Gu Xu watched the battle situation intently, and saw Chu Fengge and Wu Ming's two sword intents erupting and were about to meet in the air.

A surging surge, wrapped in the momentum of resoluteness and forgetting death.

The other is poetic on the surface, but in fact it is a little stiff.

If you use a painting as a metaphor, it's like a beginner copying a master's work – at first glance it looks similar, but if you look closely, you will find that it lacks some crucial details.

And it is these details that determine whether the painting is an "ordinary excellent work" or a "classic heirloom work".

At this moment, the powerful comprehension ability given to Gu Xu by "Erudite Qiangji" and "Thin-life Genius" - or in the words of the white-haired boy on the "Nai He Bridge", the authority of "wisdom" was quietly launched.

In his field of vision, Chu Fengge's movements suddenly slowed down, as if he had pressed the pause button on the video, watching it carefully frame by frame.

He took the opportunity to quickly analyze Chu Fengge's "Xiaoying Wanyue".

Before, when he competed with Chu Fengge in the "Realm of the Dao", Gu Xu had already comprehended the "Dao" of Luo Sishou.

The "way" of the head of Luo Si to be promoted to a saint is "fate". He has always believed that even though the world is unpredictable, the fate of all living beings is ultimately under the watchful eye of the heavens, and they are all moving along a predetermined trajectory.

The Taoist martial arts he pioneered, such as "The Stars Jue", "The Sword of the Sea of Clouds and the Galaxy", "Meteors Walking the Moon", etc., all contain his understanding of fate.

"In that case, what does Chu Fengge's 'Xiaoying Waning Moon' have to do with fate?" Gu Xu asked in his heart.

In the blink of an eye, another voice in his head gave the answer: "This sword-like artistic conception is bleak and melancholy, representing bad luck and bad fate.

"'Unfinished', which means 'not crossed', means that after defeat, you are in a difficult situation, and you need to take a moment of forbearance and retreat, and wait for the right time to start again.

"Therefore, the true meaning of 'Xiaoying Wanyue' lies in retreating as advance."

Thinking of this, Gu Xu smiled and thought: With Chu Fengge's character, how could he know how to forbear and retreat? He will only move forward, not hitting the south wall and not looking back.

Because the authority of "wisdom" gave Gu Xu far more agile thinking than ordinary people, he ended this thinking in a very short time. By the time he came to a conclusion, the two sword intents had not yet had time to collide together.

"Be careful! Enemies are coming from behind! He shouted to Chu Fengge in the battle.

Hearing Gu Xu's words, Chu Fengge felt a little puzzled.

As a Fifth Realm cultivator, he couldn't even feel the aura of any new enemy behind him—Gu Xu was just a Third Realm cultivator, how could he detect an enemy that he couldn't even find?

However, despite this thought in his mind, his body still involuntarily took a step back, and at the same time turned his head to look behind him.

There are no enemies behind him.

Gu Xu is a liar.

Chu Fengge was angry in his heart and wanted to scold him fiercely.

But at the moment when he turned his head back, the killing intent in his sword qi was involuntarily restrained, becoming softer and more natural.

He suddenly found the feel of the sword.

His movements have changed from the initial awkwardness to a lot smoother.

It's as if this trick "should have been done this way".

At this moment, the sword intent of the "Sheshen Sword" was like a raging sandstorm, sweeping towards Chu Fengge; Chu Fengge's "Dawn Oriole Waning Moon" became a verdant forest, blocking this killing intent and quietly dissolving it.

"The step back seems to be the key."

Vaguely, Chu Fengge seemed to have found the answer he had been looking for for a long time.

This surprised him immensely.

"Could it be that this guy Gu Xu has already mastered the 'Yunhai Xinghe Sword'? The purpose of his lie was actually to take this opportunity to point out me? A very outrageous conjecture popped up in his head, but it was quickly dismissed by him, "No, it can't be, it must be just a coincidence."

"He has been practicing for a year at most so far, and he has never learned swordsmanship. And I started practicing this 'Yunhai Xinghe Sword' several years ago, and I can barely be regarded as an expert. How could he have the ability to point me in such a matter? ”

After the "Sacrificial Sword" was blocked, Wu Ming's true yuan was completely drained and completely lost his ability to fight.

He collapsed weakly to the ground, his face frighteningly pale, blood flowing from the corners of his mouth, and his limbs were weak and weak.

He looked at the three strange subordinates with desperate eyes.

He could feel that Chu Fengge, or "Zhang Potian", was not only pure and majestic, but also the swordsmanship he used was extremely exquisite, and he had never been able to see a high-grade martial arts a few times in his life.

The origins of these three people are absolutely extraordinary.

"I shouldn't be able to escape from them today," he thought silently, closing his eyes, "but no matter what, the secret must not be revealed." ”

Thinking of this, his heart moved, and he was ready to cut off his meridians and die by himself.

"Don't let him kill himself." At this moment, Gu Xu sensed his intentions and commanded lightly.

Shangguan Hibiscus reacted extremely quickly.

As soon as Gu Xu spoke, she cast a spell that interfered with Wu Ming's thoughts and stopped him from moving.

Wu Ming slowly opened his eyes, his heart was like ashes.

He realized that even death had become an impossible thing in front of these devilish figures.

Gu Xu squatted down, spread the map in his hand on the ground, and showed him a faint smile: "Lord Wu, can you tell me the story about this map now?" ”

Wu Ming sighed and said, "You are not 'Wen Yannian', who are you?" ”

Gu Xu replied calmly: "A person who helped him get justice." ”

…………

Subsequently, Gu Xu learned the whole story behind it from Wu Ming's mouth-

In the Great Qi Dynasty, every once in a while, the merits and achievements of officials will be evaluated, and those with merit will be promoted, and those without merit will stand still or even be demoted.

The Exorcism Division is no exception.

When Wu Ming came to Anshun Mansion to be a thousand households, he first had a heart that wanted to make contributions.

He wants to kill all the ghosts in the vicinity of Anshun Province so that the residents can live and work in peace.

However, many practical problems encountered in the process of becoming an official gradually diminished his pride and ambition.

There is a shortage of manpower, money and food, a shortage of pills and weapons, and subordinates are lazy and slippery......

Even, because he wanted to change some of the reward and punishment systems in Anshun Province, he annoyed some people, causing them to pick up small groups and try to squeeze him out.

Reality smoothed out Wu Ming's edges and corners day by day.

One day, he led the team to go out to kill ghosts in person, but unexpectedly fell into a ghost siege.

The leader of those ghosts is the "Lord of the Yoro Country". The ghosts and monsters of the whole mountain forest are under his rule.

The "Lord of Yelang Country" used the dark swamp to kill all the subordinates led by Wu Ming at that time, but only let him go.

At this time, the "Lord of the Night Lang Country" proposed a deal -

He hoped that Wu Ming would give up the protection of the residents of some villages outside Anshun Province so that they could provide a regular source of food for the ghosts. In exchange, the "Lord of Yelang Country" will take the initiative to send some disobedient ghosts to the edge of the city wall to brush Wu Ming's merits.

The "Lord of the Nation of Yelang" said that he and his people had long been accustomed to living in a quiet corner, and as long as they could eat enough, they would be content; Now, however, every time he tries to eat, an exorcist monk comes to him with a sword, causing casualties among his faithful people.

He didn't want to kill Wu Ming, and to some extent, he also wanted to avoid trouble and prevent alarming the more powerful exorcist monks.

Wu Ming hesitated for a long time.

He was afraid of death and didn't want his life to end.

But he also understands that if he agrees to the deal of the "Lord of the Yelang Country", he will lose his original intention forever.

At that time, he also raised his doubts: "Will the transaction between us be discovered by those monks in the capital who know how to use heavenly skills?" ”

"Yelang Country Lord" laughed: "Do you think that the Heavenly Machine Technique is really equivalent to omniscient and omnipotent?" ”

The desire for life eventually triumphed over the insistence on the bottom.

Wu Ming agreed to this proposal.

Since then, he has not tried to make any changes to the Anshun Exorcism Division, nor has he done his best to kill the ghosts as he had done before.

He only needs to stay quietly in the city, and there will be a steady stream of ghosts and ghosts coming to his door, which will become his merit.

His superiors praised him for his achievements and assured him that if there was a vacancy, he would be given the opportunity to be promoted.

Wu Ming has never experienced this kind of easy life like pie in the sky.

The only victims of this deal were the people who lived in the mountains and forests outside the city.

They spend every night in terror, fearing that a ghost will suddenly appear and take their parents, wives and children away.

They are holding funerals more and more frequently.

But they waited for a long time, but they couldn't wait for the plot in the elders' stories to happen in reality - "The monks of the Exorcism Division are heroes with great powers, and one day, they will come here with flying swords to save us from the sea of suffering."

At the same time, Wu Ming often had nightmares while resting at night.

He dreamed that when the matter was revealed, he was ruined and beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market. His head was hung on the city gate, and every citizen would throw a rotten egg or rotten tomato at him when he passed by, scolding: "Dog official, return my father/mother/mother/child......"

……

Not long ago, his subordinate Wen Yannian stumbled upon this secret deal.

Fortunately, Wen Yannian is a simple young man, and he firmly believes in Wu Ming's image of a model official who worries about the country and the people that he has always disguised, and feels that someone is fabricating evidence to frame Wu Ming, and he wants to help Wu Ming find out the situation.

Wu Ming was grateful to him on the surface, but what he thought in his heart was that "secrets cannot be revealed, this person must die".

As a result, he drew the wrong location on the mission map - if Wen Yannian followed the map to do the mission, he would walk in front of the "Lord of Yelang", and the "Lord of the Country of Yelang" would take his life.

The real Wen Yannian in history died because of this.

But now, the person in front of Wu Ming is not the simple and weak Wen Yannian, but Gu Xu.

He was anti-guest, and in front of everyone, he exposed Wu Ming's hidden secrets.

Wu Ming was still ruined after all.

…………

"The hearts of the people are only one inch, and the storm rises day and night."

After listening to the whole story, Gu Xu had to say that the poem on the jade talisman was indeed very compatible with this case.

The human heart is complex and unpredictable.

Sometimes, it's even more terrifying than a ghost.

"Do you regret it?" He looked into Wu Ming's eyes and asked seriously.

Wu Ming thought for a while and replied, "I do regret it a little. If I had refused to trade at that time and died at the hands of the 'Lord of Yoro', there would be no mess like today. ”

Speaking of this, Wu Ming paused for a moment, and then changed his words: "It's just, have you ever thought that I have received much more merit from cooperating with ghosts than I have been actively and seriously doing practical things—isn't this a very ironic thing?" ”

Gu Xu nodded: "There is indeed a little." ”

Hearing his affirmation, Wu Ming raised his tone and became more and more emotional: "This lord, you must understand that if I am actively killing ghosts, I can have more personnel and materials; If I want to change the status quo, there will be less resistance from the court; If every monk who aspires to slay demons and eliminate evil for the people can get a basic guarantee in terms of cultivation resources...... Maybe everything will be different! ”

Gu Xu was silent for a while, and said: "What you said does have some truth, the current Great Qi Dynasty does have a lot of shortcomings. ”

He remembered some of the information that the Kongxuansan people had sent to his mind: the Gate Valve Sect occupied more than ninety percent of the cultivation resources, and the low-level monks needed to work hard to do tasks for a small "Meditation Pill"; Ghosts and monsters are rampant in remote areas, but the magnates are still immersed in a comfortable environment, and even withhold supplies......

The "Nine Baby Snake Demon" is the product of folk resentment.

Although its strength is not the strongest among the "fierce gods", the saints can't completely destroy it together, so they can only choose to seal it under the ground of Qingzhou Mansion again.

The reason is very simple, the people's grievances will not disappear, and the nine babies will not be extinguished.

"What do you do with these ills?" Wu Ming stared at Gu Xu's eyes, and his emotions became more and more excited, "If you want to change it, you will be blocked everywhere, and in the end, you can only choose to go with the flow......"

"'If you are poor, you will be good to yourself, and if you are good, you will be good to the world'," Gu Xu thought for a moment and replied, "I am not qualified to think about such a question as 'changing the status quo' now, I can only take care of myself first and not do things that violate my conscience."

"Perhaps, when I am strong enough, these problems will be solved!"

In this paragraph, he didn't seem to be saying it to Wu Ming, but more like saying it to himself.

Wu Ming fell into deep thought.

Not far away, Shangguan Jin silently recalled the sentence "If you are poor, you will be good alone, and if you are good, you will be good to the world", and she only felt very philosophical, and there was a little more strange look in her eyes when she looked at Gu Xu.

Chu Fengge was still pondering the "Xiaoying Wanyue" - to be precise, he was struggling with Gu Xu's swordsmanship.

As for the officials of the Yamen...... He stood in the courtyard in a daze, unable to recover from this shocking information for a long time.

After a while, Gu Xu restrained the expression on his face and said to Wu Ming: "However, whether you stick to your original intention or go with the flow, these are your own choices...... It is not up to the people of the villages outside Teluk Intan to pay with their lives for your actions. ”

Saying this, he turned his head to look at Shangguan Jin, and said lightly: "Watch him for me, don't let him seek death." ”

Wu Ming is an official of the imperial court, Gu Xu does not have the power to kill him or execute him, and he needs to be handed over to the relevant institutions of the imperial court for processing-the head of the department is still staring outside, this kind of principle Gu Xu can't make mistakes.

Shangguan Jin smiled slightly, deliberately imitating the tone of his subordinates and said, "Obey, Master Gu." ”

Then, Gu Xu looked at the officials around him again and asked, "Which of you can take me to this yamen's communication array?" ”

The officials looked at each other.

After a while, a short and fat young man came out of the queue tremblingly, and saluted Gu Xu respectfully, "My lord, I can take you there." ”

At this time, the young man looked at Gu Xu's eyes, as if he was looking at a terrifying monster.

"Don't be nervous, I won't eat people." Gu Xu chuckled.

Hearing this, the short and fat young man trembled even more.

…………

A few minutes later, Gu Xu walked through the corridor and climbed up the stairs to the attic, coming to the teleportation circle.

He activated the magic circle, connected Feng Biyu, the commander of the Guizhou Provincial Exorcism Division, and reported everything that happened in Anshun Mansion, including the story told by Wu Ming, to this Lord Feng.

Regarding Wu Ming's actions, Feng Biyu showed shock and anger, but he didn't expect that there would be officials who would do such dirty things in private.

He said that he would definitely follow the legal procedures of Daqi to let Wu Ming be punished as he deserved; At the same time, he also claimed that he would take the time to deal with the "Lord of Yelang" and his ghost army, and completely sweep away this scourge in the mountains and forests of Anshun Province.

Feng Biyu's voice was flat, just like the NPC in charge of releasing tasks in the game in his previous life.

Gu Xu smiled and dealt with it in a few official words.

The follow-up has nothing to do with him.

After finishing his conversation with Feng Biyu, he felt the scene around him gradually blur, and then all the colors mixed together, spinning like a kaleidoscope, making him dizzy.

It was as if his feet were off the ground, floating in mid-air, speeding through a colorful tunnel.

He knew that the purpose of this trial was not for him to kill powerful ghosts, but for him to find out the truth and understand the complexity of the human heart.

Now that the case is closed, he's about to return to the real world.

…………

Exorcism Division Headquarters, Stargazing Observatory.

The head of the exorcist department stretched out his hand and gently tapped the bronze mirror placed in front of him.

The dynamic image on the bronze mirror disappeared in an instant.

The corners of his mouth turned up into a faint smile.

"It's time to see him."

ps: I only wanted to write 2,000 words in this chapter, but the more I wrote it, the more excited I became, and I couldn't put my mind to write 5,000 words. Sorry for not finishing until now.

PS2: I have something to deal with in the morning in the next few days, so all future updates will be put on at 8 p.m.!

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