After his death, his whole body suddenly sprouted various branches and green leaves at a frantic pace, forming into a humanoid bonsai in just over ten seconds.
"Are you okay? Young man, your skills are too lacking, you need more practice."
A light chuckle echoed, and Sun Yan quickly looked toward Elise, only to see that at some unknown time, the skin of this Blood Race girl had turned the color of cement gray.
Her mouth opened outward in four petal-like flaps, revealing countless sharp teeth akin to those of a lamprey.
Her blood-red eyes alone made one's heart uneasy; at this moment Sun Yan understood why Sosia always said the Blood Race was ugly, dirty.
When the Blood Race reveals their true form, their appearance is indeed not very decent.
If Elise wasn't a member of his Graveyard, Sun Yan would have considered her a monster at this moment.
"Bringing you this time was definitely the right decision." Sun Yan got up from the ground, looking at the Tree-Man who had turned into a humanoid bonsai after death.
He reached out and took the Golden Halberd from Elise's hand, then split all the branches entangling Jamie.
"Jackson, she, she!" Jamie asked in shock, looking at Elise who had returned to human form.
"She's one of us, don't worry. Mr. James, now it's time to talk about your problem. Are you sure you haven't concealed anything from me?
Looking at the current situation, this matter doesn't seem all that simple."
Sun Yan stared at Jamie with a sinister gaze and asked.
He wasn't afraid if the enemy he encountered was too powerful, nor if the Evil Spirit was actually some sort of Evil God.
At least Sun Yan still had considerable strength; if he couldn't win, he could call for reinforcements.
He was most worried about some dim-witted clients deliberately withholding crucial information, leading to unforeseen situations during exorcism tasks, such as the current Tree-Man monster.
"I... I actually..."
Having escaped death, Jamie's expression was full of guilt. Under Sun Yan's solemn gaze, he slowly revealed the hidden truths.
"In fact, after discovering the landlady's corpse that night, I did not call the police immediately, but went to her residence and took away some valuable items from her house."
Jamie hung his head in shame: "I don't know what I was thinking at the time, I actually don't lack money, but just felt like I could earn a little more from this situation, especially since the landlady lived alone and I had never seen her children."
"What did you take from her house?" Sun Yan quickly asked.
"Some gold jewelry, gold rings, gold necklaces, and also a small golden pyramid.."
"You haven't sold them, have you? If you still have them, take them out and show me."
Under Sun Yan's urging, Jamie quickly ran back to his room, and soon returned with a plastic box.
As the box opened, several pieces of goldware appeared in Sun Yan's sight.
Jamie wasn't lying; inside the box were really some gold rings and gold necklaces, but the most eye-catching was a pyramid with a trapezoidal flat top, only the size of a fist.
On the surface of this pyramid, the same mysterious symbols appeared as those on the Golden Eye Ball Necklace Elise had obtained from the landlady's corpse earlier.
"Jackson, look."
Elise found another Golden Eye Ball Necklace from the now-tree-like Caucasian, and indicated it to Sun Yan.
"It seems that the mutations of the landlady and her son are somehow connected to these goldware, and she might have been coming to find you every day to retrieve these items."
Sun Yan looked at the goldware in the box and said.
In the East, there's a taboo: don't take things from the dead, or you'll have bad luck.
Now this saying is perfectly manifested on Jamie.
Sun Yan couldn't be bothered to fuss over Jamie for profiting from the dead, since he's not the police.
"Are all the goldware you took here? You didn't sell off any pieces, did you?" Sun Yan asked.
"No, no, I really don't lack money, just didn't know why I did it at the time. Afterwards, I've always regretted it. I wanted to return the goldware but was afraid of being discovered and accused of being the murderer." Jamie shook his head immediately.
"That's good. Now let's wait for the return of the landlady tonight."
Sun Yan let out a sigh, placing the pyramid back into the box: "These items might be related to the Devil, keeping them at your home will bring misfortune, so let me take them away for handling."
"Alright, alright, that couldn't be better." Jamie breathed a sigh of relief, as if getting rid of a hot potato.
For him, hiding these stolen goods at home created immense psychological pressure everyday, fearing that one day the police would come to his door and find these goldware.
At that time, he'd be unable to explain himself and be treated as a criminal despite not committing a crime.
Now Sun Yan was willing to take away these goldware, which was a relief for Jamie.
Unbeknownst to him, Sun Yan was also secretly happy in his heart.
All these goldware together weigh at least a pound or two, regardless of whether they contain the Devil's power.
Once taken back to the Graveyard, if it's a Demon it must lay down, if it's a Devil it must bow down.
They can be directly used as materials for making the Demon-Slaying Crossbow Tower.
Among the materials used for making the Demon-Slaying Crossbow Tower, the most expensive gold materials were coincidentally gathered, making Sun Yan internally exclaim at the workings of fate.
He truly is a lucky fellow.