Xu Yi was slightly startled. The pageboy hadn't said a word when he'd let Feng Jiu through the light gate just now, yet now he'd even recognized who Xu Yi was.
With a thought, Xu Yi produced two mid-grade Spirit Stones in his palm and held them out to the pageboy in green.
The pageboy looked alarmed and waved his hands repeatedly. "I couldn't possibly accept these. If I did, sir, you wouldn't be thanking me—you'd be getting me into trouble."
Seeing that the pageboy in green didn't seem to be putting on an act, Xu Yi put the Spirit Stones away. So there really are cats that don't lap up fish. He was about to step through the light gate when the pageboy whispered, "Sir, please wait."
Xu Yi saw the pageboy hesitate, then smiled. "If you have something to say, go ahead."
The pageboy in green blushed and lowered his voice. "Sir, your Literary Fame shakes the world. I'm risking my life to ask you to bestow a few words upon me. I'm truly apprehensive..."
Xu Yi had never expected him to make such a request. Laughing heartily, he took out a sheet of paper and, in an instant, wrote Autumn River Snowy Night. He added his name and handed it to the pageboy.
The pageboy in green trembled all over with excitement. He accepted it as if it were a priceless treasure and carefully put it away, his feelings too intense for words.
What the pageboy in green had really hoped for was that Xu Yi would leave behind the two characters of his name. That alone would have made him more than satisfied.
Everyone knew that Esteemed Scholar Xu's reputation had long since spread across the entire East Sea Demon Domain through one magnificent work after