Starting from the folklore forum, making up town objects

Chapter 2: Collection of Town Objects
"Housekeeping Candle Night"

Purpose: Town Yang House

Current power: Yincha level
Current number of existing ones: 1
Town Description:

The rooster crows to light up the night, it is the symbol of the south and the essence of fire and yang!
Auspicious days must be chosen for building houses or creating things. In ancient times, alchemists set 13 taboo days, namely: the 13th day of the first lunar month, the 11th day of the second lunar month, the 9th day of the third lunar month, the 7th day of the fourth lunar month, the 5th day of the fifth lunar month, the 3rd day of the sixth lunar month, the 1st day of the seventh lunar month, the 29th day of the seventh lunar month, the 27th day of the eighth lunar month, the 25th day of the ninth lunar month, the 23rd day of the tenth lunar month, the 21st day of the eleventh lunar month, and the 19th day of the twelfth lunar month.

No construction is allowed on these thirteenth taboo days.

On taboo days, one must light incense and candles, set up wine and offerings, burn paper and set off firecrackers, slaughter a rooster, and sprinkle the blood of the rooster on the ground. Then, the craftsman held up the rooster, faced south, and chanted the incantation:
The sky is vast, the wilderness is endless, we take advantage of this precious land to build a house.

God of Heaven and Earth, please give us some convenience. Please help, all the gods.

I bow to you all with a rooster in my hand, and I will never forget it for generations to come!
After the main building is completed, it will be a place for recuperation and development for thousands of years.

A building is being built in the chicken blood circle, and evil spirits and demons are rolling in all directions!
After finishing reading, set off firecrackers, hoe the ground three times, pack up your things, and go straight home without looking back.

If a taboo is violated or trouble arises, a candle-night stone town is made with the image of a rooster, smeared with the blood from a rooster's comb, and placed in the center of the house to ward off evil.

If a rooster crows at dawn, the trouble in the house has been resolved.

If there is no crowing of roosters at dawn, it is very bad luck for the house, and you need to find a stone with more yang essence to make a candle night stone town, or use other town objects to add to the town’s power!

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There is only one thing that has changed on this page compared to the previous one.

"The current number of existing ones: 1"

Chen Xin stroked the line of text with his fingers, and pictures appeared in his mind. They were exactly what Li Ran and the other two had experienced in the basement.

The last part of the picture shows a rooster with its body wrapped in illusory flames leaping out from Zhang Dashan's hand.

With a grab and a peck, half of the body of the figure with long hair and white clothes was torn off.

The white shadow fled, and the rooster flapped its wings and flew several meters. When it landed, it pressed the white shadow under its feet with its claws.

Although the white shadow was bigger in size, it could not bear the weight of the rooster and was pinned to the ground.

The rooster lowered its head and pecked at the food several times, and the white figure completely disappeared.

Then, the rooster began to pace in the basement in a proud and heroic manner, as if it was patrolling its territory.

The screen disappears.

Chen Xin was feeling a little strange at this moment.

The specific content of the talisman "Zhenzhai·Zhuye" was compiled by him based on the comments of netizens under a help post in the "Night Talk Folk Customs Forum".

To put it nicely, it is a combination of the strengths of many schools; to put it bluntly, it is just plagiarism.

Of course, no matter what, without Chen Xin, there would be no such thing as "Zhaizhen Candle Night" in this world!
Looking at the booklet in his hand, Chen Xin fell into memories.

Two and a half years ago, he woke up in this world, possessed this body, and gained the memories of this body's previous incarnation.

My predecessor had a car accident on the way to school when his parents drove him to school at the beginning of the next semester.

Two died and one was injured, the injured one was the predecessor.

After recovering, my predecessor couldn't stand the loneliness of returning home every day, so he soon chose to take pills and wanted to find his loved ones in another world.

The previous incarnation died as he wished, and Chen Xin attached himself to this body and was reborn.

Because the car accident was caused by the father of the previous life who suddenly turned the steering wheel for some unknown reason while driving.

Therefore, after the predecessor received various compensations, a large part of it was also spent on compensation for damage to public facilities and injuries to others.

Fortunately, the parents of his predecessor left a house and savings for Chen Xin. Although most of the savings were spent on the treatment of his predecessor and the funeral, at least he still had a place to stay in this world.

After learning all this, Chen Xin began to think about his future after adapting for a period of time.

But he was just an ordinary person in his previous life, and still a student in this life. What can he do?
After careful consideration, Chen Xin chose to be a plagiarist and write novels!

But after writing it, he found that it was not as simple as he imagined.

He did not have a super memory, and could only recall the general plots of those popular novels in his previous life. He had an outline, but he still needed to fill in the specific content.

In this way, after a year of trial and error, Chen Xin earned 5,000 yuan from a novel that could have earned 50 million yuan in his previous life.

Although it's a pity, fortunately he is still young and has not finished copying all the popular books in his mind, so he has time to try and make mistakes.

Later, with Chen Xin's hard work and frequent consultation with his Chinese teacher on writing techniques, he finally made money the following year.

Fifty thousand is naturally a lot of money for a high school student.

But for Chen Xin, who needs to earn money to support himself, 50,000 is not a lot.

Fortunately, now that he has a skill, he is at least not so uncertain.

Chen Xin thought that his life was on the right track, but just after he finished the college entrance examination and had been awake for two and a half years, the "Compendium of Town Objects" suddenly appeared.

Chen Xin didn't know where the "Compendium of Town Objects" came from, but after it appeared, he learned the relevant information about it.

As long as Chen Xin had an idea, any book in his hand would become the "Compendium of Town Objects" in his eyes.

In the eyes of others, the book is still the same book as before and there will be no change.

The "Compendium of Town Objects" originally only had some information displayed on the silver cover, and the first page after opening it was blank.

Moreover, Chen Xin can only open the first page. If he wants to open the following pages, he needs to obtain good karma.

There is only one way to obtain Yin De.

Let the talismans he compiled in the "Compendium of Treasures" be triggered and take effect.

As for the requirements for compiling town objects, Chen Xin only received one piece of information: "In compliance with the rules"!
At first, Chen Xin thought that "complying with the rules" was not difficult.

With high expectations for the "Complete Collection of Town Objects", Chen Xin compiled dozens of town objects and corresponding information, including the Dinghai Shenzhen Iron, the Three-pointed Double-edged Sword, etc. However, none of them was recognized by the "Complete Collection of Town Objects".

It was then that Chen Xin realized that the so-called "rules" were not as simple as he had imagined.

This "rule" is not only complete, perfect and logical, but also contains things that Chen Xin doesn't know.

In this way, Chen Xin gave up the idea of ​​completing the task in one go. In the following days, Chen Xin would think of some talismans to fill in every day, and speculate and summarize why those talismans were not recognized.

After a week, Chen Xin still failed.

Later, based on the words "zhenwu" and "yin de", he began to look for folk ghosts.

"Night Talk Folk Customs Forum" is the forum that Chen Xin feels is the most advanced and the most active.

Just a few days ago, Chen Xin saw a post asking for help in the forum.

The above says that the poster's guest bought a piece of land halfway up a mountain in order to maintain his health in the countryside, and planned to build a small courtyard.

As a result, strange things happened halfway through the construction and the workers were afraid to start.

As the deadline for completion approaches, the helpless poster begins looking for solutions everywhere, and forum posts are one of the solutions.

Chen Xin was just a newbie lurking in the forum, so naturally he didn't know how to deal with this situation.

But there are many bigwigs in the forum, and many people are commenting below, with various opinions emerging one after another.

At that time, Chen Xin had a flash of inspiration and summarized those comments.

Some were removed, some were changed, and some were kept.

Finally, when he wrote those contents on the "Compendium of Town Objects" with a try-it attitude, the words disappeared, but he did not fail.

Afterwards, more content appeared on the first page. The "Compendium of Town Objects" actually improved what Chen Xin wrote and gave the town object a name.

"Housekeeping Candle Night"

Chen Xin was very excited at that time, but then he realized that he was too excited too early.

The talisman was recorded successfully, but the good karma did not increase and the second page could not be opened.

Only the number of town objects recorded on the cover changed from 0 to 1.

Only then did Chen Xin realize that "recording success" and "reaping good karma" were two different things.

Chen Xin could make a "House Guarding Candle Night" by himself, but what then?
After seeing that the talisman was successfully recorded, and thinking about the description of the talisman, Chen Xin guessed what the so-called hidden conditions of "complying with the rules" were roughly related to.

In addition to the content being complete, perfect and logical, the so-called hidden condition of "complying with the rules" should be "reference to real supernatural events."

In other words, if there were no supernatural events in this world, Chen Xin would never be able to record them successfully.

Obviously, the poster really encountered trouble, otherwise he would not have been able to successfully record the talisman.

Chen Xin didn't have the courage to take the talisman to a haunted house to try it out.

So he could only wait, waiting for the poster of the help post to try.

This wait lasted three days.

"Zhen Zhai Zhu Ye" was successfully created by someone, but it was obviously not created by the poster. It was more like other people saw the post and thought it was similar to what they encountered, so they tried it.

Although the three people who made the talisman did a lot of unnecessary things, such as candles, wine, firecrackers, and sprinkling chicken blood in the early stages, these things should have been done before dirty things appeared in the house.

But fortunately they did not omit the final method of making the talisman.

I have to say, those three people are really lucky.

If Chen Xin had not compiled "Home Guarding·Candle Night", those three people would have been defeated if they had really tried according to the contents of the post.

Now that the talisman has been triggered and taken effect, and he has the Yinde points, Chen Xin is not very happy.

It was just a guess before, but now he is sure that there are ghosts in this world, and it is not an isolated case!

Who knows how many of the posts in the Night Talk Folklore Forum are stories and how many are facts?

Then, Chen Xin fell into deep thought.

Now that there are ghosts, should we still go down the path of plagiarism?
Fortunately, Chen Xin’s doubts soon dissipated.

He is afraid of ghosts.

He is also afraid of being poor.

Both are great terrors to the world, equally terrifying.

The good news is that there are currently solutions to both great horrors.

If you are poor, you can write novels to make money.

Ghosts can be killed with talismans!

As for whether to become a ghost catcher, Chen Xin thought it was better to forget it. No one would believe him with his 18-year-old face.

Thinking of this, Chen Xin reached out and touched the page where the talisman "Zhaizhen·Zhuye" was located.

A illusory light emerged from the pages of the book and gradually solidified.

Not long after, a palm-sized stone object appeared on Chen Xin's book "Ideology and Morality", which looked like a seal.

The upper part of the seal is a bloody rooster, and the lower part is square.

There are four words engraved on the seal at the bottom: Guard the house with candlelight at night!

Chen Xin played with this somewhat cold object and felt a little relieved.

It's like a horror game.

If you find out as soon as you enter the game that the game maker only gave you a "run" button, the sense of horror will increase dramatically.

But if the game maker gives you an "equipment bar", regardless of whether it is scary or not, at least this game has a solution.

Chen Xin is now the player with the "equipment bar", and this "equipment bar" looks quite "thick".

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(End of this chapter)