After chatting with Perfected Lord Xuanmiao for a while, Gu An had him take him to inspect the Medicine Garden.
Perfected Lord Xuanmiao had planted a sizable Medicine Garden at the foot of the mountain and taken in a few little demons to tend it. Gu An began harvesting the mature herbs while lecturing Perfected Lord Xuanmiao on a heap of Great Dao principles.
Perfected Lord Xuanmiao listened to the Mountain God's teachings with utmost seriousness, feeling that every sentence contained the true meaning of the Great Dao.
After the harvest, Gu An took only half, leaving the remaining herbs for Perfected Lord Xuanmiao to refine pills and cultivate with.
Though it was not the first time, Perfected Lord Xuanmiao was moved every time.
He was supposedly a servant, bound to serve for life, yet in truth he was cultivating beneath the Mountain God's knee. This was a heaven-sent blessing!
Perfected Lord Xuanmiao felt that the Mountain God had an important mission to pass down to him, because the Mountain God had said, "When Heaven is about to confer a great responsibility upon a person, it must first anguish his heart and will, toil his sinews and bones, starve his flesh and skin, empty his body, and frustrate all his endeavors."
Perhaps planting herbs was not something the Mountain God needed at all, but a means of tempering his disposition.
As for the mission the Mountain God wished to entrust to him, he had a bold guess. Whenever he thought of it, his heart could not help but fall into turmoil, and he tried his best not to think about it.
The Medicine Garden at Mountain God Temple had yet to become a stable source of lifespan for Gu An. He mainly relied on Mystic Valley, Eight Sceneries Grotto-Heaven,