"Mo Yan!" Li Shiming looked at the man with gray hair who kept kowtowing to him and recognized that this was his servant Mo Yan.

After twenty years, Mo Yan, who is about the same age as him, has shown some signs of aging.

"It's me, Master. Master, you still remember me!" Mo Yan said with a smile, his face full of tears. He thought of something, stepped aside, opened the door and said, "Master, please come in. The old master has been in poor health recently and is thinking about you!"

Li Shiming smiled and walked into the door.

Because the sound of Mo Yan was so loud, it alarmed several people inside.

Li Shiming saw a middle-aged woman and a young man beside her who looked just like Mo Yan in the past, and he couldn't help but look at Mo Yan.

"Master, Mo Yan is now the housekeeper. This is my wife and this is my son. They are both working at home!" Mo Yan bowed and introduced them. He turned to the middle-aged woman and the young man and said, "Why don't you come over to meet the master!"

"Greetings, young master!" The middle-aged woman and her son knelt down and kowtowed to Li Shiming.

"Get up!" Li Shiming almost forgot the secular etiquette and was not used to this kind of etiquette. He waved his hand and said.

He looked at Mo Yan's family and knew that they were really in decline. He sensed that there were only six people in the mansion, and there were three people in Mo Yan's family alone. For a three-courtyard house, this number of people was too few.

Mo Yan took Li Shiming to the second gate. Since there were no women in the family, the rules were not so strict. He led Li Shiming through the second gate.

Li Shiming saw a figure holding a basin of water. It was a woman in her thirties with a girlish bun.

When the woman saw Li Shiming, the basin in her hand fell to the ground with a clang.

"Young Master!" The woman called out the long-lost title in disbelief, just like she did twenty years ago.

"Siqin, you have grown up!" Li Shiming looked at Siqin and said with a smile on his face.

He looked at Siqin's bun again and couldn't help but frowned slightly.

At Siqin's age, she should have been married a long time ago, so why is she still wearing this bun?

"Cough cough cough!" A violent coughing sound came from the bedroom.

Li Shiming patted Siqin on the shoulder and walked into the master bedroom.

In the master bedroom, a fifteen-year-old boy was supporting a skinny old man, whose violent coughing caused his white hair to tremble constantly.

Suddenly the old man stopped coughing. He saw Li Shiming coming in, and his originally cloudy eyes suddenly became bright.

"The unfilial son Li Shiming greets his father!" Li Shiming knelt on the ground, kowtowed heavily, and said excitedly.

"Shiming, you're back!" The old man struggled to get out of bed, but his skinny body couldn't support him to sit up.

The young man next to him tried hard to help the old man up. The old man was too weak to get out of bed and reached out to touch Li Shiming.

Li Shiming knelt down in front of the bed and put his head in front of the old man's hand.

"Nothing has changed, not at all. You are right. The choice of cultivating immortals is the right one!" The old man said slowly with a smile, followed by another violent coughing fit.

Li Shiming's spiritual sense swept across the old man's body. With his realm, and the help of the vast amount of medical knowledge in his life-saving magic weapon IBMz15, he quickly discovered the old man's condition.

The old man was injured, and the injury was delayed for too long, causing damage to the foundation.

He cast a spell and a white light fell on the old man.

The white light was inside the old man's body, healing the inflammation and lesions caused by his injuries. After a while, the old man's face looked a little rosier.

Li Shiming was not happy. His father's health was damaged and he was old, so his life span was coming to an end.

Although he is a Jindan cultivator and even possesses invincible strength among Jindan cultivators, he is still powerless regarding his lifespan.

The longevity elixir in the world of immortal cultivation is extremely precious and rare. Even if he had it, he could not give it to his mortal father.

He felt heavy in his heart, but he thought of another thing. He knew his father's health. Although he was very weak when he left, he was well aware of his father's physical condition. With the spiritual tea he left behind, his father's health would not have been so bad in twenty years.

In addition, how my father was injured was the main reason that led to the end of his life.

He suppressed his thoughts and kept a smile on his face.

"Father, how do you feel?" Li Shiming stepped forward and took his father from the boy's hands and asked.

"I feel much better, my whole body is relaxed!" Li Wenyuan's eyes never left Li Shiming. He seemed to feel that his body was not as important as looking after Li Shiming.

"That's good. I'll help you recuperate for a period of time, and then you can move freely!" Li Shiming said with a smile.

However, he knew in his heart that his father would not live more than a year, and that human power could not change his fate. The matter of lifespan was determined by the rules of heaven and earth.

"Shijie, call me brother quickly!" Li Wenyuan thought of the young man next to him and said to him.

"Brother!" the boy named Shijie called shyly.

Li Shiming looked at his father in some confusion. He could not sense much blood of close relatives in the boy's body. Although the blood was from the same lineage, it definitely could not be his younger brother's.

In this regard, monks have special means to verify, and Li Shiming does not need complicated verification, as his perception is more sensitive.

"I adopted this child from my clan after I returned to the capital. He is a good child and he has been taking care of me all the time!" Speaking of Shijie, Li Wenyuan touched Shijie's head lovingly.

Li Shiming also looked at Li Shijie, with warmth flashing in his eyes.

He left his father, and his father must be extremely lonely.

My father had a kind of love that was rare in this world. He could never forget his deceased wife all his life. After he passed away, he was able to adopt a child to fill the emptiness beside his father. He was very grateful to Li Shijie.

"Shiming, how long will you stay this time?" Although Li Wenyuan didn't want to affect Li Shiming's cultivation, he couldn't help but ask.

"I'll stay with you and won't leave!" Li Shiming said with a smile.

Cultivating immortals is important, but the final companionship is also important. Besides, his current life in the secular world will not affect his cultivation.

He carried with him a Nascent Soul-level spiritual vein, as well as a large number of third-grade spiritual pills to assist in cultivation.

"It won't affect you, right?" Li Wenyuan's eyes were full of smiles, but he still asked worriedly.

"Don't worry!" Li Shiming patted his father's arm gently and said.

He sensed Li Wenyuan's condition. Although he had used some means to treat Li Wenyuan's illness, the long-term physical deficiency could not be recovered in a short time.

He waved his hand again and cast a small spell to help with sleep.

Li Wenyuan fell asleep with a smile on his face. This sleep would allow him to get a good rest both physically and mentally.

"Shijie, you should also take a rest!" Li Shiming looked at the tired Li Shijie and smiled.

"Okay, brother!" Li Shijie looked at his eldest brother and for some reason he felt at ease. The heaviness at home was gone.

Li Shiming helped his father to tighten the quilt, then walked out of the master bedroom. Mo Yan and Si Qin were waiting outside.

"Father's illness is cured. Mo Yan, do you know who hurt father?" Li Shiming looked at Mo Yan and asked in a deep voice.

"The master was dismissed from office a few years ago and was carried back home. I don't know how he was injured. The mansion has lost all its income and all the servants have been dismissed, leaving only Siqin and me!" Mo Yan thought for a moment and replied.

He was just a small housekeeper. Due to the decline of the Li family, he was more like a manager and had no face in public.

"I'll check it out!" Li Shiming nodded. He turned to look at Siqin and asked, "Siqin, are you going to live like this for the rest of your life?"

"I am the young master's maid!" Siqin said with a calm expression but a firm tone.

Li Shiming couldn't help but be silent. Siqin was indeed his maid, and her most personal maid.

According to the secular saying of this world, a maidservant will follow the young master for his entire life and will become his concubine after he gets married.

But he went to practice Taoism, and he didn't expect that the girl Siqin had been guarding him for twenty years.

As a monk, he cannot afford this kind of feeling.

The difference between immortals and mortals also prevents him from marrying mortals. The difference between immortals and mortals mentioned here is not a rule, but the physique of a cultivator is simply not something that mortals can endure.

Li Shiming has a great elder-level physique, and the sweat that comes out of his body is a deadly threat to ordinary people.

He was in a state of concealing his breath at this time, not daring to reveal even a little bit of it. As long as a little bit of it was revealed, it could cause the death of a mortal.

He did not use his telepathy, but his keen perception allowed him to clearly sense Siqin's persistence.

"Take this, and you will always be my maid, Siqin!" Li Shiming laughed. Although he could not keep Siqin by his side, he could give Siqin a gift that was not of the mundane kind.

He took out a rejuvenation pill. The pill was mild in nature and had special effects. And since it could be taken with his assistance, there was no need to worry about Si Qin being harmed by the pill.

Siqin swallowed the anti-aging pill without any hesitation.

For her, Li Shiming is her heaven.

What Li Shiming didn't know was that over the years, the Li family had declined to the point where they couldn't even pay their workers.

Mo Yan and his wife took on some jobs without asking for any wages, and Si Qin also took care of the seriously ill master without asking for any wages.

It is estimated that if the female cultivators in the entire Northern Shu Continent knew that Li Shiming gave a rejuvenation pill to a mortal, all the female cultivators in the Northern Shu Continent would go crazy.

The female cultivators in the Northern Shu Continent had been vying for a rejuvenation pill to the point where they would exchange it for a bunch of third-grade spiritual objects. But even so, they could not get it from Li Shiming.

But Li Shiming gave the Anti-aging Pill to Siqin, his mortal maid.

A layer of mist appeared on Siqin's body. Since she was a mortal, her body's reaction was more obvious.

The mist disappeared, and her skin returned to its original state, even better than before.

She first looked at her hands, then she noticed the changes in herself and touched her face in disbelief.

From the touch of her hands, she knew that the skin on her face, like the skin on her hands, had become extremely moisturized, returning to its youthful state.

Mo Yan fell to his knees with a plop, as if he was seeing a miracle.

"Mo Yan, here are three elixirs that have the effect of strengthening the body. Each of the three members of your family can take one. After taking them, you will never get sick again in your life!" Li Shiming took out three more elixirs and placed them in front of Mo Yan and said.

The value of these three elixirs cannot be compared with the Rejuvenating Pill. They are just the lowest-level elixirs that Li Shiming casually refined back then. However, all three elixirs are top-level elixirs, and their medicinal power can work on mortal bodies, which is extremely rare.

Unfortunately, my father’s health was too weak and he was too old to tolerate this elixir no matter how mild it was.

Mo Yan took the elixir with both hands and excitedly went to find his wife and children holding the elixir.

After witnessing Siqin's tremendous changes, he had great confidence in the elixir.

Besides, this is a reward from the young master. Who is the young master? He is an immortal.

In his simple mind, it was normal that the young master had not changed at all in twenty years, so when he first met the young master, he was more surprised.

Mo Yan ran away, leaving only Li Shiming and Siqin.

Li Shiming smiled and took out a glass mirror from his space ring and handed it to Siqin.

Siqin took the glass mirror and saw herself in the mirror. Surprise and joy appeared on her face at the same time.

"We are still the same as we were back then!" Li Shiming moved closer, and his and Siqin's faces appeared in the mirror. He said with a smile.

"Young master, your room has always been prepared for you. I'll take you there first!" Siqin lowered her head shyly, and quickly returned to her status as a maid, handing the mirror back and saying.

"Here's the mirror for you!" Li Shiming waved his hand.

His room was moved to the left ear room. Originally, he lived in the main room, but when his father Li Wenyuan moved in, naturally his room as a son could no longer be arranged in the main room.

But when he walked into his room, he found that the layout was exactly the same as before.

Although the Li Mansion has declined and there are only a few servants, there is not a single mess or dust here, which shows Siqin's care for this place.

Siqin fetched water for Li Shiming to wash his face, and then found a teapot and poured a cup of tea for Li Shiming.

With Li Shiming's level, a cleansing spell could make him clean. He had not come into contact with spiritual tea below the third grade for many years, but he still picked up the teacup and took a sip of the tea brewed by Siqin.

Although there is no spiritual energy in the tea, it has a warm taste.

Li Shiming sat down at the desk and picked up a book, which he had left behind.

Siqin fanned him as she did in the past.

The subtle warmth and worldly human touch made Li Shiming enjoy this rare time.

He can only stay here for one year. This is the result of him giving up many things in order to accompany his father until the end of his life. Although it will not affect his cultivation, it has a significant impact on many Jindan cultivators in the Northern Shu Continent.

He also needs to find a way to notify the sect, otherwise even the sect might send monks to look for him.

Matters concerning notifying the sect can be handled through Beishu Trading Company.