Time flies, and the sun and the moon are like shuttles. Four years have passed in the blink of an eye. The mountains in the blood-red abyss are continuous. The wind and rain have long been covered with a thick layer of vegetation. The spiritual power in the mountains is strong, and many rare herbs are produced, such as cloud deer, badgers and other animals traveling through the mountains, making this mountain forest a treasure land for hunters and pharmacists.

But people are circulating a story about the immortals in the mountains, the sun and the moon shining together, immortality, proficient in spiritual arts, and changing thousands of changes, but it seems that no one has ever seen such an immortal.

It is rainy season again. The raindrops fall in the mountains and forests, flowing along the green leaves and falling among the grass, nourishing the soil. On the cliffs among the mountains, a figure can be seen climbing on the rock wall. It is a white-haired old man with a small bamboo basket behind him, with clusters of herbs placed inside.

The old man's face looked a little rosy, and he carefully moved the roots of a herb with a shovel, for fear of hurting the grass roots and affecting the medicinal properties of the herbs.

Nearly ten meters below the rock wall, a girl about four or five years old was wearing a green plain clothes, looking at the old man with her face raised, her big watery eyes flashed, her hands were put together by her mouth, and she whispered: "Grandpa, be careful!"

The old man laughed: "Mengye, don't run around. Grandpa will come down after picking this ambergris."

"Be careful..."

The girl muttered her little mouth, as if she was not satisfied with her grandfather's risky look.

In the blink of an eye, an ambergris was pulled out by the old man. He held the protruding part of the rock with one hand and carefully threw the ambergris into the bamboo basket with the other hand. Then he got off the rock wall step by step. However, on the rainy day, the rock wall was very slippery. Just about three meters above the ground, the old man suddenly stepped on the air and fell down.

"Bang!"

Fortunately, there was a grass below, but the old man was still hurt by the stones in the grass, and grinned his teeth and cried out. The girl hurried forward and helped the old man: "Grandpa, where is the injury, where is the injury..."

Seeing the girl's worried look, the old man immediately endured the pain, laughed and stroked the girl's braid, and said with a smile: "Grandpa is okay, I'm teasing you, Mengye, let's go, this ambergris can be sold at a good price in the medicine shop in Bailing City, maybe twenty gold coins. Then grandpa will be able to buy a lot of candied haws for you to eat."

“Woo…”

The girl nodded, her big, watery eyes seemed to be able to speak, holding the old man's hand and stepping out of the blood-red abyss step by step.

...

Bailing City, rebuilt directly south of the ruins, is fifty miles away from the Blood Red Abyss. It has changed from a famous city with a population of three million to a small city with a population of less than 200,000. Most of the residents have been scattered into the Sunset City and Shangyang City. This is also the reason why Feng Jixing chose to set the capital of Lingnan in Sunset City.

In the rebuilt Bailing City, there were crowds of merchants. Before sunset the next day, the figures of the old man and the girl appeared in the city. The old man was named Li Su, a doctor in the martial arts world who made a living by collecting herbs and selling medicines. The elderly got a granddaughter, so they named their granddaughter Li Mengye. Mengye clover, which originated from the herbs, is also a kind of good wish!

Li Mengye's tender little hands tightly grasped his grandfather's palm. She knew that the ambergris in the bamboo basket behind her would be the source of income for the whole year of the family this year. After her mother gave birth to herself, she became sick and was bedridden for five years. Her grandfather was old and had little time to collect herbs. Moreover, her grandfather's refining skills were not enough to draw the medicine of ambergris to refine medicine, so she could only sell herbs directly to make money.

This ambergris is the first valuable herb they have picked in three months.

Zhennan Pharmacy, a pharmacy with only shopkeepers, is also one of dozens of pharmacies in the small town. In the past, the herbs collected by Li Su were sold here.

"Oh, Mr. Li is here." The shopkeeper of the pharmacy was a fat man. His weight of at least 300 pounds made his body look bloated and round. His eyes swept through Li Ju's bamboo basket and immediately smiled with a shiny smile: "Are you here to sell medicine and buy rice again?"

"yes."

Li Su put down the bamboo basket, carefully took out the ambergris and said, "The roots of this ambergris are fat and must have grown for several years. Manager Liu, please give me a good price."

"Oh, this is picked in the Abyss of Blood Red, right? I heard that there are swift wolves in the Abyss of Blood Red. It is really not easy to remove your old bones." Manager Liu took the ambergris casually and said, "The medicinal properties are really good, the medicine is full, so let's give you ten golden coins."

"What, only ten gold coins?" Li Su was stunned and said, "Shopkeeper Liu, the ambergris collected by Defu Medicine Store half a month ago were twenty gold coins per ambergris, and those ambergris must not be full. Look, I came to you to sell herbs to earn some money to support the family and treat diseases, in order to pay less handling fees from the business. Look... My family is old and young, so you must not cheat me. In this case, I might as well go to the business to sell it."

"Hmph, the old guy is really good at talking..." Manager Liu's eyes were impatient and said, "I'll give it to you. This is thirty golden coins. Is it enough to collect your ambergris, right?"

After counting the golden coins one by one, Li Su immediately smiled in his old eyes, and took out one of the golden coins and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Liu, look, I want to buy a roast chicken for my granddaughter. Please help me turn this gold coins into one hundred silver coins, thank you."

"What a trouble!"

Manager Liu impatiently took out a purse, a heavy hundred silver coins, and said, "Here, take it, go quickly, don't get annoyed in front of my store."

"Thank you, Shopkeeper Liu!"

Li Su smiled and held Li Mengye's hand and walked out of the pharmacy. He bought a bamboo-leaf chicken from the stall next to him and handed it to Li Mengye. He smiled and said, "Eat it, eat it, and you have to buy soup for your mother for the rest of the money!"

Li Mengye hugged a chicken and took a greasy bite, smiling even more happily: "Grandpa, it's so delicious."

"Then eat more."

But the girl pulled off a fragrant chicken leg and handed it to the old man, smiling like a flower: "Grandpa and eat together!"

Li Su was stunned: "Grandpa is not hungry."

"Mengye is hungry, and grandpa must be hungry too. If grandpa doesn't eat, I won't eat either." The little girl blinked her big eyes and said sensible.

The old man was very moved, so he took the chicken legs and ate them bit by bit. The girl just watched it, fearing that his grandfather would lie to him and hide the chicken legs for him but would not eat them.

...

Turning a corner of the street, three people with sting eyes stared at Li Su from afar. After all, thirty golden coins are not small numbers, and they are enough for a family of ten to eat and drink for several years.

"Second brother, do it, a little brat, an old guy, they do it when they enter the alley!" said one of the gangsters with a mustache.

"Okay, do it!"

The old man who walked into the alley never thought of the arrival of bad luck. He suddenly suffered a heavy blow in the back of his head. The wallet on his waist was quickly snatched away. He wanted to scream but couldn't. Instead, the girl shouted loudly and grabbed a gangster's leg and said loudly: "Bad man, put down grandpa's money, come quickly, catch the bad man, catch the bad man!"

"Get out of here!" The gangster kicked Li Mengye's hand away and stepped on her neck. The girl's face suddenly turned red.

"Let go of my granddaughter."

Li Su hurried forward and ran into the gangster's back from behind.

"Old guy, go to die!"

Another gangster waved a bamboo stick and hit the old man's leg!

"Click..."

The sound of bone breaking came, and the old man's legs were broken.

"Grandpa... let go of my grandpa..." The girl cried.

A few gangsters looked at me, and I looked at you, but they didn’t dare to show off. One of them pointed at Li Su and said, “If your special mother dares to speak out, be careful that I will kill you. We are people from the Heavenly Book Alliance!”

The Heavenly Book Alliance is a foreign organization of the Northern Qi Prefecture in Bailing City. The Heavenly Book Alliance is responsible for reselling the Heavenly Book written by the Northern Qi Prefecture to mercenaries, bandits, etc., and is regarded as the largest gangster in Bailing City.

When several gangsters left, the old man looked frustrated and the money he had worked hard for several months was gone.

Li Mengye hurriedly helped his grandfather up and cried, "Grandpa, are you okay?"

"Grandpa is fine, Mengye doesn't cry."

The old man wiped the girl's tears and looked into the distance tremblingly. The Tianshu Alliance was absolutely unaffected. Even if he sued the government, it would be useless. On his own leg, he stood up with a wooden stick and said, "Mengye, let's go, let's go home, we go home..."

"Woooo, grandpa..."

The girl was in tears and looked at her grandfather's appearance, feeling indescribable.

...

"Boss, how much does a bone healing potion cost?"

Two days later, a tender voice came from a small town southwest of Bailing City. Li Mengye asked timidly with a pile of silver coins in his hand, with his big eyes open.

"Two gold coins of the best bone healing potion, little girl, your dozen silver coins are not enough to even plug into your teeth. Let's go, don't interfere with our business."

"Boss, my grandfather is bedridden and needs medicine. You can do it."

"Gonggugugugugugu, we run pharmacies, not good deeds. Get out of here, don't block our business. If you want a potion that doesn't have money, go to the mountains to collect herbs and grind them!"

"I...I..."

Li Mengye's aggrieved tears circling in her eyes. She turned around and looked in the direction of the Blood Red Abyss, suddenly as if she had made up a decision.

...

The blood-red abyss, with mountains standing in the mountains.

Deep in the mountains, in a dark cave, starlight lingers around a stone statue. Suddenly, with a "bang", the rocks burst out at the fingers of the stone statue, and the starlight flows, and a powerful finger slowly stretches out. In the sound of "bang pa pa", the rocks covering the body of the stone statue are cracking. The young man who has been sleeping in the stone for four years finally woke up, his face is covered with beards, but his clear eyes are deeply confused.
Chapter completed!