My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 603: Immortality

Jiang Xinghuo temporarily put his thoughts aside. It wasn't that he didn't care about this technique, but the key was that it was useless even if he cared about it.

It is impossible for Patriarch Huangxian to hand over this magic skill obediently. He can only wait and see if there is another opportunity in the future.

At this time, the game plot on the screen continues to advance.

"Where are you planning to go next?"

"Will you choose to go back to Xinglong Villa and play the dark trick under the lamp? Or will you choose to return to the training ground shrouded by the void field?"

"Or, you can choose to go to the dusty Dragon Court Treasure Pavilion to find out."

The game still provides those three interactive options.

Jiang Xinghuo pondered for a moment. With the ability to go back in time through the Light Tracing Technique, it would be easy for Old Ancestor Huang Xian to find his trace.

If you choose to confront the other party head-on, you won't gain any advantage, so you can only choose to temporarily avoid the conflict.

But now, he didn't know where the Yellow Immortal Patriarch was, nor did he know whether the other party was observing him secretly.

If the other party was still watching him secretly, then he would never choose to go to the training ground or the treasure house.

Otherwise, you would be leading the way for the old yellow-skinned man and taking the initiative to deliver those treasures to others.

So, after some thought, Jiang Xinghuo finally chose to return to Xinglong Villa.

"On the way..."

"Please wait……"

"You have arrived at Xinglong Villa."

"You walked to the place where Huang Xiaojiu was killed and found that the body on the ground had disappeared, leaving only a pool of dirty blood. Do you want to collect this dirty blood?"

"As Huang Xiaojiu's direct descendant, his blood also contains a trace of rare medicinal properties. It can be used as a medicine to greatly improve the quality of some special elixirs."

As soon as Jiang Xinghuo saw the description in the text, he immediately chose yes. It didn't take much effort anyway.

No matter whether it is useful or not, just get it first.

"You have obtained the blood of the Yellow Immortal (ordinary item)."

Jiang Xinghuo put Huang Xiaojiu's blood into a bottle and then went into the palace to explore.

But what made him feel a little disappointed was that he did not find any hidden treasures in the palace. Even with his talent of seeing through walls and seeing through fire, he did not find any buildings such as mezzanine secret passages.

"pity……"

Jiang Xinghuo muttered something, but didn't take it too seriously. He turned around and continued to count the remaining things.

He did obtain a lot of props materials from Huang Xiaojiu, but before he could finish counting them all, he was killed by Old Huang Pizi. It was a good opportunity for him to sort out the remaining things while no one was disturbing him.

"Quick Healing Stone Marrow Ice Jade Bed (Rare Item), a jade bed carved from a whole piece of ice jade marrow. It has the function of quickly recovering from injuries and increasing the speed of cultivation. In addition, it can also purify the mind and spirit, and has a strong inhibitory effect on inner demons."

"The Millennium Ice Heart Jade Coffin (a rare item). This coffin is made of Millennium Ice Jade. It can greatly delay the loss of vitality and ensure that the corpse will not decay for a thousand years. It can even preserve the last bit of vitality in the human body, waiting for the resurrection in the future."

Both of these props are made of ice jade. The ice jade bed can be kept for my own use in the future, but I don’t seem to need the coffin for the time being.

But it is a rare item after all, so I'd better keep it for now. Who knows when it may come in handy.

"Dragon Breeding Technique Copy Carving (Rare). The True Dragon Son carved the Dragon Breeding Technique that he practiced on a stone slab. However, this carving only contains about 30% of the original essence. If you practice with it, you will not be able to comprehend the essence of the Dragon Breeding Technique. You can only use it as a reference."

"Do you want to use this item?"

Jiang Xinghuo easily selected yes and used the item in the game, and soon received relevant information.

"Your dragon-raising skills have been slightly improved, +0.7."

But in reality, Jiang Xinghuo didn't feel any changes. Perhaps it was because the increased power was too low and he couldn't feel any changes at all.

"The corpse of the inverted-foot fairy (rare material). This is an extremely rare species of monsters. They have the ability to change their limbs at will, and they also have the ability to regenerate after being severed. However, their magic power is low. Even an ordinary hunter can kill them as long as they are careful."

"Pay attention. Because of its innate talent, the inverted foot fairy is most popular among the world's medical experts. In particular, the bone-repairing pill made with the inverted foot fairy can reconnect a broken body in just a few moments, making it the same as an ordinary person without any injuries."

At this point, the things in Rou Tai Sui's bag had basically been cleared out. The remaining few things were what he had taken from Huang Xiaojiu's body, and were not what the other party had found in the palace.

Most of these things are props of rare quality, and are definitely rare in the secular world. If they are thrown into a niche, they can sell for a lot of money.

Jiang Xinghuo used what he could directly, put away what he could use in the future, and threw aside what was completely useless. He planned to sell them at the niche shop after leaving the Longting ruins.

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo looked at the things he had taken from the little yellow-skinned man's body.

"The Secret Manual of the Art of Human Skin Impersonation (Excellent Item). The art of human skin impersonation is a circulated technique in unorthodox ways. It is said to be derived from the art of animal creation, but some say that animal creation is a simplified version of this art. Practitioners can use human skin to disguise themselves. It can basically be said to be seamless, and even ordinary eyes can hardly see through it."

"Please note that this method can only be performed with the skin of humanoid creatures. The skin of other types of monsters and demons cannot be used."

"Do you want to learn this technique?"

Jiang Xinghuo directly chose no. This thing was useless to him. With the Compassion Jade on him, he didn't need to rely on this method to conceal his identity. There was no need to practice this unorthodox technique.

He looked at the remaining two.

"Wind-Attracting Ear Organ (Excellent Material), the ear organ left behind by the wind-attracting monster after its death. It has the innate ability of 'eavesdropping on the wind'. After being integrated with its own organs, it can listen to distant sounds that come with the wind."

"Do you want to fuse this material?"

Jiang Xinghuo still chose no.

Not to mention that he has the Kitchen God's Eight Trigrams Ears. Even if he doesn't have the ability of the Eight Trigrams Ears, the Wind Control Record he masters can easily do this, so there is no need to add those fragments to himself.

These two things are of no use, and Jiang Xinghuo doesn't plan to keep them to take up space, so he just hangs them in the niche as usual and prepares to sell them.

Only the last album of bizarre ways of dying piqued Jiang Xinghuo's interest. Although this item was taken from the little yellow-skinned man, it was actually found by the other party in Xinglong Villa.

"A Picture Book of Bizarre Ways of Death (Special). This is a picture book with an extremely strange style. It contains detailed drawings of various bizarre ways of death, full of strange and bizarre charm. But other than that, there doesn't seem to be anything special about it."

"You have triggered the Tathagata's talent."

"You used the ability of Tathagatagarbha to analyze and see the origin of all things, and discovered the secret hidden beneath the surface of this scroll."

"This picture album is actually a cultivation method. It was originally a volume of magical power passed down by the Taoist ancestors in ancient times, called the Art of Immortality."

"You have obtained the Secret Scroll of the Immortality Technique (incomplete)." "This Secret Scroll of the Immortality Technique is the magical power that Daozu comprehended between life and death. Its quality has reached the 'mythical' level, but because this scroll is incomplete, its quality has also fallen from the mythical level. As long as all the secret scrolls can be collected, it can be transformed into a mythical-level magical power again."

"The Art of Immortality (Incomplete). This volume of the Secret Art of Immortality covers almost all the ways of death in the world, from suicide to homicide, to various natural disasters, man-made disasters, curses, and many other ways of death. The essence and core of this magical power is to deceive life and death, and constantly transform one's own form between life and death."

"For example, if a cultivator is killed by having his head chopped off, as long as he can deceive the truth about life and death and revive himself, he will not be killed by swords or sharp weapons in the future."

"If someone dies suddenly from a curse or some other evil spell, as long as he or she can hide from the senses of life and death and revive again, he or she will be immune from all curses and attacks from evil spells in the future."

"If you were to be suddenly possessed and die suddenly for unknown reasons, after you are resurrected, this power would no longer pose a threat to you..."

"If you repeat this process over and over again, you will be immune to most of the ways of death in the world, and then you will naturally become immortal."

"At that time, even if your cultivation power is not as good as others, no one can completely take your life. The worst result is that you will be sealed away."

Immortality? Indestructibility? Immortality?

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the description of the game text and raised his brows slightly, thinking that this immortality technique was a little too weird.

It's hard to imagine that it was passed down by a figure like Daozu.

This technique is truly about risking one's life in order to survive.

As long as one can deceive life and death, one can be resurrected and guaranteed not to be killed by the same means in the future.

I don't know about the feature of players constantly resurrecting.

Does it count as deceiving life and death?

If that counts, then this technique is tailor-made for players. He can use various suicide methods to experience all ways of dying in the shortest possible time, and then he can do whatever he wants.

"Do you want to learn this technique?"

When Jiang Xinghuo saw the options given in the text, he thought there was no need to hesitate, and directly chose to learn this art of immortality.

"Learning, please wait..."

"Study completed."

"You have mastered the art of immortality."

"You have learned the method of deceiving life and death from the Secret Scroll of Immortality, but the Secret Scroll of Immortality is currently incomplete and lacks many key steps."

"Especially, each way of dying corresponds to a different method of deceiving life and death, so you can only master some of the methods recorded in it now."

"Be careful, deceiving the living and the dead is a big taboo in the secular world. Once you use this method, you will become the enemy of the entire underworld, and a large number of ghost officials will hunt you down, unless you can gain the recognition of the underworld kings and become a ghost official under their command, then you will naturally have no such worries."

Jiang Xinghuo was delighted when he saw this.

This condition may be very harsh for others.

But that's it for me.

Although he cannot gain the recognition of other underworld kings, he himself is the king of the underworld hell, so it is not easy for him to solve this problem.

Who dares to sue me?
However, Jiang Xinghuo did not obtain any relevant memories in reality, and it is not known whether it was because the martial arts method was incomplete.

“Now that you’ve cleaned up everything, where are you going to go next??”

The game text pops up with interaction options again.

The map has not changed.

Over and over again, there are three places: the training ground, the treasure house, and the Xinglong Villa.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the time. It was already dark. He did not choose to continue exploring. Instead, he opened the character panel and switched his consciousness to his original body.

Of course, before switching his consciousness over, Jiang Xinghuo had also made preparations. He hid the Nine Dead Cicada Shell in the cave of Xinglong Villa and also took some protective measures outside.

"You opened your eyes in the cave, and your consciousness returned to your body. Everything in the cave was normal, and there was no sign of any outsider entering."

"What choice are you going to make next?"

"Will you choose to enter the Dragon Court Ruins on Jiuding Mountain again, or leave Jiuding Mountain at night and explore other places?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose the latter without hesitation.

It was enough to leave the Nine-Death Cicada Shell at the Dragon Court Ruins. There was no need to take the main body with it. It was only one day away from the Waking of Insects, so he had to take this opportunity to do something else.

"You choose to leave Jiuding Mountain."

"Move the boulder that's blocking the entrance, walk out of this hidden cave, and head down the mountain."

"You found that more and more monsters gathered at the foot of the mountain. And not only monsters from Kanto, but also monsters from other regions. When they saw you coming down the mountain, they immediately came over to surround you and ask you what happened up there."

"Some evil-minded monsters want to take advantage of your misfortune and ask you to take out all the incense and other things you have."

"What are you going to do now?"

"Would you rather spend some money to avoid disaster, just give out some things to appease the situation and get rid of these monsters, or would you rather just send them off with you?"

Jiang Xinghuo didn't have the patience to continue fighting with him, so he directly released the drought demon in the acupoint.

"Exile, you don't seem to plan to waste any more time here. You opened the acupoints in your body and summoned the restless Hanba. You started a massacre at the foot of Jiuding Mountain."

"You have killed the mountain prodigy, incense +300."

"You have killed the City God, incense +509."

"You have killed the Night Watchman, incense +270."

"Incense +200, incense +170, incense +210..."

"Your actions have attracted the attention of the Mountain and River Sacrifice Master."

"The True Lord of Mountains and Rivers has sent down his True Lord power, temporarily blessing all the monsters that are besieging you. The physical fitness of those monsters has also been greatly improved."

"You felt a little tired, so you summoned the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons. After a very strenuous battle, you killed all the ghosts and gods blessed by the True Lord, but you were also seriously injured."

(End of this chapter)