My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 837: A Little Gift from the Immortal Gushe

"You have arrived, Xingyuan."

"There are three gardens in this abandoned medical school, named after peach, apricot and plum respectively. The plants planted in the gardens are mainly peach, apricot and plum trees."

"The peach garden is behind the laboratory building. Because there are many corpses used for research in the laboratory building, the Yin energy is flourishing. Only by suppressing it with pure Yang peach wood can the Yin energy be offset and the corpses in the laboratory building will not mutate."

"Li Garden is behind the teaching building and is filled with various statues. They are all famous doctors who graduated from the medical school, as well as those medical masters in the secular world. They are specially designed for future generations to admire and enjoy the incense of the world."

"The Apricot Garden is located behind the dormitory building, only a hundred meters away from the boys' dormitory. The garden is full of apricot trees. At the end of the garden, there is a Tai Chi Bagua diagram inlaid, which seems to be a talisman used for sealing and suppression."

"Also, there was a story circulating in this abandoned medical school. It was said that after the bodies used for the experiments were dissected, they were buried directly under the soil of the apricot garden in order to remove the muscle fascia attached to the bones. With the help of the microorganisms in the soil, the muscle fascia was quickly eliminated, leaving only the white bones. But I don't know whether this legend is true or not. I only know that someone did find scattered bones in the apricot garden."

"What makes this legend even more confusing is that the boys' dormitory was actually a girls' dormitory. It was only later that it was completely turned into a boys' dormitory because the girls' dormitory was filled with yin energy and things were often seen wandering around in the apricot garden."

"But the truth of these legends is no longer known, because since the medical school was abandoned, those legends have become less eye-catching. After all, compared with the disappearance of all the teachers and students overnight, these things seem so insignificant."

"You stand outside the apricot garden, looking at the abandoned dormitory building covered with vines not far away, and then looking at the deep and deserted garden. What are you going to choose next?"

"Will you choose to explore the abandoned dormitory building? Or will you choose to explore the desolate apricot garden in front of you?"

The game gave two optional answers. Jiang Xinghuo took a look and chose to explore the apricot garden first.

He planned to resolve the issue of the mother-in-law at the bedside first, otherwise it would easily cause trouble for him in the future.

"You chose to explore the apricot garden."

"You walked into a deserted apricot garden, and saw that the garden was full of apricot trees. However, because no one took care of them, these apricot trees had long since died. However, due to the lingering Yin Qi here, these dead apricot trees were also affected, and some abnormal changes occurred. Instead of decaying, they evolved into a kind of Yin apricot wood. In the hands of experts, it has many unknown magical uses. It is also a relatively rare and unique material. Do you want to collect these Yin apricot woods?"

When Jiang Xinghuo saw the description in the text, he thought, why not just take it? If it is useful, he might as well get some. Even if he can't use it himself, he can sell it to other people.

"You walk to a Yin apricot tree, and the black fire in your palm condenses into a large axe. You start to cut down the Yin apricot trees. The originally fragile apricot trees become as hard as iron and stone under the blessing of Yin Qi. With one blow of the axe, sparks fly up. Only a faint mark is left on the trunk of the Yin apricot tree, which is only slightly thicker than a hair."

"What are you going to do now? Are you going to keep going?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without much thought.

"You chose to continue felling trees, but you changed your strategy and transformed the black fire axe in your hand into a rotating sawtooth flywheel. Under the high-speed rotation, several Yinxing trees fell down and were put into your backpack."

"You have obtained the Yinxing wood."

"Yin apricot wood (rare material). Apricot wood is originally a wood that combines yin and yang, but because it has been nourished by yin energy for many years, the yang energy has dissipated and it has become a pure yin wood. It has many wonderful uses. It can be used to make instruments to exorcise ghosts and demons, as a feng shui talisman to suppress yang energy, and as a material for making puppets."

"Be careful, because the Yin energy of Yinxing wood is too strong. Once it is made into a puppet, it is easy to attract unclean things. It may even become spiritual and develop intelligence, turning into a demon that brings disaster to the world."

Jiang Xinghuo read the text. There were indeed many legends about wooden men with spiritual powers in ancient times. Especially during the operation process, the wooden men that were stained with the blood of the craftsmen could almost 100% develop spiritual intelligence. This was true on Earth, let alone in the secular world.

However, this may not be a bad thing for him. If the carved puppet can communicate with spirits, and then controlled by puppetry or the divine talisman, it may have an unexpected effect.

Jiang Xinghuo suppressed these messy thoughts and continued to move forward with the game text.

"You put away the yin apricot trees, but just as you were about to go deeper, you suddenly found something vaguely visible under the roots of the yin apricot trees."

"You have triggered the talent of Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils."

"You used the power of your Fiery Eyes to see clearly what was under the tree roots. It turned out to be a bunch of mottled white bones. Some were from your fellow exiles, and some were from monsters and demons in the secular world. They were filled with lingering resentment. It seemed that the resentment had sensed your gaze, and it immediately gathered into a human form, suddenly leaping out of the soil and rushing towards you."

"However, although this resentment is quite powerful, it is nothing in front of your flaming eyes. I saw your two eyes rotate like the sun, and a blazing golden-red flame condensed out of thin air, instantly burning this gathering of resentment into ashes, without causing any impact on you."

"You have killed the ghost formed by the gathering of resentment."

"You gained incense +200."

"Do you want to keep going?"

"You chose to move on..."

"You walk forward along the cobblestone path under your feet, through the apricot forest, and come to the end of the garden. You will see a huge Bagua stone slab, more than two feet thick, shaped like a high platform, embedded at the end of the garden. In addition, there are eight iron chains as thick as arms in the eight directions of this Bagua stone slab, which are firmly nailed to the ground by iron nails as thick as arms."

"All these methods are clearly telling others that something is sealed underneath. And on the map that the bedside uncle gave you, the bedside mother-in-law's original statue is hidden by him on this Bagua platform. Do you want to go up and see what's going on?"

"You climbed onto this Bagua platform, but it was empty. There was nothing on it. There was no statue of the origin god that the bedside master mentioned. There was even nothing else except dust."

"But after you looked around, you felt that this Bagua platform seemed extremely discordant, as if something was odd, but you couldn't quite put your finger on what it was." "At this moment, you suddenly unfolded your limbs and spliced ​​your body. Black clouds gathered behind you, turning into two wings that carried you into the air. From a high vantage point, you looked down at this Bagua platform, and then you realized that the directions of the hexagrams on this Bagua platform were actually the opposite. It was a completely reversed Bagua, completely opposite to the directions of the Bagua you knew."

"At the same time, you also discovered that the positions of the eight trigrams can be moved. Do you want to try to restore them to their original state?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose yes without much thought.

"You have activated the innate ability of the Bagua map."

"Your Bagua map was inherited from the Taoist Lord. A Bagua phantom appeared in the air, as if it contained a strong magnetic force, and automatically restored the chaotic hexagrams on the ground to their original positions. When the last hexagram was restored to its original position, the Tai Chi Yin Yang fish in the middle of the Bagua map suddenly came alive and began to rotate on its own. A gap appeared at the place where Yin and Yang met, exposing the things hidden underneath. Do you want to go down and find out?"

"You put away the limb splicing Dharma image and landed on the ground. You walked to the crack in the Tai Chi diagram and took out the things inside. It turned out to be a miniature shrine with two clay statues sitting inside. They were the target you were looking for, the original statue of the Bed God."

"The original statue of the bed god (special), the bed god shrine among the six gods of the house, formed by the essence of the bed head father-in-law and bed head mother-in-law, and it is also related to their life and property. Once this shrine is destroyed, the bed head father-in-law and bed head mother-in-law will also perish at the same time."

"Do you want to destroy this shrine immediately and kill the father-in-law and the mother-in-law at the head of the bed?"

After seeing this text, Jiang Xinghuo hesitated for a moment. If he had killed the mother-in-law alone, he would not have had any hesitation. But now he was going to kill the father-in-law as well. He was a little unsure. He had spent so much effort to rescue the person, was it just to kill him with his own hands?

Just as Jiang Xinghuo was hesitating, new game text popped up on the screen.

"You found a piece of paper under the shrine. It was shining with a faint golden light. It must have been blessed by some power and will not be damaged over time."

"You read the note. It is a message left by the Bedside Eunuch. He said that if anyone finds this shrine, they must destroy it without hesitation. Only in this way can we prevent future troubles and prevent more innocent babies from dying. This is also his fate. The Bedside God was born out of the love of the world for their offspring. Once this love is lost, the Bedside God will disappear. Perhaps thousands of years later, when the world returns to peace, they will be resurrected in the world's faith again."

"What choice do you intend to make now? Are you going to inherit the bedside father-in-law's wishes and completely destroy this shrine?"

"Attention, when this shrine appears, the bedside lady will also sense it, and will use the power of the shrine to teleport herself to a place within a hundred meters nearby."

"You vaguely heard footsteps coming from the path behind you. The old lady at the head of the bed, shaking the human skin rattle in her hand, had already appeared in your sight and came to the gossip platform at the fastest speed."

"The bedside granny looks at the shrine in your hand and can't wait for you to hand it over to her. As long as you can hand it over, no matter what conditions you put forward, she will agree to them without hesitation and even allow you to command her and become her subordinate, as long as you can hand over the shrine to her."

"Do you want to agree to the conditions proposed by the bedside mother-in-law?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose no without much thought.

Let’s not talk about how much truth or false the bedside woman’s words are. Even if they are all true, he doesn’t plan to keep this bedside woman.

If he had not hesitated about the matter of the bedside eunuch, he would have destroyed it without hesitation after seeing the description of the shrine.

Now that he has seen the last words left by the father-in-law at the bedside, he will no longer keep the mother-in-law at the bedside. He directly controls the character to burn the shrine to ashes.

"The Kitchen God Fire was burning in your palm, and the black flames instantly engulfed the shrine. The old lady at the bedside screamed hysterically and rushed towards you unwillingly, trying to take the shrine back from you."

"But before it could get close to you, black flames spread out from under its feet and instantly enveloped its entire body. In just a breath of time, it didn't even feel the pain before it was burned to ashes by the Kitchen God's fire."

"You have killed the bedside granny."

"You have killed the bedside eunuch."

"You killed the bed god among the six gods of the house."

"You gained incense +5000."

"The reason why the amount of incense you harvested this time is so scarce is because Chuang Po took away Chuang Gong's incense and squandered it all over the long years. Her own incense was also mostly reduced by karma, so the remaining incense is so scarce."

"You used the Kitchen God's Fire to kill the Bedside Granny. In the ashes left after its death, you found a transparent crystal bead. This crystal bead was not burned to ashes by the black fire, and there was not even a little damage. Do you want to pick it up and take a closer look?"

"You went over and picked up the bead, and found countless snowflakes floating in it. It was icy cold in your hand, just like holding a piece of ice. You could vaguely see an illusory figure in it, which seemed to be dancing, or worshiping something."

"You have discovered a little gift from the Gushe Immortal."

"A gift from the Gushe Immortal (special item). The Gushe Immortal holds the authority over "wind and snow" and "harvest" in the secular world, and has the ability to eat wind and drink dew. He once bestowed blessings on the twelve walkers under his command, granting them different abilities and powers. This crystal bead is one of them."

"But it is not known who is the walking blessing object for the time being. We only know that the authority of this bead is the power of wind and snow. The user can use it as a medium to control the wind and snow to cause trouble to the enemy, causing but not limited to freezing, disorientation, shielding of the five senses and other effects."

"Do you want to integrate the gift from the Gushe Immortal?"

(End of this chapter)