Douluo: I am a biologist, awakening the weapon spirit?

Chapter 144 Teamwork
"Logical analysis?" Tang San pondered after hearing Chen Feng's words.

Chen Feng also began to recall the entire process of that night in the Star Dou Great Forest.

He quickly made his first deduction.

"The soul power of a soul beast is definitely indispensable."

"Yes, that's how it should be." Xiao Wu nodded.

"The power of life might also be one of the reasons," Tang San also suggested.

"In other words, the three conditions that are now certain are the circuit, the soul power of the soul beast, and the life force," Xiao Wu said, counting on her fingers.

“But this presents a problem: none of these three conditions are physical objects; they must be contained by matter to come together,” Chen Feng raised a question.

"Matter." Xiao Wu scratched her head, somewhat confused.

She didn't remember any other substances being involved when Chen Feng absorbed the soul ring that night.

"Is it possible that it's a Thunder Essence Stone?" Tang San guessed.

“Perhaps, but there is actually another substance that you have overlooked,” Chen Feng said.

"What substance?" Xiao Wu asked.

Chen Feng hesitated for a moment before giving the answer he had in mind:

"The flesh and blood of a soul beast."

Xiao Wu's eyes widened, Tang San was stunned for a moment, and Tang Hao also glanced at Chen Feng with some surprise.

Dugu Bo didn't react in any particular way; he nodded and said:
"This guess makes a lot of sense. Soul bones are obtained from the bodies of soul beasts after they die, and the flesh and blood of soul beasts may also be one of the conditions for the formation of soul bones."

Although he thought the idea of ​​creating soul bones was a bit far-fetched, after listening to the children's discussion for a while, it seemed to make a lot of sense, so he became interested as well.

"But if we use the flesh and blood of soul beasts..." Xiao Wu didn't know what to say.

The reason they wanted to create soul bones was precisely to prevent soul beasts from being slaughtered indiscriminately, wasn't it?

If the flesh and blood of soul beasts are now a necessary condition for the production of soul bones, then is it still necessary to continue this experiment of making soul bones?
"It's not necessarily as serious as you think," Chen Feng said at this moment. "The flesh and blood I'm talking about doesn't mean killing the soul beast and then taking out its flesh and blood to make soul bones. Rather, it means that the production of soul bones may require the participation of the soul beast's flesh and blood."

Tang San understood what he meant. "So, it means that we might only need to take a small piece of flesh from the soul beast, which wouldn't cause any damage to the soul beast, or even remove the flesh from the soul beast altogether, is that what you mean?"

“That’s right.” Chen Feng nodded. “I believe that the flesh and blood of soul beasts only play a promoting and catalytic role in the formation of soul bones, rather than participating in the process of forming soul bones themselves.”

He made this judgment because on the night he obtained his third spirit ring, the Flying Thunder Rat was not injured and did not show any abnormality.

If the Flying Thunder Rat suffers any physical loss during the process of Chen Feng obtaining the external soul bone, Vengeance's Wrath, it will most likely exhibit abnormal behavior.

For example, a groan or moan.

Of course, it's also possible that the Flying Rat has a high tolerance for pain and doesn't show any signs of internal injury.

This needs to be verified in the following experiments.

"Xiao Feng, how do you plan to design the experiment?" Tang San asked.

He could sense Xiao Wu's confusion and unease, so he wanted to confirm as soon as possible whether Chen Feng's judgment was correct.

Chen Feng thought for a moment, then held up one finger and said:
"First, we need a suitable soul beast as the test subject. The age of this soul beast should be as high as possible, because it is said that the older the soul beast, the more likely it is to produce a soul bone. This will make it easier to confirm whether our hypothesis is correct."

“That’s easy. There are plenty of soul beasts in Sunset Forest. I’ll bring one over later. A ten-thousand-year-old soul beast should be enough, right?” Dugu Bo asked.

"That should be enough. If it's not enough, we'll think of another way. But there's a second condition: we need to be able to communicate with this soul beast and get it to cooperate with our experiments."

“We need the help of the two seniors in this matter. Use your power to subdue the soul beast. So this soul beast can’t be too strong, otherwise it won’t submit so easily.” Chen Feng raised his second finger.

"We need a high-age soul beast, but it can't be too strong, so how about one that's a little over ten thousand years old?" Dugu Bo asked.

"We can try it first." Chen Feng nodded, then held up his third finger and said:
"If possible, try to get the soul beasts to cooperate with us willingly."

Dugu Bo chuckled inexplicably, "Your request is just wishful thinking. The older the soul beast, the more hostile it is to humans. Where are you going to find a high-age soul beast that can cooperate with humans?"

"Not necessarily. Not all soul beasts are hostile to humans if humans don't actively hunt them," Xiao Wu muttered.

Dugu Bo paused for a moment, his gaze falling on the Blue Silver Emperor seedling not far away, and nodded, saying:
"What you said makes sense."

“The condition that Xiaofeng mentioned might not be impossible to achieve,” Tang Hao suddenly said.

"Uncle Hao, what do you mean?" Chen Feng asked.

Tang Hao slowly said:

"Among the group of biological soul masters, some individuals have special martial souls. If these martial souls were placed in a group of soul beasts, they would be considered leader-level soul beasts."

"If the owners of these leader spirits are strong enough, they can gain the favor of spirit beasts of the same spirit type by virtue of their own spirit, which should meet your requirements."

"Dad, are you talking about someone like Mom?" Tang San asked.

“That’s right.” Tang Hao nodded. “But it’s not just Ah Yin. As far as I know, some humans can do it too, like the Phoenix Martial Soul among your classmates.”

"If you become powerful and your bloodline fully awakens in the future, you will also be able to gain the favor of Blue Silver Grass and even plant soul beast groups."

"Are we going to bring Fatty over here?" Xiao Wu asked.

"Bringing him here won't help. Dad just said that we need a Soul Master with sufficient strength." Tang San shook his head.

Chen Feng pondered for a moment, then looked at Dugu Bo beside him.

"Why are you looking at me?" Dugu Bo asked, somewhat puzzled.

“Senior, your martial soul perfectly meets the requirements,” Chen Feng said.

Dugu Bo was taken aback. "But I didn't feel any favor from any soul beasts."

"Have you ever tried it yourself, senior?"

"Of course not."

"That's it. You'll only know if you try it. Senior, your martial soul was the Azure Phosphorous Serpent Emperor before, and now it has gone a step further and become the Hydra Monster Xiang Liu. As a leader of the serpents, you are definitely qualified." Chen Feng said with some excitement.

"That seems to make sense, but what should I do?" Dugu Bo looked at Tang Hao.

Tang Hao thought for a moment and said:

"It's about maintaining an approachable demeanor while exuding authority, but I don't know the specifics."

Dugu Bo looked troubled. "Exuding authority is fine, but maintaining approachability is..."

"Senior, just treat Miss Dugu the same way you usually do," Chen Feng suggested.

"You want me to treat soul beasts like my own granddaughter?" "No, how should I put it? It's about evoking that feeling, senior, you understand?"

Dugu Bo remained silent for a moment, then sighed and said:

"I'll give it a try. I don't know if all this fuss will yield any results."

"How about this, senior? If we really manage to create a soul bone, we'll give you the first one." Chen Feng started making grand promises.

"We'll see," Dugu Bo said noncommittally.

After saying that, he lightly leaped away from the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire.

After seeing Dugu Bo leave, and waiting a little while longer, Chen Feng asked Tang Hao:
"Uncle Hao, has Poison Douluo left?"

"They've gone far, what's wrong?" Tang Hao asked.

Chen Feng turned to Xiao Wu and Tang San and said:

"Xiao Wu, stop concealing your aura, and then Xiao San, use your Purple Demon Eye to examine Xiao Wu."

"now?"

"Yes, as soon as possible."

"Okay." Tang San and Xiao Wu didn't know why, but they did as instructed.

Soon, Tang San's eyes, which were shining with a golden-purple light, widened.

"Xiao Wu, you..."

"What's wrong with me?" Xiao Wu asked, puzzled.

"You look just like a rabbit."

"Huh?" Xiao Wu was still a little confused, while Chen Feng said without surprise:
"Xiao Wu, you can conceal your presence again."

"Oh." Xiao Wu sat down cross-legged and began to adjust her soul power.

After Tang San put away the Purple Demon Eye, he asked Chen Feng:

"Xiaofeng, why is this happening? Why does Xiaowu look like that when I see her?"

“My previous guess was that after the Purple Demon Eye advances to the Mustard Seed Realm, it can see some more essential things. And your observation of the phenomenon of the Thunder Essence Stone made me speculate that what you saw might be a certain quality emitted by things, a quality that the three of us have discussed before,” Chen Feng explained.

"You mean, frequency?" Tang San asked after a moment's thought.

Chen Feng nodded. "Yes, based on this trait, we have mastered Xiao Wu's technique of concealing her aura. Conversely, we can also verify whether my speculation is correct by observing the different phenomena you see before and after Xiao Wu removes her aura from concealment."

The essence of Xiao Wu's technique for concealing her aura is the adjustment of her own soul power frequency.

She displayed different frequencies of soul power, allowing Tang San to see different scenes from her. This is enough to prove that the strange phenomena seen by the Purple Demon Eye at the Mustard Seed Realm should be the soul power fluctuations emitted by things.

The original text says that an elder of the Tang Sect once reached the Mustard Seed Realm with his Purple Demon Eyes, but he did not achieve anything special. He could only see more clearly than the Microscopic Realm.

However, after Tang San's Purple Demon Eye advanced to the Mustard Seed Realm, he was not only able to see through Xiao Wu's true form, but also gained the ability to mentally attack her.

Chen Feng believes that this contradictory situation is due to the influence of the soul power in the Douluo World.

However, neither the Thunder Stone nor this metal sphere should possess soul power, so why can we still see strange phenomena? A question suddenly arose in Chen Feng's mind.

"Circuit. Soul Power," he murmured the two words.

After a while, Chen Feng's gaze fell on Tang San's eyes.

He suddenly thought of a question: no matter how amazing the eye is, the fundamental reason it can see is that it receives light from the outside world.

Even if the Purple Demon Eye is incredibly powerful, it only extends the range of this light to the fluctuations of soul power.

In other words, Chen Feng can analyze the phenomenon of the Purple Demon Eye seeing circuits from the perspective of how the eye works.

When Chen Feng started thinking from this perspective, his previous doubts suddenly became clear.

The normal eye can distinguish the colors of objects that do not emit light because when light shines on an object, some of the light is absorbed by the object's surface when it is reflected into the eye.

If we compare soul power to light, and the circuits within the Thunder Stone and the metal sphere to colors, then the reason why the Purple Demon Eye can see the illusory circuits might be because after the soul power comes into contact with the two, the circuits within them have some kind of influence on the soul power.

This influence was received by the Purple Demon Eye and became the illusory circuit that Tang San saw.

The reason why the metal ball couldn't see the circuit at first might be because the circuit needs to be charged before it can affect soul power.

Thinking of this, Chen Feng took out a black, uncharged Thunder Essence Stone from the Blood Sky and asked Tang San:

Can you see its circuit?

Tang San shook his head. "There's nothing there."

"As expected, this circuit can only be seen when it is charged." Chen Feng put the black lightning stone away again.

After solving the problem of why the Purple Demon Eye could see circuits and see through Xiao Wu's true form, Chen Feng had a new question in his mind.

Does that mean there are limits to the characteristics brought about by the circuit?
Is it possible to find any material, or even just a stone picked up from the roadside, and carve special circuits on it to give it various different properties?

The answer to this question can actually be found in the case of Dou Er.

Soul guidance technology in Douluo Continent II was already quite advanced, and at that time, soul guidance technology also had very high requirements for materials.

This suggests, to some extent, that not all materials can characterize circuits and thus possess a wide variety of properties.

The reason why the metal sphere can absorb lightning is probably because Chen Feng used Star Soul Mithril in the circuit.

It certainly couldn't be because of iron essence.

The question is, what kind of materials can acquire properties through a circuit, and what kind of materials cannot?
Figuring out this problem will probably take more than a short time.

When Edison was exploring suitable materials for light bulbs, he conducted 1600 experiments before finally choosing Japanese bamboo and inventing the carbon filament light bulb.

The transition from carbon filament bulbs to tungsten filament bulbs took several years and the efforts of many people.

Therefore, it is clear that the development of materials science may only rely on luck and persistent effort.

Fortunately, Chen Feng was not in a hurry to develop soul tools; he only wanted to create soul bones.

Once he could create the first soul bone and verify the feasibility of the artificial soul bone theory, he wouldn't need to worry about the remaining material exploration.

The vast community of Soul Masters will solve this problem themselves.

(End of this chapter)