I Don't Agree to the Terms
Chapter 293 - 172: Whose Three Lives are Replaying_2

Chapter 293: Chapter 172: Whose Three Lives are Replaying_2

And Hu Mazi only felt a slight coldness at his wound, just about to speak, when he abruptly noticed that his vision was growing dim and his body began to feel weak.

It felt to him as if a completely new person was gradually replacing him from within his heart.

"I... Ugh~" Just as Hu Mazi was about to ask what was wrong with him, a low bear growl instead emerged from his throat.

The last image he saw before his consciousness faded was black fur sprouting on his swollen hands.

Gu Shanhai watched the new Bear-man come into being and couldn’t help nodding, "Actually, I had higher hopes for the plague potion."

"But the Bear-man will do, too. After all, it’s all the same."

In Hu Mazi’s eyes, perhaps the Frenzied Bear Potion seemed more formidable because it included ’bear,’ but in reality, to Gu Shanhai, it was all the same. The subject of the flesh transformation was Hu Mazi, not the cow, mouse, or bear. It was merely about bestowing corresponding strength and modifications. The true power still depended on the subject himself.

"What a pity, the Spiritual Intelligence isn’t great; otherwise, I would have gone into arms dealing," Gu Shanhai sighed. The creature attacked on sight and could only be controlled to a certain extent by him, beyond his complete control. Had he not set up a whitelist beforehand, the creature would even dare to lay a paw on him.

If Gu Shanhai decided to delve deeper, he could indeed further optimize it, but the optimization had limited potential and didn’t offer many benefits.

He didn’t practice the lord or legion styles; there weren’t many benefits. As for cultivating it for the Mana Radiance, that would be absurd. These modified monsters were alive, meaning he’d have to care for their every need, which was far less convenient than deploying spells like ’sprouting soldiers from beans.’ Even the Daoist soldier and horse figurines, which were a lesser hassle, would be preferred.

The Daoist soldiers belonged to the Yin Soldiers and Ghosts, Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals, relying on incense and mana streams. Their daily consumption and cultivation didn’t require such fuss.

Therefore, these modified monsters weren’t cost-effective for Gu Shanhai. On the contrary, they could become a daily life burden, hence why they were shelved.

They would only be of use when entering mid-tier regions. In a high-tier world, they had little to no use.

"Let’s see, how many are still alive." Gu Shanhai drew several more syringes of the Frenzied Bear Potion, injecting each of the Hu Mountain Bandits who were pretending to be dead or were indeed unconscious.

"Seven Bear-men, wonder if that’s enough."

Having seen this, Gu Shanhai regretted not stopping Little White’s stomping attack sooner. If Little White hadn’t held back, there wouldn’t have been a single survivor.

"All set, and then tomorrow I’ll raid the wedding. Hopefully, the Heavenly Immortals will manage to build up Yu Niang’s favorability."

If they failed to win her over, Gu Shanhai would have to enter the fray himself.

Of course, he didn’t mean to take Yu Niang away but to kill the opposition.

The Bear-men definitely couldn’t handle it; they were just there to buy some time.

Yu Niang’s favorability was probably far harder to cultivate than that of the average native. In a state of being in love and having a partner, it naturally wasn’t easy to sway her, especially since the favorability would reset—anyone else would have given up trying.

Luckily, none of this really affected Gu Shanhai. Glancing at the time, he realized it was still early, the perfect moment to cultivate for a while.

"You’ve already come this far, why hide and skulk about?"

At midnight, Gu Shanhai suddenly spoke.

The person he recognized was that very special Yue Niang.

She was just an ordinary person and had already been detected by Gu Shanhai before she even got close to Hu Mountain Cave.

Initially, Gu Shanhai didn’t really want to bother with her; she could go wherever she wanted. By now, such a key character was actually not so key anymore, especially since Gu Shanhai had decided to further suppress Yu Niang through other means when his two teammates couldn’t win her over. Yue Niang had lost her value.

Had she not been spying on him, Gu Shanhai wouldn’t have considered noticing her.

"What exactly are you?" Yue Niang came in and asked directly.

"Good question!" Gu Shanhai gave a thumbs up, showing that someone finally asked him this question, and then he said, "I am the close friend of the Friend of gods, the guiding light of the Red Dragon King, the uncle of the Dashu Martial God!"

Gu Shanhai said this while pulling out all sorts of parchments, imperial decrees, and the like, the kind of stuff other people didn’t have, but he had plenty of.

Yue Niang didn’t know what to say when she saw this scene; she was speechless.

"So you’re not from the Xuanwei Sect?" A glint flashed through Yue Niang’s eyes.

"..." Gu Shanhai, seeing this, was a little speechless. That glint was a bit too dazzling...

After thinking for a bit, a glint flashed in his eyes too. It wasn’t that he really flashed; it was actually photosynthesis through the Spirit Plant in his eyeball, forming Mana Radiance, something akin to the Flash Technique.

"Your eyes... why can they shine?" Yue Niang looked at Gu Shanhai’s glowing eyeballs, somewhat at a loss.

"Oh, you just had a flash of brilliance in your eyes too, isn’t that the way you asked the question?" Gu Shanhai was somewhat puzzled; had he guessed wrong?

"How could human eyes possibly flash light?" Yue Niang said somewhat speechlessly.

"?!!" For the first time, Gu Shanhai was utterly shocked.

You flash brilliance yourself but tell others their eyes can’t flash light; isn’t that nonsense?

Watching Gu Shanhai’s dumbfounded expression, Yue Niang also composed herself and then said, "So, are you really from the Xuanwei Sect or not?"

"No, I have quite a grudge against them." Gu Shanhai also put aside the matter of her flashing eyes for now; it wasn’t too late to ask about it when he had free time later.

"That being said, how do you know about the Xuanwei Sect? Under normal circumstances, whether it’s Yu Niang or you, you shouldn’t be able to come into contact with the Xuanwei Sect, even Fan Shi just had a few chats with them," Gu Shanhai raised his doubt.

"Do you want to leave Qingxian Town?" Yue Niang didn’t answer, but instead asked again.

"What, can you break the cycle of Qingxian Town?" Gu Shanhai didn’t answer either. If the other party was giving him riddles, then naturally, he would give them a taste of their own medicine.

Not willing to reveal anything, just coming at him with all this mystical nonsense, truly thinking they were some big shot.

"I can! As long as the tragedy of Yu Niang is prevented, success is possible, and I think you all guessed that already," Yue Niang stated the obvious.

"Look, can you stop giving me this run-around? You’ve tried to prevent it who knows how many times; has it succeeded?" Gu Shanhai rolled his eyes. If she kept it up, he was thinking of having Little White give her a charging trample combo.

"I can’t stop it, I am more of a bystander relative to you. Yu Niang is not on guard against me, but she also won’t act according to my ideas. She will continue to lose control, cycle, lose control again, and cycle again, endlessly," Yue Niang said with a helpless expression.

"So, you are the painting that the Xuanwei Sect sent back then," Gu Shanhai asked when the time was right, his doubt surfacing. As for his other guess about the whole Qingxian Town being inside that painting, he’d ask that later.

Yue Niang was momentarily stunned; she didn’t expect Gu Shanhai to ask such a question, and then shook her head, "Not really, I... am Yu Niang’s next life."

"Holy shit!" Gu Shanhai’s expression changed upon hearing this. He had not at all expected it to be such a situation.

How could a person’s next life appear with their current one? If past and present lives appeared together, that might be possible, but for a future life to appear in the present timeline was akin to reincarnation.

"What about the painting?" Gu Shanhai pressed on.

Now it wasn’t about puzzling over Yue Niang’s situation; his intuition told him that Yue Niang, this future-life person appearing here, must be related to that painting.

"It is Yu Niang’s past life and the root of everything. It is because the three lifetimes came together that Qingxian Town has been caught in an endless cycle," Yue Niang said solemnly, her shadow under the moonlight reflecting a figure very familiar to Gu Shanhai.

"This whole damn continuation is still connected, you think you’re telling a crosstalk or what," Gu Shanhai was at a loss for words.