Chapter 323: Chapter 323: The Immortal Old Man Who Neither Eats Nor Drinks

"Sister Mu, what’s the matter?"

Both of them behaved in an open and upright manner, and nothing was amiss between them. Moreover, Mu Xiao was well-acquainted with all the young men and felt no need to shy away from the newly arrived Qin Zhantian.

Lu Chen couldn’t think of why Mu Xiao would specifically take him to the wooden hut to speak.

"It’s this."

Mu Xiao first lit an oil lamp, and once the room brightened, she reached under the bed and pulled out a jade talisman in the shape of a fish that was about the size of a thumb.

"What is this?"

Lu Chen frowned, sensing that spiritual power was circulating on the fish-shaped jade talisman. However, it was not a magic artifact, much less a spiritual artifact.

"This is a personal belonging left by a predecessor," Mu Xiao declared solemnly, "When the predecessor departed, they gave it to me."

Lu Chen was puzzled and said, "If it was given to you by the predecessor, you should keep it. Giving it to me won’t be of any use!"

"That’s not the case," Mu Xiao, realizing she hadn’t made herself clear, said, "A few days ago, the fish eye glowed, indicating that the predecessor had passed nearby!"

"You mean to say..."

Lu Chen was suddenly startled.

Mu Xiao didn’t know, did she not realize that this predecessor was his own parent?

"How long ago?"

Lu Chen took a deep breath and asked anxiously.

"It’s been some days," Mu Xiao replied, "I thought, since I gave you the jade vase, if you encountered the predecessor and they mistook you for stealing the vase, it could cause a misunderstanding. That’s why I decided to give you this jade talisman too."

"I see," Lu Chen forced himself to calm down and said, "Sister Mu, you mean that as long as I carry this jade talisman and come within a certain distance of the predecessor, the fish eye will glow?"

"Yes, after all, this jade talisman was nurtured close to the predecessor’s body and may have acquired some spiritual nature. I’m just an ordinary martial artist. Instead of keeping the jade talisman as a memento, it’s better to give it to you, where it can be of more use!"

Seeing Lu Chen understood her intention, Mu Xiao couldn’t help but also smile as she spoke.

"Sister Mu, rest assured, you guys will surely break through the martial path to become cultivators!"

Lu Chen felt moved in his heart. Since their first accidental meeting, Mu Xiao had saved his life when they were still strangers to each other, allowing him to receive news about his parents!

If she knew that the two predecessors she mentioned were my birth parents, she would surely be overjoyed...

"Cultivating immortality is not so easy," Mu Xiao laughed upon seeing Lu Chen carefully hanging the jade talisman at his waist, "I’ve long accepted my fate! I’m just not cut out for cultivating immortality, and besides, I’m getting old, not willing to leave Tianyuan, I love the peaceful life here."

Lu Chen smiled and said, "Sister Mu, I have a way, just wait for the good news! By the way, where is the old medicine man, why hasn’t he appeared this time?"

"He’s tending to the herbs," Mu Xiao laughed, "You gave him quite a lot of spiritual medicines last time, many of which he had never seen before. He’s been obsessed with them and hasn’t eaten a single meal until now."

The old medicine man is a half-step cultivator, but after all, he is not yet a cultivator.

Without eating, he could starve to death.

But his obsession with the way of herbs indicated that the old medicine man was inherently good-natured.

If so, then he could be trusted.

"Alright, then Sister Mu, you take care of the little prince, and I’ll go find the old medicine man."

Since he was trustworthy, Lu Chen certainly needed to start preparing to slowly turn this place into a sanctuary for himself.

At least, until he decided to join a sect, Lu Chen still needed a place to stay.

He stepped out of the wooden hut and looked toward the corner of the valley, where he saw the old medicine man squatting motionlessly in front of a spiritual herb.

Lu Chen slightly activated his Hateful Heaven Pupil Technique and could see that atop the spiritual herb, spiritual power was enveloping it, indicating that the herb was about to blossom!

After thinking for a moment, he quietly walked over, not wishing to disturb the other.

But as he took a step forward, the old medicine man abruptly stood up, startling Lu Chen!

Upon closer inspection, it turned out that the spiritual herb had bloomed!

"Hahaha, now that girl Mu Xiao can use this spiritual medicine to clear her meridians, and it won’t be long before she breaks through the Qi Refinement Realm!"

Hearing this, Lu Chen was taken aback.

The old medicine man hadn’t eaten or drunk for days for the sake of Mu Xiao?

And what sort of spiritual medicine was this that could allow Mu Xiao, a martial artist in the Visceral Refinement Realm, to break through to the Qi Refinement Realm?

What’s more, the old medicine man himself was a half-step cultivator; why didn’t he consume the herb himself?

With such questions in mind, Lu Chen walked over.

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