I Don't Agree to the Terms-Chapter 1047 - 551: Mid-Tier Zone · Celestial Body World Cluster

"I broke through. It doesn't feel all that special."

This was three months after Gu Shanhai returned to the "First Era" in his temporary player's room.

After devouring the Ghost World, he came back and obtained a book titled "If Time Could Start Over," which discusses knowledge related to time.

Gu Shanhai didn't look into it immediately but started integrating human civilization, ghost civilization, the All Ghosts Survival Platform, and numerous related materials with the Civilization Sprout to create the Peeping Realm.

Furthermore, he refined the "Green Emperor Longevity Scripture," merging all Qi Refinement layers into one, and he officially renamed it to Qi Refinement Layer One, not bothering to come up with a new name.

The innate divine ability of the Peeping Realm was Unity of Heaven and Man.

After completion, Gu Shanhai used Heart Demon Dao Soldiers as a conversion tool to form a civilization. This civilization had just been born and was thus weak, needing time to grow.

However, this weakness refers to the level of civilization, meaning undeveloped, rather than incapable of combat.

After all, Heart Demon Dao Soldiers were the foundation, and this was just the beginning. Further conversions of Spirit Plants and Spiritual Beasts were needed, and progress would require sufficient time.

The civilization itself wasn't the focal point. The key was the powerful computer created by combining the Four Saints Beasts System, Nine States Instrument, innate divine abilities, etc., to form the Jiuzhou Four Seas Civilization System, which directly bound itself to Gu Shanhai and the civilization within him without the need for upgrades.

The stronger Gu Shanhai and his civilization became, the hardware, software, and other elements of the civilization system would sync and improve, unlike the original Four Saints Beasts System, which, even after gathering the Four Sacred Beasts, could only be enhanced in two ways: Gu Shanhai personally improving it or gradually upgrading through self-computation.

The civilization system has a diversified path for improvement.

"Am I already stuck at a bottleneck?"

Gu Shanhai realized that he had maxed out all the systems he owned, yet his strength hadn't stagnated but instead was inflating faster.

"Looks like I need to find a new world to continue my journey and see if I can gain insight through analogy."

"But speaking of maxed out, there seem to be quite a few tasks left incomplete."

He first glanced at the Time History Book, which was still stuck at the problem of time reversal, having made no progress before. Nonetheless, it was fine; he got the book "If Time Could Start Over" from the Ten Thousand Races Arena, suggesting that understanding it was only a matter of time.

Apart from books related to time, he also had "The Self-Growth of the World," "When Space No Longer Pauses," "The Cycle of Civilization," and "The History of Energy Development."

These five books contain exceedingly profound knowledge, and he believed that once he mastered them, he could once again undergo a qualitative leap.

The last time he underwent such a leap was when he became a world.

If successful this time, perhaps transcendence is within reach?

However, learning and comprehending all five books, based on Gu Shanhai's estimation, would be impossible without at least a million years.

The deep content was one thing, but the sheer volume was overwhelming; Gu Shanhai hadn't even finished one book yet.

"There is a way to solve this; I can exploit a bug and perform a nesting doll operation."

Without the book "If Time Could Start Over," it would be somewhat challenging for Gu Shanhai to perform this clever trick. But with it, he merely needed to decode the second function of the Time History Book: the technique of projecting memories back into the past.

In this way, he could rewrite the timeline through technical means and have his future self project back the memory of having mastered the five books, thereby greatly reducing his learning time.

He could even use this method to continually acquire various technologies and rewrite the timeline.

Theoretically speaking, as long as he mastered this technology, he could instantly obtain endless knowledge.

Because after rewriting, starting the research would be from the knowledge progress sent back.

This is theoretical because even Gu Shanhai understood that such a feat is unrealistic; the massive impact would be too much for him to bear.

Once or twice might be fine, and three to five hundred times manageable, but enduring countless memory shocks when the number reaches an unimaginable level would be insurmountable.

After all, he is acquiring knowledge, not power, and it would need to be actualized actively.

Moreover, he knows that for projecting knowledge back, a critical time node as an anchor is necessary; otherwise, random projections would lack targets.

If Gu Shanhai were a native of a certain world, it wouldn't matter. However, currently, he is neither a native nor recognized by any other world, essentially being an undocumented resident. Even if he acquired an identity in a world, it's not a legally existing one, merely a reasonable existence.

"Choosing a node, there is indeed an option."

Gu Shanhai suddenly remembered an invitation letter that had been left for who knows how many years.

"A leaf from the World Tree."

"If I use this, success is possible."

"It's just that going to that world now seems to hold little value."

He estimated the time, his expression turning peculiar.

In his previous life, he went to that world several hundred thousand years later, during its peak period.

Now, however, it was different; it was likely still in a relatively low phase.