My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 856: All Things Seem Like Enemies and All Things Die

"You ignored the Mist Ghost King's plea for mercy and just activated the Kitchen God's sacred fire."

"Soon, the black flames formed a fire tornado, completely merging the figure of the Mist Ghost King into it."

"In a short while, the Mist Ghost King had vanished into thin air, completely disappearing from this world."

"You have killed the Mist Ghost King."

"You gained incense +1000."

Seeing the amount of incense offerings coming in, Jiang Xinghuo frowned slightly. He didn't expect that the Fog Ghost King was so weak. Only a few incense offerings overflowed after his death, which was completely inconsistent with the description of him in the game text.

The game text says that the Fog Ghost King is an extremely mysterious monster, and he thought he was very powerful.

Now it seems that is not the case at all.

The power of the Fog Ghost King mainly depends on the stolen power of the mountain god. Once the power of the mountain god is taken away, it is like a toothless tiger and cannot make any big waves. Even the incense that overflows after death will be much less.

But apart from the incense, there are other gains.

"After the stove god's fire died down, you found a gray stone at the place where the fog ghost king disappeared. It seemed to be something left after the fog ghost king died. Do you want to pick it up?"

"You went over and picked up the stones on the ground. You have earned the hatred of the mountain god."

"The resentment of the mountain god (special material). The Taihang Mountains are 800 miles long and there are countless mountain gods, big and small. Although the Taihang Mountain God is respected as the master, there are also many small mountain gods living in the Taihang Mountains. If these mountain gods are killed by people, the resentment on their bodies will combine with the mountain god seal and turn into the resentment of the mountain god. In this way, the successor will be entangled by the resentment and punished by the Taihang Mountain God."

"The Mist Ghost King inherited the authority of the mountain god, but was afraid of the Taihang Mountain God, so he had to use the method of drawing out the dragon veins to draw out the ground veins and air of the mountain, and absorb it into his body, becoming a walking mountain."

"Now, this Mountain God Seal has fallen into your hands. Together with the Mountain God Power you took away earlier, the two combined into one will become the complete Mountain God Authority. As long as you integrate the complete Mountain God Authority into your body, you will become the new Mountain God. So, what are you going to choose next?"

"Will you choose to integrate it into your body and become a mountain god in Taihang Mountain? Or will you choose to return it to Taihang Mountain and hand it over to the Taihang Mountain God to let him decide the next mountain god?"

The game gave these two options, and Jiang Xinghuo chose the second one without even thinking about it. This was an obvious answer, and if he could still choose the wrong one, his brain could be used to buy cigarettes for those drug addicts.

If he chooses to merge with the Mountain God Seal, although he will have the authority of the Mountain God, there is a high probability that he will be rejected by the gods of Taihang Mountain, and his growth ceiling will become extremely low. No matter from which aspect, it is not a suitable option.

But if the Mountain God Seal is returned to Taihang Mountain, the situation will be different. By using this as an excuse to enter Taihang Mountain, you can meet the Taihang Mountain God, and maybe even gain some benefits from him. At the very least, you can open up a map of Taihang Mountain, and you can definitely get some benefits by wandering around the mountain a few times.

Long-term efforts are the serious matter, and one should not only focus on immediate benefits. Besides, he has nothing urgent to do right now, so the power of the mountain god is really useless to him.

It's a pity to throw it away, but it's tasteless to eat.

Jiang Xinghuo put the mountain god's resentment into his backpack, and then continued to advance the game text.

He has already gotten off the hearse and should be not far from Yang Town.

"You get off the hearse and walk along the desolate road for a while. Suddenly, the fog in front of you clears and two forks appear."

"If you stand at the left intersection and look forward, you will see overgrown grass and gravel everywhere. It is obviously a road that has been abandoned for a long time. You can only vaguely see a small path covered by yellow mud."

"You stand at the right intersection and look forward. It's dead silent and empty. There's nothing in sight except a cobblestone road."

"Which path do you plan to take to explore?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought for a moment and looking at the description in the text, he was more inclined to the fork on the left. Although the fork on the left seemed desolate, there were weeds growing there, so relatively speaking, the environment might not be so bad.

The fork on the right is lifeless and it is obvious that it is not a tourist attraction.

But Jiang Xinghuo also understood that in the secular world, intuition was often the most unreliable thing. Even things that one heard or saw might be unreliable, let alone intuition.

So, Jiang Xinghuo directly found two substitute paper figures from his backpack and clicked to use them.

"Use blood to turn ink into the eyes of paper figures."

"You gave the two paper figures the ability to move, and shared vision with them. Then you controlled them to walk towards the two forked roads in front of you."

"But not long after the paper man on the left forked the road, you saw the weeds on the ground suddenly come alive and quickly evolve into a straw man, which attacked the substitute paper man."

"The paper substitute was burned to ashes by the straw man's attack, and then turned into flying ashes and dissipated in the wind."

"Look at the paper man on the right. He also didn't walk far before being destroyed by the ghost hidden in the void. He didn't even have the power to resist."

When Jiang Xinghuo saw the description in the game text, he thought that neither of these two places was a good place. If he just rushed there blindly, he would probably be easily ambushed.

After thinking for a while, Jiang Xinghuo thought of something, so he immediately opened the backpack panel and found the item.

"You have taken out the Box of Ten Thousand Beasts."

"The Ten Thousand Beasts Box (excellent item). This is a prop forged by Taoist Master Shen Ji Bai Lian, imitating the Heavenly Secret Box of Master Tian Gong. Master Tian Gong's Heavenly Secret Box can use the fragments of the mechanism to piece together the forms of all kinds of creatures in the secular world, and it has a powerful attack power. However, the Ten Thousand Beasts Box imitated by Taoist Master Shen Ji Bai Lian can only piece together various ordinary birds and beasts in the secular world, and it does not have unique thinking ability and magic power. It can only be used for surveillance, or to test the hidden mechanisms and weapons in ambush, without having to take risks yourself."

This Ten Thousand Beasts Box was a prop obtained from the Taoist Master Shen Ji Bai Lian when we were exploring the ancient Yellow River Road.

You can piece together various birds and animals according to different environments to test the mechanisms or keep an eye on things, which should be just right for use here.

"Do you want to activate the Box of All Beasts?"

"You activated the Box of All Beasts and pieced together its parts into a peregrine falcon. You flew into the air and used your high vantage point to look down at the situation below."

"You saw the full view of the two forked roads in the vision of this peregrine falcon. Although they looked like two completely different forked roads, they actually both led to Yang Town hidden in the fog, but in slightly different directions."

"Also, you noticed that at the end of the left fork, there are a lot of straw puppets wandering around. They seem to be controlled by some kind of magic. Although the right fork seems to be fine, it is filled with extremely strong yin energy, which is highly corrosive to creatures that enter it." "What do you plan to choose now?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought about it carefully, read the content of the text again, and finally decided to go to the fork on the left.

The reason was very simple. He wanted to see what was going on with those straw men. Compared with the unclear right fork, the left fork was obviously safer.

Of course, Jiang Xinghuo’s main purpose is to find out the truth behind those straw men.

"You chose to take the left fork."

"Put away the Box of All Beasts and take the path on the left."

"The weeds on the ground seemed to have life. After sensing your arrival, they immediately grew and twisted into a two-meter-tall straw man. Its fists were wrapped in the wind and smashed towards you. It was nothing like the weak and feeble monster that the straw man was."

"Now you are facing the attack of the straw man, what means do you plan to use to deal with it?"

Jiang Xinghuo directly sacrificed the Kitchen God's Fire. Fire overcomes wood, this is an eternal truth. No spell is more suitable for dealing with plant spells and their derivatives than the Kitchen God's Fire.

"You use the stove god's fire to burn the straw man in front of you to ashes, leaving only a pile of ashes on the ground. There is also a seed shining among them. Do you want to pick it up and take a look?"

"You picked up the seed from the ashes, and a faint vitality lingered on it. But before you could take a closer look, the seed suddenly merged into your fingertips."

"At the same time, a fragment of a magical technique has appeared in your mind."

"You have obtained the Art of Seeing Every Tree and Grass as an Army (Incomplete Part)"

"The Art of Making All Plants and Trees into Soldiers (Remnant·Rare Art). The ancient powerful Taoist Changchun in the secular world was extremely skilled in the art of making plants and trees. The Taoist tradition he left behind was also mainly based on the art of making plants and trees. The Art of Making All Plants and Trees into Soldiers is the most representative art of this art."

"It is said that this technique can transform plants into Taoist soldiers and generals, so that they can attack the enemy fearlessly. Even in places where there are no plants, they can use their own spiritual power to produce plants and then cast spells."

"But what you have obtained are only the fragments of the puzzle of the Art of Seeing Every Tree and Grass as a Weapon. Before his death, Taoist Changchun integrated all of his spirituality and magic inheritance into this land, which includes the Art of Seeing Every Tree and Grass as a Weapon. But you need to gather all the fragments before you can obtain this epic magic inheritance."

"Current completeness: 0.2%."

Jiang Xinghuo raised his eyebrows. He had obtained a magic sword from Taoist Changchun before, so the two should refer to the same person.

But I didn't expect that Taoist Changchun would die here. It seems that the monsters in Yang Town are quite powerful, otherwise a strong man like Taoist Changchun would not die here.

However, it is not ruled out that Taoist Changchun was seriously injured outside and wanted to come in to escape the pursuit of his enemies but died of his injuries on the way.

While Jiang Xinghuo was thinking about these things, he continued to control the character forward, while also not forgetting to continue advancing the new plot.

"You continue to move forward, and you encounter a large number of straw men blocking your way. The straw men become stronger and stronger, and your stove god fire causes less and less damage to them. However, every time you burn a straw man, you can obtain some fragments of the Art of Making All Plants and Trees Seem Like Soldiers."

"Current completeness: 70%."

"But just as you were about to move forward, a different straw man appeared in front of you. This straw man was not a simple human figure, but a Taoist priest with a celestial appearance. He held a dead wood magic sword and launched a fierce attack on you."

"You were attacked by a ray of obsession from Taoist Changchun."

"This straw man has a trace of the obsession of Taoist Changchun before his death. Whether it is cultivation, strength, or physical strength, it is not comparable to those ordinary straw men."

"After only two encounters, you already have several bloody holes on your body. Those are the wounds caused by the Deadwood Magic Sword. In addition to the pain on the flesh, it also has a corrosive effect on the soul."

"You condensed the fire of the Kitchen God into a sharp wolf-fang spear and started fighting with the straw man in front of you. After a fierce battle, your wolf-fang spear pierced the straw man's chest, and the straw man also stopped being able to move, but no fragments of the Art of War fell off."

Jiang Xinghuo didn't care, and thought that there were no fragments of the Art of War in the body of this straw man. However, who knew that the following text would give him a vivid teaching lesson.

"You dispersed the stove god fire and continued to move forward, and suddenly you felt the sound of thunder and wind behind you."

"Before you could even look back, you saw the straw man whose chest you pierced suddenly rush over and hold you tightly in his arms. He then made a seal with his hands and a cold voice came out of his mouth..."

"Then, a powerful force suddenly erupted from the straw man's body. Its power was comparable to your Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, and it instantly shattered your body into ashes."

"You were turned into ashes by Taoist Changchun's method of burning everything together. Not even a complete body is left. You are dead."

"Do you want to activate the scapegoat immediately?"

This sudden change caught Jiang Xinghuo off guard. He didn't expect that there would be such a trick in the end, which would send him to death.

Burn everything together?
It's a good and appropriate name.

"You activated the scapegoat effect."

"You used a scapegoat to escape this disaster. Looking at the two scarecrows turning into ashes at the same time, you still felt a lingering fear in your heart, but a complete method had emerged in your mind."

"You have obtained the method of destroying everything together."

"The Jade and Stone Burning Method (a rare technique), one of the 18 secret techniques circulated within the Changchun Sect, requires a straw man formed by the method of turning trees into soldiers as a carrier, which can instantly burst out with several times or even dozens of times the power of the body."

"Note that the power of this method is closely related to the strength of the caster's soul. The stronger the soul, the greater the power."

In reality, Jiang Xinghuo also had more related methods in his mind.

However, this technique can only be performed using the method of seeing enemies everywhere. Other similar techniques, such as puppetry and corpse-driving techniques, cannot carry the power of the method of destroying everything together.

(End of this chapter)