That voice... Gong Niang!
The instant Yang An heard that voice, he turned around.
Behind him stood a peerless beauty in a white dress, her long hair falling to her waist, her eyes sparkling like stars as she looked at him.
Gong Niang's figure was somewhat illusory, clearly not corporeal. The moment Yang An saw her, he even wondered whether he had fallen into another segment of Gong Niang's memories.
Until...
"What? You don't recognize me anymore?"
Until Gong Niang laughed in an exceedingly fierce tone.
Delight immediately appeared on Yang An's face. Now, he was utterly certain—this was Gong Niang.
He had searched and looked around this consciousness domain for so long, never expecting Gong Niang to emerge on her own in the end.
"Gong Niang, where did you go before?"
Yang An asked curiously.
Gong Niang rolled her eyes at him, her face beautiful enough to topple cities and kingdoms.
"I've been right behind you the whole time. You just couldn't see me."
"..."
"Then why didn't you show yourself sooner?"
"I wanted to, too, but that bald old donkey Jin'e isolated me outside."
"Jin'e?"
Yang An was surprised. He could not understand what this had to do with Jin'e.
"When I split away from the main body and became a remnant soul, Jin'e helped awaken my spiritual intelligence. He also left a secret technique on me that could preserve my remnant soul at a critical moment, while restoring all my previous memories in that state—the things you saw before."
Gong Niang explained without concealing anything from Yang An.
"In other words, you had actually already recovered before I came here, but the secret technique Jin'e laid down beforehand prevented you from appearing?"
Yang An immediately realized something.
"That's right, but you got one thing wrong. I haven't