Chapter 260 (2/2)

“I guessed!” Ning Xuemo replied bluntly. She used her finger to point at the crystal chains, “Where do these hollowed chains lead to? These chains are specially made to absorb the blood and flesh of all the animals passing by. Then, all the nutrients are sent to your body. It let you live on for more than a thousand years without starving to death…”

When the little qilin and her examined the skeleton of the magic beast, she saw those chains in the vicinity.

At that time, there must have been a special property inscribed into the chains that made them inconspicuous. Right when the exit was opened, she saw the chains nearby, and after observing them, she immediately deduced their real function.

She now knew why the demon beast became a dried up corpse in such a short time.

The man’s eyelashes trembled while his pale lips slightly pursed. He looked at his palms which looked faintly pink. ‘Even after thousands of years, nothing has changed.”

He sighed vaguely. “Perhaps, what you said is correct. This is that person’s[1] way of burning incense for me… But what I wanted was never this…”

“A man? Or a woman? Is the person who sealed you a man or a woman?” Ning Xuemo asked in curiousity.

Graceful like a poem, his smile turned treacherous and murderous without really exposing his mood any further. It was rare for him to show such a painful expression.

Therefore, it stirred Ning Xuemo’s curiosity, making her unable to refrain herself from asking.

The man’s expression became heavy, but he immediately resumed smiling. “Aren’t you curious? You think I want to find that person and let that person seal me again?”

Ning Xuemo yawned. “You’re overthinking. I haven’t heard of anyone who lived for more than 2,000 years except for this continent’s godly Ancestor…”

Suddenly, she sized him up and down. “You weren’t sealed by the Ancestor, right?”

“The Ancestor?” The red clothed man raised an eyebrow. “Who is he?”

[1] That person is a woman. In Chinese, the pronoun for he and she used the same pronunciation, but the characters are different. Thus, Ning Xuemo’s questions and also why I have to put a footnote.