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

Chapter 249 A Special Martial Soul Master's Delusional Search for Answers

After the small gathering ended, the master returned to his residence alone.

He is feeling hurt, frustrated, and angry inside.

Although Oscar said a lot, nothing else mattered, and he could ignore it, Jerry's dropping out of school was still a thorn in his side, stuck in his throat, difficult to swallow.

Whenever I think about what I said to Jerry back then, coupled with my own experience of breaking through, I feel ashamed.

I originally thought no one knew about this, but now it has become known to the whole world.

Yu Xiaogang knew Jerry's character, so this matter couldn't have been told by Jerry. It could only have been the little girl who was with Jerry at the time.

It's pointless to try and find out who said it; the news has already spread.

Yu Xiaogang values ​​his reputation highly, and this incident will become a stain on his life, a stain even more serious than the fact that he possessed half a level of innate soul power, and it will affect him for the rest of his life.

Even if he were to publicly declare himself a god in the future, he would inevitably be the subject of gossip, and some might even record it in history books, where it would be passed down for thousands of years. That's why he was so angry that he vomited blood.

He couldn't explain what happened to Jerry, and he couldn't even try to smear him. Jerry's reputation was too good; the dirty water simply couldn't be thrown at him.

This matter could only be silently endured in one's heart. Yu Xiaogang felt that the reason Oscar brought this up was because of the food that permanently increased attributes.

Is it possible for a food-type Soul Master to create food that permanently boosts attributes?

Why have we never heard of this from ancient times to the present?

What kind of spirit rings should a food-type spirit master absorb in order to obtain a spirit skill that permanently enhances their attributes?

In the following days, Yu Xiaogang did not study the teleportation array, but instead went to the Wuhun City Library to look at various materials about food-type martial souls, hoping to find the answer there.

The outcome was inevitable: the soul skills of food-type soul masters cannot permanently increase attributes, so there is no record of this in these materials.

There are two reasons why Wuhun City has food that permanently increases attributes.

First, a chef's martial spirit is his recipes.

Secondly, there are some foods that are actually medicinal cuisine.

As for recipe-based martial souls, there are some more unusual ones, which Jerry categorizes as special martial souls.

Special martial souls may not be very powerful, but they all have their own unique functions.

A martial spirit like a recipe may look like a book-type martial spirit, but its function is completely different from other book-type martial spirits, yet its effects are very powerful.

The only drawback is that every time you unlock a new recipe, you have to make all the ones you've unlocked before.

At first, you could unlock one hundred dishes at a time, then it was one thousand, and after that it wasn't a matter of quantity, but rather that many ingredients were hard to find.

Previously, there was a support player in the Spirit Hall team whose spirit was the Book of Healing. Although it was a book, his spirit was more like a weapon spirit, which helped in battle.

A recipe, as a martial spirit, is of no help in battle. You can't expect everyone to stop during a fight, eat something to replenish their strength, and then continue fighting.

The development path for this kind of martial spirit should be a life profession, with its role in daily life being significantly greater than its role in combat.

There are many other martial spirits with special functions, such as recipes.

During his previous research, Jerry also discovered a gourd-shaped martial spirit.

Jerry named this gourd-shaped martial spirit "Brewing Gourd Martial Spirit".

Initially, many people considered this gourd-shaped martial soul to be a useless martial soul because it could not activate any soul skills no matter what soul ring it absorbed.

Jerry studied it for a long time but couldn't figure out the function of this martial spirit.

By chance, he remembered that gourds were used to hold things in the past.

After many attempts, it was discovered that nothing could be put into the gourd except for wine. Once the gourd was filled with wine, the soul skill could be used.

The Soul Master who conducted the experiment had a first Soul Ring of only 120 years. After filling a gourd with new wine, he felt that he could activate his Soul Skill.

After activating the soul skill, there was no outward reaction, but after pouring out the wine, the new wine instantly turned into a 120-year-old vintage.

Jerry owns his own hotel and brews his own wine, so he's quite knowledgeable about wine. Now he's discovered a gourd-shaped martial spirit that can increase the aging of wine, which has completely astonished him.

Wouldn't this allow for the mass production of 120-year-old wine?

Many Soul Masters enjoy drinking alcohol, and since alcohol is a consumable, it brings Jerry a large income every month.

Seeing this gourd-shaped martial spirit is like seeing piles and piles of money waving at him.

Then the Soul Master told Jerry that everyone in their village had awakened this kind of gourd spirit, which made Jerry extremely happy. He went to the village himself and recruited all the people with this kind of gourd spirit.

Under Jerry's tutelage, these people have all made great progress.

With a large accumulation of resources, someone finally broke through to level 20.

This level 20 Soul Master absorbed a 280-year Soul Ring for his first Soul Ring and a 660-year Soul Ring for his second Soul Ring.

I thought there would be two soul skills, but it turned out there was only one. However, the effect of the soul skill was to change the age of the wine to 940, which is the sum of the ages of the two soul rings. Moreover, after absorbing the second soul ring, the capacity of the gourd to hold the wine increased.

The only drawback is that each time a soul skill is activated, it consumes all of the soul master's soul power, and it takes several days to recover after that.

However, Jerry had Soul Power Pills and Recovery Pills. The low-grade Soul Power Pills could be used as recovery pills, and with the added effect of the Recovery Pills, he recovered in less than an hour.

Only someone as wealthy and powerful as Jerry, who doesn't take low-level Soul Power Pills and Recovery Pills seriously, would dare to use them like this.

A century-old wine is already considered a fine wine in the Douluo Continent.

Although the quantity is small, the price is high, and it was very popular as soon as it was launched in Wuhun City, with demand exceeding supply.

However, the cultivation speed of this kind of martial soul is really slow. Even in the training room, the amount of soul power they absorb each day is limited.

No wonder many people in Calabash Village, even after awakening their martial souls and gaining soul power, don't cultivate them; martial soul cultivation is simply too slow.

It's to be expected that such an overpowered martial soul would have this flaw.

If they cultivated like everyone else, normally reaching the Soul Saint level, they could probably make wine that's ten thousand years old. The value of that pot of wine goes without saying.

Even if one cultivates to level ten, one can easily absorb a hundred-year-old soul ring and become rich by relying on century-old wine.

This is too unfair to others, so the slow cultivation speed should be the world's restriction on this kind of martial spirit.

There are also some martial spirits, which Jerry also classifies as special martial spirits. These are more common, such as: sickle, hoe, shovel, iron pot, etc.

There are far too many people who awaken this type of martial soul. Many of them do not have soul power, but some of them do awaken soul power.

Those who awaken their soul power are sent to the academy and trained as combat soul masters.

But Jerry doesn't think so. He believes that this kind of martial spirit is a tool, and a tool is meant to be used for its purpose, not for fighting.

The Spirit Hall Academy has an agricultural college, which sends all the spirit masters who make sickles, hoes, shovels and the like to farm, and the spirit rings are also chosen to be helpful for farming.

The final result was as Jerry had predicted; they were doing very well on the agricultural route.

For example, the scythe spirit can harvest grain faster and make weeds grow slower after harvesting.

The hoe and shovel martial spirits gather some of the soul power from heaven and earth when digging, allowing the planted plants to absorb more soul power and grow better.

Things like iron pots were sent directly to culinary academies, and it was found that the food cooked in them tasted better. Moreover, people who awakened this type of martial spirit learned cooking skills faster than others.

As Jerry researched more and more special martial spirits, he discovered that many of them were not meant for combat professions; they were better suited for life professions.

Jerry recorded this information in the occupational category, but Yu Xiaogang was looking for information on food-type soul masters.

He was going in the wrong direction. Even if he read all the books and materials of this kind, he would not find any record of special martial souls.

So he wanted to answer Oscar's question, which was impossible without anyone's guidance.

The outer city library of the Spirit Hall gathers general books and materials from across the continent, as well as some publicly available books and materials from the Spirit Hall, totaling more than 60 million volumes.

The category of food-based martial spirits alone has over 900,000 volumes; even if Yu Xiaogang read them for a hundred years, he still wouldn't finish.

Because of the Oscars, Yu Xiaogang was determined to read through the books, even though he knew the library had a vast collection.

Yu Xiaogang truly deserves to be called a research talent. He is very focused and absorbed when reading, and is not distracted by anything else.

He quickly became immersed in the sea of ​​books, forgetting to eat and sleep every day.

Tang San visited Yu Xiaogang once during the journey.

I originally wanted to see how Yu Xiaogang's research on formations was going and if there had been any progress.

To Tang San's disappointment, the information was given to the Grandmaster, but he didn't study it. Instead, he got into a fight with the food-type martial soul.

Oscar's words really had a big impact on the master. He probably won't do anything else until he finds the answer. It seems I still need to help him.

Afterwards, Tang San returned to work at the Spirit Hall Academy and began to study information about food-type spirits in his spare time.

It's unbelievable that Oscar's outburst led both of them astray.

Meanwhile, Oscar, the protagonist of our story, is having a feast with Ma Hongjun.

They got a reservation a few days ago and can go today. This reservation allows them to bring someone, but the two of them didn't want to bring Tang San and the others.

Ma Hongjun, this chubby boy, endured several years of hardship in the far north and finally managed to lose weight. Now that he has arrived in Wuhun City, he is showing signs of rebounding.

Ma Hongjun's lustful desires were originally difficult to suppress, and without the immortal herb, he could only stay in brothels every day at first.

Because of what Jerry did in the mortal realm, the divine realm had to make preparations in advance. Ma Hongjun was a lucky one, as he was chosen by the God of Fire.

The divine test's reward dispelled his evil fire, and he began to diligently cultivate.

With less internal heat accumulating in her body, she lost weight in no time.

Ma Hongjun, after losing weight, is still quite handsome, which has greatly boosted his confidence.

However, during this period, he had been indulging in food and drink with Oscar. Oscar was the type of person who could eat whatever he wanted without gaining weight, but Ma Hongjun was not.

Ma Hongjun couldn't resist the temptation of the delicious food.

In order to eat more delicious food, Oscar and Ma Hongjun initially went to the gravity field to train. No one restrained them, but after the initial excitement, they never went there again.

That day, after the two had eaten and drunk their fill, they began to chat.

"Wuhun City is great, but it lacks some entertainment options!"

"When people are well-fed and warm, they think of lustful desires." Although Ma Hongjun had gotten rid of his lustful desires, he couldn't resist them after not eating meat for so long.

"Alright, stop thinking about that. You're not even hot-tempered anymore, so why don't you just find a girlfriend?"

Oscar tried to persuade him, saying that he knew Ma Hongjun well. In the past, his girlfriends couldn't stand his lustful desires, and after changing girlfriends a few times, Ma Hongjun stopped looking for someone else.

But now the situation is different. Without the evil fire, Ma Hongjun can finally find a girlfriend.

"Forget it! Finding a girlfriend is too much trouble."

Ma Hongjun had actually thought about finding a girlfriend, but for some reason, he was always very enthusiastic at first, but after a few days without any results, his enthusiasm would dissipate.

People who are used to eating fast food will need a long time to adapt to sitting down and eating quietly.

"By the way, Oscar, I don't think the master did it on purpose. Look, he's been reading in the library these past few days to give you an explanation."

They rented a courtyard to live in. Although they hadn't spoken for the past few days, you could easily find out what they were doing by asking around.

The master went to the library every day, leaving early and returning late, and Ma Hongjun still saw this.

"Hongjun, what do you mean by 'give me an explanation'? Shouldn't you say Yu Xiaogang wants to give himself an explanation?"

"We've been together all this time. Yu Xiaogang's affairs aren't exactly a secret. He's a notorious figure in Wuhun City, and everyone knows it."

"Don't we already know a lot about his deeds in his youth and his later activities in the Spirit Hall?"

"His so-called knowledge and theories were all compiled from incomplete data from the Spirit Hall and were never verified!"

"You said you're using this unproven theory to teach us. Aren't we just his experimental subjects?"

"The thought of him using us as experimental subjects makes me angry!"

"We've all found out. The Soul Master who can create food that permanently boosts attributes has a recipe-based Martial Soul, not a food-type Martial Soul. This isn't a secret in Martial Soul City. I held a grudge against Yu Xiaogang and didn't tell him, but you didn't tell him either, did you?"

After Oscar finished speaking, he looked at Ma Hongjun with amusement.

Oscar suddenly shifted the topic to him, which surprised Ma Hongjun for a moment before he spoke:

"I'm only saying this because you seem to be holding a grudge. As your good brother, how could I speak up before you've even said anything? Besides, Yu Xiaogang only taught me for a short time; my master, Flander, was the one who primarily taught me."

"Come on! Flander listens to Yu Xiaogang, doesn't he? Dare you say that some of your cultivation paths weren't set by Yu Xiaogang at Flander's request?"

Oscar interrupted Ma Hongjun before he could continue.

"Okay! I admit it, I was just watching the show and forgot!"

"I knew it!"

"Ha ha ha ha"

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(End of this chapter)