Upon hearing that Xia Yan wanted them to become nourishment for the tree demon, the four of them started to panic. After all, their lives were the most important thing!

"Hold on, wait a minute! Can you let the tree demon's vines put us down first? Let's have a proper conversation. I believe there is still room for negotiation, right?" Rand immediately lost his imposing demeanor from earlier and instead appeared submissive.

This made Xia Yan couldn't help but find it amusing and asked with a hint of irony, "Where did that condemning attitude towards me go? How did you surrender so quickly?"

...

This remark made Rand's face slightly flushed. After all, he had been talking big just now, but when he calmed down and realized that his life was in someone else's hands, it wasn't worth sacrificing his future for a few words.

"I apologize for my offense earlier, my words were too extreme. Please forgive me! As long as you spare me, I am willing to give you anything."

"Sorry, I'm not interested in an old uncle like you... But if you want me to spare you all, it's not impossible. Just hand over all the good things you've collected in the White Night Forest, including the weapons on you. Then I can consider letting you go." Xia Yan had set his sights on the weapons and treasures these people had obtained in the forest. After all, treasures that came to his doorstep shouldn't go to waste.

...

This demand made Rand and the others appear hesitant. After all, those items were hard-earned, and among them were some rare items that could only be found in the White Night Forest. How could they willingly hand them over?

But when compared with their lives, the latter was undoubtedly more important.

Seeing that they couldn't make a decision, Xia Yan decided to help them, "Actually, I can let the vines turn all of you into nutrients and then slowly search for your loot. Since we are compatriots, I'll give you one last chance. If you don't give me an answer within three seconds, you will all go to hell!"

...

"One!"

"Two!"

Just as Xia Yan was about to count to three, Rand immediately called a halt.

"Wait, wait, don't kill us! We'll cooperate, we'll cooperate! The magic storage bags tied to our waists contain personal exclusive magic, which can only be unlocked by the bag's owner, that is us. First, let the vines release us, and we will help you unlock the exclusive magic on the storage bags!"

...

When Xia Yan hesitated about this, Manling's voice sounded in his mind, "Don't agree to their demands. I can easily break the low-quality exclusive magic they use."

With Manling's assurance, a smirk appeared on his face as he raised his head and said to the four people, "Fine... Did you really think I would say that? You want me to release the vines tying you up? Dream on!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Manling extended another vine and directly took the magic storage bags from the four people's waists. When the vine touched the opening of the bags, a faint electric spark appeared, and with a "zap," the exclusive magic on the bags became ineffective.

Then the vine handed the four magic storage bags to Xia Yan, and he easily opened them, pouring out everything inside.

"Clatter, clatter..."

There were monster fur, teeth; some precious herbs; strange fruits... There was even the purple berry Xia Yan had found by the creek before, which was probably used for brewing; various weapons, traps, low-grade magic crystals...

There were bags of gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins... and some bottles and jars with unknown contents.

The things piled up in the four bags formed a small mountain in front of Xia Yan, and these things were dazzling to his eyes. Although he didn't know what these items were for, all he needed to do was accept them.

It turned out that these four adventurers were quite rich.This wave of free equipment is quite worth it!

Lan De and his three companions saw how effortlessly Xia Yan broke the exclusive magic on the bag and took away all the treasures they had worked hard to collect in the White Night Forest, along with their savings since becoming adventurers. In an instant, they felt their hearts bleeding, it was so painful!

"Xia Yan, can you see that we have lost everything now that you have taken possession of this magic storage bag? Can you ask this tree spirit's vines to let us go and leave this place?" Lan De asked.

But as soon as Lan De finished speaking, the vines that bound him suddenly increased in strength, completely choking him and making it difficult for him to breathe. His face turned pale and green, and it felt like his ribs were about to break.

When it looked like he couldn't take it anymore, the vines finally loosened their grip, but not without Jan Yan relaying a message to him: "The 'tree spirit' you just mentioned can understand what you're saying, and it's not actually a tree spirit. It just told me that if you call it a tree spirit one more time, it will turn you into its nourishment."

"I was wrong, I promise I won't call it that again! Please spare me, Mr. Vines!" Lan De pleaded.

Seeing this, the others also started begging for mercy from themselves and Manling. Seeing that they were all like this, Xia Yan asked Manling for its opinion.

"So, do we let them go now?" Xia Yan asked.

"The magical power in these humans' bodies is not very high, and their attributes are not the two types of attributes that I need. We can let them go, but we need to make some adjustments to them," Manling replied.

After saying that, Manling pulled out four vines from its body and stabbed them behind the four people's heads in unison.

After being pierced by the vines, the four of them made a muffled groan, and then their eyes lost their light, followed by losing all self-awareness.

Upon seeing this, Xia Yan frowned and asked, "Manling, did you just kill them?"

But Manling didn't do anything contradictory. It told Xia Yan, "No, I just stabbed their brains with the vines and erased their memories of the time they spent in the White Night Forest... When they wake up again, they will forget everything about encountering us."

"Oh my god, you can even do that? Manling, you're so strong, you can do anything!" Xia Yan couldn't help but exclaim. In his eyes, Manling was now a god, capable of anything.

Now he even wanted to shout: World Tree, forever divine!

In short, after erasing their memories, there was no need to worry about these four people coming back to seek revenge after they were released. It could be said to kill two birds with one stone, solving two troubles at once.

After completely erasing the memories of the four people, Manling and Xia Yan together threw them by a stream a hundred meters away and stopped caring about their well-being.

However, probably out of good intentions, Xia Yan returned their weapons to them so that they wouldn't have to face monsters unarmed in the future.

But it's probably safe to say that when these four wake up, they will be confused and wonder what happened. Why are they here? And where did their magic storage bags go?

However, these are no longer things that Xia Yan needs to worry about. Being able to return their weapons to them is the utmost kindness he can offer.

But it seems that having maxed out his luck really does have its uses!