My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 716: Looking at the Sky Dragon

"Although the black magic of Nanyang is treacherous and vicious, it must be cast on a person, or with other media. You unfold the Nine Deaths Cicada to make yourself virtual, and all the black magic will fall on the open ground."

"The little ghost it raised was easily killed by your thunder magic, and it didn't cause any effective harm to you."

"The Nanyang wizard panicked when he saw this. He shook his body slightly and split into dozens of human-skin ghosts, flying in all directions. As long as one of the human-skin ghosts can escape, it will have a chance to come back again without any danger to its life."

"But the human skin ghosts it separated out had not flown far when they were restrained by the bone-attaching needles you shot out. As long as you don't put away the bone-attaching needles, these human skin ghosts can only be confined in the secret room. The Nanyang wizard knew that he had met his nemesis today. For these wizards, all their abilities are based on magic. You first broke his black magic, and now you have broken his human skin magic. Even if this Nanyang wizard's cultivation is higher than yours, he can only sigh in vain when he meets you who can restrain all his methods in all aspects."

"The Nanyang wizard had no choice but to sit on the ground dejectedly, asking himself if he had offended you in any way, and whether you could let him go."

"You came straight to the point without wasting time, and asked directly how to remove the curse from Blood Lady?"

"When the Nanyang wizard heard that you came for the Blood Lady, he immediately felt very regretful. He regretted that he had brought himself into such a big trouble for a little benefit. So he immediately told you the basic spell of this poisonous curse. As long as you cast the basic spell on the Blood Lady, you can remove the poisonous curse on her body, and then she can recover as before by following the normal treatment method."

"You have obtained the South Sea Voodoo Heart-Eating Fundamental Curse."

"The Voodoo Heart-Eating Fundamental Curse originated from the fundamental law of Buddhism. It was later absorbed by the Nanyang witchcraft and integrated into Nanyang witchcraft, which gave rise to a series of fundamental curses. Only great wizards are qualified to master the fundamental curses, which can easily break the corresponding witchcraft curses and ensure that they will not be harmed by the poisonous curse."

"The poison curse it cast on Blood Lady is called the Heart-Eating Curse, which can slowly eat away at the essence of the heart veins and blood until the day comes when the cursed person dies of exhaustion."

"Now that you have found a way to remove the curse, how do you plan to deal with this South Sea wizard?"

"Will you choose to be merciful and let it go? Or will you choose to cut the grass and root it out forever? Or will you leave a loophole to test it, maybe you will get some unexpected gains?"

Ok?
Jiang Xinghuo raised his eyebrows slightly, hesitated for a moment, and chose the third option.

"You took away the bone-attaching needle from the Nanyang wizard, then turned around and pretended to walk out of the secret room. The empty door behind you was completely exposed to the Nanyang wizard, and you didn't take any precautions at all."

"The Nanyang wizard looked at the flaw behind you, and a trace of hesitation flashed in his eyes, as if he was considering whether to attack you. In the end, the anger in his heart took over. He cut open his chest and took out a small black wooden gourd. In an instant, thousands of dark winds condensed into countless evil ghosts and resentful spirits, rushing towards you with a roar!!"

"You had been prepared for the Nanyang wizard's behavior. When it released those evil spirits, the acupoints in your body sparkled, and two evil gods, the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced, appeared in the secret room. With just a roar, they dispersed all the evil spirits and returned them to the small wooden gourd."

"The Nanyang wizard was so frightened that his soul flew out of his body. Just as he was about to beg for mercy, the steel fork in the bull-headed god's hand had quietly pierced through his chest and abdomen. The mighty Yin Qi swept through and raged. The Nanyang wizard's body was quickly assimilated into the Yin Qi and eventually sank into the body of the bull-headed evil god."

"You have killed the Nanyang wizard."

"You have received incense +1300."

"You have obtained the Yinfeng Gourd."

"The Yinfeng Gourd (rare item) is a magical instrument from the underworld. It contains countless wronged souls and evil spirits. It can turn a person into bones in an instant. After it is integrated into the body, it can completely merge with the flesh and blood. If a person is killed without taking it out, the Yinfeng Gourd will be destroyed along with it."

"Be careful. The Yinfeng Gourd is made from a strange forging technique from the underworld. Every time you use it, you have to sacrifice ten years of your lifespan. And after it is integrated into your body, it will absorb the host's essence and blood at all times, thus greatly reducing the host's lifespan."

"Do you want to integrate the Yinfeng Gourd into your body?"

Jiang Xinghuo directly chose no.

He had no interest in using such an evil magic weapon, as it would only hurt his own side by a thousand.

Not only does it consume one's lifespan when using it, but one also has to use one's own blood and essence to feed it on a daily basis. Unless there is a compelling reason, ordinary people probably won't use this thing.

"You killed the voodoo elder, and also alerted the head of Yinzhaitang, Dead Skinsmith."

"This South Sea wizard is its honored guest. It felt something was wrong just now, as if a wave of power emerged out of nowhere."

“But it didn’t take it too seriously, thinking that a master had come to the Yin Zhai Hall. But when it found that the Yin Zhai card of the Nanyang wizard was broken, it suddenly realized it and immediately came out of the secret room.”

"But due to the rules of Yin Zhai Tang, people in the hall are not allowed to approach the secret room where the guests are at will, so as to avoid misunderstandings and being thought of as someone trying to kill someone and steal the treasure."

"So the Dead Cobbler didn't realize that this secret room had been covered by the dimensional magic. He just waited outside quietly, intending to see who would come out of this secret room."

"What are you going to choose now?"

"Will you choose to use the power of dimensional magic to leave in front of the dead skinner? Or will you choose to remove the effect of dimensional magic and fight this dead skinner head-on?"

"The Dead Skin Craftsman is the most capable assistant of the Human Skin Fairy. He came here with the Human Skin Fairy. In name, the Human Skin Fairy is the owner here, but all matters are handled by the Dead Skin Craftsman, from business operations to communication with the outside world. The Human Skin Fairy only appears in times of crisis."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the two options given in the game text and considered carefully for a moment. These two options corresponded to different subsequent plots.

If you choose to use dimensional magic to escape, although you can leave Yinzhaitang safely, you will definitely not be able to trigger more plots, and you can only choose other places to explore.

But if you choose to cancel the dimensional magic and confront the Dead Skinner openly, there is a high probability that you will be skinned alive by him.

However, conflicts often mean new clues and tasks, so Jiang Xinghuo chose to cancel the dimensional technique.

"You lifted the dimensional magic."

"The secret room has returned to the real world. From the outside, there is nothing unusual. However, the fleeting fluctuations in spatial power could not be hidden from the Dead Cobbler who was so close."

"Dead Skinsmith has already investigated the identity of this South Sea wizard. He is a less important elder in the Voodoo Cult. He came to Yinzhai Hall to find materials for practicing magic. He wants to improve his status in the cult. The magic he practiced is all South Sea witchcraft, which has nothing to do with spatial power."

"Now, there are fluctuations in the power of space in this secret room. There are only two possibilities. Either the voodoo elder has a magical tool with space attributes, or there is someone who is good at space-type spells in the secret room." "The Dead Leathersmith is secretly prepared to take action. If the person who appears inside is not a Nanyang wizard, it will take action at the first time."

Looking at the description in the game text, Jiang Xinghuo thought to himself that he was bound to be unlucky. He just hoped that the subsequent plot would allow him to gain something, otherwise he would have wasted his life in vain.

"You walked out of the secret room, and the moment the Dead Leathersmith saw you, he attacked you. As expected, you were no match for the Dead Leathersmith, and he peeled off your skin alive, turning you into a blood gourd and fainting from the pain."

"You were unconscious for a while. When you woke up, you found yourself sold to an unknown black workshop. Your body was being squeezed with a grinding wheel to extract blood plasma. You were awakened by the severe pain and sound of the extraction."

"You died under the torture of the millstone because you were squeezed out of too much plasma."

"You used the scapegoat, and your strength recovered. The remaining flesh and blood in the millstone turned into a pile of straw residue and flowed into the plasma bucket below. A bucket of fresh plasma became waste."

"The plasma shop owner came over cursing, looked at the plasma barrel contaminated by straw residue, and got so angry that he picked up the meat pestle next to him and smashed it towards your head."

"You certainly wouldn't just sit there and wait for death. You grabbed the meat pestle with a wave of your hand, and with a backhand strike, you smashed it on the head of the blood plasma shop owner, and a thousand peach blossoms bloomed, which you conveniently stuffed into the millstone."

Tsk, I can’t beat a dead leatherworker, but I can’t beat a juicer like you?

"You have killed the blood plasma shop owner."

"You gained incense +290."

"You have triggered the Yin Debt Account Book of the Yin Debt Hall."

"According to the account books, the owner of the blood plasma shop has lived in Jiangnan for generations and makes a living by selling soy milk, but his business is getting worse and worse, and he is even unable to make ends meet. In desperation, he has to seek help from the Yin Debt Hall and exchange his Yang Shou Yin Debt for a better formula."

"However, the owner of the blood plasma shop is too conscienceless. He is worried that the Yinzhaitang mortgage will affect him, so he coerces and bribes his employees to mortgage the things he wants."

"The guy was threatened by it. Although he was unwilling, he had no choice but to pledge his future lifespan as a debt to get what his boss wanted."

"The plasma shop owner also got the new soy milk production method, but it was hard for the guys who worked for him."

Tsk, what a wicked boss, he even makes his employees take out loans to work, just hang him on a telephone pole.

"Now that you have discovered the employees listed in the Yin Debt Book, what are you going to do next?"

"Would you choose to pretend that you didn't know about this and leave the plasma shop and go somewhere else, or would you choose to let these plasma shops do things for you at the cost of offsetting your debt?"

Jiang Xinghuo naturally wouldn't choose the first one. How could he refuse an assistant who came to his door?

"You told these guys about the power of the Yin Debt Book, and told them that from now on, the Blood Plasma Shop is their private property. As long as they follow a rule and cause trouble for the Yin Debt Hall, they can continue to offset the Yin Debts they pledged until all the Yin Debts are paid off, and then they will be free again."

"These guys are like they are dreaming. They used to work like cattle and horses and risk their lives, but now they have become the masters of the blood plasma shop. No one is squeezing them anymore, and they have a chance to clear their mortgage debts. They immediately kneel on the ground and kowtow to you repeatedly."

"Of course, they followed your instructions. They originally had resentment towards Yin Zhai Tang, but they didn't dare to retaliate. They also didn't have the ability to cause trouble for Yin Zhai Tang. They were just guys whose lives and deaths were at the mercy of others. How could they have the qualifications to bring bad luck to others?"

"But it's different now. You are their great benefactor. Even if they don't want to repay you for your kindness, but just want to eliminate the mortgaged debt, they have to obey your orders."

Jiang Xinghuo put away the book of yin debts with satisfaction. The dead leatherworker had killed him once, and as the saying goes, it is rude not to reciprocate, so he had to find some trouble for it no matter what.

As for what kind of trouble the guy from the blood plasma shop could bring to Yin Zhai Tang, that was not within his consideration. Anyway, he just wanted to bring some bad luck to Yin Zhai Tang, and he didn't care how much result he could achieve.

"Where are you going now?"

"Will you choose to return to Yinzhaitang to seek revenge on the dead leather craftsman? Or will you choose to return to the Rouge Workshop to rescue the Blood Lady who has been cursed by the Heart-Eating Curse?"

Jiang Xinghuo did not return to Yinzhaitang. If he went there, he would be seeking death. He could not beat the dead skin craftsman, let alone the human skin fairy. He could only wait for an opportunity in the future.

"You chose to go to the Rouge Workshop."

"On the way, please wait..."

"You have arrived at the underworld workshop."

"You gave the fundamental spell you got from the Nanyang wizard to Luang Pu Seng. Luang Pu Seng is a master of the Nanyang Dharma lineage and is well versed in the method of removing spells. With the fundamental spell, it took him only a moment to remove the poisonous curse on Lady Blood, and Lady Blood woke up from her coma."

"Although Lady Blood has been in a coma these days, she is still aware of things happening in the outside world. She is very grateful to you and that monk Luang Po."

"Luang Po said that he was not good at judging people and almost fell into the trap of the evildoers. He was willing to accept the niece of Blood Lady as his disciple and successor, in order to repay Blood Lady's kindness."

"It turns out that the reason why this Luang Po monk agreed to take the little tailor as his apprentice was because of the meal that Lady Blood had given him in the past. Now this kindness is just being repaid to the little girl."

"Luang Po Monk took the little girl away from Jiangnan, saying that he would take her to travel around the secular world and teach her what he had learned throughout his life."

"The Blood Lady brought you to her boudoir and said that she had something to give you as a reward for saving your life."

"You have obtained the young seed of the Sky-Watching Dragon (rare)."

(End of this chapter)