Turning back time a little.
As soon as Xu Tao dived into the virtual world and accessed the VR Pod's main menu, he quickly navigated to the end of the list and tapped the blank icon for the Lost System's "game."
Of course, while it seemed like he was rushing, Xu Tao had actually completed all the necessary preparations beforehand.
Through playing the Heavenly Martial Path game, he figured out how the system, games in general, and the login/logout process worked.
From that, he understood that as soon as he returned to Alkryon, he would reappear right where he left—the snake pit——and that was practically a death sentence.
With his current strength, returning to that snake pit was plain suicide. However, he couldn't just magically power up, either. Thus, he was left with only one option:
External items!
