Who let him join the Sword Sect?!

Then, like a rolling river of gold flowing east, it swept through the surroundings.

Whether it was due to the artistic treatment of history and diaries in language, or if the Jade Book Tower made a minor adaptation through its own understanding, was unclear.

In any case, the situation was somewhat different. Nowadays, the matter of the Ancestral Master rebelling was not entirely unknown; it was widely renowned.

Tang's original plan to infiltrate the City Lord's Mansion through deceit, using his identity to act as a double agent and secretly clash with the young Ancestral Master, naturally crumbled halfway through.

But Tang was still Tang, having wandered for years, experienced and knowledgeable.

Understanding the crux of the matter, Tang was not flustered and still hummed lightly like a fraudulent priest.

"This humble Daoist is here to save you, quickly..."

However, the biggest deceit fears encountering a reckless fool.

Brother Dao didn't care about any of this or that, didn't listen to a single word. He directly took a peach wood board with a black talisman from his waist and inserted it into Tang's hand, which was tied behind his back.

The peach wood board flashed briefly, and Tang's mouth was sealed, his cultivation was blocked, and then he was taken away...

In short, the one who should have been the most c was the first to lose his head.

And the matter wasn't over; Brother Dao also found Li and Wang, though he couldn't recall if these two old men arrived with this Daoist, but they were certainly not locals.

Whether it's one or three, they're all to be captured.

Villagers, lend me your heads.

Thinking this in his mind, his glance towards this side naturally grew more malicious.

Seeing them approach, Li wanted to ask Wang Buyu what they should do.

Whether to rescue Taoist Tang or to retreat temporarily, but turning around, he found that fat old man was already gone...

"Seriously, when did he run?"

No matter how the nimble fat man disappeared, those wolf-like government officials had already arrived.

"Forget it, Taoist Tang will be fine."

Those government officials were strong but not yet entered into cultivation, so Li deliberately pretended to be a panicked old Ascender, maintaining a safe distance from them.

He used his finger to control Qi, letting a wisp of Sword Qi attach to his fingertip, making it emit a faint golden hue, which from a distance looked like he was holding a gold ingot.

Although initially puzzled as to why the old fellow was running so fast, upon seeing the gold color, the officials couldn't tear their eyes away, stopped thinking about it, and pursued relentlessly.

In this chase, it wasn't long before they reached a nearby barren forest.

The water in the forest hadn't receded, and some unclean things could be vaguely seen in the dark green foul water. Li, having adapted to this weak body, found that the First-Layer of Qi Refining was sufficient; a few leaps later, he used the dense and dirty terrain of the forest to shake off his pursuers.

And after those officials scattered, he picked one wearing a talisman on its waistband and dragged him onto a tree...

This first wild adventure in the Jade Book Illusion Realm was quite successful.

Obtained a long sword and a black peach wood that could seal one's speech and cultivation.

However...

Li reached into his pocket, only to find he seemed to have lost something.

The twenty Copper Coins were gone.

"That fat Wang Buyu..." Li was speechless.

Being Wang Buyu's good brother, current colleague, and former classmate, Li deeply understood that fat man's nature.

Unexpectedly, even as an Elder, the fat man hadn't forgotten his trick of picking pockets. Back when they were still disciples, he often 'borrowed' money from Li like this.

Still doing it now?

However, Li didn't think much more about it. He gathered his things and headed east of the forest. For tiger hunting, these things were enough.

...

As for where Mr. Wang was now... of course, he was in the city.

At this moment, Wang Buyu, Mr. Wang, had already turned those forty Copper Coins into five taels of silver through some unsavory tricks.

For example, staging accidents with gangsters, cheating in casinos, and such...

Back in the day, while roaming the Jianghu, Wang Buyu never spent a penny of the sect's money, and now it's the same.

After accumulating enough money, Old Wang pretended to have a stomachache at the gambling table, placed a casual bet, won, and headed straight for the backyard restroom.

When a few ill-intentioned men followed him to the backyard, intent on robbing the old and aiding the poor, Old Wang had already nimbly climbed over the wall, and after scaling a few rooftops, took some clothes from the backyard of several homes, leaving behind some silver coins.

Although the Jade Book Illusion Realm was fake, what should be given still needed to be given.

By the time Old Wang returned to the street, he had changed his appearance, transforming from a fat beggar from another place into Grandpa Wang from the next street.

Once he cleaned up his identity, Old Wang didn't head to the City Lord's Mansion or continue earning money; he asked for directions again, then zigzagged his way to the bookstore in the west of the city.

He had already inquired thoroughly upon entering the city; going to the city west bookstore required four taels of silver.

Feeling a bit sorry for Li, Old Wang never intended to complete those tasks from the start; he was here to read books.

As a history and miscellaneous studies enthusiast, he was very interested in this era known as the Ten Kingdoms Chaos before Dongqi.

The history of Dongqi was preserved across various sects, with inheritances still surviving, and even in the worst case, they could dig up some things from tombs.

But the affairs of the Ten Kingdoms Chaos, only the oldest Celestial Sect retained some records, though Old Wang didn't trust the Celestial Sect much.

After all, the Celestial Sect had a history of exaggerating things.

Now, since the Jade Book Illusion Realm was so realistic, it would surely include some books from that era.

Moreover, storage of books was one of the functions of the Jade Book Tower.

Even if the versions were also embellished by Dongqi, they could still be compared to the Celestial Sect's version.