My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 711: Luang Po
"Tailor Yin stood there, looking at you arrogantly, as if he felt that he had already won. He didn't even try to hide his thoughts. He told you directly that if you can kill the girl next to him, then he can consider letting you go. Otherwise, you will definitely die today."

"Tailor Yin has long wanted to kill this little girl who blocked his plan, but because Lady Blood has planted a blood curse on him, no matter who kills this little girl, the blood curse will befall Tailor Yin and his nephew. Lady Blood has been prepared for this, so she has used this method to restrain Tailor Yin."

"But recently, Tailor Yin established a relationship with a senior monk named Luang Pu through a Southeast Asian businessman, and he plans to send his nephew to the monk's school to learn skills. The senior monk Luang Pu is proficient in the magic of Southeast Asia and Middle Earth. Even if it is really entangled by the blood curse, the senior monk Luang Pu has a way to remove the blood curse on it."

"But that monk Luang Pu will take a few days to come, so Yin Tailor planned to keep the girl alive for a few more days. I didn't expect that you would take the initiative to come to the door today. Yin Tailor no longer plans to continue pretending. Anyway, Luang Pu will arrive within two days. With his ability, he can hold on even if he is entangled by the blood curse."

"Of course, if you can avoid doing it yourself, that would be the best thing to do."

"What are you going to choose now?"

"Would you choose to kill this little girl, then find a chance to escape from here safely, and then look for a way to break the blood curse in the future, or would you directly kill these coffin bearers holding sticks and teach this shady tailor a lesson?"

When Jiang Xinghuo read the content of the text, he thought that if he was afraid of trouble, he would not have accepted the task in the first place. Now that he has accepted the task, he would not choose to kill the little girl.

"You rejected the offer made by the Yin Tailor."

"Seeing that you were so stubborn, Tailor Yin stopped trying to persuade you and ordered the coffin bearers to rush over and beat you into a pulp."

"These coffin bearers are old acquaintances of the Yin Tailor before he became successful. They come from the coffin shop in Renpi Lane. When someone dies, they are responsible for carrying the coffin to the burial. Because they deal with the dead for a long time, they are also contaminated with the Yin energy of the dead. Therefore, most of them are poor and lonely. Decent people will not do such a business that is easy to attract ghosts if they have a way to make a living."

"However, although this job seems a bit dangerous, the income is much higher than ordinary jobs. Not only are there wages for carrying the coffin, but also respect and support from the family of the deceased. If these coffin bearers deliberately lower the coffin to the ground when halfway through carrying it, it may bring bad luck to the family of the deceased."

"Before Tailor Yin climbed up the ladder to marry the Blood Lady, he also worked in the tailor shop in the Human Skin Lane. He was an old acquaintance of these coffin bearers and coffin makers."

"Moreover, the nature of the work of a ghost tailor is slightly different from that of a dead tailor. A dead tailor specializes in making shrouds for the dead, but a ghost tailor specializes in making clothes for the dead souls, especially some old ghosts who have no family to support them and worship them. They can only go to the ghost tailors and ask them to make some clothes for them."

"So, there are often a lot of ghosts around the ghost tailors, and they can summon them to do things for them, so few people are willing to provoke these ghost tailors."

"You watched as the coffin bearers rushed over aggressively. He waved his hands to protect the little girl behind him, and then activated his innate ability of the Eight Diagrams."

"The power of thunder and fire swept out in an instant, burning the coffin bearers into ashes in an instant. These seemingly vicious monsters and demons did not pose any threat to you at all."

"You have killed the coffin bearer +30."

"You have received incense +4500."

"You found something on the remains of a coffin bearer's body. It was flickering with light. Do you want to pick it up and see what it is?"

"You picked up the object in your hand, but when you were about to check it, you were interrupted by the attack of Yin Tailor."

"When Tailor Yin saw you killed the coffin bearers so easily, he knew he had met a tough guy today, so he immediately took out a pair of rusty scissors from his arms and dripped his blood on the scissors."

"All of a sudden, the wind blew and thick fog spread."

"An illusory muddy loess path suddenly emerged from the gloomy wind. It turned out to be a Yin-Yang road that connected to the underworld."

"You see many ragged, hideous-looking ghosts of the dead walking along this road toward the living world. What are you going to do now?"

"These ghosts from the underworld can drag people into the netherworld. Once you are dragged into this path, it is equivalent to entering the underworld. It is almost impossible to get out."

"Will you choose to flee this place with the little girl immediately? Or will you choose to face those dead souls from the underworld calmly?"

Jiang Xinghuo saw it and thought to himself, aren't you walking into trouble? If it were anything else, he might have a hard time dealing with it, but dealing with these dead ghosts from the underworld, isn't it easy?
Thinking of this, Jiang Xinghuo directly released the Black and White Impermanence in the acupoint.

"The acupuncture points on your hands sparkled, and the two huge monsters, Black and White Impermanence, quietly appeared in front of Tailor Yin. Under Tailor Yin's dumbfounded gaze, the mourning stick and the soul-binding chain glowed with a deep light, directly taking away all the dead souls on the Yin-Yang Road, and used them as nutrients to nourish the Taoism in your body. Even the Yin-Yang Road that connects the Yin and Yang worlds was forcibly plundered into your hands by Black and White Impermanence."

"You have obtained the Yin-Yang Road."

"Yin Yang Road (rare item), a prop passed down from the Yin Tailor's ancestors. Every family has a rich past. The Yin Tailor's ancestors were no ordinary people. They were once funeral directors exclusively for the royal family. During the Zhongyuan Festival, Hanyi Festival, and Qingming Festival, they would open the Yin Yang Road given by the royal family and enter a forbidden place deep in the underworld to make dragon robes for the royal ancestors who entered the underworld."

"Later, the ancestor of the Yin Tailor retired and returned to his hometown. The court, in recognition of his hard work and contributions, granted him this Yin-Yang Road, which allowed him to enter the underworld at will without being discovered by the ghost messengers and soldiers of the underworld. It was passed to the Yin Tailor, but I didn't expect you to forcibly take it away and erase the mark on it, making it an ownerless thing."

"The Yin Tailor sensed that his connection with the Yin-Yang Road was severed, and he became anxious and angry and lost his mind. He picked up the tailor's scissors and rushed towards you. However, his close combat skills were not very good, and he was beaten to the ground with four limbs in a few moves."

"You asked about Blood Lady's current situation?"

"Tailor Yin was afraid that he would be killed by you if he didn't cooperate, so he said that the Blood Lady was still alive, but was cursed by her. If you can let her live, you can wait for the monk Luang Po to come and remove the curse on the Blood Lady."

"Your Eye of Hundred Flavors sensed the malice in Tailor Yin. Even now, it is still thinking about how to kill you. It believes that as long as that Nanyang Luang Po monk comes here, you will definitely not be his opponent. Then it will break your limbs and throw you into the millstone to squeeze you into the freshest rouge raw material."

"The reason why Tailor Yin still spared Lady Blood's life was not because he cared about the relationship between husband and wife, but because his roots were not deep. Everyone in the Rouge Shop was Lady Blood's confidant. Before solving this problem, he could not and did not dare to kill Lady Blood."

"What are you going to do next? Do you want to keep this Yin tailor alive for the time being?" Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and felt that there was no point in keeping him alive, and it would only cause trouble for himself, so he might as well get rid of him quickly.

“You did not accept Tailor Yin’s prayers and repentance. A ray of lightning spread out from your fingertips, and in an instant it traveled through Tailor Yin’s limbs, bones, and internal organs. Finally, it sank into the ground and disappeared, taking away all the vitality in Tailor Yin’s body.”

"You have been killed, Yin Tailor."

"You have received incense +300."

Only 300 incense points?
This surprised Jiang Xinghuo. He had thought that this shady tailor would be able to get at least 500 incense points, but he turned out to be a shiny dung beetle. Lady Xue was blind to have met such a thing, and was ambushed by it.

"You killed Tailor Yin and, under the guidance of the little girl, came to the residence of Lady Blood. You saw Lady Blood wearing a bright red wedding dress, lying unconscious on the bed, with a black poisonous aura on her face."

"You have triggered the Tathagata's talent."

"You discovered that the curse on Blood Lady is a kind of magic from the Nanyang voodoo religion. You have read the relevant witchcraft records before, but there is no method to remove the curse. Moreover, the biggest feature of this curse is that it is unpredictable. After each person is infected with this curse, they will develop different powers according to their own physique and genes. Therefore, ordinary spells to remove the curse are useless. You must find the root spell of this curse according to the individual's condition in order to completely remove the curse on Blood Lady."

"Now, we can only use other methods to temporarily delay Blood Lady's life, but this is not a long-term solution. The longer the suppression and delay time, the more serious Blood Lady's injuries will be. Until the day when the poison curse completely breaks out, there will be no way to save Blood Lady."

"How are you going to deal with this next?"

"There is no one in charge of Rouge Shop now. You are the most powerful one. Do you choose to kill Blood Lady directly and take the Rouge Shop's property for yourself, or wait for that Nanyang monk Luang Po to come and see if he has a way to remove the curse on Blood Lady?"

The game gives two options, each corresponding to a different subsequent plot.

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it carefully, weighed the pros and cons of the two options, and finally decided to wait for the monk Luang Pu to come.

If he chose to kill Blood Lady and seize the property of the Rouge Shop, not to mention how he would be different from Yin Tailor if he did so, just from the subsequent plot, doing so would not be a very cost-effective thing to do.

What he needs is not the immediate petty profits, but to trigger more plots and obtain relevant treasures and secrets from exploration. This is the normal way to play this game.

"You chose to wait for Luang Pu Seng's arrival."

"At this time, the workers outside brought Tailor Yin's nephew over. The little tailor was just as ruthless as his uncle. Now without Tailor Yin's protection, the little tailor knew something was wrong and wanted to escape, but he was caught before he could leave the Rouge Shop."

"What are you going to do with this little tailor?"

"Would you choose to let it go and let it trouble you again in the future? Or would you choose to cut the grass and kill it outright?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and decided to kill him. He originally wanted to let the little tailor go, so that when he came to seek revenge on him in the future, he would be able to reveal more clues to the plot.

But on second thought, if it doesn't seek revenge on me, or vents its hatred on the Rouge Shop, wouldn't that be like letting a tiger go back to the mountains?

So, just kill him.

"You chose to cut the grass at its roots."

"With a flick of your finger, the stove god's fire fell on the little tailor's body, and the golden-red flame instantly burned him to ashes."

"You have been killed, little tailor."

"You gained incense +120."

"You found a ring in the tailor's ashes. When you picked it up, you found that it was an initiation token of the Nanyang Voodoo religion."

"It turns out that this little tailor has already joined the Voodoo Cult. The monk Luang Pu from Southeast Asia is a mortal enemy of the Voodoo Cult, but both sides have never been able to do anything to each other. The Voodoo Cult probably wants to take this opportunity to drive a nail into the power of the monk Luang Pu, which may be useful in the future."

The game text has no subsequent plot.

Over the next two days.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't go anywhere else. He just wandered around Jiangnan City. He triggered some new tasks, but all he gained were some insignificant bits and pieces.

It was not until noon of the third day that the subsequent text plot was transmitted into the game.

"The monk Luang Pu from Nanyang arrived at Yanzhifang. After you met him, you first showed him the ring, and then briefly recounted what happened in the past few days."

"After seeing the voodoo ring, Luang Po Seng believed it roughly in his heart. After seeing the appearance of Blood Lady, he believed it completely. He recognized the curse on Blood Lady, which was the secret of Nanyang voodoo. With his ability, he could not break the curse. He could only delay the onset of the curse. If you want to completely resolve the curse, you must find the elder of the voodoo and obtain the fundamental spell of the curse from him. Only in this way can you break the curse."

"Coincidentally, it came to the Middle Earth this time to track down a voodoo elder. It is said that the elder came to the Human Skin Alley in Jiangnan City and planned to choose a suitable skin to practice an evil method that harms people."

(End of this chapter)