Longevity begins with slaying demons and eliminating demons

Chapter 69 The Fourth Realm [Wangxiang Terrace]

Although Gu Xu successfully completed the task of killing ghosts, he still had some doubts in his heart.

Because this morning, he got the hexagram of "Lei Huo Feng" in the divination.

"Feng" means grand, but the prosperity will decline, and there are hidden worries behind the success.

What is the hidden worry in this task?

Gu Xu quickly thought of the answer.

"Today I destroyed a stray soul of this locust tree demon, which must have attracted the attention of its main body," Gu Xu secretly said in his heart, "its main body is a genuine 'evil spirit' level ghost. If it wants to To get revenge on me, with my current strength, it is still difficult to compete head-on with it.

"I have to seize the time to cultivate and improve my cultivation as soon as possible."

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About a quarter of an hour later, Gu Xu and Shi Xiaohan finished eating the candied haws in their hands and returned to the Exorcism Division.

At this time, the yamen guarding the gate told Gu Xu that Chen Jisheng, the governor of the Yishui Exorcism Division, had finished his work and returned here.

"Master Chen is finally back?" Gu Xu was secretly surprised.

In the past few months, Chen Jisheng has been up and down in the yamen basically every day to handle official business and rarely leaves.

As long as Gu Xu encounters difficulties in the process of cultivation, he can find Chen Jisheng in the yamen lobby at any time and ask him for advice.

Although Gu Xu is familiar with all kinds of classics, he is proficient in theoretical knowledge.

But as the saying goes, "what you get on paper ends up being shallow."

In practice, he always encounters problems that are not mentioned in the books.

And Chen Jisheng, as an experienced "come here", can answer Gu Xu's questions in a timely manner.

In addition, after each mission, Chen Jisheng will lead his subordinates to conduct a "review", pointing out the mistakes and omissions made by the subordinates during the mission.

This also made Gu Xu develop a rigorous and meticulous habit, and he was rarely caught by ghosts' tricks.

It can be said that the current relationship between the two is not a master-apprentice, but a master-apprentice.

Because of this, Chen Jisheng suddenly left the yamen in the past few days, which made Gu Xu feel a little uncomfortable.

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Afterwards, Gu Xu and Shi Xiaohan walked into the lobby and came to Chen Jisheng's side.

Gu Xu took off the jade pendant on his body and put it on the desk, ready to report on the completion of the task.

However, at this time, with his powerful sense of consciousness, Gu Xu unexpectedly discovered that the aura on Chen Jisheng's body was a little different from before.

If it is said that Chen Jisheng gave him the feeling before, it is dignified and serious, not angry and arrogant;
So now, Ruoyuan is standing against the mountains, and the still water is deep.

The momentum has been restrained, and it has become more profound.

"Master Chen, congratulations on breaking through the fourth realm!" Gu Xu nodded slightly and sincerely congratulated his boss.

Chen Jisheng glanced at him seriously, and said lightly, "Have you recently practiced spells to strengthen your consciousness?"

"Master Chen is really discerning!" Gu Xu nodded and did not deny it.

"How many times have I told you before, don't flatter me in front of me. I don't want to do this." Chen Jisheng frowned slightly, pretending to be dissatisfied, but his tone of voice inevitably showed pride.

At this moment, Chen Jisheng can also see that Gu Xu's current aura of true essence is much stronger than before, and he has obviously passed the "Ghost Gate" of life and death and embarked on the winding "Yellow Spring Road".

In less than a year, he turned from a mortal to a monk of the second realm——

The speed of Gu Xu's breakthrough can only be described as "outrageous".

"How does it feel to be promoted to the second realm?" After a moment of silence, Chen Jisheng asked.

"Not bad," Gu Xu said with a slight smile, "I feel now that I have an almost inexhaustible amount of real energy in my body, and I can spend it at will -- I won't be like in the first realm, after drawing a few talismans, the whole People are hollowed out.”

Having said that, he paused for a while, and then curiously asked Chen Jisheng, "Master Chen, what does it feel like to break through the fourth realm? Is there anything I need to pay attention to?"

Gu Xu had read in books before that the fourth realm of cultivation is called [Wangxiang Terrace].

There is a poem: "If you don't eat human food for one day, you will pass through the realm of yin and yang in two days, and you will arrive at Wangxiang Terrace in three days, and see your relatives crying and mourning."

Wangxiang Terrace is located on the other side of the Forgotten River. It is a high platform for ghosts to look at their relatives in the sun.

In myths and legends, after the dead souls crossed the Naihe Bridge, despite the stern urging and anger of the ghost soldiers, they still insisted on forcibly ascending to the Xiangxiang Terrace, and finally looked at their hometown and cried aloud before they were willing to go to the underworld.

For practitioners, the most important thing in the realm of [Wangxiangtai] is to look back on their original intentions.

It is said that the road behind Wangxiangtai is filled with a cold fog.

When practitioners go further and further on the transcendent path, they will gradually lose their mortal emotions without knowing it, and be assimilated by the cold and indifferent nature of this world.

At this time, they need to find their own mortal heart as an anchor to prevent themselves from getting lost on the road in the future.

"As expected of you, Gu Xu, you have just entered the second realm, and you are thinking about the fourth realm," Chen Jisheng chuckled, "Should I say that you are very ambitious, or should I say that you are ambitious?"

"I just want to prepare early." Gu Xu showed a well-behaved smile on his face.

"You may have read in books before that a fourth-level cultivator can choose a natal object and keep it warm in his dantian—it can be a knife, a sword, or any form of weapon," Chen Jisheng He replied, "The natal thing is like a part of the monk's body, which can be directly controlled by the mind.

"It will continue to grow stronger as the cultivator's cultivation level grows -- a low-grade magic weapon, after a long period of cultivation and tempering by the cultivator, it may become a middle-grade or even a high-grade magic weapon.

"But at the same time, once the life object is destroyed, the monk's cultivation will also drop sharply, and it may even affect the foundation."

"Master Chen, do those sword cultivators who can fly with their swords rely on their natal objects?" Gu Xu asked.

He remembered Chu Fengge who was walking on a flying sword and riding the wind not long ago.

On the day of the promotion assessment, Chu Fengge shouted "Sword is coming", and a sword flew in front of him out of thin air, carrying him for hundreds of miles in an instant. This forced Grameen effect.

"That's right." Hearing Gu Xu's question, Chen Jisheng answered and raised his right hand.

In the blink of an eye, a simple long sword appeared out of thin air in his hand.

Gu Xu recognized that this sword was the saber that Chen Jisheng used to hang on his waist.

It has no ornate decorations, it looks a bit old and dull, and some rust can be faintly glimpsed on the blade of the sword.

"It's name is 'Worthy', and it was originally the life of my old boss, Master Zheng Yu," Chen Jisheng sighed and introduced, "Eight years ago, Master Zheng rescued a few from the 'calamity of nine babies'. After the unfortunate death of a child, this sword was left to me."

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