「The next morning.」
The Third Elder, who had arranged to go with Su Xuan to the Ten Cauldrons Sect to borrow their Pill Furnace, was behaving rather oddly.
"Xiao Yun, look at this. How can you let me go out dressed like this in such cold weather?" the Third Elder asked his alchemy apprentice, Xiao Yun, with a gloomy expression after washing up.
"But this outfit is quite appropriate!" Xiao Yun glanced at the Third Elder's attire—a thick cotton coat—and saw nothing wrong with it.
She had no idea what had gotten into the Third Elder that morning. He'd woken up before dawn and spent an unusually long time just washing his face and combing his hair, which was previously unimaginable. After all, the Third Elder would sometimes go half a month without washing his face or combing his hair for the sake of alchemy.
