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Chapter 430 - 241: A Puppet Play Named Hero Fighting the Demon King

Chapter 430: Chapter 241: A Puppet Play Named Hero Fighting the Demon King

Gu Shanhai successfully took over the Demon King City and even unprecedentedly ruled the entire Hero Continent, with many different races submitting to him.

But in truth, he didn’t do anything—the people below just took care of everything for him.

He didn’t even manage affairs; the various races continued to live as they had before, merely discussing how to divide the territory of the former Holy Empire.

Of course, there were no benefits left; Gu Shanhai had created a mess.

Correspondingly, though, he gained a lot, as the various races contributed a vast amount of knowledge that was pretty much pointless.

Gu Shanhai was now researching Demonic Qi, which is what the Demon King was composed of.

He discovered something—that Demonic Qi seemed to be continuously growing. While Gu Shanhai couldn’t trace its source, he did know what it was.

World negative energy.

It was formed by all kinds of negative emotions from the main world, dark desires within people’s hearts, and so forth. Because of this, the Demon King would never die; unless the main world was obliterated, even if the Demon King perished, the rebirth mechanism would kick in.

It had the same nature as Gu Shanhai’s Heart Demon avatar and Heart Demon protector, except Gu Shanhai could use these negative emotions and desires as his tools, whereas the world had no solution and could only intervene artificially, constantly sending Heroes over to clear up these useless scraps of trash.

Since there were many subsidiary worlds branching off, the Demon King’s level wasn’t very high; otherwise, if it all concentrated in one world, it could genuinely create a world-ending Demon King.

This was also why the Demonic Qi locked within Gu Shanhai continued to grow, but this growth didn’t affect him. When it increased, it was directly absorbed by his Heart Demon avatar as energy and by the Heart Demon protector, forming a completely new Evil Demon. This time, he had absorbed the most abundant and pure negative emotions and desires.

"What a pity, it’s a bit too little," Gu Shanhai lamented, looking at the mass of Demonic Qi, now only the size of a rice grain. Although it was still proliferating, it was in too small a quantity.

"I never expected that in this world, my greatest gain would actually be the Demon King," Gu Shanhai said, somewhat bemused.

After handling this matter, Gu Shanhai slowly took out the Goddess statue, which in his Mother-child Grass was just an ordinary statue.

But that was okay, he had gained knowledge on how the Holy Kingdom’s Royal Family summoned Heroes and bestowed blessings upon them. In essence, it was like a program, possibly involving a certain Goddess, although she was unlikely to watch over such a world.

He had tried analyzing it and confirmed that summoning transmigrated Heroes required specific conditions—a threshold of world negative energy in the subsidiary world must be met to trigger it. The Holy Kingdom was responsible for guiding, not summoning. They didn’t have the power; it was more like meeting someone at a train station, not calling them over.

That was, after the Demon King reached level 100, the Goddess statue would arrange for a main world’s couch potato to die and come to the Hero Continent to save the world.

Thinking about it, the couch potato truly had it rough.

Now the world’s negative energy threshold was extremely low, since it was all absorbed by Gu Shanhai, preventing the Goddess statue from running autonomously.

"The program is too rigid; I bet most of the technology was used for monitoring the world’s negative energy threshold," Gu Shanhai said, but he also didn’t dare to blaspheme— who knew if the other party had a corresponding detection device.

He actually had another idea, which was to see if he could go to other Hero Continents.

It wasn’t like there was only one Hero Continent in the subsidiary worlds. The one he was in was really only the size of a province, with little value. However, if he went to plague... execute justice in more Hero Continents, the small gains could accumulate to something substantial.

But Gu Shanhai had no way of crossing the barriers between worlds, let alone that the Hero World’s main world had a far higher energy level than he could cope with, so he couldn’t use force.

Thus, Gu Shanhai had no choice but to figure out a way through this Goddess statue, which was likely a portal with some transport capabilities.

He didn’t bother with the Hero World’s main world; it was enough to mix into the subsidiary worlds.

His demands were actually not that high.

"It looks a bit difficult," Gu Shanhai sighed. The Goddess statue’s technology was a bit too advanced; he couldn’t crack it.

Mainly because in this Hero Continent, he had researched all there was to study. He had dealt with the Demon King, and the Demon King Army, which belonged to the Demon King, was essentially a special race.

He had also studied that Forest Dragon. The fact that it spewed out vines was actually a form of rapid growth.

The Forest Dragon’s body had a symbiotic relationship with certain special plants, and when the dragon breathed out, it could use magic power to quickly grow these plants’ seeds. Therefore, when the Dragon Breath was exhaled, the seeds were carried with it, and the Dragon Breath would ripen and infuse the seeds with magic power, turning the rapidly grown plants into powerful beings with magic, far surpassing their normal state.

Correspondingly, the plants spewed out through the Dragon Breath had extremely short lifespans—some might last just a day or two, while others less than a minute.

After conducting his research, Gu Shanhai also had substantial findings, particularly regarding the special Dragon Breath and the symbiosis. Though crude compared to Gu Shanhai’s own techniques and systems, they had their advantages—there is something to learn from everyone.