Exorcist Headquarters, Observatory.

"He woke up." Sishou Luochuan said lightly.

Shangguan Jin was silent for a long time.

She knew that Master Sishou was talking about Gu Xu - he had already seen the secret of Taoyuan Town and was about to wake up from his dream and see the truth.

"Gu Xu...he is really amazing." She sighed from the bottom of her heart.

Shangguan Jin admires beauty, but also smart people.

A young man like Gu Xu who has a handsome appearance and a flexible mind can really win her different eyes.

Luo Chuan didn't say anything more.

He only felt that Gu Xu's appearance at this time was gradually coincidental with the figure of an old friend in his memory.

He misses, is a little delighted, is a little sad.

Now the long night is approaching.

I don’t know if the old friend is in good condition.

………

The illusion in the pot, Taoyuan Town.

"What's that sound?" Ma Qin asked alertly.

"Maybe...we will soon see the original body of Taoyuan Town." Gu Xu said with a smile.

"Original? What does it mean? Is this town still a living one—"

Before he could finish his words, a rich and evil black mist rose from Taoyuan Town.

Then, the scenery around the two men quickly twisted and deformed, like melted paraffin or like a rotating kaleidoscope.

Ma Qin felt dazzled.

A faint "buzzing" sounded in his ears, causing his head to ache.

After a few minutes, the surrounding environment finally stopped changing.

Ma Qin was surprised to find that the bustling and noisy Jiangnan town had disappeared.

At this moment, they were on a desolate hillside.

The sky is gloomy and dark.

The cool breeze rustled.

Between the dry weeds, several severely weathered tombstones stand, and fragments of white bones are scattered.

A gloomy and cold scene.

Only a peach tree stands brightly in the center of the hillside.

The trees are full of red and beautiful, and the elixirs are colorful and colorful in spring.

It is incompatible with this desolate background.

And beneath this peach tree, there is a monster of the same size as a leopard.

Its whole body is black and gray, its body is like a horse, its nose is like an elephant, its face is like a lion, its forehead is like a rhino, its tail is like a cow, and its legs are like a tiger.

Its eyes opened a slit slightly, but it still looked a little confused.

"What kind of ghost is this?" Ma Qin pointed at the monster and asked Gu Xu beside him in a low voice.

At this time, Ma Qin had already regarded Gu Xu as a human-shaped library. When encountering something he didn't understand, he would ask Gu Xu directly, which was much easier than thinking by himself.

The corners of Gu Xu's mouth curled up slightly.

If before that, there were still numerous speculations in his mind.

Then the moment he saw this black and gray monster, he suddenly realized the origin and where "Taoyuan Town" came from and went, and he was completely clear about it.

I heard him answer without thinking: "This is a dream-eating tapir, an 'evil spirit'-level ghost. This monster uses the negative spiritual power of the human race as its food, can devour people's nightmares, and can also make these swallowed dreams reappear in the world.

"I guess that the Taoyuan Town we were in just now was a nightmare created by this dream-eating tapir.

"In dreams, it is undoubtedly very reasonable whether it is the lack of details or the cycle of time.

"This dream-eating tapir will trap outsiders in nightmare, allowing them to feel pain and despair in the cycle of time again and again, thereby absorbing their negative spiritual power, using it to strengthen themselves and continuously expand the scope of nightmare.

"This is the reason why Taoyuan Town has been expanding in history and its population has been increasing.

"If my guess is correct, just find a way to kill this dream-eating tapir and our assessment will be successfully passed."

But Ma Qin's focus was completely on the word "evil spirit".

"But Brother Gu, the 'evil spirit' level ghost monster is not something we two can deal with at will!" Ma Qin said with some trepidation, "One of us, one of the first level cultivators and the other of the second level cultivators, is probably not enough for this dream-eating tapir to plug the teeth!"

"Brother Ma, don't panic," Gu Xu said in a relaxed tone, "Look, there is a peach tree next to this dream-eating tapir, right?"

Ma Qin nodded.

He always felt that Gu Xu was always looking at him with caring and mentally retarded eyes when he spoke.

Only Gu Xu continued to explain:

"In Feng Shui, peach trees are the essence of the five elements, which can control hundreds of ghosts, and have the effect of isolating evil spirits and warding off evil spirits and eliminating disasters. This is why sword cultivators in the Exorcist Department often choose to use peach wood swords as their weapon.

"If nothing unexpected happens, this peach tree in front of us should be planted here by a powerful practitioner to suppress this dream-eating tapir. With this peach tree, this dream-eating tapir should not be able to exert its full power. We may still have the power to fight."

"I hope you didn't lie to me..." Ma Qin murmured in a low voice.

At the same time, he held the "Goose Wing Knife" tightly in his hand, stepped forward a few steps, and prepared to fight the Dream-Eating Tapier.

"Wait!" At this moment, Gu Xu suddenly stopped him, "I have a better way to deal with it."

"What's the solution?" Ma Qin turned around in confusion.

"Brother Ma, you are a second-level cultivator, and your true energy is much more abundant than mine," Gu Xu said, "I want to use your true energy to draw a more powerful 'Taishang Arctic Demon-Suppressing Demon-Slaying Ghost Talisman'."

"Can Zhenyuan be borrowed?" Ma Qin was surprised.

"It's very simple," Gu Xu smiled faintly, "Have you heard of 'Please ask for a curse'?"

"Of course!" Ma Qin still understands this common sense.

"Please ask for a mantra", as the name suggests, means asking a god above the nine heavens to give him powerful power by reciting a specific mantra.

"Just replace the name of the god in the 'Please Spell' with your name, Brother Ma, and I can borrow your true essence." Gu Xu continued to explain.

Hearing this, Ma Qin was stunned and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.

"This...this isn't that good!" he stammered.

In the eyes of natives in the wilderness like Ma Qin, the gods above the Nine Heavens have a very high status. It is said that it is those gods who teach the methods of cultivation to the human race of the Great Wilderness, which gives the human race the ability to compete with ghosts.

He felt that arbitrarily tampering with "please ask for a mantra" like Gu Xu is an act of disrespect for God.

"There's nothing wrong," Gu Xu said, "In my opinion, no matter what method it is, as long as it can eliminate ghosts, it is a good method. I believe that the noble gods are magnanimous and will never care about such a small offense with us, the insignificant ants."

Ma Qin sighed, and finally nodded in agreement with Gu Xu's idea.

So Gu Xu closed his eyes and began to chant the spell softly: "I would like to ask Lord Ma of Qingzhou to show his magical powers. He will travel the world with his sword in his hand and walk like a cloud on the five thunder. The real world is full of the Taoist ghosts, and the evil demons will not stop. All the mountain spirits and ghosts are subdued, and the young people will return quickly. I will follow the order of the Supreme Haotian, burn incense and invite them to the altar. The divine weapon is as urgent as the order of the law!"

Too embarrassing! Too embarrassing!

When Ma Qin heard this "Please God's Spell" adapted by Gu Xu, he wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl in immediately.

He could not imagine what he would think of him if an acquaintance, especially an acquaintance in Qingzhou Prefecture, heard this spell and heard the title "Mr. Ma in Qingzhou".

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Notes:

(1) "The tree is full of red and beautiful, and the colorful red branches are bright and colorful in spring." - "Peach Blossoms" by Wu Rong of Tang Dynasty
Chapter completed!