My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 720: Thunder of the Universe

"You have found it, Drowned Ghost."

"These are the ghosts and monsters transformed from the souls of the dead who drowned in the water. Although they were from different races when they were alive, they cannot enter the underworld after death. They can only wander in the cold and piercing river water all day long."

"Unless you can find a replacement to free yourself from this pain, you will forever be trapped in the water without seeing the sun."

"This drowned ghost has been trapped here for who knows how many years. Now that it has finally spotted a living person falling into the water, it will naturally not miss this opportunity. With a creepy smile on its swollen face, it will hug your body and sink into the water. As long as it drowns you alive in the water, it can be freed from this endless pain."

"But even after sinking to the bottom of Songjiang River, you still showed no signs of drowning. The drowned ghost then realized something was wrong. You seemed to be different from other people who fell into the water. You seemed to be able to breathe freely underwater, and the cold river water posed no threat to you at all."

"The drowned ghost instinctively sensed something was wrong and immediately let go of the limbs that were clinging to your body, trying to escape into the distance."

"It sensed a fatal crisis. It had already died once, and only its soul was left trapped underwater. If even its soul dissipated, then what awaited it would be eternal death."

"What are you going to do next? Will you let this drowned ghost go? Or will you catch it and ask it if there are any secrets or treasures under the water?"

Jiang Xinghuo naturally would not choose the former.

"You activated the power of the Xiantian Bagua, controlling the surrounding water flow, turning it into an invisible vortex, and forcibly caught the drowned ghost back."

"The drowned ghost wanted to cry but had no tears. He knew that he had hit a wall today. He had finally waited for a drowning person, thinking that it was a chance to free himself. However, he did not expect that it was an evil star that he could not afford to offend. So he begged for mercy from you again and again, hoping that you could spare his life. He had been trapped here for hundreds of years, and he had no other choice but to capture you as a substitute to free himself from the pain."

"You ignored the drowned ghost's chatter and asked directly, what secrets or treasures are hidden under the Songjiang River?"

"When the drowned ghost heard your question, it seemed as if it had grabbed a life-saving straw and immediately said that it did know some secrets and wanted to use these secrets to exchange for its own life. Do you intend to let it go?"

Jiang Xinghuo took a look at the content of the text. Since it knew the information, it would be easy to deal with. It didn't matter whether it was said or not. Even if it was not said, he had a way to obtain relevant clues.

"You used the soul-searching technique."

"Hold the drowned ghost's head with your five fingers and start searching the memory in his soul. This soul-searching and torture method from the Xingmen School is simply not something a drowned ghost can resist."

"You quickly searched out the memories in the drowned ghost's mind. After filtering out the useless information, you learned the secrets hidden under Songjiang from the drowned ghost's memories."

"But the drowned ghost couldn't stand the torture of soul-searching. His soul flew away on the spot and completely disappeared from this world."

"You have killed the drowned man."

"You gained incense +150."

"You start looking up the information you got from the drowned ghost's memory. According to ancient legend, the source of Songjiang River is Longwang Mountain in the south of the Yangtze River."

"Legend has it that during the reign of the Lord of the Secular World, a dragon king fell in the Huai River region of Jiangnan. His bones combined with the dragon veins and earth energy, and over time they evolved into a mountain, which was called Dragon King Mountain."

"The water of Songjiang River also rushes down from Dragon King Mountain. It is said that it evolved from the blood of the Dragon King, but no one has ever traced the source of Songjiang River."

"Because there is a lot of fog on Longwang Mountain, people often lose their way. I was heading in the direction of the river, but after passing through the fog, I suddenly found myself at the foot of the mountain."

"In addition, all landmark-type props and related spells will lose their effects after entering Dragon King Mountain."

"But among the drowned souls and other evil spirits under Songjiang River, there is a legend that there is an ancient tomb of the Dragon King hidden under Songjiang River. Only by finding this ancient tomb can we truly peek into the source of Songjiang River and obtain the legacy left by the Dragon King before his death."

"No one knows how many years this legend has been passed down, but every soul that died in the water will quietly have this message in their mind on the night after the seventh day, as if it appeared out of thin air."

Tomb of the Dragon King.

This was the first useful clue that Jiang Xinghuo obtained from the soul of the drowned ghost through soul-searching.

However, he only knew that this happened and did not get any more clues from the other party.

Does the Dragon King’s Tomb exist?

Where is the exact location?
The game text doesn't mention it at all.

Jiang Xinghuo needs to explore and search for all these on his own until all the clues are unearthed before he can start the relevant interactive plot.

Jiang Xinghuo clicked on the screen and continued to scroll down the text.

"In addition, you also found something very interesting in the memory of this drowned ghost."

"It was a few nights ago. Several mysterious people dived into the water from Yanziwu and buried many things underwater. However, because those people carried Tantric body protection instruments with them, it was unable to get close to investigate. It only felt that the things those people buried were somewhat similar to the Hun Tian Lei in the secular legend."

"This drowned ghost was a worker in a firearms workshop before his death. He is relatively sensitive to this type of firearms. If the things buried by those mysterious people are really the legendary Hun Tian Lei, then the entire Yanziwu will be razed to the ground in an instant, and all the living things there will naturally be reduced to ashes along with it."

Thunder of the universe?
As soon as Jiang Xinghuo saw the content of this text, he immediately became interested.

It is already very unusual for a beast-making man, who is hated by everyone in the secular world, to hold a rally in Yanziwu with great fanfare. Now it is suspected that some firearms are buried under Yanziwu, which makes this matter even more intriguing.

Could it be that... these beast-makers wanted to lure me into a trap? To use this opportunity to get rid of some people with the Thunder of the Heaven?

However, these are just the information inferred by Jiang Xinghuo based on the content of the text. To find out the truth of the matter, he has to go to the scene in person to investigate and find enough evidence to advance the subsequent plot.

"What choice are you going to make now?"

"Would you like to get up and head to Yanziwu right away? Or would you like to go and investigate the minefield in the drowned ghost's memory?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose the latter without hesitation. He wanted to see what those beastmen had buried.

"You chose to explore the minefield."

"On the way, please wait..."

"You quickly rushed to the minefield underwater, and the water flow around you helped you. Your speed was much faster than running on the shore. However, there were many wronged souls and evil spirits underwater. Many of them wanted to capture you as a substitute, but they were frightened by the dragon power emanating from your black dragon robe and fled into the darkness in the distance."

This black dragon robe is a prop that Jiang Xinghuo obtained in the small prison. It can emit the power of a dragon, and these water ghosts are naturally unable to resist. "You have come to the minefield in the memory of the drowned ghost."

"You observed the surroundings with your naked eyes and found nothing unusual. However, when you observed through the vision of Tathagata, you found that the surroundings had been set up with a magic array."

"The main purpose of this formation is to confuse people's perception. The ordinary five senses cannot discover the mysteries in it. Only the heavenly eyes circulated in the Taoist and Buddhist sects can see through the mysteries."

"You relied on the vision of Tathagata Zang to find the flaws and the key points of the Mystic Array, and quietly sneaked into the array. What came into view were dozens of iron balls floating in the water, suspended under the island by iron chains as thick as arms, connected to each other to form a matrix that could spread the power of the mine explosion to the maximum while confining it under the island above. The purpose was to completely destroy Yanziwu above."

"You walked in a little further and found that those mines were exactly the firearms that the drowned ghost mentioned - Hun Tian Lei."

"The Thunder of the Heaven is a combination of magic and firearms. It was already famous during the reign of the Lord of the Secular World."

"When the old emperor passed away, the princes in the northern part of the Great Wall took advantage of the national mourning to rebel. They formed a cavalry of a foreign race and marched all the way to the city of Peking."

"The Lord of the Secular World had just ascended the throne at that time. He knew that this battle was not only related to the rise and fall of the country, but also to the will of the people, so he led the army in person. Hun Tianlei showed his prowess in this battle, annihilating 30,000 enemy troops in one fell swoop, and the iron cavalry of the foreign races in the northern border was wiped out. The princes in the northern border were also exterminated, and there was no more trouble on the border."

"But since the fall of the Lord of the Secular World, the capital has been in chaos, the Ministry of Works and the Craftsmanship Bureau have also been looted, and the casting drawings of the Hun Tian Lei have also gone missing, and have since disappeared from the secular world."

"I didn't expect that you would see Hun Tian Lei here today, and there are so many of them. It is impossible that they are left over from the previous dynasty. They are more likely to be newly made firearms."

"This means that the forging drawings of Hun Tian Lei are likely in the hands of these beast forgers, or the forces behind them."

"Moreover, if these thunders explode at the same time, not to mention Yanziwu above, even Xiankong Island dozens of miles away will not be able to escape the disaster and will be destroyed by the powerful explosion force."

"What are you going to choose now?"

"Will you choose to pretend that you didn't notice this and let those beast-makers stir up trouble and blow up the entire Yanziwu? Or will you choose to take these Hun Tian Lei for yourself and put them in your own pocket?

"As long as you destroy the magic mark on it, these thunders will become ownerless, and whether they are activated or not will no longer be controlled by others."

"Be careful, once the magic mark on the Hun Tian Lei is destroyed, the person who left the mark will immediately feel it."

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and felt that neither of these two options was suitable. If he pretended that he hadn't noticed, it would only benefit those beast makers in the end.

But if the magic mark on it is destroyed, it will alert those beast makers in advance, and it will not be able to promote the development of subsequent plots.

Think for a moment.

Jiang Xinghuo found a few sticks of lucky incense from his magic bag and clicked on the text to choose to use them.

"You have used the Fortune Incense."

"The power of the Fortune Incense slowly spreads out, enveloping your body."

"Your fortune has been temporarily improved."

"You have triggered the Qilin Blessing."

“As you explore the game, the event triggering rate is greatly improved.”

"As you look at the Thunder in front of you, an idea suddenly comes to your mind. Perhaps you can try to destroy a mark first, and then when the Beast Creator comes down to check, you can use the Soul Search Technique to try to search his memory. Maybe you can find a way to break the impasse."

Hey, there is a way!

Jiang Xinghuo's eyes lit up; this was what he had been waiting for. With the help of Hongyun Incense and Qilin Technique, the third option finally popped up.

"You hid your body in the river and destroyed the magic mark on a Hun Tian Lei. A moment later, you saw someone go into the water and slowly wander to the place where the Hun Tian Lei was set up."

"You can see that this person is still emitting a faint golden light. That is the protective Buddha light emitted by the Buddhist instruments, which can block the harm caused by evil spirits. I guess he is worried that the wronged souls and evil spirits under the water will pull him away to be a substitute."

"Do you want to capture him immediately?"

"You manipulated the surrounding water to form a water prison, trapping the beast-maker inside. Before the beast could react, you had already appeared behind it, holding its head with your five fingers, and performed the soul-searching technique."

"Searching, please wait..."

"Search complete."

"You have completely acquired the memories in the animal maker's mind."

"Just as you guessed before, the gathering held by the Beast Makers this time is a big conspiracy, the purpose of which is to target their nemesis - the Ghost Hunters."

"The Ghost Hunters of the Eight Directions Spirit Tower are their mortal enemies, so this time, the Beast Maker has joined forces with other allies to launch a major action against the Ghost Hunters and strive to completely eliminate this group."

"That's why they held a grand gathering to tell the ghost hunters where they are. As soon as they arrive, they will immediately detonate the thunder and turn the ghost hunters and Yanziwu into ashes."

"As for them, they have other ways to escape. They have already prepared ships that can cross a hundred miles in an instant and safely escape the area covered by the explosion."

"This underwater Hun Tian Lei was set up by this beast maker. Before it became a beast maker, it was a disciple of the Taoist Dan Ding School and was proficient in the configuration of various gunpowders."

"Later, he got the forging drawings of the Hun Tian Lei from ▇▇, and that's when he came up with this plan to wipe out the whole family. But to be on the safe side, only he and his senior brother knew how to activate the Hun Tian Lei, and only the two of them could activate the Hun Tian Lei."

Jiang Xinghuo noticed the content of the game text. When it came to the identity of the person who provided the Hun Tian Lei forging drawings, it was actually expressed in garbled form.

If that person's identity needs to be kept secret, then the game text can be completely omitted. There is no need to do this. The reason why it appears in garbled form is probably because of my own reasons.

Is it because my cultivation level is not high enough that I cannot peek into this part?
Or was it because the other party had sensed something and used his authority to cover up his name and not allow me to check his identity? ?

Jiang Xinghuo guessed that it was most likely the latter. The person who provided the forging drawings of Hun Tian Lei must be an important person.

Maybe it's someone you've met before.

(End of this chapter)