Mortal: Starting by looting Han Laomo's entire herb garden

Lu Yan ignored Jin Ming and focused on cleaning up the battlefield.

Mu Tianyan's body collapsed to the ground, lifeless.

With a wave of his hand, Lu Yan sent the jade box containing the golden mother coral sand flying into his hand. The fiery red coral lay quietly inside the jade box, its surface shimmering with golden patterns and radiating a powerful spiritual aura.

Good stuff, I'll refine it slowly when I get back.

The Xuanming Ink Bead fell from the sky, and Lu Yan caught it in one swift motion.

The jet-black bead felt cool to the touch, and when one probed it with their divine sense, they could feel the immense spiritual power contained within.

This bead can amplify divine sense and is both offensive and defensive, making it many times stronger than his Soul-Sweeping Mirror.

With the combined power of the Great Evolution Technique and the Mirror of Mysterious Divine Art, he will have no more reservations about his divine sense.

The dark green illusion demon core rolled to the corner. Lu Yan picked it up, examined it for a moment, and then put it into his storage bracelet.

The illusionary power remaining in the demon core can be used to refine illusionary magic weapons in the future, or it can be directly devoured by the Illusionary Phoenix Sparrow, both of which are good choices.

The two clam shells were huge and heavy, their dark green surfaces covered with ancient patterns.

This thing has amazing defensive capabilities. Even the Nine Heavens Hammer's full-force strike only left a shallow crack. If it were to be refined into a defensive magic weapon, its grade would definitely be quite high.

Lu Yan stacked the two clam shells together and put them into his storage bracelet.

Finally, there's Mu Tianyan's storage bag.

Lu Yan probed with his divine sense, searched for a moment, and a smile appeared on his lips.

Ten-thousand-year-old fire coral.

A fiery red coral lay quietly in the storage bag, its entire body as red as blood, radiating scorching spiritual energy.

"All done."

Lu Yan put all the spoils into his storage bracelet, clapped his hands, and then turned around to look at Jin Ming, who had been standing in the corner.

The golden lion was surrounded by crackling lightning, but at this moment the lightning no longer seemed like a threat, but rather a flicker of unease.

Jin Ming remained silent for a moment before speaking.

"Actually, it's a misunderstanding..."

Lu Yan looked at him, as if he had heard something amusing, and a slight twitch appeared at the corner of his mouth: "At this moment, are you joking?"

Jin Ming couldn't help but take two steps back, but quickly regained his composure.

"Behind me is the entire Suanni clan. Two level-ten demons. If anything happens to me, the Suanni clan will surely mobilize all its forces to investigate to the very end."

He paused, then looked directly at Lu Yan.

"At that time, the lives of the people of the outer seas will probably not be easy."

Lu Yan frowned slightly but remained silent.

He understood what Jin Ming meant. This wasn't a threat; it was the truth.

The human race in the outer seas was already weak and outnumbered. The reason they were able to carve out a territory in the outer seas where monsters roamed was not because of overwhelming strength, but because of the mutual checks and balances among the monsters and the low-key forbearance of the human race.

If he killed the young master of the Suanni clan, causing the Suanni clan to retaliate fiercely, the human race in the outer sea would surely suffer a bloodbath.

Even if the Suanni Clan can't find the real culprit, they will hold all the humans in the outer seas accountable.

Moreover, as a top-tier demon race in the outer sea, the Suanni clan may well possess secret techniques to track down the murderer.

He has already offended the Golden Dragon King. If he also offends the Suanni clan to death, he will probably find it difficult to move an inch in the outer sea in the future.

not worth it.

But if we let him go, and the news leaks out, people will know that I, a Core Formation stage cultivator, can kill a transformed demon. They will definitely suspect that I possess a great treasure, and I will probably become the target of everyone's criticism.

Lu Yan pondered for a moment, then raised his head and looked at Jin Ming.

"I can spare your life."

Jin Ming felt a sense of relief, but his expression remained unchanged.

"But I have two conditions."

"Please speak, sir."

"I want the Three Brahma Holy Merits."

Jinming's pupils suddenly contracted, golden arcs of lightning exploded, and his entire Suanni tensed up.

"How could a human like you know the secret cultivation technique of my Suanni clan?"

His voice was filled with shock, even a hint of fear.

The Three Brahma Sacred Techniques are a closely guarded secret of the Suanni clan, never to be revealed to outsiders. How could a human cultivator possibly know about them?

Lu Yan stood with his hands behind his back, his expression indifferent.

"The Three Brahma Holy Techniques, the cultivation method of the Nirvana Holy Ancestor of the Demon Realm, was divided into three parts. After it fell into the human realm, it was adapted by cultivators of various races into versions suitable for their own purposes."

"What you have is only a third of it."

Jin Ming was filled with doubt and surprise. This human not only knew about the Three Brahma Holy Techniques, but also its origins? The Nirvana Saint Ancestor? The Demon Realm? Three parts? Even he, the young master of the Suanni clan, wasn't entirely clear about these things!

"Who...who are you?"

Lu Yan didn't answer his question, but continued, "We don't need to fight. You show me the Three Brahma Sacred Technique, and I'll show you my body-refining technique. We can learn from each other and maybe even help each other."

He paused, then said calmly, "After all, you don't want to die here, do you? Oh, by the way, my body-refining technique is the other third of the Nirvana Demonic Art."

Jin Ming fell silent.

He looked at Lu Yan, at this human who had just killed an eighth-level transformed demon with his late-stage Core Formation cultivation, and at his calm gaze and composed demeanor. He understood that he had no other choice.

The other party wasn't discussing it; they were informing us.

After a long while, Jinming took a deep breath, and the golden lightning gradually subsided.

"I can give you the Three Brahma Holy Practices."

Lu Yan remained silent, waiting for him to continue.

"But how do I know you won't kill me after you take the cultivation technique?"

Lu Yan said calmly, "If I wanted to kill you, I could do it now. I don't need to waste words with you."

Jin Ming gritted his teeth and spat out a copper plate. The copper plate was densely engraved with ancient characters, exuding an ancient and profound aura.

True image of the Holy Spirit.

The artifact, a legacy of the Three Brahma Sacred Arts of the Suanni clan, was carried by Jin Ming using his spiritual power and slowly presented to Lu Yan.

Lu Yan took it, probed it with his divine sense, glanced at it, confirmed it was correct, and put it into his storage bracelet.

Then he took out a jade slip from his storage bag, recorded the cultivation method of the seventh level of the Vajra Technique into it, and tossed it to Jin Ming.

Jin Ming took the jade slip, scanned it with his divine sense, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

The Vajra Technique is no less exquisite than the Three Brahma Holy Technique, and its methods for tempering the physical body are quite complementary to the body-refining methods of his Suanni clan.

"Deal." Jin Ming put away the jade slip and turned to leave.

"etc."

Lu Yan's voice came from behind, unhurried, but it made Jin Ming stop in his tracks.

"Is there anything else, fellow Daoist?" Jin Ming turned around, golden arcs of lightning flickering uneasily between his mane.

"You can't leave." Lu Yan shook his head, his tone flat. "I don't believe you'll keep it a secret."

Jin Ming's face darkened: "I swear as the young master of the Suanni clan that what happened today will never be revealed."

"An oath?" Lu Yan interrupted him. "Who knows if your clan has any secret techniques to circumvent oaths?"

Jin Ming remained silent for a moment before slowly speaking: "My Suanni clan has its own rules, and there's nothing you can do if you don't believe me. Besides, my Yuanhun Lamp is kept in the clan. As long as I die, the Yuanhun Lamp will go out, and the clan will know that something has happened to me."

Lu Yan raised an eyebrow: "So, as long as the Yuanhun Lamp doesn't go out, the Suanni clan won't find out what happens to you?"

Jin Ming hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "You could say that."

"That makes things easier." Lu Yan took out a black token from his storage bag. The token was engraved with ancient patterns and faintly glowed with spiritual light. It was a divine prohibition token.

"Hand over a wisp of your primordial spirit, and let it reside here. I will take you to a place where I will grant you your freedom."