A Dou Di's Alchemy Method!

"Yiya, yi!"

More than a month passed. Gu Cheng and Gu Dao did not return to their secluded cultivation site to look after the child. Instead, they built a simple house not far from Gu Yuan's residence and settled down there.

Today, Gu Cheng was refining pills in the alchemy room. Since Gu Dao had matters to discuss with Gu Yuan, Gu Cheng was the one looking after the little fellow.

"Be good. Grandpa will give you some candy in a moment, all right?"

"Yiya?"

"Yes, yes, yes, your favorite Orange Fragrance Candy..."

"Yiya!"

Little Gu Xia happily clapped his chubby little hands and eagerly crawled over to Gu Cheng's pill cauldron. His big, sparkling eyes stared at the small cauldron wrapped in blue flames. He knew those delicious round things came out of there!

"Hahaha, what a little glutton..."

Gu Cheng could not help smiling fondly at the little fellow's adorable appearance.

Before long, Gu Cheng stopped controlling the flames. The green cauldron lid slowly floated up, and more than a dozen orange-yellow pills were collected into a jade bottle by Gu Cheng...

"Come here, little fellow. Your candy is ready!"

After putting away the pills, Gu Cheng looked at little Gu Xia, who was still curiously staring at the pill cauldron, smiled, and called out to him.

"Yiya!"

The little fellow spotted the jade bottle in Gu Cheng's hand and immediately cried out happily, quickly crawling over...

His little hand grabbed the jade bottle, and he impatiently poured out a pill and began eating it.

"Hmm... I have no idea how this little fellow knew which ingredients could make something like this..."

That was right. The orange-flavored candy little Gu Xia was eating had been made by the little fellow himself.

Let us return to a week ago...

"Hey, hey, hey! You can't eat that!"

"That one won't do either!"

"My little ancestor, stop chewing on my Ningxiang Grass!"

"Fuck, put down this old man's dirty book!"

Inside an alchemy room, Gu Cheng was rescuing his last Ningxiang Grass from the little fellow's mouth.

All around them lay a mess of scattered objects. Without exception, every item bore small tooth marks to some extent. Even books, jade bottles, and even pill cauldrons had not been spared...

It was as though there was nothing the little fellow could not bite through, leaving Gu Cheng, who was looking after him, in utter misery.

"Sigh, I'll never let this little ancestor into my alchemy room again..."

Looking at the half stalk of Ningxiang Grass remaining in his hand, Gu Cheng, a seventh-tier alchemist, felt like crying without tears...

"Huh? Why does it smell like oranges?"

As Gu Cheng cleaned up the scene of the crime, he suddenly caught the fresh scent of oranges! As a seventh-tier alchemist, he could say for certain that it was a pill! A third-tier pill, at that!

"Hey! Little fellow, you can't play with that!"

Following the scent, Gu Cheng discovered that it came from the pill cauldron he had taken out to refine fifth-tier Heart-Protecting Pills...

Before a small green pill cauldron stood a little fellow barely a year and a half old, pressing both his chubby hands against the cauldron. There were no flames in sight, and not even the slightest change in temperature. Yet the distinct fragrance of pills wafted from within that green cauldron!

"Yiya!"

The little fellow had clearly smelled it too. He cried out excitedly and reached his little hand into the cauldron. Because of the size of his hand, he could only pull out one orange pill about the size of a bottle cap.

Under Gu Cheng's stunned gaze, he swallowed it...

"Whoa, little ancestor! How can you eat things at random?!"

Only after the little fellow had already swallowed the pill did Gu Cheng react. He hurriedly examined the remaining orange pills in the cauldron and was relieved after finding that they were harmless.

He then put all the pills away in jade bottles... "Yiya~ Yiya~ Yi..."

Before long, the little fellow finished the pill in his hand... Calling it candy would have been more appropriate.

The little fellow clearly wanted more, so he grabbed Gu Cheng's robe and slowly pulled himself to his feet. One hand clutched Gu Cheng's clothes to keep from falling, while the other reached for the jade bottle in Gu Cheng's hand as he babbled, "Yiya, yiya."

"Hmm? You still want some?"

Gu Cheng noticed the little fellow at his trouser leg, so anxious that he was practically trying to jump. Suddenly, he had a bold idea...

"Since you want some, little fellow, I'll give it to you."

Gu Cheng said this, but a mischievous curve appeared at the corner of his mouth...

"Come, little fellow. The candy you want is right here..."

Gu Cheng deliberately held the jade bottle at a height little Gu Xia seemed able to reach. Yet no matter how the little fellow jumped or stretched his short arms, he was always just a tiny bit short...

"Hahaha, little fellow. Try harder, come on!"

A certain shameless seventh-tier alchemist laughed wickedly, pretending to encourage the little cutie who was about to cry from frustration...

"Mmph!"

After several more failures, the little fellow's cheeks puffed up. Then Gu Cheng once again remembered the beard that had been ripped out that day...

"Ah!!!"

Boom!!!

A figure flew out from inside a house, landing squarely against the outer wall of the Gu Clan patriarch's home...

"What happened?!"

Sensing the commotion, Gu Yuan immediately darted out and vigilantly scanned his surroundings.

However, Gu Dao, who came out after him, leisurely emerged with a cup of tea in hand. He knew that if Gu Cheng was looking after the child, it was only a matter of time before something happened...

"Aiya, Xiao Yuan, calm down. That's just old man Gu Cheng courting death again and provoking that little fellow. Relax~"

With his abundant experience in looking after children, Gu Dao calmly took a sip of tea and even burped!

"Uh..."

Gu Yuan looked at a certain Supreme Elder plastered onto his own wall and wondered whether he should go pull Gu Cheng down...

"All right, Xiao Yuan. That old fellow's bones are tough. Let's go back and continue discussing what comes next..."

Gu Dao spoke from the side, having discovered that the tea was rather good. He wanted to go back for another cup...

What? Why was Gu Dao so calm? Nonsense. Ever since he became the little fellow's second grandpa, whenever he looked after the child, he felt uncomfortable unless he provoked the little fellow at least once! In total, he had been sent flying by the little fellow five times, slapped into the ground three times, and plastered onto walls seven times... With this one, it made eight.

Although this time he had definitely been plastered onto the patriarch's house, what did that matter? It was not like he had to repair it. He only needed to watch. Besides, despite being messed with by the little fellow so many times, that old fellow still kept braving the danger and courting death. Then he would be sent flying in all sorts of ways, yet after all these times, he was still alive and well.

Gu Dao had long since grown used to it...

"All right, trust me, that old fellow is fine. Let's head back first..."

With that, Gu Dao did not wait for Gu Yuan any longer. His tea was empty! He had to go pour himself another cup...

Gu Cheng's death-seeking never stopped. For example, right now...

Let us return to the present. After Gu Cheng handed the jade bottle to Gu Xia, he stood to the side and watched the little fellow happily eat the candy pills. Then it suddenly occurred to him that after all this time, he still did not know what the little fellow's candy pills tasted like...

Watching the little fellow eat so happily, he unconsciously walked over, then took the last candy pill from the bottle...

"Yiya?"

The little fellow looked somewhat confusedly at the empty bottle. He might have been young, but he was not stupid! He had personally watched Gu Cheng sneak off to the side and eat his last candy pill.

The little fellow got angry again!

Then another human-shaped portrait appeared on the patriarch's wall...

"Ah~ What good tea!"

Inside Gu Yuan's home, Gu Cheng and Gu Yuan calmly savored the fragrance of tea, completely unaffected by the sound from just now...