Gu Xu paid close attention to the battle situation and saw the two sword intents of Chu Fengge and Wu Ming spurting out and about to meet in the air.
A surging momentum, carrying a resolute and decisive attitude, sacrificing life and death.
The other one is poetic and picturesque on the surface, but actually a bit stiff.
If you use painting as a metaphor, it is like a beginner copying the work of an art master - it looks similar at first glance, but if you look closely, you will find that it is missing some key elements. detail.
It is these details that determine whether this painting is an "ordinary excellent work" or a "classic masterpiece handed down from generation to generation."
At this moment, the powerful comprehension ability given to Gu Xu by the "knowledge and strong memory" and the "unfortunate genius" - or to use the expression of the white-haired boy on the "Naihe Bridge", the "wisdom" power quietly It started silently.
In his field of vision, Chu Fengge's movements suddenly slowed down, as if he pressed the pause button on a video and watched carefully frame by frame.
He took the opportunity to quickly analyze Chu Fengge's style of "Xiao Ying Waning Moon".
Previously, when he competed with Chu Fengge in the "Realm of Discussing the Tao", Gu Xu had already understood the "Tao" of Luo Sishou.
The "way" for Luo Sishou to become a saint is "destiny". He has always believed that even though things in the world are ever-changing, the fate of all living beings is ultimately under the watchful eye of God and moves along a predetermined trajectory.
The Taoist and martial arts he created, such as "Leixing Jue", "Cloud Sea Galaxy Sword", "Meteor Walking on the Moon", etc., all contain his understanding of destiny.
"If that's the case, what does Chu Fengge's style of 'Xiao Ying Waning Moon' have to do with fate?" Gu Xu asked in his heart.
In the blink of an eye, another voice in his mind gave the answer: "The artistic conception of this sword style is desolate and melancholy, representing bad luck and misfortune, just like the way of divination. The combination of the hexagrams corresponds to the 'Wei Ji' hexagram.
"'Wei Ji' means 'not getting through', which means that you are in a difficult situation after failure and need to temporarily retreat until the time is right. The time comes again.
"So, the true meaning of 'Xiao Ying Can Yue' is to retreat in order to advance."
Thinking of this, Gu Xu smiled and thought: With Chu Fengge's character , how could he know how to be patient and retreat in order to advance? He will only move forward without hesitation and never look back until he hits the wall.
Since the power of "wisdom" gave Gu Xu far beyond ordinary people's quick thinking, he ended his thinking in a very short period of time. By the time he came to a conclusion, the two sword intents had not yet had time to collide.
"Be careful! The enemy is coming from behind!" He shouted to Chu Fengge who was fighting.
Hearing what Gu Xu said, Chu Fengge felt a little puzzled.
As a fifth-level monk, he could not feel the presence of any new enemy behind him - Gu Xu was only a third-level monk, how could he detect that even heEnemies that can't even be found?
However, even though he was thinking this, his body still involuntarily took a step back and turned his head to look behind him.
There are no enemies behind you.
Gu Xu is a liar.
Chu Fengge was angry and wanted to scold him severely.
But the moment he stepped back and turned around, the killing intent in his sword energy was involuntarily restrained, becoming softer and more natural.
He suddenly found the feel of wielding a sword.
His movements changed from awkward at first to much smoother.
It seems like this move "should be done this way."
At this moment, the sword intention of "She Shenjian" was like a powerful sandstorm, sweeping towards Chu Fengge; Chu Fengge's "Xiaoying Waning Moon" turned into a green forest, Stopped this murderous intention and quietly resolved it.
"That step back seems to be the key."
Vaguely, Chu Fengge seemed to have found the answer he had been searching for for a long time.
This surprised him greatly.
"Could it be that Gu Xu has mastered the 'Cloud Sea Galaxy Sword' a long time ago? The purpose of his lies is actually to take this opportunity to give me some advice?" A very outrageous conjecture came to his mind. , but he quickly dismissed it from his mind, "No, this is impossible, this must be just a coincidence.
" He has been practicing for at most one year, and has never learned swordsmanship. And I started practicing this 'Cloud Sea Galaxy Sword' several years ago, and I can barely be considered an expert. How could he have the ability to advise me on such a matter? "
After the "Sword of Sacrifice" was blocked, Wu Ming's true energy was drained and he completely lost his fighting ability.
He collapsed weakly to the ground, his face turned pale. Scary, blood flowed from the corners of his mouth, and his limbs were limp and weak.
He looked at the three unfamiliar subordinates with desperate eyes.
He could feel that Chu Fengge, or " "Zhang Potian" not only has pure and powerful true energy, but also uses extremely exquisite swordsmanship, which is a top-level martial arts that he has never seen several times in his life.
The origins of these three people are definitely extraordinary. Same.
"I probably won't be able to escape from them today," he closed his eyes and thought silently, "But no matter what, the secret must not be leaked. "
Thinking of this, he thought about it and prepared to cut off his meridians and die.
"Don't let him commit suicide. "At this moment, Gu Xu noticed his intention and ordered lightly.
Shangguan Jin reacted very quickly.
As soon as Gu Xu opened his mouth, she cast a spell to interfere with Wu Ming's thoughts stopped him from doing anything.
Wu Ming slowly opened his eyes, his heart was filled with despair.
He realized that in front of these devil-like figures, Even death has become an impossible thing
Gu Xu squatted down and put his hands in his hands.The map was spread flat on the ground and he showed a faint smile: "Master Wu, can you tell me the story about this map now?"
Wu Ming sighed and said: "You are not 'Wen Yannian', who are you?"
Gu Xu calmly replied: "A person who helps him seek justice."
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Subsequently, Gu Xu learned the whole story behind it from Wu Ming——
In the Daqi Dynasty, officials’ achievements were evaluated at regular intervals. Those with merit will be promoted, while those without merit will remain where they are or even be demoted.
The Exorcist Department is no exception.
When Wu Ming came to Anshun Prefecture to become a member of the Qianhu household, he first had the intention of making a contribution.
He wants to kill all the ghosts near Anshun Mansion so that the residents can live and work in peace and contentment.
However, many practical problems he encountered during his official career gradually eroded his ambition.
Insufficient manpower, insufficient money and food, insufficient elixirs and weapons, and subordinates are lazy and slippery...
Even because he wanted to change some of the reward and punishment systems in Anshun Prefecture, he annoyed some people and led them to Pick up a small group and try every means to squeeze him out.
Reality smoothed Wu Ming's edges day by day.
One day, he led a team to go out to kill ghosts in person, but unexpectedly he was surrounded by ghosts.
The leader of those ghosts and monsters is the "Lord of Yelang Kingdom". All the ghosts and ghosts in this entire mountain forest are under his jurisdiction.
The "Lord Yelang" used the Dark Swamp to kill all the subordinates Wu Ming led at that time, but only spared him.
At this time, the "Lord of Yelang Kingdom" proposed a deal -
It hoped that Wu Ming could give up the protection of some village residents outside Anshun Prefecture, thereby providing a fixed source of food for the ghosts. ; In exchange, the "Lord of Yelang Kingdom" will take the initiative to send some disobedient ghosts to the city wall to gain merit for Wu Ming.
"The Lord of Yelang Kingdom" said that he and his people have long been accustomed to a peaceful life, and are content as long as they have enough to eat; however, every time they try to eat, there will be exorcism monks carrying them. He came to the door with a sword, causing constant casualties among his loyal people.
He didn’t want to kill Wu Ming. To a certain extent, he also wanted to avoid trouble and alert the more powerful exorcist monks.
Wu Ming hesitated for a long time.
He is afraid of death and does not want his life to end.
But he also understood that if he agreed to the deal with "Lord Yelang", he would lose his original intention forever.
At that time, he also raised his doubts: "Will the transaction between us be discovered by those monks in the capital who are good at heaven and magic?"
"The Lord Yelang" laughed loudly. : "Do you think Tianjishu is really equivalent to omniscience and omnipotence?"
The desire for life finally defeated the persistence of the bottom line.
Wu Ming agreed to the proposal.
From thereFrom now on, he will no longer try to make any changes to the Anshun Exorcism Department, nor will he try his best to kill ghosts as before.
He only needs to stay quietly in the city, and ghosts and ghosts will continuously come to his door, which will become his meritorious deeds.
For his achievements, his superiors praised him very much and assured him that they would give him the opportunity for promotion once a position becomes vacant.
Wu Ming has never experienced this kind of easy life, like pie in the sky.
The only victims in this transaction were the people living in the mountains and forests outside the city.
They spend every night in fear, afraid that ghosts will suddenly appear and take away their parents, wives and children.
They are holding funerals with increasing frequency.
But they waited for a long time, but they could not wait until the plots in the stories of their elders happened in reality - "The monks of the Exorcism Department are heroes with great powers. One day, they will drive Feijian is here to save us from the sea of suffering."
At the same time, Wu Ming often has nightmares when he rests at night.
He dreamed that when the incident was revealed, he was ruined and beheaded at Caishikou. His head was hung on the city gate. When every citizen passed by, they would throw a rotten egg or rotten tomato at him and curse: "Official dog, give back my father, mother, husband, wife, child..."< /p>
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Not long ago, his subordinate Wen Yannian accidentally discovered this secret transaction.
Fortunately, Wen Yannian is a simple young man. He firmly believes in Wu Ming’s image of a model official who cares about the country and the people. He feels that someone is fabricating evidence to frame Wu Ming, and he wants to Help Wu Ming find out the situation.
Wu Ming was grateful to him on the surface, but in his heart he was thinking, "The secret cannot be leaked, and this person must die."
So, he drew the wrong location on the mission map - if Wen Yannian completes the mission according to the map, he will walk in front of the "Lord Yelang" and the "Lord Yelang" will take him away life.
The real Wen Yannian in history died because of this.
But now, the person in front of Wu Ming is not the simple and weak Wen Yannian, but Gu Xu.
He turned his back on the guest and exposed Wu Ming’s hidden secret in front of everyone.
Wu Ming was ultimately ruined.
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“There is only an inch in the heart, and there are storms day and night.”
After hearing the whole story, Gu Xu had to say that the jade talisman on the This poem indeed matches this case very well.
The human heart is complex and unpredictable.
Sometimes, they are even scarier than ghosts.
"Do you regret it?" He looked into Wu Ming's eyes and asked seriously.
Wu Ming thought for a while and replied: "I do have some regrets. If I had refused to trade at that time and died in the hands of the 'Lord Yelang', I wouldn't be in such a mess today.Something happened. "
At this point, Wu Ming paused for a moment, then changed the subject and said: "But, have you ever thought that the merits I have gained from cooperating with ghosts and monsters are much more than my active and conscientious doing of practical things - —Isn’t this a very ironic thing? "
Gu Xu nodded: "A little bit indeed. "
Hearing his affirmation, Wu Ming raised his tone and became more and more excited: "My lord, you have to understand that if I can have more people and materials when I am actively killing ghosts; I want to change the status quo, and there will be less resistance from the court; if every monk who desires to slay demons and eliminate harm for the people can get a basic guarantee of practice resources... maybe everything will be different!
Gu Xu was silent for a while and said: "What you said does make some sense. The current Daqi Dynasty does have many shortcomings." ”
He thought of some information sent to his mind by Kongxuan Sanren: powerful sects occupy more than 90% of the cultivation resources, and low-level monks have to work hard to complete tasks for a small "quiet heart pill"; remote areas Ghosts are rampant in the area and harm the people, but the powerful are still immersed in a comfortable environment and even deduct supplies...
The "Nine-Infant Snake Demon" is the product of popular resentment.
< p>Although its strength is not the strongest among the "fierce gods", the saints can't completely eliminate it, so they can only choose to seal it underground in Qingzhou Mansion again.The reason is very simple. , the people’s resentment will not disappear, and the nine babies will not die.
“What will you do when you encounter these ills? "Wu Ming stared into Gu Xu's eyes, becoming more and more excited, "If you want to change it, you will be blocked everywhere, and in the end you can only choose to go with the flow..."
"'If you are poor, you can be alone, and if you are rich, you can be alone. "Benefiting the world," Gu Xu thought for a moment and replied, "I am not qualified to think about issues like 'changing the status quo' now. I can only take care of myself first and not do anything that goes against my conscience."
"Perhaps, when I am strong enough, all these problems will be solved!"
This sentence does not seem like he is talking to Wu Ming, but more like he is talking to Wu Ming. Say it yourself.
Wu Ming fell into deep thought.
Not far away, Shangguan Jin silently recalled the words "If you are poor, you can be good for yourself; if you are rich, you can be good for the world." She only felt that it was very philosophical, and there was something strange in her eyes when she looked at Gu Xu. look.
Chu Fengge is still thinking about "Xiao Ying Can Yue" - to be precise, he is wondering whether Gu Xu knows this sword technique.
As for the government officials... they stood in the courtyard in a daze, unable to recover from the shocking information for a long time.
After a while, Gu Xu calmed down the expression on his face and said to Wu Ming: "However, whether you stick to your original intention or follow the trend, these are your own choices... and should not be left to your own devices. The people in the villages outside Anshun Prefecture pay for your actions with their lives."
After saying this, he turned to look at Shangguan Jin and said calmly: "For me.I watched him, don't let him seek death. "
Wu Ming is an official of the imperial court. Gu Xu does not have the power to kill him or execute him. He needs to be handed over to the relevant agencies of the imperial court for processing - the chief minister is still watching from the outside. This principle Question: Gu Xu can't make mistakes.
Shangguan Jin smiled slightly and deliberately imitated the tone of his subordinates: "Yes, Lord Gu. "
Then, Gu Xu looked at the officials around him and asked: "Which of you can take me to the communication circle of this Yamen? "
The officials looked at each other.
After a while, a short and fat young man walked out of the queue tremblingly, saluted Gu Xu respectfully and said, "Sir, I can lead you." There you go. "
At this time, the young man looked at Gu Xu as if he were looking at a terrifying monster.
"Don't be nervous, I can't eat people. "Gu Xu chuckled.
Hearing this, the short and fat young man shivered even more.
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A few minutes later , Gu Xu walked through the corridor, climbed up the stairs to the attic, and came to the communication array.
He activated the array, connected with Feng Biyu, the commander of the Exorcism Department of Guizhou Province, and brought the incident to Anshun Mansion. Everything, including the story told by Wu Ming, was reported to Mr. Feng.
Feng Biyu was shocked and angry about what Wu Ming did. He did not expect it. Officials committed such dirty deeds in private.
He said that Wu Ming would be punished in accordance with Daqi's legal procedures; at the same time, he also claimed that he would take the time to solve the problem. Lord Yelang" and his army of ghosts completely wiped out this scourge in the mountains and forests of Anshun Prefecture.
Feng Biyu's voice was calm and calm, just like the NPC responsible for issuing tasks in the previous game.
Gu Xu responded with a smile and a few official words.
What happened next had nothing to do with him.
After finishing the conversation with Feng Biyu, he said: He felt that the surrounding scene gradually became blurred, and then all the colors blended together and rotated rapidly like a kaleidoscope, making him dizzy.
He seemed to have lifted his feet off the ground and floated into the air, in a path. Speeding through the colorful tunnels
He knew that the purpose of this trial was not to let him kill powerful ghosts, but to find out the truth and understand the complexity of the human heart. .
Now that the case has been closed, he will return to the real world soon.
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Exorcism Department Headquarters, Star Observation Deck. .
The head of the exorcism department reached out and tapped the bronze mirror in front of him.
The dynamic picture on the bronze mirror disappeared instantly.
The corners of his mouth raised, showing a faint smile
“It’s time to go see him. ”
PS: I originally only wanted to write 2,000 words for this chapter, but the more I wrote, the more excited I became. I couldn’t stop writing 5,000 words.Character. Sorry it took me until now to finish.
PS2: Because I have things to deal with in the morning in the next few days, all future updates will be postponed to 8pm!