My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 801: When people die, they become ghosts, and when ghosts die, they become ghosts

Jiang Xinghuo's heart skipped a beat, but he couldn't show any abnormality on the surface. According to the information given by the Sky-Peeking Eye, once he established contact with the ghost bride and the ghost baby, he would be attacked by the mother and daughter.

Although he was not afraid of the two ghosts, it was better to avoid them as much as possible if possible.

After all, I am now in an ancient house, and the situation is not clear. If one thing moves the whole body and all the ghosts in the ancient house attack me, I will definitely be the one who suffers in the end.

So when he saw the ghost bride coming to his side, Jiang Xinghuo still did not show the slightest abnormality, as if he did not see the female ghost in the blood-red wedding dress in front of him.

Jiang Xinghuo picked up the oil lamp on the table and wandered around the room in the light of the lamp. At the same time, he opened his fiery eyes and looked at every corner of the room, wanting to know if there were any unknown treasures hidden here.

But he walked around the house and found nothing, except for a dozen paper money for the dead in a corner.

It is not the printed ghost money of Tiandi Bank now, but the silver bills of the underworld printed on woodcut boards in ancient times.

This kind of ghost money did not circulate for a long time in ancient times because it was criticized by Confucianists, who said that printing ghost money with the same printing plates was an insult to Confucius and Mencius, so it was banned in ancient times. Only a few printing plates and finished products were preserved.

The paper money that Jiang Xinghuo found in the room did not look like newly printed things. Instead, they looked like finished products that had been preserved from the past. They were also in relatively good condition. Except for the paper being a little fragile, there was almost no damage anywhere else.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the paper money in his hand and wanted to light it, but he was worried about causing an unknown crisis, so he put it in his arms and planned to wait a while before doing anything else.

Then, he turned his gaze to the wooden bed. This carved wooden bed was the only place Jiang Xinghuo had not checked. Now he did not care whether there was any taboo. If there was really any treasure hidden in it, then the most likely place would be this wooden bed.

Jiang Xinghuo walked to the wooden bed. Although he did not look back, he could clearly feel that the ghost bride and the ghost baby were staring at him from behind, as if they could pounce on him at any time.

Jiang Xinghuo also secretly made preparations, with Thunder Magic and Withered Tree Bringing Back Spring ready to go. Once attacked by these two ghost creatures, he could react immediately.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Xinghuo began to toss and turn on the bed, but still found nothing. There was no other items on the huge bed except bedding.

But just when Jiang Xinghuo was about to leave the wooden bed, his fiery eyes suddenly sensed a faint trace of yin energy, which was coming from the sheets under the quilt.

"There's something!"

Jiang Xinghuo lifted the quilt on the bed, exposing the bed board underneath.

At the same time, the temperature in the room suddenly dropped rapidly. In a short moment, it seemed to have turned into an ice cave, and waves of unbearable pain came from my arms.

Jiang Xinghuo rolled up his sleeves and saw that for some reason, there were blue-black teeth marks on the skin of his arms, and the teeth marks were constantly increasing, as if something was lying on him and biting him.

"Ghost baby!"

Jiang Xinghuo immediately remembered the description of the ghost baby. He resisted the urge to turn around and attack the ghost baby. He immediately activated the power of revival in his body. The teeth marks on his arm began to heal rapidly, and the pain also disappeared a lot.

However, as soon as the old wounds disappeared, new wounds would soon appear on the skin, and the two sides started a tug-of-war. The ghost baby seemed to be competing with Jiang Xinghuo, and the speed and frequency of the tooth marks appeared faster and faster, but Jiang Xinghuo's Revival was not much behind. Basically, as soon as the tooth marks appeared, they would be healed by Revival.

Jiang Xinghuo could even hear the ghost baby's roar and gasp, but no matter how the ghost baby attacked him, the teeth marks could not spread to other places and were confined to one arm.

Seeing this, Jiang Xinghuo gradually understood the ghost baby's abilities. Although it could devour everything, it had to do it step by step. It had to finish eating an arm before it could eat other parts. Otherwise, it could only keep biting and devouring one place.

After discovering this, Jiang Xinghuo no longer feared the ghost baby. Anyway, it couldn't escape the healing effect of the dead tree coming back to life, so it didn't matter if it continued to consume it.

On the contrary, it was the indifferent ghost bride that made Jiang Xinghuo feel a little uneasy. He was not afraid of any reaction, but was afraid of no reaction. If there was no reaction, who knew when it would show its teeth.

Jiang Xinghuo waited for a while, but the ghost bride still didn't respond, so he simply ignored the mother and daughter and smashed the bed with one palm. A cylinder wrapped in yellow cloth fell out from the bed debris and rolled right in front of the ghost bride's toes.

This sudden scene made the atmosphere in the room suddenly silent. The ghost bride did not seem to have expected that Jiang Xinghuo would be so reckless as to smash the bed.

Moreover, the speed at which the tooth marks appeared slowed down, and Jiang Xinghuo could clearly see a hint of doubt on the ghost baby's face.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't care about that. He formed his right hand into a claw and grabbed the cylinder in the air on the ground. He caught it in his hand and squeezed it hard. The yellow cloth on the surface suddenly shattered and even the bamboo tube inside was broken into pieces.

Only then did Jiang Xinghuo see clearly what was inside. It turned out to be a rusty brass imperial clock and a yellowed newspaper that looked like it was from the Republic of China period.

But at the moment when these two things appeared, the ghost baby and the ghost bride suddenly became manic, especially the ghost baby. Without seeing it make any movement, Jiang Xinghuo felt a tearing and tearing pain in his arm, and the teeth marks appeared densely on his skin again.

Moreover, unlike the previous blue-black bruises, the tooth marks that appeared this time were actually bloody wounds, and the pain was several times greater than before.

Jiang Xinghuo quickly used the Dead Tree Reviving Spring and once again got into a tug-of-war with the ghost baby.

The ghost bride was also filled with evil spirits, her fair hands were covered with dark blue corpse spots, and she emitted a strong stench of decay, and she was strangling his neck.

At this point, Jiang Xinghuo could no longer hide his incompetence, and immediately activated the Five Thunder Technique. Purple-red lightning surged out, like two dragon claws grabbing the ghost bride and the ghost baby.

Boom!

A thunderous sound like tearing silk passed by!
The dragon claws evolved from lightning directly tore the ghost baby into pieces. The violent arcs of lightning spread over the ghost baby's body. Soon the ghost baby lost its movement and fell to the ground motionless.

The ghost bride held on a little longer than the ghost baby, but in the end she could not escape death either, and like the ghost baby she lay on the ground, breathless.

"You're going to die now?"

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the two evil spirits that he had easily dealt with, and felt a little suspicious in his heart. It seemed that these two evil spirits were too weak, and he killed them with just a casual blow.

Then what was the point of my previous caution?
Scare yourself?

Jiang Xinghuo walked over and kicked the two corpses, but there was no reaction or abnormality, just like two ordinary corpses. "It seems that ghosts also have physical bodies..."

Jiang Xinghuo pondered in his mind.

He found that he had been trapped in a misunderstanding all along. Who said that ghosts must be illusory?
Human beings have flesh and blood.

Can't ghosts have physical bodies?
Jiang Xinghuo snapped his fingers and the Kitchen God's fire popped out, which fell on the two corpses and started burning, to prevent any further accidents.

Then, Jiang Xinghuo looked at the brass imperial bell and the waste newspaper in his hand.

Jiang Xinghuo picked up the brass imperial bell and shook it tentatively. A clear and pleasant sound spread out. There was no reaction at first, but then he felt a little dazed, as if he was under a spell of immobilization. He stood there for a long time before coming to his senses.

"A magical weapon that can freeze the body?"

Jiang Xinghuo was surprised and shook his head again, then carefully noticed the changes in his body.

"No, the sound of the bell is not aimed at the body, but at the soul and the spirit. It is because the soul and the spirit are shaken and unable to control the body that the phenomenon of being frozen occurs!"

Jiang Xinghuo quickly realized the secret of this imperial bell, and immediately opened the Sky-Peeking Eye to check the detailed information of this imperial bell.

“The Confusion Bell (epic item) is a magical instrument that can vibrate the soul and the spirit. Anyone affected by the bell will immediately fall into a state of confusion and trance. The stronger the soul and spirit are, the faster they will recover. Otherwise, they will become a living dead, or even have their souls directly destroyed.”

"Please note that the effect of the Confusion Bell does not distinguish between friend and foe. After using it, all living beings within the range of the bell will be affected by the bell, including the user himself."

When Jiang Xinghuo read the description of the Sky-Watcher's Eye, he thought that this was a map cannon. No matter whether it was an enemy or a friend, as long as they heard the bell, they would be affected accordingly.

The other things are easy to deal with, but the key is that the users themselves will also be affected, which is a bit difficult to deal with. When the Emperor Bell is flashed, everyone will be frozen in place. What to do next?

It would be ok if I woke up early.

But if the enemy's soul is stronger than the user and wakes up before the user, wouldn't that be self-defeating and actively handing over one's weakness to others?
Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and suddenly remembered a prop left by the Lord of War.

"Soul Calming Armor (rare item), a soft armor forged by the Martial Master using Kunwu Mountain Iron. When worn, it can resist attacks against the soul. It is also the nemesis of the Soul Crushing Palm. When the palm strikes you, it will not only not cause any harm to you, but will instead rebound and injure yourself."

This set of Soul-Soothing Armor is a magic weapon specially prepared by the Martial Lord for Teng Yunxian. Teng Yunxian's Soul-Crushing Palm specifically targets the soul and can kill people invisibly, but the Soul-Soothing Armor can easily block this kind of damage.

The power of the Soul-Calming Palm cannot affect the Soul-Soothing Armor, so the Soul-Confused Bell may not be able to work either. Even if it cannot completely offset the negative effects of the Soul-Confused Bell, it can at least offset some of it.

Jiang Xinghuo found the Soul-Calming Armor and equipped himself, then tried to shake the Confusion Bell.

This time, Jiang Xinghuo only felt a slight dizziness and was not frozen in place by the bell.

"It's done!"

Jiang Xinghuo was delighted.

The Soul-Calming Armor can offset the negative effects of the Confusion Bell, so you can use it without any worries. As long as the opponent can be controlled by the sound of the bell, you can easily kill and subdue him.

Jiang Xinghuo put the Huangshen clock aside and looked at the yellowed and old newspaper. The words on it were all arranged vertically, which was very different from the reading habits of modern people, so it was a bit difficult to read.

But the big words in the middle section are still very eye-catching.

"When a person dies, he becomes a ghost. When a ghost dies, he becomes a demon. Ghosts fear demons just as people fear ghosts..."

Jiang Xinghuo became interested and continued to read down, and densely packed tiny handwriting came into view.

"聻 is the name of a ghost in ancient times. It is the incarnation of an evil ghost after death. It is the natural enemy of ghosts. The two cannot coexist. 聻 needs to devour ghosts to survive. If it cannot eat for a long time, it will fall into a weak state, and may even starve to death and disappear."

"When ghosts face a genie, they will be like wild animals facing their natural enemies. They can only exert 50% of their full strength. So it usually takes dozens of ghosts to kill a genie, and they can only do so when the genie is weakest and hungriest."

"However, the formation of a demon is too demanding. It requires killing the demon with a completely opposite force, and then tempering it with the same force. Only then will there be a chance to form a demon..."

Seeing this, Jiang Xinghuo's heartbeat suddenly slowed down.

The evil ghost needs to be killed with a completely opposite force, and then the dead evil ghost is tempered with this force. If you are lucky, you can raise a real ghost.

Jiang Xinghuo slowly raised his head and looked at the ghost baby and the ghost bride on the ground. These two evil ghosts were killed by thunder magic, which just met the first condition for the formation of a ghost. Then, in order to avoid complications, he used the Kitchen God's fire to burn the two corpses, which to some extent, could be regarded as tempering the two corpses.

Moreover, the Kitchen God's fire has not been extinguished yet and is still burning on the two corpses.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't have time to think about anything else and immediately took back the Kitchen God's fire.

But he was still a step too late. At the moment when the Kitchen God's fire was retracted, a gust of cold wind suddenly appeared in the house. The bodies of the ghost bride and the ghost baby were blown into the air, and their bodies released a powerful and tangible negative energy.

"This is really counterproductive..."

Jiang Xinghuo smiled bitterly and casually took out the Evil Star Bite and two God-Binding Immortal Talismans. He planned to try using the two talismans first. If it worked, he would take the ghost bride and the ghost baby for himself. If not, he would have to use force.

As the negative energy in the house became heavier and heavier, just when it reached its peak, the ghost baby that had been dead for a long time suddenly opened its eyes, and fresh bloody tooth marks appeared on different parts of Jiang Xinghuo's body.

"The ghost baby's killing pattern has changed?"

(End of this chapter)