Longevity begins with slaying demons and eliminating demons

Chapter 238 Gift (September Monthly Pass Plus Update)
Gu Xu turned his head and saw Shi Xiaohan holding his sleeves at a glance, his bright almond eyes narrowed into crescents, looking at him with a smile.

"Is it something delicious?" He guessed casually.

"No." Shi Xiaohan shook his head, and the tassels hanging on the golden hairpin dangled with her movements.

"Pill?"

"No."

"silver?"

"No."

"What is that?" Gu Xu gave up guessing.

"Well...it's this." Shi Xiaohan let go of his hand, then took out a token from his pocket, and stuffed it into Gu Xu's hand.

Gu Xu took the token and looked it over carefully.

He saw that on the front of the token, engraved with a capital number six, which is "Lu"; and on the back of the token, Shi Xiaohan's name was engraved in small seal script.

However, at this moment, Shi Xiaohan suddenly snapped his fingers.

A golden light began to flash on the token.

Immediately afterwards, the word "Shi Xiaohan" disappeared and was replaced by the word "Gu Xu".

"What is this?" Seeing this scene, Gu Xu couldn't help asking.

"This is a token, which represents the ownership of No. [-] pill workshop in my family," Shi Xiaohan introduced briskly, "There are six pill workshops in my family, of which No. [-] to No. [-] belong to my father, and No. [-] and No. [-] belong to my father. Mine—of course, they will always be mine.

"Now, I will give you my Workshop No. [-] as your birthday present. It is located in the suburbs of Qingzhou Prefecture. I will take you there to take a look when I have free time in the future."

Gu Xu looked at the token in his hand and was silent for a moment.

In the past, Xiaohan often gave him pills.

Those pills are very important to his practice, but for Shi Xiaohan, who is from a wealthy family, they are just a small effort, and they are an insignificant part of her rich wealth.

But now, she has two workshops, but she is willing to give half of them to herself.

"Xiao Han, this gift is too expensive." Gu Xu said in a deep voice.

"Money and wealth are things outside the body," Shi Xiaohan looked into his eyes and said seriously, "Compared to you saving my life on Mount Yi, this is nothing at all."

"Actually, I mainly did it to save myself."

"But without you, I would have become a sacrificial offering to that Kongxuan Sanren."

"You do this...does your father know?"

"This workshop is my private property. I can dispose of and transfer it at will without my father's consent," Shi Xiaohan said domineeringly, with his arms akimbo, "Also, if you want to change the The engraved name requires not only snapping fingers, but also silently reciting a specific mantra in the heart.

"As for the content of the spell, I won't tell you even if I die. So this No. [-] workshop can only be rotten in your hands. You will never be able to transfer it, let alone return it to me. "

Hearing her words, Gu Xu smiled helplessly, and could only accept the token, and at the same time keep this matter in his heart.

"I owe her too much now," he thought silently, "I feel like I can't afford it, so what should I do..."

Just when he was lost in thought, Shi Xiaohan suddenly jumped onto the stone steps next to him like a rabbit, stretched out his hands to wrap his arms around his neck, and hugged him from behind.Her chin rested on his shoulder, her chest against his back.

Gu Xu was startled by her sudden action.

At this moment, he could clearly hear her breathing and feel her heart beating faster.

"With this workshop, you don't need to worry about not having enough pills before the sixth level," she said close to his ear, and the breath that she exhaled made Gu Xu's ears itch, "I believe you You must be able to become a saint before the age of 30."

As soon as she finished speaking, before Gu Xu could react, she let go of her hand in an instant, jumped down from the stone steps, and ran towards the other end of the corridor with a "whoosh".

She even used the "Falling Flowers and Flying Catkins" movement technique while running, and she disappeared from Gu Xu's sight in the blink of an eye like a ghost.

Gu Xu stood where she was, looking at the place where she disappeared, feeling complicated.

"This girl...is she shy?"

"Also, didn't the book say that all girls are soft? Why did I feel different just now?"

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Shi Xiaohan ran fast.

She even forgot that it was breakfast time, and just wanted to find a place to hide as soon as possible.

At this moment, her cheeks were slightly flushed, and her heart was pounding like a deer.

Just now, when she handed the token into Gu Xu's hands, she couldn't help but start thinking about his lifespan again. The more she thought about it, the more distressed she became, and when her mind got hot, she hugged him impulsively.

"The elders often tell me that I am a lady from an official family, and I want to be an elegant and dignified lady—be reserved in front of boys, and not be too proactive, otherwise I will be looked down upon.

"Although I don't want to be a lady, I'm worried that he will think I'm frivolous...

"Also, Gu Xu is really skinny. I need to find more delicious food in the future, and find a way to make him fat..."

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As soon as Shi Xiaohan left, Shangguan Jin walked straight towards Gu Xu from the other side of the corridor.

She was still wearing a light green skirt as usual, but she combed her hair into a bun - this is a hairstyle commonly used by unmarried women in the Daqi Dynasty. With silver hair accessories and jadeite earrings, she looks beautiful free from vulgarity.

"Gu Daoyou, I almost forgot that today is your birthday," she said with a reserved and just right smile on her face, "I wish you prosperity like the sun, longevity and prosperity."

Trying to figure out other people's minds and observing other people's personalities and preferences from the details is what Shangguan Jin is good at as always.

Her birthday wishes are undoubtedly what Gu Xu loves to hear - rather than wishing him "Happy Birthday", he obviously wants to hear wishing him "Longevity and Wealth".

"Thank you." He responded with a faint smile.

"This is the gift that the chief minister asked me to bring you," Shangguan Jin said while taking out a scroll from his sleeve and handing it to Gu Xu, "To be honest, the request of the chief minister today made me Very surprised. Because he never gave anyone a birthday present before."

Gu Xu raised his eyebrows slightly, and reached out to take the scroll.

Driven by curiosity, he unfolded the scroll slightly, and found that it turned out to be a star map—every star in the sky, every star field, and even the trajectory of the stars were precisely drawn on the scroll. On the picture, there are clear notes in small characters next to it, which looks dense and neat and detailed.

What surprised him was that there was no trace of extraordinary power on this astrology map, it was just an ordinary scroll.

"I thought Mr. Chief would give me some powerful magic weapon," he thought in his heart, "for example, the 'stand-in bracelet' and 'empty-breaking bead' from last time are very good, and they can help me at critical times. Run for your life."

But he quickly put such thoughts out of his mind.

After all, receiving a gift from the chief was an unexpected thing in itself.It was impossible for him to ask for any more gifts.

"Speaking of presents, I prepared some for you myself." At this moment, Shangguan Jin spoke again, interrupting his thoughts.

While speaking, she took out some blank papers from her pocket.

The edges of the paper were ragged and looked as if they had been chewed by a dog, apparently torn from a book.

She handed the white paper to Gu Xu's hand.

Gu Xu took a closer look, and was surprised to find that these were three extremely high-level line drawings—they did not apply color, but simply outlined the characters and the background with different shades of ink. The lines were dense, clear and smooth, and looked The pen is concise and full of meaning.

"Fellow Daoist Shangguan, these... are all drawn by you?"

Shangguan Jin nodded calmly.

Gu Xu stopped talking.

The reason why he was surprised was not just because Shangguan Jin's painting skills were very high.

The main reason is that the protagonists of these three paintings are all himself——

The first one shows him standing alone on the peak of Mount Lao, facing the waves of the sea, with his back to the buildings on the mountain, his clothes fluttering;
The second one is the night of the Lantern Festival. He stands on the lotus-shaped arena in the center of the Luohe River as a victor, with countless colored lights hanging on the bank;
The third one is in the illusion of "Warming Old Pot", he is standing between the mountains and forests, covering the heads of the "falling head people" flying in the sky with a big golden net.

Every painting is exactly the same as the scene at that time, as if it was photographed by a black and white camera.

"I didn't expect you to draw so well," Gu Xu was silent for a moment, then politely boasted, "You are really versatile."

"It's just a hobby," Shangguan Jin said with a smile, "It's hard not to be realistic when drawing with the supernatural power of 'heaven'."

Gu Xu immediately understood that Shangguan Jin's way of drawing is to use the magical power of "heavenly calculation" to turn the scene into data, and then convert the data into a scene, and finally reproduce it on white paper.

It's a very "cheating" behavior just like he used "Bo Wen Qiang Ji" to learn symbols a few months ago.

At the same time, Shangguan Jin also took out the picture album and showed Gu Xu a few pages, including the sunrise in the East China Sea, the spring scenery of the Luohe River, the earing miscanthus, the morning rain and dew, the dragonfly on the lotus leaf, the Lantern Festival night by the street. Playful children... It can be seen that she is very good at discovering the subtle beauty around her.

"These are my usual practice."

"So lovely."

"You have to record something that looks good so you can watch it over and over again."

"Yes." Gu Xu didn't know how to respond for a moment.

"If I have free time in the future, I still want to draw the entire Luojing City. Gu Daoyou, what do you think?"

"Yes, I am looking forward to it."

Shangguan Jin smiled faintly: "You will go to Longmen Academy to participate in the selection of 'Guest Lecturer' tomorrow. The Chief Secretary said that he will go there to watch in person, and I will accompany you. You must perform well!"

"I will definitely do my best, and I will never embarrass the Exorcist!" Gu Xu put the paintings and scrolls into "Xianyunju", and raised his fist jokingly.

Afterwards, Shangguan Jin went to the retreat room to study Gu techniques, while Gu Xu walked along the corridor to find Shi Xiaohan.

The girl ran away in such a hurry that she didn't even eat breakfast.

In half an hour, when the public chef stopped selling breakfast, she would definitely regret it because she was hungry.

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