High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

After reciting seven points in a row, Song Chen stopped, wondering if there were any he had missed.

Gu Qianzhi stopped writing and looked up at Song Chen: "These seven points are already very harsh, Councilor Song. Do you have anything to add?"

Song Chen thought for a moment and said, "Let's add another clause: the right to interpret all the terms belongs to humans. If the content of the terms needs to be adjusted, the right to adjust it belongs to humans. If either race has any objection, they can appeal to humans, but humans have the right to reject it."

Gu Qianzhi wrote down the last point and closed the notebook.

His pen left eight densely packed records on the paper, each one like a knife held to the neck of a strange beast.

"The detailed terms and conditions will probably be available tomorrow, Representative Song. Will you be participating in the negotiations?"

Song Chen stood up, turned to look at Yuan Qian and Jing Yue, and said with a smile, "Do I need to be there?"

Yuan Qian quickly lowered his head and replied humbly, "Master, you don't need to be there. Don't worry, I'll sign whatever the agreement says."

Song Chen nodded in satisfaction, then looked at Jing Yue: "And you?"

Whale Moon lowered her head as well: "I am willing to obey all of Master's arrangements."

Do you think I'm cruel?

"No, no, no, the master is the most kind."

"Oh dear, you've caught me. I'm always kind."

……

Song Chen walked towards the outside of the conference room, pausing briefly at the door.

"Councilor Gu, please remember that fifty years ago, it was the alien beasts that struck first, and billions of humans died."

"Kindness at the negotiating table is the greatest disrespect to the dead."

The next morning.

The Martial Arts Research Institute of Tianhai University was temporarily converted into a negotiation venue.

Gu Qianzhi and the three legal experts he brought sat on one side of the long table, each with a thick stack of draft clauses spread out in front of them.

On the other side of the long table sat Yuan Qian and Jing Yue, both of the transformed beasts dressed in dark formal attire temporarily provided by humans, sitting upright and stiffly.

Gu Qianzhi pushed the printed draft of the terms and conditions in front of Yuan Qian and Jing Yue.

The document contains ten articles, each accompanied by detailed explanations and implementation standards.

Yuan Qian looked down at the words on the paper, his dark golden pupils scanning line by line: Tenfold compensation, ninety percent tribute, hunting quota, all interpretation rights belong to humanity…

Each one nearly stopped his heart, but he dared not say anything.

After reading the last page, he remained silent for a moment, then mustered his courage and said, "Dean Gu, the second rule is that those who attack other human beings will be punished tenfold with their lives."

"If a strange beast attacks humans, but its kind is scattered across the ocean, how would the cost of hunting it down be calculated?"

"Your company will bear all the costs yourself," Gu Qianzhi replied politely.

Yuan Qian clenched his fists and stopped speaking. After a long while, he finally uttered a few words: "I agree to all the treaties on behalf of the Sea Dragon Clan."

At this moment, Whale Moon spoke up: "The fourth rule is that 90% of the resources must be handed over."

"Ninety percent of these contain life crystal cores and beast crystal cores of the fifth rank or above, which are the core nodes of the underwater spiritual energy cycle. If the proportion handed over is too high, it may affect the stability of the underwater spiritual energy ecosystem."

Gu Qianzhi flipped through the documents: "This has already been taken into account in the detailed rules."

"Crystal cores of level five or higher can be used to offset other resource shares, with the specific offset ratio assessed by humans on a quarterly basis."

"We're not here to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; we're here to raise chickens to lay eggs. But whose chickens they are, that's not up for discussion."

Upon hearing this, Whale Moon's finger hovered over the terms and conditions for a few seconds before she flipped to the supplementary document next to it concerning her and Yuan Qian's privileges.

The privileges of the two races are clearly stated: humans are not allowed to enter the core territories of the two races at will, nor are they allowed to hunt members of the two races without cause, and the half-batch resources retained by the two races are exempt from being handed over.

After reading it, she moved her lips a few times, finally raised her head, and nodded helplessly.

"I agree to all the terms."

Gu Qianzhi stood up happily.

"Since neither of you has any objections, then let's sign."

Subsequently, the two shapeshifting beasts signed their names on the ten documents one by one, using human characters in the signature columns for "Representative of the Sea Dragon Clan" and "Representative of the Giant Whale Clan".

The moment Yuan Qian put down the pen, his expression didn't change much; he only slightly curled his fingertips as he withdrew his hand.

After signing the last word, Jingyue lowered her head and pushed the document back to Gu Qianzhi, like someone who had just signed a contract of servitude throwing the pen back on the table.

Gu Qianzhi bound the ten signed documents into a book, with the official title printed on the cover: "Ten Articles of the Convention for Peace in the Seas and on Humanity".

Shortly thereafter, the booklet was published in full by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Great Xia through its global communication system.

Copies were also sent to the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and all countries and regions that had signed the Great Xia Post-War Cooperation Agreement.

The full text of the treaty has been repeatedly circulated on the global internet, with military command centers, martial arts associations, martial arts universities, and major news channels interpreting it line by line.

Countless comments appeared online, but the most frequently quoted one consisted of only one sentence:

"The blood debt of fifty years ago has been repaid with pen today."

When the news reached the Sea Dragon Domain and the Giant Whale Domain, the remaining beasts fell into a deep silence.

There was no roar, no resistance, only countless eyes silently gleaming in the dark waters of the deep sea.

From this day forward, they will no longer be the masters of the ocean, but rather the stock and foreman of human resources.

The foreman's name was Yuan Qian and Jing Yue.

On the evening of the day the treaty was signed, Yuan Qian and Jing Yue knelt before Song Chen to say goodbye.

Two transformed beasts knelt at the end of the breakwater of Tianhai Harbor, with the setting sun sinking into the East China Sea and the lights of Tianhai City gradually illuminating behind them.

Song Chen stood in front of them, the sea breeze causing the straps of his Northern Darkness Armor to sway gently.

"Go back and reorganize your respective tribes. The handover of resources will begin now. The hunting quotas will be drafted by Gu Qianzhi and issued to you."

"If there's anything you can't handle, report it to Tianhai University, and Han Duo will forward it to me."

"But I don't like being bothered by everything. With your current strength, securing your positions shouldn't be a big problem."

After he finished speaking, he turned around, his back to the two strange beasts, his voice crashing against the breakwater along with the waves.

"Most importantly, don't forget who you are."

Then, Yuanqian and Jingyue bowed their heads at the same time, and then transformed back into their original forms and leaped into the East Sea.

The dark golden sea dragon and the light gray-striped giant whale parted ways beneath the surface of the sea, one heading east into the Pacific Ocean and the other west into the Pacific Ocean, leaving two gradually dispersing tails on the surface of the sea.

In the conference room of Tianhai University, Gu Qianzhi was locking the original treaty into a psionic encrypted file box.

Zhou Wangyue stood by the window, watching the two receding trails on the sea, and smiled knowingly.

Gu Qianzhi locked the file box, took off his round-framed glasses and wiped them, then suddenly said, "Old Zhou, your apprentice did something today that humanity has been fighting for fifty years and still couldn't do: he turned the ocean into a resource pool with just a piece of paper."