That day, Gu Changsheng was leisurely enjoying his wine in the courtyard. Three days ago, he had successfully persuaded Houtu to help him manage the human race and develop plans for their advancement, which made him feel particularly cheerful.
“It’s still best to be a hands-off manager. There’s no need to do everything yourself. What is power and influence? Just fleeting clouds!” Gu Changsheng crossed his legs, completely relaxed.
At this moment, Houtu arrived at Gu Changsheng's courtyard. Seeing him drinking so leisurely, a strange fire ignited within her. How wonderful, she was helping him manage the human race, while he was here drinking and enjoying himself.
“Yo? Grand Manager Houtu, is there something I can help you with?” Gu Changsheng asked with a smile upon seeing Houtu.
Hearing Gu Changsheng call her Grand Manager, veins popped out on Houtu's forehead.
“Don’t call me Grand Manager.” Houtu snorted coldly. This title reminded her of something unpleasant, only the head eunuch in a secular kingdom's palace would be called Grand Manager.
“Hehe!” Gu Changsheng knew the connotation of the title, he just wanted to tease Houtu. He didn't expect Houtu to know as well, it seemed she had learned a lot about the human race these past few days, which was a good thing.
“Speak, what is it?” Gu Changsheng asked.
“I need people from you.” Houtu said.
“Need people? Just go find Gu Wei.” Gu Changsheng said. He had already instructed that the entire Gu family would fully cooperate with Houtu.
“The people I need may not be strong, but the requirements can’t be too low.” Houtu said.
“Speak, what kind of people do you need?” Gu Changsheng asked.
“At least True Immortals!” Houtu said.
“Pfft.”
Gu Changsheng spat out the wine in his mouth. Houtu was standing right in front of him, and the wine landed directly on her face and chest. Houtu’s face instantly turned frosty.
“I'm sorry, I'm sorry.” Gu Changsheng said quickly, reaching for a handkerchief to give to Houtu, when Gu Youxian barged in.
“Grandpa, oh, Senior Houtu, you’re really here, um…”
Gu Youxian saw that Houtu's face was wet, and was immediately stunned. What was going on? Did he come at the wrong time?
Gu Youxian thought nervously.
Houtu calmly snatched the handkerchief from Gu Changsheng and wiped the wine from her face and chest.
“Cough cough, Youxian, what is it you need?” Gu Changsheng asked awkwardly.
“It’s like this, Gu Wei just came to me, saying that Senior Houtu needs helpers…”
“About that matter, Houtu was just discussing it with me.”
Gu Changsheng interrupted Gu Youxian, clearly Houtu had asked Gu Wei for people earlier, but the requirements were too high, so Gu Wei had to find Gu Youxian, and then Gu Youxian found him.
“Since Grandpa knows, then I won’t disturb you. You continue, you continue…”
After speaking, Gu Youxian ran away as fast as he could, even using the supreme movement technique, Shrinking the Earth to an Inch, afraid that if he ran any slower, something would happen.
“……”
“……”
Gu Changsheng and Houtu were both speechless. Gu Youxian was clearly overthinking things, there was nothing possible between them. Not to mention Houtu had no feelings for Gu Changsheng, even Gu Changsheng only had his unborn wife in his heart.
The relationship between Gu Changsheng and Houtu was like that of gentlemen, without any special feelings involved.
They both understood each other, and continued the previous topic.
“You know the situation in the Mortal Realm, where am I going to find True Immortals for you? If you want to create True Immortals, you can do it yourself, no need to look for them.” Gu Changsheng said.
“I want helpers who can share the burden, not a bunch of puppets. Of course I know the situation in the Mortal Realm, that’s why I came to you. Don’t you have your own forces in other worlds?” Houtu asked. In her opinion, Gu Changsheng was so strong, unifying the myriad worlds would be easy, he shouldn’t not have his own forces.
But Gu Changsheng just awkwardly touched his nose and said, “I don’t really like to manage things, so… you understand!”
“……”
“So unambitious!” Houtu complained. Back when their ancient god race was in the barbaric lands, Houtu naturally hoped to unify the barbaric lands. If their ancient god race had Gu Changsheng’s strength, she wouldn’t have been reduced to working for Gu Changsheng.
The more Houtu thought about it, the more she felt Gu Changsheng was hopeless, and she snorted coldly.
“You should tell me why you need so many helpers?” Gu Changsheng was very curious about Houtu’s idea. Besides him, the strongest in the Mortal Realm were only at the Supreme level, and those people were all self-sealing themselves in forbidden areas, not daring to appear easily. Even if you wanted to integrate the myriad races of the Mortal Realm, you wouldn’t need experts above the True Immortal level, the current Gu family could suppress the Mortal Realm.
So Gu Changsheng was very curious about Houtu's idea.
Houtu chuckled and said, “Can’t you read minds? Don’t you know?”
“I’m not a pervert, why would I read other people’s minds all day long?” Gu Changsheng rolled his eyes. This old woman was still brooding over the fact that he had read her mind and explored her memories before. You say I’m unambitious, I say you’re petty.
Houtu didn't continue to dwell on this topic with him, but said, “Yesterday, I traveled through the myriad worlds in spirit, and found that the overall strength of the human race in the myriad worlds is generally at the lower end. I plan to unify the human race in the myriad worlds, so I need to ask you for helpers.”
“Wait… what did you just say?” Gu Changsheng quickly put away the wine bottle in his hand, looking at Houtu as if he hadn’t heard correctly. This time he didn’t drink, otherwise he would have spat on Houtu’s face again.
Houtu was speechless, and directly said it a second time: “I plan to unify the human race in the myriad worlds, so I need to ask you for helpers, how about it, did you hear clearly this time?”
Gu Changsheng naturally heard it clearly, but Houtu’s idea really shocked him. Unifying all the human races in the myriad worlds, wouldn’t that be the same as unifying the myriad worlds? Someone actually thought of doing such a troublesome thing.
“How did you come up with this idea?” Gu Changsheng looked at Houtu with a wry smile. He had only simply wanted her to help manage and develop the human race in the Mortal Realm, but he didn't expect this woman to be so ambitious. Only three days had passed, and she had already thought of unifying the human race in the myriad worlds. There were tens of thousands of great worlds in the myriad worlds. Apart from some special worlds where the human race didn’t exist, such as the demon realm created by Hongjun, and the dragon realm that disappeared in the epochal calamity, the human race existed in all other worlds.
The human race in a single Mortal Realm was calculated in trillions, how many human races would there be in the myriad worlds? Gu Changsheng didn't want to calculate that data anymore. He could naturally easily unify the human race in the myriad worlds, but what about after he did it? How would he manage it? This was not as simple as running a business.
