"Sinful One No. 800820, you have entered Void Island's Death List for Sinners. Death countdown: nine days. Please atone for your crimes with merit!"
Huh? Wearing the face of the demi-saint Jiang Buyi, Xu Xiaoshou had barely emerged from the Origin Mansion, his foot just returning to Void Island's ground, when this message abruptly flashed through his mind.
He froze.
Void Island's Death List for Sinners? Only nine days left to live?
"Does this mean I'm wanted? All because of that little medicine garden?"
Xu Xiaoshou quickly found the reason. Of all the major things he had done on Void Island, that was the only one.
So...
"The heartbeat of the Saint Emperor Dragon Scale isn't only coming from the Void Attendants. It's also coming from this will of Void Island?"
Xu Xiaoshou took out the Saint Emperor Dragon Scale. Feeling its steady, unchanged heartbeat, he felt as though he had grasped another insight.
He suddenly grew a little nervous.
He had already moved the Shennong Medicine Garden. There was no way he would waste time regretting it now.
What he ought to consider was this: once the death countdown ended, would Void Island's will erase him directly, or dispatch an executioner to carry out the sentence?
"If it's the former, then I can only survive by hiding in the Origin Mansion World beforehand, or by maintaining the Vanishing Art the whole time?"
"If it's the latter, then perhaps... there's still some room to turn things around?"
Xu Xiaoshou narrowed his eyes and pondered.
The reason this message had not panicked him into losing his reason was purely because the Saint Emperor Dragon Scale's heartbeat had not quickened.
That meant the threat posed by this message in his mind was less than that of "meeting the Saint."
Likewise, it meant