Eternal Youth

  In the grand hall of the palace, this magnificent golden hall is only open on a few celebratory occasions. Now, the king will honor me here, with hundreds of nobles in attendance, making it an extremely grand occasion!

  Actually, I don't care about this at all. The thought of kneeling down to that idiot king makes me feel worse than eating a fly! But the situation is not in my control. These past few years, I've been opposing the king, and it's been really tough on my family members who are caught in the middle. My mom almost hates me for not coming back sooner, writing letters every day to persuade me to return early. Although I don't think much of that stupid king, I still care deeply about this loving mother of mine. After all, even in my past life, I never experienced a mother's warmth and love. Now that I have such a caring mother, how can I bear to make her sad? I guess I'll just have to put up with it for her sake!

  The poor Taoist walked up to the king with an unpleasant expression, knelt down on one leg and said in a depressed tone: "I, Lord Bolazhi Long Qingtian, annihilated 20,000 elite troops of Nicolas' Rainbow Lightning Legion and captured Nicolas and 2,000 others on September 11th, 4478 of the Bright Calendar! I present this to Your Majesty, wishing you great military fortune!"

  "I, Emperor Ai Dehua VII, accept your surrender and with the power granted to me by the God of Light, I confer upon Long Qingtian the title of First-Class Marquis, a reward of 1 million gold coins, and appoint him as Second-Class General and Commander of 10,000 soldiers!" The king placed the tip of his sword on my shoulder and shouted loudly!

  However, what I saw in his eyes was helplessness and indignation. I'm afraid what he wants to do most now is to stab the sword in his hand into my throat! Thinking of the various interesting things that the king had eaten under me over the years, I couldn't help but laugh. In these years, the king always loved to find trouble with me. For example, he sent people to poison me here, don't get me wrong, not poison, but laxatives. He also had to consider the family blood oath and didn't dare take my life, so he could only teach me a lesson. After I caught them, I would send winged men to secretly throw the killer's head into his courtyard from above, of course, after special treatment, the smell lasted for a long time, making him feel sick for several days and unable to eat! He also sent people to attack my merchant team. At first, he had the upper hand, but later I simply sent the Crazy Dragon Knights to escort them, and he was powerless. But I couldn't suffer in vain! Several gold, silver, and gemstone mines operated by the royal family within the kingdom were continuously robbed by unidentified persons. The several thousand protection troops were killed by a few hundred bandits, and those with brains knew it was me who did it. Apart from me, only a few large families could mobilize so many masters, but they were all under each other's surveillance. It was impossible to make hundreds of masters disappear under the eyes of so many surveillants! The king knew it was me, but he could only admit it. Who made him unreasonable in the first place? He had to rely on his mother to mediate and let me withdraw my looting team!

  Lost in thought, the king finished speaking, but saw that I had no reaction, just a silly smile. He was so angry that he secretly scolded: "Idiot!" Afterwards, he coughed heavily and I woke up with a start! Ah! How embarrassing! I quickly said: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

  Finally, it was a grand carnival. At the banquet, several major families from Wangdu came to toast me. They were all very good to me, not only because of their relationship with the Long family, but also because they had many industries in my territory. I gave them many preferential treatments on behalf of my mother, so in my struggle with the king, although I made the king quite angry, there was no risk at all. Several big families were openly neutral between me and the king, but secretly helped me a lot. Without mentioning other things, just talking about my looting team, if they hadn't secretly protected us, we would have died countless times! As for these people, I have always tried to win them over. As for Ishihara Koji, I also forced myself to drink a cup with him, and on the surface, it was still passable. How hypocritical! I even started to despise myself!

  My queen aunt is still angry with me, and my mother pinched my ear to apologize to her, oh! Depressed!

  "Long live Your Majesty!" I forced out a smile that was uglier than crying.

  "It's terrible!" The queen said coldly: "Being blocked by my own nephew outside the gate, how can I be fine?"

  "You stinky brat, apologize to your aunt at once!" Mother scolded: "If you don't make your aunt happy, I won't recognize you as my son!"

  Seeing that Mother was really coming, I hurriedly surrendered and said: "Hehe! Auntie has always been a magnanimous person, why can't you get along with me, a little kid?"

  "Hmph, you're so sweet-tongued! You think one sentence can dismiss me? That won't do! You have so many good things, let's see what you'll use to treat me!" Queen Wang said with a smile.

  Alas! I'm going to be broke again, but it's also a great opportunity. With so many wealthy women here, it's really easy to do some advertising! Thinking of this, I hurriedly laughed loudly and said: "This time, I've specially brought you an extremely precious gift, guaranteed to satisfy you!"

  As soon as I spoke, the people around me began to gather. They still remembered how I gave gifts to Wang Hou last time, and they were all curious about what kind of astonishing thing I would take out this time, daring to speak such big words!

  "Hmph! What a big tone you have! How can you say that I, as the queen of a country, haven't seen anything? Today, I'll see what you can bring out and dare to say will absolutely satisfy me?" My aunt seemed to have seen through my trick and cooperated with me perfectly to whet the appetite of the surrounding nobles!

  "Really! Bring it out and take a look! Mom is also very curious!" The mother chimed in.

  "Hey! Look!" I took out a delicate crystal bottle from the spatial ring, inside was a light yellow sticky **.

  "What a beautiful vase!" The queen exclaimed in surprise.

  I'm dizzy from the menu, what's with the packaging? But it's not her fault, this world doesn't have glass, so making delicate bottles like this can only be done with crystal or other precious stones. I patiently explained: "This crystal bottle is a masterpiece of the earth spirit master, and just this piece of crystal is extremely rare, not only large, but also extremely transparent, which is very rare. Plus, the intricate patterns on the bottle are all handmade, taking that earth spirit master over ten years to complete, and just this bottle alone is worth over 100,000 gold coins! However, please note that it's now just a container for packaging purposes!"

  "Wow!" The people around exclaimed: "A bottle worth 100,000 gold coins is just packaging? How much must the stuff inside be worth?"

  "What's inside?" The queen held the bottle and examined it carefully, "Can you open it?"

  "Of course!" The poor Taoist made a mysterious tone: "As for what's inside, I won't say for now!"

  "Why?" the queen asked curiously, and immediately she opened the bottle. Instantly, a captivating fragrance wafted through the entire hall. This fragrance was light and elegant, with an aftertaste that was endless, and those who smelled it felt invigorated, as if they had entered a paradise! It was an indescribable comfort and delight!

  "Heavens! What is this thing, it's too wonderful!" The queen asked again in surprise before I could even answer.

  "This thing has a big name, I'm afraid you won't believe me if I say it out loud. Why don't we let Kara the Great Demon Master come and take a look!" The poor Daoist said with a smile.

  "Good! Let me take a look!" Kara had been attracted by the fragrance for a long time, and upon hearing my words, she hesitated for a moment before walking out from behind Wang, bowing slightly, then carefully taking over the crystal bottle, examining it closely, and occasionally bringing it to her nose to sniff vigorously.

  He seemed to be too deeply immersed, having forgotten what time it was, and everyone was getting impatient, but he was still indulging in the action of smelling the fragrance. The queen snatched the bottle from his hand, covered it with a lid, and said, "Master! Are you satisfied?"

  "Enough! Enough!" Cara said awkwardly: "Sorry, it really smells too good, I lost my composure for a moment, please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

  "It doesn't matter, anyone who smells this fragrance will be intoxicated!" The queen said magnanimously: "However, do you know what this is?"

  "Of course!" Kara said proudly: "This should be the legendary - Purple Crystal Honeycomb that can keep people forever young!"

  "Oh! Heaven!" The people in the hall were stunned by Cara's words of "eternal youth"! Several overly excited noblewomen even fainted. What is the concept of eternal youth?!