Granny Su Zhan looked dazed, yet gazed reluctantly at Su Mo's retreating back.
She remembered Su Mo's sincere smile back then, and the way he had secretly treated Bai Zhi.
Those words from years past surged into her heart like a tide.
"I came to the Immortal Furnace to seek medical treatment..."
"I have a hidden ailment..."
"Jing Yan greets you, Granny..."
"Granny, where are we going to find alchemical intent?"
"..."
Suddenly, Granny Su Zhan's aged face seemed to grow even older...
As though she had reached the twilight of her years.
"What he said wasn't true. What he said... wasn't true..." Granny Su Zhan murmured.
The people of the Immortal Furnace choked up, unable to speak. Of course they knew.
Su Mo had said all that only to tell the world, to tell them... that he no longer had any connection to the Immortal Furnace!
So that he would not implicate the Immortal Furnace.
He would face the entire Immortal Domain, and feared that what he did next would bring enemies upon the Immortal Furnace.
That truth concerned all three realms.
Even at this moment, he still thought only of others...
He had never thought that anyone could help him.
Yet he seemed to have forgotten that all of this had begun with the Immortal Furnace.
Immortal Lord Can Ye raised his head, his words strained. "Having him was the Immortal Furnace's good fortune."
Unfortunately, Su Mo himself had severed the only grounds on which the Immortal Furnace could help him.
Those grounds were his deep affection for the Immortal Furnace.
Unwilling though they were to accept it, they had to...
Otherwise, they would betray the young man's painstaking care.
Everyone watched Su Mo's retreating back, tears brimming on every aged face.
That young man was far too