I Don't Agree to the Terms
Chapter 466 - 259: The Four Directions, Sun and Moon, Dazhuo Village

Chapter 466: Chapter 259: The Four Directions, Sun and Moon, Dazhuo Village

"Another deep, old forest, why couldn’t it have been placed somewhere easier to access?"

Gu Shanhai, riding on Little White’s back, couldn’t help but complain, but he quickly realized that if it had been easy to retrieve, someone else would have long taken the opportunity.

"It should be around here, I guess. Let me do a divination." Gu Shanhai decided to make a sacrifice to avoid making a mess by acting rashly.

"The full strategy pack costs ten thousand years of life? Does it really require that much?"

After seeing the price, he was startled. If he used methods of the Evil Path to gamble, he could probably get it in just one month’s lifespan. However, that might lead to some accidents and would also deplete the world’s favorability towards him.

If someone were to fleece Gu Shanhai, he wouldn’t have a fondness for that person either.

Although the world’s favorability is just a metaphor, it also influences things like fortune.

Fortune is incredibly hard to increase, but reducing it is as easy as eating or drinking.

"Forget it, ten thousand years it is. I’ve got an extended lifespan, so I’m not resorting to the ways of the Evil Path."

Previously, Gu Shanhai had a protagonist to back him in different worlds, but this world was so unique that there was no protagonist. Anyone had the potential to turn the tide and become the hero of the era, so he had refrained from misuse.

Speaking of the real protagonist, Gu Shanhai suspected it was the force formed by the Sun and Moon Daoist Soldiers, suggesting that an entire force could be the protagonist rather than a single individual.

After paying ten thousand years of lifespan, Gu Shanhai duly received the relevant strategy guide.

This guide wasn’t just tactics; it also contained background information and related secrets.

"This world is really honest, not only providing a strategy but also after-sales service." Gu Shanhai nearly teared up with gratitude. He had been to many worlds, used prophetic divination countless times, but this world had treated him the best, though the energy levels were a bit high. Otherwise, it would be perfect.

The military treatise was titled "Sun and Moon Military Method," capable of cultivating beings known as Sun and Moon Daoist Soldiers. It was authored by the Four Directions Marshals, known for their distinguished military service in the previous dynasty. It was a pity he died from his achievements overshadowing the Emperor.

After all, once you’re called the Four Directions Marshal, where does that leave the Emperor?

On his deathbed, he entrusted a friend to take his military treatise to prevent it from being lost as his whole family was executed.

Ten years after the Marshal’s death, barbarians invaded, and the founder of the Long Dynasty restored order, inadvertently shortening his reign.

The Sun and Moon Daoist Soldiers were considered among the most elite, possessing nine abilities, which enhanced differently at day and night times, effectively making it eighteen effects.

Daoist Soldiers also have ranks, divided into upper, middle, and lower classes.

Having just one ability made a Daoist Soldier lower-low class, while Sun and Moon Daoist Soldiers, bearing nine abilities, were upper-upper class, the strongest kind.

However, the ranking system wasn’t so strict. Some people with corresponding talents could deduce and enhance the original military methods, gradually improving the Daoist Soldiers’ abilities.

"So... should I still go over?" Gu Shanhai, looking at the prophetic images tied to the full text of the "Sun and Moon Military Method," fell silent.

Right, the world had sent over the content directly...

Meaning he spent ten thousand years of lifespan not only on the strategy and after-sales but also unintentionally skipped the process.

Thus, the current situation was somewhat unexpected.

Had he known this, he wouldn’t have come, and could have just made his sacrifice back in Cansang Village. Who could have anticipated the world being so straightforward? It felt as though someone was holding a knife to the world’s neck, forcing it to spill secrets.

It gave Gu Shanhai the illusion of everything going smoothly.

"Forget it, I might as well go inside, there are also military supplies left by the Four Directions Marshal that I can pick up." Gu Shanhai pondered for a moment. Since he was already here, leaving just like that didn’t seem right. At the very least, he should take the equipment while he was at it.

Consequently, Gu Shanhai pushed open the door to a rather dilapidated wooden hut nearby.

"The first challenge should involve playing a game against the Marshal’s specter, as long as I win... wait a second, where’s the specter?"

Gu Shanhai, after entering, encountered a significant issue—why hadn’t the specter been triggered? He had the strategy, but the challenge didn’t appear.

After waiting for three minutes, he confirmed that the first challenge was damaged.

"Has it been too long, causing the test to become invalid???" Gu Shanhai cursed. It seemed he just breezed through the first challenge.

Moving on to the second, third challenge... all the challenges were the same, leaving Gu Shanhai at a loss for words.

"Damn, big loss, such a big loss..."

Looking at the military supplies and tactics he had obtained, he was dumbfounded. Even more absurdly, because of the passage of time, all these supplies had turned into ordinary ones.

In an immortal world or Fantasy World, eight or nine hundred years wouldn’t be considered long. But this world was different, neither Sun and Moon Daoist Soldiers nor Daoist Soldiers were immortal. Even if you were powerful, your lifespan would barely exceed a hundred years.

Moreover, all technological advancements focused on military methods. So, after losing the Sun and Moon Daoist Soldiers and Daoist Soldiers, these military supplies also lost their special abilities and function, eventually fading into obscurity.

For talented individuals like the Four Directions Marshals, it was their genius that established the renown of the military supplies, not their reliance on the equipment to prosper.