Chapter 1037 - 479: Qing Jun’s Shell; The Secret of the White Fox

Chen Ye’s divine sense surged like a tide, breaking through the water curtain. Before his eyes was a murky, icy blue, with biting cold isolating all spiritual mechanisms.

Even with his divine sense comparable to a Golden Core True Man, it seemed like a mud bull entering the sea, only probing into a dead silence.

Chen Ye was not frustrated.

"If it were so easy to discover, the Xu Family would have found it long ago..."

If he only searched blindly like this, he might turn the cold pool upside down and still return empty-handed.

Of course, it’s possible that this pool was just empty.

Chen Ye glanced at Qing Jun, who was crouching by the pool, eager to jump in.

The girl seemed quite close to this cold pool, even the power of the bloodline within her faintly stirred.

Back then.

Qing Jun originally had a so-called blood disease, occasionally going mad or irritable.

But ever since she followed Mao Qingzhu into the cold pool to cultivate, she never exhibited similar symptoms again.

The question arises,

If the cold pool was just an ordinary spirit pool, how could it cure Qing Jun, a True Dragon, of her hidden ailment?

Surely there’s much more under this pool than meets the eye!

Thinking of this, Chen Ye turned his head and beckoned to the little girl by the shore playing with water:

"Qing Jun, come over here."

"I’m coming, Master!"

Qing Jun blinked her big eyes and ran over to Chen Ye with tiny steps, tilting her small white face upwards,

"Master, why do you keep looking at Qing Jun today? Does Qing Jun look particularly good today?"

The little girl noticed her master kept glancing at her after coming to the cold pool, unable to resist smugly touching the soft cap on her little head.

This was a little hat sewn by Aunt Mao herself! It’s so pretty!

Chen Ye flicked her forehead lightly with a curled finger:

"Stop being vain. Come over, I have an important task for you."

"Oh..."

Qing Jun covered her cap with both hands, innocently pouting,

"What important task? Are we going to catch big fish to eat?"

Chen Ye pulled Qing Jun to the poolside and said solemnly:

"Qing Jun, close your eyes, calm yourself, and carefully feel this cold pool. Tell me, under the water, where do you feel the most comfortable and close?"

Seeing her master’s serious expression, Qing Jun obediently closed her eyes, her small mouth tightly pursed, even the silver tuft on top of her head, which was always swaying, became quiet.

In just a few moments, Qing Jun opened her eyes with a troubled look:

"Master... All of it feels comfortable to Qing Jun. Hmm... If I had to say where feels most comfortable, it should be to the northeast."

Qing Jun extended her finger, pointing to a corner in the northeast of the cold pool.

"Not bad."

Chen Ye praised the girl and led her to the northeast corner, continuing to ask,

"And now?"

Qing Jun pressed her little hand on her knee, her face almost touching the icy pool water that exuded cold air. She sniffed hard with her little nose,

"Master, now it’s not just comfortable, Qing Jun feels... there seems to be something itching the soles of my feet below, tickling, it’s deep down below!"

Chen Ye’s gaze sharpened, no longer hesitating.

His divine sense ceased to spread blindly, but focused into a beam, piercing down into the sand and mud as Qing Jun indicated, deep beneath the surface.

"As expected..."

Chen Ye’s divine sense broke through the mud, discovering a few ordinary-looking fragments scattered silently in the sand.

But having raised Qing Jun for years, he faintly felt the aura of these fragments, somewhat similar to Qing Jun’s.

"This seems... to be Qing Jun’s shell?"

Chen Ye’s expression was a bit odd,

"It’s true that Qing Jun was born of a borrowed womb. But before she fell from the Celestial Palace, she was still in egg form. Although it’s unknown how she entered Sister Qingzhu’s belly, these eggshells are definitely hers!"

In the Cultivation Realm,

Most Demon Beasts, upon hatching, would immediately consume their eggshell completely.

Because within them lies the purest innate origin nurtured during gestation, greatly aiding their development during the juvenile stage.

And Qing Jun, possibly due to an innate deficiency or other reasons, was forced to use a borrowed womb, resulting in her missing out on the eggshell...

"Is it possible that Qing Jun can’t grow tall because she lacks the eggshell?"

This thought suddenly crossed Chen Ye’s mind, but he shook his head,

"Most likely not, after all, Qing Jun is a dragon. From the Human Race’s perspective, Qing Jun’s growth is slow, but from the perspective of a True Dragon, her growth rate couldn’t be more normal."

"No wonder even Xu Henshan didn’t detect anything abnormal after breaking through the Jade Liquid Realm."

Chen Ye realized.

The main use of the eggshell is to protect Dandan Qingjun, with superb concealing Qi properties.

Even if Xu Henshan was a Golden Core, or even a Nascent Soul practitioner, he wouldn’t be able to notice the eggshell here!

Even Chen Ye himself relied on the girl’s perception to detect the eggshell aura, otherwise, it would have been impossible to find this eggshell with hidden aura.

"Master, why are you laughing? Did Qingjun find the wrong place?"

Qing Jun secretly opened one big dark eye and couldn’t help feeling a bit guilty, shrinking her neck.

"You didn’t find the wrong place. I’m thinking of how to reward you."

Chen Ye smiled helplessly, then straightened his face, waved his sleeve and shouted aloud:

"Rise!"

Boom!

A powerful spiritual power fiercely transformed into an invisible giant hand, breaking through the thousand-edge cold water, and scooping out the eggshell sealed at the bottom of the pool for years.

"Clang."

A few palm-sized fragments settled steadily on the shore.

The girl curiously touched the fragments, not expecting these seemingly ordinary fragments to transform into strands of silver light, merging into Qing Jun’s body.