And this kind of good thing?

Luo Sitou's proposal surprised Gu Xu a little.

He originally thought that the meritorious reward he received was a one-time thing.

I didn't expect it to be like an invention patent in the previous life, as long as someone else used the "fire character" to kill the ghost, he could have a fortune of varying sizes.

This reminded him of the second version of the "Taishang Arctic Town Demon Slaying Talisman" that he had handed over to the Yamen before.

As long as a colleague redeems a "ghost slaying talisman" he draws, he can receive fifteen merits - in a few months, he has earned hundreds of merits in this way, which is simply safe and easy compared to risking his life to go out on a ghost-killing mission.

But this time it's a little different from last time.

Last time, he still needed to move his pen and consume some true yuan before he could draw the talisman.

This time he didn't have to do anything.

Teach other monks spells and the like, and the head of the priest will send someone to do it.

This feeling of lying down and receiving meritorious deeds is really comfortable.

"Of course."

"Let's do it!" Luo Chuan said with a smile. Gu Xu's cheerful attitude seemed to make him feel happy.

He paused for a while, and then talked about another topic: "Gu Xiaoyou, recently, there is something in Luojing City that may need to be troubled by you. ”

"What's the matter, Lord Si's?"

"Regarding the audition for this year's 'Luoshui Conference,'" Luo Chuan said, "I hope you can take a little time to watch and comment on the battle for the monks in Luojing City at the beginning of February." ”

Although the "Luoshui Conference" is a grand gathering of monks from all over the country, it is not realistic to gather tens of thousands of monks in Luojing City to participate in the competition.

Especially at present, Luochuan has not proposed to modify the form of the competition, and the Luoshui Conference will still be held in the form of a ring competition - think about it, all the monks in the country will fight in the ring in pairs in the capital, and it will be fought until the year of the monkey.

Therefore, just as the imperial examination has county, city, township, and general examinations, the "Luoshui Conference" will hold auditions in various counties, prefectures, and provinces in advance, and only the winners can come to Luojing City to participate in the final competition.

Of course, an official of the Exorcism Division like Gu Xu, the viscount of the Great Qi Dynasty, and the leader of the Lantern Festival Ring Tournament can directly participate in the main competition, and there is no need to spend time and energy to participate in the audition.

The reason why the monks of Daqi are full of enthusiasm for the "Luoshui Conference" is not only because they are eager to be rewarded and famous at home, but also because in each round of selection, there will be local well-known powerhouses as similar "guests" to evaluate and guide the performance of the contestants.

For most ordinary monks, the "winning the championship" is too far away from them, and "focusing on participation", "long knowledge", and "accumulating lessons" are the mentality they have when participating in the competition.

And these "commentators" are usually big people they don't have the opportunity to meet at all, and they have a wealth of experience in practice.

These people are often able to point out the problems and shortcomings in the monks' use of spells or martial arts moves, and if they are in a good mood, they will even give generous advice on their practice.

As the saying goes, it is better for a famous teacher to give advice in a few words than to lock yourself in a room and practice hard for two or three years.

In the previous "Luoshui Conference", there was more than one case of breakthrough in cultivation or refinement of spells after receiving the guidance of powerful cultivators.

This has undoubtedly made more practitioners flock to it.

Anyway, you don't need money to participate.

As long as you go to the ring to fight with others, whether you win or lose, there is a chance to break through the bottleneck.

Why don't the monks of Daqi do it?

After hearing this proposal from Luo Sishou, Gu Xu was a little hesitant at first, because he had to do a lot of messy things in the recent period - such as the handover and rectification of the courtyard, such as taking over the pill workshop that Xiao Han gave him when he took over, such as the content of the lecture for the students of Longmen Academy, such as continuing to ponder the second form of the "Burning Sky Seven Style" and the "Star Array" spell......

In addition, after Luo Chuan had just mentioned the information related to the Daguguan Grottoes, Gu Xu also secretly planned to speed up his cultivation and strive to climb the "Broken Soul Cliff" before the "Luoshui Conference" began, so as to increase his chances of winning the championship.

Luo Si Shou once asked Qu Jinglong to tell him that the monk who won the first place in the "Luoshui Conference" would be eligible to enter the royal treasury and choose a magic weapon.

According to Gu Xu's current entry speed, it shouldn't take too long to become a monk of the fourth realm.

It is necessary for him to prepare a natal magic weapon for himself in advance.

Although he has such a powerful weapon as the "Amazing Pen" in his hand.

However, although the "famous weapon" is good, it has been used by others after all, and there are many traces of the previous owner on it, which is not suitable for use as a natal object.

As a genius monk who aspires to become a saint, his natal object will become an important cornerstone of his enlightenment, and it must be his own thing through and through—even if it is from a low-grade magic weapon and slowly cultivated, it is better than a "famous weapon" that retains the charm of his predecessors.

Taking advantage of the appetite is the most important thing.

Therefore, he has high expectations for the reward of this "Luoshui Conference".

He has been very limited lately...... To give review guidance to others, should the priority of this kind of thing be put back a little......

"Gu Xiaoyou, if you are willing to spend an hour sitting on the edge of Luoshui and chatting with other monks, in addition to the corresponding merits, you can also get a 'stand-in bracelet' as a reward."

"That's fine." Gu Xu agreed without thinking.

The "stand-in bracelet", although it is a one-time magic weapon, can save his life at a critical time. When he met the empty Xuansan people on Yishan Mountain before, if there was no "stand-in bracelet" to help him expel the negative effects in his body, then he would have become a ghost like the "Snow Girl" and "Drought Fish", who would lose his reason if he didn't eat his soul under the effect of "Zhao Ming Forbidden Technique".

He suddenly felt that his recent fortunes had changed drastically.

In the past, when I was in Yishui County, I couldn't save meritorious deeds, and I couldn't save money, and the elixir for cultivation needed to rely on Shi Xiaohan's help, and the "stand-in bracelet" was also obtained after going to the Lu family's murderous house.

But now after arriving in Luojing City, he earned a bounty in the Lantern Festival Ring Competition, received a workshop on his birthday, received a generous salary in Longmen Academy, and now he has been rewarded with meritorious services and magic weapons......

Could it be the recent horoscope...... No, the fortune of the main star of the natal house has been reversed?

Either way, it's a good sign. Gu Xu silently sighed in his heart.

…………

Chu Fengge locked himself in the house and practiced all day.

Half of the time is spent continuing along the path of the netherworld of consciousness, and the other half is spent concentrating on practicing the "Cloud Sea and Galaxy Sword".

Even when the midday bell rang, he did not leave the room and went to the Yamen Kitchen for lunch.

Anyway, he was a Fifth Realm cultivator, and eating was no longer his daily necessity—even if he didn't touch a grain of rice for several days in a row, he could still be alive.

He knew that almost all the officials of the Demon Exorcism Division Yamen were nervously paying attention to the runic battle in the Longmen Academy today.

Almost all of the people who participated in the competition had master-level rune dao attainments.

Its intensity is no less than Chu Fengge and Sword Pavilion Su Xiao fighting with a sword in front of the gate of Zichen Palace for three hundred rounds, striving to be the "first person in the way of the sword" under the saints of the Great Qi Dynasty - of course, this is just Chu Fengge's own imagination, after all, in the eyes of others, he is actually a reckless man who fights purely by "weeds" and knows nothing about the way of the sword.

If Chu Fengge walked out of his room today and went to the corridor, courtyard, and crowded kitchen of the yamen, he would definitely hear the name "Gu Xu" every few seconds.

He felt that his mentality would be unbearable.

However, after nightfall, he still couldn't suppress his curiosity. He still walked out of the room, found Shangguan Hibiscus, and asked her about the results of today's talisman battle.

"Guess what?" Shangguan Jin didn't answer directly, but smiled mysteriously and asked rhetorically.

So Chu Fengge immediately understood.

"It's Gu Xu again, right?" He pretended to be calm.

It was only in his mind that a familiar, battered feeling arose, which upset him.

"Master Chu, it seems that you are not incorrigibly stupid after all." Shangguan Jian deliberately said in a sharp tone, arguing with him as usual.

"Hehe, who is incorrigibly stupid?" Chu Fengge clasped his hands in front of his chest, raised his chin, and habitually retorted, "Someone secretly flipped through the "Seven Styles of Burning Heaven" in private, pondered for a whole day, but couldn't understand half a word, and she didn't want to admit it even if she died...... I won't name who this person is. ”

"Isn't someone the same?" Shangguan Jin glanced at him obliquely, "Not only can't I understand the Seven Styles of Burning Heaven, but I can't even understand the true meaning of the Great Dao of the Sword of the Sea of Clouds and Stars...... That day, when I was in the 'Old Teapot', if it wasn't for Gu Xu giving a key hint, someone might not even be able to beat the Qianhu official surnamed Wu. ”

"I'm at least better than a coward like you who doesn't dare to do it head-on!" Chu Fengge was furious in his heart, and no longer played a game of yin and yang with her, and directly began to be tough, "I also know that when you went to the Laoshan Ruins, you didn't find anything, and you didn't even touch the shadow of the inheritance...... At that time, Gu Xu's kid was just a second-realm cultivator, and you couldn't even compare to him! ”

"Gu Xu is an unprecedented genius personally certified by the head of the division, it's normal that I can't compare to him," Shangguan Jin said in a flat tone, "It's you, Chu Fengge, a dignified Fifth Realm cultivator, and Lang Zhong, the item of the Exorcism Division, who doesn't even have the courage to admit that you are inferior to others." And I also heard that when you went to the Lu family's murderous mansion, you were so frightened that you collapsed and peed your pants, and in the end, you completely relied on Gu Xu to solve the ghosts in it...... Oh, tell me, who is the coward? ”

"You talk nonsense! You're the one who pees your pants! I was just drained by Gu Xu's bastard with the 'Ask God Spell'! ”

“……”

The two of them talk to me, just like when they got along before, exposing each other's ugly things and arguing non-stop.

But at the same time, Chu Fengge also gradually learned from Shangguan Jin's mouth about Gu Xu's performance in the Longmen Academy today, and learned about the national teacher's praise for Gu Xu, and the appreciation and admiration of other Fu masters for Gu Xu - because Shangguan Jin likes to compare him with Gu Xu together, so that it is convenient to "step on one and hold one".

Although Chu Fengge had been trying hard to keep his face calm, he still clenched his fists involuntarily, and his back was straight.

"I'm going to cultivate," he said coldly for about half an hour, "and I'm not going to waste time discussing these boring questions with you." ”

"Lord Chu, I wish you to go to the next level as soon as possible!" Shangguan Hibiscus had an impeccable and elegant smile on his face.

Hearing this, Chu Fengge immediately turned around and left.

But for some reason, he didn't return to the room where he had just cultivated, but was driven by an inexplicable instinct to come to the library of the Exorcism Division.

There were far fewer people reading in the library tonight than usual. After making a lot of money, many people go to the downtown area of Luojing to drink wine and eat meat.

But there are also some people who are too diligent and still seize all the free time they have to replenish their knowledge - because they know that if they also choose to study or cultivate when others are resting, then the next time they are promoted to the yamen, the probability of their own promotion may be greater than that of others.

Chu Fengge walked down the narrow aisle to a bookshelf against the wall, and took down a thick book from its top, with the cover written "Detailed Explanation of Fu Dao: From Beginner to Mastery".

This is the fifteenth time he has taken down the book.

He had never read the book from cover to cover before that—to be exact, he had never read the first five pages of the book.

Every time he gave up halfway, he would curse in his heart, thinking that the talismans were a bunch of incomprehensible madmen who would invent such an uncomfortable and ugly symbol.

In comparison, how handsome, how chic, and how neat a sword cultivator like him is—why should a ghost who can be hacked to death with just a swing of a sword, so why should his mother-in-law draw talismans for half a day?

With this in mind, every time Chu Fengge read a rune book, he would practice his sword more diligently—to him, compared to the mental power consumed by studying runes, the little sweat that flowed from practicing the sword was nothing at all.

However, today, when he learned that Gu Xu had created a "fire character" that could affect the entire Great Qi cultivation world, Chu Fengge was once again moved by the Fu Seal Technique.

Because he understands that the "fire character" is beneficial in the present and in the future, and can benefit thousands of people.

Gu Xu is enough to go down in history with it.

But swordsmanship can't do that.

Chu Fengge was by no means reconciled, and in the future, the record of himself in the history books was just a simple sentence of "a well-known sword cultivator in the Tianxing period" or "a colleague of Fu Dao Sect Master Gu Xu".

He also wants to make contributions to the bamboo silk and the eternal future.

So, he sat down at the desk by the window with the "Detailed Explanation of the Fu Dao" in his arms, forcing himself to calm down and read carefully.

Five minutes later.

He frowned.

A quarter of an hour later.

He began to scratch his ears and cheeks.

Half an hour later.

He began to get up from his seat, baring his teeth.

An hour later.

He slammed the book, which barely reached page eight, on the floor, and scolded, "Go to the special rune! Look at it again, Lao Tzu is a dog! ”

Hearing this voice, all the monks in the library pavilion who were reading with their heads bowed raised their heads and looked at him with puzzled expressions, as if they were curious about how this Lord Chu had been stimulated.

Chu Fengge snorted coldly and strode out of the library pavilion.

…………

Today is a good day for auspicious fortune.

In order to celebrate, Gu Xu came to Luoshui with Shi Xiaohan in the evening as agreed, and ate roast mutton in a small street shop overcrowded with a family.

ps: Ask for a wave of monthly passes at the beginning of the month! In addition, there is an activity in the book circle to vote for a monthly ticket to receive the starting coin, and everyone is welcome to actively participate!

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