The identity of that old fisherman had gone far beyond anything I could imagine.
He had been fishing beside this pool the whole time and had only left a few minutes ago.
Yet I had seen him twice up on the mountain just now.
What I found most unbelievable was that he even knew the divination result I had cast at the foot of the mountain.
An Ning and Yi Yang were also rather surprised after hearing what I told them.
"Who on earth is that old man? Even a spirit couldn't be that uncanny!"
"Could he be an immortal..."
I thought it over and came to a rough idea of who he was.
"He might be the mountain god here, or he might be the earth god."
The result of a divination was, after all, a revelation from a god.
And the direction where I had finally dug up the box was actually southwest.
Without that old man's guidance just now, I never would have found the box.
So that divination result had actually come from him.
At that thought, I hurriedly knelt on the ground. I had no idea which direction to bow toward, but I kowtowed to him all the same.
"I don't know whether you're the mountain god or the earth god, but let me pay my respects first."
"I didn't bring any food, and I can hardly offer you my dry rations. I'll come back up the mountain another time."
"Thank you!"
After I finished kowtowing, we went down the mountain.
The holiday was only three days long, and I had to be back at work the day after tomorrow, but I couldn't return just yet. I had to stay here and keep the old lady company for a few more days.
That meant I