Chapter 234: Comprehending the Breathing Method, Soul Beasts Take Human Form and Develop Intelligence

"Crackle," "crackle," "crackle"……

One after another, bolts of Thunder Tribulation descended from the sky.

The further it went, the faster the Thunder Tribulation descended.

Two hours later, all five hundred bolts of Thunder Tribulation had finished striking.

The dark clouds began to dissipate, and the Sun, which had been hiding behind them, popped out; the sky gradually cleared until, in the end, it was a vast expanse of blue, as if nothing had ever happened.

If not for the five hundred large craters blasted into the earth, no one would have known that five hundred Soul Beasts had undergone their tribulation here at the same time.

Although the Soul Beasts that had survived the Thunder Tribulation were not severely injured, their minds had not yet recovered from the fear of the Thunder Tribulation, and they lay scattered where they had undergone the tribulation, shivering.

Jerry waved his hand, and the Healing Soul Beasts began to act; they scattered to restore the injuries of these Soul Beasts that had just survived the tribulation.

The crowd of Soul Beasts watching the tribulation were already dumbfounded.

The Thunder Tribulation that had previously filled them with soul-deep fear had been survived by five hundred Soul Beasts today all at once.

Was this a dream? Were they still sleeping?

In their current gazes, one could see looks of disbelief.

A few Soul Beasts even stretched out their own claws and slapped their own heads hard.

There were also some Soul Beasts that couldn't bear to slap themselves, so they slapped the Soul Beasts next to them directly.

The pain finally made them realize that this was not a dream; this was something that had truly happened.

Immediately thinking that they, too, could safely survive the Thunder Tribulation in the future, they began to cheer one after another, looking up to the sky and howling, roaring crazily.

In an instant, the long howls and wild roars rose one after another; it was a cheer of the soul, a joy from the heart that language could no longer express, only roars and howls.

The five hundred Soul Beasts that had survived the Thunder Tribulation heard the roars, gradually regained their senses, took a look around, and after sensing their own conditions, instantly began to cheer and rejoice.

Five hundred Soul Beasts successfully surviving the Thunder Tribulation seemed to have untied a knot in the hearts of the Soul Beasts; the Thunder Tribulation that had always hung over their heads no longer seemed so terrifying at this very moment.

After this experiment was successful, many Soul Beasts sought out Jerry to ask for the method to survive the tribulation.

Jerry was, of course, very happy to publish the method for surviving the tribulation, but he also reminded all the Soul Beasts that, so far, only the data for the One-Tribulation Soul Beast's Thunder Tribulation had been verified; the data for the second and third tribulations was too scarce and merely speculative, requiring further verification.

After obtaining the information published by Jerry, the Soul Beasts that had not yet survived the first tribulation began to cultivate with confidence and boldness.

Although there was no Gravity Domain to assist in cultivation, long-term exercise could also achieve this effect, so the Soul Beasts began to exercise their Body Strength one after another.

Jerry had initially taken in over a thousand followers, and now that five hundred Soul Beasts had successfully survived the Thunder Tribulation, the rest also expressed their desire to cultivate together.

They were all Jerry's followers, so he naturally would not favor any single Soul Beast, and thus a rotating cultivation system began.

Three years later, all of Jerry's followers had survived the first Thunder Tribulation, and the original five hundred Soul Beasts had not slacked off either, spending half of every day cultivating soul power and half the time exercising their Body Strength.

In three years, the highest among them had only cultivated to eleven thousand years, still a long way from the twenty-thousand-year cultivation base.

As more and more Soul Beasts survived the first Thunder Tribulation, the Soul Beasts' fear of the Thunder Tribulation had decreased significantly.

Although Jerry wanted to verify the data for the second Thunder Tribulation, the cultivation bases of the Soul Beasts were too far off.

Jerry's subordinates also realized this, so they worked hard to cultivate every day, but the effect of cultivating soul power was unsatisfactory.

Slowly, some Soul Beasts began to wonder, how could they cultivate faster?

Then they began to ask each other about cultivation methods, and soon after, the Soul Beasts of the entire world were discussing how to cultivate faster.

Seeing the questions the Soul Beasts were now discussing, Jerry felt that his efforts over the past few years had finally paid off; he had successfully changed the thinking of the Soul Beasts in this world, and now they knew how to cultivate proactively.

This was a good thing, but it took too long to cultivate to twenty thousand years; even with the Spirit Gathering Array set up, it couldn't speed things up much, as there was an upper limit to the soul power a Soul Beast could absorb each day, and they could only continue absorbing it after they had adapted.

Jerry left this world and found the Silver Dragon King.

When the Silver Dragon King saw Jerry, she felt a bit embarrassed; she had seen everything Jerry had done after entering the Spirit Beast World, and thinking of her own methods, the comparison immediately revealed the difference in results, so she felt very awkward.

"Silver Dragon King, I have now guided these Soul Beasts in the right direction, but it will still take a long time to cultivate to a Two-Tribulation Soul Beast, so I have come out first to adjust the World Rule of this world."

Jerry could not, of course, stay in the Small World forever waiting for these Soul Beasts to cultivate to twenty thousand years; that would take too long.

"Jerry, after seeing your approach, I admit that my previous method indeed had problems; I hadn't thought of so much before," the Silver Dragon King said shamefully.

"It's fine, it's not too late to change now. Our goal is to get what we want by developing the Small World; by looking at the big picture through the small, sometimes appropriate guidance can allow us to reach our goals as quickly as possible."

"Hmm, so now that you've come out, what are you preparing to do?"

"I can't stay in the Small World forever waiting for the Soul Beasts to cultivate, so I came out to prepare to modify the World Rule."

"My idea is to first adjust the gravity of the Small World to one time, give them a hundred years to adapt, then adjust the gravity to two times, and give them another period to adapt. And so on, stopping when it is adjusted to twenty times gravity."

"In this way, once all the Soul Beasts in this world have adapted to twenty times gravity, they will quickly increase their Body Strength to the level of the second Thunder Tribulation, and then many Soul Beasts will survive the second Thunder Tribulation, allowing me to collect more data and then organize the data related to the second Thunder Tribulation."

"After that, I will use the same method to slowly increase the gravity until the gravity of the entire world is increased to one hundred times."

"Once all the Soul Beasts have adapted to one hundred times gravity, and even newborn Soul Beasts grow up directly under one hundred times gravity, their Body Strength will increase very quickly, and then they can safely and boldly undergo the Thunder Tribulation."

"This will allow me to get the data for the first to the ninth tribulations as quickly as possible, and if I'm lucky, I might even get the data for the God Tribulation."

"You previously modified the rule for Soul Beast transformation, allowing it only after twenty thousand years; once there are more transformed Soul Beasts, I will guide them to research cultivation techniques. There are too few transformed Soul Beasts in the Main World, and too few subjects to study, making it unsuitable for researching techniques for transformed Soul Beasts, but it is very suitable in this world that only has Soul Beasts."

Although Jerry spoke very simply, the difficulty involved was quite significant.

One could see from the Soul Beasts in the Main World that after so many years, human society had researched many cultivation techniques, while not a single technique had ever appeared among the Soul Beasts.

Researching a technique undoubtedly required a great deal of time and energy.

After adjusting the World Rule, Jerry went into the Small World.

As time went on, the Body Strength of the Soul Beasts first reached two hundred, but their cultivation base had not yet reached twenty thousand years.

Just like before, once their Body Strength reached two hundred, it could no longer be improved, so Jerry let them cultivate soul power with all their might.

Jerry's divine sense had been shrouding this Spirit Beast World, and every Soul Beast was under Jerry's observation.

As time passed, Jerry discovered a problem: setting aside the bloodline talent of the Soul Beasts, why did the cultivation speed of the same Soul Beasts vary?

After Jerry had observed for a hundred years, he finally discovered the secret.

The frequency at which these Soul Beasts breathed was different.

A term suddenly appeared in Jerry's mind: could it be a Breathing Method?

Through observing the passive cultivation of a large number of Soul Beasts, Jerry finally confirmed it.

It is the Breathing Method; different species of Soul Beast and Soul Beasts with different attributes all have different breathing frequencies.

Even Soul Beasts of the same species have different breathing frequencies.

Jerry began to record these breathing frequencies.

Finally, he obtained nine types of breathing frequencies; these nine frequencies correspond to nine attributes, and each frequency is the fastest breathing frequency for single-attribute Cultivation.

After organizing them, they are the Metal Attribute Breathing Method, Wood Attribute Breathing Method, Water Attribute Breathing Method, Fire Attribute Breathing Method, Earth Attribute Breathing Method, Thunder Attribute Breathing Method, Darkness Breathing Method, Light Breathing Method, and Non-Attribute Breathing Method.

In this world, the instinctive Breathing Method for most Soul Beasts is the Non-Attribute Breathing Method; only some Soul Beasts with good talent comprehend attribute-based Breathing Methods.

Breathing Methods of different attributes absorb soul power differently.

Different Soul Beasts have different talents and comprehend different Breathing Methods; these nine Breathing Methods of Jerry's are the ones he selected for the fastest Cultivation after integrating all Soul Beast Breathing Methods.

Many Soul Beasts are not single-attribute Soul Beasts, so initially, Jerry prepared to research a multi-attribute Breathing Method so that Soul Beast Cultivation time could be saved.

However, Jerry was overthinking it; in reality, breathing frequencies are very difficult to fuse. If changed even slightly, the absorbed soul power would turn into non-attribute soul power, and thus he never found where the key to the Breathing Method lay.

Without finding this key point, a multi-attribute Breathing Method could not be deduced.

Subsequently, Jerry began to arrange for the Soul Beasts to start practicing these Breathing Methods.

Many Soul Beasts breathe instinctively; over a long period, their breathing frequencies have become fixed and are very difficult to change.

There might also be another reason: the intelligence of the Soul Beasts has not yet been developed, and their intelligence is too low, which affects their comprehension.

After all, the writing and language of this world were only born recently, so there is indeed not much to learn.

Only by learning more and reading more can one develop intelligence; this also takes time and cannot be achieved overnight.

Relying on the intelligence of the Soul Beasts, Jerry led them to practice the Breathing Methods, and it took three months before the breathing patterns of all the Soul Beasts were changed.

Jerry summarized these Breathing Methods after observing the breathing of Soul Beasts throughout the world, and the effect was quite obvious.

The Cultivation speed of these Soul Beasts improved significantly.

Jerry compared the Cultivation speeds of the Breathing Method and the Meditation Method, and the Meditation Method was still a bit faster.

The Breathing Method requires calm and focused practice at the beginning, but after becoming familiar with it, it becomes an instinct; one can practice the Breathing Method anytime and anywhere, no longer limited to the method of sitting in meditation.

Moreover, the two techniques can be practiced simultaneously; when meditating, adjusting the breathing frequency and running the Breathing Method yields better Cultivation results.

There is one more point: the Breathing Method is not limited by age, which means that after taking it to the Main World, three-year-old children can practice it, and then the probability of them awakening soul power will be greatly increased.

If one has innate soul power, it is much simpler than cultivating soul power later on.

Jerry passed the Breathing Method directly to the Silver Dragon King and told her the function of this Breathing Method.

This Breathing Method is simply tailor-made for Soul Beasts because it does not require Meridians, only the adjustment of breathing frequency; in the Spirit Beast World, this is equivalent to a universal technique.

This also means there is no need to worry about the messy and complex Meridians of the Soul Beasts anymore.

At the same time, Jerry also passed the Breathing Method to his clone in the Spirit Hall, letting the clone release the Breathing Method and having the clone emphasize to everyone that children starting Kindergarten at age three should first be encouraged to practice the Non-Attribute Breathing Method, as this Breathing Method can increase the probability of them awakening soul power when they awaken.

This point must be emphasized, strictly teaching every child in Kindergarten, trying to ensure they learn the Breathing Method after enrollment.

In this way, after three years of Kindergarten, the soul power absorbed will certainly be significant, and the probability of having soul power when awakening will be greater.

According to Jerry's idea, as long as the Non-Attribute Breathing Method is practiced successfully, in three years, they will surely absorb enough soul power to awaken a martial soul with soul power.

It is just that there has been no experiment yet, so Jerry will not speak too definitively for now.

After awakening, one can test the martial soul attribute, and then change to the corresponding attribute Breathing Method according to the martial soul attribute.

He did not expect to have an unexpected harvest after coming to the Spirit Beast World; it seems that observing the behavior of Soul Beasts is also a form of Cultivation.

In the following time, besides observing the breathing frequencies of the Soul Beasts, Jerry also began to observe the movements of the Soul Beasts.

Based on these movements, Jerry summarized many martial arts; oh, no, if combined with soul power, it should be called Self-created Soul Skill.

The reason for observing the movements of Soul Beasts is that Jerry thought of technique names like Xingyi Quan and Five Animals Play.

Although Jerry did not know how to practice them, he had seen introductions before, all of which were martial arts researched based on observing animal behavior.

Since there is such a method, Jerry began to observe the behavior of the Soul Beasts; there are a huge number of species of Soul Beasts in one world.

Soon Jerry organized several sets of soul skills, such as Monkey Fist, Tiger Palm, Crane Fist, Snake Fist, Dragon Claw Hand, etc.

Jerry carved the practice methods of these soul skills directly onto a huge stone tablet, so that all Soul Beasts could watch and learn.

These soul skills were taught to the Soul Beasts just to guide them; once they learned the soul power usage techniques of these soul skills, they could then develop soul skills suitable for themselves according to their own characteristics.

Another purpose is to improve their intelligence through learning these soul skills.

After learning the Breathing Method, the Soul Beasts practiced very quickly; after more than ten years, the cultivation of many Soul Beasts reached 200,000 years.

However, this time Jerry did not organize a collective Thunder Tribulation; when it was time to undergo the Thunder Tribulation, they just came to the specially built Tribulation Crossing Site and started the tribulation directly.

This Tribulation Crossing Site was specially built by Jerry, and the method used was far beyond the level of this world, so it was not made public.

The Tribulation Crossing Site is made of special metal; if the Thunder Tribulation strikes it, it will directly conduct the lightning into the ground and cannot damage the special metal.

Moreover, hidden under the special metal is a Body Strength Testing Instrument, which comes with recording capabilities; Jerry only needs to go and check it every once in a while.

The Tribulation Crossing Site is open for use; even if they are not Jerry's subordinates, they can come to this place to undergo the tribulation.

At first, many Soul Beasts did not come, but Soul Beasts are also very gossipy among themselves; Jerry used this point and then spread a piece of news.

That is, every time everyone undergoes the tribulation, they leave the ground pitted and scarred.

For a long time, the forest has been destroyed, and there are pits left by the tribulation everywhere, which seriously affects the lives of the Soul Beasts.

It would be better for everyone to concentrate in one place to undergo the tribulation; in this way, the forest will no longer be destroyed.

Soul Beasts are simple; after hearing about the destruction of the forest, they all stopped undergoing the tribulation everywhere and ran to the Tribulation Crossing Site built by Jerry to undergo the tribulation.

After several thousand Soul Beasts successfully passed the second Thunder Tribulation, it was also verified that Body Strength needs to reach 200 to perfectly pass the Thunder Tribulation.

After passing the second Thunder Tribulation, Jerry had these Soul Beasts transform into human form one after another.

Then he guided the transformed Soul Beasts to start building cities.

Many Soul Beasts, even after passing the second Thunder Tribulation, still like to maintain their beast bodies because they feel that the beast body is more powerful.

Jerry cannot control other Soul Beasts, but his subordinates all listen to him.

Then he will start with his own subordinates and slowly influence the whole world.

Very quickly, houses were established one after another inside the forest.

Of course, he did not let them build randomly; Jerry had blueprints for a large city in his hands. Jerry directed his subordinates to build according to the blueprints, but since the construction was not yet complete, the final effect could not be seen.

Then, Jerry began to teach these humanoid Soul Beasts some human ways of life.

He taught them bit by bit, starting from the simplest task of learning how to wear clothes.

Ten years of time passed, and this large city was finally completely constructed.

Although many houses were left vacant, more and more humanoid Soul Beasts would live there in the future.

Once the city construction was finished, formal classes began.

First, they intensively studied characters, and after there were no more problems with that, he began to explain knowledge in various aspects.

Much of this knowledge was completely unrelated to Cultivation, but one should not underestimate these things.

As the humanoid Soul Beasts learned more and more knowledge, their intelligence clearly improved.

As for other directions of Cultivation, Jerry did not lecture on them; otherwise, this world would head in a different direction, which was not the original intention of the Silver Dragon King.

As for the aspect of food, since they had taken human form, it was not very good to keep eating raw food.

Therefore, Jerry taught the humanoid Soul Beasts planting techniques, animal husbandry techniques, and most importantly, cooking techniques.

Soul Beasts that had not taken human form did not eat many seasonings, but after taking human form, food certainly could not be so simple.

Jerry traveled all over the world, began searching for seasoning plants, and also taught some Soul Beasts to start making salt.

Because of Jerry's guidance, the first thing to develop in this Spirit Beast World was, unexpectedly, food.

A wide variety of foods appeared, attracting many outside Soul Beasts.

After trying delicious cooked food, eating raw food felt a bit bland.

Consequently, many Soul Beasts capable of taking human form began to take human form voluntarily and then came to live in the city.

For those Soul Beasts that could not yet take human form, Jerry stipulated that they were not allowed to enter the city; in order to eat delicious food sooner, they all began to practice Cultivation diligently.

As expected, the charm of gourmet food is still the greatest.

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