"Master?"
Wang Yan scratched his head beside him, looking utterly baffled.
He glanced around. Where was any sign of their master?
"Eldest Senior Brother, are your eyes playing tricks on you? Master is outside."
But Wang Yan soon stopped caring about those details.
Looking at his eldest senior brother, who was drenched in sweat but whose eyes had regained their sparkle, he felt a surge of joy.
It worked!
The antidote had actually worked!
Granted, its effects had been just a teensy hundred-million-fold bit too strong, almost turning his eldest senior brother into a drooling idiot who could only babble, "Abba, abba."
But overall, the flaws couldn't obscure the jade's luster. No big deal!
Wasn't his eldest senior brother full of life again now?
Granny Meng, beside them, had long since been beside herself with worry.
"Tiezhu? Tiezhu?"
"Can you hear Granny speaking? Don't scare me..."
Granny Meng reached out and touched Li Tiezhu's forehead. "Do you still recognize me? Do you remember this good-for-nothing scoundrel beside me?"
"Please don't let this leave you with some lasting ailment!"
Feeling the palm on his forehead and hearing the concerned, familiar mortal-world accent beside his ear,
Li Tiezhu finally calmed down, little by little.
"A-Auntie..."
He forced a smile. "I'm fine. I remember everything... You're Auntie, and that fellow beside you..."
"Wang. Big. Scallion!!!"
With his senses restored, Li Tiezhu's mind started working again too.
He now remembered every moment of himself drooling and babbling "Abba, abba" like an idiot!
I'm the dignified eldest senior brother of the Joyous Union Sect, the chief disciple of Undying Mountain! Don't I have any dignity to preserve?!
He sprang up from the ground and grabbed Wang Yan by the collar.
"You call that a fucking 'improved' formula?! You call that 'absolutely nothing can go wrong'?!"