My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 576: The Gift of Master Samsara
"Before you lost consciousness, you saw a six-winged cicada with a pitch-black body crawling out of the seven orifices of the dead cicada shell. The Zen sound that shattered your internal organs and consciousness came from the body of this cicada."

"You need to rest in the real world for sixteen hours before you can revive at the place where you died last time."

Jiang Xinghuo died in the White Bone Taoist Temple. Although he had expected it, this way of death still surprised him.

He could never have imagined that a deadly creature would appear in this dead cicada shell.

But at this point, he had no other choice. He was dead anyway, and couldn't control the flow of time. He could only wait quietly for the physical punishment to pass.

Jiang Xinghuo opened the magic bag, found a piece of dog food, and clicked to use it.

"You have used the dog food."

"Quantity -1."

"You ate this piece of dog food, and your physical penalty time has been shortened."

"You only need to rest in reality for fourteen hours before you can be resurrected again."

The punishment time was reduced from sixteen hours to fourteen hours.

better than nothing.

Jiang Xinghuo put down his phone, lay down on the bed, covered himself with the quilt, and went to sleep. He would talk about anything tomorrow.

I don't know whether it was because of the medicinal properties of the Xiantian Rebirth Pill that he had refined, or because he had obtained a new route for the Nine-Death Cicada's practice.

Jiang Xinghuo slept soundly.

What he didn't know was that his body was also changing while he was sleeping.

Strands of mist-like gas slowly floated out from the pores, gradually wrapping Jiang Xinghuo's body. It looked like a giant cicada pupa, and its surface was still rising and falling regularly, as if it was breathing.

This situation continued until the next morning, when the cicada-pupa-like white mist re-entered Jiang Xinghuo's body.

After Jiang Xinghuo woke up, he didn't notice any changes, but when he was about to get up, he suddenly felt his body lighten, and the whole person became transparent and illusory, like a projected image, overlapping with the bed under him.

"what's the situation?"

Jiang Xinghuo was startled at first, but quickly calmed down and began to carefully check his own condition.

He is now somewhat like a ghost, unable to come into contact with real objects, but without any trace of Yin energy. Instead, he is somewhat similar to the travel of the Yang God in Taoist legends.

At this time, Jiang Xinghuo took a light step forward, and his body was like a feather blown by the wind. In an instant, he arrived at the wall of the living room. The wall of the bedroom did not serve as any obstacle for him. His speed was so fast that even his magical movement method was ashamed.

"It can transform its own form into nothingness and avoid all attacks... Could it be the Nine Deaths Cicada?"

Jiang Xinghuo suddenly remembered the new Nine Deaths Cicada skill he obtained in the game yesterday. According to the description in the game text, the new Nine Deaths Cicada skill can make one's body virtual, thereby avoiding all external attacks.

This is exactly what I am facing at the moment.

Jiang Xinghuo sank his mind into the details and began to look up the detailed description of the new technique. He then condensed his body again according to the method recorded therein.

"It's really a nine-death cicada..."

Jiang Xinghuo was surprised and also very happy about this.

The power of this Nine-Death Cicada was beyond his imagination. Not only could it make its own body vanish, but even the clothes on its body could also vanish into nothingness at any time.

This saves you from the socially fatal scene of streaking.

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo tried it several times again. When he became virtual, he could use thunder magic and dragon-raising technique, but other than that, he could not use any other skills, including the evil spirits imprisoned in his own acupoints, which he could not summon out.

After repeated experiments, Jiang Xinghuo had a rough idea in his mind, so that he would not be at a loss when facing the enemy and be harmed by others by exploiting his weaknesses.

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo returned to his normal state, picked up the phone beside him and checked the game. The physical penalty time had not yet ended, there were still about four hours left.

All we can do is keep waiting.

Jiang Xinghuo packed up and went downstairs to open for business. At noon, a message came from the game, indicating that the physical penalty time had ended.

Jiang Xinghuo was not in a hurry to go online. Instead, he went to have lunch first, then called the deliveryman to arrange the delivery time for tomorrow. Then he locked the door, returned to the living room on the second floor, and started today's game.

"You opened your eyes in the White Bone Taoist Temple, and the six-winged cicada had disappeared. I don't know whether it returned to the body of the nine-dead cicada or flew to another place."

When Jiang Xinghuo came back to life, the first thing he did was to release the monsters and ghosts in his acupoints. He died too quickly yesterday, and these evil monsters and ghosts that were captured returned to his acupoints the moment he died. He did not have much time to comprehend the magic spells of these monsters and ghosts.

Therefore, this time Jiang Xinghuo directly released them and let them continue to comprehend the things in the Taoist temple. After all, the more they can comprehend, the stronger they can be.

"You have triggered the talent of seeing through fire."

"You observed the surroundings with your vision, but did not find any trace of the six-winged cicada. However, when you set your sight on the nine-dead cicada shell, you found the six-winged cicada dormant in the heart area under the skin. It was curled up in the heart in pitch black, motionless, as if it had died along with the shell."

"But you know, this is just an illusion. As long as someone touches the remains, the six-winged cicada will wake up again and emit a terrifying soul-demanding sound, killing anyone who offends the remains."

"You have triggered the Tathagata's talent."

"You have seen through the true face of this six-winged cicada."

"Six-winged Spiritual Cicada (Rare), a species of monster bred by the Nine Deaths Cicada. Although only the size of an ordinary cicada, it can emit a life-threatening resonance. After merging with the surrounding air, it overlaps like a tide and can easily shatter a person's internal organs, soul and consciousness. Even if one blocks one's hearing, the resonance vibration of the air can still cause harm."

"Be careful, the vitality of this six-winged cicada is very fragile, and it only recognizes one master in its entire life. If you try to forcibly restrain and seal it, the cicada will automatically explode and die."

Pity! !

Jiang Xinghuo originally wanted to use the God-Binding Immortal Talisman to subdue this six-winged cicada, but he didn't expect that this cicada had such a special characteristic, so he had to give up this idea.

"Where are you planning to go next?"

"Would you like to continue wandering around in the Taoist temple, or go to the second floor of the ancient building to explore? Or, would you like to explore behind the stone door on the left?"

The game gave three possible answers, and Jiang Xinghuo was not in a hurry to leave immediately, but chose to continue wandering in the Taoist temple.

It was not until the game text prompted that the monsters and demons released from the acupoints had yielded results that he decided to leave the White Bone Taoist Temple and go somewhere else.

"Please choose where you want to go next?"

This time, the game gives two options, one is to explore the second floor of the ancient building, and the other is to explore behind the stone door on the left.

Jiang Xinghuo thought for a while and chose to go to the stone door on the left.

Now that we have explored the right side, it is time to look at the left side. If we choose to go to the second floor, we will miss it if we cannot come down.

Even if it was a bad omen, he had to go over there first. "You left the White Bone Taoist Temple and returned along the same route you came from, back to where you came in. Are you really determined to enter the stone door on the left?"

"You used the divination method again for three times in a row, and the results you got each time were the same, still showing a very bad outcome. I think if you dare to step into it, you will die suddenly in there at any time."

"The Turtle Spirit Seven Treasures Sword on your waist also began to stir, and finally flew out of the scabbard and circled in front of you, but the location where the blade pointed remained unchanged, which was the half-open stone door in front of you."

"It was only at this time that you suddenly realized that the stone door, which was originally tightly closed, had become half-open. You didn't know whether someone walked in from the outside, or... something came out from inside?"

Seeing this, Jiang Xinghuo narrowed his eyes. It was definitely not that he was afraid, but he was somewhat worried. It was not that he was afraid of the potential danger, but mainly because the physical punishment after death would last too long.

The scapegoat cannot be used here, and the dog food can only shorten the physical penalty by about two hours.

If you die here, you won’t be able to continue exploring today and will have to wait until tomorrow to continue the game. This is a huge waste of time.

But at this moment, a new game text suddenly popped up on the screen.

"Lord Samsara sensed your distress. Although you did not visit him after arriving in the underworld, he still ordered his Samsara subordinates to send you some things that may help you solve your current worries."

Samsara Lord? ?

Jiang Xinghuo was a little surprised.

He almost forgot about this person.

A long time ago.

He had triggered clues related to the Lord of Samsara, and obtained from him a Samsara altar that could not be dropped or discarded, and was also forced to complete a task by the other party.

That is to find the fragments of the law of reincarnation. As long as the fragments of the law of reincarnation are found, they can be transmitted to the hands of the God of Reincarnation in the underworld through the reincarnation altar.

However, he only completed this task once, and had some unpleasantness with the reincarnations who came to deliver the reward.

Since then, he has never triggered this task again. Unexpectedly, Lord Samsara would take the initiative to find him and provide him with a solution to his current troubles.

"The Samsara people have arrived outside the Yinshan Ancient Tower. Do you want to go out and see what they have brought you?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes.

But the text that popped up next stopped him from going out.

"You will find that the gate of the Yinshan Ancient Tower has been closed. You cannot leave here now. You can only leave here when the gate of the ancient tower is opened again and you find the key to open the gate of the ancient tower."

"The Samsara people standing outside the ancient building are transmitting messages to you, asking you to take out the Samsara Altar. They can send the things in their hands through the Samsara Altar, but you need to pay some incense to maintain the energy of the altar to transmit the items."

"What are you going to choose next?"

"Do you want to take out the samsara altar and let the samsara people outside send things in?"

"Please note that when the Samsara Altar is transmitting items, a large amount of incense needs to be burned to maintain the energy generated by the altar during transmission."

No way.

Jiang Xinghuo could only choose yes.

If he didn't choose to teleport things in, he would probably only have a short time to explore every day, and he might die if he encountered any problems.

Moreover, judging from the description in the game text, the half-open stone door on the left is more likely to be something coming out of it, and it might be circling around me now.

"You took out the altar of reincarnation."

"You activated the teleportation function of the Samsara Altar."

"Transmitting..."

"Your incense is starting to burn quickly."

"Your incense number, -1000."

"Transmitting..."

"Your incense number, -500."

"Transmitting..."

"Your incense number, -800."

"Transmitting..."

"..."

"..."

Jiang Xinghuo felt a pang of pain in his heart when he saw this. It was not until he had burned nearly 5000 incense sticks that the game text finally indicated that the transmission was complete.

"Transmission complete."

"The Samsara Clan has left the Yinshan Ancient Tower. If it continues to stay here, it may never be able to leave."

"But before you left, the Samsara people used voice transmission to remind you to be careful of the second floor of the Yinshan Ancient Tower. There is a being hidden there that even the Samsara Master is unwilling to provoke."

The second floor again?

Jiang Xinghuo remembered what the owner of Liuhe Pavilion said. He had also discovered a terrifying existence on the second floor of the Yinshan Ancient Building, and warned himself not to approach that room, otherwise he would inevitably encounter an ominous situation.

Could the person that the Liuhe Pavilion Master is talking about be the same person that the Samsara people are talking about?
Jiang Xinghuo thought about it for a while, but couldn't come to a conclusion, so he simply stopped thinking about it and started to check the things that Master Samsara gave him.

"You walked to the reincarnation altar and picked up the object on it. It was an exquisite ceramic doll and a black mahogany dagger."

"Remarks from Master Lunsai: Although you did not come to visit me, I still generously gave you something (smiley face)."

"You have obtained a Yintao wood dagger (rare) and a samsara ceramic doll (rare)."

Jiang Xinghuo was speechless. Are there emoticons in the underworld?

However, looking at it this way, it seems that this Mr. Samsara is not a particularly old-fashioned person. At least he knows how to use emoticons to convey his messages.

Jiang Xinghuo shook his head and looked at the Yintao wood dagger and the reincarnation ceramic doll.

(End of this chapter)