Chapter 244: Researching Contracts: Accidentally Inheriting the Evil God King

The method for contracting Soul Beasts researched previously was suitable for everyone on the continent, but it was not suitable for Jerry, because he had no Spirit Ring.

Without a Spirit Ring, how could one contract a Soul Beast?

In Jerry's view, the Summoner Contract Array he had worked on with the Silver Dragon King previously was quite problematic; if one were to truly calculate it, it would count at most as an Equal Contract, but Jerry's mind held more than just the Equal Contract type.

With the precedent of the Equal Contract, other contracts were much easier by comparison; Jerry came to the Small World and directly began his research.

First, the Slave Contract.

Once the concept was established, the next step was research; the premise of this Slave Contract was to conform to the general environment of the Douluo World.

Spirit Master to Soul Beast, Soul Beast to Spirit Master, Spirit Master to Spirit Master, Soul Beast to Soul Beast—Jerry felt that as long as there were two living beings, they could use the Slave Contract; it did not need to be limited only to Spirit Masters enslaving Soul Beasts.

The Soul Beasts of this world could transform; after transforming, they no longer belonged to the category of wild beasts, so setting it only for Spirit Masters to Soul Beasts was a bit inhumane.

In Slave Contracts of other worlds, the slave must obey any order from the slave owner, but in this world, that was not enough; if it were merely about orders, a superior suppressing an inferior would suffice, and a contract would be somewhat superfluous.

After one hundred years in the Small World, Jerry finally researched a Slave Contract suitable for the Douluo Continent.

Slave Contract Rules:

First, the contract requires the slave owner to sign it with the slave.

Second, the slave must strictly obey the slave owner's orders; if violated, there will be corresponding contract punishments based on the degree of the violation.

Third, the soul power cultivated by the slave belongs entirely to the slave owner; the slave owner can choose to absorb it or return it to the slave.

Fourth, only the slave owner can dissolve the contract.

Although these were four simple regulations, the world recognized this type of Slave Contract.

Jerry was only researching; if one were to use this Slave Contract to contract a Soul Beast, unless that Soul Beast were relatively evil, under normal circumstances, there would be no need to use the contract.

After the Slave Contract was perfected, the next was the Master-Servant Contract.

This Master-Servant Contract had fewer restrictions than the Slave Contract; the two parties to the contract were in a master-servant relationship.

Master-Servant Contract Rules:

First, the contract can be signed with a servant after the master pays a certain price;

Second, the servant must be loyal to the master and strictly obey the master's orders; if violated, the master can choose whether or not to impose punishment;

Third, the soul power cultivated by both parties does not interfere with each other;

Fourth, the master can dissolve the contract at any time, while the servant must pay a certain price to dissolve the contract.

This contract was more applicable to human society; many families had servants, and after signing the contract, the servant's loyalty to the master would increase to a certain value.

The master increases this loyalty value through their own actions; of course, some actions would also lower this loyalty value, and when the loyalty value drops to a certain level, the servant can pay a certain price to dissolve the contract.

This price depends on what the master paid when the contract was originally signed; it could be large or small.

If the master paid a price in Gold Soul Coins to sign the contract, then the servant only needs to pay double the Gold Soul Coins when dissolving it.

It could be said that this is more like the servant working for the master, so it is not as cruel as the Slave Contract.

Next was the Equal Contract; the previous Equal Contract could only be considered a modified contract.

Because the Silver Dragon King advocated for peaceful coexistence and mutual benefit, they let Soul Beasts provide Spirit Rings to Spirit Masters; with the constraints of the Spirit Ring, Spirit Masters had to take special care of Soul Beasts.

This was not true equality; during this period, many Spirit Masters were seen successfully contracting summon beasts.

For the sake of the so-called Growth Soul Ring, there was too much care given to the Soul Beasts, to the point of not even letting the Soul Beasts fight; what was originally mutual benefit now seemed more beneficial to the Soul Beasts.

Therefore, this Equal Contract had to be modified.

This time it was just a modification, and in less than twenty years, it was finished.

Equal Contract Rules:

First, both parties sign the contract voluntarily;

Second, if one party dies, the other party will suffer a backlash;

Third, cultivation effects are shared equally;

There were only these three main rules; because this Equal Contract could be used to contract Soul Beasts, several categories were subdivided below, one of which was Spirit Master to Soul Beast.

In the case of Spirit Master to Soul Beast, the previous rules regarding intimacy and Growth Soul Rings were added.

Actually, Jerry's original intention was not to add the Growth Soul Ring, as this limited a Spirit Master to only contracting nine Soul Beasts, and also meant missing out on nine soul skills.

If this rule were not added, as long as the intimacy was sufficient and both parties were willing, they could sign an Equal Contract, and the Spirit Master could still absorb other Spirit Rings without affecting their own combat power.

This would be done according to the Silver Dragon King's wishes for now; after a few years, when the relationship between Spirit Masters and Soul Beasts deepened further, this restriction would be removed.

Next, Jerry thought of a very interesting contract: the Life-and-Death Contract.

The rules of this contract were:

First, both parties sign the contract voluntarily;

Second, the lives of the two parties to the contract are connected;

Third, the talent and cultivation of the two parties to the contract are shared;

Fourth, they live and die together;

Fifth, once the contract is signed, it cannot be dissolved.

This contract was quite fun; for example, if signed between two Spirit Masters, their lifespans would be shared equally, and their talent and cultivation would be shared; even if one party had relatively poor talent, the other party's good talent could bring the person with poor talent along.

Living and dying together was even easier to understand: if one lives, both live; if one dies, both die.

However, the greatest benefit of this contract was for a Spirit Master to sign with a Soul Beast, because Soul Beasts have longer lifespans and slower cultivation, while Spirit Masters have shorter lifespans and faster cultivation; the two could perfectly complement each other.

Suddenly, Jerry thought of things like Bloodline Inheritance, which was more like a Bloodline Contract.

The contract is signed directly onto a race; every inheritor must sign with the king of the race.

The king can add inheritance content, and all bloodline inheritors benefit; the only thing they need to pay is loyalty to the king.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt it was a type of contract; subsequently, Jerry began to research his own bloodline inheritance, and the more he researched, the more he felt it was a contract.

For example, if Jerry now added a rule to the inheritance that eating a Rabbit is not allowed, then all his subjects would no longer eat Rabbits, and it would be an instinctive aversion to eating Rabbits.

With Jerry's research, he discovered that this type of contract had appeared many times on the Douluo Continent, and they all appeared among Soul Beasts.

For every type of Soul Beast, once a certain number is reached, it becomes a tribe, and then a king will be born within that tribe.

Aside from surpassing the other Soul Beasts in the tribe in terms of cultivation, this king also needs to form the Faith Power of the race.

Only then will the Bloodline Inheritance be activated; once activated, the king will fully control the tribe.

Therefore, there may be many kings among Soul Beasts, but because they lack Faith Power, very few races activate the Bloodline Inheritance.

The Faith Power of a race is not so easy to activate; it requires making a great contribution to the entire race and gaining the recognition of the majority within it.

This contract had already taken shape, and the world had already recognized this contract; it did not belong to what Jerry had researched, and now it could only be obeyed.

Subsequently, Jerry began to research why humans did not have Bloodline Contracts.

A millennium in the Small World—this was the longest time Jerry had spent, and he finally understood one point.

Humans actually always had Bloodline Inheritance, it had just changed its appearance; the Bloodline Inheritance of humans is the martial soul.

Moreover, after this research, Jerry also learned the origin of tool martial souls.

The earliest humans had researched Bloodline Inheritance, and they had researched it to a very profound level.

The earliest humans of the Douluo World were transformed from Soul Beasts; as they reproduced generation after generation, their own bloodlines became thin, and they required a Spirit Awakening Ceremony to awaken.

After awakening, everyone's talent was uneven.

Some people discovered that this situation was due to thin bloodlines, so they began to think of ways to change it; after trying many methods, they actually found one.

This method was the earliest contract, but it was a contract with a weapon, similar to a Life-Bound Weapon.

This type of contract method belonged to the Bloodline Contract; after contracting a weapon, the weapon would devour the other bloodlines in their bodies and take their place.

This is also the reason why tool martial souls can be passed down to the next generation.

Understanding this, Jerry was confident that he could now change anyone's martial soul into a tool martial soul; he only needed to find metal with the same attributes as the martial soul, forge it into a weapon, and then sign a Bloodline Contract with this weapon. After signing, the weapon would devour the original martial soul and take its place, thus successfully turning the martial soul into a tool martial soul.

At the same time, Jerry also thought about signing Bloodline Contracts with other Soul Beasts, but it was a bit too cruel.

For the Soul Beast signing the contract, its attributes needed to be the same as the Spirit Master's, or not in conflict. Only if its bloodline was stronger than the Spirit Master's could it devour the Spirit Master's bloodline and take its place to become a martial soul; the original Soul Beast could only live in the form of a martial soul.

In the first generation, the martial soul would still have some self-awareness, but after being passed down, the self-awareness would completely disappear.

Furthermore, after the Spirit Master died, the martial soul would also dissipate.

There was another type where the Soul Beast signing the contract had a bloodline weaker than the Spirit Master's own; in this case, the Soul Beast would be devoured by the Spirit Master's own bloodline to strengthen it, and after being devoured, the Soul Beast would directly perish.

This method could be described as even more cruel.

There was also the case where the Soul Beast of the Bloodline Contract had a bloodline equal to one's own, and neither could devour the other; at this time, Twin Martial Souls would be formed.

When the Soul Beast's bloodline was equal to or approximately that of the Spirit Master, because the Soul Beast still had self-awareness, it could choose whether or not to devour the Spirit Master's own bloodline; if it did not devour it, it could also form Twin Martial Souls.

After understanding this, Jerry also understood why the Tianmeng Iceworm could become a human's martial soul.

However, this Bloodline Contract is truly very powerful; perhaps it was because the research into this Bloodline Contract was too heaven-defying that it eventually disappeared from history.

This also made the birth of tool martial souls a mystery.

In the several Small Worlds Jerry had been to, tool martial souls had never been born; at first, he didn't know why, but now that he understood, everything became clear.

Most of the Small Worlds had been guided by him; whether intentionally or unintentionally, he had changed many directions of historical development, and this change meant that the humans in the Small Worlds had never thought about this problem.

As for the real Douluo Continent, without his changes, everything developed naturally, and it was inevitable that many people with low talent would be born; among these people, some were born who wanted to change their talent, and through their own research, they discovered the Bloodline Contract.

Of course, the Bloodline Contract was only one path; on the road of changing talent, there were many other methods, they just hadn't been researched yet.

If they had researched the Bloodline Pill, then tool martial souls would likely not have appeared in this world.

Jerry had verified this in the Pill World; after humans learned to refine the Bloodline Pill, they never considered other ways to improve their talent.

This Bloodline Contract is too profound; there are some things he cannot understand yet, nor can he change anything, so he can only research other things.

Besides this, Jerry also created Labor Contracts, Cooperation Contracts, and so on; many various small contracts were researched, and when the nine hundred and ninety-ninth contract was researched, a golden light appeared across the entire Douluo Continent. At this moment, the whole continent knew that the God of Arrays had been born, and the inheritor of the God Position was Jerry.

Jerry was just stunned for a moment; God of Arrays—this was a bit unexpected. Originally, Jerry had been preparing to research summoned beasts; he didn't expect to become the inheritor of the God of Arrays now. This was an unexpected joy.

However, this time it was a bit different; a book accompanied by golden light appeared directly in front of Jerry, with four characters written on it: "Book of Contracts". As soon as the book appeared, it merged directly into Jerry's body.

At this time, Jerry also understood that this book was the companion divine artifact of the God of Arrays, which recorded all contracts, and in the future, Jerry could also add new contracts to it.

As long as a new contract was acknowledged by the "Book of Contracts", it would be displayed in the "Book of Contracts"; at the same time, the "Book of Contracts" was always connected to the world, and contracts acknowledged on the "Book of Contracts" would also be directly acknowledged by the world.

Jerry, holding the "Book of Contracts", was a bit stunned himself. At this time, the consciousness of the Main World appeared directly, and upon seeing Jerry, it was very excited.

"Jerry, what did you just get? I feel that the world has actively separated a portion of its authority and handed it to you!" The world consciousness was also very surprised; Jerry had just inherited a God Position, and the world had directly separated a portion of authority for him.

This was not like the previous God of Spirit Guidance, Medicine God, or God of Arrays; this God Position had divine authority and could directly mobilize the power of some World Rules.

Jerry told the world consciousness about the matter of the God of Arrays. After hearing the duties of the God of Arrays, the world consciousness felt that the power of this God Position was very great; once he reached the God Realm, he could basically stand on equal footing with the Five Great God Kings.

From certain perspectives, even a God King, if they had signed certain contracts, would have to obey them.

After Jerry inherited this God Position, this divine office began to function.

From Jerry's introduction, in the future, if any creature makes a vow or promises something in the name of the God of Arrays, if they do not complete it or violate the contract, the world will directly descend punishment, and in serious cases, it will even descend Heavenly Punishment.

So, scumbags and heartless women, don't make vows randomly; they will really come true!

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(End of this chapter)