'What if I can never eat normal food again?'
'What if next time I slurp noodles, I awaken a demon from the upper realm and become its noodle servant for eternity?'
It was never even free to begin with, lil bro. You paid a crystal. You're tweakin.
You're just drowning yourself in your own assumptions.
That's what Hao was gonna answer if Nie Huo did ask those questions.
Word for word. Brick by brick.
On the other hand, Nie Huo was full-on convinced that asking would only be a waste of energy.
The store would probably answer. However, the answer wouldn't actually contain an answer. If that made sense.
Actually, it didn't.
But it did.
No thanks.
He'd barely survived that shamelessness earlier.
No way he was willingly entering that loop again.
He wasn't some bored cultivator with a death wish and a bottomless pool of patience.
'Yeah. I'll just have do it my way.'
He gave the store a quick once-over, searching for anything or anyone that could actually help him.