I Don't Agree to the Terms

"Indeed, those quasi-Divine level Sea Beasts all came about this way," Gu Shanhai observed the Experiment Product·Sea Demon Dragon, which had undergone changes and now seemed similar to the previous visage of the Half-dragon people; if there were differences, they certainly existed, but it was just that appearances differed.

"Just a few Tributes, and its strength soared directly to level 200, such leveling speed would be considered outrageous even by players."

"However, the cost is indeed high."

Gu Shanhai had thrown in seven tyrant-level Red Ocean Bulls, only then allowing it to leap directly to level 200; one must know that the local forces would never be possible to invest such vast resources in one individual.

Moreover, capturing a tyrant-level Sea Beast was not an easy task.

"If local forces were to do it, it would probably be a huge loss." Gu Shanhai estimated the cost and figured that the biggest expense for him would involve his own lifespan during the divinations; had it been the natives, the losses would have been dire.

The largest Red Ocean Bull Gu Shanhai caught had a length of nearly fifty thousand meters; a mere twitch from such a creature was no minor stir.

"Consciousness gone, rationality dissipated, it has become a Sea Beast," Gu Shanhai examined the Experiment Product·Sea Demon Dragon, which was no longer considered human.

Too many upgrade patches applied, directly overwriting the original programming.

If thrown back into the wild, the other party would continuously eat like a Sea Beast, grow, and become a massive existence of a Sea Beast.

"That is to say, if a Sea-dweller were to transform into a Sea Beast, it would break the law that physical size equates to strength."

"However, it's not so easy for Sea-dwellers to become Sea Beasts."

Only the Experiment Product·Sea Demon Dragon, having accepted the Transcendent ability from the Divine·Ten-winged Sea Demon Dragon, would turn out this way; any slight mix of feedback from another god would not lead to this situation.

More importantly, not everyone is qualified for this; only by using a tyrant-level Sea Beast as a Tribute and obtaining the top Transcendent powers from a god would this be possible.

So, it isn't something children of privileged classes could just arrange; this was unrelated to the bottom-layer Sea-dwellers.

"Pity, it's just become a Sea Beast, without any divine relation; it could also be explained by atavism."

Regarding the outcome, Gu Shanhai was somewhat unable to accept; the harvest was not nothing, but it was a minor consolation.

"At least there's a clue now."

"If I continue the research, there's not much problem concerning the Abnormal God·Heavenly Emperor; it's just that the raw materials required for breaking through the Divine Phase might not be obtained from the gods of this world."

The prerequisite for manifesting the Heaven and Earth Phase was manifestation itself; the thing with gods is that even when giving feedback, it's just an apparition, not the true body.

"I'll just have to wait until the Abnormal God·Heavenly Emperor is dealt with before solving it."

"I've already witnessed the powers of the ocean and the land, I hope the power of the sky truly exists."

Originally, he planned to look for the power of the ocean to gain the force of a Sea Emperor; the more he delved, the more he found—thus, if these Three Elements Power are incorporated, the framework of his Abnormal God would become even more substantial.

"Little White, stop messing around; we're about to ascend," Gu Shanhai warned.

Little White was puzzled; ascend, ascend what? The Five Elements Sect ship was a sea vessel, why head into the sky for no reason.

"It's not the Five Elements Sect ship ascending, it's you taking me skywards," Gu Shanhai chided.

Certainly, the Five Elements Sect ship couldn't be abandoned; who knew whether the power of the sky islands existed—if it needed verifying, it could wait until Gu Shanhai was done.

"Yo." Little White was indifferent, preferring to steer ships rather than flying planes, primarily because it had never flown one.

After Gu Shanhai prepared, Little White carried him and directly soared into the sky, moving through space; this was much more convenient than levitation.

However, once in the sky, Little White still needed levitation to float in the air.

"Truly thin up here."

After entering almost three hundred thousand meters in altitude, Gu Shanhai then felt a faint otherworldly power drifting.

He hadn't even reached the clouds, which were probably another two hundred thousand meters up.

He had stopped ascending because this height was sufficient; no need to delve deeper.

At first glance, the sky might just be the sky, but you can never be too sure what might be hidden within; there's no need to dig deeper in case of trouble.

He was only here to collect samples and data, not to unearth the secrets of the world.

Gu Shanhai was not a player; uncovering secrets did not lead to the creation of corresponding quests with rewards; more likely, it would cause unnecessary trouble.

As for the possibility of benefits? That's also just a possibility, and not a significant one at that; a disaster is more probably than a boon.

"This power seems to be sinking."

"That means, in time, the power of the ocean will one day meet the power of the sky, and it's very likely to lead to another bout of slaughter."

Should the power of the sky triumph, it would mark the era of the sky, and the ocean would become antiquity, like the land.

Such phenomena as floating islands or Sky Seas may form, along with the emergence of beings like Sky People and Feathered People, while the original Sea-dwellers would end up just like the Land-dwellers.

"It's spoken of as three kinds of power, but more bluntly, it's the power of eras; whoever's stronger takes hold of the new era."

"From this perspective, the system that developed in the era of the Land-dwellers shouldn't be worshipping gods but instead focused on the power of islands."