"There's no need for a soul oath," Lu Qing smiled.
He could naturally tell that the gray-robed man's words were half true and half false.
However, he didn't care about that, as long as he could confirm that the other party did not know in advance that this world was about to be revived and came to invade.
With a flick of his wrist, a wave of energy landed on the gray-robed man and invaded the acupoint between his eyebrows.
"Let me verify whether what you say is true or false."
"Wait..."
Sensing that familiar and terrifying fluctuation, the gray-robed man was terrified and immediately shouted.
However, before he could finish shouting, illusions began to appear before his eyes, and in the next moment, he was once again plunged into that boundless illusion.
After more than ten breaths, Lu Qing withdrew his supernatural power, and the gray-robed man slowly regained consciousness.
However, this time, his eyes looked much more tired.
The look in his eyes as he gazed at Lu Qing was filled with fear.
"It seems you weren't entirely telling the truth just now," Lu Qing said calmly, looking at the gray-robed man. "So, what exactly is the Lotus of Purity?"
The gray-robed man was terrified. His greatest secret had been exposed, and he could no longer remain calm.
With a thought, he tried to communicate with the storage artifact on his body, intending to destroy it.
But just as his mind was beginning to wander, he was taken aback.
He discovered that his storage bag had vanished.
Suddenly looking up, she saw Lu Qing's ambiguous smile.
"Is this what you're looking for?"
A delicate little bag with mysterious patterns appeared in Lu Qing's hand.
The gray-robed man looked closely and realized that it was none other than his own storage bag.
Immediately, a look of dejection appeared on his face.
He understood that he had no more bargaining chips left.
Trapped in the spatial cage, his soul power was also sealed, preventing him from escaping even a fraction of the cage and making it impossible for him to destroy the storage bag.
"Senior's thinking is meticulous, I admire you," the gray-robed man said dejectedly.
"It's just being a little careful, not meticulous at all," Lu Qing chuckled.
With the storage bag so obviously hanging on his waist, how could he not have noticed it?
However, the storage bag was restricted, and he couldn't open it for the time being.
"Senior, didn't you want to know what the Pure Lotus is? I'll humbly make a deal with you."
As long as the senior makes a vow to forgive the junior this time.
"This junior not only presents the pure lotus with both hands, but also explains in detail how to use it. I wonder what the senior thinks?"
The man in the gray robe said cautiously.
"Trying to negotiate with me?" Lu Qing glanced at the gray-robed man and said, "Judging from your expression just now, if I'm not mistaken, the so-called Pure Lotus should be in this storage bag, right?"
Since that's the case, and the goods are already in my hands, why should I negotiate with you?
"The Pure Lotus is indeed in the storage bag, but it is stored in a treasure box. I'm not afraid to tell you, senior, that the treasure box has been placed under a restriction by me."
As soon as the younger generation dies, the divine soul imprint inside disappears, and the treasure box will immediately self-destruct.
The pure lotus inside will also be completely destroyed.
Senior, you probably don't know much about the Pure Lotus. It's a top-grade spiritual herb.
It has the ability to enhance one's comprehension, increase one's cultivation, and refine the golden elixir.
Even a powerful being at the Nascent Soul stage would go crazy for this supreme elixir!
Surely the senior wouldn't want such a precious medicine to be destroyed like this?
The gray-robed man stared intently at Lu Qing and spoke slowly and deliberately.
"Are you threatening me?" Lu Qing's gaze sharpened. "If that's the case, then you might as well die."
As soon as he finished speaking, a wisp of azure spiritual fire emerged from the spatial cage where the gray-robed man was located, and then suddenly surged.
The next moment, the entire spatial cage was filled with spiritual fire.
"ah!"
With Lu Qing's current strength, the spiritual fire he unleashes from the Li Huo Cauldron is terrifying.
It was simply beyond the ability of the heavily injured man in the gray robe to resist.
Almost instantly, his physical body began to melt.
Even activating the protective silver light within his body was futile; at most, it could only temporarily slow down the melting of his flesh.
"Senior, spare my life! Senior, spare my life!"
The gray-robed man's eyes were filled with terror.
He hadn't expected that even after he revealed the preciousness of the Pure Lotus, Lu Qing would act without any hesitation.
Is he really not afraid at all that the Pure Lotus will be destroyed?!
Feeling his physical body continuously melting, he realized the power of the spiritual fire was terrifying, rendering his protective spells and magical treasures completely ineffective.
Under the intense threat of death, the gray-robed man could no longer care about his pride as a Golden Core cultivator and immediately began to plead with Lu Qing.
However, Lu Qing remained unmoved, her face cold and expressionless.
He formed a hand seal, and the agile power within the spatial cage increased once more in the next instant.
The flames, which were originally blue, gradually faded in color until they became almost transparent.
With this change, the rate at which the gray-robed man's flesh melted accelerated once again.
This spiritual fire not only refined his physical body but also scorched his soul. Under the boundless pain, he couldn't even utter words of begging for mercy.
They could only watch helplessly as their physical bodies, along with their souls, were rapidly incinerated amidst endless fear and pain.
Moreover, under the powerful spatial suppression, he couldn't even self-destruct his golden core of magical power!
In just over ten breaths, it was burned into a lump of melted flesh and blood, and continued to shrink.
At this point, the gray-robed man finally realized that he had no chance of escaping death.
In despair, he could only let out a piercing, soul-wrenching cry:
"Ah! You demon, you will die a horrible death! Just wait, my sect will avenge me!"
Then, there was silence.
After Lu Qing dissipated the spiritual fire, only a few dim magic weapon light clusters and a golden bead the size of an infant's fist remained in the spatial cage.
As for the white-robed man's physical body, it had already been completely refined and disappeared.
"Young master, I thought you would spare his life."
"Yan" said to Lu Qing with some surprise.
After all, even it was moved by what the gray-robed man had just said.
If that pure lotus is truly as precious as the other party claims, then using it to exchange for their life doesn't seem like an unacceptable thing.
Unexpectedly, Lu Qing didn't care at all. He said he would refine the person to death, and he actually refined the person to death.
"This man is cunning and treacherous. If I spare his life, he may cause great trouble in the future. It's just a spiritual herb; it's not worth the risk for me," Lu Qing said calmly.
The gray-robed man has a powerful background. If we let him go, who knows what kind of schemes and tricks he might pull when he returns to the sect?
Although Lu Qing was confident, he did not think he could handle a large immortal sect in the world.
After speaking, Lu Qing focused his mind on the storage bag in his hand.
The divine soul imprint inside had disappeared, and the storage bag had become ownerless.
This indicates that the gray-robed man has indeed perished completely.
With a slight thought, he easily refined the restriction inside the storage bag, imprinted his own soul mark on it, and made it his master.
Then, he focused his mind and probed into the storage bag.
Soon, he raised an eyebrow and took out a jade box from his storage bag.
After using his special ability to check, a look of surprise appeared in his eyes.
He opened the jade box directly, looked at the crystal-like spiritual herb inside, and saw the rich spiritual energy it emitted, and a smile appeared on his face.
"It seems that even those at the Golden Core stage will sometimes tell any lie just to survive."
