I Don't Agree to the Terms

"Success, at last, it has been extracted."

In his fifth year in this world, Gu Shanhai had successfully materialized the special powers of the sky, earth, and ocean into three seeds.

He was now gradually filling his yet to be completed Abnormal God system framework.

That feeling of power germinating and growing gave Gu Shanhai a strange illusion, as if he was transforming himself.

"Damn, the transformation isn't an illusion."

Gu Shanhai suddenly realized that his transformative rebirth had stopped working, and he had reverted to his true form, his translucent body featuring moving patterns, with an abundance of plant roots violently twisting and turning as if everything around him were becoming animated, creating a terrifying sight.

"Good thing the Size-Changing Cloak hasn't failed; otherwise, my whole ship from the Five Elements Sect would have been crushed into the sea." Gu Shanhai hastily redressed in his human disguise.

He certainly knew what was happening; his thoughts had interfered with reality.

The core ability of the Abnormal God was Divine Power, and Gu Shanhai was well aware of how magical Divine Power was in the era of Adventure King. The mere ability to transform matter was enough to demonstrate its capabilities, creating equipment, skills, and even professions were simply minor tricks.

So, because he hadn't reined in his thoughts properly just now, Gu Shanhai had indeed transformed.

"I've got to stabilize it. I feel like I've overstepped, and with a snap, it seems like I've stretched too far." Gu Shanhai knew that he had indeed become much stronger this time.

The main reason was that the Three Elements Power, which he had coordinated, had become a Controlling Power, and combined with his own condition, he was now beginning to form the rudiments of speaking words into reality.

Indeed, he had updated a new skill, Speaking Words into Reality, and used the rest for attribute enhancement. Abnormal God·Heavenly Emperor, there's no need for fancy powers; just Speaking Words into Reality alone was already defying the heavens.

With this, Gu Shanhai thought, if he could talk someone to death, there would be no need for him to take action.

However, to truly take shape, he needed to grow as a whole.

In fact, this ability was the result of Divine Power that Gu Shanhai was continuously developing. He couldn't estimate the upper limit, but he could anticipate the lower limit.

Because his Speaking Words into Reality consumed his own Mana, the extent of Mana he could produce determined the extent of the capability of his actions; it wasn't without cost.

He wished he could offload the cost onto the world, but he was just a bit short of that.

After the successful formation of Abnormal God·Heavenly Emperor, the Divine Tree that reached the heavens within him also grew, giving him the illusion of being able to support a world.

There was indeed a synergy between the two, mainly because the raw materials were Divine.

Once Abnormal God·Heavenly Emperor was fully developed, with the help of the Divine Tree, Gu Shanhai's internal natural ecosystem could become a world embryo, and by then his race could proudly bear the word "world."

As for evolving from a world embryo to higher levels, it wasn't out of reach, but how to proceed needed to wait until the Abnormal God·Heavenly Emperor was completed; otherwise, indulging in wishful thinking was pointless.

"With my strength surging recently, I had better find a stable place to hold up for three to five days." Gu Shanhai knew that gaining strength too quickly could lead to his disguise not being able to withstand the changes, and he might have to revert to his original form with the slightest movement.

"Moreover, I seem to be able to sense the presence of Divine beings now..."

After transforming the Three Elements Power into the Controlling Power of Abnormal God·Heavenly Emperor, Gu Shanhai was, in effect, endowed with the identity of a Divine being from the Adventure King world as well as from this world.

"They are all under the sea." Gu Shanhai could sense, deep beneath the waves, those blurred sensations, the sheer quantity of which made his scalp tingle.

One of these was located in the region that appeared to be related to magma elements, leading Gu Shanhai to suspect that the lifeforms there might be what used to be the Fire Melt Totem but had probably been transformed into some kind of Ocean God.

"Thank goodness I'm using the Abnormal God framework; otherwise, I might be squatting in the sea right now."

He wasn't afraid of these, but if it came to that, how could he gather resources to become stronger?

"What would happen if I offered Tribute to myself?" Gu Shanhai suddenly had a wild thought.

From the current situation, he was also a part of the Divine beings, only more unique, so he didn't have to be imprisoned.

Previously, he had offered Tributes to Divine beings as a member of the Royal Family and as an earth dweller, and what he got in return were deep sea crystals, which, when used, could enhance his Transcendent abilities to various degrees. For top-level abilities, however, a large number was necessary to improve by one grade.

Gu Shanhai was actually quite puzzled—such fine offerings, why had no one used them? They were kind of like an alternate point allocation tool.

As for sacrificing the sea people, Gu Shanhai had tried that, too; regarded as the lowest level of Tribute, he received only trash, and sometimes Divine beings would even send some lightning or storms as a form of punishment.

The effects of offering from the Royal Family and earth dwellers should be second only to the Divine beings' favored items. After all, a member of the Royal Family could be exchanged for a hundred deep sea crystals, and an earth dweller for ten. Taking the Sea Demon Dragon's Scale that Gu Shanhai had acquired earlier as an example, to move up to the next stage, he only needed ten pieces.

Affinity with the ocean was more expensive; Gu Shanhai estimated he'd need a thousand deep sea crystals, which meant ten members of the Royal Family.

"Surely it wouldn't directly draw Mana from me to create rewards, would it…" Gu Shanhai hesitated. In the Azure Sea Domain, the first thing you had to do as a Divine being was make a name for yourself, for without fame, who would worship you?