My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 558: Ice
Jiang Xinghuo didn't expect that these urban management officers could trigger unexpected plot interactions, so he naturally couldn't miss this opportunity, so he directly controlled the character to walk over and pick up the things.

"You picked up the remains of the corpse, and it turned out to be a piece of rag with a strange pattern on it. It kept flashing a silver-white light. It was precisely because of the effect of the pattern that the rag was not corroded by the corpse-dissolving water."

"You have triggered the talent of Tathagata."

"You want to use the Tathagata's vision to see the secret of this pattern, but Tathagata can't see anything. It's just a plain piece of rag, without any surprises."

"What are you going to do next?"

"Will you choose to put this rag away or throw it aside and ignore it?"

When Jiang Xinghuo saw the description in the text, he thought that this thing cannot be thrown away. If even Tathagata cannot figure out its origin, it must be a rare treasure. Maybe it contains some secrets unknown to outsiders.

"You put away the rag with an unknown pattern on it, but the glimmering light on it attracted the attention of the corpse collectors. They thought it must be a rare treasure and regretted not discovering it earlier. You took advantage of it for nothing. Several corpse collectors looked at each other and immediately came up with an idea. They surrounded you and asked you to take out the rag, saying that it was something they accidentally dropped from their bodies. If you don't return the item to them, they will be rude to you."

Yo ho!

When Jiang Xinghuo saw the texts of these corpse collectors, he thought that they were too lazy to even cover up their crimes and just wanted to directly grab other people's things. This was a bit too overbearing.

"What are you going to choose now?"

"Would you choose to hand over this rag and quickly send these corpse collectors away, or would you pretend that you didn't hear what they said and lead them to a remote place before taking action?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose the second answer. Since he wanted what was in his hand, he could just come and take it based on his ability. Anyway, the more incense and offerings, the better. No one would complain that their wallet was too full.

"You dusted off your hands, pretending you didn't hear what the corpse collectors said. You pushed them aside and walked out. The corpse collectors immediately followed you, seemingly planning to do something bad to you."

"At this time, two roads appear in front of you. One is the main road of the mining city, but if you want to go to the city lord's mansion from this road, the journey will be a little longer. The other road can greatly shorten the travel time, but it will pass through several remote and deserted alleys. If you get into danger in the alleys, no one will be able to help you even if you want to ask for help."

"So, what are you going to choose now?"

"You chose to take a shortcut to the City Lord's Mansion and walked alone into a remote and deserted alley."

"When you were completely away from the main road outside, the corpse collectors could no longer hold back and jumped out to block your way."

Finally started!!

Looking at the information given in the game text, Jiang Xinghuo's eyes suddenly lit up. The reason why he chose to take the small road to the City Lord's Mansion was to lure out these corpse collectors. He didn't expect that they would be so considerate and actually jump out to show their support.

Then we can’t let this play fade away!
"You summoned the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons from your acupoints, two evil spirits with twisted muscles, and smashed those corpse collectors into pulp without any effort. Blood splattered everywhere. Fortunately, few people pass by this alley, so even if you killed these corpse collectors, you would not be discovered in a short time."

"If you're lucky, it will rain heavily and all the traces you left behind will disappear completely. Even if you're discovered by the police station in the mining city, there won't be any clues leading to you."

"You have obtained, Incense +300."

"Do you want to continue to the City Lord's Mansion?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes and waited for about five minutes before a message came in the game indicating that they had arrived at the City Lord's Mansion.

"You have arrived outside the City Lord's Mansion, but to your surprise, there is no one outside the City Lord's Mansion, not even a guard at the gate, and the gate is tightly closed. Do you want to sneak into the City Lord's Mansion and find out what's going on inside?"

"You walked to the side of the City Lord's Mansion, jumped, and flipped into the City Lord's Mansion. But the moment you landed, you felt your feet go empty and fell into a deep pit. Before you could react, your heart was pierced by several sharp knives."

"You are dead."

"The City Lord's Mansion has already set up traps inside and outside, just waiting for uninvited guests like you to arrive. What are you going to do next?"

"Will you choose to activate the effect of the scapegoat and avoid the consequences of being pierced by a sharp blade, or use the dog food and revive next to the shrine in the mining city?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose a scapegoat and continued exploring without believing in evil. However, the traps he encountered were difficult to guard against and the ways of death were all strange.

In the end, the scapegoat had used up all his chances of resurrection today, but he gained nothing in the City Lord's Mansion, and he didn't even see anyone from the City Lord's Mansion. Six or seven lives were lost just like that.

In desperation, Jiang Xinghuo had to use dog food and opened his eyes next to the shrine in the mining city.

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo was not in a hurry to continue exploring or go to other places to open up new maps.

Instead, he found a safe place and began to count yesterday's harvest.

"The corpse of the Taoist Firefall (legendary material), born from the corpse of the evil spirits that burned the city in the sky. Although it is dead, it still contains a powerful force of disaster. It can be used as an upgrade material for item enhancement, and can also be used as a medicine material for refining pills."

"However, according to the folklore magazine, the corpses of these powerful monsters can be buried in a blessed land. The spiritual energy contained in the corpses can be gradually released when the corpses decay, and the level of the blessed land can be improved."

"Do you want to bury Taoist Huo Yun's body in the blessed land?"

Jiang Xinghuo naturally would not choose to refuse. The only thing that made him hesitate was where to bury the body.

He now has two cave fragments in his hand.

One is the fragment of the cave world he obtained in the Peking Imperial Clan House, which can be integrated with the real world to form an independent small space.

Another one is the upgraded Tai Sui race’s magic bag, which also forms a separate cave space inside.

After thinking it over, Jiang Xinghuo decided to bury Taoist Huoyun's body under the cave space in the magic bag.

It’s not that he doesn’t care about the fragments of the cave in the real world, the key is that it is unclear what changes will occur after the body is buried.

Even if there is any problem under the cave space buried in the magic bag, the magic bag itself can cover it, and no other situation will occur, at least it will not cause irreparable damage to the outside world.

"You chose to bury Taoist Huoyun's body in the magic bag."

It was at this time that Jiang Xinghuo saw the true face of the Taoist Huoyun. He looked about the same height and appearance as a human, but his body was like a fiery red agate, crystal clear and translucent. Although his body had been cut into pieces by the Yuanci Flying Sword, one could vaguely see flames constantly moving and flickering inside the agate-like body.

He even suspected that if he threw the body of Taoist Huoyun into the magma of the volcano, he might be able to come back to life one day.

Jiang Xinghuo shook his head. He didn't want to see this scene, so he threw the body directly to the ground. The ground began to roll and surge, and a crack appeared, swallowing up the body of Taoist Huoyun.

Soon, a stream of red light began to spread out from deep below the ground.

At the same time, the surrounding space was gradually filled with a layer of red, and the color tended to deepen gradually. Even the air became distorted, as if separated by a thin layer of water curtain.

This phenomenon lasted for more than half an hour, and the red light gradually faded away, and everything seemed to have returned to normal. However, Jiang Xinghuo had a sudden realization in his heart, and as soon as he thought about it, a fire cloud covered the sky, and it seemed that there was a fire dragon hovering in the cloud, as if as long as he gave an order, it would spew out endless flames.

In fact it is.

That fire dragon is the power extracted after Taoist Huoyun was buried. It can appear with the help of the power of the cave and heaven, and then cause a disaster of sky fire burning the city.

Of course, Jiang Xinghuo’s current strength is not enough to summon the fire dragon into the world. He can only abuse his power in this small space of magic.

If you want to use this against an enemy, you must get him into the trick bag.

Fortunately, after integrating with the human bag, the magic bag also possessed the power of suction through the air, but the time was still short and he had never tried it.

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo waved away the fire cloud and walked out of the magic bag. At the right moment, the prompt sound of the game text was heard in the game.

"Your paradise has been upgraded and loaded with a new talent ability: Burning the City with Skyfire."

"Heavenly Fire Burns the City: You can trigger the phenomenon of Heavenly Fire Burning the City in the corresponding blessed land, and use it to cause large-scale effective damage to the target."

"Note: The power and duration of the Skyfire Burning City phenomenon are closely related to your cultivation. The greater the power of the phenomenon and the longer it lasts, the more mana it consumes."

Jiang Xinghuo secretly kept these words in mind, dealt with the body of Taoist Huoyun, and then looked at the props and materials found from Taoist Huoyun.

As the lord of the mining city, Taoist Huoyun naturally has a lot of good things on him, but perhaps because he is in the mining city, most of the things are various ores.

Jiang Xinghuo took a rough look and found that there was not much he could use. There were only a few kinds of ores that could be used to upgrade and strengthen his equipment.

So, Jiang Xinghuo counted the ores while starting to upgrade his equipment. He would just put the unused ones up for sale. In short, the main goal was to avoid waste.

"Your Dragon King Dao soldier level has been increased by +2."

"Your Star Bite level is increased by +2."

"Your Huaishan Xiangling robe's level has been upgraded by +5."

"yours……"

"You found a gentian stone."

"Gentian Whetstone (rare consumable material). When real dragon bile is dripped onto an ore, and then it is quenched by the fire of the earth, there is a chance that a unique stone ore will be born. If this stone ore is used as an oil stone for sharpening weapons, it will give ordinary weapons an indestructible sharpness."

"Do you want to use this gentian stone immediately?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without much thought and used this gentian whetstone on the Dragon King's Taoist soldiers.

"The sharpness of your Dragon King's Dao weapons has been improved, +2."

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo continued to count, and it took him nearly a whole morning to finally finish counting all the things on Taoist Huo Yun.

Great harvest.

The levels of his equipment and items have basically been greatly improved.

Those unused things were also sold, and notifications of incense donations coming in kept popping up.

"Where are you going next?"

Jiang Xinghuo took a deep breath and chose to go to Tianhuo Mine again.

But this time he was not looking for ore, but for the lost fragment of the Dragon-Slaying Sword.

He learned the whereabouts of the sword fragment when he was in the Dragon King's Tomb, but he had never triggered the relevant option, so the task was put on hold.

There is nothing urgent to do right now, so I can go over and get the piece of the Dragon Slaying Sword.

Then, after completing the task with the old melon-selling farmer, he can leave the mining city and go to other places to explore.

As for where to go next, Jiang Xinghuo had a rough idea in his mind.

He planned to go to the Shifang Zen Temple to find Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and exchange the things he had in his hands for the Eight Treasures Ruyi Incense, which would allow him to find the location of the Three Worlds Ghost Temple.

Try to complete this task before the arrival of Jingzhe, and see if you can find some props to improve your strength in the Three Worlds Ghost Temple.

This way, we will have more confidence when entering the City of Origin and Lei Ze.

While Jiang Xinghuo was thinking about these things, he controlled the character to come to the Tianhuo Mine.

He opened the game's backpack, equipped the Dragon Slayer Sword on the game character, and then took out the map.

"You walked deep into the Skyfire Mine and followed the map you got from the Dragon King's Tomb, and came to a collapsed mine."

"But you haven't found the whereabouts of the sword fragment. What are you going to do next?"

"Will you continue searching here, or turn around and leave this Skyfire Mine?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose to stay in the mine, but the subsequent text remained unchanged, and the fragment of the Dragon-Slaying Sword could not be found.

In this way, after nearly an hour, Jiang Xinghuo was still wandering around the mine, and the game text finally showed some changes.

"When you were wandering around the mine, the Dragon Slaying Sword in your hand suddenly trembled slightly, as if it had sensed something. Then there was a clear dragon roar, and a piece of the sword wrapped in icy air broke out of the ground and merged with the Dragon Slaying Sword in your hand."

"You have completed some of the fragments of the Dragon Slaying Sword (3/9)."

"You have obtained the Dragon Slaying Sword Fragment - Condensed Ice."

I am too busy today. There was some problem with my leader and many things are piled up at once. I haven’t gotten off work yet. Although we have nothing to do, we still have to cooperate with him. Let’s see if I can write another chapter later.

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