Thanks to the Stone-Brown Grass, Jimo Yunqi was recovering even better than expected. He himself, however, was not doing so well; he still had not recovered from that lethal bitterness.
Now, everything he ate tasted bitter. Even water tasted bitter.
Jimo Xiubai had initially felt some sympathy for his older brother, but later, watching his pained expression, he could not help laughing and was eventually chased out.
"By the way, we sold that altered version of the Snake Clan's Sacrificial Dance to them before. Do you know what happened afterward?" Xue Fuyao suddenly asked.
The two of them had planned this themselves, but after selling those stone tablets and splitting the money, she had stopped paying attention to the matter.
"I kept waiting for you to ask, but you never did. I thought you didn't care about it," Jimo Xiubai said.
"You can tell me now," Xue Fuyao said.
She really had not paid much attention to it before, mainly because she thought the Sacrificial Dance was only a dance. At worst, performing it incorrectly would have no effect. Surely it could not cause cultivation deviation?
It really could!
"A curse?"
After hearing Jimo Xiubai explain what had happened afterward, Xue Fuyao's eyes widened, her face full of disbelief.
With an expression that said I knew you'd react like that, Jimo Xiubai continued, "I've been following this matter all along, so the information is definitely accurate."
"Back at the Three Realms Auction, the Snake Clan pooled their resources and bought all the Sacrificial Dance stone tablets. After returning, they probably understood that no single clan among them could protect the tablets alone, so they didn't fight among themselves. Instead, they studied them together, then selected their most outstanding snake women to learn the Sacrificial Dance.
"But within a month, every