"Do you need me to help you?" After a moment of silence, Gu Xu smiled and continued.

The Snow Maiden pursed her lips slightly, hesitated for a moment, nodded her head and sat down on a large rock.

Gu Xu squatted down, took off the two embroidered shoes that were worn backwards for her, exchanged them, and helped her put them on again.

In the process, his fingertips inevitably touched her white and delicate ankles, which felt as cold as ice and snow, but compared to ice and snow, they were flexible and elastic.

If it were Shi Xiaohan, if he was touched a few times like this, it is estimated that his cheeks would have been flushed, and he would have laughed and laughed.

But the Snow Maiden didn't move.

She just looked down at his hands quietly, and her mind was a little dazed.

She has always been unable to distinguish human faces, and it is difficult to infer beauty and ugliness from appearance.

But she had to admit that these bony hands were really beautiful.

"Alright." After a moment, Gu Xu stood up.

At this time, the snow is beginning to fall.

The fiery red sun hung in the misty sky, and the sunlight shone through the branches of the ancient trees, dappled and sprinkled on the snow, and also illuminated the cheeks of the Snow Maiden.

At first glance, she seems to be glowing.

Hearing Gu Xu's voice, the Snow Girl waved her hand lightly, and the snow on the ground instantly rose into the air, turning into a crane with wings ready to fly.

[In view of the general environment,

Then she looked at Gu Xu and motioned for him to ride onto the crane's back.

Gu Xu stood in place and did not move his steps.

"It's too conspicuous," he said, "and maybe it's better to go straight through the space."

Hearing his words, the Snow Maiden lowered her head and muttered silently.

After a few seconds, she whispered, "I don't know how to travel through space."

Can't shuttle through space?

Gu Xu glanced at her in surprise.

However, he soon remembered that although the Snow Maiden had the strength of a saint, she was not the same as a real saint powerhouse after all.

When she was a human being, she was just a young cultivator who was not very high.

Later, after her death, with the help of the "Forbidden Technique" of the Kongxuan Sanren and the powerful power of hatred, she became the terrifying god-level ghost she is today.

For the Ice and Snow Avenue, she really has a mastery of it.

However, since she had not truly cultivated to the seventh realm, she had not had the experience of "transcendent sanctification".

She didn't know much about the other "Taos."

Naturally, he doesn't have special abilities such as "tearing space" that other saint powerhouses have mastered.

"I'll do it then!" Gu Xu smiled, held the "Astrolabe" in his hand, and stretched out his other hand towards the Snow Girl, "I'll take you through space."

The Snow Maiden looked at him, hesitated for a moment, and then gently tugged at his sleeve.

This made Gu Xu sigh with emotion: It seems that even if she becomes a ghost, Miss Lu is still as restrained and reserved as before.

"I'm a little scared," said the Snow Maiden as she was about to leave, "I haven't been down the mountain in almost twenty years."

Her voice was mixed with the cold wind of Yishan. It's hard to hear what she's saying without listening closely.

"Miss Lu, the Great Qi National Master you defeated a few days ago is one of the most powerful cultivators in the entire Great Qi Dynasty," Gu Xu said with relief, "You are not even afraid of him, who else in the Great Wilderness can stop you?"

….

"That's not what I'm afraid of," Snow Maiden paused and said, "I'...... I'm afraid that when I get to the Terran city, I won't be able to control my instincts."

"Look at me." Gu Xu said.

The Snow Maiden looked at him in response, unable to understand his purpose for a moment.

"Do you smell me?"

"Hmm." Snow Maiden nodded.

"You can't even resist my temptation, why worry about those ordinary people who taste like clear soup and little water?" Gu Xu chuckled.

Hearing this, the Snow Girl pursed her lips slightly, was silent for a few seconds, and nodded, feeling that what he said made sense.

Then, as black cracks like spider webs appeared in the air, the two of them disappeared together on the snowy peaks of Yishan Mountain.

…………

A few days ago, Chen Jisheng, the governor of the Exorcism Division of Yishui County, suddenly received an order from Wei Jiusi, a thousand households in Qingzhou Prefecture, asking him to lead his subordinates in the yamen to Qingzhou City to carry out an urgent mission.

At that time, Chen Jisheng thought that this was because a powerful ghost had appeared near Qingzhou Mansion, and he needed to gather monks from various counties to deal with it.

And he went with all his officials.

However, as soon as they arrived at Qingzhou Mansion, they were detained in the yamen and were not allowed to go out.

Wei Jiusi, a thousand households in Qingzhou Mansion, came to visit them twice.

Chen Jisheng asked him why he had detained the imperial court officials for no reason.

Wei Jiusi said that this is the request of Her Royal Highness Princess Zhaoning - there is an extremely important task that urgently needs your cooperation.

"Her Royal Highness the Princess......" Chen Jisheng muttered silently in his heart.

He really couldn't understand that as an ordinary seven-rank petty official, what virtue and ability he had to be selected by Her Royal Highness the princess to do things.

If you insist on finding out what is so special about him.

That is, in his yamen, there was once a stunningly talented and shocking Gu Xu.

He originally thought that this young man would rise to the top in the officialdom of Daqi and become a pillar of the country like the head of the department and the national teacher.

Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, Gu Xu became a traitor and was wanted and arrested by Emperor Tianxing himself.

This incident made Chen Jisheng suspicious.

In his opinion, Gu Xu, who had a bright future, had no reason to commit treason at all-a genius monk like Gu Xu from a civilian background could only obtain sufficient cultivation resources to solve his problems of congenital deficiency and limited lifespan by staying in the system of the Great Qi Imperial Court.

Once he broke away from the imperial court, it was almost impossible for him to obtain enough resources to support his cultivation to the realm of a saint.

However, in the Qi people's conception, the Tianxing Emperor had the status of supremacy, comparable to that of a god—his judgment could never be wrong.

Chaotic thoughts mixed in Chen Jisheng's mind, making him worried and unthinking.

He habitually reads the official newspaper, listens to the talk of others, and learns the latest news about Gu Xu.

It stands to reason that as a courtier of Great Qi, he should be grateful to the imperial court for only punishing Gu Xu alone and not implicating others, and should pray that the traitorous thief will fall into the legal net as soon as possible.

However, when he heard that Gu Xu had fled to the north and had been sheltered by the Zhao clan in Youzhou, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"I heard that Zhao Changying, the king of Yan, is a 'true monarch, a strong man, and has been trying to break through in retreat recently," Chen Jisheng thought to himself, "With his ability, he should be able to protect Gu Xu!"

Chen Jisheng was thinking crankily while drinking tea in the yamen of Qingzhou Mansion for a few days.

Although Wei Jiusi said that Her Royal Highness the princess wanted to do something with him, he didn't even see half of the princess's figure.

Until today, Wei Jiusi came to him again and said to him:

"You can go back to Yishui."

"This is back in Yishui?" Chen Jisheng was deeply puzzled, "I haven't done anything yet."

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