My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 81 The haunted house
The next day, early in the morning.

The first thing Jiang Xinghuo did after opening his eyes was to pick up the phone next to him, open the game and see that there was new game text.

"Your commission at Sanbu Pavilion has been completed."

"You have killed the Yellow Fairy Disciple (1/10)."

After seeing these two paragraphs of text, Jiang Xinghuo was surprised and happy. He didn't expect that it was really successful. Although he didn't do it himself, it was finally attributed to him.

This saves a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Jiang Xinghuo immediately controlled the game character and went to Sanbu Pavilion again and found the owner of Sanbu Pavilion.

"Please tell the shopkeeper your intentions."

"When the shopkeeper learned of your intention, he was very happy and said that he hadn't met a big customer like you for a long time."

“If you’re going to continue posting dark flowers, it can give you some discounts.”

"You issued assassination orders to nine Yellow Fairy disciples."

"The shopkeeper asked you to go back and wait for good news. The task will be completed within three days."

"The number of your incense sticks - 4000."

"You left Sanbu Hall."

"Where are you planning to go next?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it and decided to go to the Imperial Examination Hall again. He felt that there must be some treasures hidden there that he just hadn't discovered yet.

For example, the haunted house.

When I was exploring the Imperial Examination Hall yesterday, the game text did not mention at all that there was a tomb inside.

If I hadn't been caught by that black shadow and beaten with a stick, I would never have discovered it with the limited perspective of word games.

"You have come to the Imperial Examination Hall."

"You walked into the Imperial Examination Hall and explored it carefully, but were surprised to find that the haunted house from last night had disappeared."

Jiang Xinghuo frowned slightly, opened the options in the inventory, and found the Yellow Spring Lamp.

"Yellow Spring Lantern (excellent item), the three paths of the underworld, the endless nine rivers, the lantern used by the ferryman to guide lost ghosts, forged with special craftsmanship in the underworld, can see through all illusions, replay past events, and create the special effect of a ghost wall."

"You used the Yellow Spring Lantern."

"Yellow Spring Lantern effect, triggered."

"Under the light of the imperial court, a chilly atmosphere emanates. A dilapidated and desolate graveyard appears before your eyes silently."

Jiang Xinghuo secretly sighed that this tomb was hidden very deeply. If there were no props like the Yellow Springs Lantern, the mystery here would never be discovered.

"Looking at this spooky haunted house, do you want to go in and explore it?"

"You walked into the haunted house."

"You explored the house and found a dried corpse, a stone carving of the Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars, a tomb-guarding beast cultivation pill, a Qingtian Nuo opera mask, a peach wood ruler, and a collection of eight-part essay classics."

"Twenty-four Filial Piety Pictures: Strangling a Tiger to Save the Father (Excellent), twenty-four stone carvings passed down by the immortal Zhongxiao, each of which symbolizes a kind of power."

"Strangling a tiger to save his father can instantly unleash ten times his own strength, but after three days he will feel sore muscles and bones, and weakness in his limbs. He must rest for half a month before he can recover." Jiang Xinghuo looked at the description carefully. The effect of this stone carving is equivalent to a powerful stimulant. Occasional use will not cause much harm to the human body, and he will recover after a few days of rest.

However, everything has a limit. If this ability is used continuously in a short period of time, it may affect the user's lifespan.

It is somewhat similar to the method of disintegrating demons in martial arts novels.

Jiang Xinghuo clicked on the text, and the power of the stone carvings flowed into his blood, and finally merged into one with him.

Then Jiang Xinghuo looked at other things.

"Tomb Guardian Beast Cultivation Pill (Excellent Item), this is the pill used by the dignitaries in ancient times to cultivate tomb guardian beasts. Just put it into the tomb guardian beast stone sculpture and nourish it with the Yin Qi, and you can cultivate a real tomb guardian beast."

Jiang Xinghuo opened the niche shop interface, took a look inside, and soon found a stone sculpture of a tomb guardian beast.

Only 200 incense sticks.

Jiang Xinghuo bought it directly, then put the cultivation pill in it, and finally put the stone sculpture into the Temple of King Bei.

A ferocious tomb guardian beast soon revealed its true form.

The corner of Jiang Xinghuo's mouth curled up. With this tomb guardian beast, he had an extra helper. Coupled with the high-altitude assistance of the griffin, he would not be afraid even if faced with multiple sieges in the future.

Next, there's the mask.

"Nuo Opera Mask - Iron-faced Justice (Excellent Prop), a Nuo Opera mask modeled after the ancient Iron-faced Justice. When worn on the face, it can sense the good and evil in other people's hearts, the truth and falsehood of their words, and has a natural suppressive effect on monsters and ghosts."

Jiang Xinghuo took it out and looked at it. The mask was similar to the one of Bao Qingtian, with a black base, white outlines, and a crescent moon printed in the middle.

After playing with it in his hand for a while, Jiang Xinghuo put it into his magic bag and looked at the remaining items.

"Peach wood ruler (ordinary item), the ruler used by the master to teach and answer questions, can warn others not to be confused by external things, and has the ability to purify the mortal heart of the world."

The description in the text was mysterious, but Jiang Xinghuo tried it and found that the function of this ruler was to allow people to enter the sage time.

But it didn't last long, just a few minutes.

"A Collection of Eight-part Essays (General). Since ancient times, all candidates for imperial examinations have been assessed with eight-part essays. Therefore, someone read a lot of books, extracted the essence and discarded the dross, and compiled a collection of eight-part essays. All the examination questions from various prefectures and cities over the years are included in it."

Jiang Xinghuo does find this kind of thing of some use. If he meets the black shadow again later, he can ask him to write an eight-part essay, and it will come in handy then.

In the end, only the dried corpse was left.

"A dried corpse (common material). This person was a candidate for the imperial examination in the previous dynasty. He failed in the examinations many times. He was already over 60 years old, but he had not given up until the last autumn examination. In his sleep, he dreamed that he had passed the imperial examination. He was so happy that he danced with joy. However, he slipped and fell on the stone platform behind him. He died on the spot with a bloody head."

"The government appreciated his perseverance and because he had no family, they planned to bury him on the hillside behind the examination hall. But they didn't expect that his body would be lost that night."

"The government can't find it, so let's just leave it at that."

"I didn't expect that you would find a corpse in this graveyard. You can sell it to those corpse drivers or leatherworkers. Maybe it can be used for other purposes."

After reading the text description of the corpse, Jiang Xinghuo felt quite sad, but just when he was about to hang the corpse on the niche, the game text suddenly changed again.

"You suddenly feel a gust of cold wind behind you."

"You turned around and saw a figure standing behind you. It was the person who beat you to death yesterday."

(End of this chapter)