My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 761 Heavenly Palace - Demon-Slaying Platform!

Jiang Xinghuo didn't take the threats from those ghost soldiers and generals seriously at all. Not to mention that they couldn't do anything to him, even if he really entered the underworld and revealed the aura of the king of the underworld, these seemingly vicious ghost soldiers and generals might have to kneel down and kowtow to him.

Besides, his current identity is a cursed exile. The worldly rules of life and death have no effect on him at all. He can return to the world of the living from the underworld at any time, so why would he need these ghost soldiers to pick him up?

"Where are you going next?"

"Will you choose to return to Luosha City to find those Luoshas? Or will you choose to explore somewhere else?"

Jiang Xinghuo did not choose to return to Luosha City, but activated the shrine in Guandong City and teleported himself to the River God Temple in Daliang City.

"You have arrived at the Daliang City River Temple."

"You entered the River God Temple. There were only a few corpse collectors guarding their lair. The others were out gathering information for you."

"These corpse-recoverers have heard about the news that the Three Blue Sky Guillotines had appeared in Daliang City, but they regarded it as gossip and did not take it too seriously. Because many people wanted to look for it in a big way, even the demons and ghosts that never see the sun came out to search for the Three Blue Sky Guillotines, but in the end they all returned empty-handed, and instead fought each other, killing many people."

"But there is no smoke without fire. Since there is such a rumor circulating in Jiangnan, it means that it is most likely true. Even if the Three Guillotines of the Blue Sky are not in Daliang City, some clues will surely leak out. You just need to wait for a while."

When Jiang Xinghuo saw this message, he was not in a hurry. He just waited. It was just a matter of time. Besides, it was more convenient to have these corpse lifters go out to find out the information than to find out the information by himself.

"You can choose to provide some props to increase the efficiency of these corpse retrievers."

Jiang Xinghuo thought for a moment, took out a few bundles of Hongyun Incense from the void drawer, and clicked to submit for use.

"Do you want to hand over these three bundles of lucky incense to these corpse collectors?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes.

With these lucky incense sticks, the corpse catchers can trigger more unexpected events, and maybe even get clues about the Three Guillotines of the Blue Sky from somewhere.

"Give the lucky incense to these corpse retrievers and have them distribute it to other corpse retrievers. This will effectively help them gather information more quickly."

Afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo began to check the harvest in Jinggui Hall.

The first thing was the dog-head guillotine, which was a little beyond his expectations. He didn't expect that after being affected by the Realm of Life, he would actually turn into a dog!

Jiang Xinghuo clicked on the text out of curiosity, bringing it from the game to reality. He saw a black thin dog over two meters long immediately appeared in the living room.

The whole body exudes a deep metallic luster, and clanging sounds are heard as it moves. It looks full of solemn and majestic aura.

This is understandable. After all, the guillotine is an instrument of torture. It has been used to chop off countless evil people's heads. It is not surprising that it has a murderous aura.

Moreover, the size of this black thin dog can change freely, and can reach a maximum height of more than three meters. This is only the limit of the living room ceiling, not the limit after the dog-head chopper comes to life.

The most important thing is that Jiang Xinghuo has absolute control and right to use the black dog transformed from the dog-head guillotine. Unless it orders to attack him, the black dog will never betray him.

This kind of loyalty is much stronger than the God-Binding Immortal Talisman.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the black dog sticking out its tongue beside him and took it into the world in the painting of Tianbingtu, where it could run and jump around freely without feeling restrained.

But just as he put the dog-head guillotine into the Heavenly Soldier Map, a new text message suddenly popped up in the game.

"The Heavenly Soldiers Map has detected the presence of the Instrument of Punishment and has automatically activated a new function. You have obtained the forging blueprint for the Demon Slaying Platform."

"The forging blueprint of the Demon Slaying Platform (special item). The Demon Slaying Platform is one of the three major punishment sites in the myths and legends of the secular world. It is specially used to execute demons and monsters that bring disaster to the world. A trip to the Demon Slaying Platform will destroy a thousand years of cultivation in one night. Moreover, the souls of the demons and monsters that die on the Demon Slaying Platform will be automatically incorporated into the Demon Slaying Platform and become the punishment soldiers and servants of the Demon Slaying Platform. The main purpose is to make the best use of everything."

Ok?
Jiang Xinghuo was surprised and happy.

I didn't expect that putting the Dog-Head Guillotine into the Heavenly Soldier Map could actually trigger this kind of plot and provide clues to the Demon-Slaying Platform.

Then once we find the dragon-head guillotine and the tiger-head guillotine, won’t there be even greater gains?
Jiang Xinghuo noticed the content of the game text.

The Demon-Slaying Platform is only one of the three major places of punishment. The Dog-Head Guillotine has now opened one of them, so the remaining two are probably the task of the Dragon-Head Guillotine and the Tiger-Head Guillotine.

This made Jiang Xinghuo want to find the other two guillotines immediately, then give them life with the Realm of Life, and then throw them into the Heavenly Soldier Map.

But no matter how much they think about it and try to do it, whether they can find the other two guillotines depends on how hard these corpse lifters work.

Next, Jiang Xinghuo checked the materials needed to forge the demon-slaying platform. In addition to the most core dog-head guillotine, a large amount of secular metal ore and torture instrument templates were also needed.

Although these things are cumbersome and complicated, fortunately they are not difficult to find.

Jiang Xinghuo activated the shrine outside the River Temple and teleported himself to the mining city in the northwest.

This is where all kinds of metal ores are produced. No matter how precious and rare the ore is, if you can't find it here, you probably won't be able to find it anywhere else.

Jiang Xinghuo came to the market in the mining city and bought all the ores needed to forge the Demon-Slaying Platform by using his Fiery Eyes and Sky-Peeking Eyes.

Of course, a lot of money was spent on incense offerings, and nearly ten thousand yuan was reimbursed just like that. However, for the sake of his own future, the money had to be spent. If it really didn't work, he would go find somewhere to collect some incense offerings. In short, he couldn't delay his plan.

After preparing these metal ores, Jiang Xinghuo did not delay too long in the mining city. He activated the shrine and teleported himself to the main altar of the Xingmenmai outside the city of Peking.

"You have arrived at the Xingmen Sect's main altar."

"Ever since the God of Mountains destroyed the Xingmen Clan, this place has become a dangerous place in the secular world. The evil spirit is overwhelming, and few people are willing to set foot here. Even if there may be some treasures hidden here, you have to be alive to come here and get them."

Jiang Xinghuo controlled the character to walk to the main altar of the Xingmen Sect. He had been here once before, but did not trigger any additional plot clues.

This time I didn't come here for the new story mission.

Instead, they came for the remaining torture instruments.

If we talk about the sect in the secular world that has the most thorough research on punishment, it is probably the Xingmen sect. Even the Ministry of Justice in the city of Beiping, after the demise of the Xingmen sect, took the surviving disciples into the Ministry of Justice, thus preserving this branch of inheritance.

"You walked into the main altar of the Xingmen Sect and began to explore. You found a lot of remaining torture instruments under the rubble. Not far in front of you, there was a complete gallows lying upside down. Do you want to go over and collect it?"

Jiang Xinghuo took a look and thought that he was lucky. He immediately controlled the character to go over and put away the gallows. "You have obtained the Xingmen gallows."

"This torture device can automatically adjust the strength of the noose. It can not only be used to hang criminals, but also to torture and extract confessions, crushing the limbs, bones and internal organs. However, from the outside, there is nothing abnormal, so this gallows is also called bone-dissolving wire."

"You continue to search..."

Jiang Xinghuo controlled the game into a semi-idle state, and did not enter the game to check it carefully until the sun came out. It turned out that he had found a lot of things in these few hours.

"You have obtained the beheading platform."

"You have obtained the bone-pulling bed."

"You have obtained the Iron Tree Pool."

"You have obtained the Silver Mother Cave."

"You have obtained the Killing Blade."

During these few hours, the game character found five intact torture instruments and countless fragments and ruins.

Jiang Xinghuo was not very interested in the fragments, but was quite interested in the five torture instruments.

Since the Demon-Slaying Platform is a building in the Heavenly Soldiers Map, it will definitely be of great benefit to you when you establish a landmark in the future, so you must not be careless about this.

"The beheading platform is a high platform used by the Xingmenmai to behead criminals. With one strike, the head and body are severed, and the soul will also be devoured by the platform, unable to turn into a wandering ghost and cause trouble."

"The bone-pulling bed is a torture device used by Xingmenmai to punish people who sell organs. It can separate a person's tendons, bones, skin and flesh, but it always keeps vital signs. It takes three days and three nights for the person to completely die."

"The Iron Tree Pool is a torture device used by the Xingmenmai to punish human traffickers, beggars, and people who cut and mutilate people. It is hung on an iron tree, with boiling water below to steam the person's body, and then an iron brush is used to brush off the surface of the skin and flesh, and this cycle is repeated until the person dies."

"The Silver Mother Cave is a torture instrument used by the Xingmen Vein to punish grave robbers and tomb robbers. The cave is made of meteorites and is full of mercury. It will not decay after death, so it can be used as a tomb guardian beast."

"Be careful, the Silver Mother Cave has dried up. If you want to use it again, you must find the source of mercury, otherwise it will be difficult to exert its effect."

Jiang Xinghuo immediately thought of the Silver Mother Fairy. This Silver Mother Cave was prepared completely for it. As for mercury, the Silver Mother Fairy could have as much as she wanted and didn't have to go out of her way to look for it.

"The Killing Blade is the most brutal torture tool of the Xingmen Sect. Although it is called a blade, it is actually a mechanical creation of the Tiangong Sect. It is shaped like a giant beast and can devour all living things and completely destroy their souls and bodies."

"Attention, the Killing Blade was severely damaged when the Ridge God attacked the Xingmen Sect's main altar. Both the mechanical core and the divine consciousness were shattered, and it is difficult to restore its original form."

"You have triggered the Sky-Watcher's Eye."

"You used your innate ability of the Sky-Watcher's Eye to crack the operating principle of the Killing Blade and automatically derived two repair plans for you to choose from."

"First, we use the mechanical principles of craftsmanship to repair it. However, the repaired Killing Blade is a half-biological, half-mechanical creation. It does not have its own thinking ability and only knows how to follow orders."

"Second, fuse the fragments of the Killing Blade with the corresponding monsters to create a brand new Killing Blade. Of course, you can also change the Killing Blade to another name."

"It has been detected that you have a monster in your body that matches the Killing Blade fragment."

Jiang Xinghuo glanced at the goal given in the game text.

There are two options.

They are the Dragon-Swallowing Immortal and the Bone-Eroding Dragon.

These two monsters were imprisoned in his acupoints, which just matched the properties of the Killing Blade and could be combined with it to form a new instrument of torture.

Jiang Xinghuo thought for a moment and finally chose the Bone Dragon.

The Bone Dragon's ability to devour everything overlaps with the Killing Blade, so there is no need to worry about not being able to eat or causing harm to yourself.

The Dragon-Swallowing Immortal is still of some use now, so I don’t plan to hand him over to the Demon-Slaying Platform for the time being.

"You chose the Bone Dragon to devour the fragments of the Killing Blade."

"After hearing your order, the Bone Dragon's celestial eyes lit up under its copper coin mask, and it pounced on you and began to feast on you."

"It took only a moment to devour all the fragments. The Bone Dragon's body shape also began to change, forming a giant white-bone beast that resembled a real dragon. There were countless black mists in its bones, which could easily devour and dissolve any creature that entered it."

"Do you want to submit all the torture instrument templates to the Demon Slaying Platform for forging and fusion immediately?"

"You chose to submit all metal ores and torture device templates."

"Forging in progress, please wait..."

Jiang Xinghuo waved his right hand and unfolded the Heavenly Soldiers Map, and his figure also disappeared into the map. All of a sudden, he was surrounded by clouds and mist, as if he had really arrived at the legendary fairyland in heaven. He didn't know when the clothes on his body turned into Taoist robes, with blue and white colors fluttering in the wind, and he looked like a Taoist immortal.

However, the heavenly soldiers around seemed a little dull. They stood aside with solemn expressions, without coming forward to talk or taking any action.

"The world in the painting?"

Jiang Xinghuo looked around, and with a thought, the clouds in front of him dissipated, and a hall emitting a deep light appeared in front of him. On the bronze plaque, there were three large characters engraved - Demon Slaying Platform!

But he couldn't enter it yet, probably because it was still being forged. After waiting for about half an hour, Jiang Xinghuo wandered around the world in the painting, but he basically lingered in the first level that had just taken shape. Above that was an endless expanse of clouds and mist, without any landmark buildings.

About half an hour later, Jiang Xinghuo suddenly had a spiritual feeling and returned to the outside of the Demon-Slaying Platform. He saw a black hall floating in the clouds, exuding a majestic and murderous atmosphere. As soon as he stepped onto the square platform outside the hall, it seemed as if countless swords and axes were floating around.

Moreover, there was a dark cloud as black as black iron in the sky above the hall. The first time Jiang Xinghuo saw it, he realized that it was a heavenly thunder calamity used to slay demons and exterminate evil spirits.

But it also needs the origin of heavenly thunder to be automatically activated, otherwise it can only be controlled by human thunder magic.

(End of this chapter)