Longevity begins with slaying demons and eliminating demons

"I really didn't expect that Zhao Changying would make such a move.

"He entered the secret room for retreat, and we didn't know whether he was dead or alive, let alone when to deal with Zhao Yan. If he suddenly left the retreat and found that we were against his daughter, what should we do? "

Zhao Yu clenched his hands into fists, his complexion was ashen, and he paced up and down the room restlessly.

"Especially that Chong Li, who actually entrusted the coronation of the new king to that kid Gu Xu.

"Now his prestige in the eyes of Vulcan believers is far better than before. They almost regard him as a living god!"

Zhao Yu's father, Zhao Changqi, was sitting on a chair by the wall at the moment, with his head bowed and his hand on his cheek.Although he didn't say a word, his serious eyes revealed that he was not in a happy mood.

After a while, he took a deep breath and said slowly:

"Zhao Yan is really not easy to deal with now. After all, Zhao Changying is a strong 'True Monarch', and his ability is too unpredictable. He may be able to sense all the crises that happen to his daughter.

"But Gu Xu must not stay in Dayan any longer.

"If he stays here, people will continue to gather towards him, and we will gradually be marginalized."

"Then what if he doesn't leave?" Zhao Yu chuckled, "Now, Chongli serves him, Zhao Yan is devoted to him, and Daqi's envoys dare not come and arrest him easily. But there is no safer and more comfortable place than Dayan. If it were me, I wouldn't want to leave either."

Zhao Changqi was silent for a long time, and said lightly: "Then, in this case, we can only find a way to let him die."

"The people regard him as the incarnation of God. If we kill him, will it cause public anger?"

"You are not smart enough. We don't need to let everyone know that we did it. We can completely blame the Daqi court—after all, the Daqi court has been trying to hunt him down recently.

"When he dies, let's mourn him hypocritically. Maybe we can take this opportunity to win the support of the Fire God Temple and the people."

Hearing his father's words, Zhao Yu couldn't help but sigh silently in his heart, Jiang is still old and spicy.

"Father, do you have any specific plans now?" he asked.

Zhao Changqi smiled faintly, took out a small blue and white porcelain vase shaped like a gourd from the storage treasure, and placed it on the table.

"This bottle is filled with the juice extracted from the 'Reaper of Souls'," he pointed to the bottle and introduced, "This poisonous weed is colorless, odorless, hard to detect, and only grows on the islands of the South China Sea. They sent someone to buy it from Dou Yinian, Governor of the South China Sea during the Great Qi Dynasty.

"Once taking this poison, whether it is an ordinary person or a practitioner, the soul will disappear silently in sleep.

"Only saints and above are immune to its toxicity."

"It's too cheap for that kid to die so comfortably." Zhao Yu snorted.

But even though he said so, in his mind, the image of Gu Xu lying on the bed and not breathing had already emerged, and the more he thought about it, the more excited he became.

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After Zhao Yan changed from a princess to King Yan, Gu Xu's daily life did not change much.Most of the time, he spends most of his time in his room tempering his true essence, drawing talisman seals, exploring more uses of the "astrolabe", and also researching the "power of incense" from Vulcan believers.

Recently, he discovered that the power of faith can not only be directly transformed into his true essence through the "Huilu" rune, but also in areas like Jicheng where Vulcan believers gather, the power of his fire-attribute spells will also be obtained. Substantial enhancement.

For example, with the same real energy, he could only light a pile of dry wood in Luojing, but he could set a forest on fire in Jicheng.

He planned that after Zhao Yan got used to her new identity, he would say goodbye to her and go to the vast East China Sea to find the next fragment of the "Astrolabe".

Zhao Yan became the King of Yan, so naturally it was impossible for her to travel all over the world with him like she promised him earlier.

He can only go on alone.

Later that day, when he finished his meditation and opened his eyes, a small maid appeared at the door of his room carrying a teapot and cups on a tray.

"My lord, Your Majesty would like to invite you to drink tea," she said in a timid voice, "This is the unique alpine Rhododendron in Dayan, which can help you relieve fatigue while practicing. She knows you like it, so she specially called me Bring it for you to taste."

Gu Xu stood up from the seat and walked to the door, only to feel a faint fragrance wafting in the wind, which made people feel refreshed.

"Thank her for me," he said.

At the same time, he sighed in his heart, Zhao Yan was really considerate today, she was busy with messy affairs in the conference hall all day, but she still didn't forget to send someone to bring him tea.

However, the moment he took the tray from the maid's hand, his movements suddenly stopped, and the expression on his face became serious.

"My lord... what's the matter with you?" the servant girl asked anxiously.Her face turned slightly pale, as if she was frightened by Gu Xu's actions.

Gu Xu did not respond immediately.

Ever since he obtained the "Xuanwu" fragment of the "Astrolabe", he has mastered the ability to deduce a person's fate through the ruling star of the house of fate.

Naturally, he can also use this to foresee the crisis that may happen to him.

And after his repeated practice in recent days, this skill has been continuously strengthened, and it has almost become a kind of intuition of his.

At this moment, he felt very clearly that there was danger hidden in the teapot—a danger that might kill him.

"This pot of tea can't be sent by King Yan," he frowned, put the tray on a wooden table beside him, and asked in a cold voice, "Tell me the truth, who asked you to put it on?" Sent to me here?"

Hearing his words, the servant girl couldn't help shivering, but she still said in a slightly trembling voice, "It's... the king."

"Lying is a bad habit," Gu Xu said while taking out a rusty copper coin from his pocket, "You may not know that I am not only a talisman master, but also an amateur fortune-teller.

"Whether you're telling the truth or not, I'll know with a test."

He silently recited the names of "Taishang Haotian" and "Emperor Ziwei" in his heart, and threw the copper coins into the air.

When it fell back into his palm, the back was facing up.

"God told me that you lied to me just now," Gu Xu looked at the shivering little maid with half a smile, "I'll give you another chance to tell the truth."

The little maid didn't say anything, but turned around and ran away.

But as an ordinary person with no cultivation, how could she easily run away from under Gu Xu's nose?

Gu Xu took out a "Body Binding Talisman" from "Xianyunju", and lightly threw it at her, tripping her to the ground in an instant, and then tied her into a rice dumpling.

At this time, the guards of Dayan Palace hurriedly arrived.

They looked at the little maid who was twisting and twisting and struggling desperately on the ground, and looked at Gu Xu who was standing aside, with surprised eyes.

"My lord, what just happened?"

"She was instigated by others, with evil intentions, and wanted to harm me." Gu Xu replied.

Before he finished speaking, the little girl didn't hide anymore, but cried out in a hysterical voice with tears in her eyes: "You are a bastard who colluded with ghosts, the public enemy of Qi people! You killed my people in Luojing! I want Go to hell!"

The guards looked at the little girl, and then at Gu Xu, and felt that the enmity between Gu Xu and Da Qi was so deep that even a minor girl would try every means to deal with him.

The leading guard stepped forward, grabbed the rope, and lifted the little maid from the ground.

"My lord, what happened today is our negligence," he bowed to Gu Xu respectfully and said, "Your Majesty has given us an order to do our best to ensure your safety. We will bring her to the Dungeon interrogation."

"I think this matter should not be so simple." Gu Xu narrowed his eyes slightly, "If she was ordered by the Daqi court, then this plan is too clumsy. With Luojing's style of Princess Zhaoning Well, if she wants to deal with me, she will definitely send a large group of monks from the fifth and sixth realms to surround me, and maybe she will invite saints and strong men to lead the formation, just to be safe.

"Why did you only send a lonely little girl?"

Having said that, he went to the table by the door, opened the lid of the teapot, and observed carefully.

The tea is made of flowers, exudes a faint sweet fragrance, no abnormal color, no peculiar smell, and it seems that there is no problem at all.

If Gu Xu was just an ordinary fourth-level monk without the intuition for danger given to him by the "star disk", there is a high probability that he would be caught without noticing.

But when he did another fortune-telling with copper coins, the result of the fortune-telling clearly showed that the tea had been poisoned.

Gu Xu has read many books and knows that almost all the colorless and odorless poisons in the Great Wilderness are extremely rare.

For example, the "beauty's tears" in the northwest desert, the "spring of death" in the valleys of the south, and the "soul-destroyer grass" in the islands of the South China Sea, etc., are all hard to buy.

"If this little girl wanted to kill me out of personal hatred on her own initiative, then how did she get this expensive poison?"

Gu Xu thought secretly, only to feel that behind this incident, there must be a rich or expensive mastermind behind the scenes.

That person had an extraordinary status, he didn't want to expose himself, and he didn't know much about Gu Xu's methods.

"a?"

An answer quickly appeared in Gu Xu's mind.

A few minutes later, Zhao Yan came from the other end of the corridor with several black-clothed personal guards.

She walked in a hurry, her eyebrows were tightly knitted, and her eyes were full of worry.

"Are you okay?" As soon as she saw Gu Xu, she looked him up and down, for fear that he was missing an arm or a leg, "I just heard someone report that someone wants to harm you."