He found the place from his memory, standing on a patch of ice in the river valley, and took out a Spirit Awakening Pill. Wisps of luminous mist drifted out from the pill, settling into the ice layer before him.
The ice layer here was about a meter thick, with the river water flowing slowly beneath. Within the mud and sand at the riverbed lay a pearl mother clam, about the size of a washbasin. If one were to count the tiny lines on its shell, they would find it had been growing for over a century.
When He Kao came here searching on the first day of the Lunar New Year, he had discovered this pearl mother clam. Its position was nearly at the limit of what He Kao's divine sense could explore, but he hadn't touched it.
This pearl mother clam was still alive, in a dormant state yet concealing vital essence. There were no pearls within its shell, much less Xue Guanghan. According to Lin Qingshuang, its shell was also a pearl mother.
