I Don't Agree to the Terms
Chapter 359 - 205: Why does the description of this ancient magical treasure sound a bit familiar?_2

Chapter 359: Chapter 205: Why does the description of this ancient magical treasure sound a bit familiar?_2

After checking, Gu Shanhai realized the situation was quite serious.

"This damn thing is out of power, no wonder it couldn’t hold up!!!"

After a thorough inspection, Gu Shanhai discovered one thing; the reason for the collapse was that the array and talismans used for repairs had exhausted all their mana, causing them to fail.

It’s not that they failed all at once, but gradually, and finally they couldn’t hold up anymore, leading to the collapse.

"If I’d known earlier, I would’ve run some electrical wires." Gu Shanhai looked at the ruins of the Five Elements Sect’s main hall with a hint of helplessness.

The Mountain Gate Array was still intact, since it was connected directly to the Earth Vein for self-protection, but he hadn’t connected it to the main hall because it was just something he had thrown together for a place to live. After some patching up, the wiring became a chaotic mess, and Gu Shanhai simply let it be.

When building the Five Elements Sect, he naturally spent most of the time on the Mountain Gate Array, sorting out the Earth Veins, and such. The living area was of lesser concern.

"No wonder Loose Cultivators choose cave dwellings instead of building their own houses," Gu Shanhai suddenly realized.

Loose Cultivators really do live in caves, of course, not ordinary ones, but those formed around Spirit Veins in rugged mountain ranges, deriving from the Spirit Vein itself.

Generally speaking, as long as Loose Cultivators don’t disturb the Spirit Veins, even if they live in cavities formed around them, the Chengyun Sect wouldn’t care too much. These places of concentrated Spiritual Energy sound nice, but in reality, they are just bits and pieces that have escaped from the Spirit Veins. The big sects take the lion’s share, so they ought to leave some leftovers for the Loose Cultivators.

Now it seems that it’s likely just because Loose Cultivators can’t build houses. With the time it takes, they might as well clean out a cave and set it up. Not only will they be closer to the areas of concentrated Spiritual Energy, but it also saves a lot of trouble.

"But that won’t work for me; I need to dig down."

Digging down was no problem; he had already dug, but the problem was that the underground was his laboratory, which was already occupied.

"Oh well, I need to get some limestone and clay from the sect, make some cement and then just pour..." Gu Shanhai was thinking of just pouring out a new Five Elements Sect main hall when it hit him that he couldn’t just pour it out of nowhere. He still had to tie rebar, nail wooden boards, and so on.

Upon further thought, the workload seemed even larger than just haphazard construction.

"If that won’t work, I guess I’ll build a wooden hut, much easier." Gu Shanhai sighed, and eventually, he rummaged through the ruins of the main hall to see if there were any materials he could use to put together a decent wooden hut.

"At a time like this, why would someone come to visit me when I don’t even have a place to entertain them?" Gu Shanhai glanced over, recognizing his fair-weather friend Chang Fei, who was the kind that never showed up without a benefit in sight.

He probably heard some news and came to Gu Shanhai looking for a handout.

Initially, he might have come to curry favor, but now it’s simply to exchange some information with Gu Shanhai for something.

"Mr. Chang, are you in trouble?" The moment Chang Fei arrived, he was somewhat shocked to see the collapsed main hall. He had not expected someone to be so reckless as to provoke the obviously troublesome Gu Shanhai.

"Oh, no, the main hall just collapsed from disrepair," Gu Shanhai didn’t hide the truth.

However, judging from Chang Fei’s expression, he clearly didn’t believe it.

"We can’t have tea today; why don’t you come back another day, Mr. Chang?" Gu Shanhai issued an eviction notice as he wasn’t in the mood for chatting. He didn’t even have a place to stay for the night.

"No problem, no problem, I’ve brought my own," Chang Fei said shamelessly.

"..." Gu Shanhai was at a loss for words. You’ve picked up some news, and you’re in such a rush to cash in, afraid someone else will beat you to it, aren’t you?

Of course, Gu Shanhai wanted the freshest news. If someone brought the same news, Gu Shanhai certainly wouldn’t pay for it, so those who came later would be out of luck.

"Fine, it’s a good opportunity to have a drink and quench my thirst," Gu Shanhai said as he took a seat to chat with the other person. He vowed to show what it meant to be in a tight spot if it was just some trivial gossip.

Chang Fei quickly pulled out the teaware and began to brew the tea.

"Do you know that not long ago, the Luoyuan Sect was eradicated by someone?" Chang Fei asked, stirring the tea mysteriously.

"I have no idea. Do you know something inside?" Gu Shanhai really didn’t know about these matters; it was just a minor sect, even if it had once been the setting for the protagonist’s adventures, it was just that.

"Of course I do; it was Shen Heng who made the move. After vanishing for years, he had been refining a magical item."

"The artifact was a hundred zhang high, with a body of metal, sparked by flame, shaped like a human, capable of soaring the heavens and burrowing the earth. It was fierce and dreadful. Shen Heng, wielding the artifact, razed the mountain gate of the Luoyuan Sect with a distant blast of flame."

"But the sect leader of Luoyuan Sect, being at the Half-step Cave Soul stage, survived the attack, fighting back against Shen Heng even while gravely injured."

"However, the weapon refined by Shen Heng was not only unmatched in offense, but its defense was also incredibly formidable. Even the Half-step Cave Soul couldn’t make a scratch. In the end, he was turned to mincemeat by a colossal sword wielded by the mysterious artifact."

Listening to Chang Fei, Gu Shanhai felt that this description sounded somewhat familiar.

"Does this treasure have a name?" Gu Shanhai inquired.

"There is a name, an odd one at that. Shen Heng calls it the ’Giant God Mecha,’ but everyone else refers to it as the ’Giant Evil Puppet,’" Chang Fei had clearly done his homework.

Gu Shanhai thought ’damn it’ internally; the man had actually constructed a mecha. It seemed he had truly cast off the influence of the Xuanji Realm’s integration, completely reverting to his pre-transmigration mindset, and this mecha likely incorporated aspects of the Xuanji Realm’s cultivator system.

"Afterward, Shen Heng, in the Spirit Origin Stage, piloted this Giant Evil Puppet and killed three cultivators at Cave Soul Stage and contended with a Divine Phase powerhouse for three quarters, eventually withdrawing from a stalemate."

"This treasure truly seems miraculously extraordinary; it is unknown which ancient magical artifact it is."

Chang Fei couldn’t help but express his own admiration, wishing he could get a hold of it himself.

Meanwhile, Gu Shanhai fell silent, wondering if Shen Heng had some method to suppress his own crisis of awareness.

Firstly, the mecha was definitely not an ancient magical artifact as Chang Fei suggested, but rather a crystallization of intelligence from another world.

The might of the mecha was also within Gu Shanhai’s expectations; technology does not necessarily lose out to Immortal Demon magic.

It all boiled down to hardware and software. In terms of hardware, the Xuanji Realm had various celestial and terrestrial treasures, including countless rare metals and stones. Regarding software, if Shen Heng could create it, he must have attained considerable mastery in AI and programming, complemented naturally by the use of Spiritual Sense.

Gu Shanhai even guessed that Shen Heng was using himself as a power source, as at the Spirit Origin Stage, one has merged with a Spirit Vein, which is roughly the equivalent of a small nuclear fusion power plant. With high-quality energy and technology to compensate for his lack of combat power, overcoming higher levels should be no issue.

Technology, fundamentally, is a tool, and obtaining maximum benefits at the minimum cost is one of the purposes of its use.

This Giant God Mecha was likely one of Shen Heng’s world’s top-tier mechas, of course, probably not the very top. Gu Shanhai guessed that the most elite mecha should be comparable to the Peeping Dao Stage, but whether Shen Heng had mastered that technology was unclear.

"Is Shen Heng still being hunted down?" Gu Shanhai asked.

"Not really, while there are those who covet it, not everyone has the capacity to hunt him down," Chang Fei indicated that Shen Heng was temporarily safe for the moment; what would happen next was unknown to him.

"Truly a good opportunity: first a method to avoid calamity, and then an ancient magical artifact. This man really does have profound luck," Gu Shanhai remarked casually, just to play along.

In everyone’s eyes, Shen Heng was simply lucky to have refined an ancient magical artifact. The idea of him crafting it himself? That was impossible. How could a mere Spirit Origin Stage cultivator create an artifact comparable to the Upper Three Realms? Such an event violated the common knowledge of the Xuanji Realm. Overcoming one realm, they could comprehend, but surpassing three realms was beyond their understanding.

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