Of course not.
Seeing that the two brothers were about to lose their arms, Zhao Yan's sinister eyes narrowed slightly, and a grin spread across his face.
"Tsk tsk, it seems you two haven't grasped the situation yet. Your lives are in my hands now. You want to cut off your arms to save yourselves? Did you even ask me?"
He spoke, but his feet didn't stop; before he finished speaking, he was already close to the two of them.
"Watch out, senior brother!" the junior brother warned the moment Zhao Yan moved.
Even though the two brothers were seriously injured, they were still Great Grandmaster.
Zhao Yan rushed forward, and they saw him clearly, but when he reacted, his body felt as heavy as if it were filled with lead.
The two could only watch helplessly as the blade fell on them.
However, Zhao Yan did not choose the fastest and most ruthless killing move as he had done before.
Instead, he flicked his cold blade, not attacking the chest, abdomen, or head, but instead targeting the injured side of the two men's bodies.
A flash of light, and the Great Grandmaster the Golden Mace's left sleeve was torn, leaving a bloody gash.
This made his already sluggish flow of internal True Ki even worse.
The junior brother fared even worse; Zhao Yan slashed at the side of his left knee, the leg supporting his body, forcing him to hastily dodge using his True Ki.
The balance between the internal yin fire and True Essence was instantly shattered.
"You...!" Great Grandmaster Jin Jian was both shocked and furious, glaring at Zhao Yan with his eyes almost spitting fire.
This castrated dog clearly intends to manipulate them at will!
In that instant, the blade was at his neck, and the Great Grandmaster the Golden Mace could already picture the scene of his head being chopped off.
However, Zhao Yan only interrupted their self-inflicted arm injuries.
"Me? What happened to me?" Zhao Yan casually twirled his knife, flicked away the blood droplets from the blade, and wore a morbid excitement on his face.
He neither killed them immediately nor gave them a quick and painless end, but instead intended to wear them down little by little, like a slow and agonizing death.
Watching their usually aloof Great Grandmaster being tortured bit by bit by him, they were filled with awe and pain.
"These two Great Grandmaster are usually high and mighty; a mere stomp of their feet can shake the Jiangcheng."
"And now? Like two lame dogs roasted over a fire, unable to even protect their own arms."
"What an interesting scene! I must take a good look, and watch it for a while!"
While verbally humiliating them and indulging in verbal abuse, he continuously inflicted non-fatal wounds on the two men, wounds that hindered their movement.
With its Bone-Eroding Yin Fire, Zhao Yan's every attack forced them to abandon their self-defense efforts, leaving them exhausted and unable to cope.
Finally
"Zhao Yan! A scholar can be killed but not humiliated!" Great Grandmaster Jin Jian roared, attempting to unleash his last strength to perish together with Zhao Yan.
"Oh? Still want to fight to the death?" Zhao Yan's mockery deepened.
With a swift movement, he easily dodged the opponent's vicious attack.
The Sunflower Manual emphasizes speed; even at their peak, they couldn't catch Zhao Yan, let alone now.
Seeing this, the junior brother knew he could not escape death today. In his grief and anger, he stopped defending against Zhao Yan and used his last strength to throw the water-splitting dagger in his hand as a hidden weapon.
Everyone thought he wanted to throw it at Zhao Yan.
But the water-splitting dagger was suddenly hurled at the Martial Venerable manual on the altar.
"I was prepared for this!" Zhao Yan seemed to have expected it, and with a cold laugh, the cold blade that had never left his hand flew out.
Like a silver needle striking first after being struck later, it precisely knocked away the water-dividing dagger.
As Zhao Yan looked at the two men who had lost their fighting spirit, the excitement in his eyes gradually faded.
When the prey stopped struggling, he lost interest.
He flashed to his junior brother, who had already given up resisting, and with a finger imbued with condensed True Essence, struck him hard in the heart.
"Pfft!" The Water-Splitting Grandmaster trembled violently, and the light in his eyes quickly dimmed.
He glanced one last time at his senior brother, whose eyes were bloodshot with rage, and collapsed to the ground.
"Junior brother--!"
The Great Grandmaster the Golden Mace let out a heart-wrenching roar, his last shred of reason completely overwhelmed, and he lunged at Zhao Yan without regard for anything else.
"That's more like it. The sooner you go crazy, the sooner you'll be free." Zhao Yan's cruel smile widened.
He easily dodged the chaotic attack by sidestepping, and somehow caught the swirling, cold blade that had somehow returned to his hand.
The blade flashed upwards, plunging effortlessly into the senior brother's exposed throat.
"Well..."
The Great Grandmaster with the Golden Mace froze, the life force in his eyes, which had been burning with rage, slowly died out, and his body slumped to the ground.
Zhao Yan drew his sword and looked at the two corpses on the ground, which were gradually being burned to ashes by the Bone-Eroding Yin Fire that had lost its True Ki.
He spat out, "Great Grandmaster? Nothing special."
He then ignored the two men and walked to the remains of the Old Man Black Wind.
The excitement on his face gradually subsided, and his eyes returned to their cold and wary state.
After carefully examining the remains of the Old Man Black Wind and confirming that there were no more traps,
He then grabbed the wooden box and the secret manual and stuffed them into his robes.
They quickly searched the two Great Grandmaster corpses, finding several bottles of high-quality pills and some money.
After doing all this, he didn't stop, and didn't even glance at the mess on the ground again.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the hospital.
Lin Yu leaned against the cold corner of the wall, an ancient book open in front of him.
The cover features the bold, vigorous characters "Primordial Unity Ki Technique," with a bit of dirt still stuck to it.
"You really know how to hide it. With such a good cultivation technique, you still came to gamble for the Martial Venerable's inheritance." Lin Yu looked at the corpse of a rogue cultivator and felt sorry for him.
This manual is far more profound than the "Golden Bull Art" he had found earlier.
He discovered this among the remains of what appears to be one of the earliest intruders, and one of the more powerful ones.
Lin Yu keenly noticed that when the man died, his hand was pointing towards the flower bed outside.
Since I was already there, I decided to go and take a look, and to my surprise, I unearthed a secret manual.
This cultivation method includes not only a complete cultivation system from the Body Tempering Realm to the True Condensation Realm.
Furthermore, the latter half points out the key to reaching the Grandmaster Realm and even the Great Grandmaster Realm.
The system is complete; it's clearly not an ordinary product.
Lin Yu (Number Twelve) quickly scanned the lines of text and meridian diagrams.
Thanks to the original being's knowledge, he understood these fundamental principles without any difficulty.
He could sense that this cultivation technique was comparable to a cultivation method for immortality.
Lin Yu studied the text while analyzing it internally.
This technique is initially unassuming, but its potential becomes increasingly apparent as you progress.
He closed "Primordial Unity Ki Technique" and then picked up "Golden Bull Art" to compare them.
The latter focuses more on practical application and rapid learning, and may make faster progress in the early stages, but its foundation is not as solid as that of "Primordial Unity Ki Technique".
"No wonder you wanted to take this gamble; this technique isn't for ordinary people." Lin Yu looked in the direction of the deceased.
Ordinary people won't even be able to grasp the basics of this technique in less than ten years.
Next, following the initial method of the Body Tempering Chapter of the Primordial Unity Ki Technique, he tried to calm his mind and focus his spirit to sense his own Qi and blood.
This wasn't difficult for him, given that he possessed a trace of his original divine consciousness and had extremely strong control over his body.
Soon, he was able to clearly see his internal energy and blood flowing through his blood vessels like a gentle stream; though not powerful, it was exceptionally pure.
Furthermore, it seems that some kind of power is hidden within this energy.
The body I created seems to be quite extraordinary.