Longevity begins with slaying demons and eliminating demons

Chapter 566: Gu Xu likes rich women?

"Emperor, Su'an Mansion has announced its surrender to you, and the entire Xijiang Province has come under your rule."

"Emperor, Zhao Changying and Xu Man have captured the new Hedong Commander-in-Chief Miao Zhida alive. Hedong Province has announced its surrender to you, saying that Daxia is the only orthodoxy in the wilderness today."

"Emperor, the defenders of the Lianghu Province are vulnerable to our soldiers. Our army has occupied Yunyang Mansion in the north and is marching south."

"Emperor, Baoning Prefecture and Xiezhou Prefecture in Western Shu Province have been captured, and their local governors have been kidnapped and sent to Daxing City to await the emperor's fate."

"..."

Gu Xu sat in front of the desk, looking through the good news that came frequently in front of him, with a calm expression.

A few days ago, Gu Xu, as the leader of Daxia, moved from Liangzhou City to Daxing City with his core team.

Although Liangzhou was the place where he started, its location was too remote after all. As his territory gradually expanded, it became increasingly unsuitable as his administrative center.

Daxing City is located in the Central Plains, with dangerous terrain, pleasant climate, and dense population. If you advance, you can drive eastward and conquer the world. If you retreat, you can defend yourself according to the danger and raise troops until the time comes.

In the past, the Chu Dynasty first made Daxing its capital, and later moved to Luojing.

The distance between Daxing and Luojing is only more than 600 miles.

For practitioners who can fly with swords, they can travel between two places in one day.

Therefore, some officials of the Daqi Dynasty were so nervous that they could not sleep after Gu Xu made such a decision - after all, it meant that the place they were in was no longer a safe and secure rear area.

At this moment, the person sitting next to Gu Xu is neither his right-hand man Luo Chuan nor the filial disciple Wang Jian who listened to his master's teachings.

It was Master Jueming who was invited from Lingshan Temple a few days ago.

That day, when the old monk with a face full of reluctance was brought to Gu Xu with an arm held by Luo Chuan and Zhao Changying, Gu Xu was in a particularly happy mood.

He couldn't help but sigh: "All the saints in the world have fallen into my trap."

Luo Chuan immediately echoed: "This is because Emperor Shiren Bude is talented and decisive, and he eradicates bad governance and makes the people of the world surrender."

Zhao Changying did not speak, but secretly lamented that he had a good vision in choosing his son-in-law. If he hadn't pushed her from the side, Zhao Yan, that silly girl, might still be ignorant and ignorant of emotions, and it would be impossible to grab Gu Xu first.

Only Master Jueming cursed in his heart: "You two powerful true kings have joined forces to bully Lao Monk, a saint. One of you pointed a spear at Lao Monk's chest, and the other was about to hit Lao Monk on the head with a bronze mirror, and you also used Taoist rules. The realm blocked Lao Na's true energy.

"How dare you claim to be benevolent? You obviously don't even talk about martial ethics!"

Today's Master Jueming also has displeasure written all over his face.

In the past, at Lingshan Temple, he, the abbot, was the only one who could chant sutras in front of others.

Unexpectedly, it was Gu Xu who was chanting sutras in his ears today - to be precise, he was showing off his martial arts skills.

"Master Jueming, if I remember correctly, in your Buddhist sect, you can accumulate merit by rescuing sentient beings and doing charity, right? I recently killed several Daqi officials who were secretly colluding with ghosts and monsters, and I killed a lot of them. Save the common people from the mouths of ghosts and monsters. According to your Buddhist rules, how much merit can such behavior accumulate? "

"By the way, I went to Shangshen Mountain yesterday, and I went to Beiyue Mountain the day before yesterday, and defeated two fierce god-level ghosts, one named 'Dang Hu' and the other named 'Zhu Huai'. This can be regarded as A merit, right?”

"Master Jueming, our Ksitigarbha Patriarch once said, 'Unless hell is empty, I will never become a Buddha.' This should be regarded as the ancestral teaching of your Lingshan Temple. And now, I am about to capture Luojing and sweep away the wilderness. , the next step is to break the prison and attack the upper realm.

“If I really conquer the upper world with the Great Wilderness, does that count as fulfilling the ancestral precepts of your Lingshan Temple?

"..."

Of course Master Jueming could hear it. Gu Xu's words seemed careless, but they were actually satirizing his passive avoidance of the world some time ago, and even helping Emperor Tianxing deal with the rebels.

He sighed helplessly and said: "Emperor, you are the lord of the wilderness and the future king of the wilderness. Why do you need to compete with a group of monks in the mountains like us?"

Gu Xu chuckled and said, "You guys, experts, are no better than me, a layman, in terms of accumulating merit and doing good deeds. Shouldn't you reflect on yourselves?"

Master Jueming knew that he could not argue with Gu Xu, so he could only stand up, put his hands together and bowed to Gu Xu, saying: "I was stupid and ignorant in the past, and I did too many things to live in an ignoble way and offend the emperor. I hope the emperor will show you your noble hand. Forgive me and the Lingshan Temple disciples for our previous mistakes.”

"Sit down, Master," Gu Xu waved his hand towards Master Jueming, "If I am really a person who spends every penny, I am afraid that as soon as I am promoted to a saint, I will go straight to Lingshan Temple to repay you for using the Zen staff. The hatred that hit me on the head.”

"Thank you, Emperor!" Master Jueming saluted again and sat back down.

Gu Xu was silent for a moment, and then continued in the tone of an old friend reminiscing: "Master Jueming, how are little brothers Jingru doing recently? Have you successfully broken through to the fifth realm?"

Master Jueming shook his head: "Not yet, he is still in retreat in the temple."

"In my opinion, maybe your Lingshan Temple's escape from the worldly world is not suitable for him," Gu Xu said. "After he comes out of seclusion, if he has not been successfully promoted, it is better to let him come to Daxing and follow me Do something physically.”

"I thanked the emperor for his advice on Jingru's behalf."

Ever since he started to rebel in the name of Emperor Ziwei, Gu Xu has been keen on collecting talents from all over the world - those who help the Qi court, those who are just beginning to show their talents in the cultivation sect, those who live in the countryside and are not appreciated... all of them Gu Xu tried his best to recruit him under his command.

After gathering the "Five Saints" of the Great Wilderness, Gu Xu set his sights on the backbone of the younger generation.

Like the little monk Jingru who had left a deep impression on him in the Lantern Festival Arena, he would naturally not let him go easily.

……

Chen Yanping and his sister Chen Suhui rode a carriage on the ancient bluestone streets of Daxing City.

Now early autumn has arrived.

In the cool breeze, the leaves on both sides of the road have been dyed golden yellow, looking bright and dazzling against the blue sky.

Perhaps because Daxing City has just changed hands, its streets do not have the same scene of crowds of people and busy traffic in the past.

The doors and windows of roadside shops are closed, and pedestrians are walking in a hurry on the road.

The residents of the city seemed to be nervously watching the developments.

At this moment, Chen Yanping found that his mood was beyond imagination. From the moment he stepped out of the Chen family's mansion in Xiangyang, he seemed to have completely drawn a clear line with the past.

His father, brothers, sisters, clan members...these memories have been buried deep in his heart, just like the puppy Ah Hei, as if they have become experiences in his previous life.

At this time, he was just an ordinary fifth-level monk, a young talent who admired Emperor Ziwei's reputation for benevolence. Chen Suhui, who was sitting next to him, seemed to be calmer than him.

Ever since her father, Chen Shandao, pronounced her fate, her face had not shown the slightest emotion of sadness or joy, but she had calmly accepted it.

Chen Yanping once asked her: "Do you have any resentment in your heart about this?"

Chen Suhui responded in a calm tone: "As the daughter of the Chen family, I have enjoyed generous treatment in the family since I was a child. I have delicacies from the mountains and seas for meals, silk and satin for clothes, and servants and maids to wait on me. I have never needed to cultivate myself." Use the elixir and fight to the death.

"Compared to the vast majority of people in the world, it is a great blessing that I was born into the Chen family. Now that the family is in trouble, I should naturally step forward. How can I have any resentment?"

After hearing her words, Chen Yanping didn't know how to respond.

He knew that his sister had always been extremely intelligent and extremely talented in cultivation - now she was only twenty-eight years old, but she had reached the peak of the third realm. She only needed to find a suitable natal object to step into the world. Go up to "Wangxiang Terrace" and advance to the fourth realm.

However, perhaps because she is too smart, Chen Suhui has always shown an indifference and sobriety beyond her age, as if she is outside the world of mortals, watching the love-hate disputes in the world indifferently.

While her peers were still crying to death over the love between their children, she understood her fate early on: either marry into another family to win allies for her father, or recruit a son-in-law to win over talented people from poor families for her father.

"What are you reading?" Chen Yanping noticed that the book his sister was reading at this time was not the "Sages' Instructions" that she often held in her hands.

After hearing what his brother said, Chen Suhui lifted the book and showed the cover in front of him.

I saw four big characters written on it——

"New Edition of Fu Dao".

The name of this book is not unfamiliar to Chen Yanping.

After Gu Xu came out on top in the Longmen Academy Talisman Competition, there were talisman masters in Luojing who compiled Gu Xu's Talisman thoughts and some representative talisman seals into a book for the world to read and learn.

Of course, after Gu Xu became a traitor and was wanted by the whole world, this book became a banned book in the Daqi Dynasty.

But perhaps it was precisely because of the ban by the Da Qi court that the Talisman masters in Dahuang privately regarded this book as the sacred book of Talisman and Seal Script.

The less you can get it, the more exaggerated it is.

Many people even believe that as long as they read this book, their skills in talisman and seal script will improve rapidly, and they can reach the master level in just a few years.

Therefore, a magical phenomenon has recently appeared in the Great Wilderness: in order to buy this "New Edition of Talisman Dao", the Talisman Masters of Daqi have been quietly crossing the border and coming to the territory of Daxia. As Daxia's territory expanded, such behavior became more and more common.

The booksellers in Daxia also took the opportunity to print this book in large quantities and made a lot of money.

Some businessmen even changed the title of the book to "Ziwei Emperor Fu Dao Zhenjing", taking advantage of Gu Xu's recent fame to fool book buyers.

"But you don't learn the art of talisman and seal script, so what's the use of reading this book?" Chen Yanping asked with some confusion.

"To study Gu Xu." Chen Suhui replied calmly.

"Study Gu Xu?" Chen Yanping's brows furrowed even more.

"Since my father asked me to come here to please him, I must first understand clearly what kind of person he is, what he likes, what he hates, what habits, temperament and ambitions he has," Chen Suhui's eyes were calm, as if analyzing The problems encountered in practice are not like discussing a person who may have a close relationship with me in the future. "Although I don't understand Fu Zhuan, I can still understand him indirectly through some annotations in the book." some ideas.”

"So have you gained anything now?"

"I think he is a person who truly cares about the people of the world," Chen Suhui said with a hint of admiration in her tone. "When other Talisman masters create new talisman seal painting methods, they usually think of hiding their secrets. To seek greater benefits.

"But Gu Xu is trying every means to lower the threshold for drawing talismans and make talisman seals popular so that every monk can use them as a weapon against ghosts.

"For example, since the advent of the 'Fire Character', at least a hundred first- and second-level monks have successfully saved their lives after encountering difficult-to-deal with ghosts and monsters.

"Based on this alone, Gu Xu is a great and meritorious person."

Chen Yanping obviously didn't expect that his sister would give Gu Xu such a high evaluation based on just a talisman seal script without even meeting her.

"So apart from Fu Zhuan, have you done any research on other aspects of Gu Xu?" Chen Yanping asked curiously, "For example, what kind of women does he prefer-"

"——He likes rich women." Chen Suhui replied without thinking.

"A rich woman?"

Chen Yanping was obviously a little surprised by Chen Suhui's answer.

He always believed that Gu Xu was a person who valued affection and righteousness——

When they were at the Laoshan ruins, Shangguan Jin found ways to show her favor to him, but he always avoided her like a snake or a scorpion.

When Gu Xu made great achievements in Qingzhou and was promoted to Luojing City, he was completely unmoved by the many Yingying Yanyans in Luojing who had great wealth and extraordinary backgrounds. Instead, he competed in the Lantern Festival Arena. In front of everyone, he wrote "That man is in the dim light".

It wasn't until he was charged with treason and the marriage contract was torn up by Shi Lei that he let go of his original fiancée Shi Xiaohan, married Zhao Yan, and formed an alliance with the Yan Kingdom in the north.

Such a person actually prefers "rich women"?

Then why did he not choose to marry the Chen family when he was still young, but instead spent time with Shi Xiaohan?

Seeing her brother's puzzled expression, Chen Suhui explained: "What Gu Xu likes is not the icing on the cake, but the money that helps when the time is right.

"As far as I know, when he was in Yishui County, the Shi family was considered the largest wealthy family there. When he was in the most difficult time in his cultivation, Shi Xiaohan gave him fifteen bottles of Jingxin Pill."

"Then Gu Xu fell in love with her?"

"Yes," Chen Suhui nodded, "According to the information I heard, the two of them have been inseparable since then, and they have done almost all ghost-killing missions together."

"It's that simple?"

"It's that simple."

Chen Yanping really couldn't imagine that the reincarnation of the dignified Emperor Ziwei could be easily bought by fifteen bottles of Jingxin Pill.

Why does it sound like that stupid dog Ah Hei?

When it was so hungry and emaciated, he threw a meat bone in front of it, and it followed him, wagging its head and tail.

I didn't think about my future fate at all.

(End of this chapter)