My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 849: Gushe Immortal’s Test Subject
"You discovered the truth of what happened that year through the human-skin letter left by the dormitory manager, and learned the cause and effect of the incident."

"But the cause of the dormitory manager's death was not recorded on this human-skin letter. This is understandable because when the dormitory manager left this human-skin letter, he did not expect that he would die suddenly."

"And judging by the position of its body after death and the expression left on its face, it all indicates that its death was extremely sudden. It was frightened to death in just a moment by the thing in front of it."

This also made Jiang Xinghuo feel a little strange. Since the dormitory manager decided to enter Yang Town and might have dealt with those people in mourning, his courage might not be extremely high, but he would not be scared to death.

What's more, it used to be a teaching teacher in a medical school. Usually, people who work in hospitals or medical schools are much braver than ordinary people.

But it is too unbelievable that such a "battle-hardened" man was frightened to death by the scene he saw. There must be some unknown secrets.

In addition, there is the mysterious creature in the security booth at the gate. What is its origin? How can it absorb the ash to restore its vitality? !
Why didn't those people in mourning take it away with them?

Is it because the opponent's strength exceeds the influence of those people in mourning?
Or are they originally symbiotic beings, sharing honor and disgrace?
Could it be that the mysterious existence in the security booth is also one of the old secular monsters that walked out of Yang Town?
Questions flashed through Jiang Xinghuo's mind one after another, but if he traced back to the source, he might have to go to Yang Town to find the answers to these questions.

Otherwise, even if he kept thinking about it here for his whole life, he might not be able to find the correct answer.

At this time, the subsequent game text also popped up on the screen.

"Where are you planning to go next?"

"Will you leave the dormitory building and explore other places in the medical school? Or will you leave the medical school and explore other sub-maps in Lingnan City?"

Of the two options, Jiang Xinghuo chose the former without hesitation.

He has just unearthed a small part of the secrets of the medical school. It would be a shame to leave just like that. Moreover, he has a specific mission clue in his hand, which is the underground anatomy laboratory of the medical school.

He got this clue from several forensic doctors when he gave the cook's body to the forensic doctors on Xingshi Street. The forensic doctors told him this information and a key to the underground autopsy room.

There is no rush to explore Yang Town. Anyway, the map has been unlocked, and it doesn't make any difference whether you go earlier or later. It won't be too late to explore Yang Town after you have explored the anatomy room almost completely.

“You chose to explore it right within medical school.”

"Please choose the place you want to explore next? Do you choose to explore Taoyuan and Liyuan? Or do you choose to explore the teaching building and laboratory building?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought for a moment and chose the laboratory building for exploration. He didn't know whether the underground anatomy room was in the laboratory building or the teaching building. He decided to choose one and try it out first. If it didn't work, it would not be too late to choose another one.

"You chose to go to the experimental building to explore."

"On the way, please wait..."

"When you passed the peach garden behind the laboratory building, you felt a surge of pure Yang energy. Although this medical school has been abandoned for many years, the peach garden has not been abandoned. Instead, it has grown more and more luxuriantly. Especially under the infiltration of the surrounding Yin energy, these peach trees have been stimulated, and the pure Yang energy contained in them is much stronger than that of ordinary peach trees."

"Would you like to gather some peach wood to make props?"

When Jiang Xinghuo saw this thing that was delivered to his doorstep, he naturally had no reason to refuse it.

It just so happened that after he had deduced the magical power of swordsmanship, he had not found a suitable sword. He could use the peach wood to make some peach wood swords. When the time comes, he could just think of it and thousands of swords would appear. Not to mention how powerful and how much damage they would cause, their momentum would be absolutely amazing. The timid ones would probably not even have the courage to fight.

"You chose to go into the peach orchard and pick some peach wood."

"Picking..."

"In the process of picking..."

"Continue to collect..."

"You have obtained Pure Yangtao Wood +68."

"You have obtained Thunderstruck Peach Wood +30."

"You have obtained the Thunderstruck Mahogany Heart +18."

"Pure Yang peach wood (common material), a pure Yang tree that grows in extremely Yin places. It is nourished by Yin energy and contains extremely strong Yang energy. It can be used to make tools to destroy evil spirits and can also be used to make Feng Shui charms. If transplanted into the house, it can also prevent Yin evil spirits from invading the house."

"Thunder-struck peach wood (excellent material). After being struck by heavenly thunder, it was not burned to death by the thunder and fire. Instead, it came back to life like a dead tree. In addition to its pure yang aura, it is also mixed with the power of thunder and fire. It has a strong ability to restrain ghosts and evil spirits."

"Lightning-struck peach wood heart (rare material), pure peach wood that is over a hundred years old is struck by lightning, and the essence is naturally formed after being calcined by lightning. The power it possesses is several times stronger than lightning-struck peach wood, and it is a good material for forging magic weapons."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the descriptions of these three items and found that they fully met the requirements for forging a peach wood sword, so he threw them directly into the Shenji furnace.

"You threw the pure Yang peach wood, lightning-struck peach wood, and lightning-struck peach wood heart into the Shenji furnace. Do you want to forge them immediately?"

Jiang Xinghuo directly chose no.

"Please select the shape of the object you want to forge."

"Please note that although the Shenji Furnace is the creation of the Taoist Master Shenji Bailian and has the ability to forge props on its own, it is limited by the fact that the Shenji Furnace itself has no intelligence. Therefore, the Shenji Furnace cannot forge complex props. Only by finding the Taoist Master Shenji Bailian can you forge complex and difficult magic tools."

Then, there was a slight flash on the phone screen, and a dialog box popped up.

Jiang Xinghuo opened the dialog box, entered a few words, and then clicked OK.

"You chose to forge a peach wood sword." "Forging in progress, please wait..."

Jiang Xinghuo waited for about five minutes, and the subsequent game text popped up on the screen.

"Forging is complete."

"Do you want to open the Shenji furnace?"

"You opened the Shenji furnace, and peach wood swords emitting pure yang energy flew out of the furnace like a rainbow. The most conspicuous peach wood swords were emitting the power of thunder and fire. They flew around in the peach garden, constantly emitting scorching sword energy. Some evil ghosts hiding in the dark were directly pierced through by the sword energy, and their souls flew away."

"You have obtained the Thunderfire Pure Yang Peach Wood Sword +108."

"Thunderfire Pure Yang Peach Wood Sword (rare item), a peach wood sword forged with pure Yang peach wood mixed with lightning-struck peach wood. It not only has the power of thunder and fire to restrain evil spirits, but also has a chance to attract heavenly thunder and earthly fire. The more thunderstorms there are, the greater the chance of success."

"Be careful, although the peach wood sword has a chance to attract thunder and fire, the thunder and fire it attracts do not distinguish between friend and foe, and will sweep up all creatures within the sword's range, including the sword holder himself."

Jiang Xinghuo clicked on the text and brought the 108 peach wood swords into reality. The three-foot-nine-inch long red peach wood swords came into view. Although they were forged from peach wood, they looked like gold and iron. The peach wood swords with the darkest colors were even surrounded by arcs of lightning and fire.

Jiang Xinghuo casually picked up a peach wood sword, and golden lightning spread from his palm. The peach wood sword was immediately wrapped in a layer of Nine Heavens Jade Purity Demon-Slaying Thunder, whose power was comparable to a palm thunder unleashed with 50% of his strength.

"What a sword!"

Jiang Xinghuo's eyes suddenly lit up. He had only injected a trace of magic power, but through this peach wood sword, the power was multiplied more than ten times. If he could control 108 peach wood swords at the same time and use all his strength to activate the Nine Heavens Jade Purity Demon-Slaying Thunder, I'm afraid that the area within a radius of several miles could be directly covered.

Continue to advance the plot.

Jiang Xinghuo put away the peach wood sword on the coffee table and controlled the character to continue exploring deeper.

"You claimed the trees planted in the peach garden as your own. I don't know if it was an illusion, but after losing these peach trees, you felt that the yin energy around you became much heavier, and even the temperature around you dropped a lot. Do you want to stay?"

Jiang Xinghuo pondered in his heart that it was probably because he had picked too many peach woods that he could not suppress the yin energy here, so it became so yin-filled. If this continued for long, it would probably become another evil place full of ghosts and monsters.

"You walked through Taoyuan and came to the outside of the laboratory building. You saw that the door of the laboratory building was wide open. The dark entrance was without any light. It was like a beast waiting to devour its prey, lurking in the darkness, quietly waiting for its prey to come to the door."

"Your Mengtou Jutsu is also automatically activated, and a faint sense of crisis arises in your heart. As the footsteps get closer, the sense of crisis lingering in your heart becomes more and more serious, and then it has evolved into a fatal threat. It is almost certain that as long as you step into this laboratory building, you will not be able to come out alive."

"What are you going to choose now?"

"Do you want to risk your life and go in to find out what's going on? Or do you want to leave here immediately and go somewhere else?"

The Moe Head Technique brought about a prediction of death crisis. Jiang Xinghuo raised his eyebrows slightly, thinking that this situation had never happened in the dormitory building. He did not expect that the Moe Head Technique would be triggered in this experimental building. But even so, he could not leave. Instead, it aroused his sense of challenge. The more dangerous the place, the greater the opportunities hidden there. If he could die in it several times, it would mean that the opportunities hidden there must be extraordinary.

"You took out a thunderfire peach wood sword and entered the experimental building. Although the building was dark and without any lights, in your eyes, it was not much different from daytime."

"But the moment you entered the building, a pair of deathly grey arms reached out from the darkness and grabbed your neck fiercely."

"You noticed something, and with your right hand holding the sword, you swung your arm back. The peach wood sword just blocked the arms and cut them off at the elbows. Then you slashed the neck of the figure with your backhanded sword. A hideous head with hair like weeds was instantly thrown into the air and burned to ashes by the power of thunder and fire."

"You have been killed, but you have resurrected the corpse."

"You gained incense +300."

"You continue to go deeper and come to the lobby on the first floor of the laboratory building. You see two staircases appear in front of you. One staircase extends upwards and is the only way to the second floor. The other staircase extends downwards and should lead to the underground space. Which staircase do you plan to choose to explore?"

Looking at the two options given by the game, Jiang Xinghuo took out the brass key from his backpack. This was the key to the underground anatomy room. It went without saying which staircase he should choose.

"You chose the stairs on the right that lead underground."

"You came to the dark staircase. The darkness here was extremely deep and thick. You walked down with your eyes wide open. Just as you walked past the landing, you suddenly saw a dark shadow squatting on the stairs, staring at you intently."

"You were frightened and subconsciously swung the peach wood sword in your hand, beheading him with one blow, leaving only a headless corpse falling on the wet steps."

"You killed this unknown creature, but you found that there was no incense sticks on the body, which made you feel very strange."

"As we all know, all living things in the secular world will have incense spilling out of their bodies after death, and only the Exiles can plunder these incense. But now a creature without incense in its body has appeared. You are really surprised. Do you want to carefully examine the corpse?"

Just as the game text said, Jiang Xinghuo felt very strange in his heart. It was the first time he encountered monsters without incense in their bodies. In the past, no matter how many or how few monsters he encountered, he could always gain some benefits and rarely returned empty-handed.

"You carefully examined the body. It was clearly no different from any other body. However, you felt something was wrong, but you couldn't tell what it was."

"You carefully recall the knowledge about autopsies, and suddenly remember something you read in a book written by a coroner. The old coroner examined thousands of corpses in his lifetime, and finally obtained a golden dimension diagram of the human body. That may be the most perfect proportion in the world. The length of the hands and feet, height, weight, everything is recorded in detailed data. The corpse in front of you is exactly the same as the golden dimension recorded in the book, perfect without any difference."

"You are shocked because this perfect golden ratio only exists in theory. It is impossible for it to appear in naturally bred creatures. It can only appear in artificially created products."

"You activated the Sky-Watcher's Eye."

"You have used your gift of Sky-gazing Eyes to gain insight into the secrets hidden beneath the surface of this corpse."

"You discovered the experiment subject of Gushe Immortal."

(End of this chapter)