"Purple Ultimate? When did you undergo Transformation?" Su Jiu's voice was cool, yet held a trace of curiosity she could hardly conceal.
It was as though she had come across something rare and marvelous.
Her words even startled the long-silent Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl into speaking.
"You never knew he had already undergone Transformation?"
Su Jiu fell silent for a moment. "You knew?"
Little Pearl shook his head. "I don't know either. All I know is that he had already undergone Transformation when I met you. But he barely speaks and never talks to me, Little Gift, or Painting Spirit."
"Why didn't you show yourself?" Su Jiu directed this question at Purple Ultimate.
"My master never summoned me."
Su Jiu choked on her words. Her artifact spirit seemed rather different from the rest...
Whose artifact spirit didn't tell its master the moment it underwent Transformation? Yet Purple Ultimate...
Caught between laughter and tears, Su Jiu sighed. "Never mind. Since your true body is the Frostbound Purple Ultimate Sword, I'll call you Purple Ultimate from now on."
Purple Ultimate bowed with his hands clasped. "Yes, Master."
Little Gift was rather unhappy, her entire blossom drooping. "Of all of us, Purple Ultimate has the prettiest name. Why didn't A Jiu call him Little Purple?"
The Nine-Star World-Cleansing Pearl comforted her from the side. "Look, I'm still called Little Pearl. At least that proves we're of the same generation, doesn't it?"
Painting Spirit: "..." Same generation, my ass.
But remembering that she didn't even have a name, she couldn't help silently nursing her resentment.
"At least you two have names."
The moment she finished speaking, her companions cast sympathetic looks her way.
As Su Jiu listened to the three spirits chatting in her sea of consciousness, a hint of helplessness surfaced on her face.