Chapter 280: Spirit Ring Hypothesis and Solving the Soul Guidance Device Array

Energy Storage Devices are not only needed for Teleportation Arrays, but other Soul Guidance Devices also require them.

As for the Soul Guidance Devices that haven't had issues yet and are still functioning normally, one can only say it is good luck.

The Soul Guidance Devices that haven't had issues were made using higher-grade materials during their production.

Before the world advanced, this was a form of waste.

Some Soul Guidance Masters like to use high-grade materials to make low-grade Soul Guidance Devices during their promotion exams, feeling that if the materials are better, the success rate will be slightly higher.

In reality, this is just a psychological effect.

Regardless of whether the materials are high-grade or low-grade, their properties will have some differences, and the force applied when carving Rule Runes is also different; they are completely two different things.

Therefore, it is sufficient to use whatever materials one uses during daily practice for the examination as well.

Specially purchasing higher-grade materials for a level exam, due to the low frequency of use, will result in a greater possibility of failure.

However, the general environment has changed now; what was considered waste before can no longer be considered waste now.

Even if it can withstand it, if it is constantly in an overloaded state, it will have problems sooner or later.

Therefore, Jerry deduced the parameters for low-grade materials based on the various data parameters of top-grade materials, and he found low-grade materials to test them all.

Until the data for all materials was collected, Jerry directly posted the updated version of the parameters for the Energy Storage Device on the Spirit Hall Academy's Soul Guidance Master major forum, pinned it, marked it as featured, and sent out a targeted push to ensure that all Soul Guidance Masters could see it.

At the same time, Jerry also released a message regarding the world advancement on the official website of the Spirit Hall.

The message introduced the benefits of this world advancement; the most direct benefit is visible to everyone: the lifespans of all humans have increased, and many elderly people have directly returned to their youth—not quite back to childhood, but they have reached their prime.

Those in their prime have directly reverted to the appearance of young adults.

Young people have only become slightly younger, with little change.

If the average lifespan was one hundred years before, then at 80 years old, one was already considered someone with one foot in the grave.

Now that the lifespan has increased, the specific amount of increase is currently unknown; assuming it increases to two hundred years, is 80 still considered an elderly person?

Besides making humans younger, it also told everyone that after the world advancement, the concentration of soul power between heaven and earth has increased to one hundred times what it was before.

After the soul power concentration became one hundred times greater, Spirit Master cultivation will become easier; as for the matter of raising the cultivation limit, Jerry did not announce it, as after all, there are very few people who can cultivate to the limit.

Living under one hundred times the soul power concentration, when descendants undergo Spirit Awakening, the probability of having soul power is greater, and the Innate Spirit Power will also be much higher than before.

In addition to the soul power between heaven and earth increasing to one hundred times, the gravity between heaven and earth will slowly increase to one hundred times.

This increase in gravity is a slow process and will take a very long time, so he told everyone not to panic.

After the gravity increases, the Body Strength of all living beings will improve unconsciously, and the age limit for absorbing Spirit Rings in the future will also be greatly increased.

In fact, Jerry has a hypothesis regarding Spirit Ring age limits.

A Spirit Master has nine Spirit Rings; in the past, only the ninth Spirit Ring would be used to absorb a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, and most Spirit Masters had no Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring to absorb at all.

According to the data compiled by Yu Xiaogang, the first Spirit Ring limit is 423 years, the second is 764 years, the third is 1,760 years, the fourth is 5,000 years, the fifth is 12,000 years, the sixth is 20,000 years, the seventh is 50,000 years, the eighth is under one hundred thousand years, and the ninth is around one hundred thousand years.

Therefore, the sum of the ages of a Spirit Master's nine Spirit Rings is not even three hundred thousand years.

According to this calculation, the Body Strength of a Title Douluo is only around three hundred thousand years.

In the case of Twin Martial Souls, because the Body Strength is insufficient, absorbing Spirit Rings at the same time would cause the body to explode.

This is also the reason why Twin Martial Souls must wait until the first martial soul has been cultivated to Spirit Douluo or Title Douluo before daring to add Spirit Rings to the second martial soul.

During the process of cultivating to Title Douluo, if it is not extreme absorption, there is still a lot of spare room in the Body Strength.

Moreover, during this process, if one is lucky, one will encounter some soul bones; after absorbing soul bones, the Body Strength is improved, which is equivalent to expanding the spare room, providing space for the second martial soul to absorb Spirit Rings.

In fact, there is another method to cultivate two martial souls simultaneously without needing soul bones.

When a Spirit Master reaches level ten, according to the data previously compiled by Yu Xiaogang, the maximum limit for the first Spirit Ring is 423 years; the two martial souls of a Twin Martial Soul user could each absorb a 200-year Spirit Ring, totaling 400 years.

This does not exceed the Body Strength of a level ten Spirit Master, and absorbing a 200-year Spirit Ring is easier and safer for a Spirit Master; in this case, of course, the phenomenon of the body exploding will not occur.

By the same token, subsequent Spirit Rings are also absorbed according to this method.

Cultivating this way is simple to absorb and has no danger of the body exploding.

However, there is a drawback: if Spirit Rings are absorbed this way, each individual martial soul will become weaker.

But human nature is greedy; some people wanted to absorb Spirit Rings according to the maximum age simultaneously, so the first Twin Martial Soul Spirit Master exploded and died.

The second person with Twin Martial Souls was Bibi Dong.

She cultivated one martial soul first, so as not to make this martial soul weaker.

Later, after obtaining a soul bone and absorbing it to improve her Body Strength, she began to cultivate the second martial soul.

If the sum of the ages of all Spirit Rings for the first martial soul is calculated as three hundred thousand years, the maximum sum of the ages of the Spirit Rings absorbed by the second martial soul would be nine hundred thousand years.

The premise is that there are that many Hundred Thousand Year Soul Beasts for you to absorb.

Nine hundred thousand years is the theoretical limit; in reality, it is impossible to reach.

Soul Beasts can cultivate up to nine hundred and ninety thousand years at most; of course, they can cultivate to one million years if they are not afraid of the Thunder Tribulation.

Therefore, the limit for Soul Beasts is one million years.

The world is balanced; since it can give birth to Soul Beasts between two hundred thousand and one million years, it will of course also give birth to Spirit Masters capable of absorbing them.

According to the past, only the ninth Spirit Ring was one hundred thousand years, so what if a two hundred thousand year Soul Beast comes along?

Should one absorb it or not?

Absorbing it might cause the body to explode.

If it cannot be absorbed, why would the world give birth to Soul Beasts over one hundred thousand years?

Through this point, Jerry deduced that the Spirit Ring limit for an extreme Spirit Master is nine million years.

Absorbing a million-year Spirit Ring is very difficult; it is possible if it is a sacrifice like that of Tianmeng Iceworm.

This is just the limit; ordinary people cannot reach this limit at all.

Not to mention million-year Soul Beasts, just speaking of two hundred thousand year Soul Beasts, is there really no way to absorb them other than sacrifice?

The strength of an ordinary Title Douluo is slightly weaker compared to a one hundred thousand year Soul Beast.

If all the Soul Beasts over one hundred thousand years were to come out directly, could the Spirit Masters still resist them?

Since Spirit Masters could not resist, why didn't the Silver Dragon King launch a direct counterattack against humans after being injured and descending to the lower realm?

That can only point to one reason: in the past, human Spirit Masters were able to independently absorb Spirit Rings over one hundred thousand years old.

To absorb a ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring, besides Body Strength, one's Spirit Power must also be able to withstand the soul shock.

By deduction, to absorb a Spirit Ring over one hundred thousand years old, one's Body Strength and soul must be powerful enough to withstand the soul power and the soul within the Spirit Ring of over one hundred thousand years.

Yet, the Douluo Continent only has Meditation Methods and lacks techniques to cultivate Body Strength and the soul; without techniques, how can one improve?

Why is there a lack of them?

Someone, or perhaps a god, deliberately severed the inheritance of human Spirit Masters and cut off the path of cultivation for human Spirit Masters.

As for the purpose of doing this, it is quite simple: there are only so many Rules, and since humans develop quickly, many talented Spirit Masters would surely be born later on.

If they were allowed to cultivate and become gods, they would seize the power of those currently in authority.

Gods are humans who cultivated their way up; they were selfish to begin with. Having finally cultivated to become a god and holding divine authority, how could they easily hand it over?

Therefore, the gods of the God Realm severed the inheritance of the entire continent; this applies not only to Soul Beasts but to Spirit Masters as well.

It was not until later, when they discovered they were restricted by their God Position, that they wanted to break free from this restriction.

However, with the path of cultivation in the lower realm severed, it is very difficult—basically impossible—to cultivate and become a god on one's own.

That is why the Sea God sought another way: becoming a god through faith.

All other gods became gods through laws.

Regarding the explanation of World Advancement, not only was an explanation provided on the official website of the Spirit Hall, but a special section was also dedicated to explaining World Advancement in the next issue of the Soul Newspaper.

After seeing the explanation of World Advancement, everyone shouted in excitement.

Because one of the points mentioned a matter that is closely related to everyone.

One item in the Soul Newspaper mentioned that ordinary people living in areas with high concentrations of soul power for a long time have a chance to develop soul power.

This information has now been verified; the places with the highest concentration in the Spirit Hall, besides the cultivation rooms, are beneath the Pillar Supporting the Sky.

Many ordinary people living beneath the Pillar Supporting the Sky recently have developed soul power, thereby embarking on the path of a Spirit Master.

Furthermore, the Soul Newspaper also made a prediction: if the world advances again, the concentration of soul power between heaven and earth will reach one thousand times its current level.

Under a soul power concentration one thousand times higher, there will no longer be any ordinary people on the entire continent.

Although this is only a speculation by the Spirit Hall, its credibility is very high.

Therefore, many people are now checking to see if they can develop soul power every day, while simultaneously hoping for the world to advance again.

Why did Jerry release this news? Because during the two World Advancements, the world was like an apocalypse; although the Spirit Hall provided protection, it left an indelible shadow of terror in many people's hearts.

Carrying this fear, one cannot go far on the path of Cultivation.

Telling everyone the speculation in advance is just to let them have some mental preparation.

People do not pay attention to the issue of state of mind right now, but Jerry wants to slowly guide everyone's state of mind.

In the current world, Cultivation has become easier, and becoming a powerhouse is a breeze, but without a state of mind that matches one's strength, many problems will arise on the path of Cultivation.

It is like giving a newborn baby the strength of a Title Douluo; apart from destruction, there is no benefit at all.

The problem with the Teleportation Array has been solved, the problem with the Mobile Phone has been solved, and his own clone is also working hard.

Jerry began to check the Anti-gravity Device in his Floating Small Courtyard.

He only needed to adjust the basic gravity parameters, but since the gravity increases every month now, it is impossible to adjust it every month.

Therefore, Jerry revised an Array for gravity.

He added a Rule Rune to detect the current gravity once a month and then adjust it to the current gravity.

Once this Rule Rune was modified, Jerry's own Floating Small Courtyard rose slightly, returning to its originally set position.

However, through this incident, Jerry felt that in the future, important facilities must never be set with fixed Rule Runes.

Do not underestimate the addition of just one detection Rule Rune; this can allow many Arrays and Soul Guidance Devices to possess adaptive capabilities.

With an adaptive capability, even if the world advances again in the future, these devices will not be affected by the outside world and can continue to be used.

After the three problems of the Teleportation Array, the Energy Storage Device, and gravity were solved, he could consider the task of the Great Elder completed.

After this World Advancement, Jerry must first find out other effects that have not yet been discovered.

Starting with the profession of Array Master.

Many Arrays should be unusable now.

Arrays operate by borrowing soul power from heaven and earth, so they are closely related to the soul power between heaven and earth.

According to the previous Rule Runes, absorbing the same energy caused a direct overload, and the Array could not function at all.

This is actually easy to solve; one just needs to modify the Rule Runes directly.

However, there are not many Array Masters now; after all, this profession developed relatively late, and as far as is currently known, a Six-level Array Master is already the limit.

That Tang San can become a Seven-level Array Master is entirely due to his good talent and the memories of two lifetimes, having cultivated Spirit Power techniques very early on.

Currently, in human society, besides Jerry, Tang San's Array level should be considered the highest.

However, Tang San's rote learning method is undesirable; he can set up Arrays, but by rote, he only has the form.

Now that the world has advanced, all Arrays should be unusable, right?

Since the Arrays cannot absorb the soul power at one hundred times the concentration from the outside world, they naturally cannot function.

The parameter Jerry needs to change is the environment of the Array; by adding a Rule Rune that detects the surrounding soul power concentration, the Array can adjust itself regardless of how the external soul power concentration changes in the future.

The change to the Array is only this much; he will post it directly on the forum of the Array major at the Spirit Hall Academy, pin it, mark it as essential, and then push it.

The students of the Array major have not graduated yet, so once it is pushed here, they can all receive the information.

At this time, Tang San was studying a Seven-level Array, a new Array, but he had been unable to set it up successfully.

Moreover, this Seven-level Array is very important; it combines several Six-level Arrays, and after learning it, it is equivalent to reviewing these Six-level Arrays again.

Tang San had learned all the Six-level Arrays that make up the Seven-level Array, but when he combined them to set up the Seven-level Array, it stumped him.

It had been four months, and he had been stuck here the whole time, causing Tang San's state of mind to verge on collapse several times.

This was mainly because Tang San was not a student, so he had no instruction, nor was anyone managing his learning progress.

After the students discovered the problem, they reported it immediately.

The result given by the Spirit Hall was that it might be due to World Advancement, so everyone should continue their research; regardless of whether they could set up the Array, everything would be decided after Jerry returned.

Sure enough, Jerry had only been back for a few days when he solved the problem with the Array.

If Tang San were to attempt an Array below level seven again at this time, he would likely discover it.

It was not that this Level 7 Array was difficult, but that all the previously learned arrays had become ineffective.

What a pity!

No one to provide guidance.

Working behind closed doors.

And the blueprints for the carriage were wrong to begin with.

In the end, there will be nothing to show for it.

I wonder what Tang San's reaction will be once he finds out about this matter.

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(End of this chapter)