Xu Yi opened his eyes and saw Yan Zi standing before him. The Nine Dragon Jade Table beside her was covered with all kinds of dishes.
"Xiao Yan, every time I see you, I feel as if time has turned back. So, what's it like to go from a hundred years old back to eighteen?"
Xu Yi teased Yan Zi with a smile.
Yan Zi before him had already returned to her original appearance—no, she looked even better than before.
Her brown hair fell over one shoulder like satin. Her tall, healthy figure was wrapped in a water-green dress that traced her graceful curves, and the radiance of her pretty face seemed almost ready to spill out.
When Xu Yi asked her, Yan Zi only smiled.
Indeed, all she could do was smile. After four years in an aged, broken-down body, regaining the vitality of youth in a single day felt far better than being reborn anew.
More wonderful still, she had returned to her young master's side. The joy in her heart was almost too great to contain.
They had barely finished eating when Auspicious Duck barreled through the door. "It's done, it's done! Hurry up and pay me my errand fee—no, my hard-work fee. You, of all people, think you deserve to make me run errands..."
Auspicious Duck rattled on, then tossed over several dozen empty glass bottles.
As it turned out, Xu Yi had sent Auspicious Duck to find King Minister, who was overseeing the state. The task he'd handed him was to have King Minister gather Life-Death Gus on his behalf.
Xu Yi now held a position in Great Yue that outstripped even the emperor's. As soon as Auspicious Duck relayed his order, King Minister had promptly carried it out.
After collecting the Life-Death Gus, Auspicious