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

Chapter 75: Dragging the Grand Elder into the Trouble

In just the first phase, the entire continent began to stir!

Recently, under Jerry's guidance, the research department developed bone fertilizer, manure fertilizer, and leaf mold fertilizer. When the research data was sent to the development department, they almost got attacked. Before, the construction was fine! But now they're making them play with bones, manure, and rotten leaves. It's too much!

In the end, Jerry stepped in and delegated the task to ordinary people, with the Development Department sending personnel to supervise. They also got the Weapons Department to provide a few shredders, and that solved the problem!

The news that the Spirit Hall was buying up all kinds of spirit beast bones, spirit beast excrement, and rotten leaves spread throughout the entire Spirit City. Then a bunch of people started to take action, and the leaves on the nearby trees were all picked clean. Finally, the Spirit Hall ordered that no one should damage the green plants, and people stopped!

The fertilizer made from these fertilizers was distributed to farmers in the areas managed by the Spirit Hall. Soon, the ripening time of the grains was shortened, and the yield increased, which allowed them to earn more points.

The Spirit Hall's logistics department is currently a very sought-after department, packed with people every day. The minister has suggested expansion several times, but Jerry can't do anything about it. There are so many areas that need development and so many places that require money. He can only put it on hold for now, and he's even afraid to go out because elders from various departments are coming to ask for money!

There's no way I can keep running to the Ministry of Commerce every day trying to make money. The Ministry of Commerce now not only manages all the shops in Wuhun City, but also has to open shops in various cities of the two great empires, hotels, restaurants, clothing stores, hardware stores, and all kinds of other businesses. Luckily, Jerry used purification methods to produce a lot of good wine, clothing stores to produce a lot of modern clothes, and hardware stores to sell daily necessities. That's how he managed to generate some income. Otherwise, relying solely on the shops in Wuhun City, his funds would have dried up long ago!

However, opening so many shops has put the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School in a rather dire situation, as many of its businesses have been robbed! In the past, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School could be said to be incredibly wealthy, but now many industries are being suppressed, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is helpless. The Spirit Hall uses only legitimate methods and has not resorted to underhanded tactics!

Furthermore, the businesses of some nobles have suffered a great blow. Now, all the shops of the Spirit Hall are guarded by soldiers, who are at least Soul Masters. These nobles have no choice but to complain to the emperor. The emperor can't do anything either; he can't just drive the Spirit Hall out! You know, now if a city doesn't have a branch of the Spirit Hall, no Soul Masters are willing to come!

Recently, a large number of Soul Masters have been flowing to Spirit City. These Soul Masters also bring a lot of resources. I heard that Spirit City is now building a seventh-ring. If Spirit Hall uses unconventional methods, it will be easier to solve the problem. But the key is that they are all doing normal business, and their goods are relatively good and practical. Then there is really no way to deal with them!

Then there's the Spirit Hall's points system. Gold Soul Coins are almost useless now; everyone wants points. Gold Soul Coins are inconvenient to carry around, and you have to exchange them for points yourself. In the Spirit Hall, with points, you can basically buy anything, so many people flock there, especially ordinary people!

As the Spirit Hall prospered, many problems arose, the first of which was corruption! When Jerry received the message from the Information Department, he slammed his fist on the table in anger. "I'm here trying to make money for all the departments, and you people below me are still corrupt! Besides, I don't have many people left to use."

Finally, Golden Crocodile Douluo said, "You forgot, there's one more person, the Grand Elder!" He then chuckled.

"Elder, that's right! The Elder is incredibly powerful, who would dare to disobey him! He's perfect for being the Chief Prosecutor!" Jerry thought to himself.

Finally, Jerry begged and pleaded until he agreed to help the Elder with something that wouldn't violate his principles before he would agree to the agreement.

The Grand Elder established the Procuratorate to oversee all departments. On the first day, he publicly executed more than 600 people, all of whom were Soul Masters from major families. With irrefutable evidence and the Grand Elder's authority, no one dared to rebel! The entire Spirit City was thrown into chaos, and many families ordered thorough investigations of their own members!

Jerry now writes plans every day. In the past, the cabinet elders had to discuss them, but now that they've seen Jerry's abilities, there's no need for discussion anymore; they just execute them directly!

His master, of course, didn't let him off the hook either. He set up a herbal research project in the research department, asking Chrysanthemum Douluo to develop some medicines that could be mass-produced. Chrysanthemum Douluo initially disagreed, saying he still needed to cultivate. In the end, the top six titled Douluo elders of the Inner Cabinet came to negotiate with Chrysanthemum Douluo, and he reluctantly agreed, even managing to get his old friend Ghost Douluo to help him along the way!

The two regretted it, but in the end they were still dragged over to do hard labor!

Jerry wrote out a development plan for each department for the next ten years and handed it to the head of each department. He then went into seclusion and asked everyone not to disturb him unless there was a major event.

Jerry has been so busy lately, but now he finally has some peace and quiet. Seeing Xiao Wu, Ling Ling, and Zhu Qing still cultivating without a care in the world, he's really a little envious!

Since Zhu Zhuqing cultivated the first level of the Super Meditation Technique, her strength has increased rapidly! She has now reached level 54 Soul King, and her fourth and fifth Soul Rings were obtained with the help of Chrysanthemum Douluo. Her Soul Skills are still the same as before—truly a stroke of luck! She has also cultivated 107 meridians in the second level. She won't cultivate the last one yet; she'll cultivate it later. After all, when all meridians are open, there will be an overall strengthening effect, and cultivating it later will result in even greater enhancement!

Zhu Zhuqing is now really glad that she joined the Spirit Hall. The Spirit Hall is so great. She gets to eat and drink well every day, and the simulated training ground is always available. In addition, with the Super Meditation Technique, her strength is improving rapidly. This is something she never dared to dream of at Shrek Academy!

In the past six months, Xiao Wu and Ling Ling have reached level 69. Jerry himself has had less time to cultivate due to managing the Spirit Hall, but he has leveled up by two and is now level 77!

Their bodies had already adapted by now, so Jerry was ready to have Xiao Wu and Ling Ling absorb the soul bones!

After the three of them absorbed the soul bones, Jerry reached level 79, just one level away from becoming a Soul Douluo, which greatly frustrated him. The 100,000-year-old torso bone had granted Jerry two skills: Evolution Light, which could evolve a creature or martial soul, but had a cooldown period, usable only once a year; and Degeneration Light, which could degenerate a creature or martial soul, also usable only once a year! Indeed, the more powerful the soul skill, the more limited it became. These two overpowered skills! If only he had absorbed them earlier! Now the cooldowns were probably more than halfway over!

However, Jerry planned to give the first evolution of this skill to Chrysanthemum Douluo. Jerry discovered that most plant-type spirit masters in this world had incomplete spirits. For example, Chrysanthemum Douluo, Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum, and Lingling's Nine Heart Begonia were just flowers without roots, stems, leaves, branches, or other parts. Jerry's own carrot spirit was indeed complete, probably because carrots are both roots and fruits! In short, it was rare to see complete plant-type spirits.

After Chrysanthemum Douluo consumed the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum, his martial soul sprouted branches and leaves, but no roots yet. This slight change allowed Chrysanthemum Douluo to cultivate even faster. Jerry thought that if it weren't for his Super Meditation Technique and the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum, his master would probably have had a hard time breaking through to level 97!

So Jerry wanted to see if he could fully evolve his master's martial spirit.

After absorbing the soul bones, Xiao Wu and Ling Ling both reached level 70. As for whether they could improve further, they would need to absorb soul rings. Xiao Wu's right leg bone provided two soul skills. One was the Vajra Leg, which increased leg attack and defense tenfold. Combined with Xiao Wu's own leg attacks, it was estimated that she could kick people to pieces! The second soul skill was actually the Vajra Eight-Stage Throw, which changed the original Explosive Kill Eight-Stage Throw into the Vajra Eight-Stage Throw.

Lingling finally has new skills! After absorbing the torso bone, her first skill is Narcissus Jade Body, making her body as smooth as jade and increasing her defense, strength, and speed. Her second skill is passive, doubling her initial healing and damage effects! Lingling can now truly snatch people from the jaws of death!

(End of this chapter)