Immortal Dao Fruits, Cards to Help Me

Chapter 134 Hidden Scales Under the Beam
"Ding~ You have completed the regional quest [Feast of Ten Thousand Ghosts (Blue)], completion level: B. You have gained 2668 experience points."

You have gained 136 merit points.

You have gained 180 points of Liaodong reputation, and your relationship with the Liaodong General's Office has reached 'Friendly'.

You have gained 800 reputation points with the Liaodong City God Temple, and your relationship with the Liaodong City God Temple has reached 'Honored'.

You have obtained the card [Walking in the Underworld (Blue)].

[Walking in the Underworld (Blue)]

3th-tier spell cards
The soul leaves the body and travels the path of the underworld to enter the realm of illusions and even the netherworld, to communicate and contact the dead and spirits.

Requires: 13 points of comprehension, 20 points of perception, 28 points of willpower, and 5 points of Yin spiritual energy.

Note: This carries extremely high risk.

Assessment: The underworld is risky; proceed with caution when visiting the spirit world.

Believe it or not, it's actually a "special spell"!
Among players, spells with special effects are called "special spells".

Generally speaking, their combat power is not very strong, but sometimes the effect is very unexpected.

For example, this "walking in the underworld".

Chen Xiuxian had seen a post from three months ago by a player who specialized in ghost magic.

The school of thought he joined specialized in the underworld and dealt with many ghost kings.

Being able to glean some benefits from the Underworld, a realm most players can't even reach right now, is like getting a head start on enjoying the perks of the next version.

However, this thing is also extremely risky.

Leveraging the advantages of their sect, this player fought their way up and entered the middle of the second tier of players.

As a result, he eventually encountered a ghost in the underworld. In the underworld, he met an unknown ghost who shattered several of his three souls and seven spirits in a single encounter.

That character's lifespan was reduced by 76 years. When he was resurrected, he was already an old man!
The wrinkles on his face could trap a fly! He gets breathless after just a few steps!
With only a few days left to live, I had no choice but to abandon this account, take my savings, and start over with a new account.

There are many players like this, so much so that some players have created threads to compile statistics on these "high-risk, high-reward" players.

I'm somewhat interested in "Miss Motorcycle Riders," so I'm creating a "Motorcycle Rider Notes" contest to guess which one is the most likely to survive and how many will be left by the end of the year.

Headlines like "Bad news from the XX circle," "The Demon-Feeding Sect's prodigy has fallen again while feeding the demon with his own body," and "If you can't stand the suffering of taking drugs, you'll have to endure the suffering of physical cultivation" are common.

You shouldn't learn this!

The risk is too great!

Why would a good person like you choose to go downhill? People always strive for higher positions!

……

The "Qingming Festival Liaodong Grand Food Offering" organized by the City God Temple has come to a successful conclusion.

A total of eight main locations were visited, and 46 souls were delivered to the afterlife.

This is truly a meritorious deed~
Chen Xiuxian benefited greatly from this.

Of course, he did do some work too.

A total of 68,000 souls received offerings and were liberated from suffering at his hands. He's considered quite high on the list!

It's really impossible for an ordinary person to guard such a huge area by themselves, where tens of thousands of dead souls gather.

He personally killed more than a hundred evil spirits and ghosts, and gained more than 28000 experience points as a result!
There are even more than twenty green cards and several blue cards.

Chen Xiuxian was even a little reluctant to leave—it would be great if he could come once a month!

Such a thing is of course impossible; these hundreds of thousands of lingering wronged souls and vengeful ghosts have accumulated over a hundred years.

In the future, with the City God Temple specifically in charge of this matter, there won't be such a large backlog.

Well, if war doesn't break out.

……

More than ten days have passed in the blink of an eye.

Chen Xiuxian finally welcomed the first spring rain after Grain Rain.

He had already packed his things and set off in the evening drizzle.

It's quite a coincidence that today is a "double Geng day followed by the new moon," meaning the first day of the lunar month (the first day of the month) following two consecutive Geng days.

At this time, the metal element in the universe is at its strongest. Metal generates water, which helps the dragon's energy rise. Moreover, the new moon has no moon, and the yin energy is at its heaviest, which is conducive to the inner strength of the treasure and prevents it from leaking out and causing trouble.

It's definitely a good day to retrieve the treasure!
Arriving near Longji Hutong, it was a gloomy, rainy April evening. The temperature was still quite cold, barely enough for the snow to melt. Getting soaked could easily lead to a serious illness.

These days, even a common cold can be fatal, so you can hardly see any pedestrians on the streets.

Looking into the distance, Chen Xiuxian's eyes gleamed with golden light. Above the old residential area of ​​Longji Hutong, a faint golden aura rose like wisps of smoke, shaped like a dragon, winding and coiling.

I walked slowly to the vicinity of the old house. The place was somewhat dilapidated, and only a few elderly, widowed, and lonely old people still lived there. They were barely clinging to life.

It was already late, and the weather was cold and rainy, so everyone stayed home and went to bed early.

Chen Xiuxian didn't relax. He took out the Tiger Head Token and released all the ghosts he had recently acquired and trained.

Including the gambling addict Ma Si'er and the hanged silver ghost, there are nine in total.

Ma Si'er will stay with him and guard the door, while the other eight will be positioned in eight directions to protect the area and prevent strangers from approaching.

When harvesting dragon scale wood, one must be careful of human voices and energy. If human energy gets close, it can easily disrupt the formation of the dragon energy and affect the quality of the dragon scale wood.

If someone exclaims in surprise, then the dragon might "walk away"!
If this thing "runs away" during the rain, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up with it even if I ride the Azure Leaf Boat.

Arriving outside the blackened brick walls of the old house, Chen Xiuxian pressed his ear against the wall and faintly heard an extremely faint buzzing sound, like a dragon's soft chant, amidst the gentle sound of rain.

Yes, it's the perfect time!
Chen Xiuxian looked around. The old house was located in a feng shui formation resembling a dragon playing with a pearl. The hill on the land had been leveled, but the earth's veins remained.

The old house is located at the "dragon's jaw" and the well in the center of the house is the "dragon pearl".

The house faces south, and every morning and evening, sunlight and moonlight are reflected by the well water and shine through the windows onto the main beam, which is called "tempering by the sun and moon".

Moreover, it requires a family that has accumulated good deeds for generations and whose prosperity is abundant to reside here.

The human experience, with its joys and sorrows, nourishes the beams and gradually imbues them with a sense of life.

After sixty years of wind and rain, the influence of human energy, and the radiance of the sun and moon, the wood of the beams, which receive the reflection of the well water, has become dense and transformed, developing layers of patterns and protrusions resembling dragon scales. When touched, it feels warm and smooth like jade, as if it were alive.

This is "lying on the beam with hidden scales", also known as dragon scale wood.

Now that the wooden dragon is complete, it's the perfect time to seize the treasure.

After careful planning and calculation, Chen Xiuxian brought many things that might be useful.

He even placed a century-old locust wood beam in his inventory, which was exactly the same size as the dragon scale wood beam in the old house, down to the last detail.

He first lit three incense sticks and placed them in the southeast corner of the courtyard.

The smoke dissipated and roamed around the house on its own; nothing unusual happened, which was good.

Although this old house looks like it has been vacant for a long time, with neither door gods nor kitchen gods.

However, it's best to be cautious and not skip the step of praying to the gods to secure the home. Otherwise, it might actually become a possession, which would be disastrous.

Then Chen Xiuxian gently pushed open the wooden door and walked into the old house.

There's hardly any furniture left in the old house; only some rotten, broken wood remains.

The dust was thick, and you could still vaguely see the footprints Chen Xiuxian left when he last came.

Chen Xiuxian silently took out an ink line, the kind that carpenters use.

This involves grinding ink with water from a rootless container, mixing it with sulfur powder, then fixing it at both ends of a dragon scale wood and flicking out yellow ink lines.

This line is not for cutting, but for defining the boundaries of "spirit".

Then, one by one, like a grid, the entire grid popped up on the beam, "binding" it.

Finally, the most important and also the most difficult step has arrived.

To steal the beams and replace the pillars, to substitute one thing for another!
The instant the dragon scale wood was removed, Chen Xiuxian needed to swiftly and precisely insert the prepared locust wood substitute into its original position. Throughout the entire process, the roof beams could not shake in the slightest, and the roof tiles could not make a sound.

If the house is damaged, this wooden dragon will surely be enraged and transform into human form, leading to a battle. Even if you win in the end, this thing will probably be destroyed!
Fortunately, Chen Xiuxian now has 43 points of arm strength, which is more than four times that of an average person, so lifting a 70-80 jin (35-40 kg) locust wood beam with one hand is not a problem.

Besides, it still has magic power!

……

"Ding~ You have obtained the Tier 3 rare item Dragon Scale Wood, and you have gained 800 experience points."

Thankfully, nothing serious happened!
At this moment, the dragon scale wood, which was thicker than a thigh, struggled for a while in Chen Xiuxian's hand.

However, the yellow ink grid bound it, and it stopped moving after a while.

It transformed into a straight wooden dragon, with a head and a tail, faintly visible claws, and scales all over its body.

(End of this chapter)