An ancestral precept?
While Yun Xueqi was momentarily stunned, Qi Yue'e snatched away the Nine-Colored Cloud Jade Pearl.
"Mother, what are you doing?"
Yun Xueqi was furious.
Chen Shan was only a Golden Core cultivator, and he had just saved her mother's life. Could he not even take a look at the Nine-Colored Cloud Jade Pearl?
"Well..."
Coming to her senses, Qi Yue'e felt rather embarrassed. She gave Chen Changming a sheepish smile. "Divine Physician Chen, our Yun Clan does indeed have such an ancestral precept."
She paused.
Then she immediately changed her tune. "But you saved both our lives, so letting you have a look... really wouldn't hurt."
As she spoke,
Qi Yue'e respectfully placed the Nine-Colored Cloud Jade Pearl in Chen Changming's hand.
Chen Changming smiled faintly.
Deep down, Qi Yue'e still harbored some prejudice against him, but seventy or eighty percent of it had already faded.
Holding the Nine-Colored Cloud Jade Pearl, Chen Changming silently sensed it, and his expression shifted slightly.
The pearl was perfectly round and seamless, impenetrable to his divine sense. Yet as he held it, it released a faint trace of a familiar aura.
It was the aura of a fragment of the Ancient Demon Beasts' North Pole Origin-Connecting Mountain!
Chen Changming possessed such a fragment himself, so he was no stranger to this aura.
"Chen Shan, what did you discover?"
Sensitive to the change in his expression, Yun Xueqi asked at once.
"There should be something inside this pearl, shouldn't there?"
Chen Changming spoke meaningfully.
"Yes, there's an anchoring object inside the pearl," Yun Xueqi told him honestly.
An anchoring object?
Chen Changming smiled faintly. Apparently, that was what the Great Zhou Imperial Clan called the fragments of North Pole Origin-Connecting Mountain.
"The Yue Clan is determined to obtain the Nine-Colored Cloud