I Don't Agree to the Terms-Chapter 622 - 337: Modified Soul of Heaven and Earth (Demonic Version)

Gu Shanhai was now in a quandary, whether to become a god first or to break through to the Cave Soul Stage, or to acquire some extraordinary abilities first.

Although he wanted all, there still had to be a sequence in which to proceed.

After picking and choosing, he decided to first extract the world’s soul and break through to the Cave Soul Stage. If nothing went wrong, his cultivation might just reach its end, and he would then have to schedule in the deduction of the Upper Three Realms.

After that, he would conveniently become a god and, while at it, pluck some unusual abilities.

"Just don’t know if the gods from the former versions can extract the world’s soul in this version." Gu Shanhai gazed upon the Divine Relics that he had restored from the land of adventures.

The first impression was their immense size.

Gu Shanhai originally thought the land of adventures had evolved from the Divine Relics, hence its vastness, only to realize after restoration that it was not the case; the gods themselves were enormous.

The restoration method was naturally acquired from Rein’s divine data. Without this information, if Gu Shanhai wanted to obtain these Divine Relics, he would have had to first clear the land of adventures. Now, he had directly skipped that step.

"So it seems the God of Destiny’s End is a relic that’s more intact compared to others..." Gu Shanhai quipped, as the lands of adventures tied to other gods varied greatly in size depending on how shattered they were.

"But then again, Rein became small after he became a god because of the version mismatch, right?"

Gu Shanhai also realized this point; to say gods were not massive was to undermine their majesty, so it was normal for them to be larger. Rein’s reduced stature was because he claimed to be a god, but in reality, he should be considered as a half-exception, half-god entity, which resulted in no increase in size.

"What about my stature then?"

He was different from Rein; the god Gu Shanhai intended to become was surely from an ancient version, so it would be normal for his stature to increase.

"Wait, I need to first address the issue of me not being human after breaking through to the Cave Soul Stage." Gu Shanhai took a detour and realized a significant problem. As long as he broke through to the Cave Soul Stage, he would become a natural ecology. Add to that a god’s stature, and this ecology would inflate once more.

If he truly became a massive humanoid god, he was actually quite pleased, just afraid that instead, he might turn into a colossal natural ecology.

As for becoming a god before breaking through to the Cave Soul Stage, the idea was good, but the outcome remained unchanged. Once he enlarged, the natural ecology would also expand after the breakthrough, strengthening as a whole rather than singularly.

"I can only put together another Divine Skill to maintain my human-like appearance." Gu Shanhai added a new plan to the very bottom of his agenda.

As for the plans above it, there were the melting of over one hundred thousand Child Skills, Golden Bell Shield Iron Cloth Shirt training, deduction of the Upper Three Realms, cultivation of the sky-reaching building tree, and the successful cultivation of the Spirit Plants for past and future lifetimes, among others.

So when it would come time to start deducing this appearance-maintaining Divine Skill was also an unknown.

"First I’ll extract the soul of the world." Gu Shanhai assembled five incomplete Divine Corpses into the semblance of a complete one.

He then used the extraction method he acquired from the Xuanzhen Realm to begin extracting from the entire Divine Corpse.

The process went very smoothly because all the work was conducted within his own Mother-child Grass space, free from external interference. Additionally, this thing was originally dead, an outdated version, so the world itself did not care at all.

More importantly, Gu Shanhai was a Saint; theoretically speaking, he was merely reclaiming what belonged to him. Under the series of BUFFs, no calamities occurred.

Indeed, extracting the world’s soul was meant to endure tribulations, it was not as if you could extract it whenever you wished.

The world’s soul was part of the world itself, and laying hands on it to extract was like taking scissors to the world’s hair. It would have been tolerable if you snipped at the periphery, but instead, you aimed for the top of the head, exacting a hairstyle akin to male pattern baldness. Who could endure that?

In the Xuanzhen Realm, the situation was even worse. Not one, but a group was shearing, and had it been Gu Shanhai, he would have been outraged.

The world’s soul was smoothly snipped... extracted by him, and without much fuss, he directly inserted it into his own body.

If it had been a cultivator from the Xuanzhen Realm, they wouldn’t dare to be so reckless. They’d have to go back to bathe, change clothes, and then carefully adjust their state before starting.

Gu Shanhai, on the other hand, had none of these issues. The world’s soul extracted from the Divine Corpse of the God of Destiny’s End merged easily into his body.

Yet he did not immediately proceed to the breakthrough but let the soul of the world take effect, constantly overlapping it with his inner scenery so that it transformed into outer scenery.

So this too required some time.

"The Cave Soul Stage differs from other realms; it’s not a matter of immediate integration for a breakthrough, but rather a process of metamorphosis."

Inner scenery transforming into outer scenery was merely an indicator of progress. To verify whether one had broken through to the Cave Soul Stage, one must look at the metamorphosis of their own soul.

The soul, in fact, began its metamorphosis during the Purple Mansion Stage, passing through the Yin God, Yang God, Primordial Spirit three phases. That’s right, one had to transform their Yin God into a Yang God during the Cave Soul Stage, while the Primordial Spirit marked the breakthrough of the Peeping Dao Stage.

Once the soul evolved from Yin God to Yang God, it implied that the cultivator’s soul would advance in tandem with their physical body. When it reached the Primordial Spirit phase, it would be even stronger than one’s own flesh.