Chapter 229: Tang San's Rise and the Arrest of Illegal Researchers

The more Tang San and his group studied the things from the Spirit Hall, the more they felt the Spirit Hall was powerful.

Although they had the God Trial as a Cultivation accelerator, they couldn't help but think: if what we have learned—which is only what the Spirit Hall has made public—is already this formidable, then what else does the Spirit Hall have that it hasn't made public?

In the past, Tang San had always felt that Yu Xiaogang was a scholar with profound knowledge; after seeing the data made public by the Spirit Hall, he instantly felt that Yu Xiaogang was just a fraud.

Yu Xiaogang had always led their Cultivation and had taught them much knowledge back in school, but now it seemed that much of it was wrong.

Moreover, after seeing Yu Xiaogang again, the knowledge he explained was completely different from before; he had originally thought that the Master Yu Xiaogang had made a breakthrough in his research, but now it seemed it was all learned from the Spirit Hall.

Yu Xiaogang had said that Wuhun City had nine Cultivation Towers, where the Cultivation speed inside was ten times that of the outside, and that anyone from a Soul Scholar to a Title Douluo could go inside to cultivate; furthermore, Yu Xiaogang had personally gone inside to cultivate.

Judging by this, the strength the Spirit Hall made public was seriously inconsistent with its actual strength, and it had hidden a great deal.

Based on these things, this was why Tang San had always advocated for low-profile, hidden development while building the Light God Sect; without the strength to contend with the Spirit Hall, he was determined not to show his face.

Through the God Trial, they could increase the age of the Spirit Rings they had already absorbed, raise their soul power levels, break through their current limits, and improve their talent in a roundabout way; because of these methods, they were able to quickly develop a group of believers.

In fact, these so-called God Trial methods were only effective because Jerry had not made the Bloodline Pill and Soul Power Pill public; otherwise, the God Trial would really be nothing at all.

The Extreme North, because it was located in a remote area, had very few resources; in the past, it would attract some people to come and hunt Soul Beasts to obtain Spirit Rings.

Now that the Spirit Hall could directly exchange for Spirit Rings, the Spirit Masters who came here were only a sparse few; because they were poor, or for other reasons, they could not register at the Spirit Hall and could only come here to hunt for Spirit Rings.

Because it grasped the psychology of these people, the Light God Sect developed very quickly.

Added to the fact that in these past few years, the Spirit Hall and the Two Great Empires had vigorously developed infrastructure and had very low control over Spirit Masters, it allowed Tang San and his group to exploit a loophole.

However, the Extreme North had a limited area and limited resources after all; once it was saturated, they could only expand to other places.

Because only the five of them could open the God Trial, after dividing the work, Dugu Yan went to the Heaven Dou Empire to develop believers, Ma Hongjun went to the Star Luo Empire to develop believers, Tang San had to stay behind in the Extreme North because he was wanted by the Spirit Hall, Oscar went to Wuhun City to develop believers, and Yu Xiaogang went to some of the small surrounding countries.

Tang San had originally wanted to go to Wuhun City to experience the Cultivation Tower, but thinking that he was constantly wanted, there was no way to do so.

The Five Great Envoys began their actions, just in time to catch the Spirit Hall and the Two Great Empires arresting illegal researchers, which allowed them to exploit another big loophole.

Moreover, after coming into contact with the illegal researchers, they discovered that their purpose was actually very simple: it was just to improve their own talent so they could cultivate to a higher level.

Among these illegal researchers, there were many talents.

Before they researched the human body, many of them started by researching weapons. And the weapons they researched were much more powerful than the Mechanical Weapon provided by Tang San.

The Mechanical Weapon provided by Tang San, the ones with great power, all required coordination with special techniques; people who had not practiced the techniques found it difficult to use them.

But the weapons manufactured by these illegal researchers were powerful, convenient to use, and could be used by anyone.

The Tang Sect Hidden Weapon, not yet developed, was directly out.

Tang San had previously felt that Tang Sect martial arts were his secret weapon and the key to his lead over others; now, the Spirit Hall had published all its Cultivation data.

His advantage was completely gone, leaving Tang San both happy and resentful.

What he was happy about was that such powerful Cultivation data could be easily obtained; what he was resentful about was that his advantage was gone.

Fortunately, there was the God Trial, so Tang San did not lose confidence.

The ninth trial the God Trial gave them was to develop an overt force of over one hundred thousand people on the continent.

Added to the methods of the God Trial, they quickly completed a force of one hundred thousand people; because they had been hiding and had not come out into the open, the mission had not been completed.

Originally, they had wanted to jump out long ago, but it was delayed because of Jerry's clone.

Jerry's main body obtained data on technological development in the Small World; after synchronizing with his clone, he established communication facilities on the continent and then developed a Mobile Phone, through which one could query any public data.

This Mobile Phone of Jerry's was a combination of Spirit Guidance and technology.

Just speaking of the battery, the one used inside the Spirit Hall was a battery that could charge automatically, while the one made public to the outside required active charging.

Moreover, the battery used a Spirit Guidance Energy Storage Device, which had a large capacity and a longer usage time.

The ones researched independently by the illegal researchers, however, used electrical energy, and had too many usage restrictions.

However, they were also very capable; they even built a network for these Mobile Phones that used electrical energy.

Many of the data on this network were plagiarized from the Spirit Hall, and another part was research data they shared.

Because this kind of Mobile Phone did not require registration, Tang San and his group obtained this kind of Mobile Phone.

Through this kind of Mobile Phone, they learned data and at the same time understood the situation of the Spirit Hall.

Only after learning that the Spirit Hall had only two gods did Tang San and his group feel at ease and expand wantonly.

The reason they had not yet put their forces out in the open was because the Spirit Hall would publish some data every so often; these data were very precious, and they also wanted to get more data.

Wuhun City

Jerry was also having a headache here; before, he only thought about publishing data and did not restrict anything, and now he had created a batch of such illegal researchers.

On the surface, they all had their own legitimate professions, and their research was all done in private; there was simply no way to distinguish who the illegal researchers were.

Moreover, Jerry also sensed that someone had established another set of communications, and it was built based on the Spirit Hall's Signal Tower.

They really underestimated the Spirit Hall; by building it directly under the Spirit Hall's Signal Tower, did they think no one could detect it?

However, this person was also a talent; Jerry prepared to catch this person, interrogate them first to see, and if the fault was not very serious, throw them into the Department of Technology.

Jerry directly invaded the database of this communication system; although there was no real-name authentication inside, he also discovered a lot of useful information, as these illegal researchers were all using this communication device.

Through the information inside, he deduced some illegal researchers, and then Jerry directly ordered their arrest.

There were many more where he could only see the information they contacted, but could not deduce who they were.

Jerry thought of the super-brain in the movies of his past life, which could control electronic signals; he himself had become a god, and his Spirit Power was incomparably powerful, but he could not perceive electronic signals—these were completely two different levels of things.

Suddenly, Jerry thought of a good idea: he could not perceive electronic signals, but the Signal Tower could connect to their Mobile Phones.

Jerry used his Divine Power to scan the entire Douluo Planet, and then directly developed a navigation system, Angel Navigation, to ensure you were no longer lost.

Then he advertised the benefits of the navigation system in various ways, and it was also free software.

For a time, many people began to install the navigation system, and after using it, they all felt it was very easy to use; even in the forest, the navigation system could find the direction for you.

Because everyone who used it said it was good, the researchers of the second communication device directly released the navigation program.

Originally he couldn't find them, but now he had direct positioning, and he directly arrested more than ten thousand people; the prisons in Wuhun City were not enough.

But this was still treating the symptoms but not the root cause.

Moreover, through network detection, these illegal researchers were connected to the Light God Sect.

Several of the more formidable illegal researchers improved themselves and broke through their own limits by completing God Trials.

However, God Trials have a flaw; every person's God Trial is different, and many are White Grade Three Examinations, which are simple and easy to complete, but do not yield much.

Furthermore, a God Trial can only be accepted once; although it is only a small breakthrough, in the Douluo Continent, every breakthrough increases one's Spirit Power.

The increase in Spirit Power made their research thought processes clearer, and many things they previously did not understand were slowly learned.

It is just that their research direction was wrong, and it was destined that they would not be able to produce any results.

The human experiments they conducted mainly started from the martial soul; they never once thought that the human body itself was the key.

They even went so far as to madly research Spirit Grafting.

Spirit Grafting—this destined these researchers to fail.

Jerry also made medical knowledge public, but it was limited to the personnel of the Spirit Hall hospital, to be used for emergency rescue when there were no Treatment Soul Masters available.

They took the research data to perform surgeries; theoretically, their ideas were very good, but they were basically useless when it came to hands-on work.

They did not understand human anatomy and thought that one only needed to replace a part to make it work.

Because of an accident—perhaps one should consider them quite lucky—they succeeded in one arm-replacement experiment.

Afterward, they performed many organ replacements; most failed, but a few succeeded occasionally, which made them think that if arms could be replaced, could other parts be replaced as well?

The first thing they thought of was replacing martial souls. At first, they experimented on children, but not a single case succeeded, so they felt it was because the children's martial souls had not yet fully developed.

Then they began to find adults to start experimenting. Once, they found two test subjects with the same martial soul, and then replaced a low-quality martial soul with a high-quality one, and unexpectedly succeeded once.

This person who successfully replaced their martial soul saw their talent instantly improve significantly, and their Cultivation speed also rose to the level of a high-quality martial soul.

This gave all the research personnel hope.

However, what they did not know was that after a period of time, this person who successfully replaced their martial soul began to experience rejection reactions in their body.

At first, they did not take it seriously, but finally, while fighting someone else in the Soul Fighting arena, their body suddenly became uncontrollable.

A soul skill that could have been easily dodged was not dodged due to their body's condition, and they were struck directly in a fatal spot by the opponent's soul skill, dying on the spot.

Everyone thought it was an accident and did not think much of it.

Once a person becomes crazy, it is very difficult to control them.

One successful case made these illegal researchers firmly believe that Spirit Grafting was feasible, and that they had only failed so many times because there were some things they had not yet researched.

Because of this navigation issue, Jerry also caught the personnel who developed the second set of communication facilities.

It turned out to be an internal member of the Spirit Hall. An Advanced Academy student of the Spirit Hall had failed the qualification assessment for the Research Department, and then directly applied to be a security guard for the Research Department, joining the Research Department in a roundabout way.

This explained where he had obtained so much research data.

Taking advantage of when the Research Department personnel were off duty, he entered the research lab under the guise of patrolling to steal various data.

Jerry directly used Spirit Power to control this person and made him say everything he had done.

Fortunately, he did not participate in human research; he only stole some technological data that the Spirit Hall had not yet made public, and his comprehension was quite good.

Jerry also discovered that after all the data was made public, setting aside Spirit Power, learning things at this point depended on each person's comprehension.

In the past, no one had ever paid attention to this thing called comprehension; they only recognized talent and felt that people with good talent learned things quickly.

But when talent and Spirit Power were pulled to the same level, the level of comprehension began to manifest.

For example, Jerry's senior sister and junior sister both had their Spirit Power raised to 9999 and both had great talent, but when learning about Soul Guidance Devices, their levels were different.

Just like Ning Rongrong, who still cannot make a third-level Soul Guidance Device to this day.

But this thing called comprehension really cannot be tested; it can only be discovered after observing a person for a long time.

After Jerry's interrogation, this man was named Duan Yu; the name sounded very promising.

Jerry tested him; his martial soul was a Four Image Green Civet, a type of civet cat, which is very clever.

He was a level 76 Soul Saint with 7200 Spirit Power, and he had also practiced the Jerry Meditation Method, reaching a very high level.

Jerry released his Spirit Power control, and Duan Yu slowly regained his senses. He looked around at the prison and instantly thought of something, his face turning deathly pale with fright.

"My Lord, I only stole some data; I really didn't do anything else!" Duan Yu explained hurriedly, terrified.

"Criminal Duan Yu, graduate of the Spirit Hall Advanced Academy, failed the Research Department assessment, later applied to be a security guard. During your tenure, you repeatedly snuck into the research lab to steal unpublished research data, and through the convenience of your position, privately built a second set of communication devices on the Signal Tower. You also developed a dedicated Mobile Phone for the second set of communication devices, and by selling the phones, earned points to purchase more research materials. Am I correct?"

When Jerry said this, his eyes stared fiercely at Duan Yu, and Duan Yu collapsed to the ground in terror on the spot.

He had always thought he was acting very secretly, and that he only wanted to earn some points to fund his own research experiments; he really had not done anything else.

"Stealing unpublished Spirit Hall data, privately occupying Spirit Hall public property, building in violation of regulations, and selling Mobile Phones, providing communication convenience to illegal researchers. Do you know your crime!"

Hearing Jerry say these things, Duan Yu felt he was finished.

Originally, he still felt that he had not done anything to harm the interests of the Spirit Hall, and even if he were caught, he would at most be sentenced to a few years. Now, hearing that his Mobile Phones were used by illegal researchers, he instantly felt the world turn dark.

"My Lord, I am wronged; I only sold some Mobile Phones on the black market; I really didn't know they were used by illegal researchers!" Duan Yu cried out loudly.

Jerry naturally knew; this Duan Yu had stolen incomplete data and had not built background monitoring equipment, so he had no idea what others had done with the phones. Jerry did this only to scare him and see if he would dare to engage in such sneaky behavior in the future.

Seeing that it was about time, Jerry took off his mask in front of Duan Yu.

When Duan Yu saw that the person who took off the mask was Lord Jerry, he was instantly stunned.

Jerry was a god-like existence in Wuhun City, especially to personnel who liked research. Duan Yu's idol was Lord Jerry, and he had always wanted to see Lord Jerry once, but he never expected that when he met his idol, he would be a criminal.

Seeing Jerry, he felt a condemnation of his conscience; the more he thought about it, the more he felt he had let Jerry down, and he even birthed the thought of ending his own life.

"Lord Jerry, I was wrong!"

After Duan Yu finished speaking, he slammed his head toward the wall to the side.

This action gave Jerry a start. Jerry knew the aftereffects of practicing the Jerry Meditation Method, especially when meeting him in person.

He just did not expect that this time the aftereffects would directly amplify Duan Yu's guilt, making him want to commit suicide to apologize.

Jerry immediately controlled Duan Yu.

"Duan Yu, do not end your life. The reason I am standing here now is that I want to have a good talk with you. I think you are a talent, so I want to put you to good use. This way, you can openly study the Research Department's data, and you can apply for research funds without having to sneak around selling Mobile Phones."

After hearing Jerry's words, Duan Yu instantly recovered his composure. Previously he had an expression of someone facing death, but now he was extremely excited.

"Really? Lord Jerry!"

"Truly, I see you are very fond of technological devices; the things you stole to learn previously were all in this area. Although technology can be used independently, combining technology with Spirit Guidance is the most ingenious approach. Are you willing to learn these?"

"I am willing, I am willing, thank you, Lord Jerry!"

"That is good. I will arrange for you to become an official member of the Research Institute and open the relevant courses to you. You go and study first. After you have completed your studies and passed my assessment, I will reserve the position of Minister of the Technology Department for you. Can you accept this challenge?"

"I accept! Thank you, Lord Jerry!"

Seeing Duan Yu's affirmative answer, with eyes full of confident light, Jerry felt he had chosen the right person this time. Currently, his avatar was managing the Technology Department, and he felt it was a bit of a waste of his avatar.

Because technology had just begun to develop, and among the core personnel he could not find many who wanted to research technology, Jerry could only find a person in charge from the external personnel.

The manufacturer of the second set of communication facilities had been found by Jerry, so it was also time to deal with these illegal researchers.

However, the number was too large. If he just caught people, he would catch one batch, and shortly after, another batch would be born; this treats the symptoms but not the root cause.

Since that is the case, then he would cut off their thoughts of research at the root.

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(End of this chapter)