My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 715: Nanyang Master
"During your conversation with the Martial Lord's clone, the undertaker, you learned the whereabouts of the Nanyang wizard. Not long ago, the wizard did come to the funeral home and wanted to obtain a good skin from him to practice the most vicious human skin transformation technique in Nanyang witchcraft."

"This spell requires you to give up your internal organs and most of the important organs on your body, leaving only your head, bones, and skin to maintain your ability to move. The rest of your internal organs will become nutrients for the human-skin ghost."

"Once you succeed in your cultivation, you will become a half-human, half-ghost being. You can transform into hundreds of human-skin ghosts to devour people's blood, flesh and energy. Unless you can kill all the human-skin ghosts in an instant, as long as you can escape with a human skin, you can recover your cultivation to your full potential in the future. To some extent, you can be considered an immortal being."

"Although the voodoo elder has not mastered this technique completely, his attainments in it are already quite good. He can transform himself into dozens of human-skin ghosts at most. They are quite difficult to deal with. Ordinary people who don't know the details will be sucked dry of their blood, flesh and essence by the human-skin ghosts as soon as they meet them."

"But there are ways to deal with it. The bone-attaching needles passed down by the Martial Lord can effectively restrain this spell. As long as one human skin ghost shadow can be injured by the bone-attaching needles, the remaining bone-attaching needles can automatically track and lock onto other ghost shadows, and easily clamp them within a certain range."

"The undertaker has taught you the art of bone-attaching needles. This needle technique is not only a hidden weapon technique in martial arts training, but also a common method used in burial makeup. If you don't mind, it can also be used to suture wounds and even torn clothes."

"You have obtained the Bone Needle Secret Book (Excellent)."

"Do you want to use this item right away?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without thinking too much.

"You have used the Bone Needle Secret Book."

"Learning, please wait..."

"You have successfully mastered the bone needle."

The moment the text prompt flashed in the game, Jiang Xinghuo also felt in reality that there was a lot more information in his mind, which explained in detail the various uses of the bone needle.

Jiang Xinghuo absorbed and digested this knowledge before moving on to the new text plot.

"Although you have learned how to use the Bone Needle, you must forge it yourself, and temper it with your own blood. Only then can you control the Bone Needle as if it were your arm. Otherwise, it will be difficult to unleash its true power."

"You have obtained some materials provided by the undertaker. It will take some time to polish and forge them before they can be made into bone needles."

"Forging in progress, please wait..."

This wait lasted for more than two hours, until around four o'clock in the afternoon, when the follow-up text message came from the game.

"You have successfully forged a box of bone needles."

"Bone-attaching needle (common item), looks small and exquisite on the outside, but contains a secret, one hundred and eight bone-attaching needles hidden inside, which can be freely controlled as the user wishes."

"The undertaker told you that the Nanyang wizard went to the Yinzhai Hall of the Human Skin Fairy. The Nanyang wizard did come here a few days ago, but the undertaker disliked the magic he practiced and was worried that he would use it to do evil in the future, which would be his fault. So he used words to perfunctorily send him to the Human Skin Fairy."

"The Yin Debt Hall of the Human Skin Immortal is not only the largest funeral business in Jiangnan, but also the largest lending place. The collateral is not only the life span of this life, but also the Yin Debts of future lives."

"The reason why the undertaker was polite to him was not only because he had great strength, but also because his identity was very suspicious. He was suspected to have a close connection with the powerful Tu Bo from ancient times."

"Tu Bo holds the power over life and death, and can freely enter and exit the Yin and Yang worlds. His methods are very similar to those used by the Human Skin Immortal to collect Yin debts."

"So, when you go to Yin Zhai Hall, it's best not to clash with the Human Skin Immortal. If you must fight with the Human Skin Immortal, you can choose to use fire attack. Yin Zhai Hall is the most precious magic weapon of the Human Skin Immortal. It contains many of the Human Skin Immortal's collections. What they fear most is fire."

"You left the undertaker's funeral home. Where are you going next?"

"Will you choose to go to the Yinzhai Hall of the Human Skin Immortal right away? Or will you choose to go somewhere else and just hang out?"

"The fact that the Human Skin Immortal can gain a foothold in Jiangnan and is recognized by the undertaker and Tai Sui God is enough to prove his strength. You are definitely not comparable to him now. If you go to Yin Zhai Tang and have a conflict with the Human Skin Immortal, you will most likely die at his hands in the end."

Jiang Xinghuo glanced at the warning in the game text and ignored it completely, pretending that he had not seen the content and still chose to go to Yinzhaitang on his own.

He was an exile who was despised and cursed by the secular world. Even if he was killed by the Human-Skin Fairy five, six, seven or eight times, it was just a drop in the bucket for him, unless the Human-Skin Fairy could come to Earth and kill him.

But if the Human Skin Fairy really came to the Earth, it is still unclear who would die in the end. Although he cannot defeat the Human Skin Fairy, there are space-based weapons deployed in the orbit of outer space. He also holds the key to activate the space-based weapons, and can cause devastating blows to the monsters on the Earth at any time.

Then there is nothing to worry about. Just rush forward and it will be over. He wants to see where else the South Asian wizard can go.
"You chose to go to Yinzhaitang."

"On the way, please wait..."

"On the way to the Yin Zhai Hall, you will see many emaciated beggars, slumped on the side of the road, holding the tickets they got from the Yin Zhai Hall. In order to satisfy their pitiful selfish desires, these beggars have sacrificed their entire lifespan in this life and the Yin lifespan of the next life. The Yin debts they owe are enough to make them poor and destitute for several lifetimes, until the day they are completely extinct."

"You also saw a few moneylenders soliciting customers on the street. When they saw you, they immediately surrounded you and said that there was an event in the Yinzhai Hall recently. You only need to mortgage your life for 20 years in exchange for a considerable amount of incense or other precious materials in the secular world."

"You rejected the solicitation of these moneylenders, but they kept chasing you, demanding that you mortgage your life in exchange for something. In the end, they even put a knife to your chest. If you don't mortgage your life today, they will make sure you have no future. Anyway, death is common here, and one more body will not attract other people's attention."

"Do you want to succumb to the threats of these moneylenders?" Jiang Xinghuo chose no without even thinking about it. He was not interested in exchanging his own life for anything.

"These moneylenders saw that you were still stubborn and could not help but get angry. They used their knives to cut you open, but the knives did not hurt you, and they could not even break through the defense of your robes. Instead, you slapped them to death on the side of the road."

"The remaining moneylenders saw that you dared to commit a crime in the street, so they immediately rushed towards you. Unfortunately, they were brave but weak, and they were all knocked down by you in no time."

"You have killed the moneylender +5."

"You gained incense +750."

"You found something from these moneylenders. You gained something."

"You have obtained: a stack of Yin-Debt Signatures (ordinary), a stack of Life-Buying Money (ordinary), a Yin-Debt Account (special), and a Soul-Painting Certificate (special)."

"The Yin Debt Ticket (common item), the Yin Debt Hall's ticket. As long as you sign your name and the Yin life you want to pledge on it, you can get the corresponding amount of incense. There is no discount or handling fee. You get as much as you pledge. This is also the reputation that the Yin Debt Hall has promoted."

"Life-buying money (common item), it is used by living people to take away life and by the dead to buy life. It looks the same as ordinary paper money, but it has the function of taking away people's life. One piece of paper money can buy one year of life, but only half of it will go to the user of the life-buying money, and the remaining half of it needs to be shared with the ghost messenger in the underworld."

"The Yin Debt Account (special item) records in detail the names of people who have pledged their Yang Life Yin Debts in the Yin Debt Hall. When you carry this item with you, if you meet someone whose name is on the account book, you can automatically trigger the relevant options. At the same time, you can also use this as a price to ask the person on the account book to do something for you. Every time you complete a task, a part of the Yin Debt will be offset."

Jiang Xinghuo's eyes lit up. He was not very interested in the first two items, the Yin debt bill and the money for buying his life.

Only this account book is different. With this item, it is equivalent to having a task trigger, and you can also ask the people above to do things for you for free.

This is a good thing. It should not be on the person of a moneylender. It should be carried by the Human Skin Immortal at least. But in the end, it was lost to him for nothing.

"The Soul Painting Certificate (special item) can be used to open the certificate leading to the Ghost Messenger's Office in the underworld. This is a magical tool issued by the Ghost Messenger in the underworld to the living world. Anyone can use it to accept tasks issued by the Ghost Messenger's Office in exchange for corresponding bounties and rewards."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the four things he found, all of which were related to the dead. He thought this was the professional characteristic of the Yin Zhai Tang.

"You continue on your way..."

"You have arrived at Yinzhaitang."

"You came to the outside of Yin Zhai Hall. Although it was obviously a scam, there were still a lot of evil spirits at the door, shuttling back and forth on both sides of the threshold. When the guy at the door saw you, he thought you were also here to mortgage your life or Yin debt, so he immediately came over and welcomed you in."

"The business principle of Yinzaitang is that everyone who comes here is a customer. As long as you come here, no matter whether the business can be successful or not, you are a customer of Yinzaitang. As the saying goes, even if the business fails, the friendship remains. Even if the business fails this time, it does not mean that there will be no chance to do this business in the future."

"You followed the waiter into Yinzhaitang and asked indirectly whether there were any guests from Southeast Asia recently. The waiter was also a very smart person. When he saw you asking these questions, he avoided the topic and didn't talk about the topic you wanted to ask."

"Seeing this, you took out 100 incense sticks and gave them as a reward to this fellow."

"Your incense - 100."

"When the clerk saw the money coming in, he smiled even more. He immediately took you to a quiet place with a smile on his face. When he saw that there was no one around, he said to you:"

"Recently, a wizard from Southeast Asia did come to Yinzhaitang. He seemed to be a big figure in voodoo cult. He was received by the head shopkeeper, Dead Leathersmith, himself. He was tinkering in the secret room in the backyard and he was not seen coming out. However, a lot of leather was sent in every day."

When Jiang Xinghuo read the text description, he thought that after all the trouble he had gone through, he had finally found the real culprit.

The Nanyang voodoo cult elder is hiding in the Yinzhai Hall!
"You gave the clerk another 300 incense sticks, saying that the Nanyang wizard was a heretic who came to the Middle-earth to steal the Middle-earth magic and hurt your fellow disciples. You came here specifically to seek revenge, and hoped that you could give him some convenience and guide him on how to enter the secret room. Then you will definitely give him a generous reward."

"When the clerk saw that you had sent him another large donation, which was almost enough to pay him two months' wages, he was so happy that he told you how to enter the secret room. However, you must leave Yinzhaitang in public first, so that he won't be implicated if something goes wrong."

"You agreed to the conditions of the clerk and left Yinzhaitang in front of everyone. Then you went to a secluded place to take out the Compassion Jade and equipped it on your game character. Your image began to appear different in the eyes of different people."

"You followed the description of that waiter and entered the Yin Zhai Hall. When you were selecting waiters to take turns on duty, you suddenly attacked a lone waiter and put on his clothes. You mixed in with the other waiters and came to the backyard of the Yin Zhai Hall where the secret room was located."

"This is a place specially prepared for those distinguished guests. It allows them to do some convenient things. Under normal circumstances, no outsiders will disturb them. But to be on the safe side, you should use the dimensional magic to temporarily isolate the secret room where the Nanyang wizard is located from the real world. No matter what happens inside, people outside will not feel it."

"At the same time, the Nanyang wizard in the secret room also felt a weak spatial force, and subconsciously sent out a human-skin ghost to check, and it happened to run into you head-on."

"You acted decisively and used the Bone-Attaching Needle without hesitation. The barely visible needle pierced through the void and pierced into the ghostly figure of the human skin. It was like a maggot attached to the bone, and it began to automatically locate the location of the Nanyang wizard."

"You no longer held back and smashed the door of the secret room, rushing in with the Star Bite in hand."

"Although the Nanyang wizard didn't know what happened, he knew that trouble had come. He immediately controlled the little ghost in his body to attack you, and at the same time used all kinds of strange black magic to rush towards you..."

(End of this chapter)