Is there such a good thing?
Gu Xu was a little surprised by Luo Sishou's proposal.
He originally thought that the reward for his meritorious service was a one-time thing.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be like an invention patent from a previous life. As long as others use the "fire character" to kill ghosts, he will be able to earn a large sum of merit.
This reminded him of the second version of the "Tai Shang Arctic Demon Suppressing and Ghost Killing Talisman" that was submitted to the Yamen.
As long as a colleague redeems a "ghost-killing talisman" he drew, he can get fifteen meritorious deeds - in a few months, he has earned hundreds of meritorious deeds in this way, and he has won many meritorious deeds. Compared to risking one's life and going out on a ghost-killing mission, it is simply safe and easy.
But this time is a little different from last time.
Last time he had to move his pen and consume some real energy before he could draw the talisman.
He didn't have to do anything this time.
For things like teaching spells to other monks, the chief will send people to complete it.
This feeling of lying down and collecting merit is really comfortable.
"Of course."
"Then let's do this!" Luo Chuan said with a smile. Gu Xu's cheerful attitude seemed to make him feel happy.
He paused for a while and then brought up another topic: "Gu Xiaoyou, during the recent period, there is something in Luojing City that I may need to trouble you to do."
"What's the matter, Mr. Chief Secretary?"
"About this year's audition for the 'Luoshui Conference'," Luo Chuan said, "I hope you can take some time in early February to give The monks in Luojing City watch and comment on the battle. "
Although the "Luoshui Conference" is a grand gathering of monks from all over the country, it is not realistic after all to gather tens of thousands of monks in Luojing City to participate in the competition. matter.
Especially since Luochuan has not yet proposed to modify the format of the competition, the Luoshui Conference will still be held in the form of a ring competition - think about it, if all the monks from all over the country compete in the ring in pairs in the capital, it will take until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse. .
Therefore, just like the imperial examinations have county, city, township, and general examinations, the "Luoshui Conference" will hold auditions in various counties, prefectures, and provinces in advance, and only the winners can come Luo Jingcheng participated in the final competition.
Of course, officials of the sixth rank of the Exorcism Department like Gu Xu, the Viscount of the Daqi Dynasty and the leader of the Lantern Festival Competition can directly participate in the main competition without spending time and energy to participate in the audition. .
The reason why the monks in Daqi are extremely enthusiastic about the "Luoshui Conference" is not only because they are eager to get rewards and become famous all over the world, but also because in each round of selection, There will be well-known local experts acting as "guests" to evaluate and give guidance on the performance of the contestants.
For most ordinary monks, "winning the first prize" is too far away from them. "Participation", "gaining knowledge" and "accumulating lessons" are what they focus on.Add to that the mindset you have when taking a test.
And these "review guests" are usually big figures they have never met, and they have rich experience in practice.
These people can often point out problems and flaws in the monks' spells or martial arts moves. If they are in a good mood, they will even generously give some practice suggestions.
As the saying goes, a few words of advice from a famous teacher is better than shutting oneself in a room and studying hard for two or three years.
In the previous "Luoshui Conference", there have been more than one cases of breakthroughs in cultivation or improvement in spells after receiving guidance from powerful senior practitioners.
This will undoubtedly make more practitioners flock to it.
Anyway, there is no money to participate.
As long as you go to the ring and fight with others, no matter you win or lose, there is a chance that you will get a chance to break through the bottleneck.
Why not do the monks in Daqi?
After hearing Luo Sishou’s proposal, Gu Xu was a little hesitant at first, because he had to do a lot of messy things recently - such as the handover and rectification of the courtyard. , such as the elixir workshop Xiaohan gave him when he took over, such as preparing the teaching content for the students of Longmen Academy, such as continuing to ponder the second form of the "Seven Burning Heaven Forms" and the "Star Formation" spell...
In addition, after Luochuan just mentioned the information related to Daguguan Grottoes, Gu Xu also secretly planned to speed up his cultivation and strive to climb the "Soul-Desolate Cliff" before the start of the "Luoshui Conference", thus adding a few more The certainty of winning the first prize.
Luo Sishou once asked Qu Jinglong to tell him that the monk who wins the first place in the "Luoshui Conference" will be eligible to enter the royal treasury and select a magic weapon.
According to Zhao Xu’s current advancement speed, it shouldn’t take too long to become a monk in the fourth realm.
He needs to prepare a natal magic weapon for himself in advance.
Although he has a powerful weapon like the "Jinghong Pen" in his hand.
However, although the "famous vessel" is good, it has been used by others after all, and there are many traces of the previous owners on it, so it is not suitable for use as a natal object.
As a talented monk who is determined to become a saint, his natal object will become an important cornerstone of his enlightenment and must be his own thing from beginning to end - even if it starts with a low-grade magic weapon and slowly develops it. It is better to cultivate it than to have a "famous weapon" that retains the charm of the predecessors.
The most important thing is to take advantage of the situation and your appetite.
So he had high expectations for the rewards from this "Luoshui Conference".
His time is very limited recently...to provide reviews and guidance for others. Why don't he put this kind of thing back a little bit in priority...
"Gu Xiaoyou, if If you are willing to spend an hour sitting by the Luoshui River and chatting with other monks, in addition to the corresponding merits, you can also get a 'substitute bracelet' as a reward.
"That's no problem." Gu Xu agreed without hesitation.
Although the "substitute bracelet" is a one-time magic weapon, it can save his life at critical moments. When he met Kongxuan Sanren on Yishan Mountain before, if there was no "substitute bracelet" to help him get rid of the negative effects in his body, then he would become like "Snow Girl" and "Zhao Ming Forbidden Technique" under the influence of "Zhao Ming Forbidden Technique" A ghost that will lose its rationality if it doesn't eat souls.
He suddenly felt that his recent fortune had undergone earth-shaking changes.
When I was in Yishui County, I couldn't save merit or money. I had to rely on Shi Xiaohan to donate the elixirs for practice. I only got the "substitute bracelet" after visiting the Lu family's haunted house. Come.
But now that he has arrived in Luojing City, he has earned a bounty from the Lantern Festival Tournament, received a workshop for his birthday, received a generous salary from Longmen Academy, and now he has received merit and The reward of the magic weapon...
Could it be that the recent horoscope fortune... no, the fortune of the ruler of the life palace has been reversed?
Anyway, this is a good sign. Gu Xu silently sighed in his heart.
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Chu Fengge locked himself in the room and practiced for a whole day.
Half of the time, I continued to move forward along the netherworld road of the conscious world, and the other half of the time, I focused on practicing the "Cloud Sea Galaxy Sword".
Even when the clock struck noon, he did not leave the room and went to the government kitchen for lunch.
He is already a fifth-level monk anyway, and eating is no longer a daily necessity for him—even if he doesn’t touch a grain of rice for several days, he can still be alive and kicking.
He knew that today almost all the officials in the Exorcism Department were nervously paying attention to the talisman and Tao dispute in Longmen Academy.
Almost all those participating in the competition have master-level attainments in Talismans.
The intensity is no less intense than when Chu Fengge and Jiange Su Xiao fought for three hundred rounds with swords in front of the Zichen Palace, striving to become the "first person in swordsmanship" under the saints of the Daqi Dynasty. "--Of course, this is just Chu Fengge's own imagination. After all, in the eyes of others, he is actually a reckless man who only relies on "weeds" to fight and knows little about swordsmanship.
If Chu Fengge walked out of his room today and went to the corridor, courtyard, or crowded public kitchen of the Yamen, he would definitely hear the name "Gu Xu" every few seconds.
He felt that his mentality would be unbearable.
However, after nightfall, he still could not suppress his curiosity. He still walked out of the room, found Shangguan Jin, and asked her about the result of today's talisman master competition.
"What do you think?" Shangguan Jin did not answer directly, but smiled mysteriously and asked.
So Chu Fengge understood immediately.
"It's Gu Xu again, right?" He pretended to be calm.
It’s just that in his mind, a familiar thought emerged again, the feeling of being hit made him upset.
"Master Chu, it seems that you are not hopelessly stupid after all." Shangguan Jin deliberately said in a sharp tone, quarreling with him as usual.
"Haha, who is so stupid?" Chu Fengge clasped his hands on his chest, raised his chin, and habitually retorted, "Someone secretly turned over "Feng Tian" in private. "Seven Styles", she has been thinking about it all day, but she can't understand even a single word. She is still unwilling to admit it... Who is this person, I won't say his name. "
< p> "Isn't a certain person the same?" Shangguan Jin glanced sideways at him, "Not only can't he understand "Seven Styles of Burning Heaven", but he can't even understand the true meaning of "Yunhai Xinghe Sword"... That day in 'Reviewing the Past' When it came to the pot, if Gu Xu hadn't given him a crucial tip, someone might not have been able to defeat the Qianhu official named Wu.""At least I dare not do anything head-on than you. You are a stronger coward!" Chu Fengge was furious, and stopped playing the yin and yang game with her, and directly started to confront her, "I also know that when you went to the Laoshan ruins, you found nothing, not even the shadow of inheritance... …That guy Gu Xu was just a second-level monk at that time, and you couldn’t even compare to him!”
“Gu Xu is an unprecedented genius personally certified by the Chief of Staff. It’s normal that I can’t compare to him. "Shangguan Jin said in a calm tone, "But you, Chu Fengge, a dignified fifth-level monk and an item doctor in the Exorcism Department, don't even have the courage to admit that you are inferior to others. And I also heard that you went there in the first place. When he was in Lu's haunted house, he was so frightened that he wet his pants. In the end, he relied entirely on Gu Xu to deal with the ghosts there... Hey, tell me, who is the coward?"
" You're talking nonsense! You're the one who pissed your pants! I was just sucked dry by that bastard Gu Xu!"
"..."
You two Just like when we got along before, we exposed each other's scandals and kept arguing.
But while bickering, Chu Fengge also gradually learned from Shangguan Jin that Gu Xu’s performance that shocked everyone in Longmen Academy today, the national master’s praise of Gu Xu, and other talismans The teacher admires Gu Xu because Shangguan Jin likes to compare him with Gu Xu so that he can “step on each other”.
Although Chu Fengge was trying hard to keep his face calm, he still clenched his fists involuntarily and straightened his back.
"I'm going to practice," he said coldly about half an hour later, "I won't waste time discussing these boring issues with you."
"Master Chu, I wish you to reach a higher level soon!" Shangguan Jin showed an impeccable and elegant smile on his face.
Hearing this, Chu Fengge immediately turned around and left.
But for some reason, he did not return to the room where he had just practiced. Instead, driven by an inexplicable instinct, he came to the library of the Exorcism Department.
TodayThere were far fewer people studying in the library that night than usual. After making a lot of money, many people went to the downtown area of Luojing to drink and eat meat.
But there are also some people who are overly diligent and still seize every free time to supplement themselves with knowledge - because they know that if they choose to study or practice when others are resting, , then when the next yamen promotion opportunity comes, your probability of success in promotion may be greater than others.
Chu Fengge walked along the narrow aisle and came to a bookshelf against the wall. He took down a thick book from the top. On the cover was written "Detailed Explanation of Fu Dao: From Introduction to proficient".
This is the fifteenth time he has taken down this book.
Before this, he had never read this book from cover to cover - to be precise, he had never read the first five pages of this book.
Every time he gave up halfway, he would curse in his heart, feeling that the Talisman Masters were a group of unreasonable lunatics who would actually invent such uncomfortable and ugly symbols.
In comparison, a swordsman like him is so handsome, so dashing, and so neat - why do you have to spend so much time drawing ghosts that can be killed with just one swing of the sword? Where is the talisman seal?
With this idea in mind, Chu Fengge will practice sword practice harder every time he reads a book on runes. For him, compared with the brain power consumed by studying runes, practicing swordsmanship is more important. The little sweat is nothing at all.
However, today, when he learned that Gu Xu had created the "Fire Character" that could affect the entire Daqi spiritual world, Chu Fengge was once again attracted to the art of talisman and seal script.
Because he understands that the "fire character" is of contemporary and future benefit, and can benefit thousands of people.
Gu Xu is famous enough to go down in history with it.
But it is impossible to do this with swordsmanship.
Chu Fengge will never give in. From now on, his record in history books will be simply "a famous swordsman during the Tianxing period" or "a colleague of Fu Dao master Gu Xu".
He also wants to make his achievements hang on bamboo and silk and be famous forever.
So, he held "Detailed Explanation of Talismans" and sat at the desk by the window, forcing himself to calm down and read carefully.
Five minutes later.
He frowned.
A quarter of an hour later.
He started scratching his head.
Half an hour later.
He started to stand up from his seat, grinning.
An hour later.
He smashed the book, which he had barely read to the eighth page, on the floor, and yelled: "Go to hell Fu Dao! If you look at it again, I'm a dog!"
Hearing this voice, all the monks in the library who had their heads down reading suddenly raised their heads and looked at him with puzzled expressions, as if they were curious about how Master Chu was stimulated.
Chu Fengge snorted coldly and strode away from the library.
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Today is a good day for good luck and fortune.
In order to celebrate, Gu Xu and Shi Xiaohan came to the edge of Luoshui River in the evening as agreed, and ate roast mutton in a street shop full of people.
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