149: Chapter 149 Ocean Kingdom

"No way, man. Who has so much free time that they're reporting my Xianyu Marketplace listing? And a bunch of people spamming reports at once!"

Gu Han stared at the violation notification popping up on his handheld device screen regarding the removal of his goods, feeling completely baffled.

It clearly displayed that his account had been banned due to numerous user complaints about fraudulent transactions.

"Forget it, I'm not selling much anyway, so let them ban it." Gu Han swiped away the notification box, not bothering to appeal.

After all, he still had 2.3 billion credits left in his Divine Kingdom account. The black market software account had another 2.8 billion. Including the species consignment on the software, he was making almost 200 million a day; he had more than enough money to spend.

"Report it if you want, is the industry really this cutthroat now?" Gu Han casually shoved the handheld device into his pocket and downed the soy milk on the table in one gulp.

Just as the bell for class was about to ring, Gu Han snuck into the classroom right on time and found a seat in the corner of the last row.

He had already learned this kind of theoretical course back in high school; usually, he would just show up to check in and then catch up on sleep in the back row.

But today's class was about Oceanic Divine Kingdom ecology, so he had to take it seriously.

While scrolling through the lecture slides on his tablet, Gu Han reviewed the situation of the four invading demigods' divine kingdoms in his mind. After the reconnaissance and investigation by the Ant-men, he basically had a clear picture.

The Lizardman Demigod and the Troll Demigod would be the easiest to take down. In that battle in the Wild Sand Realm, those two had basically lost all their Advanced believers, and their foundations were severely damaged.

Now, all that remained were low-level believers around Level 5. Although there were hundreds of thousands of them, in Gu Han's eyes, they were just a bunch of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

The Lizardman Demigod's divine kingdom was about 70,000 square kilometers, and the Troll Demigod's was 50,000 square kilometers.

"Perfect." Gu Han drew a circle on his tablet. "I'll use the low-level believers of these two demigods to let the newly promoted Tier 2 Ant-man Race practice, and see the actual combat power of the 'Star-Shattering' battle technique. I'll also use this opportunity to test out those flying lawnmowers crossbred from the Blade Mantises."

He would capture the low-level prisoners alive and keep them in captivity.

The Snake-man Demigod would be a bit tougher to chew. The divine kingdom was over 70,000 square kilometers, with over 2,000 Level 8 believers, over 50,000 Level 6 or 7 believers, and as many as 900,000 low-level believers underneath.

It counted as a decent, formidable enemy; he could bring his dad, that divine weapon, along.

But what really gave Gu Han a headache was the strongest one, the Level 9 Raging Tide Demigod.

About 100,000 square kilometers!

This area was catching up to the size of Gu Han's current divine kingdom.

The military configuration was so luxurious it made one's scalp tingle. In the Raging Tide Demigod's divine kingdom, there were over 1,000 Level 9 believers, 30,000 Level 8 believers, and a full 200,000 Level 6 or 7 believers!

The remaining low-level believers numbered as high as two million. Besides that, there was the vassal Shark-man Race with a maximum level of 5, numbering about 100,000, and countless other marine creatures of all sizes.

The most annoying part was that the Raging Tide Demigod's divine kingdom was a deep-sea environment.

Most of the Ant-man Race under Gu Han were land units; even the newly created Stingray Ant-men were just scouts.

To deal with this tough nut, Gu Han had previously set up web crawlers on forums and intelligent encyclopedias, turning the Raging Tide Demigod's background upside down.

People with "exclusive believers" like this were basically wearing their ID cards around their believers' necks; one check and you'd find them immediately.

Fortunately, Gu Han had spread the Ant-man Race widely back then, and they were everywhere on the market; otherwise, if someone followed the clues, he would undoubtedly end up like these Divine Lords who possessed exclusive believers.

The Raging Tide Demigod's real-world identity was Song Ren, the twenty-ninth son of the shipping magnate in Yungang City, who had reached the Level 9 Peak at only twenty-six years old.

Following this logic, the other three demigods were also likely from Yungang City, probably Song Ren's lackeys or from the same circle.

In reality, Jiangcheng was very far from Yungang, separated by several provinces. As long as nothing unexpected happened, the matter of the Divine Kingdom War would be hard to trace.

The Raging Tide Race belonged to rune creatures. They used initial runes to cultivate Laws to shape their bodies, absorbing spiritual charm to maintain their bodily functions. Their path was somewhat like Body Refining, also relying on eating things to accumulate power of the Origin.

The key point was that rune creatures had no lifespan limit and no distinction between male and female; they relied entirely on splitting the initial runes to increase the number of their race.

But they had a fatal flaw: the runes would undergo entropy increase over time.

If they couldn't comprehend the Laws in time to repair and perfect the runes, the rune creatures would slowly degenerate until they completely dissipated.

This was also the biggest problem Gu Han was currently facing.

Song Ren was currently possessing a Level 9 believer, trapped in the passage of Gu Han's divine kingdom. He had no idea how fast this rune entropy increase was, so he couldn't estimate the specific time of the believer's death at all.

Once that believer died due to rune degeneration, Song Ren's consciousness would automatically return to reality!

At that point, there would definitely be a risk of being found offline.

He had to conquer this oceanic divine kingdom and destroy its core in the shortest possible time!

With the experience from the previous Cyst Demon demigod, destroying the ecosystem was still the first step.

Gu Han had previously scattered a wave of high-concentration deadly poison into the opponent's divine kingdom, and immediately activated [brain storage] to send it over.

The result was useless; it only poisoned some creatures in the nearby sea area.

Gu Han raised his head, looked at the old professor on the podium who was spitting as he lectured, and decisively raised his hand.

"Professor." Gu Han called out.

The old professor stopped lecturing, adjusted the reading glasses on the bridge of his nose, and squinted at the back row: "Oh? It's student Gu Han, what is your question?"

"I would like to ask, if one wants to quickly destroy an oceanic ecosystem, how would they do it?"

The classroom instantly went silent. A few students in the front row turned around and looked at him as if he were a monster.

People are teaching how to build an ecosystem in class, and you're asking how to sabotage one?

The old professor deliberated for a moment. This Gu Han had the top grades in the county for cultural courses; there was no need for him to cause trouble on purpose.

He wasn't angry; instead, he stroked his chin and then spoke: "That's a very tricky angle. Our class is about how to maintain an oceanic ecosystem, which is quite complex and hard to understand. In fact, reasoning backward from the perspective of destruction is actually simpler and can deepen the understanding of the ecosystem. This is quite good."

Once these words were spoken, the expressions of all the students changed from being ready to watch a joke to astonishment. Gu Han was truly worthy of being Gu Han; no wonder his grades were good, his perspective on looking at problems was just different.

"An oceanic divine kingdom is essentially a tank of stagnant water, lacking a perfect filtering ecosystem. To destroy it, one can start from several directions. First, oxygen content; second, temperature; third, the chain reaction of water quality and depth..."

Gu Han opened his mouth. Although he had been misunderstood, it seemed the result was no different.

The old professor nodded with satisfaction, and Gu Han had to awkwardly lower his hand.

And the professor was truly worthy of being a professor, starting to analyze the destruction of oceanic ecosystems from various angles, even touching upon real-world issues like nuclear wastewater and plastic waste pollution, and getting the students to start thinking about how to address these destructive methods and manage oceanic ecosystems.

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Brothers, I included some personal opinions while writing this chapter. It is mainly because today is the 1061st day since the Japanese pirates started discharging nuclear wastewater. This is the 21st round of ocean discharge, not the last time. They have completely treated the ocean as a dumping ground.

As an ordinary person, I can only be impotently furious, but I want everyone to know about this matter.

I am very sorry to interrupt your entertainment time. I will write a longer chapter next time to compensate you all.