Chapter 242: A Couple for a Thousand Lifetimes, Working Together to Research a New Path

Under the influence of this inexplicable attraction, Li Aiguo and Gu Yue quickly walked into the halls of marriage.

They lived together very harmoniously; often, with just one look from Li Aiguo, Gu Yue understood his meaning, which led Li Aiguo to believe for a time that he had found the right person, a true soulmate in life.

One year after marriage, Gu Yue gave birth to a baby girl, whom Li Aiguo named Li Luoshui.

His love for this daughter was plain to see; whenever he returned home from work, he would always hold his daughter in his arms, and no one could take his treasure away.

Sometimes, Gu Yue would feel a bit jealous, but then she thought, the daughter is her own clone, so there was no need to be jealous of herself.

When Li Aiguo went to work, Li Luoshui began to act on her own.

"Acting like a child every day is so tiring!" Li Luoshui said with dissatisfaction.

"What are you tired of? Someone holds you every day, and all you do is eat and sleep!" Gu Yue said with dissatisfaction.

"Oh, Main Body, you're jealous, hahaha. Being jealous of yourself, you are definitely the first person to do that."

"Shut up, if you keep talking nonsense, I'll send you back to the furnace to be remade!"

"I won't do it again, I won't do it again, Main Body, I was wrong!"

Every day after Li Aiguo went to work, Gu Yue and Li Luoshui would start bickering to relieve their boredom.

Originally, Gu Yue was supposed to go to work, but Li Aiguo felt she should wait until their daughter was a little older; in any case, the family was not short of money.

Li Luoshui grew up slowly, her grades were always at the top, and Li Aiguo also became a bit more cheerful, telling others that his daughter took after him and was material for studying.

Time passed quickly, Li Aiguo was 70 years old, and his life had reached its end; the only regret in his heart was that his daughter had become a total career woman, was still unmarried, and he hadn't held any grandchildren.

Every time the topic of his daughter's marriage came up, his wife Gu Yue was very opposed to it, and since Li Aiguo had memories of his past life, where there were many such cases, he slowly stopped talking about it and let things take their course.

In any case, Li Aiguo felt that the family had money and his daughter was capable; if she didn't want to marry, he would support her for a lifetime.

Of course, Gu Yue would not let her daughter marry; that was her clone, and if she married, wouldn't that be putting a green hat on Jerry?

Many people came to visit him, and some arranged for him to go to the hospital for check-ups, but the Fruiting was that his body was naturally aging, with no other illnesses.

It was just that everyone felt it was a pity; although Li Aiguo usually didn't say much, he was very serious about his work and had made many contributions to the country over the years. It was a pity that his health was poor, and he was bedridden before he was even seventy.

There were only a few hours left until Li Aiguo's seventieth birthday. He seemed to have a premonition and explained many things to his wife and daughter.

He had a feeling as if his wife and daughter were not sad that he was about to die.

After Li Aiguo's check-up at the hospital, the given Fruiting was natural aging, so he returned home and did not stay in the hospital.

Lying in his room, he could vaguely hear his wife and daughter chatting and laughing.

But he no longer had the strength to pursue this; now his whole body was weak, and he didn't even want to move.

In the final minute, his wife brought their daughter over. Li Aiguo wanted to open his eyes at the last moment to take one more look at his wife and daughter, but his eyelids would no longer obey him.

"There is one minute left, daughter, come over and keep your father company!"

"How annoying, even at this time, you still want me to call him father. He's taken advantage of me for so many years, I'll make him pay later."

"You've called him that for so many years, what's one last time? He's leaving soon."

Li Aiguo closed his eyes, and after hearing the conversation between his wife and daughter, he felt extremely angry in his heart.

What did their conversation mean?

Could it be that Luoshui is not my daughter?

Have I been cheated on?

And for a whole lifetime?

Gu Yue, why treat me like this, why?

Li Aiguo was still roaring in his heart; he had never been this angry in his life, but time was up, and the last sign of life in Li Aiguo's body disappeared.

In the following days, Gu Yue and Luoshui arranged his funeral. Many people came, and basically all the prominent figures came to see Li Aiguo off, a grand display.

Gu Yue told those around her that Li Aiguo wanted to return to his roots, and then she left with Li Aiguo's body.

From then on, they never appeared again.

Arriving outside the world

Li Aiguo's body was placed on a bed, with Gu Yue and Luoshui beside him, as well as the Fairy Queen.

"I must say, the things you said at the end were a bit too harsh. With such a twist, I reckon Jerry's last breath was knocked out of him by you two. When he wakes up, you're in for it!" said the Fairy Queen.

"What's there to be afraid of? I called him father for a lifetime; now that he's dead, what's wrong with messing with him a little?" said Luoshui.

"I feel he probably hates me even more, likely thinking I cheated on him for a lifetime," the Silver Dragon King said, laughing out loud.

"Besides, he was the one who said he wanted to experience the warmth and cold of the human world. Look, his life was too smooth, and he didn't have any major emotional fluctuations. The plot we added at the end can be considered a perfect conclusion to his life," Li Luoshui said while eating an apple.

The few of them were still chatting.

Li Aiguo's body slowly began Recovery; this was the method he had set beforehand. Thirty days after death, the body would recover, and his memories would be unsealed, thus leaving and exiting this world perfectly.

One could see Li Aiguo's body slowly transforming from an old man, becoming younger and younger, until finally, he turned into the appearance of a 15-year-old.

"Gu Yue, why?" Li Aiguo suddenly opened his eyes, shouted, and sat up abruptly.

At the same time, Li Aiguo saw Gu Yue, Luoshui, and a very noble woman.

Just as he wanted to ask, a wave of memories surged in instantly.

A dozen seconds later, Jerry stared at the Silver Dragon King with a look of resentment.

"Silver Dragon King, are you playing with me!"

After absorbing the memories, Li Aiguo instantly understood what was going on.

"Hahaha! Jerry, you're awake!" said the Silver Dragon King.

"You guys are too hateful. I was about to die, and you still angered me," Jerry said angrily.

"What we said was the truth, is there a problem? Did you think I cheated on you!" the Silver Dragon King said with a smile.

"That's right, I called you father for a lifetime, I was the one who lost out. And that business about you finding men for me, do you want to put a green hat on yourself?" Li Luoshui also chimed in.

"You..."

Jerry was speechless for a moment; he had sealed his memories and never expected that the Silver Dragon King would marry him, and that the daughter born would be her clone.

Thinking about this series of operations, it really is a case of having grievances that one cannot speak of, and feeling extremely wronged.

Suddenly, Jerry thought of a key point: the Silver Dragon King had married him, and they had lived together for over forty years.

Jerry directly hugged the Silver Dragon King, and before she could react, he disappeared instantly.

"Where is Jerry taking my true form?" Li Luoshui asked.

"Does that even need asking? Jerry is preparing to take revenge!" the Fairy Queen said casually.

Jerry brought the Silver Dragon King directly to their residence in the Star Dou Great Forest, then set up a Barrier.

"Gu Yue, is it? Fun, is it? Silver Dragon King, let's play something even more fun!"

"No, Jerry, the look in your eyes right now is a bit lecherous!"

"What's lecherous about it? We're an old married couple now, why are you still shy?"

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Three days later, sunlight shone in; at this time, the Silver Dragon King was still lying in Jerry's arms, and the scorching sunlight woke them both up.

As soon as Jerry woke up and looked at the Silver Dragon King in his arms, he wanted to do it again.

The Silver Dragon King sensed it and instantly moved away from Jerry.

"It's already been three days; even if you had anger, you should have vented it all by now. Let me go, let me rest for a bit, I really can't take it anymore."

"It's only been three days and you're already done for? You led me around in circles, and when I died, I was full of anger and despair. At that time, I swore that if there were a next life, I would absolutely not let you off."

"Then don't take your anger out on me alone; let my clone Li Luoshui come."

"Ah, although she is your clone, she called me 'Dad' for a whole lifetime, and I raised her from a young age, so she feels just like a daughter; I can't bring myself to do it," Jerry said with a smile.

"If you can't bring yourself to do it, you just keep bullying me."

"You are the true form!"

"No, I am also a clone!"

"In this world, you are the true form!"

"I am a clone."

Having experienced one lifetime, apart from the very end of life which triggered a change in emotions, at no other time did anything stir a change in Jerry's emotions.

Although it was only a sliver of angry emotion, it still made Jerry feel that he had a touch of human warmth.

The seven emotions and six desires—no matter which one it is, Jerry feels they are all useful; only with the seven emotions and six desires is one more like a human, and only then is there humanity.

And when he was with the Silver Dragon King, it ignited his desires; these are all a good start.

Jerry and the Silver Dragon King were already together, so Jerry felt that the subsequent plans needed to be changed.

Reincarnation still had to continue, but from now on, he would take his wife, the Silver Dragon King, along with him in every reincarnation.

The second time, Jerry came to the Soul Guidance World and embarked on the path of a Soul Guidance Master; under Jerry's leadership, the profession of Soul Guidance Master developed rapidly.

At the age of thirty, under the arrangement of the Silver Dragon King, the two met, and then walked through life together.

The third time, Jerry still went to the Soul Guidance World, this time embarking on the path of an Array Master; Jerry's ingenious ideas allowed the profession of Array Master to once again stand on equal footing with the Soul Guidance Master.

At the age of twenty, he met the Silver Dragon King, but in the plot arranged by the Silver Dragon King this time, the two were rivals.

Both were outstanding figures in the Array Master profession, neither willing to submit to the other, and the two were constantly competing in arrays.

They competed for ten years without a winner, but their feelings for each other grew deeper and deeper, and then they naturally ended up together.

After the two were together, they studied arrays together, causing the status of Array Masters in the Soul Guidance World to firmly suppress that of the Soul Guidance Masters.

In the end, the two lived a happy life together.

Then the third time, the fourth time, until the thousandth time.

After a thousand reincarnations, Jerry had many memories of mortals, and these memories allowed Jerry's humanity to be revealed once again.

In the thousand reincarnations, most were in the Soul Guidance World and the Pill World; these two worlds were also constantly developing at high speed because of the two of them.

During the three-hundredth time in the Soul Guidance World, the two were researching arrays and had a new breakthrough.

They researched a Contract Array, which was based on the inheritance of the Beast Tamer.

Although the Empire had destroyed the inheritance of the Beast Tamer at that time, a backup was still preserved in the general archives of the Soul Guidance Master and Array Master guilds.

During the three-hundredth time in the Soul Guidance World, Jerry became the president of the Array Master Guild, and the Silver Dragon King became the president of the Soul Guidance Master Guild; the two competed with each other while also admiring each other, and eventually ended up together.

In private, the two shared their data and discovered that both guilds had backed up the data on Beast Tamers, and it was the very detailed kind.

Although both knew that the profession of Beast Tamer was indeed very harmful to the world, they couldn't resist their curiosity and began to research it.

Finally, they researched the Contract Array, allowing a Spirit Master to sign a contract with a Soul Beast to grow together.

Every time a Spirit Master reaches a new realm of Cultivation, they can sign a contract with a Soul Beast; after the contract is successful, the Soul Beast will provide the Spirit Master with a Spirit Ring.

The Spirit Ring will also grow as the Soul Beast's cultivation increases, and each time the Spirit Ring's age increases or it breaks through, it will also drive the improvement of the Spirit Master's cultivation.

Whether it is a Spirit Master or a Soul Beast, their cultivation is slowly improving, and their Body Strength will also slowly increase, unlike absorbing a Spirit Ring where it increases a lot all at once; if it exceeds the Body Strength, the absorption will fail, and in serious cases, one will explode and die.

After a Soul Beast signs a contract, its cultivation will become faster; after the contract, the Soul Beast can absorb the soul power between heaven and earth through the Soul Power Seed in the Spirit Master's martial soul, and as long as the body can handle it, it can keep absorbing.

The reason why a Spirit Master's passive cultivation speed is slow is that there is an upper limit to the soul power absorbed every day; if it is exceeded, the body will be uncomfortable and unable to bear it, but the Soul Beast's body is much stronger than the Spirit Master's, and its daily upper limit is also higher.

Because the contract is an Equal Contract, the Soul Beast and the Spirit Master are equal, and the prerequisite for signing the contract is that the intimacy between the Spirit Master and the Soul Beast must be relatively high.

Whenever the intimacy drops, the contract is directly dissolved; the Soul Beast cannot be contracted again for a thousand years, and the Spirit Master cannot contract for ten years.

The punishment is still very severe, which counts as a form of restraint.

There is no punishment if one party to the contract dies; if one party dies, the contract is directly dissolved and will not implicate the other party.

Besides intimacy, either the Spirit Master or the Soul Beast has the right to dissolve the contract; originally Jerry hadn't intended to do this, but with the Silver Dragon King by his side, she was always considering the Soul Beasts, so he added this Rule.

Later, for convenience, they opened up a summoning array; the contracted Soul Beast can usually be kept at home or in the forest, and when fighting is needed, it can be summoned directly; it can also be summoned at ordinary times to deepen the feelings between the two sides.

As the two slowly perfected it, this new route of Cultivation gradually became clear, and finally, there was the question of the name for this route of Cultivation.

Jerry wanted to call it Beast Controller, but the Silver Dragon King felt that Soul Beasts and Spirit Masters were equal and it couldn't be called Beast Controller; in the end, this route of Cultivation was defined as Summoner.

Returning to the Main World, Jerry directly released the Cultivation methods for Summoners.

All the Spirit Masters throughout the Main World felt deeply regretful.

Why were they not born at a better time? Now that there were so many other Cultivation professions, they were still just basic Spirit Masters.

If the Spirit Hall had researched this Summoner path earlier, they could have had one more choice.

Just thinking about how, in the future, when they fought against a Summoner of the same level, they would be alone while the Summoner directly summoned a Soul Beast to fight, made them feel miserable just thinking about it.

However, Summoners did have one limitation: they lacked soul skills, which was the only advantage ordinary Spirit Masters had.

But the Spirit Hall possessed many Self-created Soul Skills, which could completely make up for the issue of having no soul skills from Spirit Rings.

Subsequently, the Spirit Hall launched a service for removing Spirit Rings, giving everyone a chance to switch their path of Cultivation.

Because of the launch of this service, all the branch halls of the Spirit Hall were overcrowded.

Next, Jerry also announced the Cultivation limits of common Soul Beasts; some Soul Beasts were naturally capable of cultivating to ten thousand years, while others could only reach one hundred years.

Furthermore, Jerry proposed a line of thought: every Soul Beast had the possibility of breaking through and evolving, which required feeding the Soul Beast Bloodline Pills to increase its bloodline.

Soul Beasts with high natural limits were powerful from the start and could save a lot of Cultivation resources, but such Soul Beasts were harder to cultivate intimacy with and very difficult to contract.

It would be better to first contract some Soul Beasts with low cultivation; as they were raised, the intimacy between the two sides could be deepened. Moreover, newborn Soul Beasts were the best; generally, a newborn Soul Beast would treat the first person it saw as family, making intimacy easier to cultivate.

As the Spirit Hall released more and more data, most people began to study the Summoner profession.

Many books appeared on the market, such as "On the Selection and Matching of One to Nine Contracted Soul Beasts," "The Advantages of Single-Attribute Soul Beast Contracts," "Thirty-Six Methods of Soul Beast Cultivation," "Soul Beast Evolution Paths," "Soul Beast Combat Technique Training," and so on.

Jerry took a look and found that some content was indeed useful, but most of it was useless.

The educational level of the entire continent had been raised, the common people had their own opinions, everyone had their own independent insights, and there was freedom of speech.

Now, everyone would not just wait for the Spirit Hall to release data; they spontaneously began to research it themselves. This result was very good, and it was also what Jerry wanted to see.

Up to now, some people had successfully contracted beasts, but they were all young beasts; most were obtained from the Spirit Hall's Soul Beast Forest, and some had run to breeding farms to contract farmed Soul Beasts.

These people had gotten ahead of many others from the start, while another portion of people were still waiting for Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts or young beasts that could grow into Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts; cultivating intimacy with a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast was not that easy.

However, it must be said, there were still smart people.

Many families in the Spirit Hall had previously raised family Soul Beasts separately and had also seen the data Jerry had previously provided on raising fox Soul Beasts. In the past, they had to wait for the Soul Beast to cultivate to a very high level before taking some fur or the like, but now that was no longer needed.

They could just contract a young beast directly; after contracting, the Soul Beast would grow faster, and then they could just raise the summoned beast.

These Soul Beasts were all raised by the families, and the relationship between the Soul Beasts and the people feeding them was very good; wouldn't that increase intimacy?

Subsequently, within these families, a group of people was arranged to feed the Soul Beasts, and after one month, many people had successfully contracted them.

Most of these family members contracted young beasts that could grow to ten thousand years, and some directly contracted Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts. Those who successfully contracted them were the former feeders.

What was originally the most bitter job had now reached the sky in one step.

There was a feeder, a collateral family member, who had offended a direct descendant and was assigned to feed the Soul Beasts.

After feeding the Soul Beasts for several years, now that the Summoner profession had emerged, he went directly to the Spirit Hall and removed his seven Spirit Rings.

After returning, he directly contracted seven Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts, the highest of which was already eighty thousand years old—the highest one among the family's cultivated Soul Beasts.

This directly changed his status in the family and he directly beat up the direct descendant who had offended him before. This matter also stirred up a storm in Wuhun City.

While the commoners had not yet figured out how to increase the intimacy of Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts, the big families already had people who had contracted Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts.

Taking advantage of this matter, Tang San began to stir up trouble again.

However, this time he acted more low-key, printing it on paper and scattering it everywhere.

The paper stated that the Spirit Hall had a method to increase Soul Beast intimacy, that many people inside the Spirit Hall had now contracted Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts, and demanded that the Spirit Hall make the method public.

He still hadn't figured out how he had found the more than forty thousand people of the Light God Sect last time, but this did not hinder him from causing trouble; after all, there were always more solutions than difficulties.

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(End of this chapter)