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

Chapter 165 Defense Enhancement
Oscar was initially somewhat frustrated by his swift defeat.

But after Flander's guidance, he quickly understood.

As a support-type Soul Master, Oscar's specialty lies in assisting more people, allowing Soul Masters to better unleash their power.

If he were to compete with a Soul Master in speed or strength, he would clearly be making the mistake of using his weakness to attack his strength.

The reason why Soul Masters are Soul Masters is that although their Soul Skills can only enhance themselves, the values ​​of the enhancement are outstanding.

While support-type Soul Masters' Soul Skills can amplify or heal multiple targets, their numerical values ​​are much inferior to those of Battle Soul Masters.

Like Dai Mubai's White Tiger Martial Soul, the effects of his Soul Skills often start with a 100% bonus.

Even though Ning Rongrong's Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda has growth potential, its amplification effect has only reached 40% so far.

Perhaps this is some kind of balancing mechanism in the world at work, which can only increase its own value and decrease the values ​​of multiple targets.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda is the only one with growth potential, capable of barely keeping up with the Soul Masters in terms of stats, yet it is limited by its inability to break through the Soul Saint level.

However, after Ning Rongrong's Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, she was qualified to become a Battle Soul Master after reaching the ninth ring.

That's why Chen Feng suggested that Ning Rongrong try using the Glass Pagoda as a weapon in combat; it was based on numerical considerations.

In his opinion, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda is truly the perfect martial soul in the Douluo world, and it would be a waste to use it only for support.

On the contrary, Oscar's Food God Martial Soul does not have the characteristic of numerical growth, so it is not suitable for him to take the combat route. Therefore, Chen Feng never suggested that Oscar enhance his combat ability, and Chen Feng never even mentioned the Mirror Beast.

The reason Oscar pursued combat ability in the original work was mainly to deal with the rule of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School that support-type Soul Masters could not be combined.

True love is invincible.

However, Oscar probably isn't thinking about combat abilities right now, because he's fallen for Meng Yiran.

If the two of them were together, the combination of one fighter and one support would be very suitable, and Oscar could focus on the support role without wavering.

While Oscar was being enlightened by Flander, Chen Feng was also pondering the issue of Ning Rongrong's martial soul strength.

Unlike biological martial souls, artifact martial souls do not have growth potential and undergo less change due to absorbing soul rings. However, they can still enhance their strength through soul skills, as is the case with Chen Feng's second soul skill.

However, plant-based martial souls can undergo significant changes upon absorbing spirit rings. They can increase their martial soul strength by absorbing specific spirit rings, just like Tang San's Blue Silver Grass.

This is precisely why Chen Feng categorized plant-based martial souls and beast-based martial souls together, because they both have growth potential.

So far, only Meng Yiran's serpent staff is an exception, and the reason for this exception is that it has a soul.

In other words, if we want to solve the problem of Ning Rongrong's martial soul strength, then we must also bring her martial soul to life.

Then, just like nurturing Tang San's Blue Silver Grass, gradually strengthen the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

However, activating a martial soul is a difficult problem that cannot be solved overnight. Until then, we can only hope for Ning Rongrong's third soul skill.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Feng turned to Ning Rongrong and asked:
"Rongrong, can the effect of your third soul skill affect your martial soul?"

"I'll give it a try." Ning Rongrong summoned the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and then unleashed her third soul skill on herself.

As a beam of colorful light entered her body, her body was immediately covered with a faint iron-gray glow, and the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda was also enveloped in this glow.

Upon seeing this, Chen Feng's face immediately lit up with joy. "Shall we test its strength?"

Ning Rongrong looked around, found a rock on the edge of the cliff, and smashed it with the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda in her hand.

"Bang!" The glazed pagoda collided with the rock, producing a muffled sound.

Ning Rongrong picked up the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda and examined it, finding it completely undamaged.

"It seems to be working quite well," she said happily. "If this soul skill were even stronger, maybe this glass pagoda could actually be used in battle."

"Enhance the effect of soul skills?" Chen Feng pondered for a moment, and gradually an idea came to him.

While Chen Feng was pondering how to use the Nine Treasures Glazed Pagoda in battle, the flying competition between Ma Hongjun and Bai Chenxiang also came to a conclusion.

At the start, there was no significant difference in speed between Ma Hongjun and Bai Chenxiang.

However, as their flight time increased, Bai Chenxiang seemed to have grasped some secret of flight, and her speed gradually increased, leaving Ma Hongjun behind little by little.

No matter how hard Ma Hongjun tried, he couldn't catch up with Bai Chenxiang's speed and had no choice but to admit defeat in the end.

When Ma Hongjun and Bai Chenxiang returned to the mountaintop, Ma Hongjun couldn't wait to ask Bai Chenxiang why her speed had increased.

"You weren't holding back at the beginning, were you?" Ma Hongjun asked with some suspicion, which was the most likely explanation he could think of.

"No, I used all my strength from the very beginning." Bai Chenxiang shook her head and then laughed. "The reason my speed increased so much later is because I grasped the mysteries of the wind and gained its help, so my speed naturally increased."

"Could it be the effect of the Qingfeng Biying Flower?" Tang San guessed.

"I don't know, but after flying for a while, my understanding of the wind improved a lot," Bai Chenxiang said.

"It seems you truly deserve the title of 'Wind-Riding Flying Swallow.' You should practice flying more in the future," Chen Feng suggested.

"Yes, that's what I'm thinking too. I'll practice flying and throwing weapons from now on." Bai Chenxiang nodded.

"Sigh, I didn't expect I couldn't outfly you. This third soul skill isn't as strong as I thought," Ma Hongjun said, somewhat dejectedly.

The Fiery Arrow Eagle not far away gave him a disdainful look and let out a dissatisfied cry.

If you're bad at something, that's your problem. What does it have to do with your soul skill?

Flanders also disagreed with Ma Hongjun's words, saying:

"Wind-type characters naturally have an advantage in speed, not to mention that Bai Chenxiang also ate that immortal herb. Isn't it normal for her to be faster than you? On the contrary, you were able to keep up with her at the beginning and didn't fall too far behind later, which already shows the excellence of your third soul skill."

The Fierce Arrow Eagle nodded approvingly. That's right. The soul skill is excellent; it's just that the person has a problem.

Ma Hongjun thought about it and agreed. As a fire-attribute soul master, his strength lay in his powerful destructive force, so it wasn't shameful for him to be slower than Bai Chenxiang. Even though this third soul ring was transformed from a 50,000-year-old soul bone, it ultimately became a 1,000-year-old soul ring. Limited by his current capacity to withstand it, the lifespan of this soul ring was estimated to be less than 2,000 years, so its effects wouldn't be too exaggerated.

To think that you can be invincible with just one spirit ring is wishful thinking.

Having understood this, Ma Hongjun stopped worrying and began paying the reward to Liejianying.

Since the team has no shortage of recovery abilities, with Tang San and Oscar both possessing healing methods, plus the newly recruited Wind Slime, Ma Hongjun has no worries about his injuries.

To speed up the bleeding process, he simply made a cut on his wrist, letting the blood gush out from the artery and quickly filling the wooden jar.

Tang San also added some herbal juice to the jar, which can effectively prevent blood clotting and allow Ma Hongjun's blood to be preserved for longer.

The condition given by Fierce Arrow Eagle was a can of blood, but after Ma Hongjun started bleeding, he felt that since he had already been stabbed, he might as well bleed some more.

So he had Tang San take out two more small containers and fill them up before stopping.

"Consider this blood my thank-you gift. Thank you for your help this time." Ma Hongjun was a little dizzy, but he still forced himself to express his gratitude to Liejianying.

The Arrowhawk let out a soft cry and watched the intriguing humans turn and leave.

The journey back was uneventful. Chen Feng had originally planned to find the former leader of the Great Steel Serpent and obtain a soul bone, so that Ning Rongrong's third soul skill would be more effective after she absorbed it.

However, he immediately realized that he did not have any metal elemental items. If he used Thunderstone and Fire Cloud Rock as substitutes, the quality of the soul bone he made would be affected, which would be too wasteful.

Therefore, Chen Feng did not go to find the leader of the giant steel snake again. He planned to discuss the matter of soul bones after he had collected suitable elemental items.

Furthermore, Huoyunyan seemed to have suffered a great loss after creating a soul bone; Ma Hongjun felt that the fire energy within it had almost completely dissipated.

Fortunately, the Fire Cloud Rock can be restored slowly; simply place it in an area rich in fire element.

Due to the limitations of elemental items, Chen Feng currently has no plans to mass-produce soul bones, and no one else has mentioned it either.

They all understood that the era with Chen Feng around would definitely continue to develop, so there was no need to rush to equip themselves with soul bones. It was a smarter choice to wait and see, since they were all still young.

Although the four teachers were no longer young, they cared more about nurturing their students and put their own martial prowess second, so they did not mention the matter of soul bones.

And so, the creation of the soul bone became a shared secret among the fifteen of them, and they all tacitly agreed never to mention it again.

Upon returning to the academy, the master instructed the students to rest for a day to recharge before commencing practical training.

During this break, Chen Feng and Ning Rongrong figured out the effects of her third soul skill together.

When Chen Feng first discovered that Ning Rongrong's third soul skill would amplify her martial soul, he thought this effect was universal.

However, after testing, he discovered that the martial soul was only affected when Ning Rongrong used her third soul skill on herself.

If used on other people, their martial souls will not receive a defense boost.

Furthermore, the effect of this defensive enhancement differs between the human body and the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda.

For the human body, Ning Rongrong's third soul skill simply increases defense by 40%.

However, after the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda receives the enhancement of its third soul skill, its strength becomes as tough as steel.

While this level of strength isn't top-tier, it's sufficient for handling ordinary battles; at least Ning Rongrong has developed a certain level of combat ability.

"So, will I have to participate in battles from now on?" Ning Rongrong asked Chen Feng while waving the pagoda in her hand.

Chen Feng thought for a moment and said:

"No, you should still focus on supporting the team. Participating in the battle will take up a lot of your attention and affect how you distribute buffs to your teammates. Besides, your combat skills are not good enough yet, so you don't have much combat power. Therefore, you should focus on combat training for now."

"Okay, actually I'm not really into fighting and killing," Ning Rongrong said.

Chen Feng glanced at the Nine-Treasure Glazed Pagoda that she was wielding with great force and deeply doubted her statement.

But he didn't say much. Regardless of whether Ning Rongrong liked fighting or not, it would be a waste to use the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda only for support.

With such exaggerated numerical growth, it can perfectly balance support and combat.

It would be best if such a perfect martial soul could be passed down.

Hmm. That seems a bit too far ahead; they're still just children.

After a day of rest, the master began practical training for everyone.

In a clearing within the forest of the academy, the master looked at the eleven students before him and said:

"Chen Feng, Gu Yueling, step forward! The two of you will have a match first. Remember, you must not injure any bones or muscles. Knocking them down, admitting defeat, or being declared the loser is sufficient. Understand?"

Chen Feng and Gu Yueling stepped out of the queue, exchanged a glance, and said in unison:
"Understood!"

"Furthermore, neither of you may use your third soul skill," the master continued.

Gu Yueling frowned. "Why? Both of our third soul skills have the power to decide the outcome."

"That's precisely why I don't let you use it. Otherwise, your fight would be over in an instant, and there would be no training effect at all," the master explained.

Gu Yueling's Lion's Roar is a powerful, wide-range crowd control soul skill. When she was competing with Dai Mubai, she used this roar to knock Dai Mubai unconscious. The onlookers were also affected and were stunned for a short while.

If Dai Mubai's fourth soul skill hadn't been triggered, it would have been hard to say who would have won or lost the contest between him and Gu Yueling.

Chen Feng's third soul skill is the same, launching an attack with lightning speed, which is generally difficult for anyone to react to. Combined with the armor-piercing ability of his second soul skill, Chen Feng is already hard to beat in a one-on-one fight at the same level.

If there is any drawback, it is that neither Chen Feng nor Gu Yue Ling can use their decisive techniques consecutively.

The master wanted to train the children's practical combat skills, so this decisive method should naturally be banned.

Having understood the master's meaning, the two had no further questions and each summoned their martial spirits to begin the competition.

(End of this chapter)