Kurumi tossed the luxurious, silver-glinting storage ring in her hand. Its intricately carved patterns refracted three-colored rays beneath the light.
It was the compensation delivered by that Qingluan Clan Dou Zun. Kurumi still remembered the disbelief on his face.
Zi Yan circled the Ice Phoenix, twitching her little nose as she sniffed around. Her large eyes alternated between shining brightly and clouding with confusion.
"Zi Yan!"
"What!" The purple-haired little girl beside the Ice Phoenix jumped three feet into the air and answered with slight displeasure.
"You should be patrolling."
"No."
The little girl crossed her arms, lifted her tiny face, and pouted. "Don't think I don't know what you're planning. From now on, I'll never be your laborer again!"
A smile spread across Kurumi's face as she turned around, causing Zi Yan to instinctively take several steps back.
Gu Mo'er, dressed in a silver robe embroidered with gold, possessed an inexplicable aura. Zi Yan shrank back slightly, and a blush soon rose on her little face.
"Hmph! If I say I'm not doing it, I'm not doing it! Gu Mo'er, don't you dare think you can do anything to me!"
"Bleh, bleh, bleh~"
She held her little hands beside her chubby cheeks, stuck out her pink tongue, and waggled it rapidly up and down.
Kurumi was somewhat surprised. She had no idea where the little girl had learned that expression.
"Gu Mo'er, you big bully!"
With that, ripples bloomed through the space before Zi Yan. She leaned forward, about to dart into the spatial rift.
With nothing better to do, Kurumi did not mind playing properly with this "little girl."
With a flick of her finger, the spatial ripples were swiftly smoothed out. Zi Yan, who had been about to leap through, nearly fell flat on the ground!
Her