Longevity begins with slaying demons and eliminating demons

When it was just dawn, Shi Lei, a thousand household in Laizhou Prefecture, received a package from the Civil Information Bureau.

The sender's name is "Wang Xiang".Shi Lei didn't know him.

At first he thought it was in the wrong place.

But after a closer look, his name and address were indeed written on the package, and the sender also paid the most expensive "wine power" and "number gold", asking the post office to deliver the package to him as soon as possible. Here, nothing can go wrong.

So, with doubts, Shi Lei carefully opened the package.

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After several days of bed rest and medical treatment, Shi Xiaohan's injured soul has basically recovered, and now he can get out of bed and walk around, and he can practice normally.

However, because Shi Lei unilaterally broke up her marriage contract with Gu Xu and burned the dowry gift that Gu Xu sent, Shi Xiaohan has been having a cold war with his father recently and never took the initiative to talk to him.

When Shi Lei came to talk to her, she would turn her head away and never answer.

"Xiaohan, someone sent you a package."

This morning, when Xiaohan was sitting at the table eating breakfast, Shi Lei suddenly walked up to her and said to her.

Shi Xiaohan lowered his head and didn't speak.

Holding the chopsticks tightly, she kept stuffing the hot and sour noodles from the bowl into her mouth, and her little mouth was covered with chili and oil stains.

"It's your 'Kun Wu Dao'." Shi Lei added.

Hearing the words "Kunwu Dao", the chopsticks in Shi Xiaohan's hand fell to the table with a "slap".

She stood up abruptly, and sure enough, she saw a machete that was as red as fire and glowing crimson lying quietly on the coffee table not far away.

She walked forward in three steps at a time and held "Kun Wu Dao" tightly in her arms.

The petite girl and the heavy sword form a sharp visual contrast.

Shi Xiaohan clearly remembered that Gu Xu carried the "Kunwu Sword" with him on the day Luojing City was broken.

She originally thought that after Gu Xu was forced to flee the capital on the "groundless" charge of treason, the knife would go into a long escape with him and never return to her hands.

"Let'Kunwudao" take my place and stay by his side, maybe...he won't be so lonely." Such thoughts popped up in her mind more than once.

She had planned to find a new talisman.

It's just that she never expected that Gu Xu would send the "Kunwu Knife" back to her mansion without saying a word.

How did he do it?
Did he expose his whereabouts and be discovered by the government?

Did he take a big risk?
Shi Xiaohan bit his lip, lowered his eyes, his heart was moved and worried at the same time, his heartstrings were tense all of a sudden, and sweat broke out from his palms.

At this time, someone outside the window suddenly shouted: "Princess Zhaoning is here!"

Hearing this sound, Shi Xiaohan hugged the "Kunwu Knife", sneaked into his room like a rabbit, and locked the door behind him.

She was in a bad mood today, and she didn't want to deal with this annoying princess.

Shi Lei glanced at his daughter's back and sighed helplessly.

Then he walked to the door, bowed his hands respectfully towards a carriage parked at the door, and said: "My minister, Shi Lei, I didn't know that Her Highness the Princess is here, and I was far away to welcome you. I hope that Your Highness will forgive me."

After a short pause, he added: "My daughter is not feeling well today and cannot go out to meet her. Please forgive me, Your Highness."

Shi Lei's waist was bent very low, and his posture was also very low.

He knew that his and his daughter's identities were sensitive right now—although the imperial court was merciful and did not intend to implicate them, he also needed to be cautious at all times, and he must never give anyone a blame.

"You don't need to be too polite when you are a thousand households." A soft and pleasant voice came from the carriage.

Afterwards, Princess Xiao Wanjun of Zhaoning, who was plainly dressed and graceful, got out of the carriage with the help of her maid.

Behind her was an old man with gray hair, a bloated figure, and a gold-plated cane.

"Shi Qianhu, this is Mr. Mu Yunkai, who is enshrined by the royal family and a master of divination," Princess Zhaoning pointed to the old man and introduced to Shi Lei, "We are here today to ask you to help investigate the fugitive Gu Xu whereabouts."

The intention of the two of them was not beyond Shi Lei's expectation.

His eyes became serious, and he politely invited the two into the room.

As soon as he sat down, Mu Yunkai said straight to the point: "I want to know Gu Xu's birth date."

In the wild world, a person's date of birth is extremely important private information.

It is like a code of fate.

Some monks who master special spells can know and influence other people's fortunes and even cast curses after knowing their birthdays.

Therefore, except for fortune-telling and marriage discussions, under normal circumstances, people will not easily disclose their birthday information.

At this moment, upon hearing Mu Yunkai's words, Shi Lei knew that the Daqi court was testing his loyalty again.

Although the imperial court did not treat him and Shi Xiaohan as Gu Xu's accomplices and punish him together, they have been observing his performance.

Shi Lei sighed softly, and replied truthfully: "Xin Chou year, Xin Maoyue, Jiayin day, Renshen time."

In order to save his daughter's life, he didn't dare not cooperate with the court's investigation, and he could only silently hope that that kid Gu Xu would be blessed in his heart.

Mu Yunkai wrote down the information, and then asked, "Do you have Gu Xu's fingerprint here?"

Palmistry is also important personal information in divination, which is closely related to a person's numerology and fortune.

Shi Lei fell into deep thought.

The first thing he thought of was Gu Xu's handprint on the marriage certificate.It's just that he had already thrown the marriage certificate into the stove and burned it to ashes.

Then he thought that after Shi Xiaohan gave Gu Xu the elixir workshop as a birthday gift without authorization, the two later made up a formal industrial delivery agreement - on that document, Gu Xu also left his hand. print.

Shi Leiben was hesitant to hand over this document honestly as requested by the other party.

His intuition told him that the more information this person named Mu Yunkai knew, the more dangerous Gu Xu's situation would be.

However, just when he was hesitating, Mu Yunkai's lazy eyes suddenly became sharper, as if he could see through his mind and see his thoughts.

Shi Lei had no choice but to wave his hand at the servants in the room, and ordered: "Go to the first drawer of my desk and get the delivery agreement from the pill workshop."

The servant did so immediately.

After a while, Mu Yunkai took the agreement from the servant, saw the red handprint on the paper, and nodded with satisfaction.

He thought for a while, and then asked: "By the way, do you still have the items left by Gu Xu here?"

Shi Lei has given up struggling.

He asked the servant to fetch a "Fashion Talisman" - it was the one that Gu Xu stuck on Shi Xiaohan's body on the day Luojing City was destroyed.

Mu Yunkai took out a brush, dipped it in ink, squatted down, and drew a circular and complicated formation on the ground, and placed the agreement and the "Fengxing Talisman" at both ends of the formation.

Then he began to chant the mantra under his breath.

As the formation glowed with silver light, the color of Mu Yunkai's pupils also became lighter and lighter, gradually becoming more transparent.

His voice also became ethereal, giving people an auditory hallucination-like feeling.

After reciting a spell, his black eyeballs had disappeared, and there was only a paleness in the eye sockets.

"Shi Qianhu, I have started looking for Gu Xu in the long river of fate," Mu Yunkai raised his head slightly, and said to Shi Lei, "I need you to tell me as much information about Gu Xu as possible, such as his character, his preferences, his living habits...in this way, I can clear away the fog in the long river of fate more quickly."

"Gu Xu—"

"——Shi Qianhu, is it convenient to invite your daughter here?" Shi Lei was about to speak, when Princess Zhaoning suddenly interrupted, "I think, in the entire city of Luojing, the one who knows Gu Xu the most She is the one who deserves it."

Shi Lei immediately got up, bowed his head towards the princess and said: "Sorry, Your Highness, my daughter hurt her soul the day Luojing City was destroyed, and she hasn't recovered yet, so it's really inconvenient to come out to see guests."

Shi Lei didn't dare and didn't want Shi Xiaohan to appear on such an occasion.

On the one hand, he was afraid that she would say some irrational and stupid things in front of the princess, which would lead to trouble;

On the other hand, what happened today was too cruel for Shi Xiaohan—let him be the villain himself.

Hearing his words, Princess Zhaoning said lightly, "It's okay", and didn't force her anymore.

Shi Lei cleared his throat, and said slowly: "As far as I know, Gu Xu has always been a very hardworking and self-disciplined person... My daughter once told me that when he was in Yishui County, he was not practicing every day. , just doing tasks, almost never giving myself time to rest...

"...The reason why he is so desperate is because he is born with deficiencies and bones. If he can't cultivate to the realm of a saint before the age of 30, he will die young...

"...He has read a lot of books and has a superb memory. He can accurately remember the contents of the books he has read...

"...he eats a light diet and doesn't drink at all...my daughter said that his favorite food is the almond tofu from the public kitchen of the Yishui Exorcism Department...

"..."

Shi Lei silently told everything he knew about Gu Xu.

Princess Zhaoning listened quietly.

In her mind, Gu Xu's image became more and more complete and vivid.

When she heard that Gu Xu was "congenitally deficient, his bones are deficient", she inadvertently clenched her fists with her hands flat on her knees.

In the past, she admired his brilliance.

At this moment, she sympathized with his bad luck and poor fortune.

"If that's the case, why did Gu Xu choose to commit treason and treason?" Princess Zhaoning once again had such a question in her heart, "If this accident hadn't happened, he would still be the most anticipated son of heaven, and he would be awarded by Da Qi." The imperial court has devoted all its efforts to cultivating it, and has abundant cultivation resources... It is not impossible to become a saint before the age of 30.

"But now, he has become a prisoner of the imperial court, and has lost the channel to obtain resources... Even if he escapes to Youzhou and joins Zhao Changying's command, the cultivation resources he can obtain may not be more than before... "

The more she thought about it, the more confused she became.

Mu Yunkai sat cross-legged beside the formation, muttering incantations.

His consciousness had already drifted to the long river of clouds and mists shrouded in mist.

But he searched and searched, but he still couldn't find any trace of Gu Xu—as if this person didn't exist in the world at all.

Time flies.

The sun rose from the eastern horizon, climbing higher and higher.

In the courtyard of the Shi family's mansion, a few rays of golden sunlight slanted in.As if it had grown legs, it moved and rotated soundlessly in the courtyard, slipped over the bluestone steps, passed over the carved window lattices, and floated past the girl's quiet boudoir.

Several hours passed quietly like this.

In the afternoon, the sun gradually turned westward, and the silver light of the formation on the ground suddenly became extraordinarily bright without warning, overshadowing the sunlight that shone into the room, making everyone present unable to open their eyes.

Mu Yunkai stood up excitedly.

"I see it! I see it at last!" he exclaimed.Looking at his excited expression, it seems that he has solved a century-old problem in the practice world.

However, before he finished speaking, his expression suddenly became painful and hideous.

His face turned pale at first, then flushed, and finally purple again.His facial features were twisted into a ball, the deep wrinkles became distorted lines, and the muscles on his face twitched uncontrollably.

"what--"

As he uttered a scream, his eyes suddenly sunken deeply, and bright red blood flowed out of his eye sockets like a stream.

He covered his eyes and fell to his knees in pain.

"Gu Xu...Gu Xu has gone to Jingxing..." He said in a trembling voice.

At the price of his eyes, Mu Yunkai finally found the answer he wanted in the river of fate.

"Jingxing..."

Hearing his words, Princess Zhaoning didn't delay for a moment, and immediately issued a new order to the officials who were searching for Gu Xu with the "Messaging Jade Talisman" she was carrying on her body.

Shi Lei looked at his blind eyes, remained silent, with complicated emotions.

Since realizing the limitations of his own qualifications and abilities, Shi Lei has long stopped pursuing further advancement in his official career.The safety and happiness of his daughter is the top priority in his heart.

When his daughter got engaged earlier, he did not hesitate to spend three thousand meritorious deeds to ask Chief Luo about Gu Xu's future, for fear that Gu Xu would die young and make his precious daughter a widow.

And after Gu Xu became a wanted criminal, he immediately made the decision to "draw a line, cooperate with the court, sacrifice Gu Xu, and save his daughter", for fear that the court would treat Shi Xiaohan as Gu Xu's accomplice and punish him together.

From his point of view, there is a high probability that this matter will end with Gu Xu's arrest, and a small probability that Gu Xu will escape from the country and wander around the world ever since, never returning home.

Shi Xiaohan will also gradually forget this youthful relationship with the passage of time, and then form a new family and live an ordinary and happy life.

But now he found that he had underestimated both Gu Xu's ability and the determination of the Great Qi court.

"Perhaps, another bloody storm is coming."

Shi Lei looked at the slowly moving sunlight by the window, and sighed long.

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at the same time.

After several hours of non-stop driving, Gu Xu finally arrived near Jingxing before dark.

Jingxing is the fifth of the eight Taihang Xings. It is located at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain and controls the Taihang Fortress. There are important post roads connecting Yan and Jin in the territory. It is named because of its terrain.

An ancient book says: "The four sides are high, the center is down, as deep as a well, and as deep as a stove, so it is called Jingxing."

Gu Xu didn't rush to cross Jingxing, but hid in a shadowy forest, took off the mask on his face, and let out a long sigh of relief.

Due to his rest and adjustment last night, he was interrupted by Sima Chang and the "Reggae".

If you don't take off the mask, there is a high probability that it will cause its side effects.

But as soon as he took off the mask, Gu Xu faintly felt that an invisible gaze fell on him, giving him a needle-like discomfort.

But there was no one in the forest.

Gu Xu looked around, but couldn't find any sign of the voyeur.

Just when he was wondering, the surface of the "astrolabe" in his hand suddenly lit up with a dazzling silver light, and then he heard a scream of pain.

The spying gaze disappeared in an instant, as if it had never existed.

Gu Xu frowned slightly.

Out of caution, he put the mask back on his face anyway.

However, at this moment, a loud voice sounded behind him:

"My official, Qianhu Que Juchang in Liaozhou Prefecture, is hereby entrusted with apprehending important criminals of the imperial court. Quickly take out your 'Lu Yin' for inspection! If you dare to conceal it, it will be regarded as the same crime!"