According to Yang Xiaotian's meaning, he set off for Chongwu Academy on the second day, but Cui Yan asked him not to worry, saying that he was dead anyway, and he couldn't be resurrected no matter how anxious he was, and he didn't know where to get the news, and asked Yang Xiaotian to teach Huang Kai swordsmanship well, this town and other places where the two continents meet, it is most likely to encounter trouble, and there is no big sect to sit down, and without the protection of powerful forces, it is easy to become a lonely soul like him, so he can only improve himself, and since Yang Xiaotian has the ability to make Huang Kai stronger, he must do this well with his heart, his own affairs are trivial, there is no need to be anxious。

However, in the end, Cui Fan asked Yang Xiaotian to arrive at Chongwu Academy on the ninth day of the ninth month of September. Yang Xiaotian asked what the reason was, and Cui Ji told him that on the ninth day of the ninth month of September, there would be a college discussion in Chongwu Academy, and he couldn't miss this grand occasion that only happened once in ten years.

After Yang Xiaotian knew the reason, he naturally readily agreed.

"Okay, the things I asked for have been explained, then I'll go to the underworld to try my luck!" Cui Yan really didn't have much confidence in the trip to the underworld.

Yang Xiaotian is very sure of this matter, those Hades Monarchs have to give him face no matter what, aren't they afraid that he is killing the Underworld and taking back the Moon Wheel, although he doesn't have such thoughts, but it's hard to guarantee that the Hades Monarch won't think so.

"Since this is the case, I won't send that brother, whether it is successful or not, I hope Brother Cui will give me a message!" Yang Xiaotian stood up and opened the door.

"Definitely!"

Cui Yan's ghost floated out of the door and quickly disappeared in front of him.

Yang Xiaotian had no sleep all night, and as soon as it was dawn, he went downstairs and drank by himself.

"A humble gentleman, humble to self-shepherd!"

This may be Cui Yan's way.

The young man fiddled with the waist card in his hand, some feelings, the avenue is three thousand, the one who reaches is the first, choose a road that is smooth to his heart, go all the way, carry it through, and finally always come to the other side, and the flowers are blooming all over the sky.

Yang Xiaotian's comprehension of the three thousand avenues deepened a little more.

"Master, why is it so early!" but it was Huang Kai, who just came down the stairs and saw Yang Xiaotian alone with his eyes closed and thinking.

Yang Xiaotian slowly opened his eyes, looked calm, and said with a smile: "I can't sleep, so I will come down and sit down early!"

asked Huang Kai about the progress of the "Nine Questions Sword Technique", Huang Kai frowned, it didn't seem to be going well.

Yang Xiaotian said with a smile: "This Nine Questions swordsmanship is Mr. Ye's lifelong understanding, do you still want to comprehend it thoroughly in one day and one night, then aren't you even more powerful than me!"

Huang Kai scratched his head embarrassedly and asked Yang Xiaotian some questions about swordsmanship.

Yang Xiaotian answered them one by one, but many places were point-to-point, hoping that Huang Kai could rely on his own understanding to really have his own kendo.

However, Huang Kai is already very satisfied, with Yang Xiaotian's solution, it is like an initiation, a hut is suddenly opened, and many difficult points that are difficult to understand will be unimpeded in an instant, I believe that with his own efforts, soon, there will be deeper progress in swordsmanship.

"Huang Kai!" Yang Xiaotian suddenly asked, "Are there some famous painters in this town?"

"Painter, Master, do you want to buy a painting or ask someone to paint?" Huang Kai felt a little strange, why did he suddenly ask about the painter.

Yang Xiaotian said with a smile: "I just think that the scenery of many places here is good and there is some aura, so I want to ask the painter to paint them, so that they can be kept as souvenirs in the future." ”

"I see!" Huang Kai said, "Master, we only have one painter here, and people call him Mr. Gu!"

"Well, but I don't know where this Mr. Gu lives?"

"This Mr. Gu heard others say that he is a scholar, poor and poor here, so he lived here, originally with his painting work, if he is willing to paint for rich people, life will definitely be better than many people, but Mr. Gu has a strange temper..."

"But what kind of weird method is it?" Yang Xiaotian asked.

Huang Kai said: "When I first came, Mr. Gu bought paintings from Zhuque Street, and I don't know who was the first to discover his painting skills. ”

"Could it be that this Mr. Gu knows the truth that strange goods can be lived, and wants to hide the painting first and then sell it at a high price?" Yang Xiaotian said with a smile, if this is the case, then there is no need to visit this painter.

Huang Kai hurriedly said: "It's not like this, this Mr. Gu said that he sells paintings to see people, if he fits his eyes, it's okay not to take a penny, if it's not right, even if he gives him a thousand gold, he won't sell it, let alone ask him to paint!"

"Haha! This Mr. Gu's temper is really weirdly tight, I really want to see if I fit his eyes. ”

"Master, since that's the case, then I'll take you there, this Mr. Gu is not bad to our family, and he once gave a painting to my mother!"

"But I don't know what kind of painting you sent?"

Huang Kai was a little embarrassed, and only said after a while: "Cactus!"

"Hahaha..."Yang Xiaotian almost couldn't breathe with a smile, "It's really proper!"

Huang Kai said in a low voice: "Master, you are smiling, don't let my mother know, otherwise you don't want to have wine to drink." When my mother got the painting, she scolded Mr. Gu directly, and almost tore the painting, but when she saw that the people in the town regarded Mr. Gu's painting as a treasure, she barely suppressed the urge to destroy the painting. ”

"Don't worry, I'll take care of it!" said this, Yang Xiaotian still couldn't help laughing.

After asking Huang Kai about the painter's residence, he asked Huang Kai to stay and contact the swordsmanship, but he left the inn alone.

The painter's residence is indeed very remote, Yang Xiaotian has walked through a few streets, has come to a mountain, walked in the mountains for a long time, through the mountains and finally came to a narrow alley, both sides of the alley are short and ordinary, it looks a little dilapidated, the street is paved with dilapidated bricks, potholes, full of sewage.

Yang Xiaotian counted all the way down, and when he reached the seventh room, he patted the dilapidated and leaky wooden door.

"Is Mr. Gu at home?"

Seeing that no one responded, Yang Xiaotian slapped a few more times, but with a "click", the wooden door was smashed.

"Who!"

Someone finally responded, and out came a middle-aged man in a blue cloth robe, with fair skin and a calm demeanor, not like a person with an eccentric temper as Huang Kai said.

"Dare to ask Your Excellency, but Mr. Gu?" Yang Xiaotian asked.

"It's Gu Daozhi below, I don't know why Gongzi came?" The painter didn't seem to care much about the broken wooden door that fell to the ground.

Yang Xiaotian said apologetically: "The kid is rude, I accidentally smashed Mr.'s door just now, but you don't have to worry, I will definitely reinstall the wooden door." ”

Gu Daozhi said: "Childe, wait, I'll come when I go." With that, he turned and walked back.

Yang Xiaotian saw that Gu Daozhi hadn't come out for a long time after he went in, thinking that his actions just now made him unhappy, so he wondered if he should think of a way to set up the wooden door.

While thinking, Gu Daozhi had already walked out of it, holding a paintbrush in his hand.

Yang Xiaotian didn't know what he was holding the paintbrush for, and looked at him a little strangely.

Gu Daozhi ignored his gaze, lifted the paintbrush and stared at the air a few times.

"This ......" Yang Xiaotian was amazed, and a wooden door appeared under Gu Daozhi's brush, and it was smoothly installed on the door.

Gu Daozhi seems to do such things often, and he doesn't feel that the magic under his brush is too much.

"Childe, please sit inside!"

After Yang Xiaotian followed in, he found that the house was empty, except for a wooden bed, there was nothing else.

"Childe, wait!"

Gu Daozhi's brush casually drew a few times, and a wooden table and two chairs appeared in front of Yang Xiaotian.

"You may be seated!"

Yang Xiaotian didn't dare to sit down directly, reached out and touched the surface of the chair, and after pressing it a few times, he found that it couldn't collapse, so he sat down.

"Mr. Gu......" Yang Xiaotian wanted to speak and stopped.

Gu Daozhi smiled and said, "Does Childe have questions?"

"Exactly!"

Gu Daozhi said: "These things I just painted must be one of Childe's doubts. ”

Yang Xiaotian nodded.

Gu Daozhi continued: "And before Gongzi came to me, he must have heard people say that my temper is strange, but I didn't show the slightest arrogance to you, which must be the second. ”

Yang Xiaotian finally sighed and said, "Mr. Gu is really extraordinary, and his guess is not false at all. ”

Gu Daozhi said with a smile: "These things that appear under my brush, in fact, there is nothing peculiar, practice makes perfect, and sincerity is just spirituality." As for why my attitude towards Childe is not like other canes, just because the wooden door that was smashed by Childe has actually been manipulated by me, and it can help me identify, whether I need to see the person who comes, since Childe you can easily smash it, it means that I have to see you. ”

The more Yang Xiaotian listened to the moon, he felt magical, it turned out that there could be such a thing.

"Mr. Gu really opened my eyes, this trip is really not in vain!"

Gu Daozhi said: "But I don't know what the son is looking for me?"

Yang Xiaotian said: "Yesterday, I was fortunate to see a painting made by Mr. Gu on Zhuque Street, and I was amazed by the brushwork and aura on the painting, so I thought about coming to visit Mr. ”

"Oh?" Gu Daozhi was a little surprised, and said, "Could it be that Gongzi is also a person who likes to paint?"

Yang Xiaotian shook his head and said: "It's just a rude and contemptuous person below, and the painting is acceptable, but the painting can't be done for fun." ”

"Does Childe want me to make a picture for you, although I Gu Daozhi has a strange temper, but you are a person who fits your eyes, so if you want me to paint a picture for you, there is nothing wrong with it, but I don't know if you want a landscape painting or a figure painting?"

Yang Xiaotian said: "Mr. Gu misunderstood, I didn't come to ask Mr. to paint. ”

Gu Daozhi was even more strange, "Then what are you for?"

Yang Xiaotian said: "Mr. Gu is a strange person, so I don't have to hide a lot of words, I have been studying the rune for a while, but I have no limited pen power, and I can't make a decent rune, thinking about drawing runes and paintings, anyway, they are all paintings, so I came to ask Mr. for advice." ”

Gu Daozhi was stunned, and for the first time he heard someone confuse painting with drawing symbols.

Seeing him like this, Yang Xiaotian hurriedly said: "Xiao Ke is talking nonsense, I hope Mr. won't be surprised!"

Gu Daozhi laughed, "It's nothing, it's just the first time I've heard such a statement, and I can't help but feel a little strange." Interesting... Funny, so funny!hahaha!"

Yang Xiaotian saw that he really didn't care, so he put his mind at ease.

Gu Daozhi said: "Childe, you misunderstood!"

Yang Xiaotian sincerely asked for advice, bowed down and said, "Please give me advice!"

"Drawing talismans is different from painting, if you want to achieve something, you might as well go to calligraphy!"

"Dare to ask, what's the answer?"

Gu Daozhi took out a wolf hair and drew the word "human" in the air.

"What did Childe see?"

"A glyph!"

"What else?"

Yang Xiaotian glanced at the word again, "A person with both feet on the ground and his head on the sky, frank and open!"

Gu Daozhi said with a smile: "Yes, Fu Dao is closer to calligraphy, one stroke and one stroke, all have its meaning, but calligraphy shows the inner world of the person who writes, from the calligraphy can be seen the author's temperament, thoughts, and Fu Dao is deeper, not only the painter's temperament thoughts, the person who draws the talisman also relies on this thought, these things are truly expressed, for example, the painter said, I want to call the wind and rain, move the mountains and seas, he will rely on the power of the mind to reflect all this in the talisman, like divine help. ”

Yang Xiaotian seemed to have an understanding, and muttered: "This is still manipulating the rules of heaven and earth with manpower, is it really that there are thousands of avenues, and in the end, different paths will end up the same?"

Gu Daozhi said: "I don't know what the laws of heaven are, I only know that many things in the world can be done with heart, the so-called Jin Cheng is the gold and stone, take my painting as an example, I just want to paint lifelike paintings." ”

Yang Xiaotian said: "In this way, the three thousand avenues are actually almost the same, whether it is calligraphy, painting, or drawing, do it with your heart!"

"That's the truth!" Gu Daozhi smiled and nodded.

Gu Daozhi and Yang Xiaotian met late, the two talked a lot, Gu Daozhi heard a lot of strange things in the world from Yang Xiaotian, and Yang Xiaotian also asked for a lot of things from Gu Daozhi in terms of pen power and painting.

The two chatted from early morning until dark, and finally Yang Xiaotian saw that it was getting late, so he got up to say goodbye.

Before leaving, Gu Daozhi gave Yang Xiaotian a few books on calligraphy and told him to go back and watch them and copy them.

After Yang Xiaotian accepted it, he told him that he would come again when he was free before leaving.

After returning to the inn, Yang Xiaotian stopped drawing talismans, and began to practice calligraphy seriously, copying a few books sent by Gu Daozhi, the effect was not too obvious at first, but after a few days, he found that his pen power was indeed good, but he was still not in a hurry to draw talismans, thinking that he would wait until he had Gu Daozhi's pen power before he began to enter the talisman seriously.

On this day, after Yang Xiaotian taught Huang Kai swordsmanship, he saw that the store was empty and there were no customers, so he picked a table near the window and began to practice calligraphy.

In the past few days, Li has seen that young people often write without sleep and food, and they have long been surprised and do not bother him.

And Yang Xiaotian is immersed in his own calligraphy world.

"Huh, what's wrong with you?"

Yang Xiaotian suddenly heard Huang Ying's cry of surprise, and turned his head to see that it was Cui Yan.

"Hey, Brother Cui!"

Yang Xiaotian saw that Cui Ji was no longer a ghost, but had a real body, and felt very surprised, and thought that he had come back from the dead, but after a closer look, he found that it was just a trick, Cui Ji was still a ghost, but his soul was much stronger, and it was no longer as loose as when he first saw him.

"Brother, how can you practice calligraphy with Yaxing!" Cui Ji walked towards Yang Xiaotian with a smile.

"If you're bored, find something to do to kill time!"

Cui Yan suddenly lowered his voice and said softly, "Thank you, Brother Yang!"

Yang Xiaotian nodded and smiled: "The trip to the underworld has been rewarding?"

"Exactly!" Cui Ji said, nodding.

After the two sat down, Cui Yan told Yang Xiaotian about what happened in the underworld.

When he first arrived in the underworld, the ghost of the underworld thought that he was a dead ghost and came to reincarnate, so he was to be escorted to listen to the judgment. When Cui Yan was alive, he was a scholar with great integrity, and the ghosts were not weak after death, and those ghosts and judges were not his opponents, and finally dispatched to the king of reincarnation.

The King of Reincarnation has the blessing of mana in the underworld, no matter how good Cui Yan is, he is not his opponent, and he was finally captured by the King of Reincarnation, so there is no benefit of going to reincarnation.

The king of reincarnation ordered the ghost to escort Cui Yan to the king of equality, and asked the king of equality to send him to the hell of Abi.

How do you know that the king of equality heard the ghost send to say that Cui Yan is very good, so he has the idea of using him, you must know that the ten kings of the underworld are fighting in the open and the dark, if there is more of a fierce general like Cui Fang, the power of the king of equality has increased a lot, so he asked Cui Hu what he meant, who knew that after asking, Cui Hu took out Yang Xiaotian's letter, but now the king of equality did not dare to make his own decisions, so the ghost sent to invite the other nine kings of the underworld to discuss together.

All the Immortal Monarchs have the intention of leading Cui Fang to their command, but it also depends on Cui Fang's wishes. But Cui Yan only expressed his audience's arrangement for the Immortal Monarch.

After several discussions, the Immortal Monarch decided to let Cui Yan become the Yin Law Department of the Underworld.

Although the status of this Yin Law Division of the underworld is not as high as that of the Underworld, it is an important figure in the underworld, and it is not under the control of the Underworld, but only rewards the good and punishes the evil.

After Cui Yan received the Life and Death Book and the Soul Hooking Pen, he could be regarded as a real job in the underworld. I was grateful to Yang Xiaotian, so I took leave with the Emperor and came to the inn to report the good news to Yang Xiaotian.

"Congratulations to Brother Cui!" Yang Xiaotian said with a smile.

Cui Yan gave up his hand again and again and said, "This is all the credit of my brothers!"

Yang Xiaotian remembered something and said: "Brother Cui, if there is a female ghost called Huaping in the future who comes to the underworld to report, please treat her kindly, and don't let her be reincarnated, I still have a personal favor to return." ”

Cui Yan now has a lot of power in his hands, this is a trivial matter, as long as it doesn't violate the rules of the underworld too much, he can decide for himself, so he readily agrees.

"Brother Cui can drink now, can't you?"

"No problem!"

Being the Yin Law Division is really extraordinary, and now he can even drink wine.

After a few glasses of wine, Cui Yan said: "I saw my brother practicing calligraphy seriously just now, isn't it for the purpose of drawing talismans?"

"Brother Cui is really a clear-eyed person, you can know what your brother thinks at a glance!"

"It's right to practice calligraphy, but if there is a master to guide you, it's even better!"

Yang Xiaotian smiled: "Brother Cui is talking about yourself?"

Cui Yan shook his head and said, "Definitely!"

"Then Brother Cui has someone to recommend?"

"My master, Mr. Mei, is the master of this!"