I Don't Agree to the Terms

By the tenth year in the Adventure King world, Gu Shanhai had finally succeeded in cultivating his future Spirit Plant.

In these years, the bureau had officially started operating and gathered many talents, comprehensively suppressing anomalies. The bureau section that Gu Shanhai was responsible for, "Cat," had been operating for about three years under his watchful eye before he let go.

As for the matters regarding Rein and the will of the Human Dao, they were resolved in the second year after the bureau was established. Mainly, the two sides reached an agreement without much turbulence, and it became an existence with two sides of the same coin.

This enabled the entire human civilization to develop even more rapidly, with the only drawback being that the form of civilization seemed a bit strange.

Call it technologically advanced, but it has the appearance of a backward feudal society. If you say these people are backward, they can actually control anomalies, which are these peculiar things. They can even wrestle with terrifying anomalies barehanded; airplanes and cannons can't break the skin of these ordinary people.

Of course, in recent years, anomalies have been steadily growing stronger. However, after the Human Emperor and the will of the Human Dao merged into one, no matter how powerful, they couldn't turn the tide.

If Rein were to continue growing, one day, it might truly suppress the sea of information, preventing it from birthing new anomalies. But that's a matter for the future.

Gu Shanhai wasn't worried about these matters because who knows how far in the future that would be.

Instead, it's better to focus on the present.

"Red lotus, white lotus roots, and green lotus leaves, the three teachings originally come from the same family."

Looking at the lotus in front of him, it was the special Spirit Plant he had created relying on the Holy Spirit's seed, the causality of the Xuanwei Sect, the Stone of Destiny, the cursed Sword of the King, and the Abnormal Destiny, among others. It was named Rebirth Lotus.

"In doing so, I have gathered all the fates of my past, present, and future lives," sensed Gu Shanhai, feeling the changes within his sleeve. His world had undergone an earth-shattering transformation.

Of course, the changes that the Rebirth Lotus amplified were but one aspect. When combined with the Previous Life Biluo and the fortunes of this life, it could even arrange various causal destinies for him. Gu Shanhai usually wouldn't arrange these unless related benefits arose.

However, the inherent power of the Rebirth Lotus was the most formidable. One word, "fate," represented that as long as anyone had received his kindness, such as the people of the Five Elements Sect, Gu Shanhai could use it to leverage their strength or directly summon their projection.

Gu Shanhai felt it for a moment, and the dense connections of fate appeared on the Rebirth Lotus. Each point represented not just a person, but also a relationship. As long as the Rebirth Lotus existed, the ties between Gu Shanhai and them would not break.

Even the chance might arise for these connections to intertwine and form even greater bonds of fate.

As for how to intertwine them, Gu Shanhai wasn't too clear.

But given enough time, nothing was a big problem.

"Eh, how is Jiang Lu still alive?" Upon closer inspection, Gu Shanhai noticed a serious problem. Jiang Lu should have run out of life, and Gu Shanhai planned to resurrect him when the Daoist Soldier World opened next time, by when he would almost have the power to revive him. But now, he discovered that the boy was alive and well, which was a bit troubling.

He could naturally sense to whom each connection belonged, like with Huang Yanshan and Jiang Lu, representing some of the most significant ties, as they had the best relationship with Gu Shanhai, forming a core and then a network. Like the descendants of Huang Yanshan, the sworn brothers of Jiang Lu, and others like Zhan Yan and Li Yu. In addition, there were people like Chu Zhen from before who were a step behind, but even so, it had formed a network of the Reincarnator Alliance.

"I suppose this is turning my kindness towards others into strength."

"And I feel like the strength of these people has changed quite a bit."

Gu Shanhai always felt something was not quite right.

He then conducted a simple test, summoning the projection of Huang Yanshan. The Rebirth Lotus inside his body swayed lightly, and an ethereal figure began to take shape, gradually becoming a somewhat blurry figure.

"Spring Thunder Strike!"

Gu Shanhai issued an attack command, and the half-visible figure uttered a command. Following that, terrifying thunderbolts erupted from its body, causing Gu Shanhai to take several steps back.

The earth-shattering thunderbolts turned into a pillar of light, plowing a trench into the ground so deep it seemed bottomless. A nearby mountain range was flattened by the strike of Spring Thunder. But even so, the attack could not be stopped.

Boom~

Gu Shanhai didn't get to see the full extent of this move, as its power was simply too vast, drawing Rein's attention and prompting him to intervene.

"Hey? You little rascal, how dare you be so reckless!!" Seeing his attack interrupted, the shadow of Huang Yanshan immediately chided in a low voice, followed by flashes of lightning, and a thunderblade appeared, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

Gu Shanhai saw in the sky an enormous amount of thunder continuously rising and falling, grappling with an ethereal imperial seal.

"Damn, a fight's breaking out!" Gu Shanhai didn't expect Huang Yanshan's shadow to be so fierce, taking on the opponent immediately after the attack was blocked, assuming the other party would harm Gu Shanhai and thus retaliating instantly.

And a mere projection could actually engage with Rein, which was unbelievable.

"So, just what level did Huang Yanshan push the magnetic fields to after I left?"