Ji Yuan naturally remembered it.
It was when he had come to pay Xu Fugui a New Year's call on the first day of the Lunar New Year, only to happen upon the old man returning to the Water Dragon Sect on business.
Xu Fugui had said then that when he returned from the Water Dragon Sect, he would bring Ji Yuan something good.
Ji Yuan simply had not taken the matter to heart and had even forgotten about it for a time. It was not in his nature to pin his hopes on others.
So, hearing Xu Fugui bring it up again now, he instead felt a pleasant surprise.
He hurriedly lowered his head to look.
What Xu Fugui had taken out was, to his astonishment, a mirror?!
The mirror's surface was smooth, reflecting people with exceptional clarity. Its back was made of bronze and looked rather old.
The bronze was covered in verdigris.
What was more, he sensed a trace of familiar aura from the mirror.
So he immediately took his sturdy Heart-Guarding Mirror from his Storage Bag.
"Hey?"
Xu Fugui also noticed something unusual. "Where did you get that? Let me have a look."
"Oh, someone gave it to me." Ji Yuan smiled and handed it over.
"Heh, after you smashed someone's head open and made him give it to you, right?"
After taking it, Xu Fugui carefully sensed it out, then picked it up and examined it with great seriousness. Only after a long while did he reach a conclusion.
"Both our mirrors are fake."
"Fake?"
Ji Yuan said in surprise, "What do you mean by that? Can artifacts be fake too?"
"They can. To put it plainly, they're imitations. These two mirrors should both be replicas of a magic treasure, though yours has probably been