My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 695: Small Prison

"You came to the treasure pavilion under the guidance of Tiger Head Guardian. Tiger Head Guardian fulfilled his previous promise and allowed you to choose two treasures in the treasure pavilion of Wulin League."

"You can choose two treasures that are most suitable for your use from the following five options provided by Tiger Head Taibao."

"Five Elements Puppet Boy (rare item), a complete set of Five Elements Puppet Boy. With the power of this item, you can indirectly control the power of the five elements. At the same time, you can also inherit the Five Elements Fist of Tiger Head Taibao. The Five Elements Fist is a boxing technique that Tiger Head Taibao created based on the Five Elements Puppet Boy."

"Black Turtle Shield·Remnant (Rare Item). When the Martial Lord was forging the martial arts magic weapon, some mistakes occurred, so this Black Turtle Shield is only a semi-finished product. Although it has a good resistance, it cannot convert external attacks into shock force and bounce them back. You can decompose and peel off the main material of this Black Turtle Shield, the 'Mountain Guarding Turtle Shell', and then mix it with other materials to forge a Black Turtle Shield that belongs to you alone."

"Wooden Dummy (rare item), the original body of the 360 ​​wooden dummy. When the martial arts master built the Xiawu Dojo, he made two sets of wooden dummy for safety reasons, but later only used one set, and the remaining set has been kept in the treasure pavilion. You can put it in your own dojo. It can be used as a guardian to suppress the dojo, and you can immediately resist when facing an enemy invasion. It can also be used as an auxiliary device for practicing martial arts."

"The Secret Manual of the Mountain-Breaking Fist (a rare item), a unique boxing skill created by the Martial Lord when he was young and roaming the world. It is eclectic and can both strengthen the body and defeat the enemy. Everyone in the secular world can practice it, and there is no restriction on the inheritance of the law."

"And at the same time, if you practice the Mountain Breaking Fist to the extreme, you can also derive two sets of boxing techniques, Earth Splitting and Sky Shattering. In the past, the Martial Master used these three sets of boxing techniques, with the Nine Deaths Cicada as the foundation, and fought all over the world without any rivals. However, whether you can comprehend the Earth Splitting and Sky Shattering boxing techniques from the Mountain Breaking Fist depends entirely on your own luck and talent."

"The Moon Swallowing Gourd (rare item), a magical weapon obtained by the Martial Lord from a great enemy after he killed him. It is forged and tempered with the skull of a heavenly wolf and can swallow everything in the world. It is said that even the man-made celestial body in the sky can be swallowed into the gourd. If an ordinary person is swallowed into it, he will be trapped inside forever."

"The Martial Lord nearly died in this gourd that year. If he hadn't broken through to the highest realm of the Nine Deaths Cicada before the battle and faked his death by escaping through the cicada molt, he would not have been able to escape from this gourd. However, since this gourd has suffered serious damage, it has dropped from its original legendary quality to its current rare quality."

"If you carry this gourd with you, when you come across materials that can repair the gourd, it will automatically prompt you and guide you to find them."

At this point, all five options given by Tiger-Headed Guardian were listed: the complete Five Elements Puppet Boy, the incomplete Black Turtle Shield, the Wooden Man, the Mountain-Breaking Fist Secret Book, and the Moon-Swallowing Gourd.

Judging from the description in the game text, these five items are all very attractive, but Tiger Head Guard only allows it to choose two from them.

He first ruled out the Five Elements Puppet Boys. The Golden Puppet Boy among the Five Elements Puppet Boys had been planted with the God-Binding Immortal Talisman by him, so it could be said that he had it in his pocket. Although the other four-limbed puppet boys had not been planted with the God-Binding Immortal Talisman, with the Golden Puppet Boy, it was like having a spy, and he could easily snatch this thing from others in the future.

Although doing so is a bit immoral, it concerns my own cultivation, so I can't care so much about it.

He didn't want to die like this after more than 20 years.

Among the remaining four items, Jiang Xinghuo chose the Mountain-Breaking Fist secret book first after some thought.

The Mountain-Breaking Fist can also evolve into two sets of boxing techniques, the Earth-Splitting and Sky-Shattering. With his own Tathagatagarbha, it shouldn't be a problem.

Moreover, this boxing technique can also improve his melee combat ability. If a ranged mage does not have melee combat ability, he will surely be beaten if someone gets close to him.

With this boxing technique, you can catch others off guard.

Therefore, this style of boxing must be chosen.

As for the remaining wooden man, black tortoise shield, and Moon-Swallowing Gourd, Jiang Xinghuo thought for a long time and finally chose the incomplete black tortoise shield.

The function of the Moon-Swallowing Gourd overlaps somewhat with that of his Tai Sui Human Magic Bag. Both are props that can trap people inside and prevent them from escaping. Even if you choose this Moon-Swallowing Gourd, it will only be icing on the cake.

He had the blueprints for the wooden man, so he could ask the Taoist master Shen Ji Bai Lian to help him forge it. It would just take more time and money.

The only thing is that the material of the Black Turtle Shield is very hard to find. Jiang Xinghuo clicked on the game text that was flashing red and checked the entry information of the Mountain Guarding Turtle Shell.

"Mountain Guarding Turtle Shell (Rare Material). The turtle shell of the mountain guarding turtle, a rare beast in the secular world, may not have the magical power of the black turtle or the dragon turtle, but it is stronger and its shell is indestructible. This also means that although the mountain guarding turtle has the power to move mountains and overturn seas, it moves slowly. When facing the enemy, it can only passively take the beating and finds it difficult to put up an effective resistance."

"The Martial Lord used this characteristic to kill the Mountain Guarding Turtle and peel off its tortoise shell, intending to refine it into a Black Turtle Shield. However, the Mountain Guarding Turtle shell was difficult to refine with the Nine Deaths Cicada, and could not bring out the true magical effect of the martial arts magic weapon, so he had to put it aside and discard it."

"Pay attention, Turtle is of dragon blood. You can try to refine it with the power of dragon-raising technique, which may have unexpected effects."

"You chose the Mountain Breaking Fist Secret Manual and the Incomplete Black Turtle Shield."

"Tiger Head Guard has given you these two things. Where are you going next?"

"Would you choose to go to the blacksmith shop of Taoist Master Shen Ji Bai Lian and let him reforge this black tortoise shield for you? Or would you choose to return to Beiping City and go to the underworld stall of Datong Pawnshop?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose to go to the blacksmith shop of Taoist Shen Ji Bai Lian first.

The blacksmith shop is now in the Wulin Alliance, so there is no need for him to go far away and mess around in other places.

"You have come to the blacksmith shop of Taoist Master Shen Ji Bai Lian."

"You gave the Black Turtle Shield to Taoist Shen Ji Bai Lian, and Taoist Shen Ji Bai Lian said that he could disassemble the shield, but it would take some time. If you come here at this time tomorrow night, you will get a new Black Turtle Shield."

Jiang Xinghuo strolled around the blacksmith shop again, and seeing that there was no subsequent plot to trigger, he planned to go to Beiping City. Unexpectedly, just when he was about to leave, a new text message popped up.

"You have triggered the effect of the Kirin's Blessing."

"You heard groaning coming from the dark alley. Do you want to go over and check it out?"

"The night in the secular world is full of ghosts and spirits. This is unavoidable even in the Wulin League, where yang energy is the most abundant. The groaning sound is very likely a means for some dirty creatures to deliberately attract you over. You'd better be cautious and think twice before acting." Jiang Xinghuo ignored the advice of the game text. The scapegoat and the grave cake had returned to normal. He had nothing to be afraid of even if he died there.

Moreover, this was an unexpected event caused by the effect of the Qilin's blessing, which was not within the normal game plot. Perhaps because the Qilin was a symbol of good fortune, Jiang Xinghuo discovered very early on that the tasks triggered by the Qilin's blessing could often bring him some extraordinary benefits and task clues.

Then he had even less reason to refuse.

"You chose to walk into the alley and take a look."

"After you walked into the alley, you found a beggar lying in a dark and damp corner. Although his clothes were tattered and his hair was unkempt, you could vaguely tell that his clothes were made of very fine materials. It was only because of the wind and rain over the years that they became so tattered. I guess he must have been a respectable person in the past."

"The beggar was lying in the corner, waving at you, his eyes showing his desire for food. He hoped you could give him some food and water. He hadn't eaten for half a month and could only survive by relying on the sewage in the corner."

"Would you like to provide it with some food and water?"

Jiang Xinghuo opened his backpack and took a look. He had plenty of water. There was more than one water tributary in his magic bag. There was also food. There were still a lot of props left from what he had bought to capture the door god. He simply took them all out and chose to use them.

"You provided the water and food in your backpack to the beggar in front of you."

"The beggar crawled over tremblingly, grabbed the food and stuffed it into his mouth frantically. Only then did you notice that there were hideous knife marks on the tendons of his limbs. It turned out that his limbs had been disabled long ago. But even though his limbs were disabled, his hands and feet could still move. It seems that he was once a master with great skills, otherwise he would have been like mud by now."

Seeing this, Jiang Xinghuo thought of the Wulin Alliance's family rules and regulations. Could this also be a traitor to the Wulin Alliance?
"The beggar ate all the food and water and recovered a little. You asked him why he ended up in such a situation?"

"The beggar hesitated for a moment, but after looking at his own appearance, he finally laughed bitterly at himself and told you everything that happened to him without reservation."

"It turns out that this beggar is not an ordinary person. He used to be a third-rank official in the Ministry of Justice. However, after the night of dawn, all the officials in the court were purged, and the Ministry of Justice was the first to bear the brunt. All the prisoners who had been arrested and imprisoned began to launch crazy revenge on them at this time. Many of his colleagues died or escaped. Few survived."

"It was also taken special care of by the criminals who had captured it. Not only did they destroy its skills, they also cut off the tendons of its limbs and carved the Immortality Sutra on its body, causing it to suffer in agony forever."

The Sutra of Immortality?
Jiang Xinghuo saw the red light flashing again on this entry, so he clicked on the relevant text and looked at it carefully.

"The Immortal Sutra (special), a method of ascetic practice that has been passed down from the ten-direction Zen temples. Carving the Immortal Sutra on the flesh and blood body will grant the writer the power of immortality, but the writer will have to endure thousands of painful tortures day and night, such as being hacked by knives, chopped by axes, cut into pieces, skinned, drowned, burned by fire, bitten by insects, bitten by snakes, etc...."

"Moreover, this kind of pain goes straight to the depths of the soul. Any means of blocking the pain will not work. The Buddha created this method with the intention of allowing his disciples to find a way to liberation in pain. At that time, they will abandon their physical bodies, transform their spirits into rainbows, and achieve the body of a Buddha. Naturally, they will be able to relieve all kinds of suffering."

"But later it became a form of torture that could make people unable to sit or lie still, unable to live or die. As long as they could not attain Buddhahood, they would live in agony for eternity."

After reading the description of the Immortal Sutra, Jiang Xinghuo thought that this was really torture. Not even letting people die, could there be anything more terrifying than this?

No one knew how long this beggar had persisted, and he must have been numb a long time ago. In a sense, this Immortality Sutra was even more evil than the Red Lotus Karma Fire.

Although his red lotus karma fire can make a person's mind suffer thousands or tens of thousands of years of torture in just a few seconds, in the end, the consciousness will be erased and the person will not feel any pain at all.

But this Immortality Sutra can keep people awake at all times.

"You asked the beggar if there was anything else he could do for you. The beggar said he wanted to seek revenge on his enemies, but because his tendons in his limbs had been severed, he could only rely on muscle strength to control his movements. So if possible, he hoped you could help him find a skilled surgeon to reconnect his tendons. Even if you want to use him as a test subject, he is willing to pay any price to restore his injured tendons."

"As he spoke, the beggar took out a key from his ragged clothes. This is the key to the Ministry of Justice's Small Prison. The most threatening prisoners are imprisoned in the Small Prison. Only he knows how to enter the Small Prison. As long as you can find a doctor who is willing to help him reattach his limbs, he will give you both of these things as a reward and gift to you."

"You said you know some medical skills and you can give it a try, but I can't guarantee whether it will be successful."

"Take out the dissection kit left by the Western forensic doctor, cut open the beggar's wound, find the broken tendons, activate the Qilin Regeneration Technique and the Dead Tree Resurrection Technique, and start nourishing and reconnecting the broken tendons and meridians."

"Treatment is in progress, please wait..."

Jiang Xinghuo waited for almost an hour.

It's about two o'clock in the morning.

The subsequent game text pops up from the screen.

"Treatment completed."

"You have successfully healed the injuries of the Grand Judge, but you cannot handle the pain caused by the Immortal Sutra. You can only rely on the Grand Judge's own willpower to resist it."

"The Great Executioner felt his tendons returning to normal, and he was so grateful to you that he couldn't express it in words. He swore that as long as he was still alive after taking revenge, he would serve you as his master for the rest of his life and would never betray you at your command."

"You have obtained the key to the Little Prison."

"You have obtained the map to enter the Little Prison."

"The Small Prison was originally formed from a fragment of the Cave Heaven. If you want to enter the Small Prison, you must go to the lobby of the Ministry of Justice in Peking and find the Hall of the Criminal Officer located between the Yin and Yang worlds before you can enter smoothly."

(End of this chapter)