Please, marry a white snake wife. It’s super cool.

Lu Yuan nodded and sent a message to the old turtle: "Senior, as long as the scales are from your body, they don't have to be freshly peeled."

"You should have said it earlier!" the kind-hearted old turtle replied, then moved his body, shook it a few times, and caused an earth-shaking movement.

Wow~Wow~
A large pile of tortoise shells fell in front of Lu Yuan, and he said, "Young man, these are all for you. These are the shells that fell off last time. There is no use for them to be left here."

Lu Yuan spread his hands and put the piles of armor pieces into the system space, thinking: "I'm rich! So many armor pieces are enough for me to refine countless pills. If combined with "Alchemy", these armor pieces can be made into a set of armor or armor. The defense is much stronger than the golden soft armor."

Lu Yuan collected the scales, bowed to the old turtle, and said in a voice transmission: "Thank you for your generous gift, senior!"

The old turtle slowly said, "I am tired and need to continue hibernating. Young people should treat our benefactor's family well, otherwise please don't bully the young."

Lu Yuan said in a voice transmission: "Please rest assured, senior, I will take my leave now!"

Lu Yuan picked up the green flame in the water and swam upwards.

The old turtle said, "Too slow, let us take you there!"

The old turtle took a deep breath of water and exhaled suddenly. The powerful water flow pushed Lu Yuan upwards.

Lu Yuan shouted in his heart: "Do you want it to be so exciting?"

Yunyun was still sobbing sadly on the reservoir dam, but Gongyuejun believed that his master was not dead yet.

If Gong Yuejun was bound by Lu Yuan's soul-binding device, he would definitely be able to sense whether the owner of the soul-binding device was still alive.

Now Lu Yuan has released the soul-binding device from Gong Yuejun, and Gong Yuejun can no longer sense Lu Yuan's breath, but he firmly believes that Lu Yuan will be fine.

Lu Yuan was blown out of the water by a strong current, and was sprayed more than ten meters high! Several water ghosts were also sprayed out.

Lu Yuan spat out the water-repellent pill in his mouth, controlled the water flow to stabilize his body, and manipulated the water in the reservoir to bring himself safely to the dam.

Seeing that her brother-in-law was fine, Yunyun clapped her hands in joy and cheered, "Brother-in-law, you are awesome!"

When the cold winter wind blew, my wet clothes began to freeze and drip water.

Lu Yuan couldn't help but shiver, and then he felt much more comfortable. Lu Yuan pinched the green flame around his body and began to warm his clothes.

Gong Yuejun and Yunyun floated in front of Lu Yuan and kept a certain distance from him because of the flames.

Yunyun pouted and asked, "Brother-in-law, you went downstairs just now, didn't you mean to provoke Xiaobei?"

Lu Yuan spread his hands and said innocently: "I didn't do that, I just woke it up accidentally!"

Yunyun was half-believing and half-doubting. How could Xiaobei be so careless after hibernating to that extent?
After drying the clothes, Lu Yuan brushed off the dust, stamped his feet, and looked at it carefully. Can this virtual person cry?
"Yunyun, why do you look like you're crying?" Lu Yuan bent down and got close to Yunyun's face, looking at that delicate and somewhat childish little face with some tear marks on it.

During the time that Gong Yuejun has been following his master, he knows his master's character very well. His master is a man who can even pick up a big snake's tail and bite it!
Gong Yuejun's fatherly love clouded his mind, fearing that his master would take his daughter under his wing. Yunyun was a little girl who would never grow up! And she was still a virtual spirit in the form of a soul!

Gong Yuejun floated in front of Yunyun, blocking his daughter Yunyun, and used a spell that allowed him to embrace his master.

Gong Yuejun didn't care about gentlemanly etiquette or anything like that. He hugged his master in his arms and said with a sob, "Master! You're back! I missed you so much!"

Lu Yuan was also stunned by this sudden enthusiasm. Why is Mr. Gong Yue playing the master-servant role for no reason?

Lu Yuan patted Gong Yuejun on the back and said, "Gong Yuejun, stay here with your daughter. I also need to go home to be with my daughter."

"Okay, Master! Master, take care!" Gong Yuejun let go of Lu Yuan, nodded rapidly, with a smile on his face.

Lu Yuan returned home in a few quick steps. Su Liyan came up to Lu Yuan and smelled a faint earthy smell on him. She asked, "Brother, where have you been?"

Lu Yuan took out a handful of tortoise shells and said, "Bring me the herbs for alchemy!"

Su Liyan picked up the nail with sticky water on it, and wondered in her heart: "Isn't this from Xiaobei?"

"Brother, what did you do to Xiaobei who was at the bottom of the reservoir?" Su Liyan asked anxiously. Looking at the huge handful of turtle shell fragments, she wondered if her brother had dissected them.

Lu Yuan sorted the scales by size and said, "Wife, come and help me! As for Xiao Bei, don't worry. We can't beat him yet, but it's good enough that he didn't eat me alive. These are all given to me by him."

Su Liyan rolled up her sleeves and began to sort the armor pieces, saying, "Yes, after thousands of years of practice, it would be too difficult to defeat him underwater!"

Lu Yuan weighed the bags of armor in his hand and said, "Wife, is there any place for us to refine pills?"

Su Liyan's parents' house is not big enough, with only two rooms. It is not a good idea to practice alchemy in the room for a long time.

If there is no good place to go, Lu Yuan plans to go back to his hometown in Shigezhuang next door. There is no one there, so it is perfect for making elixirs.

Lu Yuan was not sure that he could refine the elixir of life, which was a low-grade human-level elixir. It would take a long time to perfect the alchemy technique, and it would be best if no one was disturbing him.

Su Liyan thought for a moment and said, "Why don't we go to my grandma's house? After my grandma passed away, the house there has been vacant for many years, and it's a bit run-down."

Su Liyan hadn't been to her grandmother's house for many years. She was afraid to go there, afraid that sadness would well up in her heart... Now, she wanted to go and take a look...

Lu Yuan packed up his bag and said, "It's a bit shabby, but that's okay, my wife will lead the way!"

"Okay, brother!"

Su Liyan took Lu Yun to the other side of the village, pushed open a wooden door, and welcomed Lu Yuan in.

The yard was covered with withered grass and trees. The walls were made of stones mixed with soil. The wall in one corner of the yard was a little tilted, giving people a shaky feeling.

Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar old house, Su Liyan couldn't help feeling a little sad. This was where she often came to play when she was a child.

Grandma Su Liyan died of a chronic illness. As a half-demon, even if she had great cultivation, she could not escape birth, aging, sickness and death.

During the great famine, there was no money for medical treatment. In order to prevent her descendants from wasting their only wealth and starving to death on the streets, the sick Grandma Su Liyan chose another way to pass away.

This is what Su Liyan remembered when she was seven or eight years old.

If the half-demon race wants to survive in this era, they must abide by the human code of life and are not allowed to steal or rob by relying on their racial advantages. Otherwise, they will be wiped out by the strong humans, and it may even bring disaster to the entire half-demon race.

There were some populations of half-demons who were greedy by nature and excluded other half-demons or humans, plundering and exploiting the living space of other races.

The final result is predictable, everyone attacks!
In her memory, grandma treated Su Liyan very well. Before the great famine, every time Su Liyan came to her grandma's house as a child, she could not only eat some desserts but also receive a few copper coins.

Su Liyan arranged for Lu Yuan to live in the east room. Looking at the room covered with dust, Su Liyan felt a lump in her throat and almost cried.

Su Liyan fetched some water, boiled some hot water, wet the rag and started cleaning the room. Lu Yuan also asked why they didn't use the French method, which would make the cleaning faster.

Su Liyan said: "Brother, I want to clean the house for grandma myself."

Lu Yuan packed up his things, rolled up his sleeves and started working with his wife.

After Su Liyan settled Lu Yuan down, she went home.

Lu Yuan didn't go out for several days, concentrating on refining the pills he needed, and failed countless times.

Su Liyan would deliver meals to Lu Yuanlai three times a day without missing a single meal.

In order to avoid disturbing Lu Yuan while he was refining the elixir, Su Liyan would always put the prepared meals on the dining table and then take the remaining meals home.

After a few days, a blue pill pushed open the lid of the alchemy furnace and flew out.

Lu Yuan was secretly happy that his efforts over the past few days were not in vain. He had actually managed to refine the elixir of immortality.

Seeing that the elixir of immortality was about to fly away, Lu Yuan had already made preparations this time. He sealed the doors and windows of the room, so that the elixir could not escape no matter how hard it wanted to.

Lu Yuan used the levitation technique to forcibly control the pill flying in the air and stabilize it; at the same time, he jumped and flipped back and forth in the room, trying to catch the pill in his hand.

Lu Yuan was exhausted and panting in the room. He bent over and shouted, "If you fly around again, I will burn you to ashes!"

The blue pill circled the room, as if it understood what Lu Yuan said, and flew back to the Seven Star Wind Pill Furnace obediently.

Lu Yuan straightened his back, walked to the alchemy furnace, reached in, grabbed the blue pill with one hand, and then put it into the system space.

After Lu Yuan swallowed a Nine Revolutions Pill, he sat cross-legged and tried to recover his consumed internal energy as quickly as possible.

These days, Lu Yuan hardly ate anything and was relying on the Nine Revolutions Pill to stay alive.

After Lu Yuan recovered his internal strength, he took out the same herbs and threw them into the Seven Star Wind Pill Furnace to continue refining.
Inside the Lu Mansion in Taining City, three women were eagerly waiting. Their husbands said they were going back to Su Liyan's parents' home for a few days, and this trip would take more than half a month.

The few trusted men who were originally guarding outside Changliu Village had already been sent back to the Lu Mansion by Lu Yuan.

Zhao Qiaoer, Song Meiqin, and Gu Ziyue, wearing fur coats, gathered in the front hall with nothing to do. There was a stove in the middle of the room, and the three of them were chatting and laughing while warming themselves by the fire.

Zhao Qiaoer held Huanhuan in her arms and said angrily, "You darling, you're not home all day and you don't even call me. I really miss you so much."

Song Meiqin, who was about to give birth, said with her big belly, "My dear sister, you are still complaining. How long has Yue'er been here?"

Gu Ziyue sat aside, teasing Xiaotian on the ground with a roasted chicken leg in her hand, and said with a smile: "Aunt Song, I didn't think about it."

Zhao Qiaoer came close to him and said, "How could I not miss it? I miss it every time I do it. If I do it three or five times, and grab it with my hands every now and then, it will all be wet!"

Zhao Qiaoer really didn't treat the people present as outsiders and said whatever she wanted to say.

Xiaotian, who had a roasted chicken leg in his mouth, almost choked. He thought to himself, "Hehehe, this tall and big-hipped Second Madam is really braying like a donkey and never gets enough. When Big Brother comes back, I'm going to beat up this big female donkey of yours!"

"Madam, please come out and take a look!" A servant crawled in from the front door of the Lu Mansion.

Zhao Qiaoer jumped up immediately and asked excitedly, "Is it our darling that has returned?"

The servant rushed into the front hall, took a few deep breaths and said, "No, it's not the master who has returned, it's..."

When Zhao Qiaoer heard that it wasn't her beloved darling who came back, she sat down without any interest.

Song Meiqin was pregnant and it was inconvenient for her to stand up, so she said, "Wait a minute, talk slowly!"

The servant swallowed his saliva and said, "Ladies, it's the second son of the King of Yan who has arrived!"

Gu Ziyue continued, "It's my nephew who's here. I thought it was a small matter, but he came anyway. Why are you so flustered?"

"My dear Madam, the second son of Prince Yan fell off his horse, fell in front of the mansion gate and fainted!" said the servant.

"Little Madam" is what Gu Ziyue asked the maids and servants in the mansion to call her. Gu Ziyue found it endearing and cute.

Gu Ziyue didn't believe this at all. The road was slippery on a snowy day, and an ordinary person wouldn't faint if he fell, let alone Gu Gaoxu who was practicing "Zhenwu"?
Seeing that the ladies did not believe him, the servant emphasized, "Madam, it is true!"

Zhao Qiaoer interrupted her daughter who was breastfeeding in her arms. With a "pop" sound, Huanhuan's pouting mouth was pulled off Zhao Qiaoer's big water bag.

Huanhuan stretched out her little hand and wanted to hold the wine and continue drinking. Zhao Qiaoer called the maid and handed her daughter Huanhuan in her arms to the maid.

Zhao Qiaoer ordered: "Take it away and give it to the nurse."

"Yes, ma'am!"

Zhao Qiaoer looked at Song Meiqin and said, "Sister, you don't have to come to greet us since you are pregnant. Yue'er and I will go to greet them."

Zhao Qiaoer fastened the buttons on her collar, pulled her fur coat down to cover her beautiful body, put on her hat, and went out to greet him.

Gu Ziyue followed Zhao Qiaoer closely and went there together. When they arrived outside the mansion, they saw several servants carrying the unconscious Gu Gaoxu.

"What's going on?" Zhao Qiaoer's tone was filled with a hint of majesty.

The servants hurriedly explained, "Madam, Lord Gu came here on horseback, staggering, and just as he arrived in front of the mansion gate, he fell off and fainted."

Gu Ziyue walked forward, lifted up Gu Gaoxu's clothes, and found that Gu Gaoxu's body was covered with scars.

Gu Ziyue waved her hand towards the mansion and said, "Take her to the first guest room on the west side!"

"Yes, young madam!" several servants said in unison.

Zhao Qiaoer and Gu Ziyue stepped aside to make way, and several servants helped Gu Gaoxu into the mansion.

Gu Ziyue was well aware of Gu Gaoxu's abilities.

Zhao Qiaoer came close to Gu Ziyue and whispered, "Yuer, is something big going to happen? My heart is beating so fast right now."

Gu Ziyue didn't know what was going on, so she said, "Aunt Zhao, please ask the doctor to take a look. When Gu Gaoxu wakes up, we'll know what happened."

Zhao Qiaoer straightened her broad body and shouted, "Come here, go and invite the best doctor in the city to come to the house!" (End of this chapter)