My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 701: A dream from Zongbu God?

Abandoned royal hunting grounds?
Jiang Xinghuo thought of the abandoned hunting ground deep in the Greater Khingan Range. He had obtained several props there, but unfortunately they were all burned to ashes by the crazy fire. Only the blessing of the God Zongbu remained.

Now, the magnetic field detector has sensed that the Zongbu Temple is about to be born, and it overlaps with the area where the royal hunting grounds are located, so there is a high probability that the two really have some relationship.

Perhaps, the royal hunting ground was built deep in the Greater Khingan Range in order to wait for the birth of the Zongbu Temple one day, but it was destroyed before that time came.

"You chose to go to the abandoned royal hunting grounds."

"You activated the Fengdu Shrine. Unprecedented power surged out of the shrine, enveloping your body. In an instant, it crossed thousands of mountains and rivers and brought you to the outside of the abandoned royal hunting ground."

"You have arrived at the abandoned royal hunting grounds."

"But surprisingly, after you came here, you actually saw quite a few people nearby, including fellow exiles from the same race as you, as well as other monsters from the secular world."

"You can't help but feel a little suspicious and uneasy. Could it be that the news that the Zongbu Temple is here has been leaked out?"

Jiang Xinghuo raised his eyebrows slightly when he saw this. If that was true, then why had he been busy for so long, using the detector and trying to get favors, what was the point?
"You walked into the abandoned royal hunting grounds and started exploring with the people around you. During this time, you learned from their conversation that they were just trying their luck here and trying to find any clues about the Zongbu Temple."

"There is a legend circulating around the Kanto region that the reason why the Lord of the Secular World established the Royal Hunting Ground here was because he received the legacy left by the God Zongbu. And one day in the future, the disappeared Zongbu Temple will reappear in the world."

"But everyone just regarded this legend as a joke among the people, and no one took it seriously. But until the news of the upcoming Zongbu Temple spread, some people came here to see if there was anything they could gain."

"Unfortunately, no clues have been found in such a long time. This abandoned royal hunting ground is too old, and some valuable things have turned to ashes under the erosion of time."

Jiang Xinghuo thought for a moment, took out the Fortune Incense from the magic bag, and clicked to use it.

"You have used the Fortune Incense."

"Your luck and event triggering rate are temporarily improved."

"The incense of good fortune is covering you, and your talent of gossip ears has suddenly been triggered. You heard some faint cries for help in the dark corner of the hunting ground. Do you want to go over and take a closer look?"

The lucky incense is effective!

Jiang Xinghuo was cheered up and immediately controlled the character to walk over, intending to see what the subsequent plot would be.

"You walked to the corner in the direction of the cry for help and found a woodcutter covered in black. There were two blood holes on his neck, oozing black blood. He must have been bitten by the poisonous Guo Shanfeng. The poison had already entered his heart. If you don't help him, he will die in an instant."

"The woodcutter is calling for help with a trembling voice, hoping that you can save his life. He has parents to support at home, and a wife and children waiting for him. He doesn't want to die here. What are you going to do now?"

"Will you help save the woodcutter's life?"

"The realgar wine and dragon snake gallbladder you put in your backpack are both excellent medicinal materials that can be used to treat snake venom. Even if the poison has already attacked its heart, as long as it still has a breath, it can be pulled back from the brink of death. Not only can the snake venom in its body be eliminated, but if you are lucky, it can also produce snake venom antibodies, so that it will no longer be afraid of any attacks from venomous snakes."

The game text only asks whether to rescue the woodcutter. It is not a mandatory passive task, but it also does not specify any rewards. In simple terms, you can do it or not, and the decision is in the hands of the player.

Take on this mission and rescue the woodcutter bitten by a poisonous snake. You may get some hidden rewards, or you may find nothing.

Jiang Xinghuo thought for a moment and made his decision. He planned to rescue the woodcutter.

Anyway, realgar wine and snake gall are useless, so it is better to use them to trigger new plots and unlock new tasks, rather than letting them gather dust in a magic bag like a miser.

"You chose to save the dying woodcutter."

"First, take out the realgar wine to clean the wound and temporarily stop the spread of the poison. Then, feed the snake gallbladder into the woodcutter's mouth and send the realgar wine into his stomach to remove the snake venom."

"After a while, the woodcutter suddenly vomited a lot, and all the poisonous blood in his body was vomited out. While saving his life, he also formed snake venom serum antibodies in his body. From now on, this woodcutter will not be hurt by any poisonous snakes."

"After the woodcutter spat out the snake venom, he regained his strength. He was so grateful to you that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to you. If you hadn't saved him, not only would he have died in this remote wilderness, but his parents, wife and children would have died of hunger and cold. You not only saved his life, but also the lives of his entire family."

"You asked the woodcutter why he came here, and he confessed that he came here to look for treasure. What you didn't expect was that the legend of the upcoming Zongbu Temple was spread by this woodcutter. In other words, he already knew that the Zongbu Temple would be born."

Seeing this, Jiang Xinghuo immediately became interested and felt that the snake gall was well worth using. He unexpectedly met the first person who spread this statement by accident.

"According to the woodcutter, when he went into the mountains to chop wood that day, he found a thumb ring in a pile of weeds. It was a cow bone thumb ring specially used for archery. He originally wanted to sell it in the city for a good price, or practice and see if he could become a hunter, so that the difficulties at home could be alleviated a little."

"Unexpectedly, the night it picked up the ox bone ring, it had a dream. In the dream, a tall figure told it to spread the news of the upcoming birth of the Zongbu Temple to the secular world, and gave it a map as a reward for spreading the news."

"The woodcutter didn't take it too seriously at first, but when he woke up the next day, he found a beast skin map next to his pillow. The woodcutter then realized that it was the appearance of the god Zongbu, so he didn't dare to neglect it and secretly spread the news."

"Soon, the secular world was in turmoil because of this news. A large number of monsters headed for the Kanto region. The woodcutter didn't dare to wade into this muddy water, so he followed the mark on the animal skin map and came to the abandoned royal hunting ground. But before he could find the exact location on the map, he was bitten by a highly venomous snake. If it hadn't often drank realgar wine and had some weak resistance to snake venom, I'm afraid it would have died before you came."

"The woodcutter expressed his gratitude to you again, and took out the ox bone ring and the animal hide map from his body and gave them to you. His family is poor, and he has nothing to repay you with. These two things are his token of appreciation, and he hopes they can bring you some help."

"Will you accept both? Or will you simply choose one and leave the other to the woodcutter?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and chose the second answer. Of course, he could take both of them, but he felt that if he chose the second answer, it might trigger a different plot development.

"Please select what you would like to take:"

"Would you choose to take this ox bone ring? Or would you choose to take the animal hide map?"

"You chose the ox bone ring."

The reason why Jiang Xinghuo chose this ring was because of the dream the woodcutter had. After he got the ring, he met the man who was suspected to be the God Zongbu in his dream. So, this ring might be of some use to him.

"You have obtained the ox bone ring."

"Ox bone thumb ring (common item), a thumb ring made of ground and spliced ​​ox ribs. It can assist in archery and can also automatically calibrate the trajectory and accuracy of the arrow."

"You have triggered the Tathagata's talent."

"You observe this thumb ring through the vision of Tathagata, and you find that it is just an ordinary ox bone thumb ring, not a rare object. Even the thumb ring that ordinary people use to learn archery is better than the one in your hand."

"At least the ring they use is made of ox horn, which is one-piece without any traces of splicing. The ox bone ring in your hand is made of two pieces of ox bones spliced ​​together. Although the craftsmanship is pretty good, it still lacks a bit of natural beauty."

Jiang Xinghuo put the ring away and continued to move forward with the new plot.

"The woodcutter saw that you only put away this ox bone ring, and knew that you deliberately left the animal hide map to it. So out of gratitude, he invited you to go treasure hunting together. The location marked on the animal hide map is in a corner of the hunting ground. If you can find something useful to you, it will be a token of my gratitude."

"Do you want to go treasure hunting with the woodcutter?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without thinking too much.

Naturally, he would not miss this kind of plot that might trigger a new mission.

"The woodcutter led you to a corner of the abandoned hunting ground. This was originally the location of the royal kitchen tent during the royal hunting season. There were many abandoned stoves covered in dust. The woodcutter walked over and moved the pot on the stove, and shoveled the dust and loose soil in the stove pit to one side, exposing a piece of iron plate embedded in the ground. It looked like it should be the entrance to a secret passage."

"The woodcutter opens the iron plate and leads you down to the end of the tunnel. A secret room appears before your eyes. On the walls of the huge secret room, there are hundreds of bows, spears, and hunting knives hanging. On the table in the middle, there is a wooden box."

"You walked over and carefully observed the weapons hanging on the wall. These weapons, once used to hunt wild animals, have now become tattered. Bowstrings are broken, spears are rotten, and hunting knives are rusted. They are no longer worth using."

"But you are keenly aware that the wall is uneven, and your fingertips feel rough, like a rough product made in a hurry. It is completely different from those neatly arranged weapons. It seems to be engraved with something similar to a mural."

"You have discovered the mural of the legend of the Zongbu God."

"At this time, the woodcutter also opened the wooden box, and a moon-like light suddenly shone out. It turned out that the things in the box were more than a dozen oriental pearl necklaces and a small box."

"These dozen or so Dongzhu necklaces are priceless. If they were during the reign of the Lord of the Secular World, these things would only be tributes for the royal family. Ordinary people, even ministers stationed in the court, would be guilty of usurpation if they kept these things without permission. At the very least, they would be exiled 800 miles away."

"The woodcutter was dazzled by the pearl necklaces. It took him a long time to come back to his senses. Then he slammed the wooden box shut, saying that all these things were yours, just as a way to repay you for saving his life."

"But your eyes of wisdom and your heart of understanding sensed the other party's fear. The woodcutter was probably afraid that you would be tempted by the money and kill him to silence him, so he simply gave all these things to you, only asking for your life."

"What are you going to do now?"

"Will you choose to kill this woodcutter and keep the pearls in the box for yourself, or will you take them out and share the treasure with this woodcutter?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose the latter.

The reason why he chose to divide the Dongzhu in the box equally was that he didn't want to do such an immoral thing as killing people for treasures, but more importantly, he wanted to verify an idea of ​​his own.

"You chose to split the Dongzhu in the box equally."

"Go open the box and divide the twenty strings of Dongzhu necklaces in the box into two equal parts. Then open the small box and you will find a pair of black metal wings inside. They look similar to ordinary handicrafts and are only the size of a palm. However, your Xiantian Bagua inheritance relic can sense the aura of wind and thunder on them."

"You have obtained the Wind and Thunder Wings."

"Wind and Thunder Wings (rare item), the magical weapon of the ancient great god Fenglei Tianguan. Later, Fenglei Tianguan fell into the hands of Zongbu God, and the wind and thunder wings became Zongbu God's collection. They contain the core power of wind and thunder. Not only can they control wind and thunder, but they can also travel 30,000 kilometers in a day."

Thirty thousand kilometers round trip in one day?
This is almost the same speed as real fighter jets.

The speed of a fighter jet is only about 1,000 kilometers per hour. Although it is not as fast as the mythical somersault cloud that can travel 108,000 miles in an instant, it is enough.

"The woodcutter could not see the mystery of the pair of wind and thunder wings, and just thought of them as ordinary objects, and put all his energy on those Dongzhu. He did not expect you to be so generous as to give him half of the things. Although these things should have been his, if it were not for you, he would not have been able to find them and would have died from the poison long ago."

"As the saying goes, every sip and every bite has its own destiny. Nothing could be more true than this."

(End of this chapter)