The corner of Su Jiu's mouth twitched slightly. She could tell that the artifact spirit probably did mean well, but its way of showing kindness was rather hard to appreciate.
Still, when she thought about it, how bad could an artifact spirit be if it let everyone into the courtyard and performed spirit induction for all their life-bound treasures?
The mountain was unusually clean, too. Not only were there no troublesome demon beasts, there were no strange or murderous natural formations either. Presumably, that was this spirit's work as well.
At that thought, Su Jiu finally sighed. So be it.
As it had said, she had benefited from an advancement, albeit in a roundabout way. After all, how many people in this world could wake up from a nap and leap an entire major realm? It was just that the thought of suffering several bolts of heavenly thunder as soon as she went outside left her weary.
Thinking of everything she would soon face, Su Jiu rubbed her forehead and continued, "When you teleport us out later, remember to send us separately."
"No problem. But once you leave this time, I probably won't appear again for a while."
Su Jiu knitted her brows, seemingly unsure why the artifact spirit had suddenly told her this.
As though it had read her thoughts, the artifact spirit continued, "Do you know why I've wandered around all these years and rarely appeared in the world?"
Yun Huanling said, "Because Heavenly Cloud Mountain is capricious? But now that we know Heavenly Cloud Mountain is a magic treasure and you're its artifact spirit, I suppose you're the capricious one."
The artifact spirit snapped in frustration, "That's not true!" Its denial came almost reflexively.
But it soon calmed down again. "It's because I've felt the Azure Realm