chose to go back to the shore and pick up the thing.

If you choose to sink into the magma with the meteorite, you will most likely waste another chance at resurrection.

Although silk armor can resist the invasion of high temperatures, it has a limit. It is impossible for it to withstand even magma, and it may even cause damage to the silk armor on the body.

It's better to quit while you're ahead. Let's go see what those fire ghost children left behind. If that doesn't work, control the tomb-grabbing beast to dig down. Sooner or later, you will find what you want.

"At the last moment when the meteorite sank into the magma river, you broke away from the meteorite and returned to the distant river bank, and picked up the things that the Fire Ghost Child had just thrown out."

"You have obtained the fragment of the Taiyin Sky Fire."

"Lunar Skyfire Fragment (Rare Material), a Skyfire Fragment from the Crescent Moon Land. It is fundamentally different from other Skyfire Fragments because the Crescent Moon Land is a man-made celestial body and does not have the power core that gave birth to the Skyfire."

"But the waxing and waning land can reflect the sun's light, thus forming a unique kind of lunar fire, which descended upon the secular world countless years ago. It is the only one of the nine heavenly fires that has not caused large-scale damage. Instead, it contains vigorous vitality that nourishes all things in heaven and earth."

"You have obtained the Nine Skyfire Fragments (4/9)."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the other Heavenly Fire fragments again. Except for the Lunar Heavenly Fire in his hand, he had already found the Sun, Jupiter, and Mars. These three Heavenly Fire fragments. Only the last Heavenly Fire fragment was missing to completely unlock the hidden mission of the Starry Sky Journey.

While he was pondering this, new text suddenly popped up in the game.

"Do you want to merge the Taiyin Heavenly Fire into the Kitchen God Fire?"

Ok?
Jiang Xinghuo raised his eyebrows slightly.

He has obtained fragments of four types of Skyfire, but only the Lunar Skyfire triggers this interaction option.

The other three types of skyfire do not trigger this interaction.

He also tried it privately, wanting to see if he could use the method of focusing fire to integrate the heavenly fire on the meteorite fragments into his own Kitchen God Fire.

But there was no reaction at all, just like three ordinary broken stones, so Jiang Xinghuo simply gave up the idea.

I didn't expect there would be an unexpected surprise today.

"You chose to fuse the Taiyin Heavenly Fire."

"In the process of integration, please wait..."

"The fusion is complete."

"Your Kitchen God Fire level has been increased by +5."

"The Taiyin Heavenly Fire has the unique properties of removing dead flesh and regenerating flesh, healing wounds and returning to the origin. However, for monsters born in the fire, it has extremely strong lethality and can devour the life fire of monsters with fire attributes."

Only targets the flames of fire-attributed monsters?

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the description of the Lunar Heavenly Fire, and a flame ignited in the palm of his hand. It was originally the blazing golden-red Kitchen God Fire.

But soon the color changed, and the golden-red flames transformed into gray, which was very similar to the color of the surface of the moon, and it also exuded a faint coolness and majestic vitality.

Jiang Xinghuo cut his palm and placed the Taiyin Fire on it. A gray flame snake separated and wandered over the bloodstain on his palm. In just a moment, the wound had healed as before.

"Such a strong recovery ability..."

Jiang Xinghuo carefully sensed the changes in his hand. The recovery speed was not inferior to that of a dead tree coming back to life, and was even faster.

After carefully experiencing the effect, Jiang Xinghuo put away the flame in his palm and continued to look at the text content on the mobile phone.

"Now that you have obtained the fragment of Taiyin Skyfire, where do you plan to go next?"

"Will you continue to explore in the mining city, or leave the mining city and go to other places?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose to continue exploring in the mining city.

He was not in a hurry to open a new map. He would explore all the important places inside and outside the mining city first, and then it would not be too late to explore other places.

Besides, he has never been to the most mysterious City Lord's Mansion in the mining city.

He didn't know if it was his illusion, but he always felt that something big was going to happen in the mining city, and it was closely related to the City Lord's Mansion.

"You left this underground cave and went back up along the mine shaft you came down from."

"But you vaguely feel that something is wrong, but you can't describe what's wrong. It's just an instinctive feeling."

"At this time, you turned back to a position about 500 feet underground, and suddenly found a few more figures on the walls on both sides of the mine. They were the spies from the sticky rod department who had entered the mine earlier."

"The faces of these spies were filled with fear, as if they had seen something unimaginable and incredible. Their entire bodies were completely fused to the wall of the well, with only half of their heads and half of their blood drops left outside."

How could this be?
Jiang Xinghuo looked at the description in the text and was stunned at first, then he immediately realized that something was wrong.

The original depth of this mine was only 300 feet. When those spies from the sticky rod department came down, they had not yet dug the mine to 800 feet. Even if they died in the mine, their bodies should be more than 300 feet deep. How could they appear at a depth of about 500 feet? ?
When he came down, he did not trigger the option to spy on the corpse at the sticky pole, and thought it was eaten by those dry deer. But now it seems that this is not the case at all. There must be some trick that he has not discovered.

Could it be...

While Jiang Xinghuo was thinking about it, new game text suddenly popped up.

"You feel a chilly breeze coming from behind you. You turn around in surprise and look back. You see a huge black mouth like the abyss quietly appearing on the wall of the mine and swallowing your body directly."

"You just felt a black screen before your eyes, and then you lost consciousness."

"You are dead..."

(End of this chapter)