I Don't Agree to the Terms

Chapter 910 481: Secrets of the Shift Between Ancient and Modern (Part 2)

And the speed at which cultivators improve their strength is excessively slow. It's not like participating in high-intensity battles can quickly enhance one's power; that's a privilege reserved for the protagonist. Normal cultivators really won't see their strength increase if they just fight without cultivating, but they're sure to lose their lives quickly.

Cultivation itself is a process of gradual improvement over time; there are not so many breakthroughs during battle or sudden realizations, more often ends in death on the battlefield.

"After fighting for so long, what's depleted is not just the population but the number of cultivators as combat personnel."

Although Gu Shanhai feels that the losses on the Demon Race's side might be even more severe, if the fighting continues, they might win, but it's likely to be a Pyrrhic victory.

As for whether a hundred Heart Demon Dao Soldiers can sweep through, that's true, but Qing Feng and Ming Yue have not directly deployed them on the battlefield. They keep them as a backup; in their eyes, losing some men doesn't matter; it's not a big deal. But if their trump card for victory is revealed, that would be a loss.

Compassion does not lead troops, righteousness does not gather wealth, benevolence does not govern, emotions do not establish affairs, and kindness does not manage politics.

Do you really think Qing Feng and Ming Yue haven't faced assassination, betrayal, and other things all these years? Under all kinds of pressure, they have long been trained to become qualified leaders, not the naïve rookies they once were.

Gu Shanhai can only sigh about this, realizing that people do change, sometimes into figures even they don't recognize.

"Let's take a look at these things related to the misfortunes caused by divine and demonic entities." Gu Shanhai didn't pay much attention to these matters, knowing that he could handle them, ensuring no trouble would come to the Da Xuan Dynasty. After all, he had to reciprocate Qing Feng and Ming Yue's offerings of resources. Normally, he doesn't do much work; intervening at critical moments is enough.

Gu Shanhai has almost completed his research on matters related to divine and demonic entity misfortunes.

From fragments of conversation, it's confirmed that the Ancient Law Demon were aware of the birth of the Modern Law, but initially, no God Demon paid attention to this matter. To them, the advent of Modern Law was not an issue; at most, in the eyes of the Ancient Law Demon, it only increased the success rate of breaking through to become a God Demon.

For God Demons, this was actually a good thing, and because the disguise was so good, no problems were detected.

Therefore, most records of this matter are positive.

But later in the records, when some Modern Law Demons communicated with Ancient Law Demons, they realized something was wrong.

According to the descriptions in the records, it seemed that Modern Law Demons had a feeling of being controlled and influenced by others. Initially, this was dismissed with disdain, but later it was discovered that Modern Law Demons would occasionally engage in some inexplicable actions.

This, of course, only served to alert the Ancient Law Demons, who warned their bloodline descendants not to break through to become God Demons using Modern Law.

Until later, humans and demons once again erupted into a great war, which lasted almost ten thousand years, resulting in heavy casualties for both races.

God Demons stepped in personally during this period, and many God Demons perished, most of them were Ancient Law Demons, while the Modern Law Demons were just emerging and relatively weak then.

"It's a pity the content is incomplete, but it can be confirmed that the ancient-modern transition likely happened during that war lasting nearly ten thousand years between humans and demons. This can be confirmed from the leftover memories of Modern Law Demons."

Take Zhao Xuanti, for instance; he was actually born in the final stages of the human-demon war and even took part in some cleanup operations. Later, taking advantage of human degeneration, he rose to establish the Da Xuan Dynasty, which has lasted until now.

The other Eight Great Families, righteous and demonic sects, were also born around this time, thus belonging to extremely ancient entities.

Of course, their birth wasn't due to the times, but because they gave birth to God Demons.

Gu Shanhai suspects that the Three Strange Books were likely also born around this time. He doesn't know which Ancient Law Demon created them, but understands they probably saw the inability of Ancient Law Demons to be born anymore, hence creating the Three Strange Books and the "Stealing Heaven and Changing Day Technique."

Later, it seems that when Modern Law God Demons discovered their limits, fearing the reoccurrence of a massive and tragic war between the two races, they simultaneously slacked, crafting separation from the world and establishing the rule that no God Demon should interfere with the world, with many God Demons supervising each other.

As for Ancient Law God Demons, by the end of the two races' war, they were likely mostly cleared out, mainly dying from inter-fighting, leaving a small number down the line, which eventually were also eradicated.

This led to Modern Law God Demons becoming mainstream, and the truth being buried.

The ones who buried the truth were not this batch of Modern Law God Demons since they themselves were the new generation and didn't know these secrets at all.

Even if they did, they might not be able to find out; after all, having fought a war for nearly ten thousand years, both human and demon populations dwindled dramatically, and various documents and records were lost to war and not passed down. Not to mention, the new generation of Modern Law God Demons were also focused on revitalizing their own race, so they had no mind to consider these matters.

God Demons naturally need resources; they are not disconnected from worldly affairs. As God Demons, they occupy the most resources, so the more people, the more advantageous it is for them. The establishment of the Da Xuan Dynasty and the rise of the Wan Hui Bodhi Tree may very well have had God Demons as the driving force behind them.

As a means to swiftly recover the vitality of both races.

"It's still quite limited, hasn't provided me with substantial help, more just indirectly."

Gu Shanhai also feels regretful about this because these divine and demonic entity misfortunes seem more like records of the transition from the brutal human-demon war to the slackness of the God Demons.

Only a few notes by Ancient Law God Demons mention some drawbacks of Modern Law God Demons.

As for the matter of Modern Law God Demons researching divine and demonic misfortunes, it exists but hasn't made any progress.

It could be due to some control and influence, causing them to be unable to find anything related to divine and demonic misfortunes.

"Perhaps not long from now, Qing Feng and Ming Yue might find the related opportunity, although time is an issue." Gu Shanhai still relatively believes in the protagonist's halo surrounding Qing Feng and Ming Yue, but when the protagonist's halo can find it is another question.

For now, the protagonist's halo's tendency is certainly not towards divine and demonic misfortunes, but towards Qing Feng and Ming Yue's own strengths.

Breaking through the realms of Three Flowers Gathering at the Top and Unity of Heaven and Man is not easily achieved. After reaching the upper third grade, Qing Feng and Ming Yue's speed in strength improvement has once again slowed down. After all, they are soon to reach the max level; it's impossible to break through a level every few days, even for the protagonist, it might take about ten years to go from Five Qi Chaoyuan to Three Flowers Gathering at the Top, and possibly fifty years for Heavenly Human Unity Realm.

In this world, every breakthrough cultivators make increases lifespan considerably; the higher the ream, the more life is gained, reaching God Demon Realm results in eternal life.

Not to mention, there are various special cultivation techniques, earthly treasures, rare pills, etc., that increase lifespan as well.

High-level beings surely won't lack lifespan, at least below God Demon, lifespan is quite abundant.

The cause of death for most cultivators at the Heavenly Human Unity Realm is not dying of old age, more often due to struggles.

"It's too long, waiting is an option, but this thing isn't valuable enough for me to offset the time cost."

For Gu Shanhai, sure time isn't worth money, but it's not without value.

"So it's crucial to go to that other world to find deeper personal interest."

He's not interested in divine and demonic misfortunes, they are merely a means of exploitation, which he doesn't lack.

Instead, it's the significance behind the divine and demonic misfortunes that possesses real benefits, although those benefits involve risk.

"Since that's the case, let's set off!" Gu Shanhai's gaze falls on the quantum collider, and while researching divine and demonic misfortunes, he's also been fine-tuning the quantum collider. As of yesterday, it has been adjusted.