Chapter 190: Developing the Coastal Economy to Cut Off Supplies to Sea God Island

Jerry had just returned to Wuhun City when he received a notification from the Great Elder, asking Jerry to come see him immediately upon his return.

"Great Elder, the Heaven Dou Empire has successfully transitioned to the new throne. It was relatively easy because of what happened in the Heaven Dou Empire previously; Xue Beng simply ran away. With him not returning for nearly a year, many people's hearts had actually changed long ago. Plus, after Xue Beng returned, he overturned everyone's mindset, so Xue Ke's succession was very easy," Jerry said.

"As long as it went smoothly, then one could say the continent is now at peace!"

"One could say it is at peace. The Empresses of the Two Great Empires are from the same sect, so I expect they won't be fighting each other in the future!"

"Jerry, you have accomplished what no one else could. The Spirit Hall had been thinking for many years about how to resolve the relationship between the Two Great Empires. Back then, my granddaughter Qian Renxue infiltrated Heaven Dou City for so many years, also to solve the Empire's problem."

"But honestly, whose idea was it to infiltrate the Empire and replace the prince? And to have a girl replace a boy—that's truly impressive!" Jerry said with a smile; in his mind, this method was truly stupid.

Boys have more social interactions; having a girl replace one makes it easy to be exposed.

Moreover, Qian Renxue had an Innate Spirit Power of level twenty. With such high talent, not focusing on Cultivation but running off to another country to play at infiltration was truly a waste of talent.

"It was Bibi Dong's idea. Renxue and she don't have a good relationship, and she wanted to achieve some results to show her, so I couldn't stop her," the Great Elder said.

"Then Great Elder, you should thank me. If it weren't for me, could your granddaughter have come back? She would probably still be infiltrating the Heaven Dou Empire right now!" Jerry said with a smile.

Although Qian Daoliu wanted to thank Jerry, seeing Jerry's smug look, he simply didn't want to pay him any mind.

"What are your plans for next?"

"What's left next but Sea God Island? Does the Great Elder not want me to move against Sea God Island?"

"You may move against it, but please leave Poseidon a way to survive in the end!"

"Understood, Great Elder!" Jerry stared at the Great Elder with a beaming smile and said.

Afterward, Jerry returned to his laboratory.

If one wants to constrain Sea God Island, one must undoubtedly start with the coastal cities. The people in those cities rely on the sea for their livelihood, and they all worship the Sea God.

The people in nearby cities pray to the Sea God every time they go out to sea, begging for the Sea God's protection so they can return safely and for a good catch of fish.

Then, he could start from this aspect and develop more advanced tools for going to sea and fishing.

Let everyone use these tools; when they obtain a greater harvest, the concept of a god will diminish, and they will slowly fade out the god.

In the past, they only heard in Legendary tales about things a god could do; now that people can do them too, would you still worship the god?

Jerry arrived at Hanhai Cheng; the City Lord had already received the notification and had been waiting for Jerry.

"Lord Jerry, this humble one is the City Lord of Hanhai Cheng. Whatever matters you have, you can leave them all to me to handle; I guarantee to handle them for you perfectly."

"City Lord, you are too polite. My visit to Hanhai Cheng this time is mainly for development. Now people in the interior like to eat seafood, so I came to take a look first!"

"Is that so? People in the interior like seafood? That's great! It's too humid here, and we can't farm; everyone survives by relying on the fish in the sea, so everyone has no money. If the seafood here can be sold to the interior, everyone will be grateful to you!" the Hanhai Cheng City Lord said excitedly.

"How do you usually catch fish?"

"Lord Jerry, let me take you to see the fishing boats."

Afterward, the City Lord took Jerry to tour the fishing boats and tools.

Jerry shook his head as he looked; the tools were too backward.

"City Lord, our Spirit Hall has developed new types of fishing equipment, but we don't have people to fish. Could you arrange 10 experienced fishermen for me? I want to try going out to sea!" Jerry said.

"Certainly, certainly! Let us also see these new types of fishing equipment."

Then Jerry came to the seaside, found a relatively deep spot, and took a hundred-meter steel fishing boat directly out of his ring.

A behemoth appeared, instantly stunning the nearby fishermen.

"Lord Jerry, this is?" the City Lord asked, pointing at the fishing boat Jerry had brought out.

"This is the hundred-meter fishing boat researched by the Spirit Hall. The water here is too shallow, so I'll put it over there. If it is truly put into use, we will need to build a specialized pier; this time we are just testing it."

Afterward, the City Lord took Jerry and rowed a small boat, bringing ten experienced fishermen to the vicinity of the hundred-meter fishing boat.

At this moment, several iron cables were lowered from the ship.

"Tie these iron cables to the small boat." At Jerry's command, everyone began to act.

After they were tied, the Crane on the hundred-meter fishing boat lifted the small boat directly, along with the people on it.

Those ordinary fishermen were so scared they lay flat against the side of the boat, grabbing onto nearby things and refusing to let go.

Not until the Crane pulled the small boat onto the deck of the hundred-meter fishing boat did they come to their senses and climb down one after another.

"Then let's set off now!" Jerry said.

"My Lord, wait, we can't set off yet; we haven't prayed to the Sea God. It will be dangerous to set off!"

"No need, set off directly!"

"My Lord, My Lord!"

They were already on the boat; Jerry didn't care whether they prayed to the Sea God or not!

Then the hundred-meter fishing boat began to sail toward the deep sea.

Jerry used his Divine Sense to constantly probe where the schools of fish were. Following Jerry's guidance, they soon arrived at a place rich in fish resources.

Jerry directly controlled the fishing boat to start casting the nets, all with precise control of the positioning.

Afterward, net after net of fish were lifted up by the Crane. The ten experienced fishermen were all stunned; who had ever seen anyone fish like this?

And Jerry had caught so much after just these few casts.

"These are just ordinary fish; now let's go catch Soul Beasts."

With one cast, seven or eight Red-Tasseled Golden Tuna were hauled up, struggling constantly in the fishing net.

"A Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast! This is a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast," a fisherman shouted.

"Activate the electric net!" Jerry said.

With a crackle, the Soul Beast in the fishing net was directly electrocuted to death, and its Spirit Ring even appeared.

"This fishing net has this function too! We won't be afraid when we encounter Soul Beasts in the future!"

"Indeed!"

The ten fishermen began to discuss among themselves.

"Next, let's test for storms. Which area has more turbulent water?" Jerry asked, turning toward these fishermen.

None dared to answer; among them, one fisherman pointed in a direction with his finger.

Then Jerry adjusted the direction directly, headed toward the storm, and sailed away at high speed.

This action of Jerry's frightened many people, including the City Lord.

He knew about the storm zone; in that place, even a Spirit Master was of no use.

"Lord Jerry, the storm zone is quite dangerous. Everything else has been tested and the results are very good; let's not test this storm zone!" the City Lord said.

"This needs to be tested. The weather at sea is fickle, and one might encounter severe weather at any time. If we don't test it, what will we do if we encounter it later?"

Arriving at the large storm zone, there was Violent Wind and Rain here, and waves on the water surface followed one after another.

However, at this moment, the hundred-meter fishing boat directly activated a Barrier, blocking all the Violent Wind and Rain outside.

A giant wave struck, but the ship's hull remained steady and secure, without any problems at all.

Seeing such a scene, the people on the ship were relieved; those fishermen were even thinking about how many fish they could catch every time they went to sea if they had such a safe ship.

Next, Jerry showed them the fishing boat's attack methods; this had to be made known to them, as there were, after all, still many pirates at sea.

Many times, besides needing to guard against severe weather, fishermen also needed to guard against these pirates.

After all the necessary tests were completed, they returned to port.

Jerry also arranged for people to build a pier here, and news of the hundred-meter fishing boat had already spread until everyone knew of it; this was the effect Jerry wanted, as those ten experienced fishermen would certainly spread the news after returning.

In the following period, Jerry also released small fishing boats, diving suits, and so on.

For a time, everyone scrambled to buy them; after purchasing them, many fishermen no longer worshipped the Sea God.

With better fishing equipment, plus the fact that Jerry did not restrict them from fishing and bought as much as they caught, the fish in the nearby coastal areas soon became much scarcer.

Now everyone could only run to deeper places to fish; because the profits from fishing were huge, many people from other industries also switched to fishing, and several nearby cities received the news and followed suit.

God Realm

The Sea God did not know what was going on, but recently the Faith Power had decreased a lot.

Sea God Island

"Fewer people have been coming to the island to trade supplies recently!"

"That is indeed the case. If things go on like this, won't we have to go to the continent to buy supplies in the future!"

"If it weren't for that Jerry, would we need to buy so many supplies?"

"Don't mention him; whenever he is mentioned, I feel like nothing good will happen."

Hanhai Cheng

Because of the massive purchases by the Spirit Hall, many fishermen no longer needed to look for other sales channels, and the Spirit Hall's purchasing was convenient; they waited by the seaside every day, and there was no need for them to transport the goods themselves.

The Spirit Hall now not only purchased fish products but also items like kelp and other plants; it could be said that the nearby coastal areas had been fished until nothing was left.

Moreover, Jerry also opened several sea salt processing plants by the sea and hired many workers; if others wanted to do it, Jerry provided the technology as an investment.

Salt was very important to everyone; now that sea salt plants were established, the inland would no longer lack salt in the future.

However, there had been several pirate incidents recently, but because they used Jerry's ships, no problems occurred, which led even more people to purchase Jerry's ships.

Many people did not have sufficient funds on hand, so Jerry also provided an installment payment service; fishermen who previously lacked funds no longer hesitated and bought ships directly on installments. Once they had a ship, funds were just a matter of time for them.

Because of the problem of encountering pirates, Jerry personally organized a fleet responsible for annihilating the pirates.

The nearby pirates heard the wind and united to resist Jerry.

Originally, Jerry felt it was troublesome to find them one by one; now that they had united, it saved Jerry a lot of trouble.

After several rounds of bombardment, not a single intact pirate ship could be seen on the sea surface.

Regarding pirates, Jerry would not be soft-hearted and directly issued an order for total annihilation.

However, one person was discovered among this group of pirates: Zizhenzhu, leader of the Zizhenzhu Pirate Group.

Jerry was someone who had read all the files of the Spirit Hall: Zizhenzhu, the former Saintess of the Spirit Hall.

She was the leader who attacked Sea God Island that year, and after the attack on Sea God Island failed, she went missing.

Jerry, however, knew that she had lost her memory and then became a pirate. Even after losing her memory and becoming a pirate, she was no weaker than others and directly became a pirate leader.

But now she was in a sorry state, having been bombed by shells, and was currently unconscious.

Jerry arranged a separate place for her and had people look after her so she could recover from her injuries first.

That same day, the news of Jerry leading people to victory in attacking the pirates spread.

For a time, it was very gratifying, and nearby people moved toward the coastal cities one after another.

Because Hanhai Cheng belonged to the Heaven Dou Empire, the policies of the Heaven Dou Empire had gradually improved during this period, slowly radiating from Heaven Dou City to the surrounding cities.

The Cultivation plaza in Hanhai Cheng had already been completed.

Many Spirit Masters came to the plaza to practice one after another, and seeing Jerry's statue standing in the middle of the plaza, they all came over to watch.

During this period, the people of Hanhai Cheng basically knew about Jerry's deeds, so once the Cultivation plaza was completed, whether they were Spirit Masters or not, they all came to pray.

So now, no one worshipped the Sea God anymore; with Jerry, who could bring them substantial things, was there any need to worship an ethereal god like the Sea God?

As more and more Cultivation plazas were put into use, the number of star-like spheres in Jerry's Sea of Consciousness increased significantly.

These stars illuminated the entire Sea of Consciousness; it was almost time to harvest the Faith Power.

With a single thought from Jerry, all the stars offered up their Faith Power one after another.

Jerry's entire body had already reached an Energy-like State, and now he directly multiplied this energy several times over; moreover, the Faith Power was strengthening Jerry's dantian space, which had now reached about five hundred times that of an ordinary person.

Jerry was left with a headache; he could not control this strengthening from the Faith Power and could only watch helplessly as it expanded his dantian space step by step.

Was there any way for a person to live with such a large dantian? When would it ever be filled? Jerry was very depressed.

After expanding the dantian, some Faith Power directly merged into his soul.

Previously, his soul had always stayed in the Sea of Consciousness and had long since solidified.

With the strengthening of the Faith Power, the soul began to change until it became a person exactly like Jerry; if it weren't for the fact that it was a bit small now, some would even believe it if he were taken out and called Jerry's twin brother.

Was this the soul becoming substantial?

Jerry sensed it; previously his Divine Sense could cover about one-third of the Douluo Continent, but now it was nearly one-half.

Following the materialization of his soul, the entire Sea of Consciousness also underwent changes.

It had now become somewhat like an independent space.

Ocean surface, land, sky, stars.

It was just that at this moment the Faith Power was finally exhausted; otherwise, Jerry felt it could have transformed his Sea of Consciousness into a new continent.

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