The village chief, seeing my lack of reaction, said coldly, "Don't tell me you entered Da Mengxiang (Great Dreamland) out of curiosity."

"People who are curious can't survive here. Only those with a purpose can leave Da Mengxiang alive."

"If you don't believe me, you can turn your head and look. Those with too much curiosity are all displayed in that small shop."

The first house at the entrance of the village was a small shop, the one the village chief was telling me to look at.

When I turned my head, the shelves in the shop seemed to be turned around by someone pushing them.

Heads and limbs, like disassembled plastic models, were neatly arranged on the shelves, with prices clearly marked below.

The village chief's voice turned cold: "Now, can you tell me your purpose?"

Ye Yang and I exchanged glances, signaling each other not to act rashly. I spoke, "I'm here to find Wang Qing Lao Zu (Forget Love Ancestor)."

"Wang Qing Lao Zu?" The village chief hesitated. "Which Wang Qing Lao Zu are you looking for?"

I was stunned. "Isn't there only one Wang Qing?"

The village chief seemed to be talking to himself. "So, you don't know Wang Qing's true face!"

"In that case, I shouldn't say too much."

"Wang Qing does live in the village."

"However, finding him won't be easy."

The village chief raised his finger slightly and pointed forward. "Do you see the money on the counter?"

"That's called Tong Shen Qian (Spirit Connecting Money). You can use that money to do anything in the village."

"You need to have enough money to see Lao Wang Qing (Old Forget Love)."

"As for how to make money..."

Before the village chief could finish, I interrupted him. "Why do I have to earn this money? Wouldn't it be better to just go into the village and look for him?"

"A newborn calf is not afraid of tigers!" The village chief laughed. "In the past, there were people who thought their cultivation was good enough and came to find Wang Qing like this. However, their ending wasn't very good!"

The village chief raised his hand. "I won't stop you. Go into the village and look for Wang Qing! When you can't find him, come back to me."

Nie Xiao Chun gestured to me, asking if we should capture the village chief and force him to reveal the secrets of Da Mengxiang.

I shook my head slightly and transmitted my voice to her. "This village chief is likely just a gatekeeper. Capturing him won't do much good. I'll see what the situation is like in the village first."

As I stepped into the village entrance, the village chief chuckled coldly behind me. "There are quite a few people who aren't afraid of death."

As soon as I entered the village, I realized that apart from the fact that no one was cooking, there was no difference between the village and the outside world. Some people were even watching TV, surfing the internet, and scrolling through their phones.

After wandering around for a while, I finally found a person squatting by the roadside with a broken bowl in a street corner.

I squatted down and said, "Hey, brother, can I ask you something?"

The man looked up at my face. "Give money!"

I took out a large bill and threw it into his bowl. The man smiled. "Look at the garbage pile over there. There are too many of these things you threw away. This thing is useless."

"In this place, the only useful thing is Tong Shen Qian."

I said with a half-smile, "What if I don't have Tong Shen Qian?"

"Pay with your body!" The man grinned sinisterly and opened his clothes. I then saw that apart from his head and limbs, he had no torso at all. Inside his clothes, there were just a few casually tied branches supporting his hands, feet, and head.

The man looked into my eyes and said, "In this place, you can live even if you lose anything on your body."

"I sold my heart first, then my lungs... I can't sell my hands and feet, or it won't be convenient to live."

"If you don't believe me, look, there's someone over there who has sold everything."

As he spoke, the man shouted towards the garbage pile, "Da Tou (Big Head), come out and show yourself."

"Show what? You won't give me money even if you look." A dirty head rolled out from under the garbage pile.

The beggar scolded with a smile, "I'm pitying you, giving you business, treating a good heart like a donkey's liver and lungs."

Except for one eye, the other person's nose, ears, and lips had all been cut off. The person blinked a solitary eye: "See it?"

"I see it, give money!"

"Give me one... no, give me three Tong Shen Qian."

I coldly looked at that head and said, "I didn't say I wanted to see you. You came out to show me yourself, and I still have to give you money? Are you drunk?"

The head rolled to my feet. "If you don't give me money, I'll follow you. Whatever you want to do, I'll tell everyone."

"Get lost!" I kicked the head away.

The head flew five or six meters away like a ball, slammed into the wall with a "pa" sound, and bounced back. Then, it rolled to my feet as quickly as possible. "You kick me to death, you have the ability to kick me to death!"

"I don't believe it today, you dare to kick me to death!"

I kicked it again. This time, I kicked it high into the air. The head drew an arc in the air and landed in a yard.

Not long after, it flew out again and rolled back to my feet once more.