The feather in Lin Wu's grasp was a stone feather and looking at its shape it was likely from the vermilion bird's statue. It seemed strange to Lin Wu though as the statue itself was made from a single rock.

Thus the feathers carved on it would have been part of its surface and not individual like this. Lin Wu looked back at the statue and could not even tell what part this feather was detached from.

"No… this is not from the statue. The shape and size do not match. The ones on the statue are much longer than this and the size is also bigger." Lin Wu said after comparing it for a bit.

~shine~

"Huh? It glows?" Lin Wu was surprised.

A red vein in the center of the stone feather could be seen. Lin Wu probed it with his spirit sense and realized that it actually had the bloodline of the Vermillion bird in it.

"This is quite different… it is mild… yet powerful…" Lin Wu muttered.

He stored the feather in the inventory and left the temple. Appearing on the surface of the ground, the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle looked at him with furrowed brows.

"Did you not find anything? I can't sense anything on you." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle stated.

Hearing this Lin Wu was able to confirm the fact that the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle could truly sense the aura of the bloodline crystals on him. But this also showed him that the stone feather that he had gotten was different from the other bloodline crystal.

"I didn't find a bloodline crystal, but I did find something else." Lin Wu replied before withdrawing the stone feather.

The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle looked at it while tilting her head and then used her spirit sense to probe it.

"It has the bloodline imprint of the Vermillion bird in it… but it does not have the same bloodline source as that of a bloodline crystal." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle stated.

"Do you know what this is?" Lin Wu questioned.

"Hmm… let me try to see if there is anything within my bloodline memories…" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle replied before closing her eyes.

Lin Wu could feel her aura getting silent as if she was entering some kind of a sleep. The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle stayed in this state for about two hours without even moving. If this was the Lin Wu of the past, he would have not been patient for this long.

For the human Lin Wu, it would have been a great waste of time to just wait for two hours doing nothing. But to the worm Lin Wu, who was now a spirit beast two hours was nothing. His lifespan was so long that he had already started to lose the normal sense of time.

For him, two hours passed like a blink of an eye. He had simply cultivated in these two hours and did not even sense it was two hours.

'If one was going to wait around doing nothing, cultivating is the best thing to do…' Lin Wu thought with a nod.

When the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle finally opened her eyes, Lin Wu could feel her aura rising again. He realized that this was something beasts with strong bloodlines could do. When a spirit beast awakened a strong bloodline, they would not unlock all of it at once as that would lead to them getting harmed.

The power of the bloodline was just too much for a body of a beast to handle. Thus the bloodline would slowly resale its potential while the body predated and grew according to its requirements.

Lin Wu also wondered if his bloodline had some sealed memories inside it as well. He knew his unknown bloodline was not fully unlocked and what he had right now was mostly due to the systems' manufactured bloodline of the Crimson eyed emerald worm.

"I think I know what it is," The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle suddenly spoke.

"Tell me then." Lin Wu stated.

"That feather is a key… to some kind of a beacon… I don't know what kind… I could not access the memories, they are far too deep in the bloodline. If I want to see them it will take me a long time and my cultivation base will also need to be quite high for that to happen." The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle answered.

"A key? To a beacon…" Lin Wu repeated.

'Seems like there is more to these temples than just the bloodline crystals.' Lin Wu thought to himself.

"Let's go search for the next temple." Lin Wu said.

"But where do we go?" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle asked. "I can't sense anything for now… do we go look for more of those followers of the skull god?"

"Yes, we don't know the exact location of their sanctuary, but we do know they are somewhere in the west. As long as we go and wander there, we are bound to encounter more of the followers of the skull god. And who knows… we may even find more temples on the way." Lin Wu replied.

"Alright…" The Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle said before taking flight.

Lin Wu followed behind her and the two beasts flew to the west. They spend over two weeks flying during which they managed to find one more temple that the Silver Beak Sky Soar Eagle had sensed appearing.

Lin Wu found another bloodline crystal in there along with a Specter Skull hound that he killed rather quickly. Now that he knew how to deal with them, Lin Wu didn't care much about them.

After they found that temple, they encountered another small group of followers of the Skull god. Lin Wu used the same old routine of shock and awe to gain information from them. While they didn't gain information about the sanctuary, they did manage to learn about something big.

"Six temples will be appearing at once, huh… Interesting."