'You were originally supposed to live for a year, but since you're so clever, I have no choice but to eat you now!'

He grinned cruelly as he pushed open the grass hut that had never been opened before, and a horrifying sight greeted his eyes—piles of white bones.

God only knows how many people like me he has devoured here.

He took out two bone spears and advanced towards me step by step, saying, 'It's truly despicable. I couldn't even last a year, so now I have to find another person to make up for the remaining six months of my cultivation!'

I kept stepping back, shocked, and asked, 'Why do you have to eat people?'

'Of course, it's for the sake of longevity,' the sorcerer played with his youthful face. 'By consuming one person, I can extend my life by one year. What a marvelous spell!'

While speaking, I found myself cornered against the wall by the sharp spearhead of the bone spear.

'Well, if I obediently cultivate my qi, can it allow me to live for an extra six months?' I trembled and asked.

'Too late!' His eyes gradually revealed a savage fierceness like that of a wild beast. 'I've taught you that delay leads to change!'

Indeed, delay leads to change, I remember.

As I watched the sorcerer take a step forward and raise his bone spear high, the terror on my face completely vanished.

Then, right in front of my eyes, he fell into a trap and was impaled by dozens of sharpened wooden stakes, becoming a hedgehog.

'I discovered this a month ago,' I crouched beside him, with only a faint breath escaping his body, and smiled. 'Naturally, I made preparations early.'