"Oh?"

Gu Yuan’s eyes flashed, and he smiled: "There’s no such thing as a free lunch in this world. Senior, what do you want?"

Ancestor Jinsha shook his head: "I don’t want anything from you, I just hope you can help me with something."

"What kind of help?"

Gu Yuan scrutinized Ancestor Jinsha up and down, and suspiciously said: "Ancestor, are you hoping I’ll rescue you from here?"

"Indeed, that is exactly my intention."

Ancestor Jinsha put down the mining pickaxe, stood with his hands behind his back, if not for his tattered clothes, the face whose original appearance couldn’t be discerned, and hair as messy as a bird’s nest, he actually had an air of a master.

"Then forget it."

Gu Yuan shook his head without hesitation: "I don’t have that much time to waste here, I’ll search for the Five Elements Immortal Iron myself, no need for Ancestor to help."

"Look at you, don’t be so hasty."

Seeing Gu Yuan acting out of the ordinary, Ancestor Jinsha was a bit anxious: "How about this, if you promise to lend me a hand and give this old man some spirit elixirs to replenish primordial qi, I’ll tell you the location. What do you think?"

Gu Yuan thought for a moment before saying: "Alright, I agree to that. But isn’t the senior afraid I’ll go back on my word?"

Hearing this, Ancestor Jinsha laughed heartily and then said with a smile: "Do you think this old man has any other choice now?"

He’s been suffering here for more than seventy years, having experienced many failures. If this continues, he might not survive another three to five years.

Right now, with Gu Yuan appearing here, it was his only chance, so he had no choice but to trust Gu Yuan.

"Senior’s words are indeed true."

Gu Yuan slowly nodded, took out some spirit elixirs from his storage pouch, thought for a moment, then put them back and instead took out a jade bottle, handing the entire storage pouch directly to Ancestor Jinsha.

"I probably won’t need these things, they’re all for you, senior."

Although Gu Yuan was not in his true form, being out and about, he naturally wouldn’t treat himself poorly. Thus, there were plenty of spirit elixirs in the storage pouch and about several hundred thousand spirit stones.

With these, Ancestor Jinsha should be able to recover some cultivation, right?

At the very least, he should be able to heal, recover some injuries.

Because Gu Yuan understood very well, the reason Ancestor Jinsha was so weak now was due to having gone too long without absorbing heaven-and-earth primordial qi and being in an extremely severe state of injury.

In this situation, his cultivation was sealed inside, and without timely replenishment, he would only grow weaker, even draining his few remaining essence.

It’s like a bottle filled with water, already cut open at one or multiple small openings.

The water inside continuously flows out without a new source of replenishment, causing the bottle itself to worsen.

Once the water inside is completely drained, he would basically be done for.

Now that Gu Yuan has given these spirit stones and spirit elixirs to Ancestor Jinsha, Ancestor Jinsha would use them to replenish his cultivation, equivalent to refilling the bottle with water.

Though because of the openings on the bottle, the water inside would still incessantly flow out, at least it can be replenished in the short term, offering him a certain degree of combat power.

Most importantly, it could help him seize the opportunity to escape from this place.

Ancestor Jinsha opened the jade bottle, and a faint medicinal fragrance wafted out.

Inside the jade bottle were grain-sized, amber-like yellow spirit pills glowing with a crystalline sheen, these are Yellow Bud Pills, a type of grain elixir, superior to the Grain Avoidance Pill and Jade Essence Pill, mild and easily absorbable spiritual qi, serving as excellent grain elixirs for ordinary cultivators.

To Gu Yuan, it’s nothing, a casual creation. Given his current cultivation, he can easily maintain vitality through air, and as for grain elixirs, it’s optional, eatable or not eatable, a mere chicken rib.

To Ancestor Jinsha previously, it was the same, wouldn’t even glance at it, for Ancestor Jinsha once, as the esteemed Yang Spirit, could effortlessly maintain vitality through air.

Even decades, centuries, or thousands of years without eating would be no issue.

But now Ancestor Jinsha’s situation was no longer the same, he was severely weakened, his essence was depleting at a significant rate.

His cultivation inside only depletes without replenishment.

Hence, this bottle of Yellow Bud Pills was akin to refreshing rain to Ancestor Jinsha. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

He tilted his head back, pouring all the Yellow Bud Pills into his mouth, then quickly began controlling his stomach, mashing them with movements, digesting them.

Soon after, warmth surged from the abdomen upwards, initiated a circulation following a mysterious trajectory under Ancestor Jinsha’s manipulation.

In no time, he refined a trace of mana.

Though thin and not entirely pure, it’s of great importance to Ancestor Jinsha, it’s very exhilarating to him now.

At this moment, he also restored a strand of divine thought, his mind probing into the storage pouch, discovering hundreds of bottles of spirit pills and tens of thousands of spirit stones.

With these, sufficient to recover some cultivation, even if Gu Yuan ceases to assist, he can entirely rely on his own efforts to escape and start afresh.

"Thank you, young friend. This deed shall be an obligation owed to you by me. Once I regain my cultivation, I’ll surely repay you in the future."

Ancestor Jinsha earnestly said to Gu Yuan.

Gu Yuan merely twitched his mouth, secretly thinking this senior was rather ambitious, already thinking of claiming victory, wanting to celebrate before stepping out.

However, on the surface, Gu Yuan was polite, exchanging a few pleasantries without saying much.

He understood it was due to the other’s excitement, having suffered, endured pain, and various insults here for decades.

If Ancestor Jinsha’s will wasn’t strong, he might have gone mad long ago.

Ancestor Jinsha took out a blank jade scroll from the storage pouch, then inscribed the information and map he knew into it, handing it to Gu Yuan:

"This is the location of the Five Elements Immortal Iron I know. I visited Qianyan Island hundreds of years ago."

"Beneath Qianyan Island is a sea of lava, close to the earth’s core, or rather, connected to it."

"Within the earth’s core lies an endless sea of lava, nurturing many heavenly materials and earthly treasures, as well as fire-based spirit creatures, and some rare fire essence-like treasures. Besides these, there might be dangerous malignant beings."