Qi Yan didn't have the heart to enjoy the fun of the festival.

After saying goodbye to Gu Xu, he boarded an unmarked carriage and walked along the Luo River.

The lights are getting dimmer and the crowd is thinning out.

The people who were celebrating the festival around were completely replaced by neatly arranged guards, and Qi Yan finally arrived at his destination-

Princess Zhaoning's Mansion.

He went straight up the stairs, over the threshold, and down the long corridor to the neat and elegant study.

He sat down in the chair behind his desk, removed the white jade table from his wrist, and put it back in the wooden box.

At this moment, his body lit up with colorful illusionary light.

After a moment, the light faded.

The personable young man in white disappeared.

In her place was a young woman with snowy skin and beautiful lips and white teeth.

It was Princess Xiao Wanjun of Zhaoning.

As a mortal who has not cultivated, she got up early to deal with government affairs, and at night she stood in the crowd for more than an hour in order to watch the ring match, and she was already exhausted.

Fortunately, there was no one else in the room, and she didn't have to care too much about her image, so she simply untied her bun, pillowed her chin with her elbows, and lazily lay on the edge of the table, yawning. The black hair was casually draped like a hanging waterfall.

And her gaze once again fell on the pile of twists and turns related to Gu Xu on the table.

"Interesting."

Thinking of what she had seen and heard tonight, she chuckled and sighed silently.

After a short rest, she lifted the brush, dipped it in red ink, and began to complete the "red batch" work on behalf of the Great Qi Emperor, who was obsessed with cultivation, as usual.

First of all, she flipped through the proposal of the head of Luo Si to promote Gu Xu to the head of the six grades of the Exorcism Division, and wrote the word "agree" on it without thinking.

Then, she took the national teacher's recommendation of Gu Xu to serve as a guest teacher at Longmen Academy - in this regard, there were many opposing voices within Longmen Academy.

The solution given by the cabinet is: bring Gu Xu and all the competitors together, and compare the skills of drawing symbols, who is stronger and who is better.

"There's a good show to watch now." This was the first thought that popped into Princess Zhaoning's heart.

She had long heard that Gu Xu's talisman technique was superb.

Gu Xu's attainments in the ring tonight really overwhelmed the proud students of Longmen Academy, which made countless people admire.

Although Longmen Academy is known as the "No. 1 School for Great Qi Cultivators", in recent years, there have been few outstanding geniuses like Gu Xu and Su Xiao.

The Taoist talismans taught in the academy are also almost the same as a few decades ago, and they have not been updated for a long time.

On the contrary, the Exorcist Division, who is fighting on the front line of killing ghosts, often has someone who improves or creates new spells.

Princess Zhaoning, as the temporary ruler of the Great Qi Dynasty, naturally knows the reason behind this very well-

On the one hand, the interior of Longmen Academy pays attention to seniority, which makes it full of old guys who eat and wait for death; On the other hand, the number of students in the academy was already scarce, and most of them were still controlled by the elites in the capital, making it difficult for talented children from poor families to enroll.

Princess Zhaoning guessed: As the honorary president of Longmen Academy, one of the reasons why the national teacher recommended Gu Xu, who was only seventeen years old, as a guest teacher, was probably to change this status quo.

"Actually, I'm not used to seeing the group of self-contained and unmotivated teachers in Longmen Academy for a long time," the princess thought to herself silently, "I'm looking forward to how wonderful the expressions on their faces will be if Gu Xu shows his skills in front of them and crushes their proud capital." ”

Thinking of this, she also wrote "agree" on the ticket proposal.

In the end, Princess Zhaoning's eyes fell on the fold that proposed to give Gu Xu a knighthood.

This is a relatively tricky question.

Because of the existence of the Great Qi Dynasty that "all lords are not allowed to be awarded for their military merits", under normal circumstances, merit is assessed according to the number of ghosts killed.

Although Gu Xu saved tens of thousands of people in Qingzhou Mansion, the Empty Xuansan and the Nine Infant Snake Demon were solved by the saints - there was no precedent for her to refer to such a thing.

Princess Zhaoning pondered for a moment, thinking of Gu Xu's amazing performance tonight, she only felt that this kind of talent that she had not met in a hundred years should try her best to win him over, and she must not chill his heart because of the stingy reward.

Then she quickly wrote down her opinion with a stroke of her pen:

"The Yishui County Exorcism Division has experienced Gu Xu, has long been talented, well-read, and learned, and Zhou Baixi has devoted himself to the people. When he was in trouble, he annihilated the fierce ghosts. Wisdom can not be all day long, and sincerity can be in the sky. It can be sealed Jin Yangzi and given Danshu iron coupons. The Lord does it. ”（1）

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Headquarters of the Exorcism Division.

After Gu Xu returned to the Yamen, he relied on his feelings and understanding on the night of the Lantern Festival and the medicinal power of "Du Erdan", and effortlessly climbed the more than 100 steps of the "Homesick Ridge".

The thick fog that surrounded the mountains, and the terrifying resistance that had existed before, was no longer an obstacle to his progress today.

By the time he finished his cultivation, it was already noon.

He stretched out, walked out of the "Fragrance Pavilion", and decided to try lunch in the chef of the Exorcism headquarters.

On the way, he saw Shangguan Jin, wearing a linen shirt and long hair tied up high, practicing swords in an empty courtyard.

She did not use the true element, nor did she practice the unfathomable top-grade swordsmanship of "Yunhai Xinghe Sword", but repeatedly practiced the basic sword styles such as pointing, stabbing, splitting, and sweeping.

It's not like practicing a sword, it's more like exercising.

Although it was a cold winter day, her hair and clothes were soaked with sweat and she looked as if she had just crawled out of a pond.

"Gu Daoyou, are you planning to eat?" As soon as he saw Gu Xu, Shangguan Jin stopped what he was doing, greeted him with a smile, and said, "It just so happens that Sister Xiaohan is also in the kitchen!" ”

Gu Xu nodded, and then asked politely, "Have you eaten yet?" ”

"I'm not going to eat today."

"Why?"

"Because I ate too much last night, it's a lion's head and a thousand pieces of meat, a fish-flavored eggplant and a sugar man," Shangguan Jin laughed at himself, "You may not know, my physique is like a piglet, and I get fat very quickly......

"I really envy Sister Xiaohan, who has magical powers like the 'Gluttonous Seal', and never has to worry about gaining weight."

Gu Xu did not respond immediately.

He glanced at Shangguan Jin's slender waist and thought: I only knew that she loved beauty and was keen on dressing up, but he didn't know that she had paid so much sweat behind her.

Then he looked down at his thin self again.

Ziwei lifestyle robbed him of his lifespan, and also gave him the physique to not eat fat - of course, for men, being too thin is actually a distress.

It's just that Gu Xu is busy with cultivation and has no time to lift iron, and he doesn't know what to do in order to grow a body of muscles.

Maybe you have to eat some more snow ginseng?

Or do you have to wait until you become a saint to reshape your body?

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Exegesis:

(1) Refer to Tang Xuanzong's "Sealing Wei Zhigu Lu Xiang Pioneer System" and "Adding Liu You's Truth-seeking Sealing System", wherein:

"Hardship": hardship and sorrow;

"Don't wait for the end of the day": act immediately when you see the opportunity, and don't delay;

"Grid in the heavens": moved to the heavens;

"The master executes": the imperial decree is sent to the competent department for implementation.

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