Just as Andrew was busily looting everything, an indignant voice suddenly rang out. "Aren't you humans going a bit too far? You killed me, dismembered me, and now you won't even leave the place where I slept alone?"
Andrew turned in surprise and saw the Sea Goddess appear inside the largest pearl. "Sea Goddess, did your soul return here?" he asked in astonishment.
Andrew was genuinely surprised by this, because nothing like it had happened in the original setting.
"So what if it did?"
The Sea Goddess snorted, clearly furious. Andrew immediately laughed. Apparently, even after dying once, the Sea Goddess was still utterly guileless. She spoke without thinking at all.
Simply put, the Sea Goddess was a sweet, innocent airhead. That was perfectly normal. She had spent her time asleep and only recently awakened. Besides, she possessed immense power and had never needed to fear being bullied. It was hardly surprising that she was a little foolish—or rather, innocent.
"So what if it did?"
Andrew's expression suddenly darkened. "Sea Goddess, you really don't learn, do you? You've already been tricked once, yet you still foolishly show yourself and talk to me. Aren't you practically inviting me to go after you?"
"Go after me?"
The Sea Goddess froze, then realized what he meant and hurriedly vanished from the pearl. Andrew was in no hurry. He raised his hand, and all the pearls flew over, forming an enormous pearl necklace in front of him.
Just how enormous? About the size of the prayer beads around Sha Wujing's neck.
"Your divine soul didn't go to take revenge on those humans or reclaim your body. Presumably, that's because you can't. Otherwise, you would have done it already. Ability users don't know any sealing magic."
Andrew continued slowly, "From that, I can deduce that