I Don't Agree to the Terms

"I'm back, now I can rest well for three days," Gu Shanhai stretched lazily.

For the following decades in the Azure Sea World, he had fully mastered the Martial Arts Divine Power Child Skill·Golden Bell Shield·Iron Cloth Shirt.

Next, the Abnormal God·Heavenly Emperor also reached perfection, with Divine Power transformation ability now similar to having a divine constitution. The only downside is the consumption and that the power is complete only within his own body; when used in other worlds, it gets weakened, and the extent of weakening depends on the world's condition.

It was for this reason that his race had now completely transformed into something indescribable of the world. He had originally thought that the indescribable traits would disappear once he became an embryonic world, but to his surprise, it became an indescribable world, which was utterly absurd.

But no matter, Gu Shanhai had gotten used to it, and there was nothing he could do even if he hadn't.

Now, the only stages he hadn't maxed out were the Magic Awakening Stage and Peeping Dao Stage for the Golden Core. After his race transformed into an indescribable world, he had already deduced the relevant details for the Magic Awakening Stage, he planned to go to that strange and fantastical world to see if there was an opportunity for a breakthrough.

If not, he would just pick another world when the time came. The main reason for this choice was that Gu Shanhai felt that a world with such a special invitation was bound to have a high power level and produce better breakthrough materials than his current stage.

To break through from the Divine Phase to Magic Awakening Stage, one needed laws or rules; during the Divine Phase, it was like sneaking around and consuming souls, whereas in the Magic Awakening Stage, it would be done in the open.

Laws are quite fragmented. Generally, one would choose those that best resonate with themselves, like pursuing the Five Elements path and gathering laws of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Of course, it's not to say that one must gather them all. In the Xuanzhen Realm, the more laws you need to assimilate for a breakthrough, the lower your success rate and the higher the mortality rate.

In another world, unless someone was like Gu Shanhai, who could bluff the world with special tricks, it would be dangerous.

As for which laws to use for a breakthrough, Gu Shanhai didn't care. For him, he followed the path of the Yin Yang Five Elements and Eight Diagrams, which had great compatibility.

Of course, his real goal for breaking through the Magic Awakening Stage was to allow his indescribable embryonic world to grow into an infant stage.

And by breaking through the Peeping Dao Stage, the infant stage would fully mature into a true world.

It was part of his plan to ascend to heaven in one step, so what laws he used for the breakthrough weren't important, what mattered was how to perfect himself through the breakthrough.

Besides the Magic Awakening Stage and the Peeping Dao Stage, Gu Shanhai still had the Four Sacred Beasts System to perfect, missing the Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise, which relied a lot on luck, needing to find the specific things to truly create them.

He had collected many good things, but he felt they were somewhat lacking. Mainly because creating them forcefully would require a lot of his energy and raise the cost to upgrade.

So, he had shelved that project for now. The current Four Sacred Beasts System was sufficient for his use.

"These years, the World Tree has developed very well. Once I break through to the Peeping Dao Stage and perfect myself, it should then become a real World Tree."

The World Tree had given him no small help, mainly in terms of potential, to support the entire world and continuously expand his body size.

"Right now, I should be at level 5000," Gu Shanhai estimated his strength, believing it wasn't far off.

"This speed, you could say it's unrivaled, truly too outrageous."

Gu Shanhai couldn't help but sigh, his expression complex.

For him, the pace was indeed too fast. In his past life, it was only in the late phase of the "First Epoch" first version that he reached this level. Now he was still only in the early phase of the first version.

The strongest players were probably only at level 500, and as time went on, leveling up would become slower, not like Gu Shanhai, who was now shooting ahead like he was on a highway, speeding forward uncontrollably. If he were to break through the Magic Awakening Stage and the Peeping Dao Stage, he might reach around level 7000.

"But with the past life as nourishment, it's only right that I speed up."

Gu Shanhai glanced at the new world inside him that was evolving through Spirit Plants and Heart Demons, feeling that he should now have the capacity to be arrogant... what a joke.

What could he be arrogant about? Just think about the Goddess System creator in Hero World, and the Grand Ruins adventure king in Adventure King World, and then compare them to those Plane Merchants, and his swelling ego immediately calmed down.

Comparisons are necessary, after which one truly understands what kind of character they are, and so he wouldn't commit those brainlessly arrogant acts.

Gu Shanhai could be arrogant too; it would be false to say he wasn't but he knew when and how to be arrogant.

"It's rare to have some time to rest; too bad there's no soil, or else I'd bury myself and enjoy it."

For Gu Shanhai, being buried in the ground to sprout and germinate was a rare pleasure.

And just like that, three days passed in a blur.

The half of an invitation he held in his hand flashed brightly, and as he got up, Gu Shanhai was directly swept into it.

[Intermediate Region: Tranquil Cosmos]

[Mission: Stop the concept of death from disappearing or bring the concept of death back]

"This time it's not like getting hit in the back of the head but more like having the sensation of being in a tumbling washing machine," Gu Shanhai complained, suspecting the transmission system had been updated.