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

Chapter 258 The Divine Envoy's Recent Situation: Tang San's Reclusiveness and Xiao Gang's Odor

Those who were destined to become gods have already become gods, and are all immersed in the joy of becoming deities.

At Jerry's urging, they all began to go into seclusion to quickly familiarize themselves with the power they would gain after becoming gods.

Quite a few things have happened to Tang San and his friends recently.

Tang San spends every day memorizing various materials, and apart from his regular work, he spends all his time in the library.

Finally, a colleague couldn't stand it anymore and, out of kindness, reminded Tang San.

That day, Tang San received his first real cell phone.

As my colleague suggested, I opened the "Complete Guide to Cultivation" app and found the "Books" category under "Materials".

Seeing the clearly categorized ebooks inside, Tang San couldn't help but want to curse.

After all that hard work memorizing, you can just look it up on your phone.

Since the advent of mobile phones, the books in libraries have mainly been kept for collection purposes, and very few people borrow them.

Previously, Tang San only knew that students could borrow books to read, while other staff members, without student IDs, could only read books in the library. Therefore, Tang San never thought about anything else.

He always thought these trainees were stupid, but actually, he was the one who was really stupid.

With a mobile phone, all the books in the library are available in the app, and there's even a search engine, so why bother coming to the library in person?

For those who aren't used to using a phone, there's also a tablet, which is a bit larger than a physical book and offers a similar viewing experience.

Trainees can register in the program using their trainee number, and employees can register using their employee number, and then they can view all their information.

Others from outside the community can also register using their ID card number, but access is restricted, and some materials that require personal instruction cannot be viewed.

Moreover, the Spirit Hall Academy doesn't take these materials seriously at all; students can still access them even after graduation.

After learning all this, Tang San really wanted to slap himself. He had infiltrated the area precisely to secretly learn some information.

Once I'm hired, I can use my phone to access all the materials, and I can learn them openly and honestly, not by stealing information.

I just wanted to keep a low profile and avoid attracting attention, so I rarely communicated with other colleagues, which is why I spent so much time and effort memorizing.

Furthermore, there is a device called a Soul Printer that can directly print out the required information.

I was just memorizing it by rote, so it was no different from printing it out.

Tang San will never come to the library again.

After using the mobile phone, Tang San realized how convenient this little gadget was. After binding his identity card, he could pay directly with his mobile phone.

Even your salary can be viewed on your phone, so you no longer need to go to the Spirit Hall bank to check your balance.

Now that he no longer needed to memorize the materials, Tang San began to study.

The first thing to study is the information on the Soul Master profession.

Tang San has always been very interested in soul tools because he can perform some simple functions of soul tools using his knowledge of mechanisms.

With so many hidden weapons, Tang San couldn't let them go to waste. He had always wanted to create a soul tool that could launch hidden weapons.

This way, there's no need to practice hidden weapon techniques anymore.

It's a pity that Tang San was too arrogant.

Soul Master is a profession, and there are materials available from beginner to level nine Soul Master.

However, it's very difficult to learn something simply by looking at some materials.

Although there are pictures in the book.

But why it should be like this is not written at all.

The knowledge used in level one soul tools is only introductory, but the examples in the book are not written in great detail.

Why use these rule runes?

How large and how deep should these rule runes be engraved each time?

These things are not mentioned in the book.

Actually, this is because Tang San did not systematically study at the Spirit Hall Academy.

These rules and runes are very important; they are considered a language in themselves. Soul Masters need to learn them, and so do Array Masters.

I wonder if other professions will emerge in the future that also require learning.

That's why Jerry separated the rule runes and made them a new course.

Tang San had never studied the rules of runes, so even the runes required for a very simple level one soul tool were like reading a book written in a foreign language to him.

Blindly applying the rules and symbols from examples in books.

Since no one was there to teach him, Tang San decided to try it himself.

As a result, Tang San spent all his savings, bought various materials, and spent a lot of time, but in the end, he couldn't even make a single level-one soul tool.

This result left Tang San feeling somewhat hopeless.

Despite being a peerless genius, capable of crafting many hidden weapons that others in the Tang Sect couldn't even make, he found himself struggling to progress on the path of a Soul Master.

As everyone has mentioned before, the number of Soul Masters is scarce, which is why the supply of Soul Tools has always been insufficient to meet the demand.

However, Tang San never thought that he would fail to become a Soul Master.

Should we really give up?

Do I lack the talent of a Soul Master?

Tang San was so discouraged that he became withdrawn. He had the knowledge, the materials, and he himself, but he couldn't even make a basic level one soul tool.

This plunged Tang San into deep self-doubt.

Give up? Continue?

Giving up was actually the best option, but Tang San was unwilling to accept it.

Continuing might still yield no results and would also cost a lot of money.

Perhaps it's because I haven't been exposed to it for long enough; if I keep persisting, I'll be able to learn it sooner or later.

The harsh reality ultimately forced Tang San to suppress his desire for a Soul Master – he simply didn't have the money.

The materials used for Soul Masters are all attribute materials, which are not cheap. Many Soul Masters cannot be made successfully on the first try and require multiple practice sessions. These are all initial investments.

Therefore, Soul Masters were initially very poor, which is why Jerry was able to trick a group of Soul Masters in an academy into helping him make Soul Tools by simply using materials.

Compared to Tang San's situation, Yu Xiaogang was even more troubled.

Yu Xiaogang didn't study the formation information; he was focused on researching foods that permanently boosted attributes.

After Tang San told him about the phone, he immediately bought one using a fake identity.

I'm always looking at information on my phone; I have to hold it while walking, eating, and before going to bed.

I've completely become a "phubber" (people who are always looking at their phones).

Yu Xiaogang was very arrogant. Seeing so much information, he wanted to learn it all without studying how to use the mobile phone program.

If he did a little research, he would find a search box above. He could simply enter the words "permanently improve attributes" and find information about it directly.

But Yu Xiaogang, engrossed in his studies, never thought about any of this.

Because the search box was so obviously located, and anyone could figure it out with a little research, Tang San didn't bother to explain it. He figured that with Yu Xiaogang's intelligence, navigating a mobile phone would be a piece of cake.

Yu Xiaogang has now fallen into a state of madness, and he no longer cares about his image.

My former buzz cut has long since grown into shoulder-length hair, but it's messy, greasy, and smelly; I haven't washed it in at least a month.

If you were to wash it now, you would need to wash it at least a hundred times.

His clothes, which were originally black, were now shiny and glossy, as if they had been coated with wax. You could smell the stench emanating from Yu Xiaogang from two meters away; he was practically a walking odor weapon.

However, Yu Xiaogang didn't care about any of this. He was still holding his phone, swimming in the ocean of knowledge, even though that ocean was a bit smelly.

Because he often forgot the time, he ordered takeout for a year straight. Every time it was time to eat, the delivery person would knock on the door, which would wake Yu Xiaogang up, and then he would start eating.

Later, the delivery drivers all felt that Yu Xiaogang was too stinky, so stinky that they wanted to vomit. Every time they knocked on the door twice, they would just leave the food at the door and run away.

Sometimes, when Yu Xiaogang knocked on the door, he didn't hear it and missed his meal.

As a result, Yu Xiaogang is now extremely thin and looks completely different.

At first, the five divine envoys would often get together. Later, Yu Xiaogang became too stinky, and the others couldn't stand it anymore. They told Yu Xiaogang to clean up his act, but he continued to do as he pleased and ignored their opinions. The others said it too much, but Yu Xiaogang wouldn't listen, so they stopped talking.

Eating with such a smelly person is disgusting. I lose all appetite for what was originally delicious food, and I feel like I could throw up.

Gradually, the parties were canceled.

Moreover, Yu Xiaogang's situation had spread, and people in the neighborhood knew that there was a man who rarely went out, was always looking at his phone, didn't groom himself, and smelled bad.

Some people even tell their children that they must study hard, otherwise they will end up like Yu Xiaogang.

As for Dugu Yan, she did relatively well because she was proactive at work, had outstanding abilities, and was also good-looking. Her superiors took notice of her and she was promoted not long after.

By chance, while escorting prisoners to reform schools, they discovered someone inside who looked very much like their grandfather.

She looks about 70-80% like her grandfather, but her personality is completely different, making even Dugu Yan unsure.

Dugu Yan wanted to access the prisoner's information, but discovered that the information was classified as SSS-level, a level of information that ordinary people were not qualified to access or review.

Neither the law enforcement team nor the renovation plant management personnel are authorized to access the documents.

Every time prisoners were brought over for handover, it was always done from the outside; they wouldn't let us in, so we never had a chance to confirm the details in person.

Therefore, Dugu Yan used his position to frequently send prisoners here for reformation, and over time, he became familiar with the people here.

She also learned that the old man had been undergoing reformation here for a long time, and they didn't know anything about him. They were only responsible for guarding the prisoners and had no right to interrogate them.

Moreover, they also knew that most of the prisoners sent here for reform were vicious, but the crimes they committed were not very serious.

Although the soul power is sealed here, it will be released after the transformation is completed, so it is unlikely to offend these prisoners.

Moreover, the old man that Dugu Yan inquired about was already here. Judging from the fact that the old man's sentence was very long, his cultivation level must be quite high, since he could complete his tasks with ease every day.

Once the old man is released from prison, they'll be done with him. Why would they want to cause trouble?

Most of the reformatorys are located outside, and because the prisoners' soul power is sealed, the guards are not very strong.

What if you offend a powerful Soul Master, and they secretly come to take revenge on you after they are released from prison?

So, there are tricks to being a guard, otherwise you wouldn't know why you suddenly disappeared one day.

Dugu Yan wanted to meet the old man, but the guards dared not let her in.

They have thirty guards here, and there's a system of mutual supervision, with rewards for reporting violations.

Sending Dugu Yan to see the prisoner was clearly a violation of regulations.

Prisoners sent here have no visitation rights unless they are released after serving their full sentence.

Since these are all visits, it's to prevent visitors from secretly passing information or other weapons to the prisoners.

After all, there are storage rings, and sometimes if you're not careful, you might accidentally hand the ring over to a prisoner.

There was once a prisoner who took the flying soul tool given to him by a visitor and tried to escape.

This matter attracted the attention of the higher authorities, because the visitors were not criminals, it was difficult to search them, and there were both men and women involved, which was also inconvenient. So they directly issued an order prohibiting anyone from visiting.

Unable to meet him in person, and without the authority to access his records, and unable to definitively confirm that he was her grandfather, Dugu Yan was stuck in this predicament.

One way to see the prisoner is to apply for a transfer to be a guard. If it's your own grandfather, that would be a good option. Even if you can't release him now, you can at least take care of him.

But if not, it will be very difficult to get a job transfer again.

Therefore, Dugu Yan dared not gamble.

However, if Dugu Bo knew that his granddaughter was going to save him, he would definitely stop her.

The soul-guided shackles I'm wearing have a location tracking function; I don't want my granddaughter to get arrested along with them.

The material of these soul-guided shackles is also very hard. Once, a prisoner tried to damage the soul-guided shackles by causing an accident, but they didn't even get a scratch.

Dugu Bo really doesn't want to remove the soul-guided shackles now, because these shackles have drained his poisonous soul power, and he has never experienced any backlash from his soul power since.

Dugu Bo was one of the earliest prisoners, and he had been wearing soul-guided shackles for a relatively long time. Recently, he discovered that his martial soul had mutated.

Because there has been no toxin injection for a long time, and the toxins in the martial soul itself have been continuously extracted, the martial soul has actually begun to mutate.

Although the mutation was slow, it truly made Dugu Bo feel that his martial soul was mutating.

The outcome of the mutation is still unknown, but Dugu Bo has prepared for the worst. The worst outcome would be that the mutated form would no longer be poisonous, which would actually help him.

As for Oscar and Ma Hongjun, they still visit stores every day. If they were to launch live streaming now, they could probably become store visit hosts.

They are very familiar with many delicious foods and fun places.

They also met a lot of like-minded friends, a bunch of people who did nothing all day but look for good food and fun places.

Moreover, the two of them developed this team and created a group with more than a thousand members. Oscar was the group owner and Ma Hongjun was the administrator.

Since Oscar became the group leader, he has experienced the benefits of power. Before, among the group, he always felt like he was just an extra.

Therefore, I became very addicted to it.

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