I Don't Agree to the Terms

"Golden Bell Shield Iron Cloth Shirt, ha~"

The sounds of Dragon Roar and Tiger Roar continuously emanated from Gu Shanhai's body, enduring the attack relentlessly but unable to shake the dragon and tiger shadows that surrounded him.

In the end, he had mastered the Golden Bell Shield Iron Cloth Shirt as part of the Dragon and Tiger series. Although it lacked the corresponding evil-spirit enhancement, Gu Shanhai did actually possess an Azure Dragon and a White Tiger, albeit artificially created spirit companions, but that still counted.

"Done. I have completed two-thirds of my Martial Arts Divine Power suite."

The reason he said two-thirds was that Child Skill was still incomplete.

Just these two Divine Skills had taken Gu Shanhai a total of ten years, and that was just to get started. He still had to train further to perfect these two Martial Arts Divine Powers, which would take at least a hundred years if he trained every single day.

According to Gu Shanhai's routine, it would take at least a thousand or eight hundred years.

The Dragon Roar Iron Cloth Shirt and Tiger Roar Golden Bell Shield in his possession were not only able to be cultivated for growth, but they also had fixed and percentage value increases. Of course, the fixed increment depended on his own strength, roughly analogous to adding one point at level 1 and a hundred at level 100, instead of adding just one point at all levels for beginners.

Moreover, completion was not the end, Gu Shanhai could continue to refine it.

As for Child Skill, it was a bit more complicated and would require even more time.

At least five years would be necessary.

According to the original plan, he intended to evolve Child Skill into Pure Yang Child Skill, following the path of Pure Yang. This was still his plan, but it seemed that Pure Yang could not be replaced.

He wasn't really human, so the Child Skill he proposed to evolve wasn't exactly traditional Martial Arts but a Divine Skill, similar yet different.

Therefore, Gu Shanhai chose to evolve the Golden Bell Shield Iron Cloth Shirt.

Of course, Gu Shanhai wouldn't stubbornly stick to Pure Yang; he would switch without hesitation if something more suitable came along.

"Has it really been twenty years?" Gu Shanhai counted the time and was somewhat shocked; one-fifth of the server shutdown period had just passed.

Normally, he should be seizing all opportunities, but time had slipped by to this point.

"Lately, I've felt that the anomalies have been too quiet," Gu Shanhai thought of opportunities and couldn't help thinking of anomalies.

It seemed like it had been calm for about a year.

Gu Shanhai wouldn't suspect that the information sea had calmed down for good, a bigger anomaly could be brewing.

What it was, he couldn't tell, probably even Rein and the Human Dao will weren't clear on it.

"Twenty years of progress seems a bit slow; by rights, we should have developed to a stage of flying and burrowing. Why are we still in an era where nothing works?" Gu Shanhai felt puzzled.

"Could civilization have been restricted again? But that shouldn't be; the Human Dao will is present."

"Or could there be some new issue?"

Gu Shanhai pondered. Productivity had caught up, but overall, it still looked awkward, remaining in the form of primitive tribes.

"Just perfect, let's ask a question; after all, I'm free," Gu Shanhai thought, intending to probe the situation and request a batch of resources.

Just as he was preparing to teleport, Gu Shanhai looked up, startled, then glanced at the sun.

"Strange, why does my intuition tell me to look at the sun?" Gu Shanhai wondered.

The sun was just the sun, and Gu Shanhai noticed—the world was unique, similar to a blend of planes and universes, so the sun really was a star.

In Gu Shanhai's eyes, the sun looked normal, the surrounding corona slightly resembling horizontal lines.

Like a simple sketch of the sun, a circle adorned with horizontal strokes.

"Wait, nine?"

Suddenly, Gu Shanhai discovered the sun's corona formed nine lines resembling horizontal ones, but they were blurry.

"Damn it, the sun couldn't become an anomaly, could it?!" Gu Shanhai was startled, otherwise why would his intuition make him look at the sun.

Upon closer inspection, he seemed to feel something peculiar.

"If the sky is an eye, then it could be said to be a fiery pupil, greedily staring at us."

In that moment, Gu Shanhai felt he had discovered some truth. The sun seemed to have sensed Gu Shanhai's thoughts; the blurry horizontal lines appeared to twitch slightly, but upon closer inspection, they more closely resembled illusions produced by the high heat.

"If that's the case, then the catastrophe generated by this year's calm might need to be attributed to the sun."

Gu Shanhai instantly teleported away, then arrived at Rein's workplace.

"Something big has happened." Gu Shanhai spoke abruptly.

Rein then looked up, his eyes bloodshot from what appeared to be a lack of rest. His tone was weary, "Teacher, you've arrived."

"I have something to discuss with you too."

Gu Shang heard this and was somewhat surprised but then said, "Alright, you go first."

"After integrating with the Human Dao will, although I greatly suppressed the anomalies, a very serious issue has emerged."

"It seems like our civilization has been restricted to a level between tribes and semi-imperial regimes. No matter how much we progress and how advanced our technology becomes, we can't break this limitation. This is a side effect after merging with the Human Dao will, and it has a high priority, using numerous anomalies, but none can suppress it."