To put it bluntly, in this era, even if you want to be a beggar, you can't enter the city!
And without Qiu Yuan, Tao Xiaowu could actually keep the property left by Wucheng, buy dozens of acres of land, and become a small landowner and homebody.
Unfortunately, the current situation is that he can only think about this kind of thing!
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At night, two mountain ghosts came.
First, it was confirmed that Tao Xiaowu had taken over Wucheng's position.
Secondly, they told Tao Xiaowu that they had picked up Wu Cheng's soul and sent it to the underworld.
Wu Cheng bought a big house in the underworld and had a large number of servants to take care of it. He was already a rich man, so Tao Xiaowu didn't need to worry about it!
Perhaps, in this world, death is not the end, but a stage of reincarnation.
Death may just be a new journey of life.
You suffer in the Yang world, but you can enjoy happiness in the Yin world.
After the two mountain ghosts left, Tao Xiaowu couldn't help but slowly stroke the jade in his hand.
This was the most precious thing that Wu Cheng left behind. He was reluctant to show it to Tao Xiaowu during his lifetime, and only said that he would pass it on to him after his death.
Now this jade jue is in Tao Xiaowu's hands, but Tao Xiaowu can't see the use of it at all.
However, Tao Xiaowu remembered that he had seen such a jade jewel in the room in his dream...
Unknowingly, Tao Xiaowu fell asleep again.
I had that dream again this time, and it was extremely realistic.
He walked around the room a few times and saw the jade jewel placed in the bookcase and the Taoist book falling on the ground next to the corpse.
Not just why, Tao Xiaowu had a very strong feeling this time. This time, he could flip the Taoist book.
Sure enough, this time Tao Xiaowu touched this book.
This time Tao Xiaowu touched the book and could clearly feel a texture on his fingers. A real feeling!
It felt like touching clear water, and then Tao Xiaowu's hand passed through it.
Despite this, Tao Xiaowu was not disappointed and even showed a smile.
"As expected, it seems that my soul is stronger and can interfere with reality."
Last time Tao Xiaowu tried it, when his hand touched this book or other objects, it felt like it was touching the air and passed through it.
Today was different. When Tao Xiaowu encountered this book, it was as if he had encountered clear water.
Although the density is still extremely low, it can interfere!
"It's the soul. It seems that after taking that moonlight, the power of the soul has indeed increased!"
Tao Xiaowu has determined that everything here is real.
Therefore, this is not just a dream. At this time, I should be a soul, a spiritual body that has traveled here.
Tao Xiaowu lay on the ground, blowing desperately on the pages of the book that fell on the ground.
Last time, it could only blow a breeze, causing the pages of the book to turn slightly.
But this time it was different, Tao Xiaowu blew it out in one breath, the pages of the book shook wildly, and he actually turned through several pages.
Just blowing like this, Tao Xiaowu seemed to have exhausted all his strength.
"This is……"
Tao Xiaowu saw the content above, and he flipped through a page of Taoist books that were arranged vertically according to the ancient custom.
"The method of practice requires swallowing the sun and the moon..."
On the left side of the Taoist book on this page, there is the Mantra of Taking Moonlight written vertically, but on the right is the Talisman of Taking Moonlight.
As well as the taboos below, take moonlight to nourish your soul.
However, the talisman for taking food needs to be made of glutinous rice paper.
The ink must not use cinnabar, nor can it use pine smoke, charcoal and other inks.
You need to use black pot bottom ash for it, and it is best to add pearl powder.
Covering the pearls means that the clam swallows the moonlight!
The water that transforms into talisman requires clear wine.
Memorize it firmly until you can memorize it.
I even remember the appearance of the talisman clearly.
Then Tao Xiaowu woke up.
Just like the previous time, I remembered the contents of the Taoist book I saw in my dream clearly, not a single word was forgotten, and even the talisman seemed to be right in front of my eyes.
This is no dream!
For one thing, it was impossible for him to make up the contents of his own dreams.
Furthermore, things in dreams are often forgotten after waking up.
Tao Xiaowu picked up the jade jue that Wu Cheng left for him.
Exactly the same as the Yujue I saw in my dream!
"It should be related to Yujue. It can't be such a coincidence that there are two identical Yujues!"
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Early the next morning, Tao Xiaowu went out to buy things.
The several things required for taking the Yuehua method recorded on that page of the Taoist book need to be purchased.
It's so easy to get the ash on the bottom of the pot. You don't even have to buy it, just scrape it off the bottom of the pot.
Glutinous rice paper is not a strange thing. In the past, the thin layer of edible sugar coating on the outside of old-fashioned candies was glutinous rice paper.
Of course, it’s fine sticky rice paper!
Generally, the talisman paper used to convert water is glutinous rice paper. Those that use ordinary talisman paper are burned to produce paper ash for people to drink...
Moreover, cinnabar is not used in the talisman for taking it. Cinnabar is poisonous and represents killing.
Among these things, pearls are still more expensive, especially in this era when there are no artificially cultured pearls.
The price of pearls is not too low!
As for sake, it refers to clear wine, not wine from a certain island country.
Because this world is full of fermented wines similar to rice wine, with low alcohol content and turbidity. It is often called turbid wine.
The counterpart, of course, is sake that is well filtered and has no impurities.
As for liquor, there is definitely no such thing!
Fortunately, the amount used was not too much, and Wu Cheng had more money than he had imagined.
After his death, he left at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in inheritance to Tao Xiaowu, not including the house and real estate.
It should be his life savings.
According to the current classification of the government, it can be regarded as a middle-class family.
Therefore, no matter how expensive pearls are, it is still affordable to buy less.
He bought all the things he needed and started tinkering with them.
Tao Xiaowu no longer wants to use those dangerous witchcraft, but he needs to continue to rely on his identity as a wizard to survive.
Therefore, Tao Xiaowu planned to practice Taoism.
At the very least, Taoism shouldn’t have such deceptive side effects and dangers, right?
This is the biggest reason why Tao Xiaowu bought so many things even though he knew he needed to spend money!
Night, under the moon.
Tao Xiaowu silently recited the Mantra of Taking Moonlight and drew the Talisman of Taking Moonlight.
It seemed that the power of the moonlight had really been activated, and little bits of moonlight seemed to shine on the talisman paper, making the talisman paper shine brightly the moment it was painted.
Before he had time to admire, Tao Xiaowu had already melted the talisman into the wine and drank it all in one gulp.
A bone-chilling feeling came over him, as if what Tao Xiaowu drank was not a glass of wine, but a freezing cold spring, and he felt like his whole body was about to be frozen.
As a wisp of cold moonlight fell into his lower abdomen, Tao Xiaowu shuddered involuntarily, as if his whole body had fallen into an ice cave, and even his consciousness began to blur.