Chapter 164 Imperial Edict
“No problem.” Gu Xu agreed readily.
Under normal circumstances, the owners of the twelve weapons have the ability to fight across realms.
But after Gu Xu obtained the "Jinghong Pen", except in the "Realm of Discussing the Tao", he had never had the opportunity to fight face to face with monks in the third realm and above.
He is really curious about how powerful a third-level monk with magical powers can be in reality.
"Relax, I will be very gentle." Hearing his affirmative answer, Shi Xiaohan smiled like a flower.
Not far from them, the maid Chenxi squatted and wiped the floor while looking at the smiling boy and girl.
Shi Xiaohan is a young lady with no airs.
On weekdays, she always regarded Chenxi as a sister who talked to her about everything, telling her what she saw and heard every day.
However, as soon as Mr. Gu from the Exorcist Department comes to the Shi family mansion, Chen Xi will instantly feel that he has become a superfluous person and has been forgotten by Shi Xiaohan.
In the girl's apricot-like eyes, there seemed to be only one person left.
"It seems that the young lady has really grown up." Chen Xi smiled and shook his head, thinking silently in his heart.
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In the next period of time, Gu Xu, with the help of the servants of the Shi family, quickly prepared scrambled eggs with tomatoes, fried shredded potatoes, minced meat and tofu, etc. A few home-cooked side dishes are brought to the table.
Shi Xiaohan had already been sitting at the dining table waiting.
She smelled the hot aroma of the food and couldn't help but start to sip.
Although the ingredients for these dishes are cheap, they are not as good as the delicacies from the mountains and seas, large fish and meat that she usually eats; they do not look exquisite at all, and they are not as good as the Jiangnan dim sum she used to eat.
But for some reason, these dishes had an extraordinary appeal to her.
Like cookies on your birthday.
She glanced at the handsome young man sitting across the table and felt that he seemed to have a magical spell that could firmly grasp her stomach.
Then she picked up the bowl and chopsticks and started to eat hungrily.
Several plates of food were wiped out by her in an instant, and even the bottom of the bowl was licked clean by her.
Gu Xu noticed that while she was eating, a pattern in the shape of a Taotie pattern appeared faintly behind her - as time went by, its lines became more and more complex.
He knew that this was when Shi Xiaohan was stacking the layers of the "Taotie Seal".
"If I guess correctly, although she eats more than before, the energy of most of the food will be absorbed by the 'Taotie Seal' and will not make her gain weight," Gu Xu looked at Looking at her petite body, she silently guessed in her heart, "The girls on the earth in the previous life must have been very envious of her physique for not getting fat!"
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After dinner, the two came to the spacious courtyard of Shifu.
The plane trees in the courtyard have long lost their leaves and are bare, looking solemn and desolate under the blue-grey sky.
Shi Xiaohan changed into a clean dress.
The cold wind blew up the hem of her skirt, revealing the exquisite pale pink embroidered shoes, and also made the mandarin duck hairpin ring on her head jingle in the collision.
And she was carrying a heavy machete on her back.
It is not the "Kunwu" she loves so much, but an ordinary weapon used to practice sword skills.
"You go first!" She looked at Gu Xu, smiled and said to him, "See if you can break my defense."
As soon as the words fell, the complicated words The Taotie pattern appeared behind her again.
Immediately, a translucent spherical barrier appeared around her.
This barrier is like bubbles in the water, wrapping her tightly; and on the surface of the barrier, you can vaguely see complex lines, glowing with colorful light.
At this moment, she looks like the fairy living in the bubble in the fairy tale.
This is the defensive form of the "Taotie Seal".
"Then I'm here!" Gu Xu smiled.
Immediately, with a thought in his mind, he took out a "Binding Talisman" and a "Fire Flame True Talisman" from "Xianyunju" and threw them towards the location of Shi Xiaohan.
These are the two talismans he is most proficient in besides the "ghost-killing talisman".
After his many improvements, the power of these two talismans has been more than doubled compared to the original version - otherwise, he would not have been able to rely on the same talismans in the "Realm of Taoism". The seal made "Qingluan" Du Jingjing, who was also a talisman master, completely unable to fight back.
Shi Xiaohan stood motionless, with no thought of dodge.
As expected, the two talismans flew halfway and were stopped by Shi Xiaohan's "bubble". They quickly burned brightly and then turned into black ashes.
"With such a painless attack, do you look down on this heroine?" Shi Xiaohan raised his chin, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said to Gu Xu in a measured tone, "Give it to me Work harder and show your true ability!”
Gu Xu glanced at her, with a helpless smile on his face.
He knew that this girl used to often listen to stories about heroes - therefore, whenever she was fighting, she would involuntarily enter the secondary state.
"Since Heroine Shi said so, I won't be merciful anymore!" After hearing her words, Gu Xu responded with a smile, and simply accompanied her to enjoy the heroine addiction.
In the next few minutes, Gu Xu found that except for using the "Jinghong Pen" and "Seven Burning Sky Styles", most of his other methods could not break Shi Xiaohan's "Taotie Seal" defense barrier.
It wasn't until he used the "Firefly Flame" spell to turn the dead branches and leaves all over the ground into fireflies flying in the sky that the colorful "bubbles" around Shi Xiaohan disappeared.
"What's the name of your move? It looks very powerful!" Shi Xiaohan opened his eyes wide, looked at the orange light floating everywhere in the courtyard, and asked Gu Xu curiously.
“‘Yingyan’.” Gu Xu replied.
“Which ‘firefly’ and which ‘flame’?” Shi Xiaohan had obviously never heard of this name before.
“The ‘firefly’ of ‘firefly’, the ‘flame’ of ‘flame’.”
“What a romantic name!” She couldn’t help but sigh.
When she heard Gu Xu's explanation, she couldn't help but think of the beautiful scene last summer night in her mind - she was holding a round fan and sitting under the plane tree in the courtyard of the Shifu. There were bright stars in the sky and sparkling stars around her. Glowing fireflies.
At that moment, she felt like she was swimming in an ocean of stars.
So she silently decided to invite Gu Xu to the yard to watch the fireflies together this summer - the way the light of the fireflies shine in his eyes will be very beautiful.
“Yes!” Gu Xu smiled.
He couldn't help but sigh, boys and girls really focused on different things.
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Then the two of them followed the plan and began to test the attack form of the "Taotie Seal".
"I will control my true energy at the second level, and I will definitely not hurt you." Shi Xiaohan said seriously every word.
When Gu Xu was ready, she pulled out the heavy machete from her back and struck at his location.
In the cold light of the broadsword, a figure of a Taotie vaguely emerged. For a moment, the broadsword was carried by the rustling wind, with the power of overwhelming mountains and seas.
"She seems to have underestimated my ability!" Gu Xu thought silently as he looked at the sword coming towards him.
The "Taotie Seal" doubled the power of Shi Xiaohan's sword than before.
But because Shi Xiaohan deliberately suppressed his strength, it did not pose any threat to Gu Xu.
Gu Xu stood there, neither dodging nor using any spells.
Instead, the true energy in the body is gathered into the fingertips to build a buffering barrier.
"Look at me catching the blade with my bare hands!"
The next second, he stretched out his hand and caught Shi Xiaohan's blade with two fingers.
The broadsword can no longer move an inch. The Taotie shadow above the blade disappeared.
"Xiaohan, you can actually push harder, I can bear it," he said in a joking tone, "There is no need to deliberately suppress your realm like this."
He said as he let go of his hand.
The girl also took back the sword.
"What about one more time?"
"Okay."
This time, Shi Xiaohan no longer suppressed the true energy in his body and fully gathered his strength When it comes to the machete, the shadow of Taotie becomes particularly clear, and the chilling and sinister aura emanating from it can be felt from a long distance away.
Gu Xu clearly felt the majestic momentum brewing on the broadsword -
It was as if the blade was carrying the weight of a mountain.
As long as this knife is struck down, the mountain will collapse with a rumble, annihilating all the creatures under the mountain.
Gu Xu couldn't help but become more vigilant.
The true energy in his body is ready to go.
At the same time, he is always ready to take out the "Jinghong Pen" from "Xianyunju".
Once he was unable to stop Shi Xiaohan's fierce attack purely by relying on his true energy, he had to use the "Chenghong Fengcao" technique of "Jinghong Pen" to dissolve the power of her sword into nothingness.
However, although Gu Xu made complete preparations, he did not wait for the thunderous blow he expected.
Shi Xiaohan held up the big knife and stood motionless, but did not swing the knife towards him for a long time.
After a moment, she sighed softly, slowly put down the sword, and then put it back into the sheath on her back.
"Let's call it a day!" she said softly.
"Why?" Gu Xu looked down at her, feeling a little confused.
"Because...because I'm tired." Shi Xiaohan walked to him, raised his head, and looked at him with a pair of bright almond eyes.
Gu Xu frowned slightly.
This girl looked full of energy at this time, without even a drop of sweat on her face, and she was just planning a shocking attack on him.
How could he be tired?
She must be lying!
Shi Xiaohan ignored his doubtful eyes.
She reached out and tugged on his sleeve, leading him towards the sycamore tree.
At this time, her mood was ups and downs.
She didn't want to admit that it was her instinct that stopped her action at that moment.
Her intuition told her that once this knife was wielded, its power would be extremely terrifying.
Although she is very confident in Gu Xu's strength.
But even if there was only one chance in ten thousand, she didn’t want to see Gu Xu get hurt.
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Later, Shi Xiaohan also asked about what Gu Xu saw and heard on Mount Laoshan, about the obstacles he encountered on the way to the mountain, about the recent situation of her father Shi Lei, and about Gu Xu's " Companions of the reserve forces of "Shenji Battalion".
"The prince of Da Qi, the chief's personal entourage, the disciples of the powerful family, the close disciples of the Master of the Jiange Pavilion... Gu Xu, this group of companions you have in the Shenji Camp are really amazing!"
Shi Xiaohan hugged his legs and sat on the ground under the bare sycamore tree. Half of her cheek rested on her knees, and she looked sideways at Gu Xu beside her.
The cool breeze blew up the hem of her pale pink skirt, revealing a section of her white and smooth calves, as well as her delicate ankles.
"Of course, you are even more amazing!" She paused for a moment and then said, "You can actually trample them all under your feet and successfully reach the top of Mount Laoshan! It's really unexpected!"
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Is this another part of the business exchange that he is most familiar with and good at?
Gu Xu smiled and responded: "But it's still not as good as the Heroine of Time. Heroine of Time is now a strong person in the third realm, and she also has powerful magical powers like the 'Taotie Seal'. You In front of them, I can still show my talents."
"But I didn't get selected into the 'Shenji Camp'..."
"That's not your problem. A discerning eye.”
“……”
Shi Xiaohan kept giggling while chatting.
Her silver bell-like laughter echoed throughout the palace.
When the sky gradually darkened, it was time for Gu Xu to leave.
Shi Xiaohan kept sending him to the door. He wanted to persuade him to stay a little longer, but he didn't say anything.
However, at this moment, a dazzling blue light flashed in the dark night sky.
That was a flying monk with a sword.
Before Gu Xu could react, he landed in front of the Shi Mansion.
At this time, Gu Xu finally recognized that the man with no beard on his face and wearing a dark blue brocade robe was Cao Tong, the eunuch of Da Qi Bingbi.
Not long ago, it was this eunuch who sent the fourth prince Xiao Shangzhen back to the capital after being poisoned by the "Sheng-Eating Pill".
In Cao Tong's hand, he held a bright yellow scroll.
In the Daqi Dynasty, only the emperor was qualified to use this bright yellow color.
"Is this the legendary imperial edict?" Gu Xu thought silently in his heart.
He remembered that in the movies and TV dramas of his previous life, there was a very grand ritual process for receiving the imperial edict. Unexpectedly, in the Daqi Dynasty, they simply sent a eunuch.
"Maybe it's because this is a world with practitioners. Sending a monk who can fly with a sword to read out the imperial edict can improve efficiency."
Eunuch Cao Tong glanced at Gu Xu , said to him calmly: "Looking at the experience, accept the order!"
Gu Xu immediately bowed and saluted.
I only heard Cao Tong announcing the imperial edict of Emperor Tianxing:
"The Emperor Chengyun from Heaven, the edict said:
"Jings to reward virtuous people are the classics of the imperial court; to highlight outstanding talents , which is also a good way to teach. Gu Xu, an exorcist from the Yishui County Exorcism Department, is a self-taught person who is strict with others. His qualifications in Taoism and Dharma are the first among his peers; his virtues and profound knowledge make him the sect of the Bai family.
“The system of one king is governed by both the ruler and the leader.
"You can be appointed as an attendant to take care of him and give him full wings.
"Based on the experience of the former Yishui Exorcist Department, the official status remains the same. ”
PS: Please give me a monthly ticket!
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Note:
(1) Part of the content of the edict refers to the "Edict of Emperor Xiaozong Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty" and "Zi Shu Sui Shen".
(2) Let him train and protect (the prince) so that his wings will be full.
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