Longevity begins with slaying demons and eliminating demons

Chapter 255 Gradually improving fortune (seeking monthly ticket)
There is such a good thing?
Chief Luo's proposal surprised Gu Xu.

He originally thought that the meritorious reward he received was a one-off.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be like an invention patent from a previous life. As long as someone else uses the "fire character" to kill ghosts, he can get a fortune of varying sizes.

This reminded him of the second edition of the "Taishang Beiji Town Devil Killing Talisman" that was handed over to the Yamen before.

As long as a colleague redeems a "ghost-killing talisman" he drew, he can get [-] meritorious deeds - over the past few months, he has earned hundreds of meritorious deeds in this way, and risked his life to go out to kill ghosts Compared with the task, it is simply safe and easy.

But this time was different from last time.

Last time he needed to move the pen and consume some real energy to draw the talisman.

This time he didn't have to do anything.

For things like teaching spells to other monks, the chief will send someone to do it.

This feeling of lying down and receiving meritorious service is really comfortable.

"Of course you can."

"Then let's do this!" Luo Chuan said with a smile.Gu Xu's straightforward attitude seemed to make him feel happy.

He paused for a while, and then talked about another topic: "Gu Xiaoyou, recently, there is something in Luojing City that I might trouble you to do."

"What's the matter, my lord?"

"About the audition for this year's Luoshui Conference," Luo Chuan said, "I hope you can spare some time in early February to watch and comment on the battle for the monks in Luojing City."

Although the "Luoshui Conference" is nominally a grand event for monks from all over the country, it is unrealistic to gather tens of thousands of monks in Luojing City to participate in the competition.

In particular, Luochuan has not proposed to modify the format of the competition for the time being, and the Luoshui Conference will still be held in the form of a group arena—think about it, all monks from all over the country will fight in pairs in the capital, and it will take until the year of the monkey.

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 to Luojing City to participate in the final competition.

Of course, the sixth-rank officials of the Exorcism Department like Gu Xu, the viscount of the Great Qi Dynasty, and the leader of the Lantern Festival arena can directly participate in the main competition, and there is no need to spend time and effort to participate in the audition.

The reason why Daqi's monks are full of great enthusiasm for the "Luoshui Conference" is not only because they are eager to get rewards and become famous in the country, but also because in each round of selection, there will be well-known local experts As a "guest", give comments and pointers to the performance of the contestants.

For most ordinary monks, the matter of "winning the championship" is too far away from them. "The focus is on participation", "gaining knowledge", and "accumulating lessons" are the mentality they have when they participate in the competition.

And these "guest commentators" are big figures that they have no chance to meet at ordinary times, and they have a wealth of experience in practice.

These people can often point out the problems and flaws in the process of monks casting spells or martial arts moves, and if they are in a good mood, they will even generously give some suggestions for practice.

As the saying goes, it is often said that a few words of advice from a famous teacher is better than shutting yourself in a room for two or three years.

In the previous "Luoshui Conference", there were more than one cases of breakthroughs in cultivation or improvement in spells after receiving guidance from powerful senior practitioners.

This undoubtedly makes more practitioners flock to it.

Anyway, there is no money to participate in the competition.

As long as you go to the arena to fight with others, no matter whether you win or lose, there is a probability that you will have a chance to break through the bottleneck for nothing.

Daqi's monks why not do it?

After hearing this proposal from Chief Luo, Gu Xu was hesitant at first, because he had to do a lot of messy things in the recent period—such as the handover and rectification of the courtyard house, and the His elixir workshop, such as preparing the teaching content for the students of Longmen Academy, such as continuing to ponder the second form of "Seven Burning Heavens" and the "Star Array" spell...

In addition, after Luo Chuan just mentioned the information about the Daguguan Grottoes, Gu Xu also secretly planned to speed up his practice and strive to climb the "Broken Soul Cliff" before the "Luoshui Conference" started, so as to increase his points The grasp of winning the championship.

Chief Luo once asked Qu Jinglong to tell him that the monk who wins the leader in the "Luoshui Conference" will be eligible to enter the royal treasury and choose a magic weapon.

According to Gu Xu's current entry speed, it shouldn't take too long to become a monk in the fourth realm.

It is necessary for him to prepare a magic weapon for himself in advance.

Although he has a powerful weapon like the "Jinghong Pen" in his hand.

However, although the "famous utensil" is good, it has been used by others after all, and there are many traces of the former owner on it, so it is not suitable for being used as a natal object.

As a genius monk who aspires to become a saint, his natal object will become an important cornerstone of his enlightenment, and it must be completely his own - even if it is slowly developed from a low-grade magic weapon, it is better than remaining. The "famous device" of the former human rhyme.

The most important thing is to take advantage of your hand and your appetite.

So he placed high expectations on the rewards of this "Luoshui Conference".

His recent time is very limited... To give comments and guidance to others, the priority of this kind of thing should be put back a little bit...

"Gu Xiaoyou, if you are willing to spend an hour sitting by the Luoshui River and chatting with other monks, in addition to the corresponding feats, you can also get a 'substitute bracelet' as a reward."

"That's no problem." Gu Xu agreed without thinking.

Although the "substitute bracelet" is a one-time magic weapon, it can save his life at critical times.When I met Kongxuan Sanren on Yishan before, if he didn't have the "substitute bracelet" to help him get rid of the negative effects in his body, then under the influence of "Zhaoming Forbidden Art", he would become a "Snow Girl" and "Snow Girl". A ghost that loses its rationality if it does not eat the soul.

He suddenly felt that his recent fortune had undergone earth-shaking changes.

When I was in Yishui County before, I couldn't save meritorious deeds, nor could I save money. I had to rely on Shi Xiaohan to help me with the pills for cultivation, and I got the "substitute bracelet" after I went to Lu's murderous house at a risk.

But now that he arrived in Luojing City, he earned a bounty in the Lantern Festival Competition, received a workshop for his birthday, received a generous salary in Longmen Academy, and now he is rewarded with meritorious deeds and magic weapons...

Could it be that the recent horoscope... no, the fortune of the ruler of the house of fate has reversed?

Either way, it's a good sign.Gu Xu silently sighed in his heart.

After all, money and merit, who doesn't like it?

…………

Chu Fengge locked himself in the room and practiced for a whole day.

Half of the time continues to travel along the path of darkness in the world of consciousness, and the other half of the time is devoted to practicing the "Sword of Clouds and Stars".

Even when the bell struck noon, he did not leave the room to go to the yamen kitchen for lunch.

Anyway, he was already a fifth-level monk, and eating was no longer his daily need—even if he didn't touch a grain of rice for several days, he could still be alive and kicking.

He knew that today, almost all the officials in the Exorcism Office were nervously paying attention to the battle of Talisman in Longmen Academy.

Almost all the people who participated in the competition had master-level talisman attainments.

Its intensity is no less than that of Chu Fengge and Jiange Su Xiao fighting with swords for 1 rounds in front of the Zichen Palace, vying to be the "No. Chu Fengge's own assumptions, after all, in the eyes of others, he is actually just a reckless man who fights purely on "weeds" and has only a half-knowledge of swordsmanship.

If Chu Fengge walked out of his room today and went to the corridor of the yamen, the yard, or the crowded public kitchen, he would definitely hear the name "Gu Xu" every few seconds.

He felt that his mentality would be overwhelmed.

However, after night fell, he still couldn't restrain his curiosity.He still walked out of the room, found Shangguan Jin, and asked her about the result of today's talisman master contest.

"What do you guess?" Shangguan Jin didn't answer directly, but smiled mysteriously and asked back.

So Chu Fengge immediately understood.

"It's Gu Xu again, right?"

His tone was calm.

It's just that in his mind, the familiar feeling of being hit again sprouted, which upset him.

"Master Chu, it seems that you are not so stupid as to be incurable after all." Shangguan Jin said in a sharp tone on purpose, bickering with him as usual.

"Hehe, who is so stupid that it can't be cured?" Chu Fengge clasped his hands on his chest, raised his chin, and retorted habitually, "A certain person secretly flipped through "Seven Styles of Burning Heaven" and thought about it for a while. All day, but she couldn't understand half a word, and she was unwilling to admit it... Who is this person, I won't say the name."

"Isn't someone the same?" Shangguan Jin glanced at him sideways, "Not only can't understand "Seven Styles of Burning Heaven", but also can't understand the true meaning of "The Sword of Clouds and Stars"... that day at the 'Warming Pot' At that time, if Gu Xu hadn't given a crucial reminder, someone might not even be able to defeat that Qianhu official surnamed Wu."

"At least I'm better than a coward like you who dare not fight directly!" Chu Fengge was furious, and stopped playing the game of yin and yang with her, and started to be tough directly, "I also know that when you went to the Laoshan ruins Nothing, not even the shadow of Kongxuan Sanren's inheritance... At that time, that kid Gu Xu was only a second-level monk, and you couldn't even compare him!"

"Gu Xu is an unprecedented genius personally certified by the head of the department. I can't compare him to him, he is very normal," Shangguan Jin said flatly, "It's you, Chu Fengge, a dignified fifth-level monk, a fifth-grade doctor of the Exorcist Division. , You don’t even have the courage to admit that you are not as good as others. And I also heard that when you went to the Lu’s haunted house, you were so frightened that you collapsed and even peed your pants. In the end, you completely relied on Gu Xu to solve the ghosts there. ...Heh, tell me, who is the coward?"

"You're talking nonsense! You're the one who peed your pants! I was just drained dry by that bastard Gu Xu with the 'God's Curse'!"

"..."

The two talked to each other, exposing each other's scandals as they did when they got along before, arguing non-stop.

But while bickering, Chu Fengge also gradually learned from Shangguan Jin's mouth that Gu Xu's performance that shocked everyone in Longmen Academy today, learned that the national teacher praised Gu Xu, and other talisman teachers admired Gu Xu ——Because Shangguan Jin likes to put him and Gu Xu together for comparison, which is convenient for "stepping on one another".

Although Chu Fengge had been trying his best to keep his face calm, he still clenched his fists involuntarily and kept his back straight.

"I'm going to practice," he said coldly about half an hour later, "I won't waste time discussing these boring issues with you."

"Lord Chu, I wish you a higher level soon!" Shangguan Jin showed an impeccable and elegant smile on his face.

Hearing this, Chu Fengge turned around and left immediately.

But for some reason, he did not return to the room where he was practicing just now, but was driven by an inexplicable instinct to come to the library pavilion of the Exorcist Division.

There are far fewer people reading in the library tonight than usual.After making a fortune, many people went to downtown Luojing to drink and eat meat.

But there are also some overly diligent people who are still seizing all the free time they have to supplement their knowledge—because they know that if they choose to study or practice during other people’s rest time, then the next time there will be someone in the yamen When there is a promotion opportunity, the probability of your own promotion success may be greater than others.

Chu Fengge walked along the narrow aisle to a bookshelf against the wall, and took out a thick book from the top of it. On the cover was written "Detailed Explanation of Talismans and Dao: From Beginning to Mastery".

This is his No. 15 take down the book.

Before that, he had never read the book from cover to cover—never read the first five pages, to be precise.

Every time he gave up halfway, he would curse in his heart, thinking that the talisman masters were a group of unreasonable lunatics who would actually invent such uncomfortable and ugly symbols.

In contrast, how handsome, chic, and agile a swordsman like him is--ghosts who can be killed with just one swing of a sword, why do mother-in-law and mother-in-law draw talisman seals for a long time?

With this in mind, every time Chu Fengge reads the book of talismans, he will practice swords harder - for him, compared with the brain power consumed by studying runes, the little sweat from practicing swords is nothing at all. What kind of.

However, today, when he learned that Gu Xu created the "Fire Characters" that could affect the entire cultivation world of Daqi, Chu Fengge was fascinated by the technique of talismans again.

Because he understands that the merits of "fire characters" will benefit thousands of people in the present and future.

Gu Xu is enough to go down in history with its name.

But swordsmanship is almost impossible to do this.

Chu Fengge will never be reconciled. From now on, the history books will only record him as "a well-known swordsman during the Tianxing period" or "a colleague of Gu Xu, the master of Taoism".

He also wants to make meritorious deeds so that they will last forever.

So, holding "Fu Dao Detailed Explanation", he sat down at the desk by the window, forcing himself to calm down and read it carefully.

5 minute later.

He frowned.

A quarter of an hour later.

He started scratching his head.

After half an hour.

He started to get up from his seat, grinning.

after an hour.

He slammed the book, which barely reached the eighth page, on the floor, and cursed: "Go to the f*cking talisman! Look at it again, I'm a dog!"

Hearing this sound, all the monks in the Library Pavilion who were bowing their heads to read at the same time raised their heads to look at him with puzzled expressions, as if they were curious about how this Lord Chu was stimulated.

Chu Fengge snorted coldly, and strode away from the Library Pavilion.

…………

Today is a good day for auspicious fortune.

In order to celebrate, Gu Xu came to the edge of Luoshui with Shi Xiaohan in the evening as agreed, and ate roast lamb in a small street shop that was overcrowded.

PS: ask for a wave of monthly tickets at the beginning of the month!In addition, there is an activity in the circle of book friends to vote for monthly tickets to receive starting point coins (wool), and everyone is welcome to actively participate!

(End of this chapter)