My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 859 Grandma
Jiang Xinghuo took a look at the content of the text and thought that this was quite interesting. These dead guys were already dead, but they were still so afraid of the old executioner. It seemed that they had suffered a lot at the hands of the other party.

Anyone who does shady business is not timid, and this is especially true for those in the underworld. These people deal with corpses all year round, and some of them even sleep with corpses in their arms. They are all unruly.

The fact that they were so terrified at the mention of the executioner was enough to show how extraordinary the old executioner was. Jiang Xinghuo did not make things difficult for these people, but just controlled the character to move forward.

"You walked forward along Shahun Street, and you saw paper money all over the ground, and the air was filled with a strong smell of incense ash."

"You suddenly feel the sound of wind behind you. When you look back, you see a paper man flying towards you. Although it is a paper man, its body is no different from a real person, except for the redness on its cheeks."

"What means do you choose to deal with it?"

"Will you use the Kitchen God's Fire to deal with this paper man? Or will you use the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder to deal with this paper man?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose the Kitchen God's Fire without much thought.

To put it bluntly, fire is always the best weapon against paper people.

"You activated the Kitchen God Fire."

"The black flames rose up like a tornado, forming a black fire wall in front of you. The paper man happened to hit it, but to your surprise, your stove fire did not burn the paper man. Instead, it was torn open by the paper man. The paper man with a strange smile on his face pounced on you in an instant. You only felt a cold breath flowing into your body and finally into your mind."

"You suddenly realized that this grandson wanted to seize your body, to forcibly occupy your body, and to escape from this desperate place of Yang Town. By the time you reacted, he had already invaded your body."

"But you didn't take it to heart, because the body possession spell has no effect on you. Your Ten Directions Glazed Glass Calming Spirit Spell is enough to exempt you from all body possession spells."

"Even without the Ten Directions Glazed Glass Calming Technique, your exile characteristics will not affect you too seriously. At most, you will just lose this body."

"The Yin Current that flowed into your body began to cause trouble, trying to completely control your body, but then it discovered that your soul was as cold as glass, without the slightest crack, so it had no place to start."

"Moreover, it also sensed that your spirit had an inexplicable power that was gradually devouring and digesting its soul, turning it into nutrients to nourish its own soul. The paper-folding craftsman who wanted to possess your body was so frightened that his soul flew away. He no longer cared about anything else and wanted to leave your body immediately."

"But at this moment, you suddenly heard a fierce roar in your ears, as if a tiger appeared beside you. In fact, it was true. You saw a black tiger with blood-red eyes walking out from the mist filled with incense ash in front of you."

"The black tiger walked in front of you and suddenly roared. You felt a strong tearing force emerge from nowhere and directly pulled the soul of the paper man in your body out. It swallowed it into its mouth and chewed it like it was swallowing prey."

"The tiger devours ghosts. You witnessed this scene with your own eyes and were also prepared to attack. Although this black tiger has not shown any ill will towards you yet, judging from its ability to devour souls, it is definitely a difficult monster."

"This tiger seems to have some special suppressive power over souls. Otherwise, it wouldn't be able to forcibly pull out the soul of the paper man in your body and swallow it into its stomach with just a roar."

"Soon, the black tiger chewed up the soul in its mouth, raised its eyes and looked at you with its blood-red eyes. Just when you thought it was going to attack you, it suddenly turned around and walked behind the fog."

"What are your options next?"

"Will you choose to follow it and see where the tiger is going? Or will you choose to wait until it leaves completely and then go forward to explore?"

The game gave two optional answers. Jiang Xinghuo thought for a moment and made his own choice.

This obviously triggered a new plot. There was no reason for him to miss it, otherwise it would be a pity.

"You chose to follow behind this gorgeous tiger."

"You didn't hide your tracks and just hung behind the tiger. The black tiger looked back at you but didn't do anything to stop you."

"As Black Tiger walked forward, you saw many evildoers from unconventional trades avoiding Black Tiger out of fear. Even a few evildoers who had ideas about you didn't dare to get close to you because of Black Tiger's protection."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the description in the text and thought that he was just taking advantage of the power of others to bully others. He was able to avoid some troubles caused by some evil spirits.

"You followed the black tiger through the thick fog and finally came to the end of the street. You saw a temple in front of you. The black tiger walked straight towards the temple. Do you want to follow it in to see what's going on?"

"You chose to follow. When you arrived at the temple, you looked up and saw three big characters engraved on the temple: Grandma Temple."

Grandma Temple?
Jiang Xinghuo frowned. What did this mean? Could it be a place where some evil spirit called Grandma was worshipped?
"Do you want to enter the temple?"

Jiang Xinghuo thought that since he was already here, he might as well go in and take a look. It was just a life at stake, and he would feel unwilling if he didn't take a closer look.

"You chose to enter this Grandma Temple."

"When you walk into the temple, you will see the black tiger lying on the ground. The temple is completely empty except for a wooden table in the middle with a black ghost-head sword on it. Apart from that, there is nothing else in the temple."

"And just as you turned your gaze to look at the surrounding walls and then looked back at the black tiger, you were immediately shocked by the scene in front of you. You saw that the black tiger had disappeared, and in its place was a burly and tall monster."

"You have discovered the old executioner of the Xingmen." Seeing this, Jiang Xinghuo was confused for a moment and didn't react for a moment, but then he came to his senses and figured out the key and reason.

The old executioner is the colorful black tiger! The black tiger is the executioner in front of us!
The two are essentially one and the same!

I just don't know whether the other party used some magic to turn into a tiger, or his real body is the black tiger.

After all, there are many monsters and demons in the secular world that are transformed from ferocious beasts in the mountains and wilds.

"The old executioner sat on the ground and waved his hand towards you, motioning you to come over. It seemed that he had something to say to you."

"What are you going to do now? Are you going to go over and listen to what it has to say?"

Jiang Xinghuo directly chose yes.

He wanted to hear what the old executioner had to say. He had a hunch that the old executioner was no ordinary monster and must be hiding many secrets.

"You have come before this old executioner."

"I then discovered that the old executioner was not unwilling to get up, but his entire lower body had grown together with the ground, as if he was imprisoned in place like a stone sculpture. Different talismans and spells were flashing on it, like a seal."

"The old executioner looked at you and motioned for you to sit down. Then a dull sound came from his abdomen. You looked carefully and found that his mouth was sewn shut with thick thread under his gray beard. He couldn't speak at all and could only communicate with you through ventriloquism."

Jiang Xinghuo became more and more curious about this. What on earth had happened to this old executioner to deserve such torture? And what about the transformation into a tiger?

With these curiosities in mind, Jiang Xinghuo controlled the character to sit down and started a conversation with the old executioner.

"You communicated with the old executioner and learned about his experience and identity from him."

"This old executioner was born in the Xingmen sect. He was originally a senior and famous beheading sect, and he is also an elder of the Xingmen sect."

"At that time, in the Longxing area north of Guandong in the secular world, there were a large number of demons and monsters causing chaos and were out of control. The royal family had no choice but to issue a notice to recruit talented people to go out of the pass to defeat the demons. Many people were greedy for wealth and fame, and they took up the notice and went north, wanting to completely wipe out the outside of the pass."

"But after those people unveiled the list and came out, they didn't ask why or check the details, they just kept killing people. Even many ordinary people died innocently under the butcher's knife. The Xingmen sect was the best among them, and countless innocent people died under the knife."

"The old executioner couldn't bear to see this, so he advised the leader of the Xingmen Gate not to let her kill innocent people. However, the leader of the Xingmen Gate had long been blinded by the interests and insisted on doing it his own way, ignoring the old executioner's advice."

"The old executioner was furious and accused the leader of the Xingmen of going against the will of heaven and having no conscience. He said that he would be the culprit that led to the extinction of the Xingmen in the future. The leader of the Xingmen was furious and not only cut off his tongue, but also sewed up his lips. He also cast a spell on him, broke his limbs, and threw him into the forest to fend for himself."

"The original intention of the leader of the Xingmen was to let the tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves in the mountains tear him apart and eat him alive, but he didn't expect that the old executioner's actions were seen by the dying mountain lion. The mountain lion knew that there was no way he could survive. Instead of giving his body to those so-called righteous people who killed innocent people, it would be better to give this body to those with kind hearts, perhaps they can save more people of the tribe."

"The old executioner saved his life because of this. He had the ability of a tiger and could transform into a tiger, perfectly replicating the physical qualities of the tiger. Later, the Xingmen Clan was extinct at the hands of the God of Mountains, and the old executioner's words really came true."

"After that, the old executioner walked the secular world, punishing evil and promoting good, and specifically dealing with those scoundrels who bullied others by taking advantage of their power. Until he came to Lingnan, he retired from the world and became a night watchman at an abandoned medical school."

Seeing this, Jiang Xinghuo's eyes suddenly lit up. He didn't expect to meet him here. Since this old executioner was a night watchman at the medical school, he must know everything that happened that year.

"The old executioner was just an ordinary night watchman in the medical school. No one knew his identity. Instead, they took great care of him as a lonely old man. The old executioner also secretly protected the safety of the school's teachers and students, and prevented a large number of evil spirits from harassing them."

"But until that night, a large group of unknown people in mourning appeared in the school and extradited all the teachers and students to an unknown place. The old executioner knew something was wrong, so he took out his long-unused ghost-head knife and planned to completely eliminate these people in mourning. As a result, he attracted the attention of the mourning master, who knocked him unconscious with just a strike from a distance."

"When he woke up again, there were only a few teachers and students left in the school. They were all taken to the town of disaster by those people in mourning. In order to rescue those teachers and students who had been taken away, the old executioner went to the town of disaster alone. As a result, he angered the master in mourning, who imprisoned him in this temple. He could only leave for two hours a day, but after two hours, he would be forcibly detained back in the temple."

"The reason why the Lord of Sackcloth and Mourning did this was to subdue the old executioner and make him willingly submit to his orders. However, the old executioner had no intention of giving in. No matter how the Lord of Sackcloth and Mourning tortured him, he remained unmoved."

"The Lord admired his courage even though he was in mourning, and he never killed him. The situation remained at a stalemate here."

"The old executioner has been waiting here for countless years, hoping that a living person would enter the town and rescue the abducted teachers and students. Unfortunately, his wish has not come true for many years. Today, he sensed your aura and transformed into a mountain king to devour the evil spirit in your body."

Jiang Xinghuo finally understood the reason for the incident, but he still didn't know why the Lord of mourning did this, so he clicked on the screen to continue scrolling down the text.

"You asked the Lord of Sackcloth and Mourning why he did this. The old executioner told you the reason. The Lord of Sackcloth and Mourning is a survivor of the ruins of the old secular world. He was seriously injured when civilization was destroyed. He needs to integrate a large number of living souls to recover. However, the dead souls in the Town of Misfortune are the foundation of his beacon. If he swallows all the dead souls, his beacon will collapse again, and he will fall into a long and endless sleep."

"So, the Lord in Mourning can only think of ways to devour the souls of outsiders. The medical school is the anchor point between Yang Town and the secular world, so the teachers and students there naturally become the Lord in Mourning's target."

"Now, an unknown amount of time has passed, and the souls of the teachers and students have long been devoured, but the old executioner has never given up. He wants to ask you to go and see for him if there are any survivors in the place where the souls are imprisoned. If there are any, he hopes you can help rescue them, even if it's just one."

(End of this chapter)