Exactly!
Ye Han seemed to be trying to seize his Spell-Breaking Staff, but his true aim was to kill him...
After all, Ye Han knew perfectly well that this Demon Race Half-Step True Immortal's Spell-Breaking Staff was indeed the key to releasing him from the confinement of the cursed heavenly tribulation!
However, the Spell-Breaking Staff bore the Demon Race Half-Step True Immortal's Blood-Drip Recognition and refinement imprints. Even if Ye Han successfully seized it, erasing those imprints would take a very long time. After all, the Demon Race Half-Step True Immortal was still alive...
This was what gave cultivators such confidence. Even if their treasures were stolen, as long as they could still sense their treasures' auras, they could forcibly control them and sense their locations. The higher their cultivation and the better the treasure, the harder it was to erase the Blood-Drip Recognition and refinement imprints.
If a cultivator who seized a treasure wanted to make it his own, he would have to spend a great deal of time erasing the Blood-Drip Recognition and refinement imprints its previous owner had left on it...
But once the original cultivator who owned it died, the remaining Blood-Drip Recognition and refinement imprints would naturally weaken by more than half. After all, with the owner dead, what strength could those Blood-Drip Recognition imprints retain?
This was also why cultivators who killed for treasures would not spare their victims simply because they handed those treasures over. On the one hand, they feared their victims might grow stronger and seek revenge later. On the other, killing them was indeed the quickest shortcut to gaining control of those treasures.
The world of cultivators had always been this way: competing for the Heavenly Dao, killing for treasures, the strong surviving, and the Myriad Races vying for supremacy.