I Don't Agree to the Terms
Chapter 245 - 148: If You Don’t Follow the Plot, Then Play the Role of an Outlaw_2

Chapter 245: Chapter 148: If You Don’t Follow the Plot, Then Play the Role of an Outlaw_2

The cracks hidden in the sky were constantly expanding.

At this moment, Gu Shanhai wasn’t paying any attention to them. He walked on, not sparing the exam candidates’ inn, the Ministry of Rites, the Eastern Palace, the Heavenly Prison, and so on.

He had already reached the Imperial Palace.

"Is the guard always this strict?" Gu Shanhai looked at the fully armed soldiers, feeling a bit helpless.

He thought that such chaos would have spread to the Imperial Palace as well, but it had indeed spread, not causing chaos, but rather vigilance, which resulted in many of the personnel who should have gone out to support instead staying here to guard the palace.

They were probably worried about the explosions and fire reaching here.

Even the most incompetent Emperor would realize that someone was doing this on purpose, and now they were conducting a city-wide search for Gu Shanhai.

Gu Shanhai looked up at the sky again, the entire sky had split open, just needing to blow up the Imperial Palace, and it would likely collapse, allowing him to leave this place.

He wasn’t particularly interested in any inheritance.

"What are you doing?" A soldier approached Gu Shanhai and asked.

"With all this chaos everywhere, I came near the palace to take shelter, no worries, I’ll just stand here," Gu Shanhai replied with a wry smile and then explained.

Hearing this, the soldier visibly relaxed, his expression easing considerably.

"Go, go, go! Move aside. Loitering near the Imperial Palace, you’re asking to be arrested," the soldier urged Gu Shanhai to leave, clearly wanting to avoid any complications.

Seeing this, Gu Shanhai’s face turned bitter and he quickly said, "Officer, have a heart, I’ll just stand here, I won’t move an inch. You don’t know what happened just now, first a building collapsed and then there was a fire, it’s terrifying."

"Get lost, or I’ll throw you into the Heavenly Prison," the soldier barked.

"The Heavenly Prison just collapsed not too long ago," Gu Shanhai reminded him.

"..." The soldier was at a loss for words upon hearing this. He was only aware of explosions happening everywhere and didn’t know the specifics, as he had been called to guard the Imperial Palace the moment the chaos broke out.

"Don’t disrespect my kindness, or you’ll face the consequences!" the soldier’s tone became noticeably harsher.

Upon seeing this, Gu Shanhai could only walk away grudgingly.

’What a pity, if the world weren’t an illusion, I might have spared your life,’ Gu Shanhai mused to himself.

During the conversation, Gu Shanhai had silently placed a small tube of delayed black gunpowder on the soldier, a miniature one, timed to about five minutes.

By now, Gu Shanhai had moved far away. As he surmised, the Imperial Palace was indeed not easy to enter—every ten steps there was a guard post, and every five, a patrol.

And that was just the perimeter. The interior was surely even more heavily guarded.

Therefore, Gu Shanhai had to find a way to make the soldier attract some attention for him.

Five minutes passed by in a flash, and an explosion sounded once more, this time at the gates of the Imperial Palace, naturally drawing the attention of numerous guards. In that instant, a significant gap was formed.

Without any hesitation, Gu Shanhai used the prepared stepping stones to vault into the Imperial Palace.

"I say... this was an accident. Do you believe me?" Gu Shanhai swallowed hard, facing a troop of the Imperial Army that was staring down at him.

"Seize this man!" The commanding officer certainly didn’t believe Gu Shanhai’s nonsense.

But Gu Shanhai wasn’t about to give up without a fight. He threw out a tube of black gunpowder and took off running.

The men behind instinctively dodged, only for the black gunpowder to explode right then and there. Each member of the Imperial Army sustained injuries, with those closer being blown to pieces.

This commotion definitely roused the vigilance of all the palace’s defensive forces.

"Almost there, just a bit more!" Gu Shanhai gritted his teeth, running and setting fires along the way.

Behind him, members of the Imperial Army were in hot pursuit, and he felt a fire burning in his chest.

His current body was that of an ordinary person, with its physical limits, yet managing to toss black gunpowder while leading the Imperial Army on a chase was already quite impressive.

Exhaustion began to surge, but Gu Shanhai forced himself to stay alert; the Imperial Palace had descended into chaos, and he himself could hardly believe that he had actually succeeded.

"Jinluan Palace is already on fire, if you don’t go put it out now, it’ll be too late," Gu Shanhai shouted over his shoulder.

Then, half of the Imperial Army split off to check it out, not because they believed Gu Shanhai, but because they simply had to go; the situation had become unbelievably chaotic.

Of course, that was a bluff by Gu Shanhai, as with the collapsing legacy, his power was gradually returning.

What returned first were his various sixth senses, allowing him to acutely sense that he was in great danger, with ominous signs drawing closer.

If he couldn’t disrupt the legacy before it fought back, he would be done for.

The appearance of the Imperial Army behind him also began to distort, like a mosaic that had been bent out of shape. If not for the armor they wore, Gu Shanhai might not have even recognized them.

The world was losing its truth, bit by bit; this was the final counterattack.

"Even the black gunpowder is looking weird now, I wonder if it can still be used," Gu Shanhai couldn’t help but remark as he saw the gunpowder changing in his hand.

Without hesitation, he threw it towards the nearby sleeping palace.

He didn’t know if the Jinluan Palace had caught fire, but he was certain the Emperor was in this distorted palace; don’t ask him how he knew, it was just intuition.

At this moment, Gu Shanhai had no choice but to trust his own intuition; he had no other path to take.

An ear-piercing noise erupted, not the normal explosion of black gunpowder, but a sharp sound, obviously caused by distortion.

A massive amount of mosaics collapsed, and Gu Shanhai was hit by a violent shockwave.

Broken, distorted matter flowed out as if it were some kind of slime.

In that instant, everything fell apart, and Gu Shanhai opened his eyes in a flash, a torrent of Spiritual Energy pouring into his mouth and nose.

"Damn it, I’m out; this thing is really a trap," Gu Shanhai muttered after opening up the Magic Domain, massaging his temples as he experienced an intense pain in his mind.

His consciousness had just been pulled into the legacy, and if he truly died in there, his body would die as well.

Under normal circumstances, one could only leave after completing the legacy, but Gu Shanhai had disrupted it from the inside in a more provocative manner; now the legacy was probably ruined, with a ninety percent chance of that, and a ten percent chance it could still be used, though riddled with BUGs.

"This thing’s level is too far beyond me; I didn’t even have time to react before my consciousness was dragged inside," Gu Shanhai felt helpless as the disparity in strength was too great; even with all his defenses, he would be crushed under the weight of a higher level and attributes.

"Concentrated liquid source of Spiritual Energy, this is a huge win," Gu Shanhai could confirm that this was indeed the source of the world’s Spiritual Energy.

In the darkness, Gu Shanhai saw something flash by in the distance, emitting a kind of light.

The light moved towards him at great speed.

Before Gu Shanhai could react, the light entered his forehead.

"Eh, did I pass the legacy test?" Gu Shanhai was puzzled as he looked at the legacy in his mind.

He had never expected it, probably because the legacy was ruined, and it had no choice but to choose him; otherwise, even with BUGs, it wouldn’t have gone to a failure like him.

"Indeed, fortune and misfortune go hand in hand," Gu Shanhai couldn’t help but feel emotional, and then he decided to flip through and see what this legacy that could be called an opportunity was all about.

However, upon seeing the name of the legacy, Gu Shanhai’s face twisted as if he was wearing a mask of agony.

"Jiu Juez deserves to be dismembered; to hell with Inner Core Skill, why are you involved in everything!!!" Gu Shanhai was completely agitated.

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