Chapter 277: Successful Advancement: Jerry the Cosmic Porter

Jerry is very much looking forward to this World Advancement; his Cultivation had stalled a long time ago.

After this advancement, the Cultivation limit will be raised, which will allow him to further improve himself.

It is not just Jerry who is looking forward to it; all parties are looking forward to it, especially the God Realm.

While everyone is waiting in nervous anticipation, the World Consciousness suddenly contacts Jerry at this moment.

"Jerry, with the World Advancement, the entire world will undergo drastic changes, like a natural disaster, rebirth after destruction. I had no experience last time, and this time I hope to get your help."

The World Consciousness says this with a hint of pleading.

During the last World Advancement, although Jerry arranged for the Spirit Hall to carry out timely rescue efforts afterward, it still took several years, and the World Consciousness itself is unwilling to see that scene again.

But there is no other way; World Advancement includes many aspects, and it is not enough to just have sufficient energy. The planet's entire surface area increases; plants and animals are fine, as they can reproduce later, but where will the soil and water come from?

As a Life Planet, soil and water are indispensable.

Water requires the conversion of energy between heaven and earth, but soil does not; it needs to absorb Meteorites near the planet to replenish itself.

Moreover, when the planet grows larger, crustal changes, earthquakes, and Volcanic Eruption will also occur frequently.

Although Jerry transported enough Meteorites to solve the disaster of falling Meteorites, the conversion process still causes crustal movements, which really cannot be helped.

Then there is water; a large amount of water is needed during the advancement.

The World Consciousness has estimated that the water needed for this advancement alone will take at least ten years to convert.

This means that the duration of this World Advancement will be very long.

That is why the World Consciousness thought of asking Jerry for help.

"How can I help?"

Transporting Meteorites in the universe is fine, but for other aspects, Jerry really does not know how he can help.

"Jerry, help me convert water, or transport a large amount of water from outside the planet. You have converted a lot of water on the Moon; transport it over first. Also, for the Soul Guidance Device you made to convert water, set up a few more on the Moon."

The World Consciousness had long observed the Moon and knew that Jerry had placed a water-converting Soul Guidance Device there, which had been working normally for so many years. The water converted alone had already formed an ocean; although it was not much compared to the entire Moon, it could now alleviate the needs of the World Advancement.

If it had known the advancement would be so fast, it should have let Jerry set up more conversion Soul Guidance Devices on the Moon.

"Okay, I will go to the Moon to set up the Soul Guidance Devices now."

After Jerry finishes speaking, he flies directly toward the Moon.

He did not expect that the water-converting device he made would be so useful.

Subsequently, he flies a few hundred miles out of the Small Courtyard, sets up a Barrier, splits off a clone to turn into a Pillar Supporting the Sky, converts the violent energy from the outside, and then conducts it into the Barrier. At this time, the water-converting Soul Guidance Device in the Barrier absorbs this stable soul power and begins to work normally.

With the same operation, Jerry sets up 104 more on the Moon; at this point, all his clones are used up.

After taking a look, according to the surface area of the Moon, he could set up another ten thousand.

Finally, he finds the Fairy Queen and asks her to follow Jerry's example, release all her clones, and use the same method to start converting water.

At this time on the Moon, Jerry's 106 clones and the Fairy Queen's 107 clones begin working simultaneously.

Jerry also sets the power of the water-converting Soul Guidance Devices to the maximum, keeping it the same as the conversion of the clones, to ensure that all the soul power converted by the clones is turned into water.

After finishing all this, Jerry begins to transport the water converted outside the Small Courtyard earlier.

At this moment, Jerry suddenly feels that the Storage Spirit Tool is really small.

If only he had Guanyin's Jade Purifying Bottle, which is said to be able to hold the water of the four seas; if he could use it, wouldn't he be able to load all the water at once?

Limited by the materials, the space of a Level 9 Storage Spirit Tool is only 2560 cubic meters; it looks quite large, but when loading water, it is really a bit small.

2560 cubic meters; the space inside is set by Jerry as 16x16x10, with a length and width of 16 meters each and a height of 10 meters. It doesn't feel small usually, but now that he is loading water, it is truly too small.

Looking at the small ocean outside the Small Courtyard, how many rings of water would this take to load?

He can only load it slowly; there is no good way for now.

However, fortunately, Jerry carries many rings with him. He clears out what he can, merges them into one ring first, and finally has 1400 rings available—a drop in the bucket.

But Jerry is still very fast at loading water. The Soul Guidance Device Control Technique he developed earlier can not only control offensive Soul Guidance Devices, but other Soul Guidance Devices as well.

1400 Storage Soul Guidance Rings fly directly above the water surface, spread out, and then begin to load water.

After they are all full, he flies directly to an ocean inside the planet and begins to release the water.

While releasing the water, Jerry suddenly thinks of something.

World Advancement should have several conditions: first, sufficient energy; second, sufficient water; third, sufficient land area.

Currently, Jerry has only deduced these three conditions.

If the World Advancement meets these three conditions simultaneously, the speed of advancement would likely be fast, and it would not end up looking like the apocalypse.

But the reality is that the world started advancing after meeting only the first condition, so there are both heavy rain and falling Meteorite swarms.

After this World Advancement, he must ask clearly.

Being put in such a passive position every time—Jerry is an active person, and this feeling of passivity makes him very uncomfortable.

Thoughts aside, he still has to continue transporting water.

He has practically become a cosmic porter.

Once, twice, three times...

At this time, the world has already begun to advance. Crustal movements, accompanied by heavy rain, cause ground cracking in many places, but they are quickly filled by soil and stones transported by the world.

Once washed by the heavy rain, there are no obvious traces left.

"Jerry, the soil and stones seem to be insufficient. I have converted a few large mountains, which can drag it out for a while now, but you still need to go and transport soil and stones from the universe."

Jerry is still transporting water when the World Consciousness suddenly sends a message to him.

Damn it!

World Consciousness, you are too unreliable!

There is no other way; Jerry can only recall one clone and have the clone go to the Spirit Hall to mobilize all the idle Storage Soul Guidance Rings in the Logistics Department now.

The Logistics Department manages all the supplies of the Spirit Hall, and Storage Soul Guidance Rings are used heavily. Now that they are being mobilized, many supplies can only be placed somewhere else for the time being.

Finally, after repeated compression, 1200 Level 9 Storage Rings and 2000 Level 8 Storage Rings are allocated; the Level 7 ones are forgotten, as they are a bit small.

Many of the Meteorites in the universe are quite large in size and cannot fit into the ring, so Jerry can only shatter these Meteorites first, and then store them.

Jerry had originally thought about going to the other eight planets in the Douluo Star System to transport materials, but considering the massive amount needed this time, transporting them from other planets would cause the planets' volumes to shrink, and he worried about other accidents occurring.

These nine planets also have gravitational forces between them; if he were to transport too much, the planets' own weights would decrease, and under the influence of gravity, anything could happen, so Jerry gave up on transporting soil and rocks from the planets.

One clone transported soil and rocks, while another clone transported water.

Trip after trip, Jerry eventually became numb to it; he didn't even know how many trips he had made, constantly doing the same repetitive task.

However, with Jerry as this super transporter, the impact of the World Advancement was slightly reduced.

The World Consciousness also intended to help, so in places with large populations, other than feeling earthquakes, nothing else was felt.

This situation lasted for a full year, and the planet finally stopped growing.

What originally would have taken ten years was shortened to one year with Jerry's help.

During this year, the entire continent was in a state of panic, but no riots occurred; everything was controlled by the Spirit Hall behind the scenes.

All kinds of supplies were provided by the Spirit Hall.

The supply warehouses that were originally packed full have now been consumed by one-third after supplying the continent for a year; according to current reserves, they can only last for three years at most.

There was no other way; the planet was growing, and while cities had large tree Soul Beasts to anchor the soil, villages and fields did not. To the world, this soil was very fragile; with the slightest movement, villages and fields would all be destroyed.

In this World Advancement, Jerry and the Spirit Hall could be said to have suffered a huge loss; the supplies accumulated over many years would likely be completely exhausted this time.

If only the Small World were still here, he could grow food inside the Small World.

It is a pity that there are no Small Worlds left.

Having transported for a year, Jerry is now numb.

This is equivalent to completing in one year what the world would have needed millions of years to do.

If there were millions of years, the world could slowly convert water and slowly attract Meteorites from the universe.

Now that it has to be done all at once, and Jerry is doing it himself, it makes Jerry feel very exhausted.

Later, he had no choice but to withdraw a clone to craft level-nine Storage Soul Guidance Rings at the Spirit Hall.

After the World Advancement, he must start researching super level-nine Storage Soul Guidance Rings.

Otherwise, when the world advances again, he will be in a frantic rush once more.

This "lengthy" one-year advancement period has now finally stopped.

Jerry is finally liberated.

The torrential rain stopped, and the crustal movements also ceased.

Everyone on the entire continent breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the aftereffects of this advancement were not major, many things were still destroyed.

The previously built highways were in a sorry state, covered in cracks everywhere; it seems they will need to be repaired in the future.

Some large mountains have now disappeared, turning into plains; they were all transferred by the World Consciousness to fill in pits.

In the Two Great Empires, many villages were destroyed and fields ruined; before the advancement, the fields were covered in lush food crops, but now some have been washed away by torrential rain, and others destroyed by ground fissures.

It seems the Spirit Hall will have to bleed heavily again this time; the Two Great Empires' grain reserves are too low. In the future, the development of agriculture must be intensified, with at least ten years' worth of grain reserves stored.

This advancement was shortened to one year because of Jerry's help, but it also showed that humans still have major problems when facing natural disasters.

Most cities, in order to accelerate development, did not even have reserve resources; this time, they relied entirely on the Spirit Hall supporting them from behind, otherwise these cities would have collapsed long ago.

They must be made to realize the importance of storing supplies; even if it is not a World Advancement, if natural disasters or calamities occur, they would be able to respond immediately.

This World Advancement can be said to have caused huge losses.

After the world was calm for a few days, the soul power between heaven and earth began to gather. In the past, the soul power between heaven and earth would stop after recovering to this concentration, but this time it did not; the soul power was still increasing.

This situation lasted for three months before the concentration of soul power between heaven and earth finally stabilized; this is ten times higher than before!

If the initial soul power concentration of the world was one, during the first World Advancement, the soul power concentration also increased tenfold, from one to ten; now, during the second World Advancement, it has increased tenfold again on the basis of ten, reaching one hundred.

The soul power concentration of the God Realm is over a thousand times that of the initial Douluo Continent; as for the specific amount, there is no data for reference, so it is calculated as a thousand times for now.

These are deductions made after the Fairy Queen told him.

If the world advances again, wouldn't it reach a thousand times? This means that after one more advancement, the world could be the same as the God Realm.

After the soul power between heaven and earth reached one hundred times, various phenomena appeared.

Many people became much younger, which shows that human lifespans have increased again.

There are also many Spirit Masters who broke through directly; cultivation has become easier, and previous bottlenecks are no longer bottlenecks.

Various plants have also begun to grow wildly.

The situation with Soul Beasts is similar; many Soul Beasts had previously reached the upper limit of their bloodlines, but now this limit has also been broken.

However, these are not what Jerry cares about; he now wants to know how much the cultivation limit has increased.

Without the experience of predecessors, Jerry can only slowly perceive it himself.

Just as he began to perceive, Jerry immediately discovered a problem: his level of comprehension of the Rules has decreased.

Metal Attribute Rule (Minor Achievement 60%), Wood Attribute Rule (Great Achievement 80%), Water Attribute Rule (Minor Achievement 60%), Fire Attribute Rule (Minor Achievement 60%), Earth Attribute Rule (Minor Achievement 60%), Thunder Attribute Rule (Minor Achievement 60%), Darkness Attribute Rule (Minor Achievement 60%), Light Attribute Rule (Minor Achievement 60%), Time Rule (Great Achievement 80%), Space Attribute Rule (Great Achievement 80%), Creation Attribute Rule (Minor Achievement 60%), Destruction Attribute Rule (Minor Achievement 70%), Death Rule (Minor Achievement 60%), Life Rule (Minor Achievement 60%).

All comprehended Rules have decreased by 20%.

What kind of situation is this?

Jerry thought for a while and suddenly remembered the god of the Small World from back then.

In the Small World, the Rules had already been comprehended to 100%, but in Jerry's eyes, that was not the case.

The Rules Jerry comprehended were synchronized to the Main World; except for a few Rules, Jerry can be considered to have the highest comprehension of Rules.

Of the eight common attributes—Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Thunder, Darkness, and Light—except for the Wood Attribute, which he comprehended to 100% because of the Fairy Queen, the others were all at 80%.

The Small World was created by Jerry and was based on the Main World; everything is influenced by the Rules of the Main World.

Therefore, the 100% comprehension of other Rules in the Small World is equivalent to the upper limit of the Main World.

For example, 100% comprehension of the Fire Attribute Rule in the Small World is equal to 80% of the Fire Attribute Rule in the Main World.

Now that the Main World has undergone World Advancement, various Rules were revealed during the advancement, making the world's Rules more perfect.

The Main World's mastery over the Rules has broken through its original upper limit, but the Main World will not synchronize this to Jerry, so in a disguised sense, Jerry's comprehension of the Rules has decreased.

In fact, the degree of Jerry's comprehension has not changed at all; it is just that the world's upper limit has been raised.

Besides the Rules, Jerry feels that his body can now absorb more energy; as for exactly how much, it still needs to be tested.

Moreover, it seems that his soul power can also continue to improve.

It truly is an all-around increase in the upper limit, and Jerry has regained the motivation for Cultivation.

As for what other improvements there are, they can only be perceived slowly; without the experience of predecessors, Jerry can only explore and attempt them himself.

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(End of this chapter)