Chapter 243: Tang San Makes Trouble, Jerry Gains Three God Positions in One Day

A thousand cycles of reincarnation gave Jerry a deep understanding of the Life Rule and the Death Rule.

His comprehension of both rules reached 80%, but after hitting 80%, he could not improve them any further.

Jerry also knew that the remaining rules could not be comprehended through reincarnation alone; it was also possible that the World Rule was restricting him.

Comprehending all rules to 80% was very simple for Jerry, but breaking through that 80% was extremely difficult.

From this perspective, the Fairy Queen was truly formidable, as she could comprehend four rules to 100% in the ancient era.

However, through a thousand cycles of reincarnation, there was one very important rule that Jerry managed to comprehend to 100%, and that was the Space Rule.

At first, he did not know why this Space Rule had broken through, but the Main World consciousness felt it was because Jerry had created ten Small Worlds, and as the Small Worlds developed, comprehending rules became easier.

The most fundamental aspect of creating a Small World is mastering the Space Rule, so it was not surprising that Jerry's Space Rule could break through.

Jerry's breakthrough drove a further improvement in the Main World's rules.

The space barriers of the Main World had strengthened; now, it was not as easy as before to open up a Small World within the Main World.

For Small Worlds that had already been opened, establishing a passage to the Main World had also become much more difficult; even if people from the God Realm wanted to come to the Douluo World now, they would have to pay a great price.

However, these were secondary matters; what needed to be resolved now was the public's discussion.

Subsequently, the Spirit Hall announced the secret of why one could form a contract with a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast.

For many years, the Spirit Hall had been engaged in the cultivation of Soul Beasts; most of the spirit rings everyone had exchanged for previously were cultivated by the Spirit Hall.

During the cultivation process, there were specialized feeders who fed the Soul Beasts every day; over time, they became familiar with the Soul Beasts, their intimacy increased, and naturally, they could sign contracts with Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts.

The Spirit Hall announced that it would open the Soul Beast Forest; after everyone selected a Soul Beast, they could perform specialized feeding, and the Spirit Hall would only be responsible for maintaining order in the future.

The Soul Beasts inside the Spirit Hall's Soul Beast Forest were all captive-bred, had specialized personnel feeding them, and had a better affinity toward humans; compared to Soul Beasts in other places, it was easier to cultivate intimacy with them.

At the same time, the Spirit Hall would release 1,000 newborn Soul Beasts every month.

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Tang San was currently very hesitant; with his insight, he naturally saw the benefits of being a Summoner.

A Summoner who reached the Title Douluo level could summon nine Soul Beasts at once.

These Soul Beasts had signed contracts, their Cultivation speed accelerated, and as long as they reached a cultivation of 70,000 to 80,000 years, they were already equivalent to a human Title Douluo.

When an ordinary Title Douluo fought a Summoner of the same level, starting a fight ten-on-one, one could imagine the outcome.

Tang San looked at his spirit rings; after the God Trial, his nine spirit rings were: black, black, black, black, black, black, black, red, red. The two red spirit rings could stay, but the others could be replaced.

Tang San gathered intelligence that the Soul Beasts in the Spirit Hall's Soul Beast Forest were all high-quality; ten thousand years was the minimum, and 70,000 to 80,000 years were also common. If one was lucky, it was even possible to contract a 100,000 Year Soul Beast.

His first spirit ring was only over 30,000 years old; replacing it with any other would be better than what he had now, and he would also gain a Soul Beast helper.

There was one problem now that was holding Tang San back, because when contracting with a Soul Beast, one had to be at the Spirit Hall; the Spirit Hall had specialized places where a Spirit Master and a Soul Beast could sign a contract.

Thinking of this, Tang San felt that the Spirit Hall still hid many secrets.

Through the memories of his past life, he felt it might be an Array, but for Yu Xiaogang and the others, they had never even heard the word "Array."

Although they had never heard of it, Tang San felt it must exist, because when performing a Spirit Awakening, the patterns carved on the ground looked just like an Array.

Previously, Spirit Awakening required others to guide the process, but now every city had a Juexing Guangchang set up.

Children of the appropriate age only needed to step onto the Juexing Guangchang to automatically awaken their martial soul; there was no need for anyone to guide them at all.

The old awakening Array could only be considered an incomplete Array; it lacked an energy device, and thus required a Spirit Master to use their own soul power to activate it.

After Jerry completed the energy device, human guidance was no longer needed, and within every awakening Array, a recording device was installed that would transmit the Fruiting of the awakening directly to the Spirit Hall.

The Spirit Hall's database contained records of all kinds of martial soul data, which was much more accurate than a Spirit Master relying on their own judgment to assess a martial soul.

It was precisely because of the awakening Array that Tang San was very certain of the existence of Arrays.

Currently, the Spirit Hall had not released the data on Arrays and had hidden it from the entire continent; Tang San also very much wanted this data now.

The large amount of data he had obtained recently made Tang San feel that the Spirit Hall's foundation was truly profound; therefore, Tang San felt that he should firmly refrain from taking action until he had obtained the various data of the Spirit Hall.

Yu Xiaogang and Dugu Yan had spoken to him several times about wanting to take action early, but Tang San had used the excuse that the Spirit Hall still had a lot of important data they hadn't obtained yet to persuade the two to wait a bit longer.

Every time they waited for a period of time, the Spirit Hall would indeed release new data, which was the same as Tang San's guesses.

For example, many people were moved by the Summoner profession announced this time.

Tang San suspected that the Spirit Hall's internal personnel had long been cultivating the Summoner profession; the Spirit Hall also said that they had been engaged in the work of cultivating Soul Beasts all these years.

Saying that cultivating Soul Beasts was only for making spirit rings was a very insufficient reason in Tang San's view; this was just a cover released by the Spirit Hall, and the real purpose was to cultivate high-year Soul Beasts to be used for Summoner contracts.

There must be quite a few Soul Beasts inside that could grow into high-year Soul Beasts, or even 100,000 Year Soul Beasts; these Soul Beasts were likely already contracted as summon beasts by some high-level figures.

It was fortunate that he hadn't taken action before; there must be quite a few Summoners at the Title Douluo level in the Spirit Hall, and it would be bad to be ganged up on then.

There were also two god-level powerhouses in the Spirit Hall; if they were also Summoners, that would be too terrifying.

After figuring this out, Tang San felt that everyone must switch to cultivating as a Summoner now.

If Jerry knew that Tang San had thought so much, he would definitely say that Tang San had thought too much.

A Summoner is very powerful in the early stages with the help of a Soul Beast, but it is very difficult to cultivate a Soul Beast in the later stages.

Jerry felt the correct approach was to contract a Soul Beast when the Spirit Master was weak, follow the Summoner path, and then, once they became strong, break the contract and absorb the spirit ring.

The Spirit Hall had many surviving 100,000 Year spirit rings, but 100,000 Year Soul Beasts were not so easy to cultivate.

Whether one could break through to 100,000 years depended most importantly on the Soul Beast's own bloodline; the higher the bloodline, the harder it was to improve, so it was not that easy for a Soul Beast to break through to 100,000 years.

When a Summoner cultivates to the later stages, their physical fitness is very strong; after releasing the summon beast, the age of the spirit ring they can absorb is also very high.

If the relationship between the Spirit Master and the Soul Beast is truly very good, then it will inevitably come into contact with the Spirit Master's descendants; over time, the relationship with the descendants will also become good.

Once the Spirit Master dies naturally, the contract is automatically released without suffering any release penalty, and then this Soul Beast can contract with the Spirit Master's descendants again.

A powerful Soul Beast escorting one's descendants can be treated as a family's legacy Soul Beast; after all, a Soul Beast's lifespan is far longer than a Spirit Master's, so passing it down is possible.

This kind of inheritance cannot be compared to money or soul bones; the advantages are simply too many.

With the birth of the Summoner profession, the World consciousness contacted Jerry; the God Position of the God of Summoning was born in the world, and it was currently vacant, needing a god to inherit the God Position.

Only in this way could Summoners be fully recognized by the world in the future, and it was not just Summoners; in the future, when the number of Alchemists and Array Masters reached a certain amount, God Positions would also be born.

If a God Position is vacant, the development of that profession will be very slow; judging from the current situation, Jerry is the best person to hold the God Position.

Aside from the numerical limit, the route for each profession must be fully perfected.

Currently in this world, aside from Spirit Masters, only the Soul Guidance Master profession is perfected; however, the god who previously held the Soul Guidance Master God Position has already died, so now it also requires a god to inherit it.

Subsequently, Jerry began to organize the experience from his thousand cycles of reincarnation.

First is the Soul Guidance Master: from Level 1 to Level 9 Soul Guidance Devices, with over one hundred types for each level, and the number of Soul Guidance Masters within the world reaching ten thousand.

Now, the condition of ten thousand people has been met, but the quantity of Soul Guidance Devices for each level is still insufficient.

Afterwards, Jerry began to organize and research; there are now one thousand types of Level 1 to Level 3 Soul Guidance Devices, over one hundred types of Level 4 to Level 6, eighty-two types of Level 7, forty types of Level 8, and only twenty types of Level 9.

Therefore, Jerry still needs to do a lot of research next to bring the quantity of Level 7, 8, and 9 Soul Guidance Devices up to the minimum standard for a God Position.

The basic standards for the other few professions are about the same; if he lets them develop on their own, he doesn't know how long that would take, so Jerry directly arranged for people to study these professions, ten thousand people for each, to first bring the God Positions into existence and then perfect them.

After the data for Soul Guidance Devices was organized, those from Level 1 to Level 8 all exceeded one hundred types, but there were only 62 types of Level 9 Soul Guidance Devices.

Many Level 9 Soul Guidance Devices involve simple Rules; even though the Small World has developed for so long, there are only sixty-two types in total now.

The rest can only be completed by Jerry himself; he asked the Silver Dragon King and the Fairy Queen for help, but they were not interested in research—letting them learn was fine, but developing new Soul Guidance Devices was out of the question.

Jerry could only research by himself; suddenly, he thought of a way to "bug" the system—for example, making a Level 9 Metal Attribute soul guidance sword, and then making some using other attributes; would that count as many pieces of Level 9 Soul Guidance Devices?

After having this idea, Jerry began to craft; he first made Level 9 soul guidance swords of the nine common attributes, and after experimenting, he also made the Sword of Space, Sword of Time, Sword of Destruction, and Sword of Death.

As for the Sword of Creation and the Life Sword, he tried many times but did not succeed. Finally, he realized that a sword is a weapon used for killing, so these two Rules could not be attached.

With the swords finished, Jerry began to make blades, staves, axes, spears, and bows.

When the one-hundredth Level 9 Soul Guidance Device was completed, a golden light suddenly descended upon the world, and then everyone on the entire continent knew that the God of Soul Guidance had been born: Jerry of the Spirit Hall.

For a time, the entire continent was abuzz, all discussing the matter of Jerry becoming the God of Soul Guidance.

At the same time, the Soul Guidance Masters of the continent felt that their learning of Soul Guidance Device knowledge had become faster, and many problems they had not understood before were now suddenly clear.

Tang San also received the news and was so angry that he smashed four or five cups.

A new God Position successor had been born, and the gods of the God Realm, which was opened up based on the Douluo World, also received the news.

The angriest was the Asura God; it was he who had destroyed the Soul Guidance Master inheritance back then, and he never expected it to develop again now, so he was so angry that he wanted to descend to the lower realm on the spot.

Only then did he discover that the world barrier had become stronger and was no longer something they could open at will.

If they were to descend to the lower realm, the consumption of Divine Power would be immense, not to mention that. The most terrifying thing was that after descending, the world's suppression force on them was ten times what it used to be.

The tenfold suppression made him calm down; they could barely stand the previous level of suppression, let alone a tenfold suppression force.

The Asura God angrily notified everyone to hold a meeting.

However, this was only the beginning; Jerry's subsequent series of operations shocked the people of the entire world even more.

Ten thousand Alchemists appeared; although they could only refine the simplest Soul Power Pills, the quantity was sufficient, and the Alchemist God Position was born.

Pills are much simpler than Soul Guidance Devices; after all, there are so many types of medicinal herbs that one can mix them at will—regardless of the effect or whether they are poisonous, just gather the quantity first.

For Level 8 and Level 9 pills, Jerry's world began to use Immortal Herbs to refine them.

Pills refined from Immortal Herbs under one hundred thousand years old could reach the efficacy of Level 8 pills, and after one hundred thousand years, any random refinement would result in a Level 9 pill.

After Jerry perfected the Level 1 to Level 9 pills, a golden light descended upon the world again, and everyone on the continent knew that Jerry had inherited a second God Position: the God of Medicine.

With the God of Medicine in his position, the Alchemist profession began to develop rapidly, and various pills appeared on the continent one after another.

Tang San continued to smash cups, and the Asura God continued his impotent rage.

As for the Array Master, Jerry trained ten thousand internal personnel of the Spirit Hall; one only needed to master one array to be considered an Array Master.

Jerry directly taught them the simplest Fire-Starting Array, and all ten thousand people learned it very quickly.

Although this array had little effect, at most being used for cooking, it was simple, and many people learned it as soon as they tried.

The Array God Position was born, and Jerry began to perfect the arrays of each level; at this point, he didn't care if they were useful or not, he just gathered the quantity first.

The first thing he thought of was the Spirit Gathering Array; previously, when building the nine single-attribute Cultivation Towers, he used the Spirit Gathering Array, but at that time, he only adjusted the elements condensed by the Spirit Gathering Array.

Now, for the sake of the number of arrays, one array was directly split into nine: Fire Gathering Array, Metal Gathering Array, Wood Gathering Array, Water Gathering Array, Earth Gathering Array, Gathering Thunder Array, Light Gathering Array, Dark Gathering Array, and None Gathering Array.

Following the splitting of the Spirit Gathering Array, he suddenly discovered that the Spirit Gathering Array could also be used in reverse; he tried to set one up, and it instantly drained all the soul power in the space, and when Jerry went in, it even tried to extract the soul power from inside Jerry's body.

Jerry immediately retreated, found a small Rabbit from the Slaughterhouse, checked it—it had ten years of cultivation—and threw it directly into this space; it instantly drained the soul power from the Rabbit's body.

The Rabbit, having been drained, lay on the ground limply, not moving at all.

Afterwards, he went directly to the Spirit Hall's prison, found a few death-row prisoners, and threw them directly into the space; the one with the highest cultivation was a Spirit Douluo, but he only lasted 10 minutes before all the soul power in his body was drained.

After the soul power was extracted from their bodies, the death-row prisoners were exhausted, and it took a day before they recovered a little strength and could barely stand up; it took a week before they could move normally.

At this time, Jerry pulled the death-row prisoner out of this space, and the soul power in the air began to enter his body; he recovered after one day.

This situation was about the same as having one's own soul power completely exhausted.

However, no matter how much soul power one consumes in battle, there will still be some hidden in other parts of the body, not to the point of being unable to stand; this array, however, could even extract this hidden soul power.

Jerry named this array the Spirit Dispersion Array; any species with soul power that enters will have its soul power extracted and then directly dispersed into the air.

Just like the operation for the Spirit Gathering Array, he split the Spirit Dispersion Array into nine small arrays.

Combining the Spirit Gathering Array and the Spirit Dispersion Array is best; it can create a true single-attribute space.

Previously, when using the Spirit Gathering Array, even if one only gathered one type of soul power, there were still other soul powers in the world, and they were always drifting and would enter here, just relatively less.

Now, by using them in superposition—for example, after the Metal Gathering Array is set up, then setting up the Spirit Dispersion Array in this space to disperse all attributes other than the Metal Attribute—a true pure Metal Attribute space is born.

Afterwards, he began to research other miscellaneous arrays; for the Level 1 to Level 9 arrays, totaling nine hundred arrays, Jerry quickly gathered them all after using this method.

Another golden light appeared, and the whole world knew that Jerry had inherited the God of Arrays.

Many people began to wonder: what is the God of Arrays? They had never heard of it before; Jerry directly became the god of this God Position—could this be a new profession researched by the Spirit Hall?

At this time, Tang San shouted angrily: "I knew it, I guessed right; this world really does have arrays."

It was just that the Spirit Hall had not yet made the arrays public, so Tang San prepared to push it a bit further.

The last method worked very well; the commoners didn't know who spread it, so they started discussing it, and the Spirit Hall couldn't investigate it either; this time, he would continue to use this method.

Then Tang San began to think about how to write the text this time; this time it must be written more seriously, preferably to incite public anger.

In the God Realm, the Five Great God Kings sat together; they also received the information about the birth of the God of Arrays—it was Jerry again. This time, the few of them didn't say a word, sitting there calmly watching, but their hearts were feeling very powerless at this moment.

Furthermore, they had also confirmed this time that the person who had caused so many incidents in the lower realm previously was named Jerry.

As for them now, they no longer held any hope for the inheritors.

Even if an inheritor from the lower realm completes the God's Nine Trials, they must still come to the God Realm to truly inherit their God Position.

For gods with a God Position and gods without one, the two are completely incomparable, just like adults and children.

Poor Tang San and the others still did not know that they had already been abandoned by the God Realm.

At this moment, Jerry did not care about these things; after obtaining a God Position in the Main World, he continued to return to the Small World to begin researching the Summoner God Position.

Organizing and deducing this data took hundreds of years in the Small World, but it was less than a day in the Main World, so the story of Jerry obtaining three God Positions in one day was spread in all sorts of ways.

Not only were the common people shocked, but the several gods on the Douluo Continent were also very shocked, and even the world consciousness itself was shocked.

The world consciousness would sometimes look at the development of the Small World; a new Array would take at least a dozen years, or as long as a hundred years, to be researched, as after all, an Array concerns the application of a Rule.

However, Jerry, who was researching the Summoner, had fallen into a bottleneck at this time.

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(End of this chapter)