In the retreat room, Gu Cheng entered the retreat state on his first day as the night watchman.
After Meng Hantang left for five days, he asked someone to bring back the Spirit-enhancing Pills handed out from above and the things someone wanted to exchange.
Gu Cheng didn't exchange for anything. 140 merit points was still a bit too little for him. Now that he had no shortage of means to challenge, he might as well wait for the merit points to accumulate to a certain amount before redeeming some good things.
After taking the Yun Ling Dan in his hands, Gu Cheng looked at it carefully. There were ten pills in a bottle. The packaging was simple and tasteless. As for the appearance, it looked like Mai Lisu.
However, although this thing looks a bit crude, it is extremely precious to low-level practitioners.
One is because Daqianming prohibits the trading of cultivation elixirs.
The second reason is that it is not that simple to refine elixirs.
Yunling Pill is only one of the most basic cultivation pills, but even so, it requires dozens of materials and an experienced alchemist from an orthodox Taoist sect to refine it.
Ordinary casual cultivators want to learn alchemy, but the scrap materials used to lay the foundation for you are sky-high.
Therefore, generally only the imperial court or some major sects have the qualifications and confidence to train alchemists.
The elixirs used for cultivation are basically priced but not marketable. Even if they are available, the prices are sky-high on the black market, but the supply is still in short supply.
Gu Cheng swallowed a Yunling Pill and chewed it subconsciously. Suddenly, a bitter feeling poured into his mouth.
No wonder almost all elixirs have to be swallowed, and the unpalatable taste is probably one of the reasons.
However, as the elixir entered his body and Gu Cheng used his energy to digest the elixir, a powerful heat flow immediately surged into his body, instantly causing the flow of energy in Gu Cheng's body to increase by more than ten times.
The potency of a pill lasted for nearly an hour before it dissipated. At the same time, Gu Cheng's acquired Qi, which was hidden in the Yin Veins, also increased.
It took Gu Cheng two days to completely digest these two bottles of elixirs, but his own cultivation level was enhanced more than it was in a month.
If there were two more bottles of such elixirs, Gu Cheng would be able to reach the mid-eighth stage soon.
After refining the elixir, Gu Cheng did not choose to continue practicing in seclusion, but went out to read a book.
Regarding Luo Jiao this time, Gu Cheng felt that his understanding of this world seemed to be too little, and he didn't even know a lot of common sense.
Before, Gu Cheng felt that the world was far away from him. It wasn't until people like Luo Jiao appeared that Gu Cheng realized that he had actually been in the world for a long time.
So before Meng Hantang left, Gu Cheng asked Meng Hantang to help him bring back some books about the common sense of the world.
Otherwise, as a member of Jingyesi, he could not even distinguish the difference between the Luo Sect, the White Lotus Sect and the Maitreya Sect. That would be a huge failure.
In the next few days, Gu Cheng spent time reading in Jingyesi.
Although the books that Meng Hantang found for him only briefly described the branches of sects and forces in the world, customs, etc., they also gave Gu Cheng a lot of gains.
But the most intuitive thing is that Jingyesi, or the entire Daqian, does not seem to be as powerful as Gu Cheng imagined.
Five hundred years ago, Da Gan wiped out the world. When the country was first founded, it was the time when Jing Yesi was at its most majestic. No matter whether it was ghosts or monsters, they were suppressed and did not dare to show their presence. They could only huddle in the mountains and old forests.
Those Jianghu sects and cultivating families are very honest. Traffickers and lackeys must abide by the laws of the court, and cultivators must abide by Jingyesi's rules.
But five hundred years later, except for the central part of Daqian, where Gu Cheng is now located in Donglin County and some surrounding counties, the area is relatively peaceful, while the west, north and south are not peaceful.
The specific details are not mentioned in the book. It may be because this book was published by Jingyesi, so all the content that insulted the majesty of the great officials was deleted.
However, some of the contents are quite interesting, such as about Zuo Yunzhi, the leader of the Luo Sect of the generation who created the Great Moving Technique, who is known as the reincarnated immortal god, Zuo Zhenjun.
Regarding the practice of Taoism, Gu Cheng did not have anyone to teach him. Tie Tianying taught him some, and Meng Hantang also taught him some.
Therefore, regarding how to practice and what path he should take, he can only rely on Gu Cheng to think and explore on his own.
Meng Hantang once told him that there is no strongest technique, only the strongest person.
In the past, the martial sage Pei Fei was able to defeat many eminent monks of the Yamantaka Temple with his introductory Little Vajra Demon-Suppressing Fist. Zuo Yunzhi was also able to transform the transportation technique of pretending to be gods and ghosts into the great transportation technique of moving mountains and reclaiming seas.
To practice a discipline, the key is skills, the key is elixirs, the key is weapons and secret treasures, but the most important thing is people, oneself, one cannot abandon the fundamentals and pursue the inferior.
Putting down the book, Gu Cheng went to Meng Hantang's study room and looked through the various messages sent by some police officers below.
Some of these messages are suspected of being caused by demons and ghosts, but some are simply based on rumors, so Meng Hantang needs to distinguish between them before deciding to send someone over to check.
Now that Meng Hantang is away, Gu Cheng has to handle these matters.
Meng Hantang, the night watchman, is actually not very relaxed, but that is because he is too serious and rigid in his work.
If other night watchmen encountered this kind of news, they wouldn't even read it. They didn't even see the appearance of a demon. Why would they report it?
Even the capital side is even more outrageous. As long as no one is killed, Jingyesi's Xuanjia Guards will not come to check at all.
Just like when Gu Cheng was assassinated, it was only because Tie Tianying had a relationship with the Gu family that he came.
After looking through the news, judging from Gu Cheng's pitiful experience, most of the things were just based on speculation.
You don't even need experience, just a simple analysis can tell that most of the news is reported by suspicious people.
At this moment, Xiao Yi suddenly knocked on the door and came in: "Brother Gu, there is a document from Heyang Mansion."
"The clerk of Heyang Mansion? Is your lord coming back?"
Xiao Yi took out the document and handed it to Gu Cheng, shook his head and said, "No, it seems to be a transfer order."
Gu Cheng took out the document and took a look. It was indeed a transfer order.
There are fourteen counties in Heyang Prefecture, but only eight of them are guarded by Jingyesi's night watchmen. The remaining six counties are remote or have very few people, and are not worthy of establishing a stronghold.
Once something goes wrong in a county like this, the county magistrate can only report it to the state capital, and then the state government orders the dispatch of Jingyesi from other counties to solve the problem.
The place where the problem occurred this time was Donglin County, which was not guarded by Jingyesi. It was a remote county in a ravine. Luo County was the closest to Donglin County, so this task fell on them.
The document said that in recent times in Luo County, people often heard the sound of silk and bamboo music coming from Jiangjun Mountain at night, which sounded like a wedding ceremony or a funeral.
But Luo County is surrounded by mountains, and Jiangjun Mountain is just an uninhabited mountain, with absolutely no one getting married or buried.
A famous hunter once went up the mountain at night, but he disappeared.
Subsequently, two more waves of people went up the mountain to look for him, but they both never returned.
The disappearance of these people completely frightened the people of Donglin County. The county magistrate directly ordered a curfew and asked Jingyesi for help.
Because I have never seen the real body of the demon, but I can't see the living person or the dead body, which is a bit strange, so the order issued by the state capital is not to solve the problem of Donglin County, but to investigate.
The document was very detailed and suggested that Luo County Jingyesi send six to eight people to Donglin County to investigate the situation. If the situation could be solved, it would be solved on the spot.
If it exceeds the capability, retreat immediately and notify the state capital.
Gu Cheng thought for a while, called all the Xuanjia guards from Jingyesi in Luo County, told them the contents of the document, and said in a deep voice: "
Everyone, this is a transfer order issued by the state government, so I am going to go there myself.
Xiao Yi and I are in a group. Brother Zhao and Brother Wang are experienced and can also join us.
There are two groups left, who wants to go?"
After all, Gu Cheng is the acting night patrolman. Apart from being familiar with Zhao Jingming and Wang Qi, he can't directly give orders to others. He can just let them make their own choices.
Unexpectedly, the people from Jingyesi in Luo County were actually very enthusiastic, and nearly half of them wanted to go.
Perhaps it has something to do with Meng Hantang's character. There are very few people under him who just want to mess around. Even Zhao Jingming is just a little slick in his behavior, but not slick in his work.
The transfer order issued by the state government personally requires four groups of black armor guards to be dispatched at once. Although there is a certain degree of danger, there are also a lot of merit points afterwards.
In the end, Gu Cheng made a selection and picked four people to go to Donglin County together.
One group is Fang Ping and Qi Zhou.
Fang Ping is a young man in his twenties. Like Xiao Yi, he is a Nine Realm Qi Refiner who specializes in Qi training. He has previously participated in the siege of the Naluo Sect traitors.
Qi Zhou is a middle-aged man in his fifties, almost the oldest Xuanjia guard in Jingyesi, Luo County. Although his talent is limited and his strength is not as good as that of Zhao Jingming and others, he is experienced and knowledgeable.
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Considering that the possibility of encountering ghosts was greatest this time, Gu Cheng chose such a group of Xuanjia Guards who were Qi Refiners and seniors.
The remaining group, Li Chengping and Bai Chuan, are both elite Xuanjia guards in their thirties, and their strength is among the best in the Luo County Jingyesi Division.
After selecting the manpower, Gu Cheng and others headed straight for Donglin County without any delay.