I Don't Agree to the Terms

"Double happiness arrives." After capturing the last Divine, Gu Shanhai felt a bit refreshed and clear-headed.

The day before yesterday, after enduring three years of "hard practice" for ten minutes every day, he finally achieved a minor accomplishment in Child Skill Golden Bell Shield Iron Cloth Shirt—a form of Martial Arts Divine Power.

Of course, the reason for the slow progress was that Gu Shanhai was continually optimizing this form of Martial Arts Divine Power. Under normal cultivation, it would not be possible to spend just ten minutes a day; three years ago, it required three hours. It was only after optimizing it to a ten-minute practice session that he was able to achieve minor accomplishment so smoothly.

His strength had improved considerably, and the most direct feeling for Gu Shanhai was that he had already deduced the enhancements this form of Martial Arts Divine Power would offer him after reaching full accomplishment. In his case, there were just four levels: beginner, minor accomplishment, major accomplishment, and full accomplishment, without continuing to some strange realms like Great Perfection or Half-step Peak.

Of course, it wasn't to say that after reaching full accomplishment, there would be no way to continue improving. Improvement was still possible, but it would no longer be attainable through personal training alone—it would depend on his own strength. The stronger Gu Shanhai became, the stronger the fixed additions, percentage values, and various effects of this Martial Arts Divine Power, not just reaching a limit after full accomplishment.

To be precise, this form of Martial Arts Divine Power belonged to a category of passive skills, a special kind of passive skill that enhanced with attributes and levels, unlike normal passive skills where the added values become fixed upon reaching max level.

In these three years, while capturing Divine beings and optimizing his Martial Arts Divine Power, Gu Shanhai also conducted various experiments and gained significant improvements—especially in the Martial Arts Divine Power, which he had refined and optimized. Now, with about thirty more years, he could directly reach full accomplishment.

Initially, it would have taken a thousand years, and in thirty years he might only manage about 5% at minor accomplishment, let alone full accomplishment. Mainly because the higher he aimed, the longer it took.

Going forward, Gu Shanhai would continue optimizing, such as reducing the practice time to see if he could optimize further from ten minutes of "hard practice" to one minute or even thirty seconds.

"All the Divine beings have been gathered, and now I just need to create the Manifestation of Heaven and Earth, which is a bit troublesome."

Primarily, Gu Shanhai needed a stable place for his research since turning Divine beings into the Manifestation of Heaven and Earth wasn't easy, considering these beings were alive and harbored chaotic power within.

Gu Shanhai wasn't concerned about the chaotic power, as long as it was usable. The main issue was handling the living entities.

He had a few blank rule fragments, which were only given initially during the plot, and now that the plot had ended, Gu Shanhai naturally couldn't obtain them, making this glue insufficient.

Thus, the stickiness was lacking, and the original idea of sticking them together was lost.

It was precisely for this reason that Gu Shanhai had initially resisted Wang Qi's method of shortcutting to success. However, plans often fell behind changes, and many things couldn't always go as wanted.

Moreover, Wang Qi didn't take shortcuts but instead established the Island Alliance, which indeed helped Gu Shanhai significantly.

"If it comes to it, I might have to use my own Abnormal God to suppress them."

Fortunately, Gu Shanhai had numerous backup plans and didn't need to worry about problems arising due to plan failures.

It's just that this meant he had to delay proceeding to the Divine Phase, as he needed to re-conduct his research.

"It seems like this world harbors some malice toward me?" Gu Shanhai muttered quietly.

There wasn't any before, since he not only redeemed himself but was also part of the protagonist's camp. However, after suppressing all the Divine beings, he inexplicably sensed this malice.

The malice wasn't targeted at him but at the many Divine beings hidden in his sleeves. It seemed more like collateral damage.

"It seems they plan to eradicate them completely, though it's unlikely such a situation should arise."

Gu Shanhai was puzzled about this world's attitude towards Divine beings, which seemed stepmotherly: indifferent at best, and mercilessly harsh at worst.

Over the years, Gu Shanhai had successfully captured many Divine beings effortlessly, almost as if divinely aided. Well, almost doesn't count; it truly was divinely aided, otherwise, with such large-scale actions by him, the Divine beings would have formed a united alliance to fight back desperately, rather than hiding far away, thinking they could evade Gu Shanhai's pursuit.

If they weren't intellectually impaired, Gu Shanhai wouldn't believe such coincidences.

"Or is it that the essence of the Divine beings is foreign, which is why they are persecuted?" This thought struck Gu Shanhai instantly, considering them as stepmotherly raised.

If transforming them into totems and Divine beings was a chance for these foreigners to redeem themselves and integrate into the world not once but twice, even at the cost of destroying an era, only for them to turn out stubborn and ungrateful after being fostered, then it warranted a severe response.

In this process, it's likely something went wrong during the fostering phase. The outer shell of the Divine beings was fine, but the inner chaos wasn't eliminated, which likely caused the Divine beings to turn evil and oppose the world.

Just like the Saints and Divine beings of the previous world, who possessed Divine Power of an orderly nature, whereas the Divine beings of this world produced a chaotic essence similar to Divine Power.