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

Chapter 149 A New Dilemma
By the river, the master said to the person beside him:

"My task for you is to catch fish."

"Catching fish?" The person next to him was somewhat surprised.

The master nodded. "That's right. But I also have requirements for you: you can only use the snake staff to spear fish, you can't use any soul skills, and the fish you spear can't be poisonous."

Meng Yiran was immediately caught in a dilemma. She shook her head and said:
"I'm afraid I can't do that. Master, you may not understand. The poison is inherent in my martial soul. If I use the snake staff to spear fish, the fish will inevitably be covered with the poison from the snake staff."

"So you have to solve this problem. You need to understand your martial spirit better and control it more deeply," the master said with a smile.

"This..." Meng Yiran summoned her snake staff, looking at the dangerous, dark purple color on the staff's tip, a look of hesitation appeared on her face.

Since her martial soul awakened, she has only ever used the snake staff as a weapon and has never thought about how to understand her martial soul more deeply.

Her grandmother had never told her about this, so she doubted whether she could do what the master had said.

"Really? Can it really work?" Meng Yiran asked.

"Your martial spirit is alive, and you may even be able to obtain the Foundation Establishment Ring because of it. You must clearly understand this." After leaving these words, the master turned and left.

After hearing this, Meng Yiran's face showed a thoughtful expression.

After leaving the riverbank, the master found Zhu Zhuqing.

"Master, what are your plans for me? Is it also about preparing ingredients?" Zhu Zhuqing asked.

“No, my arrangement for you is supervision.” The master shook his head.

"Supervision?" Zhu Zhuqing looked puzzled.

“That’s right. When others are training, you need to supervise them within a certain range, record everyone’s training progress, and do so without being discovered by them,” the master said with a smile.

Zhu Zhuqing nodded. "It's not difficult."

"Wait, I'm not finished yet." The master waved his hand. "My requirement for you is that you cannot use soul skills, especially your first soul skill. However, I will allow you to summon a martial soul to possess you."

Zhu Zhuqing frowned at this requirement. "How large is this 'certain range'?"

“At first, we’ll keep it simple, within a hundred meters, but after five days we’ll shrink it to fifty meters,” the master said with a smile.

"What will happen if they find out?" Zhu Zhuqing asked.

"Nothing will happen."

"Nothing will happen?"

“That’s right.” The master’s smile deepened. “But when Xiao Feng comes back, I will tell him how many times you’ve been discovered.”

Zhu Zhuqing took a deep breath, her eyes sharpening. "I understand."

After arranging things for Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar was assigned the task of growing vegetables by the master.

However, while growing vegetables, he also had to be responsible for pickling them.

To this end, the master painstakingly found several low-quality jars among those belonging to Flanders.

These jars are of poor quality and therefore do not seal well; they leak air when the lid is on.

However, as long as soul power is input into it, the lid can be firmly attached, and the jar will not leak air.

Therefore, Oscar needed to seal the jar with his soul power while also having to put in the effort to farm.

As for Ning Rongrong, the master knew that for Ning Rongrong, who had initially achieved the Four Apertures of Constant Mind, multitasking was already a piece of cake.

Therefore, the training he arranged for Ning Rongrong was mainly to strengthen her four-aperture constant heart.

As for the training content, Ning Rongrong carried a pickle jar on her back while applying soul skill enhancements to Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Zhu Zhuqing.

Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun's training grounds are next to each other, both in the academy's kitchen. Fortunately, they have moved to the new campus, otherwise the kitchen would not be enough for them to train in.

The prerequisite for granting Zhu Zhuqing the amplification is, of course, finding her.

Therefore, Ning Rongrong was also assigned the task of finding Zhu Zhuqing.

Dai and Ma must be given a power boost, and cannot have any speed.

Zhu Zhuqing, on the other hand, needs to be given a speed boost, and cannot have any power applied to her.

After all the other students had their training schedules arranged, the master finally came to Gu Yueling and Bai Chenxiang.

"Master, how do I train?" Bai Chenxiang asked.

"I've spoken with the mistress, and you learned some special techniques for throwing objects from him, right?" the master asked.

"Yes."

The master nodded. "Then you should continue practicing that. This technique will be of great help to you and will also enhance your soul power control to some extent."

"Yes, I understand." Bai Chenxiang turned and left, beginning her practice of hidden weapon techniques.

"Master, what about me?" Gu Yueling asked with great interest.

She found everyone else's training methods very interesting, so she was also very curious about her own training.

“Your talent for controlling your soul power is very high,” the master said bluntly. “I have only seen such control of soul power in a child before.”

"Is it Chen Feng?" Gu Yueling asked.

"No, Xiao Feng is indeed a very talented child, but he's not omnipotent. I was referring to Xiao Wu," the master said.

"Xiao Wu?" Gu Yueling asked in surprise.

"Well, of the three who aren't here, I think Xiao Wu doesn't need any training in soul power control at all. The other two are already consciously training in this area, so the three of them don't need to participate in this training," the master explained.

Someone with even better soul power control than me? Are there really such geniuses among humans? Gu Yueling was somewhat surprised.

But she didn't show it on her face and asked:
"So, Master, what kind of training will you arrange for me?"

"I once heard Xiaofeng mention a food called Ciba, which is quite delicious," the master said, seemingly unrelated to the question.

"Ciba? Does this have anything to do with my training?" Gu Yueling asked in confusion.

"Of course, your task is to make glutinous rice cakes." The master led Gu Yueling towards the kitchen. "Glutinous rice cakes are made by mashing cooked glutinous rice. I have already prepared the glutinous rice for you. All you need to do is mash it."

“It’s not difficult,” Gu Yueling said, echoing Zhu Zhuqing’s words.

The master smiled without saying a word and led Gu Yueling to the kitchen. He first poured the cooked glutinous rice into a wooden bucket, and then covered it with a thin wooden board.

Then he said:

"I ask you to mash the glutinous rice inside without uncovering or damaging this wooden board, or moving this wooden bucket."

"What?" Gu Yueling was dumbfounded. "How am I supposed to mash the rice inside with the lid on?"

The master gently tapped the thin wooden board and smiled:

“Soul power is a very magical thing; it can do many amazing things.” Gu Yueling pondered for a moment, then suddenly realized, “I see. I understand your purpose, Master.”

"Good that you understand." The master nodded and left.

While his classmates were being subjected to all sorts of strange and unusual training exercises, Chen Feng also began his own training.

In terms of creating his own soul skills, he has already mastered the technique of stimulating cells with a weak electric current.

This technique was named the Cell Activation Method by Chen Feng.

After mastering this technique, Chenfeng began extensive practice of the Raikiri.

As the first spirit ring obtained by working with a spirit beast rather than killing it, Chen Feng's third spirit ring is undoubtedly very special and is also the most offensive among his three spirit skills.

This soul skill, which allows Chen Feng to dash forward at high speed, would be incredibly devastating if used in battle. If Chen Feng were to raise his sword while dashing forward, the fate of any opponent struck would be predictable.

Any opponent of the same level, unless they are using an extreme defensive style, will most likely be either dead or crippled.

Even those with extreme defensive styles will often have their defenses breached by Chen Feng, resulting in injury.

With this soul skill, Chen Feng now has the ability to kill people of higher levels.

But precisely because this is an ability that can kill people of a higher level, Chen Feng needs to train it extensively in order to better control it.

On the one hand, his martial soul ultimately has the hidden danger of killing, so Chen Feng must control his power, at least he must be able to decide whether or not to kill.

Don't let a chance-based accidental killing lead him down the same path as his ancestors.

On the other hand, he himself is not a person who enjoys killing. Apart from that scoundrel Bu Le, Chen Feng has never had the intention to kill anyone.

Therefore, an uncontrollable force that could potentially kill would make him uneasy, and he needed to strengthen his control over it.

In addition, there is a rule in the Soul Master Competition that participants should try their best to avoid injuring or maiming their opponents, and death is not allowed.

If an academy kills an opponent, it will not only suffer the corresponding losses but will also be expelled from the Soul Master Tournament.

Of course, as we all know, rules have always had a limited scope of application.

Diao Guangdou had a famous saying: "The law of the king is the law of the royal family."

This statement profoundly demonstrates that some Celestial Dragons are not bound by the rules.

For example, some people from the first era of Dou Di Zhu, and Ma Xiaotiao from Shrek Academy in the second era of Dou Di Zhu.

However, ten thousand years have passed since the Douluo Continent II era, and the rules of the Soul Master Competition should have undergone many changes, so there is no need to discuss this too much.

The main focus was on the era of Douyi.

First, Shi Nian went around assassinating talented students from other academies, but the mysterious deaths of these talented students did not attract the attention of the Spirit Hall.

This is a very strange place.

However, if the Spirit Hall didn't pay much attention to the students because they committed suicide, this reason can be barely explained.

However, judging from the original work, Flander knew that Shi Nian's martial soul could lead people to self-harm and die, and Chen Feng did not believe that no one in the Spirit Hall could think of this aspect.

However, the Spirit Hall has not taken any action, which makes people wonder.

Following the logic that whoever benefits the most is the most suspicious, the Spirit Hall is clearly a prime suspect in this matter.

Later, Shi Nian tried to assassinate Tang San but was killed instead, and Tang San obtained the soul bone. The Gem Seven of Canghui Academy wanted to kill Tang San for the soul bone, but were instead turned into idiots.

To put it bluntly, it's brain death.

Tang San's actions were not wrong in themselves, after all, Canghui Academy was full of malice and wanted to kill Shi Nian in order to obtain his soul bone.

Therefore, Tang San's counterattack was not a problem.

The key point is that after the incident, the Spirit Hall sent people to investigate Shrek Academy.

This shows that the Spirit Hall was actually the referee of the Spirit Master Competition.

The problem is that they also have teams participating in the Soul Master Competition.

In other words, they are both athletes and referees. In this case, can the rules of the competition really constrain them?

Subsequent events proved that the Spirit Hall did indeed grant exemptions from the tournament rules.

They could directly send people to assassinate students from other academies, snipe their teams on their way to Wuhun City, and even frantically use Title Douluos.

This can't be called an assassination; it should be called an open killing.

If the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School hadn't arrived quickly to provide assistance, the outcome of this attack would have been uncertain.

After this attack, the Soul Master Competition was held as scheduled, and the Spirit Hall did not give any explanation, which shows how insightful Diao Guangdou's words were.

In reality, if Chen Feng really violated the competition rules, such as accidentally killing someone during the competition, he would most likely not be punished after revealing his identity.

Even the Spirit Hall might not investigate him, so he can be considered one of the Celestial Dragons.

But Chen Feng didn't want that to happen. Even if the rules didn't punish him, he couldn't get over his own conscience.

At the edge of the valley where the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire was located, Chen Feng faced the mountain wall in front of him.

On this mountainside, a target is currently being drawn.

Chen Feng lowered his right hand, holding the sword, and unleashed his third soul skill, Swift Thunder, towards the target.

With a flash of lightning, Chen Feng appeared in front of the target, but his sword remained hanging down and was not raised.

Because he was moving too fast, he couldn't react in time.

However, Chen Feng was not discouraged. He went back to his original spot and rested for a while. When he could use his third soul skill, he resumed his previous actions.

After several failures, Tang San walked over and said:

"Should we try using the soul bone?"

The people here are all participants in the soul bone experiment, so Chen Feng using the head soul bone will not have any impact.

Chen Feng shook his head. "That soul bone enhanced my control over lightning, but my current problem is that I can't react in time, so the soul bone isn't very effective."

"I see. Then we can only practice slowly. Practice makes perfect, and that's one way to go," Tang San said.

Chen Feng pondered for a moment, then asked Xiao Wu, who was cultivating not far away:

"Xiao Wu, how did you react after using Flash?"

“I have extraordinary talent.” Xiao Wu opened her eyes and winked at Chen Feng.

Chen Feng understood; it seemed this was a special characteristic of a 100,000-year-old soul beast.

"If only there were a way to improve reaction time," he sighed.

(End of this chapter)