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

Chapter 323 Jerry is powerless in close combat against Tang San and is captured.

Jerry looked at Tang San, who was already approaching him, and couldn't help but laugh. "You want to fight me in close combat, huh? Then I'll play with you."

The Nine Absolute Techniques of Haotian, right? Jerry has already studied them. Each of the nine unique power-generating techniques of the Haotian Hammer has its own characteristics.

Compared to the somewhat lackluster Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique, the true ultimate skill of the Haotian Sect is the Haotian Nine Absolutes, which are powerful abilities that can be truly applied in actual combat.

Even among the direct disciples of the Haotian Sect, not everyone can receive the Nine Absolute Techniques. Only with the joint approval of the sect leader and elders can they be taught.

The position of sect leader of the Clear Sky Sect had always been vacant, and the elders had been in control of the sect. Tang San should not have had the opportunity to learn the Nine Absolute Techniques of Clear Sky, but he has now used them.

No matter what, the Clear Sky Sect is still a sect with its own strict sect rules. Under normal circumstances, sect disciples would not dare to violate them. Therefore, without the sect leader's consent, Tang San would not have the opportunity to learn the Clear Sky Sect's unique skills through proper channels. Even if he is powerful, he still has to abide by the rules.

It seems Tang San has returned to his old ways, secretly learning the Clear Sky Sect's ultimate techniques.

Although the Nine Absolute Techniques of Haotian are rumored to be very powerful, they have many flaws, and a full-agility Soul Master of the same level can easily dodge them.

However, very few people in this world take the extreme route; most Soul Masters make multiple choices when selecting Soul Rings.

The reason why the Clear Sky Sect is so powerful is that it follows the path of fully amplifying power, without any fancy soul skills, relying on brute force to overcome all techniques.

The four major single-attribute families are in a similar situation, except that they have not fully understood the essence of single attributes.

For the same attribute, there are not only amplification soul skills, but also other soul skills. For example, if the Agile Clan adds amplification soul skills to all of them, their speed will increase several times again. However, in order to enhance their attack methods while increasing their speed, they choose some other soul skills of the same attribute.

To select all amplification soul skills, there is a condition that many families find difficult to meet: creating your own soul skills to compensate for the other shortcomings of all amplification soul skills.

However, this problem has been solved in recent years. The Spirit Hall has announced its own created spirit skills for each attribute, allowing many spirit masters to confidently pursue the route of maximizing the single attribute.

If a sect selection were to be conducted now, many newly emerging families could easily eliminate the Haotian Sect.

However, none of this matters. Now everyone can see that no matter how good the sects outside are, they can't compare to a medium-sized family in Wuhun City. Moreover, compared to sects, families save a lot of trouble.

Another reason is that the Spirit Hall still exists, so establishing a new sect wouldn't make much sense to them; they would still be at the mercy of the Spirit Hall.

Look at the present: of the three major sects, two have been wiped out, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect has now submitted to Wuhun City and become the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Family. Although it has become a family, its strength is many times greater than before.

Putting aside other aspects, just the fact that Ning Rongrong is Chrysanthemum Douluo's disciple and Jerry's junior sister means no one dares to provoke the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Family.

Therefore, times have changed, and those who cannot accept these changes will ultimately be eliminated by the times.

Among the soul skills announced by the Spirit Hall, there are of course some soul skills that involve power exertion. At the beginning, Jerry combined all the soul skills collected by the Spirit Hall and deduced some of them. There are also many that are optimizations of previous soul skills.

The Clear Sky Sect's unique skills had long been acquired by the Spirit Hall, but these skills were created specifically for the Clear Sky Hammer Spirit and were not suitable for other Spirits, so they had been gathering dust in the Spirit Hall.

It was only after Jerry had read through all the books in the Spirit Hall's collection that he discovered this long-forgotten secret manual.

The Spirit Hall has a long history and a vast collection of books. Moreover, the previous administrators were really incompetent. They didn't even know the most basic classification and organization. Everything was put together, and anyone who wanted to see it had to go in and find it themselves.

In other words, Jerry has divine sense, and an ordinary person probably couldn't finish reading the Spirit Hall's collection of books in a lifetime.

Based on the Nine Absolute Techniques of Haotian, Jerry had already deduced power generation techniques suitable for other martial souls. Even the power generation techniques for hammer-type martial souls had been greatly optimized by Jerry. Now, seeing Tang San using the original Nine Absolute Techniques of Haotian, Jerry couldn't help but laugh.

The Spirit Hall has long made the cultivation of all kinds of spirits public. Tang San hides away every day, doesn't he know to take a look at the hammer-shaped spirit cultivation manual published by the Spirit Hall?

Besides some self-created soul skills, there are also power exertion techniques derived from the Nine Absolute Techniques of Haotian. Why don't you learn these publicly available things? What are you doing hiding in Wuhun City all day?

Thinking of this, Jerry waved his hand, and the Flaming Sword disappeared. What reappeared in Jerry's hand was a hammer, exactly the same as the Clear Sky Hammer in Tang San's hand.

Tang San was visibly taken aback when he saw the Clear Sky Hammer appear in Jerry's hand. Was it a weapon or a martial soul?

In the instant Tang San was stunned, Jerry also used a set of power-generating techniques.

The two instantly clashed. Tang San became increasingly alarmed as the fight progressed. He realized that Jerry's hammer technique felt very familiar, much like the Nine Absolute Techniques of Haotian, but with many differences. The power was smoother and the attacks were more continuous.

Because of the weight of the Haotian Hammer, each attack has some pre-attack and post-attack animations. However, Jerry's hammer technique perfectly utilizes these pre-attack and post-attack animations, making what would otherwise be superfluous useful. The entire hammer technique is smooth and fluid.

Therefore, Tang San became increasingly alarmed as the battle progressed. Moreover, every attack he launched was neutralized by Jerry's hammer, somewhat like the Tai Chi principle of using minimal force to deflect a great weight. This made Tang San feel like he had no way to use his strength.

This is a hammer weapon! Tang San had felt the weight of the Clear Sky Hammer in Jerry's hand during their previous encounter. Compared to his own martial soul, it was no lighter. But how could Jerry use it so lightly?

This is actually a high level of mastery in heavy weaponry: handling heavy weapons with ease. Once you reach this level, even the heaviest weapon will feel incredibly light to use.

Jerry used this technique, which is why Tang San found Jerry's hammer technique very strange. When attacking, he was very powerful, but when defending, he was light and fast, and sometimes he could deflect the force, making his attacks ineffective.

The two fought for hundreds of rounds. Tang San felt very frustrated because he couldn't land a single attack on Jerry. Moreover, Jerry kept smiling, as if he were just playing a game with Tang San, which made Tang San very angry, but he was helpless.

Continuing close combat wouldn't do him any good. Tang San no longer believed that Jerry was incapable of close combat. The reason he didn't engage in close combat before was because others weren't qualified to fight Jerry in close combat. Only after actually fighting Jerry in close combat could he feel that sense of powerlessness.

Tang San realized that Jerry had been playing around and hadn't used his full strength at all. With that in mind, Tang San took a step back, instantly creating distance between them.

One by one, the spirit rings on Tang San's body began to explode, and the energy from the explosions all merged into the Clear Sky Hammer.

Jerry, who was watching from a distance, did not stop Tang San from using his ultimate move, the Soul Ring Detonation. He was preparing to use the Great Sumeru Hammer. Normally, detonating one Soul Ring would be enough to use it, but Tang San was going to detonate them all for a full-force attack.

The aftereffects of the Great Sumeru Hammer are quite severe. After destroying a spirit ring, the body will be weak for a long time. Tang San's entire spirit ring was destroyed. How long will he be weak? It seems that Tang San was determined to win by using this move.

This move, if it doesn't kill the enemy, will severely injure them, while also weakening the user; it's practically a soul skill that harms both the attacker and the user.

Since Tang San wants to use this move, let him use it.

Tang San didn't actually want to use this move. Although it was incredibly powerful, it also had significant side effects. But Tang San really had no other choice at the moment.

Using hidden weapons, Tang San realized that Jerry would immediately return any hidden weapon he used. He also felt that he had too few attack methods when facing a god-level expert.

Needless to say, as for formations, not to mention that I can't create formations with a single thought like Jerry, my level of formation skills is also inferior to Jerry's.

In the end, only the Great Sumeru Hammer remained. The reason he dared to use this move was because Tang San had some pills he had refined himself. After using this move, he would immediately take the pills and quickly recover his soul power.

Moreover, Tang San felt that he had used so many powerful moves before that even Wuhun City should be able to sense the great battle here, which could be considered as indirectly informing his companions. Therefore, Tang San's current plan was to use the Great Sumeru Hammer, take advantage of Jerry's lack of reaction, immediately swallow the pill, and then escape.

Although I don't know how Jerry caught up with me before, Jerry didn't face my attacks back then. Now that I'm using the Great Sumeru Hammer, even if Jerry doesn't die, he'll be seriously injured. If I run away now, Jerry probably won't be able to catch up.

That's what Tang San thought, but the result was not what he expected.

The power of the Great Sumeru Hammer, which had detonated all its spirit rings, far exceeded the endurance of ordinary god-level experts. If it were used against other god-level experts, this move might have killed them directly.

Tang San didn't use this move when facing Zhu Zhuqing, but he used it against Jerry now. In Tang San's eyes, Jerry is much more difficult to deal with than Zhu Zhuqing.

Facing Zhu Zhuqing, Tang San was seriously injured because he was careless and hadn't even used some of his ultimate moves. Having learned from his previous experience, Tang San used his ultimate moves directly this time.

Unfortunately, the opponent was Jerry. No matter how powerful the Great Sumeru Hammer was, it was still made of energy. In the past, Jerry would have tried to find ways to defend against it, but for Jerry now, as long as the attack was made of energy and did not exceed his absorption range, it had no power over him at all.

Seeing the giant Sumeru hammer coming at him, Jerry withdrew the hammer, faced the attack head-on, and prepared to show off.

Just as Tang San had hoped, the Great Sumeru Hammer struck Jerry directly. Tang San had expected Jerry to at least resist, but Jerry put away his weapon and completely gave up. This puzzled Tang San, but since the Great Sumeru Hammer had already hit Jerry, nothing else mattered.

The moment the Great Sumeru Hammer struck Jerry, Tang San swallowed a pill. His original plan was to escape immediately, but now that Jerry had taken the full force of the Great Sumeru Hammer, Tang San still wanted to see the outcome.

If Jerry is defeated by this attack, Tang San won't need to run away.

But what happened next completely overturned Tang San's worldview, and without realizing it, Tang San's teeth started chattering.

When the Great Sumeru Hammer struck Jerry, it didn't send Jerry flying as expected, leaving him either dead or severely injured. Instead, it seemed to stick to Jerry as if something was glued to him, and at the same time, a suction force was rapidly absorbing the energy from the Great Sumeru Hammer.

In a short while, the giant hammer, which was originally made of energy, was completely absorbed by Jerry.

Jerry himself was completely unharmed. Tang San wondered if it was just his imagination, but he felt that Jerry was even enjoying himself.

After consuming the pill, Tang San's soul power had recovered considerably. He wanted to escape, but his legs seemed to have a mind of their own and he couldn't move at all. He could only stand there and watch Jerry show off.

Jerry had already seen through Tang San's little trick and his attempt to escape. So Jerry used spatial rules to freeze the space around Tang San. If Tang San wanted to escape, he would have to have a higher level of understanding of spatial rules than Jerry, but that was obviously impossible. Tang San probably didn't even know what rules were.

Amidst Tang San's despairing gaze, Jerry flew to his side.

"How about that? Out of ideas now? Still trying to run away?"

Jerry said with a grin that this was the happiest he had been in years, finally catching the chosen one of this world.

The title of "chosen one" applies to this world only. Jerry's current strength surpasses that of this world. To be clear, the world is no match for Jerry, let alone a "chosen one."

"Jerry!"

Tang San shouted through gritted teeth, staring fiercely at Jerry.

"Tang San, although you have cultivated to the god level, you do not have the strength corresponding to a god-level expert. No matter how high your cultivation is, you are just strong on the outside but weak on the inside. Didn't the gods in the god realm tell you the cultivation method after reaching the god level? It seems that they are just using you as pawns."

After Jerry finished speaking, without waiting for Tang San to reply, he waved his hand and sealed Tang San away.

Tang San was in despair. He could no longer sense his martial spirit and soul power, as if his body was empty and there was nothing inside.

What kind of tactic is this? Is this still the way things are done in this world?

Jerry just said that the gods in the divine realm did not teach them cultivation methods after reaching the god level, and that is indeed true.

However, the method Jerry just used completely exceeded Tang San's understanding. This was not the method of an ordinary person. Could it be that Jerry knew the cultivation methods after reaching the god level, and the method he just used was a method after reaching the god level?

At this moment, Tang San cursed the gods of the God Realm in his heart. Even Jerry knew the cultivation methods after reaching the god level, yet the god who passed on his godhood to him didn't say a word. He was truly despicable.

However, judging from Jerry's appearance, he only wanted to capture him and did not intend to kill him. Why was that? This puzzled Tang San.

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