Chapter 232: Resolving the Incident and the Birth of Two New Routes

The matter of the illegal researchers has been resolved, and since the forces organized by those involved in Tang San's God Trials have not yet surfaced, there should be no major issues on the Douluo Continent; Jerry prepared to return to the Small World to take a look.

"Jerry, you're back? What happened outside?"

Seeing Jerry's true body return, the Silver Dragon King asked curiously.

Jerry did not hide anything and recounted the matter of the illegal researchers.

After listening to Jerry's account, both felt that these people were truly deranged.

In fact, Jerry took a broad view of the illegal researchers; with social development, human body research would inevitably be brought to the table.

It is just that technological development has not reached that stage yet, and medical research has not developed, so researching the human body now is a complete waste of time and life.

Once medical research is advanced in the future, and things like organ transplants are truly understood, Jerry will no longer restrict human body research, though at that time it will only be allowed for official research, with private research prohibited.

These are all matters for the future; once that stage is truly reached, he will consider subsequent issues, but for now, Jerry just wants to know the situation in the Small World.

After merging with the clone left here, he instantly obtained the memories from this period.

While reviewing the memories, Jerry discovered some useful things.

The fourth replicated world is the Soul Guidance World, and this world is mainly focused on researching Soul Guidance Devices.

As time passed, the development direction of Soul Guidance Masters split into three paths.

The first direction is the normal research of Soul Guidance Devices, studying the refining of various Soul Guidance Devices, which is also the development direction Jerry originally wanted.

The second direction is quite interesting; after this direction developed, it broke away from Soul Guidance Masters and renamed itself Array Masters.

When he first heard the name, Jerry thought it was the arrays from a cultivation world, but in the end, he realized he had overthought it.

Because some arrays were used when refining Soul Guidance Devices, some Soul Guidance Masters deduced new arrays based on the principles of these arrays.

The people in this world did not yet know what World Rules were, but by trial and error, they actually found the right direction.

Each attribute corresponds to a World Rule.

Based on this principle, for each attribute, the Soul Guidance Masters of this Small World really did research some arrays.

For example, for the Metal Attribute, they researched the Magnetic Force Array.

The function of this array is like a strong magnet; most Soul Guidance Devices are refined from metal, so this Magnetic Force Array is simply the nemesis of Soul Guidance Devices.

Once the array is activated, any Soul Guidance Device is attracted over; the people of this world are accustomed to using Soul Guidance Devices, and without them, their combat power is less than one in ten.

Very good; Jerry learned this array directly, and Jerry knows more about the usage of this magnetic force than they do.

There are also arrays for the Wood Attribute; they directly researched four arrays.

Wood Spirit Array, Recovery Array, Healing Array, and Jungle Array.

After looking at these four arrays, Jerry instantly understood that Jerry could achieve the functions of these arrays, but he just hadn't thought of making them into arrays before.

The Wood Spirit Array can accelerate plant growth.

The people of this world did not see the true purpose of this array and only treated it as a landscaping array.

Being treated as a landscaping array is truly a grievance for this array.

When this array was first researched, it was discovered that it could accelerate plant growth, but these plants slowly turned into Soul Beasts; because of this, this array was restricted.

It is only used when developing new areas to accelerate plant growth and make greening faster, and the use of this array is stopped once the plants have grown well.

The Wood Spirit Array is actually the same in effect as Jerry's Growth Skill, turning the passive Growth Skill of plants into an active Growth Skill.

If this array were placed in the Pill World, it would definitely become the number one most powerful array.

Moreover, with this array, combined with some Time Arrays, it is simply the best array for cultivating Plant Soul Beasts or medicinal herbs.

After all, in the Main World, only he and the Fairy Queen can perform the Growth Skill and then perform Infusion on plants.

With this array, there is no need to perform Infusion anymore; natural growth is sufficient.

The Recovery Array and Healing Array are even simpler.

Many plants have recovery and healing soul skills, and plants are of the Wood Attribute, so the Soul Guidance Masters of this world researched these two arrays through this.

Entering the Recovery Array allows one to recover soul power, and entering the Healing Array allows one to heal injuries.

These two practical arrays are used extensively by the Soul Guidance Masters of this world.

Very good; after returning to the Main World, he will set up a few in hospitals or squares.

In the Main World, the Spirit Hall has now opened many hospitals, and there are not enough Treatment Soul Masters.

With these two arrays, perhaps by the time the wounded are queuing up to wait for a Treatment Soul Master, their injuries will already be healed.

The last one is the Jungle Array, which counts as a Defense Array; after a Spirit Master or Soul Beast walks into the array, they will be in a jungle and lose their way.

Although they researched these arrays, they are all relatively crude; Jerry's Wood Attribute Rule is mastered at 100%, so optimizing these arrays is a small matter.

As for other attributes, there are also the Water Ball Array, Water Arrow Array, and Freezing Array for the Water Attribute; Fire Wall Array and Fire Ball Array for the Fire Attribute; Earth Wall Array and Earth Spike Array for the Earth Attribute; Lightning Array for the Thunder Attribute; Illumination Array for the Light Attribute; and the Night Array and Poison Gas Array for the Darkness Attribute.

Because the Light Attribute and Darkness Attribute are relatively rare, there is less research, and the array functions are all very simple.

The other few attributes are all simple attack arrays; it seems humans prefer researching attack methods.

Under the influence of so many arrays, an independent Array Master route was developed.

This new route is very good; although these arrays are very simple and Jerry could make them at any time if he wanted to, it would still take a lot of time, and it is much better to pick up ready-made ones now.

As for the third direction, Jerry does not like this direction a little bit.

After this direction developed, a new route also emerged: the Beast Tamer.

This Beast Tamer route is relatively cruel.

With the development of Soul Guidance Devices, one day a Soul Guidance Master researched a type of Soul Sealing Soul Guidance Device.

At first, it was only used as a Soul Guidance Device for capturing criminal Spirit Masters; once this Soul Guidance Device is put on, the soul power of the whole body is sealed, and without soul power, a Spirit Master is just an ordinary person with a stronger body.

Then one day, a Spirit Master had a sudden inspiration; after defeating a Soul Beast, he did not kill the Soul Beast but put a Soul Sealing Soul Guidance Device on it.

Unexpectedly, this Soul Sealing Soul Guidance Device also had an effect on Soul Beasts.

A Soul Beast without soul power is just a wild beast, so how could it still be a match for a Spirit Master? Then it was taken home by this Spirit Master to be kept.

At first, this Soul Beast was disobedient, then this Spirit Master gave it a sound beating, and after a few months, this Soul Beast became obedient.

Then this Spirit Master would stop the Soul Sealing Soul Guidance Device; when the Soul Beast felt it could use its soul power, it would want to resist again, but as soon as it made a move, the Soul Sealing Soul Guidance Device would activate, and then it would be greeted by another round of a beating.

Slowly, after this Spirit Master stopped the Soul Sealing Soul Guidance Device, the Soul Beast no longer dared to resist.

Then this Spirit Master would begin to issue some simple commands; after training for a period of time, the Soul Beast could understand the Spirit Master's commands.

Then, using this method, this Spirit Master tamed one hundred Soul Beasts, ranging from thousand-year to ten-thousand-year ones.

Usually, these Soul Beasts would be stored by this Spirit Master inside a Soul Guidance Device capable of holding living things; perhaps because he had many Soul Beasts on hand, he became arrogant.

He directly occupied a mountain to act as king and started the business of robbing travelers.

At first, he always let the Soul Beasts on hand do the work, and no one noticed.

Those who were robbed only felt they were unlucky to have been attacked by Soul Beasts.

But heaven has unpredictable winds and clouds.

A major sect of this world, with a Title Douluo leading juniors out for training, happened to encounter them.

Although he had many Soul Beasts on hand, because his strength was too low, many were only thousand-year Soul Beasts, and there were only a few ten-thousand-year ones, and they were just the kind that had barely crossed the ten-thousand-year mark.

In the eyes of the Title Douluo, these Soul Beasts were simply not worth looking at, and the Title Douluo also discovered that these Soul Beasts attacked in an orderly fashion, as if someone were directing them, and subsequently discovered the Spirit Master hiding nearby watching.

The Title Douluo directly captured this Spirit Master; this Spirit Master still wanted to resist and directly ordered all the Soul Beasts to attack the Title Douluo. This was simply courting death; in a few swift moves, the hundred-plus Soul Beasts were all killed.

The Title Douluo brought this Spirit Master back to his own sect; under the sect's cruel interrogation, this Spirit Master could not hold out and honestly confessed why he could control these Soul Beasts.

Upon hearing the method of controlling Soul Beasts, the entire sect was greatly surprised, and then they ordered the start of capturing Soul Beasts.

In less than two years, this sect successfully tamed over two thousand Soul Beasts.

For a sect, there were naturally many spies from other sects, and so this news leaked out.

Other sects united to force this sect to hand over the method of controlling Soul Beasts.

At first, this sect was not convinced; the sect master felt that if he were given just a few more years, he could develop a Soul Beast army.

Even if the sect were destroyed now, as long as he escaped, in a few years, he would absolutely lead a Soul Beast army to sweep through the other sects.

Therefore, the sect master of this sect did not hand over the method of controlling Soul Beasts, but chose to fight.

Unfortunately, he was one move short; the sect master was captured, and the sect was unitedly destroyed by the other sects.

At first, this sect master would not say a word, but the other sects united and found a Spirit Master with a Spirit Power Illusion soul skill.

In the Illusion, this sect master escaped to heaven, then hid in the forest, tamed Soul Beast after Soul Beast, and years later, directly led his own Soul Beast army to destroy all the sects, overthrow the Empire, establish his own country, and finally become the only Emperor of the continent.

He thought very beautifully, but everything he did in the Illusion was seen clearly by the people outside.

At this point, the method of controlling Soul Beasts was exposed.

With the development of time, the profession of Beast Tamer was born.

Soul Beasts were reduced to tools in the hands of Beast Tamers.

Therefore, when Jerry saw this profession, he did not like it at all.

However, Jerry's true body had previously instructed his clone not to interfere with this Soul Guidance World.

As time passed, Spirit Guidance Masters, Array Masters, and Beast Tamers looked down on each other, and thus conflicts arose.

Because Beast Tamers captured Soul Beasts on a massive scale, in the nearby forests, all those over a thousand years old were captured.

This forced Spirit Guidance Masters, Array Masters, and ordinary Spirit Masters to travel to very distant places to hunt Soul Beasts and absorb Spirit Rings.

Therefore, Spirit Guidance Masters, Array Masters, and ordinary Spirit Masters all had many complaints.

Later on, as the capture range of these Beast Tamers expanded, some high-year Soul Beasts became increasingly difficult to find.

What made them even angrier was that Beast Tamers began to trade Soul Beasts, and the prices were sky-high.

Moreover, these Beast Tamers were particularly arrogant; those who opposed them would be attacked by a pack of Soul Beasts, and after death, they would be eaten by the Soul Beasts.

The anger that other Spirit Masters had been suppressing before could finally no longer be suppressed.

War eventually broke out.

The entire continent fell into a war lasting over three thousand years; by this time, there were no longer any countries on the continent, only three major camps.

Three thousand years of war allowed all three camps to develop very quickly.

Indeed, war still drives social development and progress.

With development, various resources were constantly consumed, and Spirit Guidance Masters and Array Masters began to become the weaker side.

Ordinary Spirit Masters would choose one of the three camps to join.

However, most ordinary Spirit Masters joined the Beast Tamers because it was simple, efficient, and did not look at talent; even an ordinary Soul Scholar could control a pack of Soul Beasts.

Under oppression, the two major camps of Spirit Guidance Masters and Array Masters united.

Powerful Arrays combined with powerful Soul Guidance Devices, when used together, had an effect that was absolutely one plus one greater than two.

In the war, the speed of hunting these Beast Tamers' Soul Beasts directly increased several times over.

The reason Beast Tamers developed quickly was that they usually kept these Soul Beasts free-ranging in designated forests; the Soul Beasts' food and drink were all solved by themselves, requiring no responsibility from the Beast Tamers, consuming few resources.

Whereas Spirit Guidance Masters and Array Masters needed to rely on various materials, and after every battle, the consumption was very high.

As the war continued, the consumption of the Beast Tamers' Soul Beasts increased more and more, and Soul Beast reproduction was rare, and it took a long time for newborn Soul Beasts to grow up.

Now, being targeted by the united camps of Spirit Guidance Masters and Array Masters, the consumption of Soul Beasts in the Beast Tamer camp directly increased exponentially.

Then they captured Soul Beasts on a massive scale, sparing no forest.

With the development of the war, even hundred-year Soul Beasts began to be captured.

Gradually, Soul Beasts could not be caught in any forest, and the Soul Beasts on hand were consumed every day.

They persisted like this for two or three years; originally, the Beast Tamers wanted to negotiate peace, but after so many years of war, the hatred was carved into their bones and could not be solved by peace negotiations.

The two camps of Spirit Guidance Masters and Array Masters were determined to destroy the Beast Tamer camp.

Moreover, they also knew that the Soul Beasts on the entire continent had basically been captured by these Beast Tamers, which made them even angrier, because they would still need Spirit Rings for their future Cultivation.

Now that the Soul Beasts had all been ruined by the Beast Tamers, this was equivalent to indirectly cutting off their path of Cultivation.

Therefore, they made up their minds to destroy the Beast Tamer camp.

With no Soul Beasts left on land, the Beast Tamers had no choice but to retreat while fighting, eventually falling back to the sea.

The Soul Beasts in the sea began to suffer.

Even after fleeing to the sea, the determination of the Soul Guidance Masters and Array Masters to exterminate the Beast Tamers did not cease.

At first, on the sea, the Soul Guidance Masters and Array Masters were at a great disadvantage against the Sea Soul Beasts.

One day, the Soul Guidance Masters researched the Ice Soul Guidance Bomb, and the Array Masters researched the Freezing Array and the Poison Gas Array.

The ocean was directly frozen over.

The Ice Soul Guidance Bomb had great power and a large range, and it was a one-time-use item.

After adding the Freezing Array, it continuously converted the soul power in the heavens and earth into freezing force, so the frozen land would no longer melt.

To eliminate future trouble, they also set up Poison Gas Arrays beneath the ice, continuously releasing poison gas into the sea.

At first, some powerful Soul Beasts could still break through the ice, but as the poison gas spread through the seawater, many Sea Soul Beasts were poisoned one after another.

The Beast Tamers retreated while fighting, and wherever they retreated, that place would be frozen.

As the fighting went on, many Beast Tamers had exhausted all the Soul Beasts in their possession.

Beast Tamers without Soul Beasts were nothing.

As time passed, living up to expectations, the Beast Tamer faction was soon wiped out by the other two factions.

After wiping out the Beast Tamer faction, the entire continent celebrated for several days.

Jerry had originally thought that after the celebration, they would divide the spoils, and he estimated that the Soul Guidance Masters and Array Masters would still end up fighting.

But to Jerry's surprise, the Soul Guidance Master faction and the Array Master faction did not fight.

Years of war had exhausted them greatly, and they could no longer afford another war.

Years of cooperation had made them understand each other well; many were friends and comrades-in-arms.

After coordinating with each other, both their combat and their lives could become better.

Therefore, the Soul Guidance Master faction and the Array Master faction merged and established a nation.

At the founding ceremony, they burned all the records of the Beast Tamers, announced the crimes and dangers of the Beast Tamers, and issued an order: any Spirit Master who embarked on the path of a Beast Tamer would be executed without mercy.

The three-thousand-year war ended there.

Jerry checked on this world; although the war had ended, the war had consumed too much.

On land, century-old Soul Beasts were hard to find, and there were only a few thousand-year or ten-thousand-year ones left, as they had survived by hiding underground.

On the sea, three-quarters of the ocean was frozen, and due to the effect of the Poison Gas Arrays, Sea Soul Beasts had died in countless numbers; there were indeed still some high-year Sea Soul Beasts, but they had hidden in the deep sea.

Needless to say, various resources were also depleted, and the Soul Guidance Masters and Array Masters had also fallen into a period of slow development.

Seeing this result, Jerry was also very helpless; it would take at least several thousand years to recover.

With so many Soul Beasts dead, what would humans do for Cultivation?

Would Title Douluo absorb ten-year white Spirit Rings?

In this world, Jerry had not imparted breeding techniques, nor was there a Spirit Ring Creator.

A Spirit Ring Creator could only be researched by merging Spirit Guidance technology and biological science; this world had no biological science at all, so it would be a miracle if they could research it.

With things developed to this state, Jerry could only help them out himself.

With a wave of his hand, the Poison Gas Arrays on the sea were instantly destroyed, all the ice and snow melted instantly, and the toxins in the sea were also cleared.

Then, he found some places where Sea Soul Beasts gathered and set up several large Spirit Gathering Arrays.

Jerry had originally wanted to set up a Time Array, but he suddenly discovered he could not.

The world consciousness of the Main World told Jerry that he had already set up Time Arrays throughout the entire galaxy, so he certainly could not set them up inside; Time Arrays could not be nested.

Unless this world gave birth to a world consciousness and the basic Rules of the world were perfected so it could develop on its own, only then could the outside Time Array be stopped, and then a Time Array could be set up inside the Small World.

Since it was not possible, then so be it; the outside Time Array could not be stopped now, otherwise this galaxy would stop.

The sea could only be left like this for now, and then he came to the forest; seeing nothing here but some large trees that had not transformed into Soul Beasts and some small animals, he could not help but sigh.

Jerry went deep underground and set up several large Wood Spirit Arrays and Spirit Gathering Arrays; doing this would speed up the Cultivation speed of these large trees and small animals a little.

However, these surviving small animals all had low bloodlines; even if their cultivation became high, the soul skills obtained when absorbed by a Spirit Master would be very mediocre.

Because of this war, although the Soul Guidance Masters and Array Masters had developed, looking at other aspects, the entire world had regressed by tens of thousands of years.

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