My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 570 The Curse of Fengdu

Jiang Xinghuo found the shrine left by Fengdu, so he naturally would not miss the opportunity to light it up. Otherwise, if he came here again in the future, he would have to run the map again, which would be a waste of time.

But just as he was controlling the character to light up the shrine, the game text that popped up surprised him a little.

"You have lit up the cursed shrine of Fengdu."

The cursed shrine in Fengdu?
What do you mean?
Is there any difference from the ordinary Fengdu shrine?
Jiang Xinghuo was full of doubts and continued to read the text below.

"This shrine was once cursed by Fengdu, leaving behind a fragment of incomplete information. Only people with the same bloodline as Fengdu can obtain the fragment of information hidden in it when lighting the shrine."

"After testing, it was found that you and Fengdu have the same bloodline and come from the same biological race. You are eligible to obtain the information fragment hidden in the shrine. Do you want to read this information fragment immediately?"

"Be careful, this shrine has the magical energy of the Ten Directions Zen Forest left behind. If someone lights up this shrine, it will immediately attract the attention of the Ten Directions Zen Forest. You'd better find a place to hide first, so as not to meet the Ten Directions Zen Forest disciples who come to check it out."

"What are you going to choose next?"

"Will you choose to find a secluded and safe place to hide immediately, or wait here for the disciples of Shifang Zen Temple to arrive?"

The game gives two options.

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it for a while. These two options can trigger different plots, but the former is more challenging and the plot it triggers may be more varied.

"You chose to find a safe place to hide temporarily."

"You hid in a cave far away and took out a [Breath Concealing Talisman] and pasted it on the cave wall. It can conceal your breath and body shape, and at the same time, you can observe the location of the Fengdu Shrine."

"And not long after you hid, several figures appeared in front of the Fengdu shrine, and the one leading them was none other than the Dharma Protector of the Ten Directions Zen Forest."

"You triggered the gossip psychic ear."

"You heard the conversation of those people through your innate ability of gossip ears. They were very upset that they didn't catch you, but they were helpless and could only vent their anger on the shrine."

"But the guardian celestial king next to him stopped his subordinates' actions, saying that this shrine had been cursed by Fengdu. Once attacked by external forces, it would rebound with several times the force. Not only would it fail to destroy the shrine, but it would also hurt itself."

Jiang Xinghuo narrowed his eyes slightly and thought that this was becoming more and more interesting. Was there any grudge between Shifang Zen Forest and Fengdu?

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo no longer paid attention to the monks of the Shifang Zen Temple, but instead checked the fragments of information intercepted from the Fengdu shrine.

"Do you want to read the information now?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without hesitation.

"Loading, please wait..."

"Reading completed."

"You have learned the information about Feng's remains in the shrine."

"Information records: In ancient times, Fengdu once led his warriors to conquer the underworld, and Shifang Zen Temple also participated in it. But in the last battle, the Buddhist sect betrayed Fengdu's trust and joined forces with the Lord of the Underworld to force Fengdu into the deepest part of the underworld. That place is a place that the Lord of the Underworld has never set foot on, and it contains countless unknown crises."

"After that, Shifang Zen Monastery launched a cleansing in the secular world, erasing all traces of Fengdu's existence, leaving only these shrines that had lost their spirituality."

"After Fengdu was forced into the depths of the underworld, he never appeared in the secular world again. Only some remaining fragments of information are hidden in some shrines."

"In addition, Fengdu also said in the remaining information fragments that the reason why Shifang Zen Forest betrayed him was because they were instructed by an unidentified powerful person, who was suspected to be the ancient ghost god 'Tu Bo'."

After reading this piece of information left in Fengdu, Jiang Xinghuo looked thoughtful.

Tu Bo, an ancient powerful being who holds the power to expel evil spirits of the dead, lived in the same era as True Lord Fu Shuai Bao Yun.

Even among those ancient powerful beings, he is an extremely ancient being.

But perhaps I should change my strategy in my next communication with Shifang Zen Temple.

Jiang Xinghuo was secretly glad that he did not hand over the remains of Master Nianha.

Because from the information we have obtained so far, if Fengdu has not deceived anyone, the Shifang Zen Forest and the human race should be in a state of hostility.

At least, not biased towards the human race.

"These bald asses..."

Jiang Xinghuo sucked his teeth and began to think about what to do next.

First of all, you definitely cannot return the things in your hand in the same condition. What Fengdu said may not be true, but it is better to be careful. In short, there is nothing wrong with being cautious.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xinghuo put his phone aside, then opened the Sumeru Ring and took out all the Buddhist scriptures inside.

After a lot of selection, only some ordinary Buddhist scriptures and a few methods of practice were left.

He kept all the others for himself. Even if he couldn't use them, he could hang them in the niche shop and sell them after this period of time.

Even if Shifang Zen Temple wanted to buy it back with money, it would have to leave enough incense first.

After doing all this, Jiang Xinghuo continued the game, and new text popped up on the screen.

"You hid in the cave for about half an hour, until the monks from the Ten Directions Zen Temple searched in vain and left the area where the Fengdu shrine was located. What are you going to do next? Do you want to leave the cave immediately?"

Jiang Xinghuo originally wanted to leave the cave immediately, but after changing his mind, he decided not to do so, because he was not sure whether the monks had really left, so it would be better to be cautious.

"Your instinct told you that the monks had not left. They were probably hiding in the dark like you, spying on the situation nearby. So you did not leave the cave immediately, but continued to hide in the cave for a while."

"Sure enough, after about a quarter of an hour, you saw several disciples of Shifang Zen Forest walking out of the woods in the distance and the cave on the opposite side. They were the monks from Ran Deng who came here to gather information earlier."

"They seemed to have left here just now, but they were actually hiding in the dark, waiting for you to come out and fall into their trap. Unfortunately, you didn't fall for their trick, but they couldn't help but expose themselves."

"You saw these monks leaving the shrine. It seemed like they had really left. Are you going to leave next?"

The game still gives two options: leave the cave or continue hiding.

To be on the safe side, Jiang Xinghuo chose to hide for a while. After making sure that there was no one ambushing outside, he removed the breath-concealing talisman and left the cave where he was hiding.

"Where are you planning to go next?"

"It's already dusk in the secular world. Do you choose to enter the Ten Directions Zen Forest again? Or take all your belongings and run away immediately when no one finds you?" "Anyway, the secular world is vast and boundless. As long as you don't actively jump around, it won't be easy for the Ten Directions Zen Forest to find you."

Jiang Xinghuo ignored the instigation of the game text and still chose to enter the Shifang Zen Forest again. He had already taken all the things back, so he had to return them to the owners no matter what, and by the way, see what kind of reward he would get.

"You walked into the Xumi Valley and opened the path to the Shifang Zen Forest according to the method used last time."

"After you entered the Ten Directions Zen Forest, you saw the monk Dipankara waiting there. He said that he was following the order of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and was waiting for you here, but he didn't expect you to come so soon."

"You followed this monk Dipankara to Ksitigarbha. Do you want to return the Sumeru Ring and the things inside to Ksitigarbha?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without hesitation, and then waited quietly for the development of the subsequent plot.

"You returned the Sumeru Ring to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. After receiving it, he opened it impatiently, as if he wanted to check what was inside."

"But when it saw that the scriptures and books of the Medicine Master Temple were all there, but most of the secret methods of cultivation were missing, as well as the body of the Great Glazed Venerable, its face became extremely gloomy, and it didn't look like a Buddhist monk at all."

"Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva asked you gloomily where the body of Liuli Bodhisattva was. How do you plan to answer his question?"

"Are you telling the truth that you have hidden the body of the Great Master Liuli, or are you just making up a lie to fool the Great Master Ksitigarbha?"

Jiang Xinghuo naturally would not tell the truth, so he chose the latter and made up a lie to fool Ksitigarbha.

"You said that you only found this Sumeru Ring and some magical instruments in the Three Worlds Ghost Temple, but did not see the body of Great Venerable Liuli. He might have been eaten by something in the Three Worlds Ghost Temple."

"After hearing your words, Ksitigarbha's anger could no longer be suppressed. His nameless anger turned into a blazing wheel of fire, looming behind him, as if he would attack you at any time."

Okay!

I don’t even want to act anymore!

According to the description in the game text, Ksitigarbha does not seem to care particularly about the inherited scriptures of the Medicine Buddha Temple.

Instead, he was particularly interested in those cultivation methods and the corpse of Great Venerable Liuli.

In particular, the corpse of the Great Glazed Master is more attractive to it.

Could it be that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva has also set his sights on Medicine Master Gu? ?
Jiang Xinghuo kept this question in mind as he continued to push the plot forward. He had a hunch that he might not be able to walk out of the Shifang Zen Forest safely today.

"The fire wheel behind Ksitigarbha is burning fiercely, but he still speaks to you in a calm tone. As long as you can take out the body of the Great Glazed Venerable, he will give you a generous reward and even allow you to read all the inherited unique skills of the major temples in the Ten Directions Zen Forest."

"Do you want to hand over the body of Great Venerable Liuli?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose no without even thinking about it.

joke.

It was obvious that Ksitigarbha wanted to kill himself. How serious must his illness be to hand over the things?

Besides, he also had some uses for the body of Great Venerable Liuli, so he really didn't plan to hand it over to Venerable Ksitigarbha.

If he had not been exposed to the curse of Fengdu, he might have considered handing over the things.

But now, I'd better go to bed.

Anyway, due to the characteristics of the Exile player race, as long as it does not voluntarily hand over the things, even if Ksitigarbha kills itself a hundred times, the things on its body will not fall into the hands of the other party.

"You still insist that you did not obtain the body of the Great Glazed Venerable, but only picked up this Sumeru Ring in the Three Worlds Ghost Temple."

"Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva seems to have lost his patience as well. He is no longer as calm as before. He directly shows a majestic and terrifying nine-headed wrathful appearance, and one of his huge hands burning with black flames slaps towards you."

"Although you tried your best to resist Dizang's attack, due to the huge difference in strength between the two, you were ultimately unable to resist his tactics and were beaten into a pulp by a palm strike."

"You are dead."

"Do you want to activate the effect of the scapegoat and revive here?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose no and did not use a scapegoat to resurrect. Instead, he planned to use dog food to resurrect directly at the Fengdu shrine outside.

"You opened your eyes at the shrine."

"What are you going to do next?"

"Will you choose to accept this loss and leave Shifang Zen Forest, or will you take revenge on Shifang Zen Forest before leaving?"

As soon as Jiang Xinghuo read the content of the text, he immediately made his own decision. Regardless of whether there were other benefits or not, he felt too frustrated by the loss and he would not be willing to accept it unless he got rid of it.

"You have entered the Ten Directions Zen Forest again."

"But as soon as you entered, you were discovered by other monks, who immediately attacked you with their iron rods."

"The monk Dipankara who first led you into the Ten Directions Zen Forest wanted to stop others from harming you, but another monk smashed his head with a stick."

Seeing this, Jiang Xinghuo really couldn't help it. Since entering the game, he was almost never really angry, and he just talked nonsense.

But this time he decided to go big.

I finally saw a good person in this world who was kind to me, but he was killed like this. Then everyone else here deserves to die as well.

“You opened the bag of tricks.”

"You found the body of Great Venerable Liuli, tore off one of his arms, and shattered it with thunder magic. Blood and flesh immediately splashed like rain, falling on the monks who were besieging you and watching the fun."

"The Great Master Liuli once suffered from the pollution curse of scarlet corruption, and this filthy power is also contained in his flesh and blood. Moreover, this power did not dissipate with his death, but has only temporarily stabilized."

"Now, you sprinkled the flesh and blood of the Great Glazed Venerable on these monks, which naturally made them stained with the scarlet corruption curse..."

"You were beaten to a pulp by so many monks, not even a complete body was left..."

"The Scarlet Corruption Curse has been triggered."

"You have obtained the blessing and protection of the Scarlet Corruptor..."

(End of this chapter)