Before Yang Qing could explain that it was only Bu Zhou's spiritual manifestation that had appeared through the tiny fragment of his shell that he had Yang Qing walk with, and that his real body was very much hidden away behind layers of powerful formation arrays meant for concealing and protection, Senior Veiled Destiny, through what was perhaps her superior deductive skills, or some of her scrying karmic abilities in full frontal display, or she detected that piece of Bu Zhou's shell on him, or she knew Bu Zhou well enough to arrive at that conclusion, which given her reaction, she clearly did, she said,
"A manifestation through a piece of his shell..."
"He must like you a lot to share that shard with you," she added, looking at Yang Qing appraisingly. "He is not one to easily expose himself like that."
