Longevity begins with slaying demons and eliminating demons

While Gu Xu and Xue Nu were enjoying the hot pot, two small officials from the Exorcist Department of Liangzhou Prefecture started their daily patrol tasks.

One of them was tall and thin, with thinning hair, a bulging cloth bag on his back, and a black and white compass in his hand.

The other man was short, with a big beer belly, holding a slightly rusty machete in his hand. He didn't look like a practitioner, but more like a butcher in a vegetable market.

Only the short, fat little official said: "Brother Yue, are you sure your compass really works?"

"Of course it works," said the tall, skinny official, patting his chest, "Last night, under its guidance, I took down a group of demons' lairs in the suburbs of Longzhou City. With this thing, we no longer have to worry about meritorious deeds." Not enough."

The tall and thin official's full name is Yue Tianlu.

He likes to collect antiques, but he has always been reluctant to spend money. Every day, he hopes that he can be like the protagonists in the storyteller's story, picking up leaks on the street stalls with his unique vision.

But in reality, there are not too many blind stall owners.

Over the years, Yue Tianlu has never found any treasures.Instead, he was often scolded by his wife for bringing home a pile of odds and ends.

Until yesterday, Yue Tianlu felt that he had finally changed his luck.

"Gu Xu? Is it really Gu Xu? But I heard people say a few days ago that he has fled to the north and became the face of Queen Dayan. How could he suddenly appear in Longzhou City?"

She has an ethereal, otherworldly and fragile beauty.

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The compass shone with dazzling light, and it was not an ordinary thing at first sight.

The once bustling streets quickly became empty.

Thinking of gaining the power of incense from this group of drifting people in the future, and advancing to the ninth realm...

"I used it to find ghosts yesterday." Yue Tianlu's tone was still determined, but he was not as confident as before.

Although they couldn't see their faces, their temperament alone was enough to make Yue Tianlu sigh silently: What a pair of Bi people.

"Five copper coins." The peddler opened his eyes and glanced at him, speaking impatiently.

"This young man looks familiar, as if he has seen him somewhere before."

So, that night, under the guidance of the black and white compass, Yue Tianlu and his colleague Qiu Maoxiang began to perform their duties in Longzhou City, searching for traces of ghosts.

"..."

I'm afraid that he will do something like colluding with ghosts and monsters to harm all living beings and turn Longzhou City into a second Luojing.

Suddenly there was a gust of wind passing by.

Yue Tianlu and Qiu Maoxiang, the minor officials of the Exorcist Department, naturally also saw Gu Xu's appearance.

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Yue Tianlu was ecstatic, feeling that he had gotten a big deal.

Gu Xu frowned, squatted down, picked up the mask and put it on again.

Just when Yue Tianlu was puzzled, two people, a man and a woman, came out of the restaurant side by side.

"Do you remember the arrest warrant posted at the gate of the city? He is the traitor Gu Xu who committed the crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason!"

The wind was warm and soft.

It was the most exciting thing they had seen since working in the Exorcist—

Just as they were considering reporting the situation to the yamen, a drunk man suddenly stumbled out from the opposite tavern, like a wild boar, pushing and shoving the crowd, cursing obscenities over and over again.

The man is dressed in a green shirt and looks elegant, while the woman's white clothes are as graceful as snow.

The two petty officials stood there in a daze for a moment, as if they had been struck by lightning.

Seeing such a scene, Gu Xu laughed at himself.

The people in Longzhou talked a lot, but they quickly dispersed and left the street in action, not wanting to get too close to the traitor Gu Xu.

They have never seen such an alluring woman from birth to now.

I saw the palm of the drunk man waving towards the face of the woman in white, whether it was intentional or not.

But the peddler didn't seem to notice its abnormality at all.

It happened that the veil of the woman in white was lifted, so that half of her face was exposed in front of the two of them.

When he passed a street stall on the outskirts of the city, his attention was attracted by a black and white compass.

At this moment, he suddenly realized that as a practitioner, he could completely block the drunk with his true energy.

"It's not like I would make a mistake." He said silently in his heart.

After a while, the gauze fell back to its original place, covering the unearthly beauty of the woman in white again.

"How much is this thing?" Yue Tianlu stepped forward and asked.

But as the man and woman walked out of the restaurant, the pointer gradually turned to the street.

"Brother Yue, are you really sure that this thing can lock onto the location of the ghost?" Chubby monk Qiu Maoxiang once again questioned the role of the compass in Yue Tianlu's hand.

For this restaurant famous for its hot pot, Yue Tianlu is very familiar with it.In their free time, the yamen often come here to drink and have dinner.

But at the moment when the mask fell off, it was enough for the surrounding people to see his appearance clearly.

If there were really ghosts hiding here, they should have been discovered by the senior superiors long ago.

He silently sighed that Tian Xingdi's arrest warrant is really powerful - with just a portrait and a few short lines, the whole world can forget his past achievements and treat him as a rat crossing the street, a heinous bastard.

The young man and woman, who were like a couple of gods, were not immune to the attack of the drunk.

He only felt that the road ahead was difficult, and it was difficult to ascend to the blue sky.

He sat on the bench, closed his eyes, and dozed off, as if he was not afraid of the compass being stolen by thieves.

They froze for a few seconds, then immediately took out the Jade Talisman of Communication, and quickly reported what they saw and heard to the Yamen.

"The pointer on your compass is moving." At this time, Qiu Maoxiang, who was next to him, reached out and poked his arm to remind him.

"How can I guess the rebel's mind?"

Yue Tianlu came back to his senses, took a closer look, and found that the compass pointer was turning slowly.

Since they set off, the two have been wandering around the downtown area, surrounded by a lot of people and traffic, where does it look like there are ghosts hiding?

"This woman looks so good...she must be a female ghost!" The two officials looked at each other in unison, and came to the same conclusion in their minds.

The man in blue took a step forward and pulled the woman away.

A female ghost with a beautiful face, and a fugitive who was valued by the emperor, unexpectedly appeared in front of them at the same time!
While nervous, I also felt extra excited.

"I have to say that this traitor is really handsome, even more handsome than in the portrait. If the emperor hadn't personally issued an arrest warrant, I really don't want to believe that such a handsome person would do something like colluding with ghosts and treason..."

Because he noticed that the compass was pointing to an overcrowded restaurant called "Drunken Spring Xuan".

Although Gu Xu moved extremely fast.

Like smoke, like mist, like a dream.

There was no need for him to stand in front of Xuenv himself.His mask also has no chance of dropping at all.

Some people even ran towards the government office, wanting to report the traitor's whereabouts to receive a reward.

He threw down five copper coins, picked up the compass, put it in his arms, and rushed home excitedly, intending to share the joy with his wife.

At this moment, the hearts of both of them were pounding.

At first it pointed to Zui Chunxuan.

The drunk man's slap landed on the edge of his mask, and the mask fell to the ground with a "snap".

Those fairies who descended from the earth in myths and legends are probably nothing more than this.

It's just that he didn't see, in the shadow not far behind him, an old man with a white beard in a dark blue robe was looking at him with interest, with a vague smile on his mouth.

Because they know that opportunities for promotion and salary increase will come soon.

Maybe in a few days, they will be able to put on Qiyao uniforms and become official court officials with the credit of finding Gu Xu today.

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In the attic of a nearby house, a scrawny storyteller and a hunchbacked old man were standing by the window, watching the situation on the street.

"The story you made up this time is not up to par," the hunchbacked old man patted the storyteller on the shoulder, and commented lightly, "First, there was a gust of wind that lifted the veil just right, and then a drunk man who just patted off the mask just right... With so many deliberate coincidences, I'm afraid it will arouse Gu Xu's suspicion and make him discover our existence."