"Emperor, Su'an Mansion has announced its surrender to you, and the entire province of Western Xinjiang has come under your rule."

"Emperor, Zhao Changying and Xu Man have captured the new Hedong commander-in-chief Miao Zhida, and the Hedong Province has announced its surrender to you, saying that Great Xia is the only orthodoxy in the Great Wilderness today."

"Emperor, the defenders of the Two Lakes Province are vulnerable to our soldiers, our army has occupied Yunyang Mansion in the north and is marching south."

"Emperor, the Baoning Mansion and Xiezhou Mansion of Xishu Province have been conquered, and their local governors have been sent to Daxing City to wait for the emperor's fall."

“……”

Gu Xu sat in front of the table, looking at the frequent good news in front of him, and his expression was not shocked.

A few days ago, Gu Xu, as the lord of Great Xia, moved from Liangzhou City to Daxing City with his core team.

Although Liangzhou was his starting place, the location was too remote after all, and as his territory gradually expanded, it became more and more unsuitable as his administrative center.

Daxing City is located in the Central Plains region, the terrain is dangerous, the climate is pleasant, the population is dense, you can drive east for a long time, sweep the world, retreat to be able to defend yourself according to the danger, raise troops and wait for time.

In the past, the Great Chu Dynasty first took Daxing as the national capital, and later moved to Luojing.

The distance between Daxing and Luojing is only more than 600 miles.

For cultivators who are able to fly with edgeworth, they can travel back and forth between the two places in one day.

Therefore, some officials of the Great Qi Dynasty, after Gu Xu made such a decision, were already so nervous that they couldn't sleep - after all, it meant that the place they were in was no longer a safe and secure rear.

At this moment, the person sitting next to Gu Xu is neither his right-hand man Luo Chuan, nor his filial disciple Sun Wangjian, who listens to the teachings of his ancestors.

Rather, Master Jueming, who was invited from Lin San Temple a few days ago.

That day, when the old monk with reluctance written on his face was brought to Gu Xu by Luo Chuan and Zhao Changying with one arm around him, Gu Xu was in a particularly happy mood.

He couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "The saints of the world are all in my place." ”

Luo Chuan immediately echoed on the side: "This is because the emperor Shi Renbude, who is talented and decisive, has eliminated maladministration and made the hearts of the people in the world obedient. ”

Zhao Changying didn't speak, but secretly sighed that her vision for choosing a son-in-law was really good. If he hadn't pushed beside him, Zhao Yan's stupid girl would probably still be ignorant and unaware of feelings, and it would be impossible to take the lead in snatching Gu Xu away.

Only Master Jueming scolded in his heart: "You two true monarchs and strong men, join forces to bully Lao Qu and a saint, one person points a spear at Lao Qu's chest, the other is ready to use a bronze mirror to smash Lao Qu's head, and you also use the Dao Realm to block Lao Qu's true yuan."

"Is this also embarrassing to call yourself benevolent? Obviously, he doesn't even talk about martial arts! ”

Today's Master Jueming is also unhappy with his face written on his face.

In the past, in Lingshan Temple, he was the only abbot who recited scriptures to others.

Unexpectedly, today, it was Gu Xu chanting in his ear - to be precise, it was to show off his martial arts.

"Master Jueming, if I'm not mistaken, in your Buddhism, you can accumulate merit by helping living beings, being compassionate and doing good deeds, right? I recently slaughtered a few Daqi officials who secretly colluded with ghosts, and saved a group of people from the mouths of ghosts. ”

"By the way, I went to Shangshen Mountain yesterday, and the day before yesterday I went to Beiyue Mountain, and defeated two fierce god-level ghosts, one is called 'Danghu' and the other is called 'Zhuhuai'. That's a merit, right? ”

"Master Jueming, your Jizo Patriarch once said, 'Hell is not empty, and you will not become a Buddha.'" This should be regarded as the ancestral teachings of your Lingshan Temple. And now, I am about to capture Luojing and sweep the Great Wilderness, and the next step is to break the prison and attack the upper realm.

"If I really conquer the upper realm with the Great Wilderness people, can I be regarded as practicing the ancestral teachings of your Lingshan Temple?

“……”

Of course, Master Jueming could hear that Gu Xu's words seemed to be careless, but in fact, they were satirizing his behavior of passively avoiding the world some time ago, and even helping Emperor Tianxing deal with the rebels.

He sighed helplessly and said, "Emperor, you are the lord of the Great Wilderness and the future king of the Great Wilderness, why do you have to compete with our group of monks in the deep mountains? ”

Gu Xu chuckled and said, "You insiders, in terms of accumulating merits and doing good deeds, you can't compare to me as a layman, shouldn't you reflect on yourself?" ”

Master Jueming knew that he couldn't defend Gu Xu, so he could only stand up, bow to Gu Xu with his hands folded and salute: "Lao Wei was stupid and ignorant in the past, and he had no eyes, and he had done too many things to steal his life and offend the emperor. ”

"Sit down, master," Gu Xu waved his hand at Master Jueming, "If I am really a person who must compete with each other, I am afraid that the first time I am promoted to a saint, I will go straight to Lingshan Temple to avenge you for smashing my head with a Zen staff." ”

"Emperor Xie!" Master Jueming saluted again and sat back in his seat.

Gu Xu was silent for a moment, and then continued in the tone of an old friend: "Master Jueming, how is the little brother Jingru doing lately?" Did you successfully break through the fifth realm? ”

Master Jueming shook his head: "Not yet, he is still in retreat in the temple. ”

"In my opinion, maybe your Lingshan Temple's way of escaping away from the worldly red dust is not suitable for him," Gu Xu said, "After he gets out of the customs, if he still fails to be promoted, it is better to let him come to Daxing and do something with me." ”

"The old man is like thanking the emperor for his advice."

Since he began to rebel in the name of Emperor Ziwei, Gu Xu has been keen to collect talents all over the world - those who work for the Great Qi court, those who have just emerged in the cultivation sect, and those who are not appreciated in the countryside...... Gu Xu tried his best to recruit them under his command.

After gathering the "Five Sages" of the Great Wilderness, Gu Xu's goal was aimed at the backbone of the younger generation.

Like the little monk Jingru who had impressed him at the Lantern Festival Ring Competition, he naturally would not let it go easily.

……

Chen Yanping and his sister Chen Suhui rode in a carriage on the ancient bluestone streets of Daxing City.

Now early autumn has arrived.

In the cool breeze, the leaves on both sides of the road have been dyed golden yellow, and against the clear blue sky, they look vivid and dazzling.

Perhaps because Daxing City has just changed hands, its streets do not have the crowds and traffic that they used to have.

The doors and windows of the roadside shops are closed, and the pedestrians on the road are hurrying.

The inhabitants of the city seemed to be nervously following the development.

At this moment, Chen Yanping found that his mood was unbelievably calm. Since the moment he stepped out of the threshold of the Chen family's mansion in Xiangyang, he seemed to have really completely drawn a line with the past.

Fathers, brothers, sisters, people...... These memories have been sealed in his heart, just like the puppy Hei, as if they have become the experience of his previous life.

At this time, he was just an ordinary Fifth Realm monk, a young talent who admired the name of Emperor Ziwei's benevolence.

And Chen Suhua, who was sitting next to him, seemed to be even more calm than him.

Since her father Chen Shandao pronounced her fate, her face has not shown the slightest sadness or joy, but accepted it calmly.

Chen Yanping once asked her: "Do you have any resentment in your heart about this?" ”

Chen Suhui responded in a non-turbulent tone: "As the daughter of the Chen family, I have enjoyed generous treatment in the clan since I was a child, with delicacies from the mountains and seas as meals, silk and satin as clothes, servants and maids to wait, and I never need to work hard for the elixir for cultivation.

"Compared with the vast majority of people in the world, I was born in the Chen family, which is a great blessing. Now that the family is in trouble, I should naturally stand up, how can I be resentful? ”

Hearing her words, Chen Yanping didn't know how to respond for a while.

He knew that his sister had always been very intelligent, and she was also extremely talented in cultivation - now she was only twenty-eight years old, but she had already cultivated at the peak of the third realm, and she only needed to find a suitable natal object to set foot on the "Wangxiang Platform" and advance to the fourth realm.

However, perhaps it is precisely because of his intelligence that Chen Suhua has always shown indifference and sobriety beyond his age, as if he is outside the red dust, and he is indifferent to the love and hate disputes in the world.

When her peers were still crying for their children, she understood her fate early: either marry into another family to win allies for her father, or recruit a son-in-law to gather friends for her father.

"What are you looking at?" Chen Yanping noticed that the book that his sister was reading at this time was not the "Sage Training" that she often held in her hand.

Hearing his brother's words, Chen Suhui lifted the book and showed the cover in front of him.

I saw four big words written on it-

"Fu Dao New Edition".

The name of this book is not unfamiliar to Chen Yanping.

After Gu Xu won the first place in the battle of runes in Longmen Academy, Luo Jing had a rune master to compile Gu Xu's rune thoughts and some representative rune seals into a book for the world to read and learn.

Of course, after Gu Xu became a traitor and was wanted by the whole world, this book has become a banned book in the territory of the Great Qi Dynasty.

But perhaps it was precisely because of the ban of the Great Qi Imperial Court that the talismans of the Great Wilderness privately regarded this book as a divine book of the way of the Fu Seal.

The more you can't get it, the more exaggerated it will be.

Even many people believe that as long as they read this book, the art of the rune seal will improve rapidly, and they will be able to reach the master realm in just a few years.

So recently, there has been a magical phenomenon in the Great Wilderness: in order to buy this "New Edition of Fu Dao", the talisman masters of Daqi kept quietly crossing the border and came to the territory of Great Xia. With the expansion of the territory of Great Xia, such behavior became more and more common.

And the booksellers in Great Xia also took the opportunity to print this book in large quantities and made a lot of money.

Some businessmen even changed the title of the book to "Ziwei Emperor Fu Dao True Scripture", taking advantage of Gu Xu's recent prestige, fooling the people who bought the book into a daze.

"But you don't learn the art of talismans, what's the use of reading this book?" Chen Yanping asked with some puzzlement.

"In order to study Gu Xu." Chen Suhui replied lightly.

"Research Gu Xu?" Chen Yanping's brows furrowed even tighter.

"Since my father asked me to come here to please him, then I must first understand what kind of person he is, what he likes and what he hates, what habits, temperament and ambitions he has," Chen Suhua's eyes were calm, as if he was analyzing the problems encountered in his practice, rather than discussing a person with whom he might have an intimate relationship in the future. ”

"Do you have a catch now?"

"I think he is a person who really thinks about the people of the world," Chen Suhua's tone revealed a faint admiration, "When other talisman masters create a new method of talisman painting, they generally think about hiding their own personal interests in order to seek greater benefits."

But Gu Xu was trying his best to lower the threshold for drawing talismans, so that the talisman seal became popular, so that every monk could use it as a weapon against ghosts.

"For example, since the advent of the 'Fire Character', at least more than 100 First and Second Realm monks have successfully saved their lives after encountering difficult ghosts.

"Based on this alone, Gu Xu is a great person with immeasurable merits."

Chen Yanping obviously didn't expect that his sister would give Gu Xu such a high evaluation with just a Fu Seal Book when she hadn't met yet.

"So apart from Fu Seal, have you studied other aspects of Gu Xu?" Chen Yanping asked with some curiosity, "For example, what kind of woman does he prefer?"

"—he likes rich women." Chen Suhua replied without thinking.

"A rich woman?"

Chen Yanping was obviously a little surprised by Chen Suhua's answer.

He has always believed that Gu Xu is a person who values love and righteousness-

When he was at the Laoshan Ruins, Shangguan Jin showed favor to him in a different way, but he always avoided her like a snake and scorpion.

When Gu Xu made contributions in Qingzhou and was promoted to Luojing City, he was completely unmoved in the face of many Yingying Yanyan in Luojing who had a lot of wealth and an extraordinary background, but wrote in front of everyone at the Lantern Festival Ring Competition, "That person is in the light".

It wasn't until he was saddled with treason and was torn up by Shi Lei that he let go of his original fiancée Shi Xiaohan, married Zhao Yan, and formed an alliance with the northern Yan Kingdom.

Such a person actually prefers "rich women"?

Then why didn't he choose to join the Chen family when he was in his last years, but grinded with Shi Xiaohan?

Seeing his brother's puzzled expression, Chen Suhui explained: "What Gu Xu likes is not the icing on the cake, but the money that sends charcoal in the snow.

"As far as I know, when he was in Yishui County in the past, the Shi family was the biggest wealthy family there. When his cultivation was most difficult, Shi Xiaohan gave him fifteen bottles of meditation pills. ”

"And then Gu Xu got along with her?"

"Yes," Chen Suhui nodded, "According to what I heard, since then, the two of them have been inseparable, and almost all of the ghost killing missions have been done together. ”

"It's as simple as that?"

"It's as simple as that."

Chen Yanping really couldn't imagine that the reincarnation of the dignified Ziwei Emperor would be easily bought by fifteen bottles of Meditation Pill.

Why does it sound like that stupid dog in Ahei?

When it was so hungry and skinny, he threw a bone of meat in front of it, and it shook its head and followed him.

Completely did not think about the fate of the future.