My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 676: The truth behind the fall of the Third Ancestor?
"Do you want to release the grave god in the mausoleum and see if you can subdue it with your power?"

Jiang Xinghuo understood that this grave god was a living radar, specially used to search ancient tombs and mausoleums, and help the ancestor Shouchi to practice the Shouchi method.

It is also quite useful to him. Although he does not know how to practice the pool collection method, he can use these monsters to open up new maps.

The world is so vast that it contains countless ancient tombs. Some of these tombs have long been buried under the loess due to changes in mountains and rivers. Trying to find them with human power is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

But with the help of the grave god, his hope of finding those ancient tombs would be relatively much greater.

Therefore, Jiang Xinghuo no longer hesitated and directly chose to release the grave god, wanting to use it for his own purposes.

"You chose to release the grave god."

"A shrunken figure emitting black corpse qi and wearing a black robe with flowery feathers quickly crawled out of the mausoleum and attacked you without hesitation."

"You did not summon the monsters in the cave, because if you want to completely subdue the grave god, you must defeat the grave god head-on with your own strength. Only in this way can you subdue the grave god and make it serve you as its master."

"You used the Dragon Transformation Chapter of the Dragon Raising Technique. The dragon veins hidden under the earth were immediately attracted by your magic power and merged into your body. The power of the dragon veins was as heavy as a mountain. You easily pinned the grave god to the ground. No matter how the other party struggled, it could not escape from you. It was as if there was really a mountain pressing on it."

"The grave god was easily subdued by your great strength and quickly showed his willingness to surrender. Do you want to let this grave god live?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes. He had no intention of killing the grave god, otherwise there would be no need to go through so much trouble. He could just kill it with one strike.

"You chose to let this grave god go. What do you choose to do with this grave god next?"

"Will you choose to store it in the mausoleum, or will you choose to store it in the Prison Disaster in your body?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and decided that since he already had a place to hide, there was no need to put it into his own body.

Although the Prison Disaster can imprison evil spirits within the body, it may also backfire on its owner, so it is better to be careful.

"Now that you have subdued the grave god, you can use him for your own purposes, but you still have to be careful of his backlash."

At this point, all things have been cleared. Judging from the things found, it is definitely not all of Patriarch Shou Chi’s collection. It is estimated that it is just the tip of the iceberg.

After all, Patriarch Shou Chi was a figure who became famous during the reign of the Lord of the Secular World. It is impossible that he only has these few things on him. Most of the good things must still be on him. It is impossible for him to get them so easily.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xinghuo felt more and more regretful. If he had known that there were so many good things on Patriarch Shou Chi, he would have spent hundreds of thousands of incense sticks to kill the other party. But it was too late to regret now, and he could only wait until later to find another opportunity.

"What are your options next?"

New game interactive text popped up on the phone screen.

"Will you choose to leave Huangwai Mountain directly and go to the ruins left by the Beast Tamer Immortal to explore? Or will you choose to return to the Black Mother Temple at the foot of the mountain to see if you can find anything there?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose the latter without much thought. What he wanted to know most now was why Patriarch Shou Chi came to Huangwai Mountain.

He originally thought that Patriarch Shou Chi was here to cause trouble for him, but later he discovered that something was wrong.

It was obvious that Patriarch Shou Chi wanted to destroy the entire Huangwai Mountain. If it weren't for the remaining spirit of Black Mama, I'm afraid that Patriarch Shou Chi's plan would have succeeded.

"You chose to return to the Black Mother Temple at the foot of the mountain."

"On the way, please wait..."

Jiang Xinghuo waited for about ten minutes, and the subsequent game text popped up.

"You have arrived at the Black Mother Temple."

"You walked into the Black Mother Temple and noticed that the old statue on the altar was even more dilapidated than before. There were spider-web-like cracks evenly distributed all over the statue, as if it would completely shatter in the next moment."

"You want to wake up the dormant soul of Black Mother, but no matter how you cast spells and offer sacrifices, the soul of Black Mother does not respond. What are you going to do now?"

"Do you choose to continue waiting? Or do you choose to do something?"

Jiang Xinghuo read the contents of the game text twice and had a rough guess in his mind. He was about to control Jiao to leave the Black Mother Temple and go to the teahouse and niche shop in Guandong City to hang out, but he suddenly triggered a new plot.

"You found a body outside the Black Mother Temple."

"No, to be more precise, the body is not dead yet, because you heard it groaning. But when you got closer, you found that the body was already mostly rotten, and it looked like it would not live much longer."

"You have discovered the undead that has been deposited in decay."

"Would you like to go forward and listen to the last words of this immortal?"

Immortal?
Jiang Xinghuo became somewhat interested, but given the previous experience with this game, if he went over to join in the fun, he would most likely be killed by something.

But it doesn’t matter. I can’t just ignore the mission clues that are delivered to my door.

"You walked over to listen to what the other party said, but the moment you leaned over to get closer to the rotten body, a red-scaled poisonous snake with dragon horns suddenly emerged from the rotten chest cavity and bit your throat like lightning. Its sharp teeth pierced your skin in an instant, and the cold venom entered your body and invaded your heart driven by the blood."

"Dark brown smelly blood oozed out of your five senses and seven orifices, and your body trembled and fainted on the ground."

"In a trance, you seemed to see the Styx ferry in the underworld, but at this moment, your body sensed the invasion of snake venom and began to spontaneously form snake venom antibodies, which quickly neutralized the snake venom in your body. It did not cause any impact on your life, but instead made you immune to the damage caused by this snake venom in the future."

"You've revived."

Jiang Xinghuo was a little surprised. He thought he would have to wait for a few more hours for the cooling period, but he did not expect that he could clear the snake venom in his body and gain the power to be immune to the toxin.

"Are you going to approach that corrupted undead being again?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes. When he had no ability to resist, he would rush over to join in the fun. What’s more, now that he has the ability to resist.

"You approached the rotten undead again, and the red-scaled venomous snake attacked you again, but this time you were prepared. The moment the red-scaled venomous snake appeared, you used the snake-controlling technique passed down by the Dry Marrow Immortal to play with this vicious venomous snake in the palm of your hand." "You observed this red-scaled venomous snake through the vision of Tathagata, and understood the origin of this venomous snake."

"You have discovered it, Dragon Blood Snake."

"Dragon Blood Snake (excellent material), a creature that is a combination of a giant viper and an evil dragon. It has the characteristics of both the viper and the dragon. Its venom glands contain a highly toxic substance, but it is also a good medicinal material for treating rheumatism."

"You put away the dragon blood snake and walked over to the decayed chest of the undead. You found a shrine. Do you want to light it up?"

"You have lit up the shrine of Huangwai Mountain."

"You learned some of the things that happened to this undead from its mumblings."

"This immortal was originally a Tai Sui official under the Tai Sui God. He followed the Tai Sui God's order to go to Guandong to look for the legacy left by the Lord of the Secular World. However, he was ambushed by unidentified people and was seriously injured and dying. He barely escaped from the siege of those people and ended up in the Black Mother Temple, where he made a deal with the remaining spirit of Black Mother."

"Mama Hei granted this Tai Sui Tianguan the ability to live forever, but as a price, it will no longer be able to move freely from now on. It can only become the carrier of the Fengdu shrine, lying motionless outside the temple, regardless of wind and rain, birds and beasts pecking at it, but it cannot move at all."

"It won't be freed from this state of neither life nor death until someone chosen by Black Mother arrives here."

"Now, it finally has a chance to be freed, but before that, this Tai Sui Tianguan wants to use everything he has in exchange for a promise from you."

"It hopes that you can wake up its son and bring him back to Jiangnan City, which is ruled by Tai Sui. Then its son can inherit its position as Tai Sui Tianguan and receive the protection of Tai Sui in the future, so he won't die on the street."

"Are you willing to help this Tai Sui Tianguan fulfill his request?"

"To show his sincerity, Tai Sui Tianguan asked you to go to the banyan tree a hundred steps away in the southeast direction. All the valuables on his body are buried there. This is his reward in advance."

When Jiang Xinghuo read the content of the text, he felt that there was nothing wrong with it. The other party had given him the remuneration in advance, so he seemed to have no reason to refuse it.

Of course, you can also take those things and run away. If you do that, there will probably be other plot developments later.

But Jiang Xinghuo felt that if he did so, he might miss some important plots.

"You accepted the request of Tai Sui Tian Guan."

"You came to the banyan tree that Tai Sui Tianguan mentioned and found something that the other party had buried under the roots of the tree."

"You have obtained a Tai Sui Jue, a Tai Sui Ling, and a Broken Luck Knife."

"Taisui Jue (rare item), a spell secret book bestowed by Taisui God to his disciples, Taisui Tianguan. You can borrow Taisui God's power for your own use, but whether the other party is willing to lend it out depends entirely on Taisui God's wish."

"Do you want to practice this technique?"

"Pay attention. Once you practice the Tai Sui Jue, you will be anchored by the Dharma nature of Tai Sui God. Tai Sui God can descend upon the practitioner at any time through the Tai Sui Jue. Unless you are willing to become a believer of Tai Sui God, this technique will have no effect on you."

Jiang Xinghuo now understood that the method these Taoist masters used to control their subordinates was basically the same. Through powerful cultivation methods, they turned the practitioners into their puppets.

Moreover, the practitioners cannot resist. Once they touch these secret books, their fate is sealed. It all depends on whether the other party wants to deal with them.

Jiang Xinghuo naturally would not learn such a magic with great hidden dangers. He took a look at it and threw it into the magic bag.

"Taisui Token (rare item), a symbol of the identity of the Taisui Celestial Official. As long as you activate the Taisui Token with your magic power, other Taisui Celestial Officials will sense the location of the Taisui Token and rush to the location of the token in the shortest possible time."

Jiang Xinghuo thought that this was a signal flare for help, and he could use it to find other Tai Sui Tianguan when he went to Jiangnan City.

Finally, there is only one luck-breaking knife left.

“The Luck-Cutting Knife (rare item), the Tai Sui Tianguan’s personal weapon, can temporarily cut off the illusory luck, and can also connect the cut-off luck to oneself, thereby increasing the triggering rate of various unexpected tasks.”

"These things are the rewards that Tai Sui Tian Guan left for you. Then Tai Sui Tian Guan told you where his son was sleeping."

"Back then, it brought its wife, children, and disciples to Guandong. In the end, only it and its son survived. Before making a deal with the remaining spirit of Black Mother, it placed its son in a secluded place, in a tree hole under the big banyan tree outside the Black Mother Temple. You can go in and wake him up at any time."

Jiang Xinghuo was not in a hurry to do this task. Tai Sui Tianguan was just an accidental discovery. His real task was to awaken the remaining spirit of Black Mother first.

"You got the method to awaken the remaining spirit of Black Mother from Tai Sui Tian Guan. First, you need a carrier that can hold the remaining spirit of Black Mother. Then, you need to offer spiritual offerings such as incense and gold ingots to have a chance to awaken the remaining spirit of Black Mother."

Jiang Xinghuo read what Tai Sui Tianguan said, and it was similar to what he had thought before.

When the game text described that the Black Mother statue was full of cracks, he guessed that he might have to repair the statue first.

He went to the teahouse niche shop to buy some related materials.

Jiang Xinghuo teleported himself back to Guandong City through the shrine on Tai Sui Tianguan's body, went to the teahouse and shrine shop for a visit, and bought the paint for the hanging robe, Guanyin soil, and rootless water.

These are the best materials for repairing statues.

"You have returned to the Black Mother Temple again and taken out the paint, rootless water, and Guanyin soil from your backpack. Do you want to submit them?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without hesitation.

"You mixed these materials together and smeared them on the statue. You quickly repaired the broken statue. Then you took out the offerings and 1000 incense sticks from your backpack and placed them on the altar according to the scale of a Shaolao."

"You have lost, incense -1000."

"A ray of light flashed across the statue of Black Mother, and the remaining spirit of Black Mother, which was on the verge of dissipating, was nourished by incense and offerings, and woke up again from the statue."

"The remaining spirit of Black Mother said that she didn't have much time left. Fortunately, she was able to tell you what happened that year before she completely dissipated."

"You learned the truth about the fall of the three ancestors outside the pass from Hei Mama's description..."

(End of this chapter)