I Don't Agree to the Terms-Chapter 617 - 334: A New Era Called Anomaly_2

The world now is different from the one before, more like a butterfly to a caterpillar.

"Teacher, since you’ve brought it up, you must have a solution, right?" Rein remained calm. If Gu Shanhai couldn’t solve it, he would bluntly say so, but if he explained a lot, that meant there was a way to handle it.

"I plan to change the heavens and the earth!" Gu Shanhai’s tone carried determination.

This was like an experimental field. Once he succeeded, he could take this technology to the Xuanzhen Realm and let that foolish world learn what it meant to dare to change the sun and moon for a new sky.

However, it wouldn’t be so easy in the Xuanzhen Realm. In the Adventure King world, Gu Shanhai had the rules of the Saint Pond as raw material. Unlike the Xuanzhen Realm, where the malice towards cultivators was almost visible to the naked eye, adventurers in the last version were favored. Although they no longer existed, even if one popped up, it wouldn’t harbor any malice and would instead be recruited.

So, to truly change the heavens and the earth in the Xuanzhen Realm would be many times more difficult than in the Adventure King world. Gu Shanhai certainly couldn’t succeed at the current stage.

"Is this... possible?" Rein guessed some of Gu Shanhai’s thoughts.

"There’s a fifty percent chance. But if we don’t do it, you definitely won’t survive," Gu Shanhai stated calmly.

Adventurers would be recruited, saints would be given fiefs, while gods would only become food for the world.

Incompatible versions, no matter how much potential, were nothing but an interlude.

"How long will it take?" Rein didn’t ask too much. He trusted Gu Shanhai, and time wasn’t a concern unless it was about quickly solving survival issues.

With a population of seventy million, the help from players before meant survival wasn’t too big of an issue. Now without the players’ assistance, Rein needed to resolve these issues quickly, as a prolonged period and a sharp decline in population would be troublesome.

"About ten days," Gu Shanhai estimated the time.

He had already conducted in-depth research on the Saint Pond. Otherwise, how could he have created skill potions? Therefore, ten days should be sufficient. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

The main tasks were adding personal touches and creating a patch. These two procedures were everything. The rest were just minor details that wouldn’t take much time.

If it was only a matter of ten days, Rein could indeed wait, as his transformation into a deity would also require enough time.

"Then I’ll have to trouble you, Teacher, and I hope you can do it as soon as possible." Rein knew that Gu Shanhai said ten days, but who knew if any accidents might occur.

Of course, if nothing went wrong, that would be best. But scientific research didn’t have a progress bar that just needed to reach one hundred percent for success or to immediately produce a successful or failed result. He had been a student of Gu Shanhai and seen his various experiments; of ten thousand attempts, essentially 9,999 were failures, with only one true success.

"I can only say I’ll do my best," Gu Shanhai couldn’t guarantee it, considering his limited abilities.

Rein didn’t dwell on this topic and instead said, "I’ll make some preparations as well, to increase the chances of success."

As for official duties, there were hardly any left. All the related management systems had vanished. Even if they still existed, without writing and language, what would carry out public duties? By dance and gesture?

"Before that, you also need to make some psychological preparations," Gu Shanhai said abruptly.

"Psychological preparations? Are you planning to cause trouble again, Teacher?" Rein asked immediately.

"Do I seem like the type of person who likes to cause trouble?" Gu Shanhai’s face fell. Why did everyone always think he was restless? He was very low-key, but he didn’t make a big issue of it with Rein: "It’s just that if you become a god, it’s very likely there will be some changes. For instance, as a Heavenly Destiny Saint, you might have been destined to become a god of fate or luck, but with my intervention, you might become a god of civilization or humanity."

"It will be a god of that type, but the specifics will still come together based on your own circumstances."

Gu Shanhai, after adding his own adjustments to the Saint Pond as a patch and uploaded it, was sure to tip the scales in his favor, using it to guide Rein into godhood. During this time, Rein was bound to undergo changes as well.

After all, he wasn’t becoming a god of faith who could adjust himself through believers’ devotion; gods of rules inherently came with limitations.

"I don’t care about any of that, Teacher," Rein said, unconcerned about what kind of god he would be. What mattered to him was that being a god would give him a chance to find those anomalies.

"If you can think like this, things will be much easier for me," Gu Shanhai replied. Although he expected Rein to think this way, as his disciple, it was still necessary to make everything clear to avoid any misunderstandings.

"Teacher, is there anything else? If not, I’m ready to proceed. I’ll see you in ten days," Rein announced, already operating the automatic system to start editing settings. Gu Shanhai had no other instructions, so Rein prepared to confirm and execute his hang-up strategy.

"There’s nothing else. Go on," Gu Shanhai said, having no further matters to attend to.

Rein activated the automatic system and involuntarily started walking out. Seeing this, Gu Shanhai also teleported away, deciding not to linger any longer.

In the next instant, he found himself at the Saint Pond.

The automated production line had been dismantled. After the players left, Gu Shanhai dealt with all the skill potions, not a single bottle remained.

The disposal method was simple: players and major forces from the first tier, such as Shura and others with impressive oddities, were willing to pay a considerable sum for Divine Favored Level skill potions, and Gu Shanhai took the opportunity to make a tidy profit.

As for the common and advanced levels, Gu Shanhai mixed them up and managed to upgrade them to Divine Favored Level, so there was no need to worry about leftovers.

With such a vast quantity of Divine Favored Skill potions, naturally, he secured a massive amount of resources.

Especially plants and various skills. Gu Shanhai could only say these people truly had resources.

Gu Shanhai couldn’t possibly experience as many worlds as they had. He spent an incredibly long time in each world, thus missing many corresponding methods.

For example, he spent fifty years in the Daoist Soldier World, while he estimated he would need to stay a hundred years in this Adventure World.

Yet, these hundred years would not be wasted. Just perfecting the Child Skill, Golden Bell Shield Iron Cloth Shirt, and other Cultivation Techniques could consume fifty years or even more. Besides that, he still had to continue refining the Green Emperor Longevity Scripture and Magic Domain, cultivating Spirit Plants, and more.

He even had the breakthrough to the Cave Soul Stage, theorizing about the Upper Three Realms, becoming a deity, studying anomalies, and a sequence of tasks on his plate. With a hundred years ahead of him, Gu Shanhai worried it wouldn’t be enough.

"O Saints, I wonder how you would choose if you were alive today," Gu Shanhai mused, looking at the Saint Pond, questioning whether they would choose the anomalies represented by the world or the humans they had lived alongside day and night.

He then chuckled, "I’m really getting senile, thinking about such things."

"It’s clear without even thinking. You would definitely choose the anomalies representing the world."

Gu Shanhai understood these Saints well. As deities, they embodied a part of the world, and after becoming Saints, they continued to struggle for the sake of the world.

In other words, in this Abnormal Era, perhaps the Saints themselves would be part of the anomalies, instead of the revered figures the adventurers looked up to.

"We’ve been colleagues in a way, so I still need one last favor from you. I hope you won’t refuse," Gu Shanhai said, adding a polite request before resorting to force.

Would the Saints, with their personalities, refuse? Gu Shanhai had offered them courtesy; if they still disagreed, he would have to resort to force. But the Saints hadn’t disagreed; they all silently consented to do Gu Shanhai this favor by their silence.