My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 700 Seven Arrows
Can you die and come back to life three times?
After three times, the corpse and the rice seeds in it will become fertilizer to nourish the soil and grow rice that can be harvested nine times a year?

It really makes the best use of everything.

Rice is harvested nine times a year, which means it matures once every forty days or so. The yield is three times that of the southern areas where rice is harvested three times a year, and there may even be some left over.

However, the rice seeds planted by the Grain in Ear Immortal in his heart can only take effect on the Grain in Ear day. If he really dies one day, he will have to wait for a while and cannot be resurrected immediately.

But originally, with the addition of the life-replacing Gu and the Phoenix Feather, there were only two chances for resurrection, and that thing had limitations. After being used once, it would not be effective again.

Now, the grain of rice inside his heart can be resurrected three times, which is one more chance of resurrection than before.

Jiang Xinghuo closed his eyes and looked inward at his internal organs. He could feel a little light in his heart, which was rooted between his muscles like a seed, containing a powerful vitality that was hidden but not released.

"Rice seeds..."

Jiang Xinghuo discovered that this rice seed could not only bring the dead back to life, but also speed up the recovery of physical injuries. If combined with the Dead Tree Resurrection Technique and the Qilin Regeneration Technique, the recovery effect would be much stronger than before.

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo continued to push the subsequent plot forward.

"The Grain in Ear Immortal has gifted you a seed of life, and your chance this time ends here. If you want to continue communicating with the Grain in Ear Immortal, you have to wait until the Grain in Ear Day next year. This is the rule set by the Grain in Ear Immortal. Everyone has only one chance to choose each year, and he cannot violate the rules he has set."

"You left the Grain in Ear House, and the onlookers outside immediately gathered around, wanting to know what you had gained from the Grain in Ear Immortal. However, they were blocked outside by the Grain in Ear believers. However, you noticed that several figures left the crowd stealthily, but their eyes never left you."

Jiang Xinghuo raised his brows as he looked at the text.

Incense that is delivered to your door?

The figures described in the text are most likely trying to plot against me.

as predicted.

Jiang Xinghuo controlled the character to walk out of the crowd and was about to leave the ghost market when new game text popped up on the screen.

"When you were leaving the Ghost Market, you passed through a remote alley. Several figures immediately jumped out and surrounded you. They asked you to take out the things you got from the Grain in Ear Immortal and give them to them immediately. Otherwise, you would definitely not be able to leave the Ghost Market today."

"Do you want to spend money to avoid disaster, give them something, and send these spirit writing boys away?"

"You have discovered the spirit-writing boy +5."

"The disciples of the Maoshan sect often go to the underworld to ask for divination for ordinary citizens, because if they go to the underworld themselves, they will easily be trapped in the underworld and unable to return, so they will look for some boys with pure yin in their horoscopes and train them to become special boys who go to the underworld to help with divination."

"These spirit-writing boys are half human and half ghost. They can freely travel between the Yin and Yang worlds. They have a good relationship with the ghost messengers in the underworld. The mourning sticks in their hands can even steal souls, so few people are willing to clash with them."

Jiang Xinghuo curled his lips and thought to himself, now that the fight has come to me, aren't you just coming here to die on your own initiative?
"You refused to spend money to avoid disaster, but instead mocked these spirit-writing boys, saying that they were nothing but low-class people who were not worthy of being on the table. Even if you had to feed the dogs with your belongings, you would not give them anything."

"The spirit-writing boys flew into a rage upon hearing this, and immediately pulled out their mourning sticks and started hitting you on the head."

"After a not-too-exhausting battle, you easily and happily dealt with those spirit-writing boys, leaving behind only a few corpses with smashed heads."

"You have killed the spirit-writing boy +5."

"You have received incense +750."

"Do you want to touch the corpses of these spirit-writing boys?"

"Searching, please wait..."

"You have obtained: a box of Passing Yin Talismans (excellent), five mourning sticks (ordinary), and a soul-calling banner (excellent)."

"The Crossing Yin Talisman (excellent consumable item), the Crossing Yin Talisman developed by the Maoshan Sect, is slightly different from other Crossing Yin Talismans. As long as you stick it on your forehead, you can enter the underworld."

Jiang Xinghuo took out the Guo Yin Fu and took a look at it. The yellow paper was made of cinnabar and there was a faint red light flashing on it. He wanted to put one on his forehead to see where he could go after using the Guo Yin Fu in real life, but in the end he did not dare to take the risk.

It's fine to die in the game, but if you die in reality, it would be too much of a loss. Just to satisfy your curiosity, you would sacrifice a chance to resurrect. How crazy must your brain be to do that?

"A mourning stick (common item), made from the pine trees in front of a dead person's grave, with a mourning band wrapped around it. If you hit someone with it, there's a chance that their soul will be knocked out and sent to the underworld, but the chance is very small, less than 0.1%."

Less than 0.1 percent.

That means that even if you swing it a thousand times in a row, it may not trigger the mechanism, which is a bit useless.

Jiang Xinghuo had no interest in these mourning sticks, and also thought they were a bit unlucky, so he simply threw them on the altar and sold them to the public.

"The Soul Summoning Banner (Excellent Item), a magical tool developed by the Maoshan Sect's ghost-controlling lineage. As long as you place this banner beside you, all the wandering ghosts within a five-mile radius will be attracted by the banner and marked, and will obey the banner owner's orders from then on."

"Note that the Soul Summoning Banner is an upgradeable magical tool. The more wandering ghosts it absorbs, the higher the level of the Soul Summoning Banner will be, and the upper limit can reach Super Epic quality."

"It is said that the most important treasure of the Maoshan Ghost Controlling Sect is a super epic soul-calling banner that can attract all the lonely ghosts and enemies within a radius of hundreds of miles, causing a phenomenon of thousands of ghosts running rampant at night."

This prop is okay.

Jiang Xinghuo took out the soul-calling banner, and a white cloth banner appeared in his hand.

The pole was made of white bones and the flag was made of human skin, with spells and talismans written on it. The moment it was taken out, Jiang Xinghuo felt a gust of cold wind in the house, and the temperature dropped by several degrees. He could even see the looming souls of the dead in the cold wind, as well as the lingering cries of ghosts.

Jiang Xinghuo immediately threw the thing into the magic bag. This thing made too much noise. If it lasted for too long, the house might become known as a haunted house.

After counting the things on the bodies of these boys, Jiang Xinghuo activated the limb splicing method and devoured the bodies of these boys before controlling the characters to leave the ghost market.

"Where do you choose to go next?"

"Will you choose to go to Beiping City to explore the Little Prison mentioned by the Chief Judge, or go to Guandong City and quietly wait for the emergence of the Zongbu Temple? Or will you rush to other areas in Jiangnan to open up and unlock new exploration areas?"

"Of course, you can also choose to return to the Eight Directions Spiritual Tower and see if you can enter the ruins of the old secular world to find the whereabouts and traces of Lord Redemption?"

The game gave several options, and Jiang Xinghuo thought about them carefully. He now had a lot of clues for the tasks on hand.

But if we talk about the most urgent tasks, there really isn't one in the game. They are all places that can be explored or not, and there is no place that must be visited. On the contrary, in reality, Jiang Xinghuo has always been thinking about one thing, which is the tombstone found by the Public Opinion Bureau, on which his date of birth and death are engraved. It would be nonsense to say that he has no knots in his heart.

But Jiang Xinghuo forced himself not to think about it. It had already happened anyway, and even if he rushed over, nothing would change. It would be better to start exploring as soon as possible and work hard to improve his strength. Maybe he could live two more years then.

Moreover, one thing that he is more curious about now is whether his future self has obtained the seeds of the Grain in Ear Immortal?
If you get it, it means that someone killed you four times in a row and took your life away.

That makes the matter even more intriguing. How deep of a hatred could one have to kill oneself four times in a row?
Is the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Method also not effective?
Normally, when facing a life-and-death crisis, I would no longer hide my weakness, but should use the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique to ensure that my life would not be in danger.

How come it still became a box in the end?

Jiang Xinghuo suddenly felt confused and didn't know where to start for a moment. He seemed extremely irritable and uneasy.

"wrong!"

suddenly,

Jiang Xinghuo reacted suddenly!
He is not usually a person who likes to think too much, so why is he so out of character today and so upset?

All those things that I usually don't care about suddenly flooded into my mind.

At the same time, new prompt information came from the game.

"You are cursed with seven arrows."

"Seven Arrows with Nailed Heads, this is a curse method passed down by the Master of Ten Thousand Temples. It does not require any conditions. As long as you can capture a wisp of aura and use the birth date, you can curse a person from a distance. This curse cannot be broken, but it can be offset by other forces."

"At first, the cursed person will only feel upset and will not have any other reactions. But as time goes on, they will become insane and lose their minds. After a few more days, they will fall into a coma. After 49 days, the cursed person's soul will be scattered and they will never be able to hear the sound of heaven again."

When Jiang Xinghuo saw the description of the game text, he was suddenly shocked. Was he cursed?

who is it?

The monsters in the game?

Or those potential enemies in reality?

No wonder he felt upset, this should have just been the beginning of the spell, if it continued for a long time, he would probably be even more miserable.

Fortunately, it was discovered early, so there should be a way to solve it.

The game text states that this curse cannot be broken, but can be counteracted by other powers.

Can a fragment of the Golden Rule overcome this curse?

If that doesn't work, he will have to go to the Forbidden City and use the mad fire of the Law of the End to offset the curse of the seven nail-headed arrows on his body.

But if you do that, the price you have to pay is somewhat high. It's like inviting a tiger to drive away a wolf, and it's easy for you to get entangled in the pollution of insanity.

While Jiang Xinghuo was thinking about it, new game text popped up again.

"The Golden Law Fragment and the Burial Law Fragment in your body simultaneously sensed the attack on you and responded immediately."

"Your authority of the law of the tomb has been temporarily activated."

"The Seven Arrows Curse in your body has been temporarily dormant due to the influence of the laws of the tomb and cannot cause any harm to your body."

"The fragments of the golden law in your flesh and blood will then take effect, fighting against the dormant Seven Arrows Curse, and eventually gradually devouring and eliminating the Seven Arrows Curse."

"The seven-arrow curse has dissipated."

"However, due to the laws of the tomb, the one who cast the curse did not notice. You now have two choices."

"The first is to return the backlash of the curse that has been offset to the person who cast the curse."

"Second, just pretend that this incident never happened. The curse of the seven arrows will no longer affect you. No matter how the opponent casts spells, it will be in vain. Maybe you can use this to defeat the opponent in the future."

"How are you going to choose?"

Jiang Xinghuo pondered for a moment and finally chose the second answer. As the saying goes, a thief can steal for a thousand days but you can't guard against him for a thousand days. If he returns the backlash force to the other party, then the other party may use other methods to deal with him, which will make it even harder to defend against.

It would be better to just do this for now. It won't hurt him anyway. Just let the other party jump around alone. When the time comes, the other party will come out by himself. I guarantee he will be given a big surprise. He hasn't had any meat with the fire pillar for a long time. He is just waiting for the mastermind behind the scenes to jump out and let him see what it means to roast a living person.

After making up his mind, Jiang Xinghuo made his own choice.

"You use the law of burial to suppress the backlash. The longer the opponent takes to cast the spell, the heavier the backlash he will suffer when you return the backlash."

Jiang Xinghuo now felt relieved and just waited for the other party to come out on his own after some time.

No matter whether it is an enemy in reality or a monster in the game, since they have plotted against you, they will definitely come out to check the situation when you are about to die.

"You left Xishen City..."

"You returned to Peking through the Fengdu Shrine, but just as you were about to go to the Ministry of Justice, the magnetic field detector you set up in Kanto suddenly gave you a prompt and sent a map to your mind."

"The magnetic field detector detected abnormal magnetic field fluctuations. Although it was only a momentary fluctuation, it also locked the approximate location. The Zongbu Temple is about to be born, and the magnetic field fluctuations will become stronger and stronger. The magnetic field detector will sense it at any time."

"Look at the map in your mind and find that the location of the abnormal magnetic field fluctuations coincides with the abandoned royal hunting ground in the Xing'an Mountains. The Zongbu Temple is also likely to appear nearby."

Jiang Xinghuo thought of the abandoned royal hunting ground. It was there that he learned about the existence of the God Zongbu. There happened to be a Fengdu shrine outside, so he could teleport there at any time, saving him from running around on the map.

"Do you want to go to the abandoned royal hunting ground immediately to find out what's going on?"

(End of this chapter)