"It's your turn to make a choice again," Chen Ping'an said. "You can kill me, but the spiritual energy of Bamboo Scroll Lake will be sucked dry into this jade tablet that you don't dare to take. Even if you take it, you won't be able to activate or deactivate it. You can beat me half-dead, but I'll absorb half the spiritual energy and water fortune of Bamboo Scroll Lake if you do that. Finally, we can each take a step back and negotiate normally, striving to maximize the benefits for each party. 0

"However, the condition is that you allow me to leave Palace Willow Island and place restrictions on the jade tablet after I safely return to Cyan Gorge Island. That way, the jade tablet will automatically activate if I'm killed. When all of that is done, we can sit down again to negotiate, and it doesn't matter whether that's at Cyan Gorge Island or Palace Willow Island."0

Liu Laocheng smiled in ridicule and scoffed, "Do you genuinely think I believe you when you say you have the ability to control this jade tablet?"0

With a single thought, Chen Ping'an caused the jade tablet in his hand to gradually slow down its speed of absorbing spiritual energy, no longer causing spiritual energy to funnel toward him like howling wind and rushing clouds. This caused all of the confused vagrant cultivators in a fifty kilometer radius of Palace Willow Island to feel utterly terrified, mistakenly thinking that Liu Laocheng was about to advance to the Immortal Tier and thus planning to wantonly absorb the water fortune of Bamboo Scroll Lake and leave the other vagrant cultivators for dead.0

Liu Laocheng smiled and said, "Chen Ping'an, you truly are ruthless. I hunt eagles all year long, yet I was almost blinded by the beak of an eagle just now."0

He then waved a hand and said in agreement, "We'll have another meeting after you return to Cyan Gorge Island and finish dealing with your matter."0

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