My fairy tale is actually a strange story

Chapter 65: Harvesting Magic

The others entered the sneak cabin to rest, while Jiang Yuncheng stayed outside alone.

After traveling to a different world for a month, I went from being a level 1 player with no ability to protect myself to acquiring the inheritance of the sword and pen god, and collecting the iron-bone fish, but I have yet to see a real human society.

I met the harmonious and friendly Nuanxue Guild players, but disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Of the nearly three hundred members of the Nuanxue Guild, plus two investigators sent by the government, only four people, Cai Xun, Xu Hong, Lili Duo, and Xiao Jianshi, were left alive.

It's really sad.

Jiang Yuncheng looked at the Gulu City that was constantly dissolving under the morning sun, and he always felt a sense of fear in his heart. He was worried that another nested copy would pop up, which would really make it difficult to fly.

Check the loot on the game interface.

120 pieces of spiritual energy, 20 pieces of ghost stories, and 2 pieces of alchemy pieces.

"Ying Niang, what happened to you just now?"

‘What do you mean, Lord God sent you? ’

"Don't remember?"

Recalling that at that time, Ying Niang was in a completely absent-minded state. She was woken up by Jiang Yuncheng before she finally disembodied and left. She had no memory of her previous singing.

"You sang The Peony Pavilion in the Tomb"

'ah? I can’t sing.’

Ying Niang was really unimpressed and shook her head helplessly and confusedly. She felt a little aggrieved and didn't know what she had done wrong.

Interpreted from the perspective of ghost stories, the Ying Niang recorded in "Er Shi Lu" was hiding in a black jade hairpin and reunited with her lover who had been reincarnated in another life because of the unresolved relationship. The ending of the main play of "The Peony Pavilion" is Du Liniang's return.

Ying Niang and Du Liniang

Jiang Yuncheng couldn't draw a conclusion. After all, a large part of the stories about ghosts and ghosts have elements of "unresolved love between humans and ghosts" or interracial love. This is true for stories such as Fox Demon and A Chinese Ghost Story.

"fine."

After a dry discussion, Jiang Yuncheng continued to work on the fragments of ghost stories, waiting for the fragments of ghost stories given by the two Du Liniang to be digested, and there might be clues.

"I said it tasted good before. Is it this ghost story fragment?"

'no'

As a type of game prop, Kaitan fragments are stacked in the same grid in the inventory, such as "Alchemy Remnant Coin x 20", and it is impossible to tell which one is which.

"Is this delicious?"

‘It doesn’t taste good if you smell it’

The remaining Fang Shu coin that Ying Niang found unpalatable was handed to Tieguyu.

"Do you think it tastes good?"

‘It’s pretty good’

Iron Bone Fish is still the same, there are almost no ghost stories that I don’t like, and there are no ghost stories that I particularly like.

This makes it extremely difficult for him to be very delicious, and it is also difficult for him to produce new skills. After all, his qualification score in magic is only 1 star;

The advantage is that food will not be wasted. The fragments of strange stories that Ying Niang does not like to eat mean that the adaptability is low and the experience value produced is very small. The iron bone fish is just fine to eat.

‘Kanzaki-sama, this smells very good! ’

After feeding more than half of the Kaidan fragments, Ying Niang finally exclaimed that she finally found a very delicious Kaidan fragment.

"Oh, I finally found it."

In the tomb area, there are two ghost story fragments that pop up when the innocent thing dies. Shadow Girl finds them very, very delicious, which shows that the adaptability is very high. Feeding her can produce a lot of experience points, and there is also a probability of generating new skills. .

First, give Shadow Girl a delicious piece of ghost story. In the game interface, her belly will grow at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This ghost story fragment produced 693 experience points, which was quite exaggerated and directly allowed Shadow Girl to reach level 8.

At the same time, the enlarged belly means that there are new magic techniques to digest, and it is temporarily impossible to eat other ghost stories.

Jiang Yuncheng is level 11, with 8672/8726 experience points. The 120 spiritual energy he possesses is enough to upgrade two levels. Lucheng is still dissolving, and Jiang Yuncheng is still within the scope of the dungeon, and will collect more spiritual energy these days.

Two alchemy coins mean two new skills, learn them first and try them out.

The use of alchemy residual coins has been confirmed, and new skill icons have been updated in the skill pool.    【Caisheng: carved into a human figure, with blessings and curses on it】

Looking at the skill icons, Jiang Yuncheng thought of the control and refining principles of the Flying Divine Weapon and the Tomb-Suppressing Divine Weapon.

"It's the magic of harvesting life..."

The method of collecting the living soul into the idol. Casting a curse to control living people and using curses to forcibly increase the strength also means overdrafting the price of life. Corresponding to the flying magic weapon, it feels a bit like Naruto's "Heaven/Earth Curse Seal";

For the tomb-suppressing magic weapon, the facial features, fingernails, internal organs and other objects are cut off, and the soul is detained through evil methods such as drying and grinding, and implanted into various dolls, which can be puppets, wax figures, paper figures, etc.

The magic of harvesting life belongs to the category of "Idol Blessing and Cursing Technique", so the skill introduction has the expression "Blessing and Cursing on the Supreme", which can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty.

Wu Yi, the 27th king of the Shang Dynasty, has a story about "Wu Yi shoots into the sky".

[Contain blood in a Wei bag, shoot it in the county (connected to "Xuan"), the order is to shoot to the sky], recorded in "Historical Records: The Weizi Family of the Song Dynasty".

Shooting through the leather bag filled with blood, wounding the gods, demonstrates the courage to fight against destiny and the disobedience to ghosts and gods.

In addition, Wu Yi also carved "gods" on human figures and bet with them. ("Historical Records·Yin Benji")

These behaviors can be regarded as the origin of the idol blessing and cursing technique. By the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it was divided into two major types. One was the method of predicting bad luck by the camphor willow god, and the other was the method that Jiang Yuncheng currently acquired to capture the soul of the idol.

"Collect soul marks and condense them into the puppet..."

Jiang Yuncheng looked at the detailed description of the game skills and tried to interpret them.

It roughly extracts a soul mark from the target, and the skill will form a doll-like puppet floating around Jiang Yuncheng, and will be strengthened and manipulated.

This is the usage of Feitian Divine Weapon.

Attacking the soul puppet will also cause damage to the corresponding target. It is similar to the operation of Wu Yi shooting the sky, but it is closer to life. In the Gongdou opera, you can make a little person and prick it with a needle when asking about the birth date, and voodoo dolls are all in this category.

The effect of the skill is very clear, but the trouble is that it is not easy to extract the target's soul mark.

Jiang Yuncheng is level 11, and the target level he can draw is not much higher. Fortunately, there is a way to strengthen teammates.

If teammates agree, no matter how big the level gap is, they can draw a soul mark. Not to mention using soul puppets to assist teammates in their actions, just physical strengthening is already a good gain.

What needs to be slowly tested in the future is the cost. The cost of overdrafting the flying magic weapon is really serious. Using the art of harvesting life cannot cause serious irreversible damage to your teammates.

Ying Niang is pregnant now, so it's not easy for Jiang Yuncheng to experiment on her.

"Iron Fish, I'm experimenting with a new magic technique, and I need to extract a soul imprint."

‘God sent you, please’

On the ground were two large white carps lying on their backs, too lazy to move. The meat was tender and transparent, and the black bones inside could be seen in the thinner parts of the meat.

The Iron Bone Fish accepted it smoothly, and Jiang Yuncheng was able to obtain a light and shadow like a ball of colorful cotton wool, condensing into a rag doll shape like a small fish in front of him.

This is the soul puppet corresponding to the Iron Bone Fish.

Injecting spiritual power, several icons appeared on the head of the iron-bone fish in the game interface.

First, the Q version of the sword adds an upward arrow, indicating an increase in physical attack;

Then there is the Q version of the magic wand with an upward arrow, which increases the magic ability;

There are also shoes and shields with upward arrows, and movement and defense have also been increased.

The more spiritual power Jiang Yuncheng injects, the greater the gain will be.

The iron-bone fish is level 16, which is not much higher than Jiang Yuncheng's level. There is nothing particularly complicated about it, and the spiritual power consumed for normal gain is acceptable.

Continue to increase the spiritual power output, and the game interface prompts that the target's health will be deducted.

It's a bit like the flying magic weapon overdrawing its vitality.

A reasonable degree of amplification will not cause damage, but deliberately increasing the intensity of the amplification will cause injury, and more serious damage will be irreversible.

However, this method is not suitable for hurting the enemy. To successfully create the enemy's soul puppet, using the buff to damage him requires too much spiritual power. It is better to just grab the iron-bone fish and smash the soul puppet.

(End of this chapter)