After walking out of the lobby, entering the inner courtyard, and walking along the corridor, we arrived at the warehouse of the Exorcist Department.

Outside the warehouse door, there is a stone tablet that is one person tall, with dense words engraved on it:

“…

"Guiyuan Jue", a low-grade exercise, exchange price: 500 merits;

""Lightning Whip", low-grade martial arts, exchange price: 500 merits;

"The "Dog Beating Sticks", low-grade martial arts, exchange price: 500 merits;

“…

"The Cloud-Pengyun Bow, the lowest-grade magic weapon, exchange price: one thousand one hundred merits;

"Bone-breaking hammer, a low-grade magic weapon, exchange price: one thousand merits;

“…

"The spirit gathering pill (one piece) can temper the true essence and strengthen the soul. It is necessary to break through the first and second realms. The exchange price is: one hundred merits;

"The meditation pill (one bottle) can stabilize the mind and assist in practice. It is suitable for the first level monks, exchange price: 300 merits;

“…”

As an ordinary small county town, the warehouse of the Yishui County Exorcist Department does not have magical weapons or powerful weapons, and only some ordinary but indispensable resources in the process of cultivation.

If you want a secret or magic weapon with higher grades, you have to go to the nearby "big city" - Qingzhou Prefecture to redeem it.

Like a colleague of Gu Xu, he spent 2,000 meritorious service to exchange a medium-grade machete with iron-cut like mud in Qingzhou Prefecture. He carried it on his back every day and showed it off whenever he saw someone.

It is said that in the treasure house of the capital headquarters of the Exorcist Department of the Great Qi Dynasty, as long as the merits are sufficient, they can even be exchanged for extremely rare top-grade martial arts, peerless magic weapons, etc.

For example, the body-protecting talisman drawn by the National Master himself.

For example, the "Tai'a Sword Technique" created by Emperor Taizu.

For example, the relics left by the ascenators in the past.

Gu Xu stared at the price list for two seconds, and couldn't help but sigh in his poverty again.

The exorcist is working on night shift in the warehouse. A hunchbacked old man is on the hunchbacked man.

As soon as he saw Gu Xu, he frowned and said impatiently: "Why are you always?"

"Because I am a model monk who actively eliminates harm to the people, I naturally have a little more merits than others." Gu Xu replied with a smile, while handing the note with the words "Jingxin Dan" to the hunchbacked uncle.

The old man glanced at the note, then took out a white porcelain bottle from the drawer, and threw it at Gu Xu without raising his head.

Gu Xu reached out and took it steadily.

"It's too late, it's not safe, go home quickly!" The old man started to drive people away.

But Gu Xu still stood there.

He opened the white porcelain bottle and sniffed the smell inside first - this was the beautiful fragrance of three hundred meritorious deeds. Then he shook the elixirs one by one, put them in the palm of his hand, and confirmed that there were a lot of them before putting them back.

"You little brat, why don't you leave now! Don't stand here to affect my work!" The hunchbacked man waved his hand and urged again with a stern face.

Gu Xu finally turned around and left.

The old man showed a relieved smile on his face, and he took out the book "The Oil Seller Exclusive Courtesan" hidden in his arms again, and read it with relish.

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After Gu Xu got the pill, he returned to the lobby and brought the eggs, tremella and wolfberry that Chen Jisheng gave him, and left the yamen and returned to his home.

Gu Xu's house is only two streets away from the Exorcist Office, and it can be reached in a five-minute walk.

This is a small courtyard house that is the legacy left by the original owner's parents.

Although the area is not large, Gu Xu is more than enough to live alone.

Eight years ago, Yishui County was attacked by a large-scale ghost monster within a radius of thousands of miles. The original owner of the body once watched his parents be chewed and swallowed by a huge snake monster, and his corpse was left untold.

From then on, the seeds of hatred were buried in the heart of the original owner.

So, as soon as the original owner turned sixteen, he angrily joined the Exorcist Division, determined to avenge his parents, and gritted his teeth and wanted to "kill all the ghosts and expel them all from this world."

………

Gu Xu opened the door lock, stepped over the threshold, walked around the screen wall, walked through the narrow yard, and walked straight into the main house facing north and south.

The candles in the house lit up in unison, dyeing the entire courtyard with bright orange.

"Young Master, you are back!" A little book boy in a gray cloth shirt stood at the door and bowed slightly to him.

"Go and pour me a cup of tea, I'm going to start practicing." Gu Xu ordered.

"Yes, Master."

When Gu Xu took off his shoes and changed his clothes and sat cross-legged on the bamboo mat, a cup of steaming tea had already been placed in front of him.

But the little book boy had disappeared without a trace.

But on the screen behind Gu Xu, there was an extra portrait of a character - the little Shutong in the portrait smiled and her appearance was exactly the same as the Shutong in the cloth shirt standing at the door just now.

The way of talismans is ever-changing.

It can exorcise ghosts and also give spirituality to the characters in the painting.

It’s a pity that Gu Xu is now weak. The little book boy he drew is only able to serve tea and pour water.

Gu Xu picked up the teacup, took a sip, then took out a small white porcelain bottle containing the "Jingxin Pill", took out a round light green pill from it, and stuffed it into his mouth.

Then he closed his eyes.

A sweet smell began from his throat and quickly spread throughout his body.

The distracting thoughts in my mind disappeared instantly.

His heart also became calm and peaceful, as if nothing in the world could cause his emotions to fluctuate at all.

He began to recite scriptures silently and run exercises.

Unlike the description in the novel of cultivating immortals in previous life, there is no such thing as "heaven and earth spirit" in the land of Dahuang-

There is only the ubiquitous yin death aura.

Yin Qi is the source of the power of demons and ghosts, but it is harmful to the human race but not beneficial.

Until the practice technique appears.

People use practice techniques to try to forcibly incorporate yin energy into the meridians. After thousands of tempering, they condense it into "true essence".

But this process is also extremely dangerous.

If you are not careful, your mind will be lost, your soul and body will be swallowed by the yin energy, and you will eventually become an irrational monster.

Therefore, people often say that practice is to live to death.

Every step forward is to test wildly under the nose of the King of Hell.

The first realm of practice is to initially perceive the Yin Qi, open the body acupoints, and condense the true energy.

"Ghost Pass" is the legendary first pass when a person's soul enters the underworld after his death.

Upgrading to the "Gate of Ghost" state means officially embarking on the path of practice that will last forever and never look back.

Gu Xu also nicknamed it "the first step to death."

The "Calcise Pill" can help him stabilize his mind and avoid being eroded by Yin Qi in the process.

As Gu Xu chanted the scriptures softly, the yin and death energy between heaven and earth instantly turned into a whirlpool and poured into his body surgingly.

His face turned particularly pale, like a dead body.

And there were also whispers in his ears, and the illusory confusion seemed to be bewitching him open his heart, fall into darkness, and embrace more powerful power.

But under the protection of Jingxin Dan, his mind was still as quiet as water.

After an hour, the effect of the meditation pill disappears.

The turbid yin energy has been filtered out of impurities and turned into pure true essence, just like spring snow melting and flowing into his meridians.

Then he took out a pill again and swallowed it in one bite...

When the third pill was exhausted, it was dawn.

The golden sunlight shone through the windows, sprinkling mottled spots on the ground, and also illuminated the young man's pale and elegant face.

The first realm is perfect.

This is the result of Gu Xu's overnight practice.

He only needs to spend a few more days to consolidate his foundation slightly, and he can try to break through the second realm.

If anyone else had been to the point where he would have cheered for this speed of progress that was far beyond ordinary people.

But Gu Xu was not happy at all.

There are nine bottles of meditation pills in total, and he used three in one night.

This is equivalent to using 100 meritorious points in one night and he needs to kill ten more demons to earn back.

"It seems that I have to find a few lucky ghosts today," Gu Xu stood up from the bamboo mat and stretched. "I hope the ghosts I encountered today can be a little bit harder to beat, otherwise my experiment will not be completed."

Thinking of this, he put on his blue shirt, his shoes, his scarf, and went to the Exorcist to work in high spirits.
Chapter completed!