Peiqi and Chenxuan exchanged pitiful looks. Faced with Bai Yaoyao's overwhelming strength, they could only submit and agree to the unequal treaty.
Since all the mutant plants were fighting on the front lines too, collecting the crystal cores scattered across the ground was quite a chore.
Bai Yaoyao could only release the little monkeys from her space as well. Working together, they quickly gathered all the crystal cores.
The three returned to the main battlefield together. Everyone instantly breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Bai Yaoyao.
Those two flying mutant beasts had screeched so miserably before flying off with Peiqi and Chenxuan on their backs that they had given everyone a fright.
They had thought something had happened to Bai Yaoyao.
"Sister Yao, are you all right?"
Without blushing or missing a beat, Bai Yaoyao replied, "How could anything happen to me? Big Sea and Big Gold were just making a fuss over nothing. After I finished fighting, I sat there and rested a little longer, and those two went straight off to fetch Peiqi and Chenxuan. I'll scold them when we get back. We came back so late because the three of us had something to eat together! Besides, there were quite a lot of crystal cores. Picking them up one by one took plenty of time!"
Bai Yaoyao rattled off that entire stream of nonsense, leaving everyone, including her master, silent.
What did it mean to give yourself away without being asked? This was it!
If Bai Yaoyao had simply said she was fine, nobody would have thought anything of it.
But she sounded so guilty, babbling on and on like that.
Clearly, she had...
"What are those looks for? If you don't believe me, ask Peiqi! Ask Chenxuan!"
Peiqi and Chenxuan answered in unison, "How