Naturally, Gu Xu couldn't take out the "road guide" thing.
Therefore, the moment he heard the voice, he clutched the "astrolabe" tightly and ran away without hesitation.
"There's something wrong with this man's identity! Catch him quickly!"
Seeing Gu Xu disobeying orders and running away, Liaozhou Prefecture Qianhu Que Juchang shouted loudly to his men and flew into the air to chase Gu Xu.
At the same time, a cylindrical object made of brass appeared out of thin air in his sleeve.
Que Juchang is a fifth-level monk with profound strength and a master who is good at using hidden weapons.
He was born in the "Moon Shadow Palace", a sect in Hedong Province that was best at cultivating killers. He was later recruited by the government and became an official in the Exorcism Department.
The cylinder in his sleeve is called "Sleeve Arrow".
They put concealed arrows in a special quiver, with short and light arrow shafts and heavier arrowheads. As long as the mechanism is touched with true essence, the hidden arrow will be ejected from the small hole on the top of the tube.
It starts quickly and has a long range, making it difficult to guard against.
Que Juchang also applied poison to the tip of the hidden arrow. Once it comes into contact with the target, it will render the target incapacitated.
He raised his arm and pointed the small hole of the quiver at the fleeing Gu Xu in front.
"Swish swish!"
"Swish swish!"
The hidden arrows were like rapid rain, flying towards Gu Xu continuously.
Gu Xu had long been aware of the danger behind him.
He frowned slightly, and with his sharp thinking, he calculated the trajectory of the hidden arrow, and then used his body skills to dodge.
In an instant, more than a dozen hidden arrows passed by him, but they failed to hurt him at all.
Of course, Que Juchang would not let Gu Xu escape this disaster easily.
With a thought in his mind, the hidden arrows in the air turned around and pointed their blades at Gu Xu.
"It's really troublesome." Gu Xu muttered in his heart.
As his eyes quietly turned into indigo, thin black lines suddenly appeared in the air around him, like ripples in a lake.
He used the power of "Qiankun" to distort the nearby space.
The hidden arrows changed direction again and flew toward the ground, but before they landed, they were all annihilated in the black space gap.
Seeing this strange scene, Que Juchang frowned.
Of course he knew that these thin black lines were cracks in space. But he never expected that a mere monk in the fourth realm would have such profound attainments in the laws of space.
This means that many of the hidden weapons and methods he has mastered will be difficult to use when dealing with Gu Xu.
However, Que Juchang was not the only one who rounded up Gu Xu.
When Gu Xu dodged Que Juchang's hidden weapon, the branches of the trees around him suddenly grew rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
These branches were entangled together and woven into a huge cage, trapping Gu Xu inside.
Gu Xu used "Qiankun" again, trying to leave the cage through short-distance teleportation.
But maybe it's because this forest is so vast.
After escaping from one cage, he entered a new one.
All the trees seemed to be monsters with teeth and claws, like an octopus waving its tentacles, or like an insect wriggling its mouthparts, trying to swallow Gu Xu into its belly and digest it.
"This forest is under my control," a hoarse voice came from not far away, "You can't escape."
Gu Xu raised his head and saw a short, middle-aged man holding a cane floating over the forest.
At the end of his cane, a green light flickered on and off.
Because when Gu Xu was an official in the Daqi court, he had casually browsed through the files of the Exorcism Department, and with his photographic memory, he kept everyone's information in mind.
So he quickly recognized that the person in front of him was Shangwei Qianhu of Fenzhou Prefecture. He is a fifth-level monk who has practiced the high-grade technique "Huimu Sutra" and is good at manipulating plants.
"Since I can't escape from this cage, I'll just tear it down." Gu Xu thought to himself.
He waved his sleeves lightly, and more than twenty "True Flame Talisman" flew out from "Xianyun Residence", causing the forest to suddenly turn into a sea of fire.
But after a while, when the flames extinguished, the surrounding trees were safe and sound, with no trace of being burned.
The branches were still stretched out, restricting his movement.
"As expected of a master of high-grade martial arts," he glanced at Shang Wei, who was holding a cane, and thought to himself, "Sure enough, he is not that easy to deal with."
As a last resort, he could only spend a little more real energy and use "Firefly Flame" to burn the branches of the trees around him that were restraining him.
However, the officials of the Daqi Dynasty were not fighting him one-on-one.
While he was busy dealing with Shang Wei's spell, a heavy meteor hammer suddenly flew straight towards his head.
The meteor hammer was perfectly round in shape, with a number of inch-long iron nails on it. The nails were pointed forward and extremely sharp.
Gu Xu was shocked and immediately relied on his body's instinctive reaction to bend down and lower his head to avoid the fatal blow.
The owner of the meteor hammer is obviously very good at concealing his aura.
Even though Gu Xu had amazing mental perception, he did not notice the sudden and terrifying attack in advance.
It is conceivable that if his reaction was a little slower and he was hit in the head by this meteor hammer, his skull would be shattered in an instant and his brains would be scattered everywhere.
"The Imperial Court of Da Qi really thinks highly of me," he couldn't help but complain silently, "they actually sent three extraordinary fifth level monks to deal with me, a weak, pitiful, helpless fourth level monk."
But Gu Xu still underestimated the importance that the Da Qi court attached to him.
Just as the meteor hammer flew away, another halberd stabbed straight at his chest.
The speed of the halberd is faster than the meteor hammer.
Even if Gu Xu devoted 12% of his attention, he couldn't clearly see its movement trajectory.
He had to use "Time" to slightly slow down the flow of time before he could barely dodge its attack.
At this time, he noticed that the person holding the halberd was a tall woman with a plain face.
She looked cold, with no emotion on her face.
Behind her, countless rays of blue-purple lightning intertwined together and merged into an astonishingly coercive Dharma form.
"The commander-in-chief of Hedong Province, Zhu Qiuyi."
Gu Xu quickly recognized her identity.
According to the information files he had flipped through before, he knew that this unremarkable-looking woman had a cultivation level close to the peak of the sixth realm, and he also understood her fighting style——
That's one word, "fast".
The magical power she awakened when she broke through to the third realm was called "Chasing the Wind", which could instantly speed up her movement speed, reaction speed, attack speed, etc. from two to more than ten times.
In terms of visual effects, it is very similar to Gu Xu's "time" power.
The difference is that Gu Xu's "time" acts on the law of time, changing the speed of time and having no effect on Gu Xu himself.
The function of "Chasing the Wind" is to stimulate the potential of a person's body and soul and accelerate his or her own speed without affecting the passage of time in the surrounding environment.
Zhu Qiuyi, who masters "Zhufeng", is undoubtedly a terrifying assassin. She can approach the target, complete the assassination, and leave quietly in an instant.
Many times, the target's head would have fallen to the ground before he could see her clearly.
For most monks in the world who lack the means to save their lives, especially Talisman Masters, Formation Masters, Gu Masters, Feng Shui Masters, etc. who are not good at close combat, it is absolutely a terrifying nightmare.
Moreover, she not only has the magical power of "chasing the wind", but also has the magical power of "thunder".
"Dharma" is the manifestation of "Tao".
After the Great Wilderness monk knocks on the Fengdu Gate and advances to the sixth realm, his understanding of the great ways of heaven and earth will be presented in the form of visions, and will provide significant benefits during battle or practice.
After breaking through the seventh realm, the "Dharma" will re-integrate into the monk's body, helping the monk complete the transformation of "transcendence into sainthood".
In other words, saints and strong people do not have a "Dharma Appearance" - of course, it can also be understood that the "Dharma Appearance" of a saint and strong person is their own physical body.
If a monk keeps using ready-made high-grade skills and relies on the "Tao" understood by his predecessors to practice, he may be able to quickly advance to the sixth realm and condense the "Dharma".
But his "Dharma" will never be able to integrate with himself; his cultivation will always be stagnant in the sixth realm, unable to take a step forward.
After all, his "Tao" is borrowed, not his own.
Because of this, Gu Xucai has been insisting on improving the middle-grade technique "Red Flame True Technique" instead of practicing high-grade techniques like "Lexing Technique".
Zhu Qiuyi's choice was exactly the opposite.
After solving many cases and making meritorious deeds, she exchanged a large sum of merit for a top-grade skill - "Wind and Thunder" from the Exorcist Department.
After that, her entry into the country was faster than expected. In her early thirties, she had already opened the "Fengdu Gate", condensed the "Dharma", and was appointed by the imperial court as the fourth-rank general soldier, in charge of the exorcism department. Provincial affairs.
Her "Thunder Aspect" not only adds thunder and lightning attributes to her true energy, further speeding up her attack speed, but also has a shocking effect on the minds of surrounding enemies, making their reactions and actions slower.
If Gu Xu hadn't often carved various spiritual defense talismans in his sea of consciousness, he might not even be able to use "time" to come out, and he would be penetrated by the halberd.
"A formidable enemy," he commented.
Facing a warrior like Zhu Qiuyi who comes and goes without a trace and moves as fast as lightning, many of his powerful methods, such as the "Jinghong Pen", "Star Formation", etc., cannot be used.
Because it was impossible for Zhu Qiuyi to give him time to recite incantations and brew his true energy.
In addition, he also needs to turn on "time" at all times in order to clearly see the direction of Zhu Qiuyi's halberd and respond in time.
He clearly felt that the real energy in his body was passing rapidly.
In less than sixty breaths, his true energy will be completely exhausted and he will no longer be able to resist.
"Am I going to die here today?"
He thought solemnly while dodging the oncoming halberds and bolas.
He only has the fourth level of cultivation.
Even though he is extremely talented and carries the karma of "Emperor Ziwei", he cannot defeat a group of fifth and sixth realm enemies with one enemy and many enemies.
He could only hold on and find a way to escape.
But his current true energy is not enough to support him in constructing a space channel, nor is it able to allow him to use "Qiankun" multiple times in a row to teleport.
His flying speed cannot compare to Zhu Qiuyi.
Although he has a "substitute bracelet" on his body, it can only protect him from one fatal attack and cannot send him to a safe place.
He seemed to have fallen into a slow state of death.
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While Gu Xu was fighting alone against many enemies, several officials responsible for arresting him were also communicating secretly through spiritual consciousness.
"This kid is really difficult to deal with."
"His speed is hardly slower than Master Zhu. Could it be that he has also awakened some kind of magical power related to speed?"
"Is he really only in the fourth realm? Why do I feel that a group of us fifth and sixth realm monks are being played by him alone?"
"Que Juchang, is this the 'Sleeve Arrow' that you have always been proud of? Why didn't even one arrow hit the target?"
"Oh, Pu Shilong, you're not much better. You keep throwing meteor hammers in the air, just like a street performer."
"..."
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Time passes minute by minute.
Gu Xu's true energy is almost exhausted and he can no longer maintain "time".
Perhaps due to the overdraft of his true energy, he felt slightly dizzy and his eyes were a little dark.
But Zhu Qiuyi's halberd was still menacing and as fast as lightning.
The moment Gu Xu ended his "time", the halberd stabbed his throat silently from the side.
Gu Xu leaned down to dodge, but the halberd still scratched the side of his face, leaving a bloody mark, and then his mask flew off.
Zhu Qiuyi quickly noticed that Gu Xu's reaction speed and movement speed were much slower than before, and his face looked pale and weak.
"Maybe he just used some secret method to activate the body's potential," she secretly guessed, "but now, the effectiveness of the secret method is over."
Her moves immediately became more decisive.
She used her body skills to get around Gu Xu's back, swung her halberd and stabbed him in the back of the head.
The halberd instantly pierced Gu Xu's head.
But Zhu Qiuyi soon felt that what the halberd stabbed was not a flesh and blood body, but a thin piece of paper.
Gu Xu used a paper man as a substitute and escaped the fatal blow again.
While Zhu Qiuyi was attracted by the paper man, he had already fled to a place more than ten meters away.
Only this time, he escaped Zhu Qiuyi's halberd, but not Jinyang Qianhu Pu Shilong's meteor hammer.
The big iron ball embedded with iron nails hit his back hard, scratching his robe and cutting his skin, causing the wound to bleed.
Gu Xu frowned in pain, sweat dripping from his forehead.
But his enemies gave him no time to breathe.
At the moment when he was in a daze due to injury, the "Sleeve Arrow" of Qianhu Que Juchang in Liaozhou Prefecture stabbed his left shoulder, and the poison quickly spread throughout his body.
His body suddenly stiffened, as if it had turned into wood, and he could no longer keep moving.
He became a free fall, plummeting from the sky.
He tried to recite the "Purification Mantra" silently to relieve the negative impact of the poison on himself.
But at this moment, Hedong Commander-in-Chief Zhu Qiuyi rushed towards him like lightning again.
Although the imperial court's order said "capture Gu Xu, life or death".
But since Gu Xu escaped from the "Liuhe Immortal Formation" in Luo Jing City, Daqi officials have basically reached a consensus - dead Gu Xu is safer than alive.
Because this guy has so many tricks up his sleeve that it’s hard to guard against him.
If you're not careful, you might let him escape.
Therefore, even if she saw that Gu Xu was seriously injured and lost his fighting ability, Zhu Qiuyi still concentrated all her true energy on the halberd, preparing to pierce his throat with the force of thunder and kill him completely.
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