I Don't Agree to the Terms-Chapter 623 - 337: Modified Soul of Heaven and Earth (Demonic Version)_2

The main issue for the cultivators of the Xuanzhen Realm was that a damaged physical body was no problem; it could simply be regenerated. However, if the Primordial Spirit were to be injured, nurturing it back to health was quite troublesome. Moreover, their long lifespans were derived from the transformations of the Primordial Spirit. That said, they still dual-cultivated body and spirit, since it allowed for more powerful combat.

"The problem is a bit serious..." Gu Shanhai glanced at his own soul. He was different from the typical Xuanzhen Realm cultivators; his soul was not only larger but also of a much higher quality.

"Will the soul of heaven and earth be unable to support the transformation of my soul... It shouldn’t."

If a normal Heavenly Scenery Stage cultivator’s Yin God was valued at 1, then Gu Shanhai’s Yin God would be at 10,000. There had never been such an anomaly in the Xuanzhen Realm. Even for the most talented individuals, the Yin God value was at most 10, perhaps at an extraordinary high of 100.

"It should be fine. This thing is slow, but it’s not like it’s not transforming."

Gu Shanhai soon located the soul of heaven and earth within his own soul; a tiny entity that would have been no more significant than an ant within his vast soul if not for his keen senses.

At that moment, the soul of heaven and earth seemed to be struggling to help Gu Shanhai transform his Yin God into a Yang God. In fact, with the strength of his soul, it already rivalled a Primordial Spirit. However, being comparable wasn’t enough; an analogy would be a classless player whose attributes could keep up with those of a classed player—if they were to class change, wouldn’t their attributes become even higher?

What Gu Shanhai was doing was akin to a class change.

"The efficiency is just too low. Should I speed up the soul of heaven and earth?" Gu Shanhai estimated that it would take a thousand years, which was outrageously long, almost reaching the normal time it would take to advance from the Heavenly Scenery Stage to the Cave Soul Stage.

He absolutely could not accept such a lengthy period; he was willing to wait at most one year.

"Spirit Plants likely won’t be of much help; I’ll have to rely on myself." Gu Shanhai thought it over. To increase speed, he had to do it himself. As for Spirit Plants... they were essentially being transformed with the help of the soul of heaven and earth as well.

Since the Spirit Plants had long integrated into his body and become a part of him—especially during the Purple Mansion Stage, when he planted them within the Purple Mansion·Wuzhuang Temple—they had also merged with his soul. Otherwise, how could he have become a massive natural ecosystem? The Spirit Plants had played a significant role in this.

Oh, the remaining credit goes to the series of Divine Skills of the Heart Demon, which filled the ecological circle with the missing elements of animals.

His natural ecosystem was as eerie as it gets, truly paralleling the Underworld.

"External objects, is there anything usable?" Gu Shanhai rummaged through the Mother-child Grass space to see if there was anything useful.

After a thorough search, there really wasn’t much of use, except perhaps modifying the over 100,000 texts of Child Skill might be effective.

But now was not the time for alterations; he had to wait until his soul had transformed.

"Hey, there might be something after all." Gu Shanhai’s gaze suddenly fell upon a large collection of Guardian Demons within him.

"Having these things help out shouldn’t pose too much of an issue." A sudden thought struck Gu Shanhai.

As for how to assist, it was simple—just feed the soul of heaven and earth with some Guardian Demons to make it grow larger.

"Only question is, will the soul of heaven and earth consume the Guardian Demons?"

This issue wasn’t significant; the only trouble might be that the soul of heaven and earth could be picky.

"Still, this thing is a derivative of mine; even without a soul, it should be able to serve as nourishment."

In any case, Guardian Demons were always expendable; aside from being used to take hits or to create Heart Demon Dao Soldiers and other trivial purposes, if one died, Gu Shanhai could produce ten more without much value.

Now that he had an idea, Gu Shanhai decisively grabbed a Guardian Demon, intending to feed it to the soul of heaven and earth, but then he abruptly stopped himself.

"Hold on, what if feeding the Guardian Demons to the soul of heaven and earth causes it to mutate?"

If it transformed into some bizarre Yang God, the exterior scenery, becoming more akin to the Underworld, could make his natural ecosystem even more peculiar.

Of course, Gu Shanhai didn’t care about any of that, what he really cared about was that it would increase the difficulty of deducing the Upper Three Realms.

There was already plenty of difficulty, and with this new development, he could basically say goodbye to the reference materials of the Upper Three Realms from the Xuanzhen Realm.

"Forget it, feed first, deal with the future when it comes," Gu Shanhai casually stuffed the Guardian Demon into the Soul of Heaven and Earth.

The next moment, the originally brilliant Soul of Heaven and Earth turned dull, resembling something that had fallen from grace, and it looked quite improper at first glance.

However, the good news was that since it had been tainted with Gu Shanhai’s aura, it had become more like him and its form had also grown significantly, furthering the transformation of his soul.

"This will work, just nourish it a bit more, and I guarantee a breakthrough to the Cave Soul Stage within a year," Gu Shanhai grabbed another hundred or so Guardian Demons, not caring whether the Soul of Heaven and Earth could handle it, and shoved them all in.

This caused the entire Soul of Heaven and Earth to expand dramatically.

"Need to rest for two days, can’t feed anymore, or it might burst on me."

Although the Soul of Heaven and Earth had changed its appearance, looking plump and round, it didn’t affect its efficiency at all, rather it increased nearly a hundredfold. Gu Shanhai just needed to stuff around nine hundred more Guardian Demons as feed for the Soul of Heaven and Earth, and he could really guarantee a breakthrough to the Cave Soul Stage within a year.

"Let the Soul of Heaven and Earth rest a bit, you can’t get fat in one go."

Although his Soul of Heaven and Earth had become a demonic version, it suited him even better.

It was just that the inner landscape undergoing transformation also started looking a bit eerie.

"Eh, I feel like something is a bit off." Gu Shanhai turned to look at Little White and then said, "Little White, do you feel like your style doesn’t really match mine?"

Little White, who was busy eating, looked up in confusion. It glanced at its muscular figure and white fur, then at Gu Shanhai’s green robe, and suggested maybe it should dye its skin green?

"It’s not about skin color, you see, with my style I look like I’m directly connected to the Underworld, but with your bulky muscle-deer look, don’t we seem mismatched?" Gu Shanhai urged persuasively.

"Yo?" Little White suggested that maybe you should eat more and then do some weightlifting, and then we could both be aggressive muscle-deer, one as a Devil Muscle Man.

"No, why would I be a Devil Muscle Man, I mean that your style should become a bit more like mine, connected to the Underworld, then we’d match perfectly," Gu Shanhai said, licking his face, thinking that he should drag Little White into this.

Little White turned its head away, indicating that you’re too bad, wanting to drag it into this shady business, so it ignored Gu Shanhai.

"..." Gu Shanhai, with a forehead full of black lines, thought that raising such a smart deer wasn’t necessarily a good thing.

"Little White, sometimes there are things you can’t avoid just by wanting to," Gu Shanhai said ominously.

"???" Little White startled, looking up incredulously, are you planning to use force?

"How could that be possible, do I look like that kind of person?" Gu Shanhai said, speechless.

Consequently, Little White nodded firmly, saying you don’t just look like one, you are one.

"This time it really has nothing to do with me, you’re my animal partner, and if I break through to the Cave Soul Stage and become indescribable like a natural ecosystem, you’re definitely going to change too," Gu Shanhai commented, as one man and one deer were in a state of shared glory and shared loss.

Little White could become as large as a war beast, partly due to its cultivation, and partly because the strength that Gu Shanhai gained was reflected back through the relationship between the animal companions, causing Little White to evolve passively.

Even if the proportion of this passive feedback was minuscule, the fact that Gu Shanhai had become ridiculously strong meant that these minuscule proportions would become a significant catalyst. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

"!!!" Little White shockingly acknowledged this with a "holy crap."