My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 694 Conspiracy
"Teng Yunxian was restrained by the magic weapon left by the Martial Lord. He had no power to fight back and was easily suppressed by you. You also imprisoned the true energy in his body. Teng Yunxian felt that this was a magic weapon specifically targeting him, and was immediately scared out of his wits. He thought that other brothers had come to clean up the mess and take his life under the order of the master."

"What are your options next?"

"Will you choose to take out the Dragon Seal and kill Teng Yunxian here, then bring the body back to the Wulin League and hand it over to Tiger Head Guard? Or will you choose to call Dragon Head Guard out from his hiding place and have him search the soul to obtain the memory information in Teng Yunxian's mind?"

"Of course, you can also choose to ask Teng Yunxian about the whole story yourself, and perhaps you can get some information from him."

The game gave three options. Jiang Xinghuo looked at them one by one and finally chose to ask Teng Yunxian what happened.

Anyway, it has been turned into a useless person by itself. Even if it makes more trouble, it won't cause any big waves. There is no need to kill it immediately. It can still be useful to keep it for the time being.

"You chose to ask Teng Yunxian about the whole story yourself."

"You exude the aura of the Nine Death Cicada Divine Art. Teng Yunxian is very familiar with this kind of power. Subconsciously, he thought that his guess was correct. It was really the teacher who sent other brothers to clean up the mess."

"Since Tengyunxian is deeply afraid and respectful of the Martial Master, it lost the will to resist after sensing your aura. It knows that it has no way to escape this time, and only hopes that after telling it the whole story, you can give it a quick death and not let it go back to be punished by the family law."

"The Wulin Alliance does not have too many requirements for its disciples, nor does it have those hypocritical sect rules and regulations, but there is only one red line that cannot be crossed, and that is not to betray the master and destroy the ancestors. Otherwise, their limbs will be cut off, their meridians will be destroyed, their eyes will be gouged out, their five senses will be taken away, and they will be imprisoned in a dark room and will never be allowed to leave."

"This kind of punishment is the most painful torture for intelligent creatures. They can neither live nor die, and can only live in darkness for the rest of their lives."

"Teng Yunxian didn't want to suffer this kind of torture, and only hoped to have a quick death. You agreed to Teng Yunxian's request and asked him about the mastermind and purpose behind it."

"At this point, Teng Yunxian has no intention of hiding it any further. He tells the whole story straight out of a bamboo tube. Just as you guessed before, Teng Yunxian did this to provoke disputes between the Wulin Alliance and the Taiping Army. That's why he attacked the storyteller and the Wuhe group. Beiping is the headquarters of the Wuhe group, and the old storyteller is a senior figure in the storyteller organization. Once he is destroyed by the Wulin Alliance, the Wuhe leader and the storyteller organization will definitely not give up, and will certainly form an alliance with the Taiping Army to deal with the Wulin Alliance together."

"The current state of the Wulin Alliance is far from what it was when it was at its peak. Facing the siege of these three major forces at the same time, it can only end up in defeat. However, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even if the Wulin Alliance is destroyed by these three forces, they can still cause great damage to the vitality of these three organizations. Then the leader behind it can take advantage of the situation and swallow up these three forces at the lowest cost."

"However, there is one thing that is completely different from your previous guess. That is, the Taoist master behind Tengyunxian is not the Wanjiao Zhenjun of Nanyang, but the Taoist Tianzai who lives in seclusion behind the scenes. The reason why the Taoist Tianzai asked it to use the dragon snake to plot against Longpi Taibao was also to divert the disaster to the east."

“In this way, even if the Lord of the Rabble, the Storyteller, and the King of Taiping noticed something wrong, they would only think that the True Lord of the Ten Thousand Religions of Nanyang wanted to invade the Middle-earth, so they came up with this method to plot against Longpi Taibao, and would not implicate the Taoist of Natural Disasters.”

"This kind of diversionary tactics is not very clever, but it works every time. Even if you know there is something fishy going on, you will still fall into the trap for various reasons."

"If you hadn't found Tiger Head Guardian and taken the magic weapon to suppress Teng Yunxian, its plan might have succeeded."

"Then, you learned from Tengyunxian's description how it came to seek refuge with Tianzai Taoist."

"As the most ambitious of the thirteen Dao masters, Tianzai Daoist has always been full of conspiracies and intrigues. He is behind many things in the secular world. He has also taken in many masters who were expelled from other sects in order to use their resentment to plot against various forces."

"Teng Yunxian, a disciple taught by the martial master himself, is no exception. After the news of his expulsion from the Wulin Alliance spread, Tianzai Dao extended an olive branch to him, sincerely inviting him to join Tianzai Dao and promising to personally bless him to improve his Taoism and magical power."

"Teng Yunxian was also as panic-stricken as a dog that had lost its home at that time. He had nowhere to go in the secular world. All the enemies he had offended in the past came to seek revenge on him. He was able to make up his mind and join the Natural Disaster Path."

"The Taoist priest Tianzai did not break his promise and blessed it personally, helping it to cause a flood of thousands of miles. With the help of the power of Tianzai, it gained the power to control Hongze. Tengyunxian has been working for the Taoist priest wholeheartedly since then, and has become a sharp knife in the Taoist priest's hand."

"Now, Teng Yunxian has told you everything. I don't expect you to let it go. I just hope you can kill it immediately and don't send it back to the Wulin League to be punished according to the sect rules and family laws."

"What are you going to do now?"

"Will you choose to take out the Dragon Seal and kill Teng Yunxian to fulfill your promise to him? Or will you call out the Dragon Head Guard to discuss how to deal with Teng Yunxian?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose the latter.

Although Teng Yunxian told the whole story, the truth or falsehood is still ambiguous. It is possible that everything he said is true, or it is possible that he is repeating the same old trick and wants to implicate Tianzai Taoist again.

Then it is a game between the four masters of Taoism: Lord Wu, King Taiping, Lord of All Religions, and Taoist of Natural Disasters.

Therefore, we should call out the Dragon Head Guard and let it use the soul-searching method to confirm whether what Teng Yunxian said is true or not. If it is really as it said, then it doesn’t matter if he is killed. If it is fake, then there is still room for discussion in the subsequent plot.

"You called out Longtou Taibao who was hiding in the dark and expressed your thoughts. Longtou Taibao also had the same idea and wanted to verify whether what Teng Yunxian said was true or not. So the two of you hit it off and decided to search Teng Yunxian's soul."

"The Dragon Head Guard grabbed Teng Yunxian's head with his right hand. A deep light shone from his fingertips, transforming into chains that spread into Teng Yunxian's head and began to read and search the memories in Teng Yunxian's mind."

"After a while, Longtou Taibao retracted his right hand and nodded, indicating that Tengyunxian was not lying. The mastermind behind the whole thing was Tianzai Daoist, one of the thirteen Daoists. Nanyang's Wanjiao Zhenjun was just a cover, to put it bluntly, he was used to block the thunder."

"It has to go back and tell King Taiping everything that happened, and by the way, tell the news to the True Lord of Myriad Religions. Since the Taoist of Natural Disasters wants to use the Taiping Army as a knife and the True Lord of Myriad Religions as a shield, it must be prepared to suffer retaliation from both forces at the same time."

"The Dragon Head Guard has left Beiping City and is planning to return to Lingnan to report. But before he left, he left you a gift to thank you for finding out the truth. When he was searching Tengyunxian's soul just now, he felt that you were quite interested in this soul-searching technique, so he gave you the secret manual of the soul-searching technique that he practiced."

"You have obtained the Soul Searching Technique Secret Book." "The Soul Searching Technique Secret Book (Excellent Item) is a secret of the Xingmen Sect that has long been extinct in the secular world. It is a technique used to torture prisoners and search for confidential information. After the Xingmen Sect was extinct by the Ridge God, Longtou Taibao went to the ruins of the Xingmen Sect to investigate and accidentally obtained the Soul Searching Technique Secret Book. Although it is only a fragment, the methods recorded in it can still be used to search a person's soul. However, the soul of a person who has been searched by the Soul Searching Technique will be more or less damaged, and will gradually dissipate in the future until he becomes a living dead."

Jiang Xinghuo raised his eyebrows, thinking that there was no need to think about it, Longtou Taibao must have done it on purpose. Teng Yunxian shattered Longpi Taibao's soul with the Soul-Breaking Palm, and it used the soul-searching technique to erase Teng Yunxian's soul consciousness.

It's a give and take, and no one owes anyone anything.

"Tengyunxian was searched by Longtou Taibao's soul-searching technique. His soul was affected and his consciousness began to become a little fuzzy, but he still didn't forget what you promised him. What are you going to do next?"

"Will you keep your promise and kill it with the Dragon Seal? Or will you send it back to the Wulin Alliance and let the Tiger Head Guardian handle it?"

Jiang Xinghuo saw this and thought, don’t bother making any more trouble. Let me do it alone. He has a good memory. Even in this state, he still hasn’t forgotten what he promised.

"You took out the Dragon Seal."

"You placed the Dragon Seal on Teng Yunxian's head, instantly crushing his internal organs and bones. Teng Yunxian died very quickly without suffering the slightest pain. This was the last bit of friendship that the Martial Master had for his disciple. Even if Teng Yunxian had a thousand faults, he didn't want him to die in pain. The Dragon Seal was used to put an end to it."

"You have killed Tengyunxian."

"You gained incense +5000."

"Looking at the corpse of Teng Yunxian lying on the ground, do you want to touch it?"

"You chose to grope the body."

"You gained something. You found a few things."

"You have obtained: a scale of the evil dragon, a secret book of the art of calling the wind and rain, and a mirage dragon pearl."

“The scale of the evil dragon (rare material). The giant snake that turned into a dragon when it walked on water flooded thousands of miles and killed countless people. It was entangled by the aura of resentment and calamity, and turned into this scale. Perhaps because of the fact that things will turn into the opposite when they reach the extreme, this scale is transformed from the aura of disaster, but it does not contain any resentment. Instead, it has the function of purifying resentment, clearing the mind and exorcising demons. Wearing it with you can prevent you from being troubled by demons in your heart.”

"The Secret Book of Calling Wind and Rain (Rare Item), a secret book of magic given to Tengyunxian by Taoist Tianzai. It can call wind and rain with the mana in one's body. There is no upper limit to the power. The deeper the mana, the greater the power of wind and rain."

"Please note that the Wind and Rain Calling Technique is a technique that the Heavenly Disaster Taoist transformed from the Dragon Breeding Technique. It is completely different from the original Star-controlling Technique recorded in the Dragon Breeding Technique. However, because the Wind and Rain Calling Technique was mixed with the back-up plan of the Heavenly Disaster Taoist, anyone who practices this technique will be controlled by the Heavenly Disaster Taoist collector."

Here we go again!
Jiang Xinghuo was speechless. These Dao masters all liked to play this.

As long as you practice the techniques passed down by the other party, you may be controlled by the other party. But it must be said that although this method is old-fashioned, you can't help but think it works. The method that can stand the test of history is a good method. This is the most obvious example.

He could not practice this technique of calling the wind and rain, but he also grasped a fact from the description in the game text, that Taoist Tianzai should also have a stone carving of the dragon-raising technique in his hand, and it was one of the nine chapters of the dragon-raising technique that he had never touched before.

Jiang Xinghuo secretly kept this matter in mind and would definitely get the thing over if he had the chance in the future. As for the secret book of summoning wind and rain, he would just put it in his magic bag for now.

"The Mirage Dragon Ball (epic item) is the crystallization of the essence of the power of the thousand-year-old Mirage Dragon. It is a protective treasure specially given to Teng Yunxian by the Martial Lord. It has the ability to evolve the Mirage Realm. The Mirage Realm constructed by the Dragon Ball is the same as the real world. It can be used as a maze to trap the enemy, and it can also control the objects in the Mirage Realm to attack the enemy."

A total of three things were found on Teng Yunxian's body. Jiang Xinghuo threw all of them into his magic bag and planned to return the body to the Wulin Alliance.

"At this time, the storyteller's cave opened again, and the storyteller and the leader of the mob came out. They saw what had just happened and knew that it was the Heavenly Disaster Taoist who was behind this. They couldn't just accept this loss for no reason, and they had to take revenge on the Heavenly Disaster Taoist lineage."

"What are you going to do next?"

"Will you go to the underworld stall of Datong Pawn Shop to exchange the pawn ticket given to you by the followers of Tiangongye? Or will you go back to Wulin League and hand over the body of Tengyunxian to Hutou Taibao?"

Jiang Xinghuo chose to go to the Wulin Alliance first. It wouldn't take much time anyway. After completing the mission there and getting the reward, it wouldn't be too late to go to the underworld to redeem the pawn.

"You chose to go to the Wulin League."

"You used the teleportation function of the Fengdu Shrine to return to the Wulin Alliance, found the Tiger Head Guardian, told him what happened, and returned Tengyunxian's body to him."

"When Tiger Head Guard learned that it was the Heavenly Disaster Taoist who was causing the trouble, he was furious and decided to cause some trouble for the Heavenly Disaster Taoist. But before that, he had Teng Yunxian's body buried, and then he took back the Dragon Seal from you."

"This item is specially used by the Martial Master to deal with rebellious disciples in the alliance, so I can't give it to you, but you can keep the Soul Calming Armor. Just consider it a small gift for you."

"Afterwards, Tiger Head Guard also fulfilled his promise and brought you to the Treasure Pavilion..."

(End of this chapter)