After being tempered by the Tree Starry Sky, Lu Yin was no longer the ignorant frog in a well who saw Half Ancestors as the heavens. Half Ancestors? He had seen plenty of them.
"Senior, I won't hand those people over. They're my spoils of war. I didn't just capture them; I also passed the Three Trials, and I have an Origin Item inside me. Are you going to make me hand that over too?" Lu Yin asked in return.
Xia Ji was shocked. "You passed the Three Trials?"
Mr. Mu had concealed Lu Yin's strength so successfully that not even the Half Ancestors had noticed. Even when Lu Yin stood before Dragon Ancestor on Dragon Mountain, the Governor Lord hadn't seen through him.
"That's right. I passed the Three Trials," Lu Yin declared.
Heavenly Master Shang Sheng appeared. "Xia Ji, what are you trying to do?"
Xia Ji hesitated, then finally left. Those people weren't particularly useful to them. He had wanted Lu Yin to hand them over mostly to see if he could get the Four Sides Heavenly Balance's cultivation methods and battle techniques. But now that Lu Yin had passed the Three Trials, he was the only junior in the Fifth Continent to have done so. Though his cultivation level was still far from sufficient, his importance was no less than theirs.
He couldn't force the issue with Lu Yin now. More importantly, Lu Yin had somehow managed to hide the fact that he had passed the Three Trials. Xia Ji couldn't see through him, so there had to be an Absolute Expert backing him.
Lu Yin had revealed his strength precisely because he knew how important he was. Not just in the Fifth Continent—even in the Tree Starry Sky, those who passed the Three Trials were