The instant he saw the blood bead, the black shadow immediately stopped moving. He slowly walked up to the Kai Ming Beast, leaned close to examine the bead hanging around its neck, seemingly lost in thought. Yet his body gradually tilted farther forward, until he was nearly pressed against the blood bead.
From afar, Ye Tian was deeply shaken as he stared at that bead. Its aura gave him the feeling of reuniting with an old friend, for the blood bead had likewise come from humans. The ancient texts recorded that only humans completely drained by the Kai Ming Beast could possibly be refined into such blood beads.
Moreover, the blood beads refined by the Kai Ming Beast were no longer blood stored in containers. They were solid crystals condensed from vast quantities of blood through extreme refinement. How many humans' blood would it take to form crystallized blood? Ye Tian did not know, but he could roughly imagine that it had to be a terrifying amount.
The reason the black shadow was interested in the blood bead was not because of how many people's blood it contained. Rather, the fact that the Kai Ming Beast possessed such a bead meant it must hold an extraordinary position at Zhu Rong's side. Only one who drank human blood year after year could use such a bead as an ornament.
At that thought, he instead put away his killing intent. He had wanted to kill the Kai Ming Beast because it had already discovered Ye Tian's hiding place. Once the beast was killed, Ye Tian would become a thorn in the Fire Ancestral Shaman's eye, and at the very least, there would no longer be any possibility of becoming friends with Ye Tian. But upon discovering the blood bead, the black shadow's