Inside the clam shell, more than half of the uneven clam flesh had vanished.
More precisely, it had begun to melt.
Along with the Void-Sky Mineral Stones that had originally been embedded within the clam flesh, it slowly melted away.
In the end, it fused into a grayish color tinged with a faint silver sheen. It dripped and gathered, surging back and forth through the hollow clam shell like ocean waves.
"Splash~ splash~"
Each wave struck precisely against the fleshy pillar where the Voidsky Grass, rooted in the only remaining bit of clam flesh, grew.
It was Li Ye's first time seeing a spirit beast like this. It actually turned spiritual power into waves to polish its own pearl. Through his senses, he could even tell that the speed and force of the incoming tides were nearly identical from every angle and direction.
It looked less like a spirit beast than a precision artifact-refining furnace.
But he quickly noticed something was wrong.
"No pearl nucleus?"
"Or was it planning to use the Voidsky Grass as the pearl nucleus?"
As he was wondering, a tiny bead of juice began to seep from the tip of the Voidsky Grass. By the time it dripped from the leaf, it had already condensed into a silver-gray pearl.
Whenever a drop fell, it was swept into the surging waves. It swayed with the tide, and with every sway, a thread of power seeped from the waves into the pearl.
—The process was actually extremely slow. Every drop took an entire day to fall. Li Ye lay there watching for seven or eight full days before thoughtfully withdrawing his Divine Sense.
"Truly marvelous."
"What could be so marvelous about a pearl?"
He really was curious, but producing such a pearl could not be accomplished overnight. He