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"Senior Brother Liu?" Chen Mu walked to the door and looked at the honest figure in front of him in surprise.
"Junior Brother Chen?!" Liu Hongyang was also surprised: "I didn't expect that this wooden building was chosen by Junior Brother."
"So you are my new neighbor." Chen Mu glanced at the wooden building a few hundred meters away, his face suddenly realizing.
This Senior Brother Liu is the same Senior Brother who drilled into the water veins and dug out the meridians with him in Wuyan Mountain.
The other person could turn the ground into steel with one finger with superb skill. He was underground like a fish in water.
"Why, senior brother, you like my wooden building? How about we switch?" Chen Mu said happily.
The two of them stayed together in the dark underground for more than a month. When they met again, they became familiar with each other after just a few words.
"No, no..." Liu Hongyang waved his hands repeatedly.
"I was originally worried that the neighbors would be difficult to get along with, so I wanted to choose a secluded place for peace and quiet."
"But since Junior Brother Chen is here, then there is no problem. It doesn't matter where we live." Liu Hongyang said with a smile.
……
A moment later, inside the wooden building.
Chen Mu and Liu Hongyang sat at the coffee table drinking tea and reminiscing about the past.
Thinking of Liu Hongyang's background in the Hall of Hundred Craftsmen, Chen Mu's heart moved, and he asked tentatively: "Brother, are you here to, um... dig a hole?"
Although he said it cryptically, Liu Hongyang understood it and did not hide it: "It was indeed for digging a hole."
It turned out to be for the purpose of building a mountain protection ban!
But it’s been nearly half a year since Yingchou Cliff was taken down, and the mountain protection ban hasn’t been built yet?
Liu Hongyang leaned in closer and explained in a low voice: "It is said that the terrain of Wuyan Mountain is complex and unique, and it echoes Yuquan Mountain in the south and north. The prohibition must be special, and it takes a long time to build."
Chen Mu suddenly realized.
Thinking carefully now, Yuquan Mountain and Yingchou Cliff are indeed on the same north-south line.
Immediately, his whole body tensed up.
There is no mountain protection ban on Yingchou Cliff? !
What if some local monks take advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos and set up an evil demon altar? What if there is another Eagle Cliff incident like the Wuyan Mountain incident?
"Junior brother, you don't have to worry about the safety of Yingchou Cliff." As if seeing Chen Mu's worry, Liu Hongyang smiled and comforted him.
"Our elder Sun has shown his might and has cleared the area within a hundred miles. No barbarian dares to cause trouble at Yingchou Cliff."
Chen Mu's face turned strange when he heard this.
Sun Jian couldn't find him, so he directed his anger at the local monks at Yingchou Cliff, but he ended up indirectly creating a safe environment for himself.
Is there any benefit in killing Sun Chengye?
Well done, Elder Sun!
Chen Mu smiled and said in a relaxed tone, "Brother, you just came now, I'm afraid you won't be able to earn much from setting up the restrictions, you can probably only have a sip of soup."
"Who made me know the two brothers of the Sun family?" Liu Hongyang looked helpless.
Sun Wuhuan and Sun Chengye?
Chen Mu was stunned.
"Our elder Sun is too suspicious." Liu Hongyang smiled bitterly, "Just because he was involved with my two brothers, he was investigated thoroughly, which delayed him for a long time."
"What's going on?" Chen Mu pretended to be curious and asked.
"It was the discussion meeting organized by Sun Wuhuan. He said there was a tortoise shell recording ancient prohibitions in the meeting, so I went there."
"But after I bought it, I spent a lot of effort to decipher the ancient text, but in the end I only got a weird story full of gods and ghosts. There was no restriction at all. I was cheated out of a large amount of Taoist jade for nothing."
"But because of this huge sum of money, the Sun family suspected that I might retaliate, and then I was detained and investigated over and over again."
"Oh, what bad luck..." Liu Hongyang looked gloomy.
Chen Mu immediately looked at the other person with sympathy.
Fortunately, I only spent a little effort to buy Ge's Herbal Notes, so I was not suspected at all.
Otherwise, he might be interrogated in such detail, and then he would definitely be exposed!
However, it has been almost half a year, and Sun Jian hasn't given up the investigation yet? !
Old Man Sun, you can't do this.
You are such a great master, how can you be so narrow-minded?
Isn't it just killing two unfilial descendants of your Sun family? Is it necessary to track it down for so long?
Chen Mu smacked his lips and said, "This elder Sun is indeed very powerful, but his character, tsk tsk, I don't think it's that good."
"It's indeed not that good." Liu Hongyang looked as if he was speaking from the bottom of his heart, with a look of approval on his face.
……
Senior Brother Liu disappeared after living in the new house for only two days.
Chen Mu understood that the other party had probably gone underground to participate in the construction of the mountain protection ban.
"Senior Brother Liu, you have to work hard. If the restriction is completed sooner, I can feel at ease one day sooner." Chen Mu thought happily while playing with the Yang Chai bone ball.
A few days later, Chen Mu returned to his peaceful life, drinking soup every day to concentrate his mind.
I give two lectures a month and practice making two batches of elixirs in my free time.
My strength has been steadily improving and my life has been very comfortable.
Apart from occasionally missing the young lady from Hongxiufang, I don’t have any other worries.
……
That day, Chen Mu finished his morning practice and sat by the window as usual to admire the small waterfall not far away.
In his hand, he held a wooden teacup filled with Huiyuan soup with a flavor of ginger and milk. He took a sip from time to time, looking very contented.
In order to maximize the effect, Chen Mu divided the daily dose into three times.
As a result, I made it more and more, my proficiency improved, and the flavors became more varied.
He had just eaten a bowl of spicy soup in the morning, and he changed it to ginger milk at noon.
Three familiar footsteps came into my ears, and soon there was a knock on the door.
Wang Heyuan?
Why are the three of them here?
Chen Mu stood up and welcomed the three apprentices in.
Before Chen Mu could ask any questions, Wang Heyuan handed over a wooden box.
Chen Mu opened it curiously and found a box of white jade coins. A quick glance showed that there were at least a thousand of them.
"This is..." Chen Mu looked confused.
Wang Heyuan smiled and said, "This is a thank you gift for you."
"We don't know what you need, so we can only give you some common things to show our appreciation. I hope you don't mind."
I don't dislike it, I don't dislike it at all. In this day and age, who would dislike white jade and having a lot of money?
But why give gifts for no reason?
Chen Mu's heart suddenly moved, and he looked at Wang Heyuan in surprise: "You guys..."
"Please taste it, senior brother." Wang Heyuan and the other two smiled as they each handed over a pill that was a mixture of black and white.
Chen Mu suddenly understood and picked them up one by one to check.
"The alchemy furnace is too hot, and the Qi inside the furnace is unstable. I have to continue practicing the Wind and Fire Cardinal Spell."
"The essence of the five grains is not pure, and the Qi-gathering spell is still not hot enough."
"The Hunyuan Pill is not round enough, and the golden bead talisman is not complete enough..." Chen Mu pointed out several problems in succession.
When the three heard this, their faces immediately turned red, and they stared at Chen Mu and bowed: "Senior brother is right!"
Ah……
Chen Mu suddenly chuckled.
“There were a lot of mistakes, but I managed to do it.”
"After all the hard work, you can go to Danbao Pavilion to take the test of alchemy."
"It's all thanks to senior brother's guidance!" Wang Heyuan and the other two immediately smiled happily.
The experience provided by proficiency is still so reliable.
Chen Mu waved his hands with a smug look on his face: "I didn't help much, it all depends on your own accumulation of experience."
At this moment, Chen Mu also understood the purpose of the three people's visit.
"Are you planning to return to Yuquan Mountain?"
"Well, I really need to change my identity as soon as possible."
Compared with the alchemist, the status and income of the alchemy boy are much lower.
"But it's not safe on the road, right?" Chen Mu thought of the rumors he had heard in the past few months.
"Brother, you don't know that as long as we avoid the area near Liulian Mountain, there won't be any problem." Wang Heyuan explained with a smile.
"Recently, the Dongling barbarians have been fighting fiercely with Liulian Mountain. It is said that they sneaked up the mountain and caused a lot of damage."
"The transport team was attacked some time ago because of the situation near Liulian Mountain."
"The area around Eagle Sorrow Cliff was cleaned up so thoroughly by Elder Sun that there aren't many problems."
"As long as the transport team avoids Liulian Mountain, at most they will encounter some small-scale harassment. With the support of the brothers from the Inspection Institute, they won't cause much harm at all."
Chen Mu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
Elder Sun has really worked hard and made great contributions!
But is the transport team okay? Then why are the herbs from Hongcaotang still so expensive?