"Well, I was playful since childhood and never cared much for cultivation. Most of the Spiritual Power in my body comes from my adoptive father's Medicinal Pills. Having taken so many of them, I managed to take human form in just a century. But the celestial fox clan usually takes a thousand years to transform, so when I took human form, I was still just a child who couldn't even walk steadily. Without an Inner Core, I couldn't fully transform into human form and hide my tails, which meant I kept tripping over them. In desperation, my adoptive father had to use a Derivative Pill to let me fully take human form." Chu Qingmeng offered this explanation. What she left unsaid, however, was that she had been born with an Inner Core; to prevent her from causing trouble, Ling Xian had taken it away. Without her Inner Core, she could only revert to her true form and stay in the cold pool, which was why Ling Xian had given her the Derivative Pill in the first place—partly to help her transform, and partly to suppress her true form.
Mo Liujin shook his head with a chuckle. "Your adoptive father truly pampered you beyond reason, preferring to use a Derivative Pill to help you transform rather than ever pressuring you to cultivate."
Chu Qingmeng shifted against his embrace and closed her eyes. "I want to sleep a bit longer."
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