Douluo Continent: What should I do if I don't have a cheat system?

Chapter 234 Comprehending the Breathing Technique: Soul Beasts Transform and Gain Intelligence

"Swish" "Swish" "Swish"...

One lightning bolt after another descended from the sky.

The lightning tribulation descends faster as time goes on.

Two hours later, all five hundred lightning bolts had struck.

The dark clouds began to dissipate, and the sun, which had been hiding behind them, finally emerged. The sky gradually cleared until, in the end, it was a clear blue sky, as if nothing had ever happened.

If it weren't for the five hundred large pits carved into the earth, no one would know that five hundred soul beasts once underwent tribulation here at the same time.

Although the soul beasts that survived the tribulation were not seriously injured, they had not yet recovered from their fear of the tribulation and lay trembling on the spot where they had undergone the tribulation.

Jerry waved his hand, and the healing spirit beasts began to act. They scattered and began to heal the injuries of the spirit beasts that had just survived their tribulation.

The group of soul beasts watching the tribulation were already dumbfounded.

The tribulation lightning that once filled them with soul-deep fear was now overcome by five hundred soul beasts simultaneously.

Is she still half asleep? Is she still dreaming?

You can see disbelief in their eyes right now.

Several soul beasts even stretched out their claws and slapped their own heads hard.

Some spirit beasts, unwilling to pat themselves, patted the spirit beasts next to them instead.

The pain finally made them realize that this was not a dream, but something that was actually happening.

Then they realized that they could safely survive the tribulation of lightning in the future, and they all began to cheer, roaring and howling to the sky.

In a short while, long howls and roars rose and fell, a kind of spiritual jubilation, a joy from the bottom of one's heart, which could not be expressed in words, only roars and howls.

The five hundred soul beasts that had survived the tribulation of lightning gradually regained their senses upon hearing the roar. After glancing around and assessing their own situation, they instantly began to cheer with joy.

The five hundred soul beasts successfully survived the tribulation, as if the knot in their hearts had been untied. The tribulation that had been hanging over their heads no longer seemed so terrifying.

After the experiment was successful, many spirit beasts approached Jerry, seeking a way to overcome their tribulations.

Jerry was naturally happy to reveal the method of transcending tribulation, but he also reminded all the soul beasts that so far, only the data of the first tribulation soul beasts' lightning tribulation has been verified. The data for the second and third tribulations is too little and is only speculation, which still needs further verification.

After obtaining the information released by Jerry, the soul beasts that had not survived their ordeal began to cultivate with peace of mind.

Although there is no gravity field to assist in cultivation, long-term training can achieve the same effect, so the soul beasts have begun to train their physical strength.

Jerry initially recruited over a thousand followers, and now five hundred soul beasts have successfully survived the tribulation. The remaining ones have also expressed their desire to cultivate together.

They were all Jerry's underlings, so naturally they wouldn't favor any particular soul beast, and thus began the system of taking turns training.

Three years later, all of Jerry's underlings had survived the tribulation of lightning. The original five hundred soul beasts also did not slack off, spending half of their time cultivating soul power and the other half training their physical strength.

In three years, the highest level they cultivated to was only 110,000 years, still far from 200,000 years of cultivation.

As more and more soul beasts survive the tribulation of lightning, their fear of lightning tribulations has decreased significantly.

Jerry wanted to verify the data of the second tribulation lightning tribulation, but the cultivation levels of the soul beasts were far too low.

Jerry's men also noticed this, so they worked hard to cultivate their soul power every day, but the results were not satisfactory.

Gradually, some soul beasts began to wonder how they could cultivate faster.

Then they began asking each other about cultivation methods, and soon the soul beasts of the entire world were discussing how to cultivate faster.

Seeing the issues the spirit beasts are discussing now, Jerry feels that his efforts over the past few years have finally paid off, successfully changing the mindset of the spirit beasts in this world, who now know to cultivate on their own initiative.

This is a good thing, but cultivating to 200,000 years takes too long. Even with a spirit-gathering array, it won't speed things up much. There's a limit to the amount of soul power a soul beast can absorb each day, and it can only continue absorbing after it has adapted.

Jerry leaves this world and finds the Silver Dragon King.

When the Silver Dragon King saw Jerry, she felt a little embarrassed. She had seen everything Jerry had done since entering the Soul Beast World, and when she thought of her own methods, the difference in effect was immediately apparent, so she felt quite awkward.

"Silver Dragon King, we have now guided these soul beasts in the right direction, but it will still take a long time for them to cultivate to the level of Second Tribulation Soul Beasts, so I came out first to adjust the rules of this world."

Jerry certainly couldn't wait in the small world for these soul beasts to cultivate for two hundred thousand years; that would take too long.

"Jerry, after seeing what you did, I admit that my previous approach was indeed flawed; I hadn't considered so many things before," the Silver Dragon King said with shame.

"It's alright, it's not too late to make changes now. Our goal is to obtain what we want by developing our small world. By looking at the big picture from the small, sometimes proper guidance can help us achieve our goals as quickly as possible."

"Well, now that you're out, what are you planning to do?"

"I can't stay in the small world waiting for the soul beasts to cultivate forever, so I came out to modify the world's rules."

"Here's my plan: first, adjust the gravity of the small world to one time, give it a hundred years to adapt, then adjust it to two times, and give it another period to adapt. Continue this process until the gravity is adjusted to twenty times."

"In that case, all the soul beasts in this world will adapt to twenty times the gravity, and they will soon raise their physical strength to the level of the second tribulation lightning tribulation. At that time, many soul beasts will pass through the second tribulation lightning tribulation, and I will be able to collect more information and then organize the data related to the second tribulation lightning tribulation."

"Then we will use the same method to gradually increase gravity until the gravity of the entire world is increased a hundredfold."

"Once all the soul beasts have adapted to a hundred times the gravity, and even newborn soul beasts grow up directly under a hundred times the gravity, their physical strength will increase rapidly, and then they can confidently undergo the tribulation of lightning."

"In that case, I can obtain the information on the first to ninth tribulations as soon as possible, and if I'm lucky, I might even get the information on the divine tribulation."

"You previously modified the rules for soul beasts to transform, making them only able to transform after 200,000 years. Once there are more transformed soul beasts, I will guide them to research cultivation techniques. The main world has too few transformed soul beasts and too few research subjects, making it unsuitable for researching cultivation techniques for transformed soul beasts. However, this world, which only has soul beasts, is very suitable."

Although Jerry made it sound simple, the difficulty involved was considerable.

You can tell from the soul beasts in the main world that, over the years, while human society has developed many cultivation techniques, not a single one has appeared among the soul beasts.

Studying a particular exercise method undoubtedly requires a significant investment of time and effort.

After adjusting the world's rules, Jerry entered the small world.

As time went on, the physical strength of the soul beasts reached 200, but their cultivation level had not yet reached 200,000 years.

As before, once their physical strength reached 200, it could not be improved any further, so Jerry made them focus on cultivating their soul power.

Jerry's divine sense constantly enveloped this world of soul beasts, and every soul beast was under his observation.

Over time, Jerry discovered a problem: setting aside the bloodline talent of soul beasts, the cultivation speed of the same soul beasts varied.

After observing for a hundred years, Jerry finally discovered the secret.

These soul beasts breathe at different frequencies.

A word suddenly popped into Jerry's mind: could it be breathing techniques?

After observing the passive cultivation of a large number of soul beasts, Jerry finally confirmed it.

It's a breathing technique. Different races of soul beasts and soul beasts with different attributes have different breathing frequencies.

Even soul beasts of the same species have different breathing frequencies.

Jerry began recording these breathing rates.

Finally, nine breathing frequencies were obtained, each corresponding to one of the nine attributes. Each frequency is the fastest breathing frequency for cultivating a single attribute.

After being organized, they are: Metal Breathing Technique, Wood Breathing Technique, Water Breathing Technique, Fire Breathing Technique, Earth Breathing Technique, Lightning Breathing Technique, Dark Breathing Technique, Light Breathing Technique, and Neutral Breathing Technique.

In this world, most soul beasts instinctively use non-attribute breathing techniques. Only some soul beasts with good talent can comprehend attribute breathing techniques.

Different breathing techniques absorb different amounts of soul power.

Different soul beasts have different talents and comprehend different breathing techniques. Jerry's nine breathing techniques are the fastest breathing techniques to cultivate, selected after integrating all the soul beast breathing techniques.

Many soul beasts are not single-attribute soul beasts, so Jerry began to study a multi-attribute breathing technique in order to save soul beasts' cultivation time.

However, Jerry was overthinking things. In reality, it was difficult to integrate the breathing frequency. If you changed it slightly, the absorbed soul power would become attribute-less soul power. Therefore, he had never found the key to the breathing technique.

Without finding this key point, the multi-attribute breathing method cannot be derived.

Jerry then began to arrange for the spirit beasts to practice these breathing techniques.

Many spirit beasts breathe instinctively, and their breathing frequency has become fixed over time, making it difficult to change.

Another possible reason is that the intelligence of the spirit beasts has not yet been developed; their low intelligence affects their comprehension.

After all, the world's writing and language are relatively new, and there's not much to learn.

Only by studying more and reading more can one gain wisdom, but this takes time and cannot be achieved overnight.

Using the intelligence of the soul beasts, Jerry led them to practice breathing techniques. After three months of practice, he was able to change the breathing patterns of all the soul beasts.

Jerry observed and summarized the breathing techniques of spirit beasts throughout the world, and their effects were quite remarkable.

The cultivation speed of these soul beasts has obviously increased.

Jerry compared the training speed of breathing techniques and meditation techniques, and found that meditation techniques were faster.

Breathing exercises require a calm and peaceful mind at the beginning, but once you become familiar with them, they become instinctive, and you can practice them anytime and anywhere, no longer limited to meditation.

Moreover, the two methods can be practiced simultaneously. Adjusting the breathing frequency and practicing breathing techniques during meditation can enhance the effectiveness of the practice.

Another point is that the breathing technique has no age limit, which means that after obtaining the main world, even three-year-old children can cultivate it, thus greatly increasing their probability of awakening soul power.

Having innate soul power is much simpler than cultivating it later in life.

Jerry directly passed on the breathing technique to the Silver Dragon King, explaining its effects to her.

This breathing technique is practically tailor-made for soul beasts, because it doesn't require meridians; you only need to adjust your breathing frequency. In the world of soul beasts, this is equivalent to a universal cultivation method.

This means that you no longer need to worry about the messy and complicated meridians of soul beasts.

At the same time, Jerry also passed on the breathing technique to his clone in the Spirit Hall, instructing the clone to distribute the technique and remind everyone, especially children who start kindergarten at age three, to first diligently practice the attribute-free breathing technique. This breathing technique can increase the probability of them awakening soul power when they awaken.

This is a crucial point to emphasize: strictly teach every kindergarten child to learn breathing techniques as soon as they enter school.

In that case, after three years in kindergarten, they would definitely have absorbed a lot of soul power, and the probability of having soul power when they awaken would be even greater.

According to Jerry's idea, as long as he successfully cultivates the attribute-free breathing technique, he will be able to absorb enough soul power in three years and awaken a martial soul with soul power.

But since the experiment hasn't been conducted yet, Jerry won't make any definitive statements.

After awakening, you can test your martial soul attribute. Then, based on the martial soul attribute, you can change your breathing technique to the corresponding attribute.

I never expected to gain anything from coming to the world of spirit beasts. It seems that observing the behavior of spirit beasts is also a form of cultivation.

In the following time, Jerry not only observed the breathing rate of the soul beast, but also began to observe its movements.

Based on these actions, Jerry summarized many martial arts techniques—oh, no, when combined with soul power, they should be called self-created soul techniques.

The reason Jerry observed the movements of the spirit beasts was because he thought of martial arts techniques like Xingyi Quan and Wuqinxi.

Although Jerry didn't know how to cultivate, he had read about it before, and it was all martial arts developed by observing animal behavior.

Since there was such a method, Jerry began to observe the behavior of the soul beasts. There were many different kinds of soul beasts in one world.

Jerry quickly compiled several sets of soul skills, such as Monkey Fist, Tiger Paw, Crane Fist, Snake Fist, and Dragon Claw Hand.

Jerry inscribed the training methods for these soul skills directly on a huge stone tablet, which all soul beasts could view and learn from.

These soul skills are taught to soul beasts only to guide them. They learn the techniques for using soul power in these skills and then develop their own soul skills based on their own characteristics.

Another purpose is to enhance their intelligence by learning these soul skills.

After learning the breathing technique, the soul beasts cultivated very quickly. After more than ten years, many soul beasts had reached a cultivation level of 200,000 years.

However, this time Jerry didn't organize a group tribulation. When it was time to undergo the tribulation, he simply went to the specially built tribulation site and began the tribulation directly.

This place of tribulation was specially built by Jerry, using methods far beyond the level of this world, and therefore it has not been made public.

The place for tribulation is made of special metal. If lightning strikes it, the lightning will be conducted directly to the ground and will not damage the special metal.

Moreover, hidden beneath the special metal is a body strength testing device with accompanying records, which Jerry only needs to check periodically.

The Tribulation Grounds are open to the public; even those who are not Jerry's subordinates can come here to undergo tribulation.

At first, many spirit beasts didn't come, but they were quite gossipy among themselves. Jerry took advantage of this and spread a message.

Every time someone undergoes a tribulation, the ground is riddled with craters.

For a long time, the forest has been destroyed, with pits left by tribulations everywhere, which has seriously affected the lives of the soul beasts.

It would be better if everyone gathered in one place to undergo their tribulation, so that the forest would not be destroyed.

The spirit beasts were simple-minded. After hearing about the destruction of the forest, they all stopped undergoing tribulation anywhere and instead went to the tribulation site built by Jerry to undergo their tribulation.

After several thousand soul beasts successfully survived the second tribulation lightning, it was verified that a physical strength of 200 is required to perfectly survive the tribulation lightning.

After surviving the second tribulation of lightning, Jerry had these soul beasts transform into human form.

Then guide the transformed soul beasts to begin building the city.

Many soul beasts still prefer to remain in their beast form even after surviving the second tribulation of lightning, because they feel that the beast form is more powerful.

Jerry can't control the other spirit beasts, but his subordinates all listen to him.

Let's start with our own subordinates and gradually influence the whole world.

Soon, houses were built in the forest.

Of course, he wasn't letting them build haphazardly. Jerry had blueprints for a large city. Jerry directed his men to build according to the blueprints, but it wasn't finished yet, so the final result wasn't visible.

Then Jerry began to teach these transformed spirit beasts some human ways of life.

Teaching them step by step, starting with the simplest thing: learning to dress themselves.

After ten years, this large city was finally completed.

Although many houses are vacant, more and more transformed soul beasts will live there in the future.

Once the city was completed, classes officially began.

First, we reinforced the learning of the written language. Once there were no problems, we began to explain the knowledge in various other areas.

Much knowledge and cultivation are completely unrelated, but we should not underestimate them.

As the transformed spirit beasts learned more and more knowledge, their intelligence improved significantly.

As for other cultivation paths, Jerry didn't mention them, otherwise the world would have gone in a different direction, which would have been contrary to the Silver Dragon King's original intention.

As for food, since they've already taken human form, it's not good to eat raw food anymore.

Therefore, Jerry taught the transformed spirit beasts planting techniques, breeding techniques, and most importantly, cooking techniques.

Soul beasts that haven't taken human form won't eat many seasonings, but once they do, their food certainly can't be that simple.

Jerry traveled the world searching for flavoring plants and even taught some spirit beasts how to make salt.

Because of Jerry's guidance, the first thing to develop in this world of spirit beasts was food.

The appearance of various kinds of food attracted many foreign spirit beasts.

After trying delicious cooked food, eating raw food feels a bit bland.

Therefore, many soul beasts that can transform began to actively transform and then come to live in the city.

Jerry forbade the soul beasts that could not yet take human form from entering the city, so they all began to cultivate diligently in order to eat delicious food as soon as possible.

Indeed, the allure of delicious food is greater.

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