True Spirit

After wandering outside year-round, keeping one's skin whiter than snow was impossible.

People who traveled the martial world all bore the dust and weariness of the road on their faces, and some even showed signs of premature age.

Zhang Xuezhou was not old, but after three years on the road, the youthful innocence had rapidly faded from his face.

In Chang'an City, no one would have thought it strange to take him for a young man of twenty-five or twenty-six.

When Zhang Xuezhou looked at his reflection in the blue water, he felt his face had regained the youth it had when he first left Zhang Household Village.

"The empress ate three Golden Dragon Fish, and her face has remained youthful for years. I never thought we'd have the fortune to taste one too," Divine Lord Zhenyuan said happily.

"This effect only holds aging back for a dozen years or so," the Golden Crow Great Emperor said, shaking his head. "If we want it to last longer or have a more profound effect, we'll have to eat a second one. If we can eat three like the empress, our faces will stay young for hundreds of years."

"Even one is hard to find. Where would we get a second or third?" Divine Lord Zhenyuan said, shaking his head. "With patience, we might stumble upon a fortuitous opportunity like this once. After that, it'll be hard, hard, hard!"

Divine Lord Zhenyuan said "hard" three times, but the Golden Crow Great Emperor paid it no mind and continued urging him.

"Divine Lord, your heaven-and-earth methods are good for catching Golden Dragon Fish. If you catch another one, you must call me. I never cultivate, and I wander around Kunlun every day. Just give a shout and I'll come. I can even light