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Noticing the movement in the inner room, the child ran excitedly into it.
Just woke up the old man put on a robe, sleepy eyes squinted and asked, "What are you calling for, let me see how well you can watch the fire?"
Fire, did not watch, someone over there disturbed me.
The child spoke complainingly.
The old man furrowed his brow, showing a hint of dissatisfaction, "How can you have so many excuses for doing things? I don't believe anyone knows about this broken hut in the mountains."
The old man said this, stepping out from the inner room. At first glance, he saw Chen Mo and the others sitting not far from the cauldron.
Chen Mo was closing his eyes and pretending to sleep, while the little peanut was standing beside him. Seeing the old man wake up, he immediately stood up and stood in front of Chen Mo.
The old man looked up and down at the little bean sprout and showed a displeased expression. He then turned to the child beside him and said, "I've told you before, no guests are allowed in my mountain hut. No matter who it is, they will be driven away...".
"It's not something I can just drive away, I'm not strong enough to fight against it..."
The child was even more aggrieved. He wanted to fight back, but he couldn't even touch anyone and was beaten up instead.
He bore the suffering that a child his age shouldn't have to endure.
Hearing that the old man was going to drive people away, the little bean sprout furrowed her eyebrows and angrily scolded: "Old man, my elder brother is here to calculate your fortune, and you want to drive people away?"
"Xiao Dou Ding, don't be impertinent."
While the little bean sprout was still yelling, Chen Mo opened his eyes and stood up from the stool.
The old man's eyebrows furrowed slightly. He felt that the voice was somewhat familiar. When Chen Mo stood up, he was a little dazed, slowly walked forward two steps, and then rubbed his eyes.
"You, you are..."
The old man couldn't believe it. He widened his eyes in disbelief and opened his mouth so wide that he couldn't even speak.
"Mr. Gu, it's been a long time"
Chen Mo smiled and nodded respectfully.
The old man in front of Chen Mo was recognized by him. It was Gu Shan, who had refined a pill for him in the Tianlong Dynasty.
In those days, he was not as old as he is now; he was a middle-aged man with jet-black hair. Now, he has become an elderly man with white hair and whiskers, looking like a person on the brink of death.
He remembered that when he lived in a quadrangle courtyard, Gu Shan had come to his door several times to listen to him teach with some of his disciples. He had once asked him about the way of Dao through pills.
Chen Mo has always been willing to teach without discrimination. As long as he knows it, he is not sparing with his teachings, whether it's for an ordinary person or someone like Gu Shan, who had boundless potential for achievement in the field of alchemy.
After that, Gu Shan was grateful for Chen Mo's teachings and had him refine pills multiple times. He had made a promise that as long as he wanted, no matter where he was or when he was, he would always be willing to refine pills for him.
Unfortunately, times change and people change. He died later, and even if Gu Shan wanted to refine pills, there was no opportunity to do so.
He, who pursued the path of alchemy, later left the Tianlong Dynasty and roamed across the Nine States Continent for over two hundred years before retreating to this place, secluded from worldly affairs.
The fact that Gu Shan had retreated had not been told to anyone, and he deliberately kept to himself. For many years, no one had found this place, and even if someone happened to come here accidentally, they wouldn't know his true identity.
"The Dao Ancestor, haha, truly the Dao Ancestor. You, are you alive again?"
Gu Shan was surprised with a hint of joy, not because Chen Mo had found this place, but because he had been resurrected from the dead.
In the past, he had even thought about whether it was possible to create a pill that could bring the dead back to life. However, after pursuing it for half his life, he had found nothing.
"Yes, I have come back to life"
Chen Mo replied indifferently, but his tone betrayed a hint of fatigue.
"Come, sit down and talk."
Gu Shan's attitude no longer showed the fierce look from earlier, but rather resembled a kind and gentle old man, politely inviting Chen Mo to sit down.
Seeing this, the little kid who had wanted to seek revenge against Gu Shan was not pleased at all. "Grandpa, that woman just hit me, and that guy...".
Deng——
Before the child could finish his sentence, Gu Shan delivered a blow to his forehead. The child's face contorted in pain and he let out a howling cry like a pig being slaughtered.
"How dare you speak like that? That's the Dao Ancestor, and the one who hit you is to be called 'sister.' If I see you acting so disrespectfully again, I'll beat you up too."
Gu Shan angrily called out, "Go into the house."
The child covered his head with tears of anger and resentment welling up in his eyes, "All right!" he shouted loudly.
Then the child retreated back into the inner room.
After scolding the child, Gu Shan finally put away the anger on his face and turned to look at Chen Mo, smiling and saying, "The child doesn't know any better, I'm sorry for disturbing the Dao Ancestor."
"It's okay. He is quite adorable. Is he your disciple?"
"Um."
Gu Shan nodded slightly, "I am getting old and I don't know when I will take one step into the coffin. Although I have many disciples, no one can accompany me at this moment. A few years ago, I discovered him abandoned in the snowy mountains and took him back with kindness. It's also to find a companion for myself and have someone to care for me when I grow old..."
At this moment, the little kid popped his head out from the inner room, "Grandpa, you're so powerful, how can you be so short-lived? You should live at least another hundred years."
The little kid interrupted the conversation in a cute way, and Chen Mo, Xiao Dou Ding, and Mu Qiu Ge couldn't help but smile.
Gu Shan's mouth twitched, and he turned his head and glared at him, "Go back."
"All right."
The child immediately pulled his head back inside.
"I'm sorry for disturbing the Dao Ancestor."
Gu Shan lightly waved his hand, "Speaking of it, Dao Ancestor, if there is anything you need from me in this special visit, if there is, I will not refuse."
"There is actually something I need your help with... refining pills."
Chen Mo looked up and down at the elderly man and joked: "Mr. Gu, can you still refine pills with your body?"
"Haha."
Gu Shan laughed loudly and said, "Although I am old, my skills in refining pills are still easy. If the Dao Ancestor wants to refine a pill, just tell me, and I have been doing this for three hundred years. The older I get, the more pills I can refine."
"Alright, that would be a great help to you."
Chen Mo turned around, took out a piece of paper and a pen from his space ring, wrote for a moment, and a list appeared on the paper. He then handed it to Gu Shan.
Gu Shan looked at the list carefully and couldn't help but furrow his brow, "What kind of pill is the Dao Ancestor refining?"
"Breaking Misfortune Pill"
"Frankly, I have refined countless pills in my life, and I am familiar with the Breaking Misfortune Pill. However, the ingredients listed here are a bit different; there are quite a few more."
Gu Shan furrowed his brow, with confusion in his eyes.
"Can you obtain all these ingredients?"
Chen Mo did not answer and instead asked.
Gu Shan nodded slightly, "Some of these materials are quite rare, but it's not a problem to obtain them. It just takes a bit of time."
"Thank you for your help"
Chen Mo stood up, "I have some other matters to attend to and won't keep you. I'm going to Miao State, and I'll come back to collect the two pills of elixir."
"Do you need to make two?"
Gu Shan furrowed his brow in thought, but saw that Chen Mo had already walked out the door.
The wind and snow were strong, but as they fell near the thatched cottage, they were melted by the warmth.
Chen Mo stood in the wind and snow, seemingly thinking of something. He turned to look behind him at the parting Gu Shan, "Mr. Gu, finding materials isn't a hurry, especially for those that grow in dark places, be careful and don't search around with a lantern."
Gu Shan nodded, half-understanding, and watched the figure slowly fade away into the distance amidst the wind and snow. His face was full of confusion.
He seemed to be pondering the meaning of Chen Mo's words.
The child ran out of the thatched cottage at this moment, looking at the disappearing figure in the wind and snow. He looked far away and said, "That person spoke very oddly. Talents that grow in dark places can't be seen by others, so how can we find them without a lantern?"
"Can't be seen by others…"
Gu Shan was taken aback, picked up the list Chen Mo had given him, and looked at it carefully. His mouth curved slightly, "That's why it's two pills... originally one of them is for subduing demons..."
"What did you say, Grandpa?"
The child asked in confusion.
Gu Shan shook his head lightly, "It seems that the wind and snow of the night are about to arrive."
As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Shan produced a flame from his palm, burning the list in his hand into ashes in front of the child's eyes...
