Jin Ni's baby face flashed with a trace of guilt at those words, but under Yunxi's gaze, she still pursed her lips and said:
"In reply to Your High God, it is true that the elders of my clan pulled some strings to secure this post guarding the God Conferring Platform for me.
Although I am only at the God Attendant Realm, I underwent training and passed the assessments before I could come to this God Conferring Platform and fulfill this guard duty."
Yunxi blinked her almond-shaped eyes, immediately seeing through Jin Ni's true form. Smiling, she said:
"Your true form is a Cloud Dragon Koi."
Jin Ni was not at all surprised that a High God could see through her true form, so she nodded.
"It seems we truly are fated. Before I ascended to the God Realm, I once entered a Secret Realm called Langhuan. There, I saw a group of koi attempting to leap over the Dragon Gate. I took a bubble spat out by one of the Cloud Dragon Koi, and after refining it, it became a shield that protected my sea of consciousness."
As she spoke, she turned her palm over, and the transparent Sea of Consciousness Shield rested in her hand.
Jin Ni, standing nearby, widened her eyes and opened her mouth. She pointed at the Sea of Consciousness Shield for quite a while before saying:
"Th-this... this is a bubble I spat out."
To prove she was not lying, she opened her mouth and spat out a small bubble, then sent it into the shield in Yunxi's palm.
The Sea of Consciousness Shield did not reject the power Jin Ni sent into it, but neither did it absorb that power. It simply allowed the little bubble to travel a full circle along the