Decline

Auspicious Duck grabbed the human coin, disbelief filling his eyes. Yan Zi sensed something was wrong beside him and hurriedly asked, "What happened?"

Auspicious Duck ignored her. Holding the human coin, he leaned toward Xu Yi's chest again, but the coin was repelled once more.

"This, this is ****** defying heaven..."

Auspicious Duck shot into the air, only for Yan Zi to seize him in one hand. "What's going on?"

"He, he's not dead. How can he still be alive?"

Auspicious Duck's mind was in chaos. Everything unfolding before him completely upended what he had always believed.

"Not dead?"

Life suddenly returned to Yan Zi's eyes, which had been as dull as ash. She rushed over to the Demon Corpse and checked for breath, listened for a heartbeat, and felt for a pulse.

After all her frantic efforts, her jade hand suddenly tightened around Auspicious Duck, squeezing a shriek out of him. "Quack! He really isn't dead! He really isn't! Don't be fooled by the fact that he has no breath, heartbeat, or pulse. They're just so faint that you can't detect them. My human coin never lies. Quack..."

Yan Zi's grip loosened at once. "What exactly happened to my young master?"

What exactly had happened?

Auspicious Duck himself couldn't make sense of it.

Judging by the terrifying Demon Corpse before them, Xu Yi was as dead as could be. And yet the human coin had reacted.

Auspicious Duck's human coin was extraordinarily mysterious, with miraculous power to determine where a soul had gone. This time, it had been repelled for only one possible reason: Xu Yi's Seven Souls had not completely faded. If the Seven Souls had perished, his spirit would naturally have left his body.

But in his current state, Xu Yi was plainly a corpse.

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