"Alright. Let bygones be bygones. There's no need to dwell on anything extra."
Seeing that the Void Attendant had finally been thoroughly hoodwinked, Xu Xiaoshou set the matter aside for now.
He believed that after this round of brainwashing, the faint aura from the Shennong Medicine Garden on him would no longer bother the big fellow before him.
And having erased the Void Attendant's last sliver of possibility of attacking him, Xu Xiaoshou could finally carry out the next step of his plan without restraint.
Death Countdown: Eight Days!
From the time he emptied out the Shennong Medicine Garden, entered the Origin Mansion, and came back out again, this ticking time bomb had hung in his mind.
No matter what form his body took, the thing remained. He could not shake it off even if he tried.
It was impossible not to panic.
But panic was useless. If he had done something wrong, he had to find a way to fix it.
Based on the little information he had gathered about Void Island, the only solution Xu Xiaoshou could presently find was the "Death-Exemption Token" the Void Attendant had mentioned when they first met.
It was a special resource on Void Island, obtainable only by exchange at the First Hall of Sin.
And the currency for that exchange was Void Crystals.
How did one get Void Crystals? Xu Xiaoshou did not know any other methods. The only one he knew was to fleece them off Void Attendants! How to fleece them?—Well, he certainly could not just ask outright! After giving the Void Attendant before him enough time to recover from the previous foo... ahem, incident, Xu Xiaoshou patted its shoulder, gazed at the sky, and spoke with a touch more wistfulness.
"Time passes so quickly..."
"Na?" The Void