Although Gu Xu successfully completed this ghost killing task, he still had some doubts in his heart.

Because this morning, he got the hexagram of "Lei Huofeng" in his divination.

"Abundance" is the meaning of grandeur, but prosperity must decline, and there are hidden worries behind success.

What are the hidden concerns in this task?

Gu Xu quickly thought of the answer.

"Today, I wiped out a wisp of the soul of this locust tree demon, and I must have attracted the attention of its body," Gu Xu said secretly in his heart, "Its body is a real 'evil spirit' level ghost. If it wants to take revenge on me, with my current strength, it will be difficult to confront it head-on.

"I have to hurry up and improve my cultivation as soon as possible."

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About a quarter of an hour later, Gu Xu and Shi Xiaohan finished nibbling the rock sugar gourd in their hands and returned to the Yamen of the Exorcism Division.

At this time, the official guarding the gate told Gu Xu that Chen Jisheng, the governor of the Yishui Exorcism Division, had finished his work and returned here.

"Lord Chen is finally back?" Gu Xu was secretly surprised.

In the past few months, Chen Jisheng has been getting up early and working late at night in the yamen basically every day to handle official business, and rarely leaves.

As long as Gu Xu encountered difficulties in the process of cultivation, he could find Chen Jisheng in the yamen lobby at any time and ask him for advice.

Although Gu Xu is familiar with all kinds of classics and is familiar with theoretical knowledge.

But as the saying goes, "what you get on paper is shallow".

In practice, he always encountered problems that were not mentioned in the books.

And Chen Jisheng, as an experienced "person who has come over", can answer Gu Xu's questions in a timely manner.

In addition, after each mission, Chen Jisheng will lead his subordinates to conduct a "review" and point out the mistakes and omissions made by his subordinates in the process of the task.

This also made Gu Xu develop a rigorous and meticulous habit, and he was rarely caught by the ghosts' tricks.

It can be said that the current relationship between the two is not a master and an apprentice, but a master and an apprentice.

Because of this, Chen Jisheng suddenly left the yamen in the past few days, which made Gu Xu feel a little unaccustomed.

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Afterwards, Gu Xu and Shi Xiaohan walked into the lobby and came to Chen Jisheng's side.

Gu Xu took off the jade pendant on his body and put it on the desk, ready to report on the completion of the task.

However, at this moment, with his powerful divine perception ability, Gu Xu unexpectedly found that the aura on Chen Jisheng's body had become a little different from before.

If Chen Jisheng used to give him the feeling that he was dignified and serious, not angry and arrogant;

So now, if the abyss is deep and the still water is deep.

Restrained momentum, more deep.

"Lord Chen, congratulations on breaking through the Fourth Realm!" Gu Xu bowed slightly, and sincerely congratulated his boss.

Chen Jisheng glanced at him seriously and said lightly, "You have recently cultivated a spell to strengthen your divine sense?" ”

"Lord Chen really knows everything!" Gu Xu nodded and did not deny it.

"How many times have I told you not to slap your in front of me. I don't eat this set. Chen Jisheng frowned slightly, pretending to be dissatisfied, but the tone of his voice inevitably revealed pride.

At this moment, Chen Jisheng can also see that Gu Xu's current true yuan aura is much stronger than before, and he has obviously walked through the "Ghost Gate Pass" of life and death and stepped on the winding "Huangquan Road".

In less than a year, he went from a mortal to a second-realm monk-

Gu Xu's speed of breaking through the realm can only be described as "outrageous".

"How does it feel to enter the second realm?" After a moment of silence, Chen Jisheng continued to ask.

"Not bad," Gu Xu smiled slightly, "I now feel that I have an almost inexhaustible True Yuan in my body, which can be squandered at will—it will no longer be like in the first realm, after drawing a few talismans, the whole person will be hollowed out." ”

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, and then asked Chen Jisheng curiously, "Lord Chen, how does it feel to break through the fourth realm?" Is there anything I need to pay attention to? ”

Gu Xu had read in books before that the fourth realm of cultivation was called [Wangxiangtai].

There is a poem: "If you don't eat the world's food for one day, you will cross the yin and yang realm in two days, and you will arrive at Wangxiangtai in three days, and you will see your relatives crying and mourning." ”

Located on the other side of the Lethe River, Wangxiang Terrace is a high platform for ghosts to look at their relatives in the sun.

In myths and legends, after the deceased souls crossed the Nai He Bridge, despite the fierce reprimand of the ghosts, they would still insist on forcibly climbing the Wangxiang platform, and finally look at their hometown from afar, cry loudly, and then be willing to go to the underworld with a dead heart.

And for cultivators, the most important thing in the [Wangxiangtai] realm is to look back on their original intentions.

It is said that the road behind Wangxiangtai is filled with a cold mist.

As practitioners move farther and farther on the transcendent path, they will unconsciously gradually lose their mortal emotions and be assimilated by the cold and indifferent nature of this world.

At this time, they need to find their mortal heart as an anchor point to avoid losing their way on the road ahead.

"It's you, Gu Xu, you have just entered the second realm, and you are thinking about the fourth realm," Chen Jisheng smiled, "Should I say that you are so ambitious, or should I say that you are ambitious?" ”

"I just wanted to prepare early." A well-behaved smile appeared on Gu Xu's face.

"You may have read in the book before that a Fourth Realm monk can choose a natal object and keep it in his dantian - it can be a sword, it can be a sword, it can be any form of weapon," Chen Jisheng replied, "The natal object is like a part of the monk's body, and you can directly control it with your mind.

"It will continue to grow stronger as the monk's cultivation grows - a low-grade magic weapon, after a long period of tempering by the monk, may become a medium-grade or even high-grade magic weapon.

"But at the same time, once the natal object is destroyed, the monk's cultivation will also drop significantly, and it may even affect the foundation."

"Lord Chen, those sword cultivators who can fly with swords rely on natal objects?" Gu Xu asked.

He remembered Chu Fengge, who was stepping on the flying sword and resisting the wind not long ago.

On the day of the promotion assessment, Chu Fengge shouted "Sword come", and a sword flew in front of him out of thin air, carrying him for hundreds of miles in an instant-presumably only the natal sword that was warmed in the dantian could achieve this effect of forcing the full.

"That's right." Hearing Gu Xu's question, Chen Jisheng raised his right hand while answering.

In the blink of an eye, a plainly shaped long sword appeared in his hand out of thin air.

Gu Xu recognized that this sword was the saber that Chen Jisheng had hung on his waist before.

It has no ornate ornamentation, it looks a little old and dull, and some rust can be faintly glimpsed on the blade.

"Its name is 'Wushi', and it was originally the natal object of my old boss, Zheng Yu Zheng," Chen Jisheng sighed lightly and introduced, "Eight years ago, after Lord Zheng died tragically saving several children in the 'Disaster of Nine Infants', this sword was left to me. ”