My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 827
Jiang Xinghuo then remembered that when he was fighting with the Human-Skin Ghost King, the powerful force collapsed the Temple of Poseidon, and the statue of Poseidon was also shattered. The black mud bead described in the game text was hidden in the broken statue of Poseidon, but because the opponent was closer than him, the Human-Skin Ghost King grabbed the thing first.

Fortunately, he knew the Five Ghosts Moving Method and snatched the thing from the human-skin ghost through the air. However, the situation was too urgent and hasty at the time, so he didn't see clearly what the thing was and just threw it into his backpack.

Could it be that this is the treasure that the clay figurine craftsman knows about?
"What are you going to choose now?"

"Do you want to take out the clay beads from your backpack and ask the clay figurine maker what they are?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought for a moment, opened his backpack, found the thing, then activated his talent of Sky-Peeking Eye, trying to use this item to spy on the information of the mud beads, but the result disappointed him.

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

"You tried to decipher the origin of this mud bead, but this seemingly ordinary mud bead seems to contain some mysterious restriction on its surface. Your Sky-gazing Eyes can only reveal the origin of that restriction. Before you break this restriction, you will not be able to understand the secret of the mud bead at all."

"You have discovered the forbidden area."

"The forbidden field is a kind of forbidden system widely spread in the secular world. The method of casting the spell is not complicated. There are secret manuals for sale in ordinary shops. However, the strength of the forbidden system brought about by each person after casting the spell is different. It is closely related to the cultivation level of the caster. The stronger the cultivation level, the stronger the forbidden system."

"Moreover, the applicability of this kind of forbidden area is very wide. It can be applied to anything as small as a needle or a thread, or as large as a river, lake or sea. Once it is successfully applied, any spying methods and magic within the forbidden range will be blocked."

"The power of the restriction on this mud bead far exceeds your cultivation level, so at this moment you are unable to break through the restriction and peek into what is underneath."

Jiang Xinghuo smacked his lips. The Sky-Peeping Eye had returned empty-handed. He was now faced with only two choices. Either hide the clay beads in his backpack and not show them to anyone else, or take them out and ask the clay figurine maker what they were.

He thought about it for a long time and finally decided to take the thing out. Instead of leaving it in the backpack and letting it gather dust, it would be better to take it out and ask. At least he had to know what this thing was, what it was called, what it was used for, and who left it.

It would be a bit worthless to hide things now that we don't know all the circumstances. If we want to be a miser, we must know clearly what we are protecting. We can't just stuff all kinds of junk on ourselves without thinking.

"After careful consideration, you took out the clay bead from your backpack and placed it in front of the clay figurine craftsman, saying that it was something you took out from the stone statue in the ruined temple and that it should be the clay bead painted on the portrait."

"When the clay figurine craftsman saw what you took out, his eyes lit up immediately and he nodded repeatedly, saying that it was exactly what was drawn in the portrait. He didn't expect you to be able to find it. It seems that you are really a destined person. The clay figurine craftsman asked if you knew what this thing was?"

"You shook your head honestly and said you didn't know what this mud bead was."

"After hearing your answer, the clay figurine maker did not directly answer your question, but instead started talking about his past. You also learned from his monologue why the clay figurine maker was so afraid of ghosts."

"The clay figurine craftsman was born in the countryside. His family was poor. In peaceful years, his family could still have food to eat. But in this chaotic world with evil spirits everywhere and social order broken down, only death awaits his family. Especially in years of severe drought, even if they don't starve to death at home, they will be killed by passing evil spirits in the mountains and forests. So in order to make a living, the clay figurine craftsman's father decided to move his family and travel with the villagers who couldn't make a living. They traveled far away from their hometown, hoping to find a way to make a living."

"However, although he escaped natural disasters, he could not escape man-made disasters. When passing through a big mountain, he was robbed by bandits on the mountain. All the men were beheaded on the spot and their heads were piled up to form a memorial vault. The women were taken back to the mountain to give birth. The young clay figurine craftsman escaped, not because he was so lucky, but because the bandits, for fun, buried him under a memorial vault made of the heads of his family members and villagers. He was buried for three days and three nights. He witnessed the process of the skulls rotting with his own eyes, and the rotten blood was sprinkled on his body. Before he died, the young clay figurine craftsman learned the skill of spirit communication without a teacher, and entered the underworld in a trance."

"The underworld is the land of the dead, with ghosts everywhere and spirits everywhere. The young clay figurine craftsman had never seen such a thing before, and he wailed as he wandered across the dead and desolate underworld."

"This kind of living soul from the world of the living naturally attracted the covetousness of some evil spirits from the underworld, all of whom wanted to swallow it up to taste the fresh flavor."

"Just when it was facing a life-and-death crisis, two mysterious beings suddenly appeared and saved it from those vicious monsters. Although it didn't know who those two people were, seeing the respect those monsters showed toward it, it knew that these two people must be powerful people with extremely respected status."

"After the two rescued it, they did not return it to the living world, but took it to a tiankeng in the underworld, took it in as a disciple, and taught it the craft of making clay figurines, including how to consecrate and decorate it, and how to control the clay figurines to kill people and protect themselves."

"The clay figurine craftsman spent more than ten years in the underworld and learned all the clay sculpture skills. He left the underworld and returned to the world of the living with the help of his mentors. Before leaving, his two mentors gave him a scroll with the clay bead and the image of the sea god, and told him that someone would come to repair the clay sculpture in the ruined temple outside Lingnan City in the future, and asked him to help. If that person could obtain the clay bead hidden in the statue, then he would be the destined person of their lineage, and they could go to the underworld to look for them in the future."

"After the clay figurine craftsman returned to the world of the living, he found that his body had rotted into bones, so he used his own bones as the main body and the mud soaked with his own flesh and blood as the material to make a new body for himself. Then his soul attached to it and he truly returned to the world of the living."

"And in order to avenge itself, it did the same thing again, gathering the dirt soaked with the blood of its dead family members and turning it into a life-seeking Shura evil ghost. With endless resentment and evil spirit, it attacked the bandits' lair on the mountain. Those bandits never dreamed that the child they had not killed for fun back then would now be the one who controlled their life and death."

"That night, the entire mountain was soaked in flames and blood. The fire burned for three whole days and nights. All the bandits on the mountain were burned to death in it. Their resentful souls were imprisoned in clay sculptures by the clay figurine craftsman and buried in the most filthy place in the world. They were attacked and tortured by the reincarnation of the five grains day and night."

"After the clay figurine craftsman avenged his blood feud, he came to Lingnan City and followed his master's orders to quietly wait for the arrival of his destined person. He waited for decades, and his reputation gradually spread. However, due to his childhood experience, the clay figurine craftsman not only became eccentric, but also particularly afraid of attacks and harassment from ghosts. In fact, with his means and cultivation, even if a vicious ghost came, he would not be able to do anything to it, but the clay figurine craftsman just couldn't get over it."

"You listened to the clay figurine craftsman's explanation of the whole story. You also learned about his origins and why he was afraid of ghosts. You also learned about the origin of this clay bead."

"According to what the clay figurine craftsman told you, this clay bead was not left by the master who taught it the clay sculpture craft, but a treasure left by another master, named Hou Tu Xi Ran." "You have obtained it, Hou Tu Xi Ran."

"Hou Tu Xi Ran (legendary prop), one of the seven treasures carried by the Sea God, is also the source of all Xi Ran in the world. It can continuously produce spiritual soil, cut off mountains and rivers, and reclaim land. As long as there is enough time, it can be easily done. This Hou Tu Xi Ran is also the most precious treasure around the Sea God, because in a sense, this is the nemesis of all water monsters. Even the Guixu where all waters converge can be filled up by Hou Tu Xi Ran."

"Be careful. Although Hou Tu Xi Rang can continuously produce spiritual soil, it is still sealed. Unless the seal is removed, it will be difficult for Hou Tu Xi Rang to exert its original power."

"The clay figurine craftsman breathed a sigh of relief. The task assigned by his two mentors has finally been completed. But there is one last thing I want to tell you. His two mentors once said that once a destined person obtains Hou Tu Xi Ran, they can go to the underworld to find them. Then they can naturally unlock the seal of Hou Tu Xi Ran."

"You then asked the clay figurine craftsman about the identities of the two masters, but the clay figurine craftsman said with regret that although he had studied in the underworld for more than ten years, he did not know the identities of the two masters, and he did not even know what the two masters looked like. On the surface, they looked like two human-shaped, hazy green lights. Apart from that, he knew nothing else."

Looking at this game text, Jiang Xinghuo couldn't help but fall into deep thought. Since Hou Tu Xi Ran was a treasure left by the Sea God, could it be that the two masters of the clay figurine craftsman were related to the Sea God? Or were they the Sea God? ?
It shouldn’t be!

Jiang Xinghuo shook his head and denied his own idea. He remembered that he had triggered the relevant text before. After the death of Poseidon, the dead souls were led to the Dead City by Bu'eqin. They should still be lurking in the Dead City now. There was no reason for them to appear in the underworld.

It seems that if you want to know the truth of the matter, you have to go to the underworld and find the two masters of the clay figurine maker to know all the truth of the matter.

"The clay figurine craftsman has told you the cause and effect of everything. What are you going to do next? Do you want to ask the clay figurine craftsman for the address of his two masters in the underworld and wait for a chance to go and explore it later?"

Jiang Xinghuo took a deep breath and chose yes without much thought. With a treasure like Hou Tu Xirang in his hands, whether it was fishing bait or for any other purpose, he had to make a trip to the underworld, otherwise Hou Tu Xirang would have to be put aside and gather dust in his hands.

"You learned from the clay figurine craftsman the locations of its two masters in the underworld."

"You have obtained the map of the underworld cemetery."

"When you step into the underworld, this map will be automatically triggered. With the help of the Hou Tu Xi Ran in your hand, you can find the path to the tiankeng."

"Things here have come to an end for now. What are you going to do next? Are you going to leave the Clay Man's House and explore other places?"

Just as Jiang Xinghuo was about to choose yes, new game text popped up.

"You stood up and said goodbye, wanting to leave the clay figurine house and go somewhere else, but the clay figurine craftsman suddenly called you over and asked hesitantly, do you have any talismans to exorcise ghosts and suppress evil spirits, or any other related types of magical instruments?"

"Because those clay sculptures were destroyed by someone unknown, it would take a specific time and date to remake them. It is impossible to make new clay sculptures in a short period of time, so we can only use other magic tools as a temporary replacement."

"Do you want to hand over the relevant magical instruments to the other party?"

Jiang Xinghuo laughed when he saw this, thinking that the clay figurine craftsman was really afraid of ghosts to the core. He was the one who destroyed those statues, and he also took away a lot of good things from them. It would be too immoral to just walk away. So he might as well be a good person to the end and make more friends at the same time.

Jiang Xinghuo thought for a moment, found two things from his backpack, and clicked Submit.

"Do you want to submit the method of making the soul-soothing and soul-calling talismans to the clay figurine craftsman?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes.

"You have submitted the method for making the Soul-Calming Talisman and the Soul-Calling Talisman."

"The clay figurine craftsman got the production methods of these two talismans, and he was overjoyed. He had heard of the two talismans of "Soul-Calling" and "Soul-Suppressing" of Taoist Master Lushan, but he had never seen them. He didn't expect to get the production methods from you today. These two talismans are specifically targeted at ghosts and monsters, and are the natural nemesis of all evil spirits. With these two talismans, he no longer needs to rely on clay statues to suppress ghosts and exorcise evil spirits. He only needs to stick the talismans inside and outside the house."

"You left the Clay Man's House."

"You are now at the Lion Dance Street. Where do you plan to go next?"

"Will you continue to wander around and explore in Xingshi Street? Or will you leave Xingshi Street and explore other places? Or will you go to the abandoned medical school?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought of the keys given to him by the forensic officers. Judging from the description in the text, the abandoned medical school should be a large map, and the potential dangers are also great. After all, all the teachers and students disappeared without a trace overnight, so who knows what the trick is.

(End of this chapter)