It sounds very much like the demonic cultivation of Jin Guangyao's world, and any knee-jerk reaction he might have had to those methods were ground out of him years ago courtesy of his 'work' with Xue Yang. (The things a filial son must do for his father.) And so it is quite easy for him to smile obligingly at Palamedes' offer.

"This one would be honoured to see how Palamedes does his work," he replies, then glances at the gate to his home. "Perhaps not near the talismans, however."