My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 784: Kitchen God's Image and the Sea of ​​Blood

Headless Phoenix?

When Jiang Xinghuo saw this description, he felt a flash before his eyes. A thick fog appeared in the haze, and the sound of a rushing river came to his ears, accompanied by a very strong smell of blood, as if he was in another empty space.

Then, the fog in front of him suddenly dissipated, and what appeared in front of Jiang Xinghuo was a horrifying scene. Under the bottomless cliff, a bloody river was surging. The sound of waves in his ears and the smell of blood in his nose all came from under the cliff.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Xinghuo could not help but understand that the illusion he saw at this moment was the deep part of the Tai Sui Cave where the game character was at this moment.

But...what about the headless phoenix?

As soon as this thought came to Jiang Xinghuo's mind, he heard two clear and mournful cries, the voices were full of sorrow and regret.

Then, two headless phoenix corpses shining with golden light slowly floated down from the upper reaches of the sea of ​​blood, as if wings made of pure gold were floating on the sea of ​​blood. The wounds on their necks continued to spew blood like springs, merging into the sea of ​​blood below.

This scene is exactly the same as the previous description in the game text, without any difference or distinction. The only difference is that I am now witnessing it with my own eyes, rather than guessing through the perspective of text.

The sensations brought by the two senses are also completely different. From the text alone, there is nothing unusual, but now, Jiang Xinghuo feels an unprecedented fear, as if he will be swallowed up by this abyss-like sea of ​​blood in the next moment.

But soon, the strange vision disappeared again, and the living room of the shop was still in front of him, without any changes. However, the smell of blood lingered in his nose for a long time.

Moreover, the smell of blood does not make people feel nauseous or disgusted. Instead, it makes people enjoy it and even yearn for it in their hearts, hoping to soak in the sea of ​​blood for a long time.

This feeling made Jiang Xinghuo feel conflicted, both resisting and yearning for it. To sum it up in two words: awkward.

This lasted for quite some time.

Jiang Xinghuo finally dispelled the strange feeling and continued to look at the new game text appearing on the screen.

"You have been nourished by the remaining blood of the ancient Phoenix Ancestor, and your mana has been greatly improved, +17."

As the game text flashed by, Jiang Xinghuo suddenly felt his body heating up, as if a huge furnace was burning. The blazing fire rose from his dantian and quickly spread to his limbs and bones.

In the blink of an eye, it had flowed to every corner of the body. The whole person was like a cooked crab and shrimp. The skin became red and hot at a speed visible to the naked eye. The rolling heat waves emanating from the body distorted the air.

Without any warning, the Kitchen God's fire quickly flew out from his pores and finally turned into a phoenix made up of flames, circling and dancing rapidly in the living room.

Jiang Xinghuo forced himself to call out the River-Suppressing Boy, who sprinkled a large amount of cold water to fight against the Fire Phoenix. Steam soon filled the entire room, making it like a steamer. Fortunately, the River-Suppressing Boy continued to sprinkle river water, and although the temperature in the room rose sharply, it did not cause a fire.

Otherwise, he would be lacking in virtue. The impact on his own family affairs is small, but if the shops of the surrounding neighbors were also set on fire, he would really have no way to explain himself.

The fire phoenix formed by the Kitchen God's fire circled and danced for more than ten minutes, and finally dived into Jiang Xinghuo's chest, merged into his body and disappeared.

But if one uses the method of introspection to check the Kitchen God fire in the body, one will find that the flame that was originally swaying like a candle has turned into a majestic and domineering flaming phoenix, which is constantly circling over the chest, radiating strands of flame patterns, and forming a flaming human figure that cannot be seen by the naked eye along the meridians, acupuncture points, tendons and bones of the human body.

"The Fire God Body... is done?"

When Jiang Xinghuo observed this situation, he was both surprised and happy. The Kitchen God's Fire was a method passed down by the Kitchen God, which could be used to forge the Kitchen God's image. However, the prerequisite for forging the Kitchen God's image was to first forge the Fire God's body.

In short, the body of the God of Fire is the bones and muscles of the Kitchen God's body. Only when the bones and muscles are built can the flesh and blood of the body grow.

Jiang Xinghuo has been practicing Kitchen God Fire for a long time.

But the body of the God of Fire was never completely built.

Unexpectedly, this time, just by being nourished by the blood of the dead headless phoenix, he was able to push the Fire God's body to the great perfection realm. All he had to do next was to collect enough materials to start creating the Kitchen God's body.

"You have successfully condensed the body of the God of Fire."

"The test was successful. You are now qualified to unlock the casting blueprint of the Kitchen God's Dharma Image. Do you want to obtain it immediately?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without hesitation.

"The Kitchen God's Dharma Image Blueprint has been unlocked."

"Please wait……"

"You have successfully opened the Kitchen God's Dharma Image Casting Diagram."

"The materials needed to cast the Kitchen God's image are as follows:"

"One Red Dust Fire Seed, one Lunar Sky Fire Fragment, one Mars Sky Fire Fragment, one Netherworld Ghost Fire Fragment, one Red Lotus Karma Fire Fragment, one complete Ancient Star Meteorite, one pot of Fire Demon Blood, one Undead Phoenix Wing, one pair of Fire Spirit Agate, one bowl of Ten Thousand Households Light Ashes, 1000 Red Dust Wishes. Gather all the materials, hold a Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony on the Yanbo Terrace, and temper it with the Sun Sky Fire. Then you can successfully forge the Kitchen God Dharma Image."

"Note that the size of the ancient star meteorite cannot be smaller than the body of an adult. The larger the meteorite, the stronger the starting point of the power of the forged Dharma image will be."

"It is said that the Kitchen God once used the most primitive ancient stars from outer space as materials to forge a Dharmadhatu that was comparable to an ancient god."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the raw materials given in the game text and couldn't help but gasp. He didn't expect that casting the image of the Kitchen God would be so troublesome. Not to mention other things, the condition of that piece of ancient meteorite alone would be enough to make 99% of the inheritors of the Kitchen God's lineage give up.

The reason is very simple, I can’t find it!!

Not to mention in the secular world, even on Earth, there are few meteorites that meet the requirements.

It's not that there aren't any, the key is that they meet the conditions. Now they are either in museums or in famous tourist attractions abroad.

Therefore, if he wanted to forge an image of the Kitchen God, he still had to set his sights on the secular world. As for refining a star into an image of the Kitchen God like he did, he was just thinking about it now. Even if he was really given a dead star, he might not have the ability to refine it.

But then again, I wonder if the body of the Six Heavenly Ghost God hidden in my shadow satisfies the requirement of the Ancient Star Meteorite? ?

If he was satisfied, his biggest trouble would be solved. If he could refine that metal planet into the Kitchen God's Dharma Image, it would be like placing the Thirty-Six Hells inside the Kitchen God's Dharma Image, greatly improving both its safety and power.

However, apart from ancient meteorites, other materials are not so easy to obtain.

Those fragments of skyfire were easy to deal with. I had found some of them more or less in my past explorations, but the rest would also take a lot of time.

For example, the fire of the Red Dust Fire. According to the game text, the Red Dust Fire is the fire of karma born in the red dust.

Unlike the power of sinful karma in the red lotus karmic fire, the karma in the mortal world fire is the power of good karma. To put it bluntly, it is the karmic fire formed by truth, goodness and beauty.

However, in today's world, these three virtues, truth, kindness and beauty, are almost extinct, if not completely extinct.

In today's secular world, moral order and social order are in decline, demons are rampant, and it is difficult for creatures with pure and kind natures to survive.

As for the 1000 earthly wishes, one needs to satisfy the wishes of the Kitchen God believers in order to harvest one from them, which is also a big project.

The ashes from thousands of lamps are easy to explain. They are the ashes in the incense burner in the Kitchen God Temple. Because they condense the thoughts of thousands of believers, they have derived all kinds of magical functions. They can not only cure diseases and drive away evil spirits, but can also be used as forging materials.

In addition, there is the fire spirit agate mentioned in the text, which is the eyes of fire-attributed monsters after death. But they must be extremely powerful monsters. Ordinary fire-attributed monsters will disappear into thin air after death, and their eyes will decay. Only after the death of powerful monsters will their eyes turn into agate and remain in the world.

This reminded Jiang Xinghuo of the two headless phoenixes floating above the sea of ​​blood. These two headless phoenixes were obviously fire-attributed monsters, otherwise they would not have been able to push his Fire God body to perfection.

But unfortunately, there is only a corpse underneath, no head. Could it be under that sea of ​​blood?

As this thought arose in Jiang Xinghuo's mind, new text interaction options appeared in the game.

"Do you want to dive into the blood sea below the cliff to find out what's going on?"

Jiang Xinghuo hesitated for a moment. He knew the result of going down. He would most likely die in the sea of ​​blood.

But if I don't try, I will always feel unwilling. What if the heads of the two headless phoenixes are just under the cliff? Maybe they are just covered by the endless sea of ​​blood!

Thinking of this, Jiang Xinghuo decided to give it a try. At worst, it would just be a life. He could afford the loss!
Moreover, to cast the image of the Kitchen God, one needs the wing of an immortal phoenix, and it is estimated that such a thing would have to come from the corpses of the two headless phoenixes.

"You decided to dive into the sea of ​​blood under the cliff to find out what's going on."

"You unfolded your limbs and spliced ​​your body into a form, leaping off the cliff. In an instant, you fell into an endless sea of ​​blood. The strong smell of blood enveloped you tightly, but before you could continue to dive, an unbearable burning sensation swept over you, seeping into your body through your pores. You resisted for a moment with your Fire God Body, but in the end you were completely melted by the sea of ​​blood. However, before you temporarily disappeared, you used a specially made black jade gourd to fill a pot of blood water and stored it in the void drawer."

"Your body has been completely corroded by the power of the sea of ​​blood, and your soul has also been turned into ashes."

"You are dead."

"Your Exile characteristic will reunite the soul that has turned to ashes. Do you want to use the Substitute to revive it immediately?"

Jiang Xinghuo followed the principle of trying his best and chose yes, but the text that popped up was still the ending of death.

"You used a scapegoat."

"But before you could leave the blood sea, your body and the scarecrow were swallowed up by the blood again, and you died in the blood sea once again."

"How are you going to deal with this next?"

This time, Jiang Xinghuo learned his lesson and no longer pinned his hopes on a scapegoat. Instead, he found some dog food and clicked to use it.

"You used dog food."

"You woke up next to the Fengdu shrine in Tai Sui Cave."

Relying on the player's immortality, Jiang Xinghuo escaped from the sea of ​​blood and came back to life next to the shrine.

But he did not rush to go back in to explore. Instead, he opened the backpack panel and found the pot of blood he had just collected.

"The blood left after the death of the ancient phoenix ancestor (epic material). The blood that flowed out of the ancient phoenix and the phoenix ancestor after their death. Although it has lost most of its spirituality and power over the years, it still contains the breath of the phoenix. The temperature of each drop of blood is comparable to that of scorching magma. It can be used as a material for refining certain special elixirs, and can also be used as a forging material for the Five Ghosts Iron Gourd."

"The Five Ghosts Iron Gourd is the magical weapon of the Gourd Immortal. The gourd is a world of its own, and can hold many poisonous liquids and medicines. The blood and essence left after the death of the ancient Phoenix Ancestor was forged into a weapon using the method of the Five Ghosts Iron Gourd. It can be said to be a supreme treasure for self-defense and defeating enemies."

Jiang Xinghuo's eyes suddenly lit up after seeing the description. Isn't this exactly the blood of fire-attributed monsters and demons needed to forge the image of the Kitchen God?
It was really an unexpected success. He originally went there to see if he could find the Fire Spirit Agate, but unexpectedly he found something else by accident.

This also proved that his previous idea was correct. The Fire Spirit Agate that the eyes of the Fire Phoenix head turned into after its death was very likely hidden under the sea of ​​blood. However, if he wanted to dive down and look for it carefully, he would need to think of some way to resist the high temperature in the sea of ​​blood.

Jiang Xinghuo thought for a moment, found something from his backpack, clicked on it and equipped it on the game character.

"You have used the Taiyin Armor."

"Taiyin Armor (rare item), armor forged from Taiyin meteorite fragments. It can give the wearer the ability to resist high temperatures, but it can also give the wearer frostbite from low temperatures, and can even freeze the wearer to death."

"Attention, in addition to offsetting the damage caused by the high temperature of the flame, the Taiyin Armor can also be used as a sealing item, which can reduce the activity of an item to a minimum, thus preventing it from getting out of control and causing harm to the user."

This is something Jiang Xinghuo found in the Taishan Hell. It was originally a magic weapon of the Taoist Zhenyang of the Maoshan Sect. Later it was buried in the Taishan Hell. He obtained it by chance, and now it comes in handy.

"You are equipped with the Taiyin Armor."

"You used your divine movement skills to reach the edge of the cliff again, leaped off, and dived into the sea of ​​blood once again."

"The blood, as hot as magma, immediately boiled up, wrapping your body tightly in it, as if it wanted to completely melt your body..."

(End of this chapter)