Chapter 18: With Money in Your Pocket, You Don't Panic in Your Heart

Lin Jue didn't leave, but took advantage of the fact that it wasn't very late and the Yang energy hadn't reached its most intense point, climbed the nearby bamboo mountain, sat in meditation, and absorbed the spiritual rhyme to nourish the five Qi.

The wind blew through his clothes and hair, and the bamboo forest all over the mountain rustled.

At this moment, his heart was at its quietest.

After practicing for a while, resting, and eating two vegetable buns, he hid in the bamboo forest to shade himself.

Lin Jue unexpectedly discovered that another chapter had appeared in the ancient book:

*Dream Sending*, which is the method of entrusting dreams, entering dreams, and creating dreams.

Dreams are illusory worlds.

There are seven or eight kinds of methods for entering and creating dreams in the world, which can roughly be divided into two categories: one can be called *Dream Descending*, besides Daoists using the power of dream gods to descend dreams, only gods and a few monsters master this; one can be called *Dream Sending*, which is using magic to send oneself or the illusion one creates into someone else's dream, which can be practiced.

This is the method of *Dream Sending*.

"Hmm?"

Lin Jue was surprised and thought carefully.

I don't know when this appeared...

It should have appeared when he fell asleep last night, so he didn't feel it.

Although he was alone in the mountain forest, Lin Jue also assumed the posture of reading books, naturally placing his hand on the page, without any abnormality.

Words immediately sounded in his heart, explaining the method of *Dream Sending*.

However, this "Dream Sending" was much more complex and profound than "Exhaling Breath" and "Fire-Hating Technique."

Although the explanation of the words was still complete and detailed, this completeness and detail were also built on a certain foundation.

Firstly, this magic was not something Lin Jue, who was just practicing the simplest and most primitive Qi-nurturing method, could use; secondly, this magic appeared out of thin air in the ancient book. If it were someone with a teacher, they should have mastered a lot of knowledge about cultivation and magic, and learned some simpler magic related to "Dream Sending" before the teacher would let them learn "Dream Sending." Listening to this, Lin Jue could only feel that the words still explained every aspect of this magic cleanly, but he still couldn't understand many parts.

If he didn't succeed in visiting immortals and asking about the Dao, he would have to rely on this book to learn more related but simpler and more basic magic first.

"..."

Lin Jue had to put the book down temporarily.

As for why he was also entrusted with a dream at the Wang Family Ancestral Hall in Heng Village the first time, but it didn't trigger the ancient book's reaction, Lin Jue thought it should be because the magic used by that person was the "Dream Descending" that couldn't be learned.

Slowly, noon passed.

This was the time when the sun was most poisonous.

The temple monks' food was mainly grain, and they didn't have much to do every day, so they would naturally feel sleepy after meals and take a nap. At this time, no one came to stay, and the temple was quiet.

It wasn't just the temple.

Most of the merchants and travelers who walked from the previous journey node hadn't arrived here at this time point. Occasionally there were travelers, but they all had to avoid the scorching sun at this time, find a cool place to rest and take a nap, so even on the mountain road below, not a single person could be seen. Under the bright sunlight, only the green bamboo forest swayed with the wind, the mountain road was illuminated very brightly, and the whole world, besides the sound of insects, couldn't hear any sound.

Lin Jue had already gone down the mountain and returned to the back of the temple.

There weren't many bamboo leaves in the bamboo forest; they were probably burned by these monks, but there were human feces in the middle, so he had to be careful to go around them.

Finding the small mound and the small pit, Lin Jue began to dig down.

Even until this moment, he still had a sense of illusion about what happened last night, and he still couldn't be completely certain about the fact that "he could dig up something," with one or two parts missing out of ten thousand.

Until he dug out wet mud and touched a hard object.

Lin Jue dug out two pottery jars.

Opening the pottery jars, there were some official silver, copper coins, jewelry, and jade on both sides, as well as some personal items like name tags.

It seemed that the property of both sides was divided equally.

"Sure enough..."

What happened last night was indeed not a dream.

The words of the two ghosts were indeed not fake.

Lin Jue's heart was awe-struck, and for a moment, he felt a sense of relief.

These two ghosts, especially that Su-surnamed ghost, were indeed deeply affectionate and loyal.

Hesitating for a moment, he took five taels of silver from each of the two jars; they were the smallest silver pieces in the jars, totaling ten taels, which he felt was enough. This was travel money given by the two, so there was really no need to decline.

He put the silver into his bosom and intended to bury the two jars back.

But after a moment's thought, he felt it was wrong.

This place was too close to the temple. These two jars had been buried here for a long time and naturally no one discovered them, but now that he had dug them up, there was a lot of new soil, and the traces were hard to cover. Not to mention the temple monks, if a merchant traveler accidentally came here to relieve himself and discovered them, they would likely make a windfall.

And he feared they couldn't trust these monks.

"I will take all the other jewelry and property and hand them over to your families. If I can't find your families, I will come back and bury them here. At most, it's two or three hundred *li*, and the round trip plus searching will take at most ten days or so."

Lin Jue said in the forest.

His heart was calm, and he didn't care whether they heard him or not. After speaking, he wrapped all the things in the two jars with cloth and left the place.

With ten more taels of travel money, the journey was much easier.

The worry in his heart was much less, and walking naturally became easy. With a foundation in his bosom, sometimes he really didn't want to eat dry rations, and when he met a tea stall or small shop, he could buy two steamed buns and eat a bowl of wontons.

Before he knew it, the bamboo forest on the journey had been replaced by a forest of trees.

Danxun and Qiuru Counties were adjacent, and indeed not far. The journey of two or three hundred miles took Lin Jue four or five days even walking slowly, but finding their villages took some time.

This era, although the control over population movement wasn't very strict, was relatively closed. Ten years of time didn't seem to bring many changes to the country villages. Lin Jue successively found Su Village and Lao Village, and also successfully inquired about the families of Mo Laifeng and Su Xiaojin. Their lives were not good, but they were still there.

Lin Jue naturally didn't hesitate and handed the two packages to their families respectively.

He didn't have the idea of swallowing them alone.

Because being a human again is a rare opportunity, and no one knows this better than Lin Jue. Life is short for a few decades, and living this life calmly and comfortably is more important than anything else.

"Brother Su's corpse was buried by the temple monks right behind the attic, and buried together with his friend. I don't know the character of the many monks in the temple, so I don't know if there are any burial items left." Lin Jue said to the family of Su Xiaojin, whom he found later, "Brother Su couldn't return to his roots, and his soul was not at peace, so he entrusted me to come and find you, requesting that you must go and retrieve his corpse."

The people here are very particular about clan and family affection, which is the strongest tie in this era. Therefore, Lin Jue wasn't very worried about whether they would go to the temple to retrieve the two corpses.

Mentioning the burial items made him worry even less.

Lin Jue left here with peace of mind.

While walking, he couldn't help but take the silver out of his bosom in a place where no one was around, weighing it in his hand and looking at it.

At this time, not only did he have money, but after the matter was finished, holding it and spending it felt much more at ease than before, and his steps became much lighter.

Thus, he continued to embark on the path of seeking immortality and asking about the Dao.

It wasn't far from Mount Qiyun here.

Lin Jue didn't focus all his attention on finding Mount Qiyun and Mount Yishan. In the middle, he also went to tea stalls and wine shops to ask travelers, and even went to a tavern in Danxun County where storytelling was held, chatting with the storyteller, asking where there were any experts with magic, or if there were any true immortal masters in famous mountain palaces and temples. Sometimes there was no answer, sometimes there were answers, but Lin Jue searched for them, and they were actually not as good as their reputation.

Cultivation in this world didn't seem to be universal.

There were still relatively few experts.

It was hard to find some sorcerers and witches, and he guessed that most of them had some skills, but these people recognized money, and Lin Jue was both short of money and afraid of being deceived, and felt it hadn't reached that point of urgency.

Ten taels of silver couldn't last long, and couldn't stand being used like this.

It was just that the weather was getting hotter day by day.

It was already the end of April.

The noon sun could make people unable to open their eyes. Many animals in the mountains were hiding, but on the mountain road paved with gravel and pressed with ruts, a person dressed as a scholar was walking slowly.

There was a piece of cloth on top of the book satchel, just covering the sun on his head, bringing him some shade.

As for his shoulders and other places, they were already scorched hot.

"Why is there no one on this road?"

Lin Jue stopped by the river, took out a bamboo water tube, drank a mouthful of water, and bent down to fill it in the river.

Then he straightened up and looked forward—

A winding river bent into a semicircle, the river water was emerald green, reflecting the blue sky and white clouds, and the road along the river was also winding, covered with lush grass on both sides, the road surface was shiny under the sun, the insects were noisy, and there were occasional ape cries echoing in the mountains, but besides that, there was truly not a single person.

Could it be that they were all resting and napping by the roadside?

But he didn't see anyone napping.

Lin Jue couldn't help but feel puzzled.

Could it be that some fierce beast was causing trouble here?

Or was there a monster?

However, there were no large fierce beasts like tigers here, at most jackals, wolves, and clouded leopards. Many Yaoguai-ghosts usually didn't appear on the government road during the day, and Lin Jue was more afraid of mountain bandits and thieves.

Not to mention Lin Jue, a youth who only learned some tricks, even many high-level experts in stories who had deep cultivation and knew many magic spells were afraid of the blades of warriors and the cold arrows shot from the dark. When kings and nobles ordered them to be captured and executed, they often had to hide.

"..."

Lin Jue steadied his heart, picked up his book satchel, and continued on his way.

The road followed the winding river, and Lin Jue followed the winding road, gradually walking into a forest shade.

But the trees all around were thick, and only apes were jumping in the distance. There was neither the shadow of mountain bandits and thieves nor traces of people walking, which made Lin Jue feel a bit more relaxed.

Perhaps he should also find a forest shade to shade himself and take a nap?

Or find a hidden place, wait for a while, wait for the travelers behind to come, and then travel together?

Lin Jue pondered, looking around.

"Wrong!"

Lin Jue suddenly froze—

Were the apes in the distance too big?

They were almost as tall as a person!

What was important was that when Lin Jue saw them, they also saw Lin Jue.

When one ape jumped onto the treetop, looking down from a high position, and carefully observed the road, its eyes felt full of aggression even from far away, and then with two "Woo-ah" sounds, many apes looked at him.

*Whoosh whoosh... *

The forest began to shake violently; it was the giant apes like humans climbing and leaping in it, rapidly approaching Lin Jue.

Some apes screamed, revealing full mouths of sharp teeth.

"!"

Lin Jue seemed to understand why there was no one on this road.

Naturally, without hesitation, he turned and ran!

But these apes themselves didn't run or climb slower than humans. He didn't know if normal people could outrun them, but Lin Jue was carrying a book satchel, so he definitely couldn't outrun them.

Only seeing Lin Jue panting heavily, running wildly, constantly looking back, he only heard the sound of the forest canopy shaking getting closer and closer, and saw the forest canopy shaking closer and closer, feeling anxious.

"No!"

Lin Jue made a prompt decision, turned around, dropped his book satchel, grabbed the ancient book and small knife from it, and continued to run forward.

But his face couldn't help but show a look of entanglement and reluctance—

The silver money and such were all in the book satchel!

It was hard to get ten taels of silver!

Although this ancient book had a far-reaching influence on his future path of seeking immortality and asking about the Dao, and was naturally the most precious, money also played a not-so-small role.

Just as Lin Jue was thinking, he suddenly felt that there was no more chasing behind him, so he couldn't help but look back.

Only seeing a dozen or so apes as tall as humans surrounding his book satchel, rudely tearing the roof of the book satchel, and then turning over the things inside, turning them into a mess. Finding dry rations, a group of apes immediately snatched them to share; finding the water tube, they threw it aside; and clothes were thrown everywhere.

Lin Jue immediately opened his eyes wide.

But he saw an exceptionally tall ape stand straight, lift its head to look at him, its eyes full of observation. ===== CHAPTER 19 =====