Covering the Heavens: Fishing for the Heavens Starting from the Great Accomplished Holy Body

Ye Fan was focused on his fishing rod and didn't even look up when he heard this: "Of course not, the leaf is so small and the sky is so big."

"What if this leaf is a microcosm of the world?"

Li Qingshan continued, "A grain of sand contains a world, a leaf contains a Bodhi tree."

"A single grain of sand may contain a vast starry sky; a single leaf may record the birth and death of the entire universe!"

Ye Fan finally turned around, his little face saying, "You're trying to fool me again!" "Uncle Li, I'm seven years old now, not a three-year-old anymore. Sand is sand, and a leaf is a leaf. What world are you talking about?!"

Li Qingshan didn't argue, he just smiled, took something out of his pocket, and placed it in his palm.

It was an egg the size of a regular egg, with a bluish-green color all over. The shell had naturally formed, fine patterns resembling dragon scales, and it felt warm to the touch.

It was he who used Ye Fan's old bellyband as "bait" to fish out the Azure Dragon Divine Beast Egg from the Heavenly Pool two years ago.

This egg has an extraordinary origin, containing innate wood essence and true dragon bloodline. However, under the suppression of the laws of this realm, it is hatching slowly and its vitality is restrained.

For the past two years, he has been nurturing the egg closely, nourishing it with his own sacred body's blood and energy, as well as the few strands of [innate wood spirit energy] he caught. Only then did the consciousness in the egg gradually awaken and become able to have a weak mental exchange with him.

At this moment, he took the egg out and held it in his palm.

Inside the eggshell, a faint, almost imperceptible thought, only perceptible to Li Qingshan, emanated, carrying a languid, dazed quality, as if just awakened from sleep:

"Dad, it's cold~~"

Li Qingshan responded telepathically: "What's so cold about it? Your shell is thick enough."

"That little kid outside doesn't seem to believe you much..."

The consciousness inside the egg spoke slowly, with a hint of amusement, "Should I scare him a little with a breath of dragon's breath?"

"Stay put and stop spewing dragon breath."

Li Qingshan chuckled inwardly, "With your meager firepower, you can't even muster a spark. Don't hurt yourself by holding it in."

"Oh……"

The consciousness inside the egg fell silent, feeling wronged.

Ye Fan looked curiously at the "egg" in Li Qingshan's hand: "Uncle Li, why did you take out an egg? Are you hungry?"

"This is not an egg."

Li Qingshan said in a serious tone, "This is a Azure Dragon Egg!"

Ye Fan chuckled, "Uncle Li, you're getting more and more absurd. The Azure Dragon is from mythology, it's not real. These are definitely wild eggs. Where did you get them from?"

Li Qingshan offered no explanation.

He put the egg back in his pocket and continued looking into the ice cave: "Believe it or not!"

"But little Yezi, just because you can't see many things in this world doesn't mean they don't exist."

Ye Fan curled his lip, not believing it at all.

In the past two years, he had followed Li Qingshan for quite some time, but he had never seen Uncle Li display any "supernatural powers".

Uncle Li is such a lazy person!

He needs to be fed by himself or his mother every day, which he calls "experiencing the joys of life," when he's clearly just too lazy to cook.

Claims of "abstaining from grains," "swallowing the essence of heaven and earth," and "not dying without eating" are all nonsense.

Unfortunately, her parents believed in Uncle Li very much, saying that he was some kind of "reclusive master" and that she should learn more from him.

What to study?

Do you want to learn how to be lazy?

Ye Fan snorted inwardly.

However, the ancient books that Uncle Li showed him were quite interesting.

What about the Daoist Canon, the Book of Changes, the Classic of Mountains and Seas...?

Although he didn't recognize many of the words and had to look them up in the dictionary, he seemed to have become smarter after seeing them so many times.

He could learn all the schoolwork at a glance, and the teachers all praised him as a child prodigy.

The more Ye Fan read, the more he felt that those myths about plucking stars from the sky and moving mountains and seas were all made up by the ancients.

Such a thing doesn't exist in the world.

"Uncle Li, I know you want to teach me a lesson."

Ye Fan suddenly spoke, his small face showing a serious expression that said, "But all those supernatural powers and Taoist arts are fake, right? There are no gods in this world!"

Li Qingshan turned his head and looked into the little boy's earnest eyes.

The snow reflected in his eyes, clear yet stubborn.

Li Qingshan suddenly smiled and reached out to rub Ye Fan's head, which was covered by a snow hat:

If you say no, then no.

"But little Yezi, sometimes 'believing' itself is a kind of power!"

He gazed at the vast, desolate snowscape in the distance, his voice deep and resonant:

"When you grow up a bit more, travel further, and see a wider world... you might understand that what is called 'impossible' is just something you haven't encountered yet."

Ye Fan blinked, seemingly understanding but not quite.

He just felt that Uncle Li was saying some strange things he couldn't understand again.

However, the warm "egg" in my arms was quite cozy.

He hunched his neck, tucked his frostbitten little hands into his pockets, and continued to stare at his ice cave.

The wind and snow are getting heavier.

Li Qingshan remained seated, dressed in thin black clothes. Snowflakes fell on his shoulders, but seemed to be pushed away by an invisible aura, quietly sliding off.

Ye Fan couldn't help but shiver and muttered softly, "Uncle Li, aren't you cold?"

"It's not cold."

Li Qingshan said calmly, "When the heart fire is strong, it is naturally not cold."

"here we go again……"

Ye Fan rolled his eyes slightly.

He decided to stop discussing these esoteric questions with Uncle Li.

Anyway, once I'm older and have learned more scientific knowledge, I'll definitely be able to completely expose Uncle Li's "fooling" tricks!

The water beneath the ice cave suddenly rippled gently.

Ye Fan's float suddenly sank!

......

Days piled up one after another, and before we knew it, they had accumulated into a thick stack.

In the blink of an eye, the little kid who used to play by the river with poking fish has grown into a handsome young man with clear eyes and a straight posture.

When Xiaofan came home from school that day, his mother handed him a thermal lunchbox: "Xiaofan, take this to your Uncle Li. He said the other day that he wanted to eat my braised pork ribs, and I just finished making them."

Ye Fan took the still-warm lunchbox and replied, "He's too lazy to cook again, isn't he?"

Mother Ye chuckled and patted him lightly: "How can you talk like that? Your Uncle Li is busy... well, just take it there anyway."

Ye Fan carried his lunchbox out the door, wondering to himself: Busy? Busy fishing or busy sleeping inside?

In the past two years, Uncle Li has become increasingly reclusive.

Aside from his unwavering habit of sitting by the river, he spends most of his time holed up in his old house, tinkering with something.

The question is about "comprehending the Great Dao".

Ye Fan had heard it so many times that his ears were practically calloused.

He walked to the old building with practiced ease and knocked on the door.

Li Qingshan's lazy voice came from inside: "Come in, the door isn't locked."

Ye Fan pushed open the door and went in.

The room's furnishings remained almost unchanged, still so simple, even a bit too "empty".

But for some reason, as soon as I walked in, I felt a special quietness, as if even the noise from the street outside was shut out.