Longevity begins with slaying demons and eliminating demons

Gu Xu didn't know how long he had been falling.

At first, he could feel a strong sense of weightlessness. He only felt his heart beating faster, his blood surging, and the nerves all over his body became tense.

But then, the sense of weightlessness also seemed to disappear.

He seemed to be floating in the sky, sometimes he stood still, sometimes he tossed up and down, sometimes he seemed to be sucked into a black hole, his limbs were pulled by a terrifying force, and there were bursts of severe pain.

The more it fell, the thicker the gray mist became, blocking his entire vision, making him completely unaware of where he was.

The sound of the sea water also became more and more distant, gradually returning to silence.

After a long time, his feet finally touched the solid ground.

By this time the fog cleared.

Gu Xu found himself in a barren wilderness, with sparse vegetation standing alone, and exposed stones and sand shivering in the cold wind.

The sky that was originally day has now turned into night.

There is no moon, only a few stars shining coldly.

"What is this place?" Gu Xu asked Qi Ling.

"I don't know either," Qi Ling shook his head and replied, "'Return to the Ruins' can be said to be the weirdest area in the entire Great Wilderness World. Many years ago, the emperor took a few subordinates to the 'Return to the Ruins' to explore.

"After jumping down from the waterfall, several of them went to different places. Some of them saw the ancients a hundred years ago, some saw themselves a few years ago, and the emperor arrived at a mysterious country where the people live and work in peace and contentment, and everything is thriving. He called it For 'Xanadu'."

Gu Xu remembered what was said in the book: there is a "hunyuan qi" at the edge of the world, which can make people travel through time and space inadvertently.

"Then do you know how I can go back?" He asked again.

"The bottom of 'Return to the Ruins' is not a place where living people can stay for a long time," Qi Ling said, "When you stay here for a period of time, maybe a few days, maybe a few months, the power of the law will automatically send you out."

"A few months..." Gu Xu felt a little headache.

If he stays in the "Return to the Ruins" for too long, then there will not be much time left for him to find the last "Astrolabe" fragment.

"And, most importantly, where can I find the green dragon fragment of the 'Astrolabe'?" He thought for a while, and then said, "As a tool spirit, you should have a sense of it?"

Previously, Gu Xu only sensed the general direction of a few pieces of the "Astrolabe", but was unable to determine its specific location for the time being.

"You can see it the moment you return to the real world." Qi Ling said mysteriously.

Gu Xu nodded, and began to carefully observe the unfamiliar environment around him.

At this time, he suddenly heard the creepy howling of ghosts and wolves, as well as the screams of human beings mixed with crying, from behind a hill.

"Are ghosts preying on humans again?" Gu Xu frowned.

As a former official of the Exorcism Department, he has been taught and influenced by superiors like Chen Jisheng for a long time, and it has almost become his instinct to kill demons and save the people.

He planned to go to the other side of the mountain to have a look first.

If the ghosts are not strong, they will help them; if the ghosts are too strong, they will immediately tear apart the space and escape. …

After a while, he saw a group of people, men and women, old and young, wearing clothes made of animal skins and leaves, running staggeringly for their lives.

"Did I come to primitive society?"

Seeing how these people were dressed, Gu Xu secretly guessed.

And behind this group of people, there are three tall, grinning ghosts chasing them.

These ghosts are more than three meters high, with wide mouths and big eyes, horns on their heads, fangs in their mouths, and sticks with sharp thorns in their hands. They look menacing and terrifying.

Gu Xu knew that the name of this kind of ghosts was "Ghosts". They drank the blood of humans and beasts and ate the flesh of humans and beasts.

Although they look scary, they are actually only "wild ghosts" in strength, and Gu Xu can easily deal with them with a "ghost-killing talisman".

However, this group of "primitives" who escaped seemed to be ordinary people without cultivation.

Facing the "sinister ghosts" who bared their teeth and claws, they were powerless to fight back.

Gu Xu thought for a moment, then used the "Meteor Walking the Moon" movement method to step forward, and stopped between the crowd and the ghosts with lightning speed.

His sudden appearance surprised all the people and ghosts present.

On the one hand, his moving speed is too fast, beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

On the other hand, he has a fluttering blue shirt, and he has an exile temperament, which is incompatible with the "primitive painting style" of everyone here.

His shots were also extremely decisive.

Before the "sinister ghosts" could react, his true essence condensed on his fingertips, and then turned into a blazing flame, covering the "sinister ghosts" within.

These flames look like dancers of the Koboji, spinning, singing, and dancing with red, orange, and yellow skirts.

The surrounding temperature rose instantly, causing beads of sweat to appear on people's faces.

Gu Xu noticed that in the crowd, there was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl who was staring at the blazing flame with a longing and yearning expression on her face.

Soon, all the horrific-looking "ghosts" turned into black and gray.

Gu Xu turned his head to look at the people who were still in shock. With a smile on his face, he said kindly, "I have wiped out the ghosts. You are safe now."

Everyone looked at each other without responding immediately.

After a short silence, led by an old man, they knelt respectfully in front of Gu Xu one by one, kowtowed to him repeatedly, and kept saying: "Thanks to the great god for saving me is in danger."

Gu Xu realized that after casting a simple spell, he was actually worshiped by these people as a mystery.

"I'm not some god." He stepped forward, intending to reach out to help them up, "I'm just an ordinary practitioner who happened to pass by here."

But these people still knelt on the ground stubbornly, unwilling to get up.

Looking at their bewildered expressions, it seems that they don't know what a "practice" is at all.

Seeing this scene, Gu Xu roughly guessed that he might have traveled to the ancient times before the birth of the practice method through "Return to the Market".

Because of this, these people don't know how to practice, and they don't have any concepts related to practice in their minds.

After a while, the fourteen-year-old girl stood up from the ground first and walked towards Gu Xu.

Gu Xu looked at her appearance and was amazed.

"Zhao Yan?" He couldn't help blurting out.

"Who is 'Zhao Yan'?" The girl frowned, feeling a little puzzled, "My name is 'Xi', you may have mistaken me!"