This time, the Awakening Incense did not burn rapidly as it had done before, but maintained a normal burning rate.
In the Fixed Realm, He Kao seemed to either see or somehow know the birth process of this mythical pearl. All pearls have a nucleus; typically, when a foreign object enters the body of a river clam and cannot be expelled, it becomes layered with nacre secreted by the clam, forming a pearl.
Nacre is also the main component of the clam's shell, material that carpenters refer to as mother-of-pearl.
However, the reason for this mythical pearl's formation was an abnormal secretion of nacre. Instead of forming the clam shell, nacre inexplicably appeared at the clam's flesh, becoming the nucleus around which a pearl with a diameter of one centimeter grew.
This was the Divine Thought He Kao received, seemingly originating from the figure in the painting.
