Gu Xu still clearly remembered that a few months ago, he and Chu Fengge flew from Yishui County to Qingzhou Prefecture on flying swords to solve the case of the Lu family's murderous house.
That was his first flight in this world.
That day, Yishan was covered with clouds, thunder and lightning, and it was daunting.
Today, when he flew to Qingzhou along the same route, he felt as if he was in another world.
On the one hand, it is because the sky in Yishan today is clear and cloudless, and the towering snow peaks are shining brightly in the sunshine.
On the other hand, it is because of the change in his identity.
While flying, he speculated over and over in his mind about the situations he might encounter on the way to rescue—which powerful men would be sent by the Qi court to garrison the execution ground? How will they respond to their ability to travel through space? Will there be a formation to restrict the air? After successfully rescuing Chen Jisheng and others, how should we escape with them?
But somehow, even after considering thousands of possibilities, he still had an ominous premonition in his mind.
It was like a haze, lying in front of me.
Hard to push away, hard to disperse.
A few minutes later, his premonition became reality.
A huge, resplendent ship floated in the air, blocking his way forward.
The ship is more than forty feet long and nearly twenty feet wide, with the mast standing high on the deck.
From a distance, it looks like a flying giant beast.
"Flying boat in the air."
Gu Xu said silently in his heart.
When he first went to the Laoshan ruins, he took such a "floating airship".
I have to admit, standing in front of this thing, the visual impact is really strong, giving people a strong sense of oppression, as if it may open its bloody mouth at any time and devour people.
At the front of the floating airship deck, he saw a familiar figure.
"Gu Xu, we meet again." She said with a smile on her face, looking at him from a distance.
This person is none other than Princess Zhaoning.
She was currently wearing a moon-white men's robe, her long black hair was tied high on her head with a small white jade crown, and her beautiful face was as bright and moving as a spring flower.
But Gu Xu's eyes didn't stay on her body for too long.
Because standing beside her was a more important person who deserved his attention.
It was a short, dark-skinned older man, wearing a simple cloth shirt. He looked like an old farmer working hard in the fields.
"I didn't expect that this time, the Imperial Master of Da Qi would personally arrest me," Gu Xu secretly exclaimed in his heart, "I thought his injuries hadn't healed yet."
He realized that although he could now use the "astrolabe" to predict the future fortune of Mohu, there would still be deviations when it came to monks whose cultivation was far stronger than his own.
At the same time, he also discovered several serious problems——
First, his flight to Qingzhou this time was really impulsive. He started on the road almost without thinking. It was completely inconsistent with his usual cautious style. He didn't even think about hiding himself during the flight.
Although this matter involved Chen Jisheng and others, he was more impulsive, but it was still reasonable.
But he always felt as if at the moment he made his decision, someone used an invisible hand to quietly erase the reason in his mind.
Second, even though he was wearing a mask, Princess Zhaoning and others still accurately intercepted him on his way.
This made him wonder if the mask suddenly lost its effectiveness.
Luo Sishou said that this mask works based on the art of cause and effect - but in Gu Xu's memory, there was no strong person in the Daqi Dynasty who was proficient in the art of cause and effect. He really couldn't think of anyone who could crack the mask.
"The most critical question now is, how do I escape from this encirclement?" His eyes became more solemn.
He had just shuttled from Dengzhou Port to Yishui County, and he was not yet able to use the "astrolabe" to build a space channel again.
The talisman that Da Qi Imperial Master is best at is called "Heaven and Earth Cage", which is said to be able to seal all things in the world.
The "Nine Infant Snake Demon" back then was sealed under the Qingzhou Mansion by this talisman array.
It can be said that once the cage is formed, Gu Xu will be unable to fly.
And without being able to travel through space, if he wanted to compete in speed, he would definitely not be able to match a true saint like the National Preceptor.
Unknowingly, his eyes swept over the "floating flying boat" and then landed on the towering Yishan Mountain not far away.
An idea suddenly came to his mind.
…………
While Gu Xu looked at the Imperial Master, the Imperial Master was also looking at Gu Xu.
The Imperial Master's eyes were extremely complicated, with admiration mixed with regret and regret.
He could feel that the aura of true energy exuding from Gu Xu's body had reached the peak of the fourth realm, and his pressure had exceeded the level of ordinary fifth realm monks.
After practicing for about a year, he reached such a height.
This young man's talent can be said to be rare in a thousand years.
"It would be great if he was still serving the imperial court." The Imperial Master sighed and thought silently.
In fact, the Imperial Preceptor still can't figure out why Gu Xu would collude with ghosts and collaborate with the enemy to treason.
But the emperor's order cannot go wrong.
Even though he had all kinds of doubts in his heart, the Imperial Master could only act according to his orders.
"A monk below the fifth level needs the help of a saint to capture him," Princess Zhaoning beside her sighed softly, "Gu Xu's incident today alone is enough to leave his name in history."
The Imperial Master slowly raised his hand and gathered the true energy at his fingertips.
He used heaven and earth as paper and true energy as ink, and began to build a huge talisman array.
In an instant, black clouds blocked the sunlight, and the sky became much darker. It was as if someone poured a basin of ink into the sky, and the ink was spreading around with the Imperial Master as the center.
But Gu Xu's escape speed was faster than the national master's formation formation speed.
He stepped on the black space crack and turned into a black lightning. Through multiple short-distance teleportations, he rushed straight towards the snowy peak of Yishan Mountain and disappeared from everyone's sight in the blink of an eye.
He knew that with his current strength, even if he used all his cards, he would not be able to compete with the powerful Saint.
And in front of a saint who can tear apart space and travel thousands of miles, running away is equally useless.
"The only person who can deal with a saint is another saint." This is a sentence Gu Xu read in a spiritual book.
What he has to do now is to find another strong saint to help him survive the current crisis.
All he had to do was disrupt the situation and contain the Imperial Master, and then Gu Xu would have the possibility of escaping.
It so happened that there happened to be a strong saint on Mount Yi.
"Sorry, Miss Lu," he sighed silently with a helpless smile on his face, "I'm going to disturb your dream again."
