The two waited there for an entire month. Only after the murals on the walls had become much like the original murals did Xue Fuyao undo the formation.
Then they went inside again. With clearly divided tasks and practiced movements, they cut the murals from the walls, knocked them loose, and put them into a separate Storage Bag.
They divided the murals into exactly one hundred pieces, no more and no less. These would be enough to bleed the Snake-Demon Clan dry.
Next, Xue Fuyao and Jimo Xiubai circled the altar again, checking for anything else. After all, how could such an enormous underground palace contain nothing but these murals?
They pried here and poked there, overturning the entire altar, and actually found two fine treasures hidden away.
One was a bead of vivid red blood larger than a human head, radiating an oppressive aura. The other was a translucent blue crystal inlaid with golden horns on either side, looking like a crown.
Under the scrutiny of the Heavenly Eye, the two items were roughly on par, and neither contained any hidden remnant souls or the like. They could safely take them.
Xue Fuyao had little interest in the red bead and found it rather creepy. Since they were roughly on par, she took the blue crystal crown.
Seeing her take the crown, Jimo Xiubai picked up the head-sized red bead and examined it closely. "If I'm not mistaken, what's sealed inside this should be some sort of extraordinarily terrifying bloodline."
Hearing this, Xue Fuyao recalled the earlier murals and said, "Could it be the bloodline of the Snake King in those murals?"
"Very likely. The Snake King probably left his bloodline behind so that one day, his clansmen could find it and strengthen their bloodlines by absorbing it. Together