My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 723 A way to break the situation

"You have used the Fossil Palm Secret Manual."

"Learning, please wait..."

"Study completed."

"You have successfully mastered the Fossil Palm."

In reality, Jiang Xinghuo looked at the success prompt from the game text, and a lot of relevant information emerged in his mind.

All the tricks and techniques of the Fossil Palm were instilled into his mind, and his palms were shining with red-gold light, looking as if they had just been taken out of a furnace.

Jiang Xinghuo tried to grab a ball of mud and sand, and it soon became like plasticine, sticky and well plastic.

Moreover, with a thought, the temperature of his palms suddenly increased, and the mud in his hands began to harden and solidify rapidly, finally turning into a piece of stone.

The only thing is that it takes a little longer, about twenty seconds, and this is only for a fist-sized piece. If it were a larger piece of soil, it would take even longer to completely harden into ordinary stone.

This also means that this skill is difficult to use when fighting against the enemy, as you simply don't have enough time to cast the spell. However, this spell can still be very useful for destroying mechanisms, or melting fossils and gold under special conditions.

Jiang Xinghuo tested it for a while, put away the Fossil Palm, and continued to advance the game text. There were still two items left to be counted.

"Water-Dividing Crown (rare item), a magical instrument used by the four former masters of the Justice Hall. When worn, it can divide water and break the waves, allowing one to walk underwater as if walking on flat ground. It can also sense the direction of undercurrents in the water, and can control the water flow to speed up or slow down the movements of other creatures."

"Please note that after each use of the Water Dividing Crown, you need to replenish it with a large amount of fish, shrimp, or meat products of other aquatic creatures, so that you can control the Water Dividing Crown as easily as with your own arms."

Jiang Xinghuo took a look and thought that this was nothing. Compared with the power of the Water-Dividing Crown, the price paid was simply not worth mentioning.

Finally, there was only one exquisite eye left.

"Exquisite Eye (rare item), a prospecting-type magic weapon used by the fifth master of the Justice Hall in the past. It can be integrated with one's own organs and has the ability to penetrate and analyze all the information of the organs. However, it is only effective for mechanical structures and has no effect on organs of other attributes."

"Do you want to merge this exquisite eye with your right eye?"

"The exquisite eye was once the right eye of a master craftsman under the Lord of the World. Later, the master craftsman delayed the construction of the royal mausoleum because of drunkenness. According to the law, he should have been beheaded, but the Lord of the World thought of its hard work and great contributions. Although it was a temporary mistake, it was still excusable. So he gave it a light punishment and a big warning, and then let it go."

"But the master craftsman felt guilty, knowing that he had realized something important. In order to teach himself a lesson, he dug out his right eye to warn himself not to drink and mess up things in the future."

"The right eye that was dug out was pickled with lime by the apprentices of the Craftsman Supervisor to prevent it from rotting. It later fell into the hands of the fifth master of the Justice Hall. After the Justice Hall fell into ruin, this exquisite eye was passed down."

"Do you want to fuse this exquisite eye?"

The game text asked again, and Jiang Xinghuo didn't hesitate for too long and directly chose yes.

"You chose to fuse the exquisite eyes."

"In the process of merging, please wait..."

"The fusion is complete."

"You have obtained the exquisite eye."

"Your exquisite eyes overlap with the severely damaged Tathagata Garbha, and Tathagata Garbha is also nourished by its spirituality, so the recovery time is relatively shortened."

The moment the game text flashed by, Jiang Xinghuo felt a slight cool breeze in his right eye. The feeling was indescribably comfortable, and even his vision seemed to become clearer.

Then, he opened his exquisite eyes and looked around. When his gaze fell on the light switch in the house, the direction of the circuit and the connection method immediately emerged in his mind.

Hey!
Jiang Xinghuo thought this was great, as long as it was a mechanical structure, he could analyze and understand it, which would be much more useful in reality than in the game.

At this point, all the things obtained from the Five Rats of Xiankong Island have been counted. These five items of rare quality are all good things that can be put to many uses.

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo wandered around Xiankong Island and met many evildoers from the secular world.

"You have triggered the Qilin Blessing."

"You met a person next to the observatory on Xiankong Island. His eyes had disappeared, and he was looking at the stars in the sky with two black holes, as if he could still see the scene outside."

"You have found a poor fortune teller who has lost his eyes."

Jiang Xinghuo's heart moved.

A down-and-out fortune teller who lost his eyes?
Is it that person?
Jiang Xinghuo quickly clicked on the screen to continue scrolling down the text.

"You walked closer and found that this person looked familiar to you. It was the fortune teller you met before. When he was in Longmen, he had no money to pay the bill, so he mortgaged his eyes to the restaurant. It was you who redeemed his eyes and restored his vision."

"But now, the fortune teller has lost both of his eyes. And judging from the wounds in his eye sockets, it seems that his eyeballs and the surrounding connecting nerves were shattered by some force. Even the King of Medicine cannot heal his injuries."

It really is that fortune teller!
After seeing this text, Jiang Xinghuo immediately confirmed what he was thinking. This fortune teller was the one he met at the beginning.

It was also he who told himself that there was something wrong with the Tathagatagarbha relic.

Need to be used with caution.

Moreover, Jiang Xinghuo had already had some guesses about the identity of this fortune teller. He suspected that this fortune teller was Qingnang Gong, who had been missing in the secular world for many years.

He once said that the reason he ended up like this was because he didn't want to be a begging dog, otherwise he would have survived well.

Similarly, the Feng Shui master also had the same idea, not wanting to be someone else's dog, but in the end he died in a sewer without seeing the sun.

But now he has not found enough evidence to prove that this poor fortune teller is Qing Nang Gong, unless he finds clear evidence, or the fortune teller himself admits his identity. Jiang Xinghuo clicked the screen and continued to advance the plot. Since he met him here, he must have something to ask him.

This trip to Xiankong Island was really not in vain. Not only did I obtain so many precious props, I also met such a mysterious person.

"When you recognized this fortune teller, he also recognized your identity. He smiled and patted your shoulder, saying that when he came to Xiankong Island, he read his fortune for him, and the fortune indicated that he would meet the person he wanted to meet here."

"But he stayed here for more than half a month, and the divination did not come true. He thought there was something wrong with his craftsmanship, but he didn't expect to meet you today."

"The fortune teller said that he came here to find you because he has something to ask of you. He has predicted your past and future several times and found that there are many variables, especially your future. According to his predictions, there are at least three possible outcomes."

"The first result is that you will be killed in the most brutal way at some point in the future, and your body will be completely reduced to dust. Not even a complete corpse will be left. Only a Buddha's Eye Tathagata will be left, buried in a tomb."

Jiang Xinghuo immediately thought of the two tombstones and his two dreams. Could that be the future that the fortune teller saw?

However, the fortune teller said that he had three future outcomes. The first one was death without an intact body. What would the next two be?
The worst possible outcome is just this. There can't be a more tragic ending than death without a complete body, right?
"The second result is that you fell into the deepest part of the underworld, where you were enveloped by an ominous aura and turned into something that was neither human nor ghost. You wandered between the Yin and Yang worlds, specifically harvesting the souls of the dead in the secular world."

"But he only saw half of the result. He couldn't see what you did after entering the underworld. There was a force blocking his investigation. He only knew that although you were still alive, you were between life and death and could not appear in the sun for a long time."

Jiang Xinghuo sucked his teeth with some toothache. His fate was really rough. Either he died without an intact body, or his life became worse than death. He hoped that the third result could give him some comfort, otherwise he really didn't know what to do in the future.

"The third result is that he sees the best future, which is also your way out, but it requires a key thing. When he said this, the fortune teller showed a cunning look, but with the two blood holes as a backdrop, he looked extremely hideous."

"The fortune teller said he can tell you how to break the impasse, but there are two ways to tell you. One is to tell you in general terms how to break the impasse, and the other is to tell you in detail how to break the impasse."

"If you choose the general method of breaking the impasse, then for the sake of our previous friendship, he can tell you all these things without charging any money, but whether you can succeed depends on your luck."

“But if you choose a detailed method of breaking the situation, then you will need to pay a small price for the designated driver.”

"He pointed to the two bloody holes on his face, saying that his injuries could basically be healed in the secular world, and that he would only have a chance to recover if he went to the City of Origin. He knew that you had the authority and method to enter the City of Origin, and hoped that you could temporarily transfer this authority to him. Once he found a way to recover from his injuries in the City of Origin, he would naturally return the authority to enter the City of Origin to you."

"What do you choose to do next?"

"Do you want to transfer access to the City of Origin to the fortune teller?"

Jiang Xinghuo suddenly fell into deep thought. The way he entered the City of Origin now was to be teleported through the Skywalker's tablet.

Once he loses this authority, he will not be able to enter the City of Origin again, because the props that lock the path to the City of Origin have disappeared, and he has used up his last chance.

If the fortune teller obtains this authority and does not return it to himself, he will lose contact with the City of Origin.

Moreover, with the fortune teller's divination skills, it would not be easy for me to find him and take back the authority.

But if I don’t transfer this authority to the other party, can I find a way out of the situation based on the clues he provides?

After some struggle and thinking, Jiang Xinghuo finally decided to give up the right to use the Skywalker's stele.

As the saying goes, a bird in the hand is worth a thousand in the bush.

Even though the City of Origin has many good things, it is still not worth his life, at least for him.

So, let’s save this life first.

If the fortune teller really breaks his promise and dares to secretly take the right to use the Skywalker's tablet, then he will do one thing in the future: find the fortune teller and throw him into the volcanic hell, where he will never be reborn! !

"You chose to give up the right to use the Skywalker Stele."

"Transfer in progress, please wait..."

"You have lost the right to use the Skywalker's Stele."

"The fortune teller saw that you gave him the right to enter the City of Origin, and he told you the way to break the impasse without hesitation."

"The third result he saw was that you turned the 330,000 Heavenly Soldiers Demon Suppression Diagram left by the Taoist Ancestor into your own inheritance, discarded the Tathagata Garbha and the Innate Eight Diagrams, used this Taoist diagram to control the 330,000 Heavenly Soldiers, and evolved the 33 Heavens in Taoist legends, suppressing all the demons, immortals, Buddhas, and monsters."

Seeing the third result given by the fortune teller, Jiang Xinghuo was also stunned. Abandon all the inherited relics, transform the Heavenly Soldiers and Demon Suppression Map into a relic, and then use it to evolve the thirty-three heavens?

The Map of 330,000 Heavenly Soldiers to Suppress Demons left by Daozu was originally a magical weapon that Jiang Xinghuo obtained in reality, but unfortunately it was an incomplete and broken prop.

There is another part hidden in the underworld, which was obtained by him in the Fengdu Palace in the underworld, but now the total completeness is only about 37%. It is not easy to collect the remaining part of the scroll.

But no matter what, now at least I know how to save my life and break the impasse. It all depends on myself from now on. After collecting all the fragments of the Heavenly Soldier Map, perhaps I can avoid being killed in the future.

"The fortune teller left Xiankong Island. He was eager to go to the City of Origin. Although he said he wanted to heal his wounds, you always felt that he was hiding something from you. But it didn't matter to you. You had already given up your authority anyway. It's too late to regret it now."

The fortune teller's matter has come to an end.

Jiang Xinghuo looked up at the time. It was already late, and there was still some time before three quarters past midnight. He directly controlled the character to walk towards the Tower of Babel.

"You chose to go to the Tower of Babel."

"On the way, please wait..."

"You came to the door of the Tower of Babel, and just as you were about to go in, a sharp knife suddenly pressed against your lower back, forcing you into a shadow where the light could not reach, and threatening you to take out everything on your body."

"It watched you being welcomed into Xiankong Island by the Five Rats, and knew that you were not ordinary. You must have a lot of good things on you. If you don't want to die, take those things out quickly."

"What do you choose to do now?"

(End of this chapter)