The pattern resembled two serpents coiled together, every scale rendered in exquisite detail. The four dots representing the snakes' eyes seemed almost ready to drip, black as ink, all the more glaring amid the crimson glow.
Yu Ci himself seemed to have sensed it. Though he had no spare hand for the moment, his brows still twitched repeatedly, causing the entwined snake seal to twist and change in an eerie fashion.
Bang!
Someone else slapped the table and cried out in praise. "So it's the Crimson Firmament Curse Kill Seal!"
The truth was laid bare in a single sentence, and low murmurs immediately spread through the dark chamber.
Someone quickly caught on and revealed the true answer. "So it's the Blood Mansion Ancestor! No wonder Pavilion Master Zhao said not a single person had been lost. Those assassins were all Blood Aspect Puppets collected by the ancestor!"
Zhao Xiangshan smiled faintly and said nothing more, yet his meaning was already clear: he was tacitly admitting it.
"Tut, tut, the Blood Mansion Ancestor! Brother Xiangshan truly made a grand gesture to invite this man out. The chief assassin of Crimson Firmament Heaven—even the Heavenly Evasion Sect must yield him three parts of courtesy... But wasn't it said that he failed his tribulation at the end of the previous calamity, his physical body shattered, and had already reincarnated? Who would have thought he was still alive?"
"Reincarnation isn't so easy either. Spending eight hundred or a thousand years preparing for it isn't considered long. Crimson Firmament Heaven suffered such a great loss; if they wanted to truly win it back, only the Blood Mansion Ancestor could be sure of doing it. Besides, Wuji Pavilion's Spirit-Communing Jade is also greatly beneficial for breaking the 'delusion of the womb.'"
After all, these were only