From the day he had entered the scene, he had always held the upper hand in negotiations. This time, though, he had lost badly. It wasn't that he was outmatched in intelligence; the truth was that one side had something to gain, while the other wanted nothing. No matter how clever his arguments, he couldn't bluff someone who had no reason to yield.
The black-robed man was as brisk and straightforward as ever. "Don't think I've taken advantage of you. The method for refining any class of talisman paper is extraordinarily precious, beyond the measure of spirit stones. If the Heart of the Earth weren't so precious to my people, do you think this secret method for refining talisman paper would ever have left our hands? It's true that, as I said earlier, quite a few major powers know how to refine talisman paper. But even among them, this art is treasured above all else. No amount of wealth can measure its worth. The root of it is simple: the method for refining this talisman paper is a Blood Prohibition Secret Technique."
The moment he heard the words "Blood Prohibition Secret Technique," Xu Yi's brow twitched. He had never imagined that one day he would come into contact with such a technique.
He had once read about Blood Prohibition Secret Techniques in the pages of a book. Every one of them had been inherited from the Archaic Martial Forbidden Land. The mystery of these techniques lay in the fact that each could be passed down through only a single line of inheritance.
Anyone who tried to pass one of these secret techniques on to another person would first suffer the blood prohibition themselves, vanishing into nothingness. Not only their physical body, but even their yin soul would be utterly destroyed.