I Don't Agree to the Terms

Xiao Yongsheng naturally struggled frantically, but the plant tendrils on Gu Shanhai's body were just too domineering, completely immobilizing him.

"Let me go, what do you really want to do!!!" Xiao Yongsheng kept roaring.

However, Gu Shanhai turned a deaf ear and effortlessly tore open the man's chest, forcibly transplanting it inside.

The instant the transplantation succeeded, Xiao Yongsheng's whole body wilted, and then he saw his originally large body start to wither. Even his bones turned yellow and cracked, shedding a large amount of bone debris.

"I... you..." Xiao Yongsheng became entirely feeble, as if a hundred succubi had drained him continuously for a hundred days, transforming from his vigorous state to one seemingly on the verge of ascending to heaven.

"The effect is still pretty good, you see, you have been restored to human form, I'm doing this for your own good." Gu Shanhai earnestly said it was for his good; being a monster was no good, better to be human.

Xiao Yongsheng trembled, wanting to retort: "Look at your own virtue"— yet he was too weak to even speak.

Meanwhile, his body began to soften, exhibiting the characteristics of an element, and his originally shriveled eyes once again burst forth with brilliance.

"Power, my power..." Xiao Yongsheng felt an unusual sensation as his body regained strength and continued to grow stronger, yet he had absolutely no control over this power.

"Interesting, using your body as a medium, causing these two forces to continuously fuse together, not a bad idea, but alas, it is mine now!"

If Gu Shanhai hadn't been there, these two fools might have actually succeeded. Regrettably, with Gu Shanhai present here, under the strike of Tai Shang's Eight Diagrams Scripture at its peak and the gaze of the Eye of Deadly Calm, Gu Shanhai actually couldn't move. Sadly, both were reduced to a tiger fallen in Pingyang and a dragon stranded in shallow waters; it was fitting for him to benefit.

"I haven't practiced external alchemy for a while, just right to refine one for use."

Gu Shanhai looked at Xiao Yongsheng with a smile, causing him to have a bad feeling.

"Water and fire work together; you still need to balance them. I think you certainly wouldn't be unwilling to help me with that."

The moment these words came out, Xiao Yongsheng reacted instinctively, his tone sharp: "Get lost, don't come near me!!!"

"Don't be so agitated, it won't be painful when I make my move." Gu Shanhai reached out and pulled him back.

Xiao Yongsheng's will was quite commendable; he was at least able to briefly regain control of his body even in extreme fear.

"You should drink the toast rather than be forced to drink the forfeit. I'll tell you, all the people in this city have been sacrificed by you."

"So no matter how loudly you scream, no one will come to save you. You might as well submit to me willingly."

With that expression, tone, and behavior, Gu Shanhai was the spitting image of a villain. If not for Xiao Yongsheng being almost like a monster, otherwise, had it been a damsel, a hero would have jumped out to perform a righteous deed by now.

Oh, that wouldn't work; the hero is currently also in Gu Shanhai's hands, now turned into a flesh cocoon, yet to hatch.

Hearing this, Xiao Yongsheng grew even more terrified. Previously, at most, he thought Gu Shanhai wanted to torment him, but now, it seemed he might do something weird to him.

"Don't look at me with those eyes, I am a decent person." Gu Shanhai stated, even vegetable people are people.

"Forget it, I'd rather..."

"You'd rather die? I think though, your body is very likely to disagree." Gu Shanhai knew that if Xiao Yongsheng truly wasn't afraid of death, he wouldn't have orchestrated the blood sacrifice of a million people to attract the Eye of Deadly Calm to devour the concept of death.

Thus, this statement was actually his unfiltered means of threatening Gu Shanhai.

Xiao Yongsheng wanted to say something more, but Gu Shanhai didn't really want to listen anymore and instead slapped him unconscious onto the ground.

"Self-awareness and the body are a bit out of sync." Gu Shanhai looked at Xiao Yongsheng's still irregularly writhing body, which was under the control of the "Tai Shang's Eight Diagrams Scripture" and the Eye of Deathly Calmness in his body, waiting to fully take control and then erase Xiao Yongsheng's consciousness.

When that happened, a brand new undead monster would be born.

Of course, Gu Shanhai would never let things develop to that state, and they wouldn't be able to, the best outcome being that it turned into an elixir in Gu Shanhai's hands.

To be used as a tool, and if there were any problems, just discard it.

He then packed up Xiao Yongsheng and took him back to his original underground laboratory.

"Left behind a shell, getting it rearranged back quickly too," Gu Shanhai released the Heart Demon Dao Soldiers, and within five minutes, the laboratory was fully refurbished.

"I should have turned these Heart Demon Dao Soldiers into logistic soldiers from the start," Gu Shanhai thought, feeling he had miscalculated originally.

But then he thought again, if he had made them into logistic soldiers, without enough strength he wouldn't have been able to capture Zhou Ding and destroy Yan Country, and without subsequent support, he wouldn't have gotten strong so quickly.

There are gains and losses, luckily, now these Heart Demon Dao Soldiers were sufficient, and their logistic capabilities were extremely powerful under the control of the Four Sacred Beasts System.

After the laboratory was fixed up, Gu Shanhai placed Xiao Yongsheng on the operating table for further research.

His idea to create an elixir naturally required planning and experimentation, as he couldn't just whimsically decide to extract the Azure Dragon for cooking; that wouldn't produce an elixir, it would only turn Xiao Yongsheng into a dish.

Gu Shanhai didn't want to eat this dark cuisine, mainly because there were two ingredients unsuitable for consumption, otherwise he wouldn't mind turning it into a dish.

"Someone as badass as you, one is enough; no need for a second one." Gu Shanhai decided to dispose of Xiao Yongsheng because Xiao Yongsheng's status impacted his son and daughter-in-law, especially since the flesh cocoon in Gu Shanhai's possession had already become his puppet, and if another similar one appeared, the value of his flesh cocoon would diminish.

As for refining through struggles, there was no need at all; what's there to refine in a puppet that's already under Gu Shanhai's control?

Gu Shanhai didn't have greater ambitions, concerned only with his own little patch of land, not bothering about the rest.

"It's family after all; I can't bear to see you split apart. So, how about this—after you become an elixir, I'll transplant you into your son and daughter-in-law's bodies." Gu Shanhai was kind-hearted, unable to bear seeing such separations and farewells.

"But on another note, you are quite fierce, even consuming your own wife, not sure if you left anything."

Gu Shanhai recognized that if the Xiao and Su families stayed together for too long, their physiological unions might not satisfy, potentially leading to psychological changes.

That is, cannibalism.

But given the situation with Xiao Yongsheng's win, his wife probably had no power to resist.

"Too bad, after the Eye of Deathly Calmness left, the vision to peek into the future is gone too; otherwise, I could have studied it further."

Gu Shanhai extracted Xiao Yongsheng's memories and thus knew about his Golden Finger to peek into the future.

The ability to peek into the future was a vision from the Eye of Deathly Calmness, so after the Eye of Deathly Calmness lost interest in this world, it naturally retracted it.

It was precisely with this ability he managed to tug at and cunningly calculate against the bizarre happenings.

It was just Gu Shanhai wanting to study it; purely talking big. He wasn't foolish; why study the vision of such a terrifying existence? He wasn't tired of living yet.

"The three forces have started to merge initially, and the fusion should probably be completed by tomorrow. Not bad." Gu Shanhai examined Xiao Yongsheng and the remaining two forces within him, estimated the time, and was ready to start alchemy.