My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 679: Five Warriors

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the riddle lantern and the Three-Five Yama Kings and fell into deep thought, not knowing which one to choose for a moment.

The riddle lantern can solve one of his problems, but it disappears after use, and the questions asked may not necessarily get accurate answers.

The Three or Five Kings of Hell can summon the projection of the King of Hell from the underworld. Logically, I should choose this as a reward.

However, everything in the underworld is evil. After using this thing, it will form an anchor point in your body. Although you can use it again in the future, it is hard to say what price you will pay.

Judging from the description in the game text, it might be something that can be done very easily, or it might directly reduce your life span.

This kind of unpredictable variable is too difficult to deal with. If he really sacrifices his own lifespan, he will be in big trouble. The human lifespan is only so many years. Although his lifespan has increased a little, he is not immortal. Most of his lifespan may be deducted in one go.

As for the ten-year lifespan mentioned in the game text, Jiang Xinghuo simply regarded it as nonsense. If he believed everything in the game text, he would be eaten to the last drop.

Finally, after some careful consideration, Jiang Xinghuo chose the riddle lantern. He planned to use it to ask a question.

Jiang Xinghuo turned his left hand to the back, and a jade rabbit-shaped mark flashed across it.

This is the [Guardian of the House, Kangning Door God] that is temporarily residing in his left hand. In order to gain the recognition of this door god, he reached a contract with the [Guardian of the House, Kangning Door God] to help it find the whereabouts of the [Auspicious Door God] within one year.

In this way, these two door gods will truly acknowledge him as their master. Otherwise, after one year, the [Guardian of the Kangning Door God] will leave him.

However, he knew nothing about the whereabouts of the [Auspicious Door God of the House]. Even if he wanted to look for it, he didn't know where to start. He happened to come across this riddle lantern. Perhaps he could use this prop to find out the whereabouts of the [Auspicious Door God of the House].

"You chose the riddle lantern."

"You have been given the riddle lantern."

"You just need to write the question you want to know on a piece of paper, and then burn the paper into ashes with a riddle lantern, and you can get the answer to the question from it."

"But whether you can get an accurate answer to this question depends on whether this question involves secular secrets and whether it is related to some taboos."

"If you get involved with these unspeakable taboos, the answers to the questions will become vague and difficult to detect."

Jiang Xinghuo clicked on the corresponding text and brought the thing into reality.

A wooden octagonal palace lantern appeared in his hand, with a faint candlelight flickering inside the lantern. There was also a relief of a Bai Ze monster on it, with its mouth slightly open, which should be the part for passing notes into.

Jiang Xinghuo activated the Tathagatagarbha in his right eye, and his small pupil flashed with divine light as he looked at the riddle lantern.

The corresponding information also appears on the retina.

However, what Jiang Xinghuo wanted to spy on was not the ability of this riddle lantern, but to crack the corresponding production method through Tathagatagarbha.

If he could decipher the method of making this lantern, he could then buy the materials and make his own riddle lanterns in the future. He could afford the money even if they were consumables.

Soon, the method of making the riddle lantern appeared in Tathagata's vision.

However, Jiang Xinghuo noticed that most of the materials for making riddle lanterns can be bought in real life or in niche shops, except for one material that is hard to come by.

Corresponding text information also pops up in the game.

"Bai Ze's hair (excellent material). Bai Ze is a rare and exotic animal in the secular world. It is said that it has the innate ability to know everything in the world. As long as Bai Ze wants to know something, no one can hide it from him."

"It is said that there was a great god in the form of Bai Ze beside the Lord of the World. He was ranked first among the Three Dukes and helped the Lord of the World to govern the world. He made great contributions. However, he was injured by the star disaster caused by the Taoist Tianzai at dawn. His life or death is unknown. You can go to the Forbidden City and try to find this material."

Tsk, Bai Ze's hair, this is the most important material for making a riddle lantern. If you can't find this thing, then there is no way to forge a riddle lantern.

Jiang Xinghuo secretly took note of this thing, planning to see if he could find this material when he goes to the Forbidden City in the future.

But now he was ready to use this riddle lantern first. He took out paper and pen from the drawer, and Jiang Xinghuo wrote a few words on it.

The whereabouts of the auspicious door god.

After writing, Jiang Xinghuo handed the note into the mouth of the Bai Ze relief on the lantern. Then the Bai Ze relief opened its mouth and swallowed the note. The flame in the lantern also jumped up, burning the note into ashes in an instant.

Jiang Xinghuo waited for a while, and then saw the riddle lantern begin to disintegrate spontaneously, turning into a puff of ash and dissipating.

At the same time, subsequent texts were sent from the game.

"You want to know the whereabouts of the auspicious guardian god of the house. The riddle lantern can solve your problem."

"If you want to find the auspicious guardian god of the house, you must first find the Luofu Mountain God, because the auspicious guardian god of the house is imprisoned by the Luofu Mountain God. Only by finding the Luofu Mountain God and defeating him can you have a chance to rescue the imprisoned little door god."

Seeing this, Jiang Xinghuo immediately understood. It seems that this mission has to be carried out in Luofu Mountain in the Nanyue area. Only by exploring there can the subsequent plot be triggered.

However, it is not so easy to deal with the Luofu Mountain God. He remembered that he had obtained a waist badge of King Taiping before. If he wants to enter Luofu Mountain, he must hold this waist badge, otherwise he will be killed by the Luofu Mountain God who controls the power of wind and thunder.

Jiang Xinghuo opened the magic bag again and rummaged through it, and found the lost finger bone of the Luofu Mountain God.

This was the material he found in Huojun City. Judging from the description in the text, it was broken by someone. The person who did it was either the King Taiping who dominated Lingnan, or Marichi Tian, ​​who was also a great god of Luofu Mountain.

In short, there are many important figures involved in Luofu Mountain, and this map is probably not comparable to ordinary maps.

"The Guardian of the House, Kangning, resides in your left hand. He has seen everything you have done and is very grateful to you. He knows that you have not forgotten the contract between the two of you. He is also happy that the whereabouts of the Guardian of the House, Auspicious, is found."

"You have gained the favor of the gate god of Kangning, +2."

"The Kangning Gate God knows that the Luofu Mountain God is no ordinary monster, so he didn't force you to go to Lingnan immediately, but advised you not to rush over. With your current strength, even if you are tied together and multiplied several times, you will only die when facing the Luofu Mountain God. He can sense that the Xiangrui Gate God is not hurt, so he hopes you can wait until your strength is improved before going to Luofu Mountain."

"Before that, it will not leave your side. Even if the one-year contract expires, it will continue to stay by your side to protect you until you find the auspicious house guardian god. Then the two of them will truly recognize you as their master and become your strongest barrier to prevent you from being harmed by the outside world."

After reading this text, Jiang Xinghuo thought that it was a good thing that he chose the riddle lantern. He accidentally won the recognition and favor of the guardian of the house. If nothing unexpected happened, these two door gods would be in his pocket. He only needed to wait for the auspicious door gods to return to their positions, and he would have two most loyal shields.

"What are you going to choose now?"

"Do you want to put away the remaining few items?"

Jiang Xinghuo had a sudden thought. He had already taken the riddle lantern and used this prop. So what would be the consequences if he took away the rest?
You can't take away things that you have already used, right?
Jiang Xinghuo wanted to give it a try and control the character to collect the remaining things.

"You walked over and tried to collect the remaining three items on the stone, but you found that you couldn't touch the stone at all. It was as if you and the stone were in two different spaces. You could see it but couldn't touch it."

Jiang Xinghuo's heart moved. This seemed to be similar to the effect of dimensional magic, placing things in different dimensional spaces. They could be seen with the naked eye, but could not be touched.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xinghuo opened the skill panel, found the option of Dimension Technique, and then clicked to use it.

"You have used the dimensional technique."

"You placed yourself in another dimension and tried to pick up those things again. The Three or Five Hades, which were originally untouchable, were actually caught in your hands."

"You have obtained the Three-Five Hades."

Become!

Jiang Xinghuo was delighted. He didn't expect that the dimensional technique would actually work. At this time, the new game text popped up.

"You have triggered the message from the Beast Tamer Immortal."

"The Beastmaster Immortal said in his message that he cast a dimensional spell on this stone. Everyone who comes here can only take one thing. Only those who have mastered the authority of space have the opportunity to take the second thing."

"Now that you have triggered his message, it means that you have mastered the power of space. The second thing is what you deserve, but he doesn't want you to take everything away. You should keep three points, give three points, and do three points in everything. If you do everything to the extreme, you will end up in a dead end."

"What are you going to do now? Are you going to take the remaining two items? Or are you going to follow the instructions of the Beastmaster Immortal and give up taking those two items?"

Jiang Xinghuo pondered for a moment and decided that the remaining beast-taming rings and willow whip were not of particular use to him, so there was no need to violate the taboos of the beast-taming fairy by taking everything away.

As the saying goes, if you do everything too hard, your fate will end early. It is better to leave these two things to future generations.

"You chose to follow the instructions of the Beastmaster Immortal and gave up taking the last two items. Just as you were about to leave, a secret compartment suddenly appeared on the ground with a seal inside. Do you want to pick it up and take a look?"

Ok?
Any unexpected gains?

Jiang Xinghuo picked up the thing curiously.

"You picked up the seal in the secret compartment, but when you picked it up you discovered that the seal was only half broken, and the cut was neat and smooth. It must have been made by an extremely sharp weapon."

"You have triggered the Tathagata's talent."

"You want to get to the bottom of this seal and its origins."

"But you found that because this seal is incomplete, even Tathagatagarbha cannot glimpse its origin. Only by finding the remaining seals and combining them into one can we understand the origin of this seal."

Jiang Xinghuo felt a little puzzled. Was this incomplete seal deliberately left behind by the Beast Taming Immortal?
If I had not chosen to give up the Beast Taming Ring and the Willow Whip, would I not have been able to obtain this seal?

Jiang Xinghuo pondered for a while, but still had no idea, so he simply stopped paying attention to it and put it directly into his magic bag.

"What are your options next?"

"Will you choose to leave the remains of the Beast Tamer Immortal, or choose to explore another fork in the road?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose to go to another fork in the road.

He also wanted to know what was going on with those five powerful warriors. Before the little Bone-Evolving Dragon could see clearly what was going on, he was seriously injured by those warriors. His own child was beaten up, so he had to go over to see what was going on.

"You chose to go to another fork in the road."

"You followed the path that the little bone-transforming dragon took and came to the end of the fork in the road. The talismans and scriptures painted on the stone began to glow again, and more than a dozen Five Ding Mountain-Splitting Warriors appeared again and attacked you without hesitation."

"You pale in comparison to the siege of these Five Mountain-Splitting Warriors. You are completely unable to resist their attack and are soon beaten half to death. Just when you were about to be beaten to death, you suddenly had an idea and took out something."

The backpack panel popped up automatically. Jiang Xinghuo understood what this meant. Only by taking out that thing himself could he save his life under the siege of these five mountain-opening warriors.

But the key is what that thing is, and the game does not give any corresponding hints.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the countdown on the screen. There were only 15 seconds left. If he didn't make a choice after 15 seconds, he would probably have to wait for eight hours to cool down.

Finally, Jiang Xinghuo, with the mentality of trying everything possible, found the broken seal.

If we have to say something that can be related, it is only this seal that was also found in the ruins. Whether it is useful or not depends on your luck.

"You took out the incomplete seal."

"After the ordinary seal appeared, the Five Mountain-Splitting Warriors stopped attacking and immediately transformed into a brilliant stream of light, escaping into the scripture and talismans on the stone."

It’s really useful!

Jiang Xinghuo took out the medicine gourd from his backpack and rescued the game character who was beaten half to death first, so that he would not be seriously injured or killed again.

Then, he began to study the relationship between this seal and the five powerful warriors.

"You walked around the stone for a few times and found a few boxes on the stone. The talismans and scriptures on the stone are exactly the same. They are all talismans for summoning the Five Mountain Breakers. Do you want to open them and take a look?"

(End of this chapter)