"Tongtian, I knew you weren't dead!"
"Wonderful! I've finally seen another living person! Do you know how bored this princess has been?"
"This place is far too eerie!"
The moment Gong Que'er saw Tongtian appear, it was as though the floodgates had opened, and she chattered without stopping!
And the excitement on her face could not possibly have been feigned.
Tongtian did not know whether to laugh or cry at the sight.
He had originally thought Gong Que'er would still be clamoring to kill him when she saw him.
Yet even though he had trapped her, she showed not the slightest hostility. Instead, she looked utterly relieved and delighted.
Tongtian shook his head with a smile and raised his hand, directly lifting the Godslayer Magic Array's blockade.
"Aren't you afraid I'll kill you here?"
"Forget it. You don't look like the scheming sort. I'd thought everyone in the Shiva Continent was shrewd."
Gong Que'er was not annoyed by his words.
Instead, she ran over to Tongtian with a grin, took the Inner Core straight from his hand, and unhesitatingly devoured and refined its power.
Boom!
A fluctuation of spiritual power visible to the naked eye erupted from Gong Que'er.
It spread through the void in layer upon layer of ripples!
Gong Que'er drew a deep breath.
"Phew! I'm finally back at the eighth heaven of the Dao-Unification Realm!"
"Things should be a little safer now!"
Seeing how completely unguarded Gong Que'er was, Tongtian could only resign himself to it.
It was only because he did not harbor such deep prejudice against this little princess of the Shiva Continent. Had it been anyone else, she might have helped them count the money after they sold her.
Tongtian sighed helplessly.
"Whether or not we're enemies outside, we should at least have only