The people gathered in the teahouse—the white-bearded old man, the hunchbacked old man, the storyteller, and the gloomy middle-aged man—were undoubtedly the doppelgangers of the empty Xuansan people.

Ever since Gu Xu destroyed the Black Altar on Yishan a few months ago and stopped the Kongxuansan people's plan to be promoted to the "Ghost King", the Kongxuansan people have always held a grudge against Gu Xu and vowed to make him pay.

It's a pity that after the disaster in Qingzhou, Gu Xu has been staying in Luojing City and rarely comes out of it.

With the character of Kong Xuansan people who have always been cautious and calculating, he would not do it to Gu Xu under the noses of the Great Qi Emperor and the saints, with the "Heavenly Dragon Great Array".

Anyway, as a ghost with an infinite lifespan, the people of Kongxuan have enough patience to find a foolproof opportunity.

And the opportunity came much sooner than expected.

Even if Kong Xuansan people boasted of being resourceful and decisive, and they knew things like gods, they never thought that a genius monk like Gu Xu, who had attracted much attention, would become a traitor and traitor in one day without warning.

But whatever the reason, this is good news for the Kongxuansan people.

At this moment, the Kongxuan Sanren was like a gloating spectator - whether it was seeing Gu Xu fleeing in embarrassment under the pursuit of the Great Qi Imperial Court, or seeing the Great Qi Imperial Court having a headache because it couldn't find Gu Xu's traces, it could make him feel happy.

Occasionally, he would hide in the shadows, using subtle causal spells to make the situation worse and more chaotic with a small nudge.

Despite the negative effects of the "puppet manipulation" and the "Zhao Ming Forbidden Technique", the various clones of the Kongxuansan people often disagree, and even the ontology may not be able to control it.

But there is one thing, they hold a unified view: Gu Xu's kid's death is approaching.

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By the time it was dark, Gu Xu had already left Jinyang City and came to the deep mountains a few miles away.

He walked through the dense woods to a hidden cave, took out more than a dozen talismans, and laid out multiple formations that confused vision, concealed aura, and shielded divination.

After ensuring safety, he carefully took off his mask and sat cross-legged, silently waiting for Zhenyuan to recover.

The night was dark and dark.

The atmosphere in the forest was as solemn and silent as a funeral. The tall and luxuriant trees, and the wild weeds growing under the trees, all stood as if they were dressed in dark mourning clothes, standing under the vast dark sky.

Even if he was resting, Gu Xu didn't dare to relax his vigilance at all.

He held the "astrolabe" tightly in his hand and quietly brewed the true element in his body.

If there is an abnormality outside, he can respond in time.

At this moment, a terrible scream came from outside the cave, breaking the deathly silence in the mountains and forests.

Gu Xu got up suddenly, turned his head, and saw several monsters with heads like apes, lips like cinnabar, eyes like mirrors, horns on the top of their heads, and cyan flesh wings on their backs, surrounded by a young man in a cloth shirt.

Some of these monsters are armed with axes, some with sticks, and they are surrounded by lightning and lightning, and they look particularly terrifying.

Under the siege of the monsters, the cloth-shirted young man was already scarred and bloody. And the breath of blood further aroused the ferocity of the ghosts, and let out a terrifying low roar.

Gu Xu knew that this kind of hideous-looking ghost, named "Reggaeton", had a strength of "Wild Ghost" level, and had the ability to guide thunder and lightning to hurt people.

And that cloth-shirted young man, who only has the cultivation of the first realm, is obviously not the opponent of the "reggaeton".

With his keen observation, Gu Xu also noticed that there was a jade pendant hanging from the waist of the young man in the cloth shirt, and the surface of it was carved with a complicated formation diagram, and the occasional light flickered—it was the magic weapon used by the officials of the Exorcism Division to record the process of the mission.

"It's really strange," Gu Xu said silently in his heart, "The 'reggae' thing is an extremely rare existence among ghosts, and it usually only haunts the southern region of the Great Qi Dynasty.

"This official of the Exorcism Division is really unlucky, and in the process of performing his mission, he actually ran into so many 'reggae'."

This is Gu Xu's extreme hesitation.

Intellectually speaking, he should stay quietly in the cave, pretend to be air, and not easily interfere in the battle situation outside.

A state apparatus as large as Daqi must have at its disposal a myriad of known and unknown means of tracking.

Once he comes into contact with the Exorcist Officer, there is a good chance that his whereabouts will be revealed.

However, sitting idly by and watching a dying person and watching him brutally killed by ghosts will undoubtedly make Gu Xu feel a little uneasy about his conscience.

Just as Gu Xu's reason and emotions were fighting in his heart, the cloth-shirted official outside the cave had obviously recognized the fact that he was going to die.

This little official's name is "Sima Chang", and he belongs to the Jinyang Exorcism Division.

The mission given to him by the Exorcism Division was originally to deal with a group of the weakest ghosts, the "Ghosts".

With a bunch of "fire characters", it can be easily solved.

According to Sima Chang's expectations, after completing this mission, he would be able to save up enough merits and exchange it for a bottle of "Meditation Pill".

Unexpectedly, after he entered the mountain, he didn't see the slightest shadow of the "ghost", but he was smelled by a group of "reggae" who came out of nowhere.

In such a situation, Sima Chang's identity instantly changed from a hunter to a prey.

As a novice official who has just entered the Exorcism Division, Sima Chang not only has a low realm, but also has few spells, and he basically relies on the talisman he received from the yamen to do ghost killing tasks on weekdays.

In the face of these powerful "reggae", he knew that he would definitely die.

Thinking of his wife who was newly married and waiting for him at home, Sima Chang couldn't help but have moist eyes and tears, and muttered in his mouth: "I'm sorry, Yu'e, it's your husband who is too incompetent to accompany you for the rest of his life......"

However, when Sima Chang closed his eyes and waited for death, the lightning controlled by the "reggae" did not fall on him as expected.

Instead, he heard the terrible screams of the reggae and felt the temperature in the forest rise sharply.

He opened his eyes in confusion.

What catches your eye is an overwhelming sea of golden-red fire.

The scorching flames, like countless dancing dragons, roared and leaped, taking the ferocious "reggae" as prey, and soon devoured them.

The "reggae" struggled in the flames, powerless to resist.

It's like a ghost in hell, tortured in a frying pan.

In the middle of the sea of fire, Sima Chang saw a figure of Mohu-

The man was long, dressed in a black robe and wearing a mask, and stood with his hands in his hands.

He is like a king in charge of the flames, punishing his disrespectful subjects.

The sudden change in the situation made Sima Chang suspect that he was dreaming for a while.

At first, he thought that maybe it was a senior in the Yamen of the Exorcism Division who had calculated the danger he would encounter in this mission and rushed to the rescue in time.

But in his impression, there were no high-level monks in the Jinyang Exorcism Division who were good at fire-attribute spells.

After a few seconds, the flame went out.

The "reggae" who used to show their teeth and claws have turned into black ashes.

The master who eliminated the "reggae" seemed to have a high wind and bright festival of "doing good deeds without leaving a name", and as soon as the flames disappeared, he turned around to leave.

"Can the seniors leave their names?" Sima Chang hurriedly shouted, "The life-saving grace of the seniors, the younger generations will never forget, and if there is a chance in the future, they will definitely sacrifice their lives to repay each other." ”

The black-robed man glanced back at him, didn't say a word, and continued to walk forward.

However, at the very moment when he turned back, a gust of wind howled by, rustling the leaves like a funeral cry.

The black mask on the face of the man in black was also blown to the ground unexpectedly.

When he saw the face behind the mask, Sima Chang was suddenly stunned.

It's not because he's too young.

It's not because he's too handsome.

It's because he's seen this face.

In the documents of the yamen, on the wanted notices posted on the walls, there were portraits of this man everywhere.

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The man in black who killed "Reggaeton" was naturally Gu Xu.

He had been hesitating in the cave for a moment.

When he heard Sima Chang crying and talking about his new wife, he couldn't help but think of the situation in which he and Shi Xiaohan were forced to separate.

He thought that if nothing had happened, he would have married that greedy stupid girl home.

Emotions suddenly overwhelmed reason.

To be precise, there was a rush of heat in his heart, driving him out of the cave.

As a person who thinks rationally and does things steadily, Gu Xu rarely experiences the feeling of "impulsiveness".

But today, he is rarely hot-headed.

Because of the "wife", empathy with the other person - this "impulse" seems to come reasonably.

He came to the "reggae", manipulated the spells, and solved them in the simplest and crudest way, effortlessly.

Then, at the moment when he was about to leave, there was a very "just timed" gale.

Because when the wind was blowing, his attention temporarily fell on Sima Chang's body, and he was "reasonable" to ignore it for a moment.

The mask fell off.

His identity was exposed in front of Sima Chang.

According to the logic of a normal fugitive, he should immediately silence this witness in case the other party reports to the police.

However, killing an innocent Terran monk was not only difficult for Gu Xu to have a bad conscience, but the Great Qi Imperial Court might also discover Sima Chang through divination or retrospective spells in the process of investigating the cause of his death.

So he picked up the mask, put it back on, and then cast his move, turned around and left.

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Sima Chang stood in place and was stunned for a long time before finally coming back to his senses.

After he recognized Gu Xu's identity, the first thing he thought of was not the other party's amazing cultivation talent, nor the other party's various legendary experiences, but the valuable bounty on the wanted warrant.

According to the description on the wanted warrant, if someone kills or captures Gu Xu alive, he can be promoted to several levels and ascend to the sky in his career.

Even if you just find a clue and report it to the yamen, you can get a huge amount of money as a reward—you can also replace it with the same amount of cultivation resources.

Sima Chang was born and died many times and was paid for performing tasks, but he was not worth one-tenth of the reward.

Not surprisingly, Sima Chang's heart was moved.

He couldn't help but wonder that if he could get these resources, his strength should be able to increase a lot, and he would be able to get access to higher-level tasks in the future, and he would have a better chance of participating in the next promotion assessment......

If he successfully passes the assessment and officially becomes an official of the imperial court, not only will he be much higher than now, but he will also have more face when he speaks, and Yu'e will definitely be happy for him.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that a better life was beckoning to him.

As long as he returns to the yamen, he truthfully reports what he has seen and heard today to his superiors......

"But he saved your life," a voice suddenly sounded in his head, "isn't it revenge for you to do this?" ”

"But......" Sima Chang took a deep breath.

At this moment, he lowered his head, just in time to catch a glimpse of the jade pendant on his waist still flickering.

Everything that happened just now was obviously recorded by Yu Pei.

"Anyway, I have to hand over this jade pendant to my superiors when I go back and report on the mission," he thought silently, "I'm just reporting work, and it's not a revenge." ”

Thinking of this, with a scar, he held on to the trunk of the tree beside him, and walked tremblingly in the direction of Jinyang City.

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Everything seems to be running quietly according to some pre-written script.

Sima Chang returned to the yamen and handed over the jade pendant to his direct superior, Wei for inspection.

When Wei Inspector saw Gu Xu in the video, he immediately reported the situation to Pu Shilong, a thousand households in Jinyang, and did not dare to delay for a moment.

There is just one thing that makes Inspector Wei feel a little puzzled-

According to the description in the official documents of the imperial court, Gu Xu is a cold-blooded, ruthless, and unscrupulous careerist, in order to achieve his own goals, he can collude with ghosts and let ghosts slaughter the people of Luojing City.

A person like this would risk his whereabouts being exposed in the process of escaping and rescue a young official he had never met!

It's unbelievable.

Pu Shilong, a thousand households in Jinyang, who heard the news, also immediately interrupted his practice, went straight to the yamen attic from the underground retreat room, and used the communication formation to report to Princess Zhaoning, who was far away in Luojing City.

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Luojing, the princess's mansion.

Princess Xiao Wanjun of Zhaoning sat on the marble table, staring at an urgent document in front of her, her brows furrowed slightly.

She had spent many sleepless nights in the aftermath of the Luojing disaster.

As a mortal with no talent for cultivation, she couldn't replace sleep with cultivation like monks.

She was undoubtedly exhausted at the moment.

She leaned forward, her right hand supporting her forehead, and the turbulent waves on her chest were also heavily pressed on the table, her posture was lazy and casual, without the usual dignified elegance.

To tell the truth, to this day, Princess Zhaoning is reluctant to believe that Gu Xu would collude with ghosts and harm Luo Jing.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

A genius monk like him, as long as he stays in the exorcist Si'an and cultivates quietly, he will have an incomparably bright future.

Why do such a risky and unpleasant thing?

It's just that now, the father named Gu Xu to cure Gu Xu's crime, and Princess Zhaoning didn't dare to question it. She knew that the ruling power in her hands came from her father. If her father is not satisfied with her performance, he may take back these powers at any time.

"Actually, I've always wanted to find an opportunity to discuss with you and compete with each other's knowledge," she stared at Gu Xu's name on the document, and said silently in her heart, "It's a pity that the competition between us can only be carried out in this way." ”

Then she got up suddenly and instructed the maid guarding the door: "Immediately use the transmission formation for me to contact Pu Shilong, the chief soldier of Hedong Province, Zhu Qiuyi, the Qianhu Que Juchang of Liaozhou Prefecture, Shangwei of Qianhu Fenzhou Prefecture, and Shen Guangyao of Qianhu Qianhu Qinzhou Prefecture.

"Even if they sleep, wake me up."