My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 768 Five Turbid Hells
I have to say, the ability of the Realm of Life is really useful.

Especially when opening up and exploring new maps, it is simply an artifact that is invincible. No matter how sophisticated the restrictions are, as long as it is given life by the Realm of Life, it will obey his orders.

Jiang Xinghuo glanced at the game text on his phone and controlled the character to enter the mausoleum of the Wheel Emperor's resting place.

There's nothing I can do. Time is of the essence.

Tianshi Fadao and Shifang Chanlin all know the news here, and the game text also says that they will arrive tomorrow at the latest, and at the earliest they may have arrived now.

If I don't seize every minute, and if I happen to meet those monks and Taoists, I will miss this opportunity in vain.

He did not think that with his current abilities, he could shake the inherited forces of Shifang Zen Forest and Tianshi Fadao.

Therefore, Jiang Xinghuo did not have time to deal with Fengxueyu and the visitor from Guixu.

Anyway, they can't escape if they are thrown into the magic bag, especially the imposing visitor from Guixu. Let the Iron-faced Justice deal with him first, which will make it much easier to interrogate him later. At least we have to dispel his arrogance first.

"You chose to enter the mausoleum of the Wheel-Turning Emperor."

"You have triggered the map of the mausoleum of the Emperor of the Wheel."

"You find that the architecture inside this mausoleum is very complicated. The routes are reversed and circulated according to the directions of the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams. They are linked together to form a large number of buildings in the form of a maze of souls. Even if you know there is a problem, it is difficult for you to pass through these paths smoothly. Unless you are proficient in the directions of the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams and can adapt to the situation and understand the mysteries hidden here, you can pass this level smoothly and enter the depths of the tomb."

When Jiang Xinghuo saw the description in the game text, he thought that there was no need to go through so much trouble. He could just use the Realm of Life to activate the life of the entire mausoleum. Then, wherever he wanted to go, there would naturally be roads extending out.

"You have triggered the effect of the Realm of Life."

"You have endowed this mausoleum with new life. An illusory and hazy figure has appeared silently in front of us. It is the product of this mausoleum having life. You can call it the mausoleum keeper."

"You have discovered it, tomb keeper."

"Tomb Keeper (special). This is a strange kind of monster in the secular world. It was born from nothingness. It is often found in ancient tombs. Because it absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon and mixes with the turbid air of the earth veins, new life is born from nothingness over a long period of time."

"These tomb keepers are born with a good understanding of yin and yang, and can freely travel between the two worlds. Therefore, they are often regarded as spokespersons by the kings of the underworld. However, these tomb keepers are extremely rare, and their own combat power is not strong. The pure and upright energy between heaven and earth is their natural nemesis, so they are not well-known in the secular world."

"But according to some unofficial history and legends, if a tomb keeper can grow up, he will be a very scary existence, but no one knows how to train him. From ancient times to the present, there are only a few tomb keepers who have grown up. According to unreliable rumors circulating in the market, the Lord of Purgatory in the underworld is a tomb keeper, but no one knows whether this news is true or not, because the history of the Lord of the Underworld is too long, so long ago that there is no record of him in the world of the living."

After reading this text description, Jiang Xinghuo had a preliminary understanding of the race of tomb keepers.

As for whether the Lord of the Underworld is the tomb keeper, it doesn’t matter to him at all. Whether he is or not, that level is still far away from him.

The question on his mind now was whether the tomb keeper would obey his orders.

According to the description in the game text, his own realm of life was just adding fuel to the flames, and finally adding fuel to the fire, helping the tomb keeper to transform into shape.

Even without my fire, I believe it won't take long for it to take shape smoothly.

Therefore, it is still unclear whether the tomb keepers will obey his orders, and a fight might even break out.

Jiang Xinghuo was thinking about this when new game text popped up.

"The tomb keeper came to you and expressed his sincere gratitude to you because you helped it a lot. If it weren't for you using the Domain of Birth to give it new life in time."

"It is still unknown whether it can make it through the last stage. It is very likely that it will be assimilated by the turbid energy of the earth veins at the last moment, and the little spirituality that was born with great difficulty will also disappear into thin air."

"Your arrival has given it new life, so as a token of gratitude and reward, it is willing to obey your orders. If you don't mind, it is willing to follow you in the future."

Jiang Xinghuo saw that this was a good opportunity, as he could not only enter the mausoleum smoothly, but also receive a demon who would voluntarily surrender to him.

"Do you want to accept the allegiance of the tomb keeper?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without thinking too much.

These monsters who voluntarily submit to him are definitely more loyal than those who are passively restrained by his orders.

Of course, the God-Binding and Immortal-Commanding Talisman cannot be omitted. Without the corresponding method of restraining it, there is no guarantee that it will not betray itself one day.

In today's secular world, where social order is in decline and betrayal is an all-too-common occurrence, he doesn't want to be stabbed in the back one day and lose his life.

When Fengdu was fighting in the underworld, Shifang Zen Temple taught him a severe lesson. Past events are a warning for the future, so we must be on guard.

"You inserted the God Binding Talisman into the tomb keeper's body, leaving a hidden trick so that it wouldn't notice, just in case."

"Then, the tomb keepers controlled the various organs and roads in the mausoleum to make way for you to have an unobstructed path. You can follow this path directly into the deepest part of the tomb and reach the place where the body of the Emperor of Samsara rests."

"But at the same time, you also learned from the tomb keeper what happened outside. The people from Shifang Zen Temple and Tianshi Fadao were faster than you thought and have already arrived outside the mausoleum."

"But they don't have your ability. They can only wait for the moon to reach its zenith and use the gravitational pull of the moon's tides to open the entrance to the mausoleum. So you still have some free time to explore. As long as you can seize this time difference, you will be able to find the most valuable items before them."

"Do you want to go to the deepest part of the mausoleum immediately?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without hesitation and immediately controlled the character to walk towards the depths of the tomb.

"You walked into the depths of the tomb. The tomb keeper told you to explore boldly. He will use the complex terrain of the tomb to make it more difficult for those people to enter. I believe this will buy you some time." "Continue on your way. Please wait..."

"You avoided numerous traps and arrived at the tomb safely. Here you saw a stone door with an engraved picture of the Buddha's holy body of the Wheel-Turning Emperor. It emitted a faint golden Buddha light, as if it could walk down from the stone door at any time to convert you."

"And you noticed that there were many scattered and broken skeletons on both sides of the stone gate. Judging from their appearance, they all came from different races."

"But without exception, they were all converted by the Dharmakaya of the Holy King of the Wheel of Time and became the guardians of the mausoleum and died of old age here. Fortunately, your life domain has given life to the stone door. The Buddha's light on it has no effect on you. Instead, it has revealed the entrance to the tomb. Do you want to enter it immediately?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought that this Emperor of the Wheel of Dharma was quite evil. With just a picture of his Dharma body that he left behind, he could turn anyone who entered here into a dog. This level of accomplishment was probably beyond the reach of ordinary people. Even a serious Buddhist practitioner might not have this ability.

"You entered the tomb."

"You found that the structure of this tomb chamber is in line with the Taoist Four Symbols and Five Spirits Formation. In the middle of the Wu Earth position is placed a Huangtian Hou Tu coffin. On the surrounding walls are vividly depicted 19 demon-slaying celestial generals who are used to protect the law and punish outsiders who break in here."

"You were attacked by the demon-slaying general."

"The 19 demon-slaying celestial generals painted on the wall walked down from the wall, waving their guardian magic weapons and attacking you."

"How do you plan to deal with the attacks of these heavenly generals?"

"Will you choose to fight them head-on and see if you can disperse these demon-slaying celestial generals? Or will you choose to put them into the Heavenly Soldiers Map and try to use them for your own purposes?"

Jiang Xinghuo naturally would not choose the former, as that would be a thankless task. It would be better to use it for his own benefit, perhaps it could even become a help to him.

"You unfolded the Heavenly Soldiers Map, and countless chains immediately flew out from behind the clouds, like a group of dragons tumbling and flying. In an instant, they tied up the demon-subduing heavenly generals who were besieging you into cocoons, dragged them into the clouds, and disappeared."

"You have detained 19 demon-slaying celestial generals."

"The power of the List of Conferred Gods will change the cognition of these 19 demon-conquering generals, and they will be completely free from the constraints of the demon-conquering generals on the wall of the tomb."

Jiang Xinghuo was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the List of Gods could be used in this way.

Not only can it seal the immortals, gods, demons and monsters, but it can also forcibly change the cognition of living things. Doesn't that mean that as long as a living creature enters the Heavenly Soldier Map, there is a chance to turn it into its own servants and dependents?

Jiang Xinghuo suppressed his thoughts and controlled the character to come to the side of the coffin.

"You have discovered the coffin of the Queen of the Imperial Fields."

"This is a coffin made by Emperor Huangtian, one of the ten great emperors, using the power of Hou Tu. It has the ability to keep a corpse from decaying and even bring it back to life."

"Do you want to open the coffin immediately and find out what's inside?"

"You opened the coffin of Huang Tian Hou Tu, but found that there was nothing inside the coffin. It seemed to be an empty coffin."

Empty coffin?

Jiang Xinghuo frowned slightly. How could it be an empty coffin?
Could it be that the Emperor of the Wheel went to so much trouble just to leave an empty coffin to fool people?
"You triggered it, Fiery Eyes and Golden Eyes."

"You used your Fiery Eyes to observe the coffin and unexpectedly discovered that there was a scripture engraved on the side wall of the coffin using micro-carving techniques. Since the light in the tomb was relatively dim and the micro-carving techniques were extremely precise, if you didn't have the ability to see through fire, even if you saw the micro-carvings, you would have thought they were natural patterns on the material."

"You slowly inject your magic power into those micro-carved scriptures. Soon the entire Huangtian Houtu Coffin will emit a faint golden light, and a complete Taoist scripture will appear before your eyes."

"You have obtained the Imperial Field Queen's Burial Body Sutra."

"Imperial Field Queen's Burial Body Scripture (Ordinary), this is the introductory scripture left by the Emperor of Heaven. As long as you recite the contents of the scripture silently in your heart, you can eliminate your own traces, regardless of the strength of your cultivation."

"You activated the scripture left on the coffin, and the hidden corpse slowly appeared before your eyes."

"You have discovered the remains of the Chakravartin."

"The Wheel-Turning King is one of the kings of the underworld in folk legends. He presides over the Five Turbid Hells and controls the power of life and death, misfortune and reincarnation. He can decide where the dead souls will go in the next life and what kind of creature they will be reincarnated as. He is also an extremely mysterious existence in the underworld."

"You carefully examined the body left by the Chakravartin and found a page of scripture on it. It contained the details of what happened and the method to enter the Five Turbid Hells."

"According to the records in the scriptures, the Chakravartin in the underworld is actually an incarnation of the Chakravartin Emperor. Everyone knows that the Chakravartin Emperor has two incarnations in Buddhism and Taoism, but few people know that he also has a projection in the underworld, and he has gone from being the most ordinary dead soul to the position of the king of the underworld."

"But this projection gradually escaped his control, and was always trying to turn the tables and devour the consciousness of the Wheel King. So the Wheel King erased the consciousness of the Wheel King and left his body here."

"And the Five Turbid Hells left by the Chakravartin were also closed. The Five Turbid Hells are located in the gap between the secular world and the underworld, much closer to the secular world than other hells. If they are not controlled, the Five Turbid Hells will sooner or later become a transit station connecting the world of the living and the underworld."

"The Emperor of the Wheel of Time originally wanted to use the Five Turbid Hells for his own benefit, but he sensed the hidden dangers in his body. He was unknowingly contaminated by the spirit of the Ancient God and became a potential believer of the Ancient God from outer space. Once he becomes a fanatical believer, the Five Turbid Hells will become the medium through which the Ancient God pollutes the secular world."

“So, the Emperor of the Wheel of Time immediately sealed off the Five Turbid Hells, and with the help of the Emperor of the Light of the Round Light Mirror, he stripped away the memory in his mind, turned it into an avatar and threw it into the Five Turbid Hells. Apart from the avatar and the page of scripture he left behind, even the Emperor of the Wheel of Time himself did not know the location of the Five Turbid Hells. This prevented the ancient gods from polluting the world to the greatest extent.”

“As for the corpse left in the Huangtian coffin, it is a gift he left for the ancient gods from outer space. Once the ancient gods want to use it as an anchor to descend into the secular world, the [Huangtian Treasure Edict] remaining inside the coffin will forcibly transform the ancient god’s projection consciousness into his fanatical believer, thus becoming a nail wedged into the group of ancient gods.”

"Moreover, the contents of this scripture can only be read by the bloodline of the Exiles. If the monsters of other races read this scripture, they will be converted into devout gravekeepers guarding the mausoleum."

"So, after you read the contents of this page, you must not lose it, otherwise you will not be able to find a way to enter the Five Turbid Hells, even if you find the original body to ask."

(End of this chapter)