Yu Yuan entered the last room.
He hadn't caught what Xiao Xi had said when she disabled the alarm trap.
But he didn't care.
He looked at the dozen or so exquisite wooden boxes arranged on two display shelves.
Yu Yuan had no intention of touching the boxes himself. He retreated beyond the doorway.
Zhizhi emerged from Yu Yuan's shadow.
"Zhizhi, go!"
The next moment, large hands formed from shadow reached for the wooden boxes on the shelves.
The instant those shadowy hands touched the boxes, thick black blood appeared across the boxes and display shelves.
The blood clung to the hands touching the boxes and began to corrode them.
It could corrode shadows. They had never encountered anything like it before.
Zhizhi severed its connection to the hands, formed new ones, and reached for the boxes again.
But the new hands were soon coated and corroded too.
This time, though, the blood spread and corroded them much more slowly.
Meanwhile, a faint noise came from the entrance in the secret chamber wall.
Xiao Xi had clearly noticed the alarm trap had been triggered and was working to open the chamber.
Zhizhi kept forming shadowy hands, wearing away the black blood coating the boxes.
Yu Yuan had already realized the blood was probably some kind of dark or corrupting energy.
And against that kind of power, Miemie was their strongest fighter.
"Zhizhi, stop!"
Yu Yuan then unequipped Miemie, bringing it out.
The instant Miemie appeared, pale green light spread outward from it.
The light purified and erased all corrupting, dark, and evil energy.
That included the black blood on the boxes and shelves. It was completely wiped away.
Zhizhi needed no further instruction. Its shadowy hands reached for the boxes again.
This time, nothing went wrong. Yu Yuan packed the