However, Gu Xu never cared about the ranking in the "Dao Realm".

In his eyes, the "Dao Realm" is like a free laboratory, which will send a steady stream of guinea pigs of the same realm to help him practice and perfect various spells and martial arts.

This should be the original intention of the saints to create the "realm of the Tao" with amazing power.

After all, in the "Realm of the Dao", even if he failed 10,000 times, he could still live unharmed.

But if it is in the real world, in the life-and-death struggle with ghosts, as long as you make a mistake, you are likely to die.

And Gu Xu has also gained a lot in the last few duels, and he has become more and more proficient in spells like "Seven Styles of Burning Heaven" and "Floating Floot in the City".

Now, there are only five days left until the day of the meeting in Laizhou.

In order to win as much as possible the opportunity left by the immortals, and in order to save his life in the process of exploring the ruins of Laoshan Mountain, he must make full preparations.

In addition, he also tried to gather information about the Laoshan ruins from various sources.

Gu Xu learned from the books that the owner of the Laoshan Ruins, that is, the Kongxuansan people who had ascended to immortality, was once a strong man with a withdrawn temperament and unruly.

He used to be an outcast of one of the three major cultivation sects of Daqi, "Penglai Island", and was expelled from the sect for violating the door rules.

After that, he became an unorganized and unsectarian cultivator, who spent decades pioneering new exercises and spells, and finding his own "Tao".

During this period, the Kongxuan Sanren also had an earth-shattering life-and-death duel with the "fierce god" level evil ghost Han Qi, and finally succeeded in killing Han Qi and left in style.

According to rumors, the "Tao" mastered by the Kongxuansan people is the "way of cause and effect", which cannot be seen or touched, but can kill people invisibly.

Few can accurately describe his methods against the enemy.

But as long as the name "Empty Xuansan Man" is mentioned, people's faces will basically show a look of awe.

At the beginning of the first year of Tianxing, that is, twenty-three years ago, the Laoshan area of Laizhou Mansion in Jiaodongxing Province was robbed and ascended to the immortals.

According to the nearby monks, Laoshan was shrouded in black clouds, and the rumbling thunder could be heard thousands of miles away.

And one after another bright electric light tore through the sky, like a miserable white flame, from the depths of the vast space, from beyond the eight poles, pushing and surging, like a sword blade strike, like a mountain avalanche and the earth cracked, cutting the entire sky to pieces.

"It was a hellish scene," the monks had recounted, "and I am afraid that only a strong man like the Kongxuansan people would be able to survive the devastating thunderstorm!" ”

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Before you know it, the old year is coming to an end.

The plum blossoms in the yamen of the exorcism division have already bloomed in the wind in the frost and snow, exuding a refreshing fragrance.

The officials of the Great Qi Dynasty had three statutory holidays - the Spring Festival, the summer solstice, and the emperor's birthday, the "Wanshou Festival".

Among them, the Spring Festival holiday starts around the twentieth day of the lunar month and lasts until about the twentieth day of the first lunar month after the end of the Lantern Festival, which lasts for a whole month - of course, special agencies like the Exorcism Division need to send people to take turns on duty in the yamen to deal with emergencies.

In fact, when the Great Qi Dynasty was first established, officials did not have such long vacations.

Because Emperor Taizu, who was born poor, was an out-and-out workaholic - he often forgot to sleep and eat to deal with government affairs, not only did he not take holidays, but also did not give holidays to his officials. This has led to complaints among officials.

But his well-bred children and grandchildren are not as diligent as he is.

Every new emperor ascends the throne and basically extends his vacation by a few days.

When the current emperor ascended the throne, he was not only obsessed with cultivation and ignored the government, but also extended the Spring Festival holiday directly to one month.

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Therefore, in the past few days, the officials of the Yishui Exorcism Division and the Yamen have said goodbye to Chen Jisheng, saying that they want to go home to reunite with their families.

The first to leave was the hunchbacked old man who was guarding the storeroom.

He claimed that his hometown was in Qingzhou Mansion - and although most of his relatives had long since died, he still wanted to go back and visit their graves.

Chen Jisheng repeatedly instructed: "Recently, the yin atmosphere near Yishan has been strong, and it is said that it is because the strength of the Snow Girl has risen sharply, you old man must be careful, and if you can take a detour, you must take a detour." ”

The old man carried the cricket cage in his left hand, and in his right hand he held books such as "The Oil Seller Monopolizes the Oiran", and nodded casually with his luggage on his back.

"Master Chen, don't worry," I heard the old man say with a smile, "Although I am a little older, I can still take care of myself." ”

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The second person to leave was Cui Tianyou, who was in charge of the yamen's account books, money and food.

"Cui Tianyou, if I'm not mistaken, don't your parents live in Yishui County?" Chen Jisheng raised his head and asked with some confusion, "Why do you have to go home from vacation so early?" ”

Cui Tianyou smiled embarrassedly: "Alas, what about this...... My wife, she insisted that I accompany her back to her parents' house for the New Year. Her parents live in Rizhao County. Master Chen, do you know my wife's temperament...... I didn't dare not agree to her at all......"

Cui Tianyou's "tigress" wife has long been famous in Yishui County.

Chen Jisheng nodded, agreeing with his statement.

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The third person to leave was Ma Qin, the director of the Yishui Exorcism Division.

He also wants to go back to Qingzhou Mansion and celebrate the New Year with his relatives.

Before leaving, he specifically found Gu Xu and asked, "Master Gu, do you know that there are young girls in Yishui County who don't go home during the Chinese New Year?" ”

Gu Xu frowned and said, "What are you asking for?" ”

Ma Qin replied with a sad face: "Every Chinese New Year, my relatives are keen to ask me if I have a daughter-in-law. As soon as I answered 'no', they would laugh at me. So, I wanted to pay a girl to come home with me, pretending to be my daughter-in-law, so as to silence the group of relatives. ”

Hearing this, Gu Xu shook his head with a smile: "Brother Ma, you have to understand that your group of relatives just want to have fun during the New Year." Even if you do marry a daughter-in-law, they will find other reasons - such as too low a salary, such as not being able to afford a big house, to make fun of you and look for superiority in you. ”

"Alas, Master Gu, you can see it thoroughly." Machin sighed.

"By the way, Brother Ma, Lord Chen asked me to tell you that on the way back to Qingzhou Mansion, you must bypass Yishan and be careful of the Snow Girl."

"I understand. Thank you Chen and Gu for thinking about me. ”

After that, Ma Qin also picked up his luggage and left the Yishui Yamen in the cold wind.

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By the nineteenth day of the lunar month, there were very few people left in the yamen of the Yishui Exorcism Division.

The usual noisy voices have disappeared.

The courtyard was deserted.

At this time, Chen Jisheng called Gu Xu: "You are going to Nalai Prefecture tomorrow, why don't we have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in advance?" It just so happens that I have a few important things to tell you. ”