Meeting Ye Qinglan's gaze, Ye Chuqi shook her head. She had tried putting Xiao Nuo into her space to let the spiritual energy cleanse and temper its body from the very beginning. Sadly, Xiao Nuo had an innate spiritless body. Its spiritual apertures were blocked, making it impossible for spiritual energy to circulate within it. Whatever spiritual energy entered its body came straight back out. It could not even sense spiritual energy at all.
Using the space to make Xiao Nuo "mutate" and compensate for its innate deficiencies was therefore impossible. Back then, Ye Chuqi had worried that the spatial energy would put too much pressure on Xiao Nuo for its body to withstand. She had never expected it to be completely insensitive to spiritual energy, leaving the space of no use to it whatsoever.
Although Xiao Nuo's body was too weak to withstand much power, its insensitivity to that power also meant that all the precious things it had eaten to nourish its body had produced no obvious changes. She should have guessed as much back in the Ashen Wasteland, when its tiny body had swallowed an entire Red Sun Fruit to heal its injuries without exploding from the excess energy.
Calling Xiao Nuo's body innately deficient no longer did it justice. It had an outright congenital defect, and a massive one at that.
Ye Qinglan understood exactly what Ye Chuqi's shake of the head meant. He lowered his eyes and asked no further questions. Neither sibling had any intention of explaining to the others where Xiao Bu had gone, either. In any case, everyone's attention was soon drawn to the sudden change in the Misty Sea's weather.
One moment, the sky had been clear and the sun brilliant. The next, monstrous waves raged amid thunder and torrential rain.