Lin Changqing swept a glance over the tense native Supreme Saint and gave a light laugh. "Relax. I don't eat people..."
"Yes, Senior!"
The native Supreme Saint hurriedly replied, inwardly grumbling to himself.
My ass, you don't eat people—you just devour their origins. I just watched you swallow five of them.
Naturally, he did not dare say any of this aloud unless he thought his life was too long.
"How about this? Follow me for ten thousand years. Once those ten thousand years are up, we'll be even, and I'll set you free." Lin Changqing looked at the native Supreme Saint and said solemnly, "During those ten thousand years, you will work for me.
"Of course, they will all be tasks within your capabilities. I will not send you to your death..."
"Ten thousand years!"
After giving it some thought, the native Supreme Saint immediately nodded. "Very well, as Senior says."
Ten thousand years might sound like a long time, but to beings of their level, a single bout of seclusion could easily last longer than that. It was nothing at all.
In his view, repaying the debt of gratitude for Lin Changqing saving his life with ten thousand years of service was actually a bargain for him.
Of course, he had gotten a bargain, but Lin Changqing would never lose out.
Saving this man had merely been a matter of convenience. Even without him, Lin Changqing would still have acted to slay those five Supreme Saint experts of the White Bone Divine Spirit Race. In other words, he had casually gained a Supreme Saint-level helper for free.
Though it would only last ten thousand years, that was already enough time.
He had kept this native precisely to strengthen the Primordial Ancient Universe's fighting power, in preparation for the coming