A negotiating genius

It was no surprise that Sadi agreed. After all, time was running out!

Only two hundred years remained until year 10,000 of the Kingdom Calendar on the Prime Material Plane. Yin Ming regarded the time leading up to that milestone as a golden opportunity to increase his strength.

Sadi knew this as well. Those two hundred years were also its best chance to break through to the fourth ring.

Yin Ming offered no guarantees, nor did he need to. "In a peaceful, stable environment, I never take risks without something to gain. But that's on the condition that you guarantee the knowledge is genuine. Otherwise, I'll light another fire for every mistake."

He was exploiting a loophole to extort Sadi, not robbing it through superior strength. Tree Ancestor Sadi was perfectly capable of turning on him.

Giving up its treant form to put down roots and propagate its clan did not mean it had truly become an ordinary tree.

Extraordinary creatures were no fools. They would hardly imprison themselves for all eternity just for power. As long as it was willing to pay the price, its banyan body could turn back into a treant.

If he truly robbed Sadi of any hope of reaching the fourth ring, leaving it no longer vulnerable to threats against the Twisted Treant Clan, its individual strength at the peak of the third ring would be more than enough to give Yin Ming trouble—even without external factors such as the Amber Sword and the Warlock Alliance!

Peace?

Stability?

In other words, if he felt threatened, he would set fires?

Sadi did not care about empty promises either. Mutual restraint was the best outcome. At least it would give them a long stretch of peace.

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