I Don't Agree to the Terms

After all, the Island Alliance is the managing organization, and the Navy is their military force maintaining order. If even the armed forces were to be laid down, within ten years, the entire ocean would revert to the disorderly age before the Divine descended, especially with the propagation of the Spirit Martial Path, which would lead to the emergence of numerous fanatics, further intensifying the chaos.

Using power to guarantee order was the path chosen by Wang Qi.

As for their fanaticism, it could almost be ignored. How could it not be when it was Gu Shanhai who had taught them? Particularly since it was based on the bloodline powers of Wang Qi himself, they would remain very lucid, being aware of their own obsessive states, yet possessing a sense of personal rationality.

It was like adding an extra layer of protection within to ensure their uniqueness.

More importantly, this uniqueness could be passed on to their descendants.

"There's another matter; we've discovered that a seabed is uplifting. Through surveys, we found that this seabed spans the entire world and is shaped like a ring. If not stopped, when it surfaces, it will impact the entire ocean industry."

"Furthermore, there's a new shipping route similar to the shape of this ring continent. This route is also circular, and the centers of these two intersect."

"The intersecting locations are Teacher's whereabouts, the Mountain of No Return, and the Island Alliance headquarters·Sky Dragon City."

Tang Quan reported another issue, also discovered recently by the Navy during their investigations.

"So you suspect that Teacher is behind this, right?" Wang Qi rubbed his temples; he felt that no one but Gu Shanhai could accomplish such a feat.

He couldn't fathom what Gu Shanhai wanted to achieve or why he would undertake such a massive initiative, surely a thankless task.

"I'll try to ask Teacher about it." That was the only thing Wang Qi could do; if the Transcendent abilities bestowed by the Divine were to vanish, it wouldn't affect Wang Qi much—it would be a minor disturbance.

However, the magnitude of the islands formed from the uplifting seabed, spanning the entire world, and the emergence of an ocean current route was just too significant.

It left him at a loss of what to do.

"Let me know if there's anything else, and I'll ask Teacher about it all at once," Wang Qi said.

The others weren't pretentious at all; they laid out all their concerns.

After briefly organizing his thoughts, Wang Qi stood up to leave and search for Gu Shanhai.

The location of the Mountain of No Return was easy to find; he had been there once before.

Upon reaching the outskirts of the Mountain of No Return on his own, he didn't feel much.

He just sensed that everything around him seemed alive—the twisted and chaotic plants, the animals that occasionally spied on him, and even a sensation of the ground wriggling, as if he had entered a Demon's lair.

"What brings you here?" Gu Shanhai's voice came through.

But the man himself was nowhere to be seen.

Unfazed, Wang Qi casually sat down and recounted the whole situation.

"Oh, that matter? Don't worry, it's a minor issue. Both the Red Earth Continent and the Grand Voyage are my designs, meant for development. As you know, we have too little land here, completely insufficient, but once the Red Earth Continent surfaces successfully and after some improvements, it will become the best arable land."

"As for the Grand Voyage, it serves for rapid sailing. Once ships are on this route, their speed can increase nearly tenfold. Then, we just need the Grand Voyage as the main route to branch out to other shipping lanes, and it will enhance the efficiency of marine transport."

Gu Shanhai explained, and these indeed appeared to be benefits, and he wasn't deceiving anyone.

Although essentially, it was for the sake of deepening traces for experiments.

"Red Earth Continent, the great voyage route..." Wang Qi's eyes lit up as he listened to Gu Shanhai's explanation, his mind teeming with more and more ideas.

With Gu Shanhai's assurance, many things became much simpler.

"As for the loss of the transcendent abilities acquired after paying tribute to the divine, indeed, that was my doing. It was meant to eliminate the influence of both the divine and the royal family, and it wasn't without its benefits. In return, from now on, the obsession with training in the Spirit Martial Path will fade, and belief will merely serve as a means to activate the Spirit Martial Power."

"However, this will result in the might of the Spirit Martial Path decreasing, and the difficulty of cultivating it increasing."

Gu Shanhai's actions were not only for the sake of the Spirit Martial Path but also to pave the way for the upcoming Demon Fruit.

"Teacher, I understand cleaning away the influence of the divine, but the royal family too?" Wang Qi held little respect for the royalty on the island, and if it weren't for the need to rule, he would have destroyed them long ago.

"The power of the royal family should not be underestimated. This power should be in your hands. With the Red Earth Continent, the great voyage route, and the yet infantile Demon Fruit, I will craft three types of weapons for you as your safeguard."

"Your strength is simply too weak, so weak that I can hardly bear to look."

Gu Shanhai was not just worrying for nothing, yet it had to be said that among his many disciples, Wang Qi was indeed the weakest.

Nevertheless, this was also adapting to circumstances, as the systems of this world were all foreign. If not for Gu Shanhai's Spirit Martial Path, after he removed the divine influence, basically everyone would have had to become a common person. And the royal families controlling the islands would have been able to rise because of this.

Gu Shanhai would never allow such a situation to happen. He did the work, and yet others were looking to reap the fruits—what a beautiful dream they had.

So in essence, he was targeting the powers of the ocean and the land, and certainly, he targeted the power of the sky as well, or else why would there be three.

"Demon Fruit? That name isn't good..." Wang Qi complained, as Gu Shanhai was generally good in his actions and choices, except his tendency toward sinister naming.

"If you argue with me again, I'll hang you from a tree." Gu Shanhai threatened, having already copied both the Red Earth Continent and the great voyage route. Why not copy the Demon Fruit too? He liked to round things up, after all—if he was copying, it had to be complete.

In a couple of years, he could randomly move the instance of the Five Elements Sect across the great voyage route pretending it to be One Piece, then create a Pirate King to kickstart the grand age of sea voyages, ensuring that his mark on this world would be too deep to be erased.

"Demon Fruit it is, then..." Wang Qi dared not argue further with Gu Shanhai, and then asked, "What are the three types of weapons?"

"Oh, they're still in a new folder, I'll tell you once I've figured them out." Right now, Gu Shanhai hadn't even fully created the Red Earth Continent and the great voyage route, let alone subsequent plans.

Gu Shanhai estimated that handling these matters would take roughly forty years or so, which would be just the right time to leave and go run an instance with the bizarre and marvelous.

As for the Divine Phase, he had already made a breakthrough a year ago. The reason he hadn't left was that he found it convenient to work here. Plus, whether he went back to idle and grow stronger or stayed here to idle and grow stronger didn't make a difference.

After his breakthrough into the Divine Phase, the progression of the Abnormal God·Heavenly Emperor had already reached 70%. If all went well, he should be able to complete it within twenty years, and then he could start preparing to transform himself into a world embryo.

In the next forty years in this world, Gu Shanhai was confident that he could become a world embryo and simultaneously fully cultivate his Martial Arts Divine Power.

Then he could move to a new world and continue to develop new methods to become stronger with a new system.

As for the remaining Magic Awakening Stage and the Peeping Dao Stage, that would have to wait for the next world, because he still needed to deduce them himself. The basis for deduction required data from after he became a world embryo, so for now, it was on hold.

He could deduce now, but it wouldn't maximize the benefits. After all, he was waiting for it to help him soar to the heavens.

"After the Abnormal God and Martial Arts Divine Power are perfected, I should be able to reach level 4000."

Having such immense strength, managing to increase by 500 levels at once was already impressive, especially since it becomes harder to improve as one progresses. However, he felt that after becoming a world embryo, he should be able to jump to around level 5000, as it would be a transformation in essence, unlike the latter two, which are simply quantitative changes at most.

Of course, this was just speculation, and specifics were sure to vary.