Chapter 268: Discovering Believers and Resolving the Problem of Implantation

Previously, Jerry felt uneasy in his heart; the only thing that could make Jerry feel uneasy was the God Realm.

With the world consciousness present, as soon as the God Realm Entrance appeared, Jerry would immediately know.

Since it was not a matter concerning the God Realm, what else could be making him uneasy?

After thinking for a long time, could it be the Light God Sect?

Although a batch was dealt with last time, it was inevitable that a portion still existed.

Then Wuhun City began a thorough investigation, and upon this investigation, another bunch was uncovered.

Some were arrested, while others who were insignificant were left alone for now.

To prevent detection, three thousand meters beneath the original site of the Spirit Hall, there was a large space, and a portion of this place had been built into prison cells.

The entire space had only one Teleportation Array leading to the surface, and the destination was still the plaza in the Inner City.

Even if prisoners escaped, once they reached the plaza, they could only exit through the main gate.

The walls of the original Spirit Hall site were set with sturdy Runes, and the top was also set with a Barrier; other than the main gate, there was no second way to get out.

However, these worries were all unnecessary; not a single prisoner underground had escaped to this day.

And the Light God Sect believers who were arrested were all imprisoned here.

Furthermore, the prisoners inside did not even know they were underground.

The buildings of the Inner City had all been moved to the sky, so the ground was much more spacious; apart from the teleportation plaza, there were no other facilities.

In order not to appear desolate, landscaping was done, and parks and training grounds were built.

This was also the reason why Yu Xiaogang found nothing after sneaking in.

Wuhun City was now worth its weight in gold; besides the ground and the sky, the underground also had to be utilized.

Thus, this underground space was constructed.

Jerry even used an Array to simulate the sky, the sun, moon, and stars, and the changing of the four seasons, so the prisoners locked here had no idea they were no longer on land.

Besides the prison area, the other areas were one of Jerry's experimental bases.

Some experiments that required special confidentiality were all conducted here.

Important members of the Research Department also knew about this experimental base, and later they put many important experiments here to be done.

The Research Department building outside, on the contrary, became an empty shell.

It could not be said to be completely empty, as there were still some small experiments being done at the outside Research Department.

Therefore, even if the outside Research Department building were breached, there would be no major losses.

Jerry was here at this moment, with a Light God Sect believer tied up in front of him.

The mouth was taped shut; after being caught, this believer no longer hid anything and started cursing as soon as the mouth opened, so Jerry found the person annoying and sealed the mouth.

This believer was a Spirit Master, a level 64 Soul Emperor, who had participated in a God Trial.

What Jerry wanted to do now was to clear the thoughts maliciously implanted by the gods after the God Trial.

Jerry had thought for a long time but could not figure out how these thoughts were implanted.

Forcibly probing this Spirit Master's soul, it was already different from a normal soul.

A thread of golden soul had completely merged into the soul.

When absorbing a Spirit Ring, a thread of the Soul Beast's soul would be brought into one's own soul space, but this thread of Soul Beast soul would only circle around the Spirit Master's soul and could not directly merge; this was also the reason Jerry previously dared to help others clear the Soul Beast souls from their soul spaces and Spirit Rings.

Now that it had merged, how could it be cleared? One could not clear it along with the Spirit Master's soul; if that happened, this Spirit Master would either die or become a fool.

Moreover, Jerry discovered that for a general Spirit Master to participate in a God Trial was like jumping into a fire pit.

The first trial basically always increased the age of all Spirit Rings.

How to increase it? By injecting energy, of course.

The injected energy was not energy from the Douluo Continent at all, but energy compressed by the God Realm.

Because this energy had high density, only a little bit was absorbed to raise the age of the Spirit Ring, and the rest was stored within the Spirit Ring, filling the space of the Spirit Ring to the brim.

Stored in the Spirit Ring and unable to be absorbed—in the past, this was not a problem, but now the Spirit Hall could increase Spirit Ring age.

With this soul power occupying the space inside the Spirit Ring, how could energy be injected to improve the Spirit Ring?

This directly cut off the improvement of the Spirit Rings.

Jerry did not know why those gods would inject so much extra energy; these Spirit Masters could not absorb it and could not control it—was it just being wasted by sitting in the Spirit Ring?

Furthermore, during the process of participating in a God Trial, the first time one broke through a major rank, a God-Bestowed Soul Ring would be awarded.

This God-Bestowed Soul Ring was the biggest trap.

Making a Spirit Ring required a soul; in this God-Bestowed Soul Ring, a thread of soul was injected, though it was unknown what kind of soul it was.

It was not at all like the Spirit Ring Manufacturing Machine, which would clear the soul after the manufacturing was complete.

Could it be that the gods of the God Realm did not know how to clear the soul from a Spirit Ring?

A Spirit Ring without the soul cleared could not be improved either.

It was baffling, but from the fact that there was a lot of high-density energy in the Spirit Rings, Jerry could update the Body Detection Instrument.

The Body Detection Instrument could originally probe Spirit Rings; now, by updating its functions, it could incidentally probe whether there was high-density energy in the Spirit Rings.

Now that the parameters for high-density energy were available, it could be updated directly.

However, the results would not be displayed; when synchronizing data to the backend, it could only be displayed in the internal backend of the Spirit Hall.

Now, not only in Wuhun City but also in the Two Great Empires, the Mobile Phone had almost become a must-have product for everyone.

Therefore, with this update, a whole bunch of God Trial participants could be uncovered immediately.

These people participating in God Trials could basically be confirmed as believers of the Light God Sect.

The Light God Sect, the Five Great Envoys.

Jerry thought for a long time and could only think of Tang San as a God Envoy; who the other few people were was still uncertain.

Previously, after Tang San disappeared, Yu Xiaogang also disappeared; Oscar and Ma Hongjun were not paid attention to, and when Jerry did pay attention, those two could not be found, and by the time they appeared again, they were already in Wuhun City.

Even counting them all, that's only four people.

Moreover, Jerry feels that Tang San must be a God Envoy; if Oscar and Ma Hongjun were also God Envoys, it would be plausible, but if Yu Xiaogang were a God Envoy, it would be a bit of a stretch.

Given his talent, which god would have to be blind to take a fancy to him?

The gods of the God Realm value talent highly; even if Yu Xiaogang has broken through, it cannot change the fact that his Innate Spirit Power was only half a level.

Last time he made a move against Tang San, it was actually just to test things out.

Tang San truly has Zhujiao Guanghuan; in that situation, he wasn't killed, he even escaped, and afterwards, he couldn't be found.

In Jerry's view, on the Douluo Continent, those who have Zhujiao Guanghuan are the Shrek Seven Devils.

Tang San's Zhujiao Guanghuan is the strongest, with the others coming in second.

Previously, Dai Mubai was executed, which led Jerry to believe that people with Zhujiao Guanghuan could also be killed, but when it came to Tang San, it clearly didn't work; that he could escape death in such a situation is clearly the work of Zhujiao Guanghuan.

Wuhun City has never relaxed its search for Tang San, and after so many years, there hasn't been a single piece of news.

One really cannot relax regarding these people with Zhujiao Guanghuan; they disappear for a few years, and after reappearing, they go straight to dominating the continent.

Jerry does not want to become a stepping stone for a protagonist.

The World Consciousness once said that Jerry's current strength has already reached the God King level, so there is nothing to worry about.

But the World Consciousness doesn't know that Tang San's upper limit is also not low; he has God King level potential.

Therefore, Jerry is also afraid that when Tang San appears again, he will be a God King directly.

How frustrating!

Setting aside the strength of Jerry and Tang San, this was originally a matter that would have been easy to resolve without Zhujiao Guanghuan, but now it has to be made so troublesome.

Currently, if Tang San doesn't jump out himself, he really cannot be found.

The updated version of the body testing instrument was finished very quickly and released directly.

The new version updates very quickly, and it is an automatic update; at the same time, a notification sound was added so that every user can receive messages.

Because update notifications appear frequently, it promotes the update content.

For this mobile phone update, Jerry added a voice pack and reformatted the personal profile panel.

This is just a superficial cover; in reality, it is to update the detection of high-concentration energy within Spirit Rings.

After waiting for one day.

Jerry started checking the backend; he didn't know until he looked, and he was shocked once he did.

The backend statistics for the number of Spirit Masters with high-concentration energy in their Spirit Rings showed seventy-four thousand three hundred and fifty-one people.

He had wiped out over forty thousand, imprisoned over eight thousand, and now there are still over seventy thousand outside.

Jerry turned on the tracking; these Spirit Masters with high-concentration energy in their Spirit Rings are spread across the Spirit Hall and the Two Great Empires.

There are also some in the Extreme North.

Most are distributed in the Extreme North; good heavens, they ran so far away, treating that place as their lair.

There are really quite a few in Wuhun City.

He printed out the data for the Spirit Hall here and then handed it to specialized personnel to verify the situation of every God Trial participant.

If there are problems, arrest those who should be arrested and sentence those who should be sentenced.

Looking at this data left Jerry with lingering fear; they are truly pervasive. If one is not careful for even a moment, so many are lurking in Wuhun City.

Fortunately, it was discovered early.

However, Oscar and Ma Hongjun are not on the list.

This is strange; his detection program is capable of detecting gods.

Could it be that he guessed wrong?

Oscar and Ma Hongjun do not belong to the gods.

This is becoming increasingly baffling.

Jerry updated the backend program of the detection instrument to detect high-concentration energy.

But Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, Dugu Yan, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun were not displayed in the backend.

They are to inherit a God Position once they reach the God Realm; these gods have not tampered with their successors.

The gods wait for their successors to arrive at the God Realm and then begin the inheritance of the God Position, so that they can be liberated.

They certainly wouldn't do anything to their successors; otherwise, if they happened to fall, it would be unknown how long it would take to cultivate another successor.

Moreover, it is not as if successors falling has never happened, so they are quite cautious when treating their successors.

By not tampering, others cannot discover their successors, giving the successors more time to grow.

Those who participated in the God Trial have been exposed, but Tang San and the others don't know yet; the Spirit Hall is making arrests in secret.

They aren't arresting everyone, just those in key departments, while leaving the others under observation.

There were too many people, and during the arrests, a few people resisted fiercely.

But facing the powerful Spirit Hall, resistance was of no use at all; instead, it gave the arresting personnel a chance to have some fun.

For those resisting Spirit Masters, all their data was checked, and they really had transmitted quite a lot of information.

However, most of what they transmitted was public information from Wuhun City; did that even need to be transmitted?

Among them was one Spirit Master who appeared to have a high status in the Light God Sect; he was also a target for arrest, but others were protecting him.

It seems a big fish has been caught.

This Spirit Master was immediately detained separately.

After checking all his data, his status was indeed high.

Inside his mobile phone, there were chat records with a God Envoy.

It was all this Spirit Master reporting his work to the God Envoy.

Looking at the content of the reports, it was written how many believers were developed today, how many points were earned today, and that such-and-such believer gained the trust of a superior and was promoted.

In any case, if there was any movement, it all had to be reported to the God Envoy.

The God Envoy would not look at it right away, but that did not stop them from reporting every day; only after the God Envoy saw it would he reply with two words: "Read."

Being able to have a direct line of communication with the God Envoy, one's status could not be underestimated.

When this Spirit Master was escorted to Jerry, he confessed everything before Jerry even had to use his own methods.

Moreover, this situation also appeared among other believers.

Upon inquiring, it was discovered that they had all practiced the Jerry Meditation Method.

Hearing this, Jerry was left somewhat between laughter and tears.

You lot set up a Light God Sect, yet the cultivation technique you learn is from Wuhun City; that's impressive, picking up ready-made things.

Now you've gotten into trouble, haven't you? The Jerry Meditation Method is not a simple cultivation technique, oh.

However, a few of the Spirit Masters who confessed were not truly bad people; because of the God Trial, their thoughts had been maliciously implanted.

When asked about the appearance of the Five Great Envoys, none of them had ever seen them; the only high-ranking member who had seen a God Envoy saw that the God Envoy was wearing a mask, so he did not know the God Envoy's appearance either.

Furthermore, the Light God Sect's way of developing believers was truly through coaxing and deception.

At first, they didn't tell them it was a God Trial; they just said that tasks could be accepted here, and the task rewards were generous, far beyond what tasks in the Spirit Hall could compare to.

With such a simple and inferior claim, they tricked many people into accepting tasks.

Once a task was accepted, it was a God Trial.

Playing this hand, it seems this Light God Sect has no bottom line at all.

The high-ranking individual captured this time had initiated many such deceptive operations.

They even privately boasted to each other about how many people they had swindled each day.

It was truly an eye-opener.

A faction, with the backing of a god behind it, instead of properly developing and accumulating strength, you lot managed to turn it into a pyramid scheme den.

A bunch of pig-teammates.

Jerry couldn't help but feel a bit fortunate; it was a good thing these pig-teammates belonged to the Light God Sect.

For those whose crimes were confirmed, Jerry saw no need to be soft-hearted.

He found a Light God Sect believer who had already been sentenced to death and directly invaded his soul to see if he could extract the golden soul.

He tried several times but failed, and in the end, he accidentally shattered the soul, and this believer died on the spot.

The golden soul and the original soul were fused too tightly, making it very difficult to extract.

Why would an external soul fuse so tightly with the original soul?

He couldn't quite figure it out.

Jerry prepared to try and clear the things given by the God Trial before looking into it further.

He switched to another believer; the Spirit Rings on his body were removed one by one, and unlike when ordinary Spirit Rings are removed, their Spirit Rings did not dissipate after being removed.

The high-concentration energy inside the Spirit Ring space prevented the Spirit Ring from dissipating.

So this energy has this use as well.

That's fine, he would put them away first and study these Spirit Rings later.

Then he threw this believer into the Spirit Dispersion Array, and very quickly, the soul power in his body was dispersed cleanly.

Checking this believer's soul, the golden soul inside had actively separated from the original soul.

In the past, Jerry would have shattered other souls for the main soul to absorb, but this golden thread was clearly something the main soul could not absorb, so Jerry tried to extract it, and it was very easy to pull the golden soul out.

Aside from having no Spirit Rings and being a bit weak, this believer was otherwise normal.

Moreover, after the golden soul was extracted, Jerry also felt a subtle change occur in this believer.

After testing, it was confirmed that he had gotten rid of the god's malicious implantation.

What is the golden soul?

He couldn't tell at all.

Recalling the process, after the Spirit Rings were removed, the golden soul detached from the original soul.

It seems that the reason he couldn't extract the golden soul before was because the high-density energy inside the Spirit Rings was constantly being mobilized by the golden soul to resist his extraction.

Removing the Spirit Rings was equivalent to cutting off the golden soul's energy supply, so it separated on its own.

Even if Jerry didn't extract the golden soul from the soul space, as time passed, without replenishment, the golden soul would dissipate, slowly overflowing with soul energy that would be absorbed by the original soul, which could also serve to strengthen the original soul.

The dissipation speed was very fast, incomparable to the Nine-Tailed Fox from before; the Nine-Tailed Fox could suppress it, but this golden soul did not suppress it at all, and at this speed, it would dissipate completely in two or three days.

This is a good thing.

Then, among the captured believers, Jerry arranged for those who were forced to join and had no traitorous behavior to have their Spirit Rings removed, and once the golden souls had all dissipated, he arranged for them to re-absorb Spirit Rings.

Having gotten rid of the maliciously implanted thoughts, they were no longer believers of the god, so he arranged for people to release them directly.

They were captured quietly, and they were released quietly as well.

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(End of chapter)