I Don't Agree to the Terms
Chapter 301 - 176: Post-War Wasteland, New School of Cultivation_2

Chapter 301: Chapter 176: Post-War Wasteland, New School of Cultivation_2

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Therefore, it was inevitable to encounter some strangely shaped things on the way.

For example, right now, Gu Shanhai saw a huge bird lurking in the clouds, constantly drawing moisture to nourish itself.

"A bit familiar-looking," Gu Shanhai glimpsed from afar, his gaze piercing through the clouds, and he saw a monster similar to a large bird.

It had the form of an owl with a human face, pheasant body, and canine tail.

"Human-faced Owl, how come this thing still exists?"

Gu Shanhai was somewhat curious; he knew this world housed mystical beings such as mountain ghosts. Now he’d actually encountered a Human-faced Owl in the sky, which was also a stroke of good luck.

According to the tales, it could bring about severe drought—seems like the Human-faced Owl was quite scientific; just dry up the moisture in the clouds, and naturally, there would be no rain, thus drought wouldn’t be unusual.

The one from the Classic of Mountains and Seas should be a different breed, that one was stronger; its drought ability was like a law or rule, impossible to resist, unlike this world’s Human-faced Owl, which seemed a bit lame.

"Such high radiation levels, so could this creature be some kind of Spiritual Beast that mutated due to radiation..." Gu Shanhai commented.

The Human-faced Owl of this world sounds quite impressive but, in reality, it’s just an owl. It got the name Human-faced Owl because its face resembles a human’s, not because it actually has a human face.

"Jumbo ’coo-coo chicken’ mutated into this, kind of... fuck!" Gu Shanhai hadn’t finished speaking when he saw the Human-faced Owl coming at him, its claws far from small.

Clearly, it was planning to have Gu Shanhai for dinner.

As for why it wasn’t Little White, that was simple; Little White was too big. Owls prey on mice, and even if a proportionally larger Human-faced Owl didn’t eat mice, it wouldn’t go after a creature much larger than itself.

Gu Shanhai’s size was just right for the Human-faced Owl’s diet—a jumbo mouse.

Little White was quick to react, charging straight at it, its massive antlers hitting the Human-faced Owl’s sharp claws.

Bang~

The hunting Human-faced Owl was directly sent flying, obviously a bit hollow inside despite its formidable exterior.

Its size was such a waste.

After being sent flying, the Human-faced Owl naturally panicked and fled. It wanted to go, but Gu Shanhai wasn’t about to let it leave so easily at this juncture.

You can choose to start a war, but when to end it is up to Gu Shanhai.

The Azure Dragon poked its head out, expelling Dragon Breath.

This was none other than the Mana halo· Light Beam version.

The Dragon Breath hit the Human-faced Owl directly, instantly triggering a host of negative states inside it, from burning to freezing, then to curses and deadly poison and so on—soul stricken, it fell straight from the sky.

"Overestimated this thing, it really is just a mutated owl..." Gu Shanhai commented.

He thought he really stumbled upon a Human-faced Owl.

Little White charged forward, and Gu Shanhai reached out to catch the faltering owl.

"This thing is truly a case of fake bulkiness, such a huge clump, but aside from the height, the rest is all fluffy feathers," Gu Shanhai grabbed the mutant owl’s claws, inspecting them carefully.

Although it wasn’t a true Human-faced Owl, it was indeed not light, weighing at least about seven tons, roughly equal to an adult African elephant.

"Holy shit, how does this thing even fly?" Gu Shanhai couldn’t quite understand but was certain of one thing—he had struck gold.

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"How strange, how did I end up picking this thing up?" Gu Shanhai was somewhat at a loss for words.

He suspected that it was because of his Previous Life Biluo or perhaps his identity as a reincarnated mountain ghost that led to this chance, otherwise, it would be impossible to stumble upon such a good thing out of the blue.

"Wait, it’s a good thing for me, but thinking about it differently, could it be a harbinger of death..."

With the abilities of Previous Life Biluo and the status formed by the pages of the Time History Book, Gu Shanhai had completely integrated into the indigenous population of this world, he was not undocumented, so encountering a harbinger of death was also to be expected.

Determining whose harbinger of death it was, was simple, if Gu Shanhai died, it would be his, if the mutated owl died then it would be its harbinger of death.

"Fine, there’s no gain without sacrifice, either way, it’s my profit," said Gu Shanhai with a smile as he collected the mutated owl.

The issue of cause and effect was not a burden with many debts, he would simply use the power of Previous Life Biluo to forcibly sever it and then make his escape.

If he encountered players from his past life who had fully developed their karmic relationships, he would still be wary, but the karmic system of a world, to put it bluntly, was just rigid rules, he was concerned but not yet at the point of despair.

Not to mention, Gu Shanhai was a player of the Heavenly Mechanism Flow, and although his own lack of strength allowed the chaos of the heavenly mechanism to interfere with him, if he really had to bet his life on it, many problems were not problems in his eyes.

"It’s something to relieve the boredom on the road, too." Gu Shanhai took out a level 1 anesthesia pill and stuffed it directly into the mutated owl’s mouth.

This anesthesia pill was an upgraded version of the paralyzing pill, capable of inducing deep comas without the worry of body harm like the paralyzing pill, at most it just caused perpetual sleep, with no pain upon death.

He hadn’t administered the anesthesia pill to Fan Shi before because the other party wasn’t valuable enough, and Gu Shanhai was reluctant to waste it, but now this mutated owl qualified.

He wanted to find out how this owl managed to fly with such body weight and size, it was simply unscientific, and what Gu Shanhai needed to find was this unscientific aspect.

"Next, we’ll proceed with the first round of dissection, the feathers need to be shaved." Gu Shanhai opened up the Magic Domain, creating a sterile laboratory.

The portable laboratory had been abandoned, as it now served as Gu Shanhai’s personal storage space.

The reason, naturally, was that various equipment couldn’t compare with his manual operation, and anything lacking precision had to be discarded.

With the aid of various Spirit Plants, Gu Shanhai no longer needed these equipment as much. Those Spirit Plants truly worked double duty, not only regenerating like leeks for his medicine, but also serving as experimental aids—they fueled the fire and drove the vehicle, something that would make any capitalist weep.

"The feathers are quite ordinary, their main function is insulation." Gu Shanhai didn’t immediately study the mutated owl itself but focused on its feathers first.

Apart from excessive radiation levels, no other characteristics were found.

As it stood in this world, there wasn’t anything that wasn’t irradiated over the limit.

"The organs exhibit various degrees of mutation, initially determined as negative, it seems to be pathology caused by radiation," Gu Shanhai continued, cutting open the mutated owl’s chest cavity.

With further understanding, Gu Shanhai gradually realized that it wasn’t so much that the mutated owl preferred to stay high in the sky, but that the abnormalities caused by its own radiation required it to obtain sufficient moisture.

It couldn’t just drink from the river because consuming too much water would lead to water intoxication, unable to bear the resulting burden.

Basically, it needed to drink water but couldn’t drink too much, just by chance it found the clouds, where the moisture content and method of intake perfectly matched its survival mode.

"Damn, I need to speed things up, or it’s going to die soon." Gu Shanhai looked at the gradually declining life signs of the mutated owl, feeling somewhat speechless.

"It’s no wonder that Cultivators have developed new schools and new techniques, it’s not that they have wild imaginations, but if they don’t adapt to the times, they will die."

Radiation, mutation, these have never been good words, perhaps some people have gained strength through them, but such individuals are probably one in ten thousand, and most are more likely to die from various pathologies.

Like this mutated owl, radiation mutation had granted it size and strength it never had before, but that was hardly a good thing. From the dissection, Gu Shanhai could see it was constantly suffering from pain, relying only on cloud moisture to relieve its own agony.

This made it unable to stay away from the clouds for any length of time, so hunting was very difficult, often feasting and then starving. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have attacked Gu Shanhai on sight.

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