At the foot of the small hill with blue waters in the western mountains.

While Li Mu was still refining medicine, he was unaware that Shu Tiancheng had transformed into an assassin, specializing in killing the纨绔 (playboys) of the Chen family in Yanjing. If he had known, he might have added fuel to the fire, offering advice on how to wipe out the entire Chen family.

Since leaving the mountain in the morning and arriving at the Liang sisters' residence, Li Mu has been working non-stop. First, he treated the two sisters, and then he started making medicine and refining pills. He can't stop now.

After refining the two batches of beauty pills, Li Mu saw the two sisters staring wide-eyed in disbelief. He then put one pill into each of their mouths. The two sisters were stunned for a moment, then covered their faces in embarrassment and ran away.

Having gotten rid of two helpers, he now became the cook himself, overseeing six medicine pots by himself. This was less about brewing medicine and more about ensuring his cultivation. He was a cook willingly and wholeheartedly.

Six furnaces were used to brew medicine simultaneously: two furnaces for Qi-tonifying pills, two furnaces for Life-giving pills, and two furnaces for Rejuvenating pills.

Although the thousand-year-old purple cloud vine is precious, it is only an inch in size. Li Mu divided it into eight parts. He was afraid that dividing it into too many parts would not be effective, and dividing it into too few parts would be too wasteful.

When Liang Huan and Liang Xiao ran back to their suite, they felt a change in their bodies. They immediately separated and went back to their own rooms. Half an hour later, they met again in the bathroom. Looking at each other, they were almost overwhelmed by the stench emanating from their bodies.

After a long bath, the two saw the changes in each other's bodies and faces, and they embraced and wept bitterly. So many years of repression and humiliation were released in one day, like a river overflowing its banks, uncontrollable.

"Sister, who is Li Mu? Is he sent by heaven to save us?" Liang asked after crying.

“Xiaoxiao, Li Mu is our great benefactor. He has been saving us ever since he appeared. So, there are some things Li Mu won’t tell you, so please don’t ask him,” Liang Huan replied.

A person with great abilities will have many secrets. It's just immature of you to pry into the details of your sister's good fortune.

Later, Liang Huan reminded Liang Xiao to go and help Li Mu, and that she should also go out to buy some groceries to cook them a nice meal.

Before Liang Huan left, Liang Xiao chased after her again, giving her a final instruction: she absolutely had to buy a large mirror.

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While Li Mu was watching the fire, he heard the sound of a car starting up, and someone who sensed it came over.

"Li Mu, Xiaoxiao went to buy groceries. I'll keep an eye on the heat for you. You can rest for a bit," Liang Xiao said mischievously as she came over.

"Oh! Sister Huanhuan, the snake venom I cleaned for you before wasn't completely removed. I have a detoxification pill here, you should take it quickly." Taking advantage of Liang Xiao's inattention, Li Mu casually rolled the dregs into a small pill and handed it to Liang Xiao.

"ah!!"

Liang Xiao stared in shock at the pills Li Mu handed her, her mouth agape. She quickly covered her mouth with her hand, afraid Li Mu would sneakily put them in her mouth again. She wasn't Liang Huan; she hadn't been poisoned by snake venom. Looking at Li Mu's mischievous expression, she realized she'd been tricked.

"Li Mu, you did this on purpose, you little liar, how annoying!" Only after realizing her joke had been caught did she realize how mischievous Li Mu was.

"Haha! So you know how to lie, huh!" Li Mu casually tossed the pill aside and said.

Although Liang Xiao's two-faced appearance was gone, and she had been cleaned and dressed differently, Li Mu quickly recognized the person who called herself Liang Huan as Liang Xiao from her eyebrows and expression.

Seeing that Liang Xiao still had the mind to tease him, Li Mu actually felt a great sense of accomplishment. It wasn't difficult for two sisters who had lived under the strange gaze of others since birth to heal their physical ailments; what was rare was their ability to quickly change their mindset and continue living.

When Liang Huan returned, Li Mu's medicinal soup had reached the crucial stage of elixir extraction. Although the two sisters remained silent, they watched with astonishment. Li Mu didn't shy away from them, and even casually mentioned some precautions for alchemy.

Before long, Li Mu put the six batches of pills into the jade box. As expected, because of the thousand-year-old Purple Cloud Vine, all the pills that were originally to be refined became first-grade spiritual pills, which made Li Mu feel a little anxious. It was a pity to use up the thousand-year-old Purple Cloud Vine like this.

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"My two elder sisters, as you can see, my alchemy technique is very different from yours. In fact, it is a kind of immortal technique. I am a cultivator."

After the three of them had finished their meal, Li Mu, after careful consideration, told the two of them some of his thoughts. In terms of age, wisdom, and temperament, the two were a pair of people who could become close friends.

"Ah!!" The two of them gaped open again after hearing this. Liang Xiao casually said, "Li Mu, you, you said you're a cultivator?"

Liang Huan quickly interrupted, "Xiaoxiao, let Li Mu finish speaking first."

Li Mu spent a day with the two women and found them to be both simple and honest, but Liang Xiao was more carefree, while Liang Huan was more rational.

"By chance, I learned some cultivation skills from someone. It's different from the martial arts of this world; it's similar to what's written in some fantasy cultivation novels. Cultivators have always existed, but this planet or world has reached the end of its Dharma era, and there's a break in the lineage."

And I, by sheer chance, may be the only cultivator here. Cultivating immortality isn't difficult; what's difficult is having spiritual roots and having someone to teach and guide you. What I'm about to say may be completely incomprehensible to you, but I'm telling you because I consider you my friends.

"Having spent a day with you, I greatly admire your character, and your medical talent is also exceptional; given time, you will achieve remarkable things. I can teach you some techniques for refining elixirs, and if you are interested in cultivation, I can also teach you some cultivation methods."

Seeing that the two were listening to him very seriously and sincerely, Li Mu simply finished saying everything he wanted to say in one go.

“Li Mu, no, Master, we’re willing, we’re willing to do anything you say.” This time it was Liang Huan who spoke first, and she even tried to pull her sister down to kneel.

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If a normal person heard someone talking about cultivating immortality, they would definitely think it was nonsense. However, the two sisters' experiences in one day were more miraculous than anything they had ever lived in their twenty-odd years. Therefore, even the most rational Liang Huan had to believe Li Mu.

Li Mu reached out and supported the two women from a distance, preventing them from kneeling. He said, "Forget about the formal apprenticeship. I've already called you 'sister' for a day. Just treat me like your younger brother. You don't want to have a master younger than yourself, do you?"

Liang Huan really wanted to say "I'm willing." She was better at understanding people's hearts than Liang Xiao. Before she could speak, Liang Xiao said, "Li Mu, little brother Li Mu, this is good. It will save us from embarrassment. If you become my master, I will have to bow and kowtow to you and give you gifts during festivals."

"Xiaoxiao, you..." Liang Huan was still hesitating. She couldn't just go along with it because the other person was being polite.

"That's settled then. From now on, you'll be my older sisters. Now I have something to tell you."

Li Mu didn't want to dwell on this trivial matter any longer, and he really didn't want to be someone's mentor.

Next, Li Mu explained in detail that he wanted them to learn how to make pills, and at the same time, he wrote ten prescriptions for the two sisters to study first.

Liang Huan practically suggested opening a pharmaceutical company in Li Mu's name, so that the products they researched could be mass-produced and made more accessible to the general public, allowing them to accumulate wealth and then use that wealth to collect cultivation resources.

Li Mu readily agreed with the suggestion. His original purpose in refining pills was to exchange them for resources. However, having lived two lives without ever engaging in business, he didn't know how to do it.

After a moment's thought, Li Mu thought of the Cheng brothers. These two were good at business. He wondered if the two young masters of the Cheng family would come and work for him.

That was about all the talk about making pills. It was getting late, so the three of them said goodbye and went back to their rooms to rest. They needed time to process all the things that had happened that day.