Douluo Continent: I am a biologist, and I have awakened a weapon spirit?

However, after Chen Feng finished his physical performance, the Silver Lightning Flying Serpent simply watched him quietly, showing neither understanding nor confusion.

Its eyes held only indifference, as if the dust before it were nothing more than air.

"Senior, does it look down on me?" Chen Feng felt a little annoyed.

“Yes, it does look down on you.” Dugu Bo nodded.

This is not surprising, as the Silver Lightning Flying Serpent is a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, and Chen Feng's strength is insignificant in front of it.

The Silver Lightning Flying Serpent might submit to Dugu Bo's strength and martial soul, but that doesn't mean it will pay any attention to Chen Feng, this human cub.

Silver Lightning Flying Serpent's indifferent attitude infuriated Chen Feng. He had been enjoying smooth sailing since his debut, and although he had occasionally encountered setbacks, they were insignificant.

Everyone who came into contact with him was extremely polite, and even the Ape God did not disregard him.

But today, the white snake ignored him completely, as if watching a clown performance. How could Chen Feng tolerate this?

He immediately started gesturing wildly again, and this time the Silver Lightning Flying Serpent reacted.

A look of fear appeared on its face, and it subconsciously looked towards Dugu Bo.

"Senior, scare it a little," Chen Feng said at the right moment.

Dugu Bo released some of his aura as instructed, and stared at the silver lightning flying snake with a stern face.

Now the Silver Lightning Flying Serpent dared not pretend to be aloof anymore. It first nodded to Chen Feng, and then lay down to show its submission to Dugu Bo.

This shows that Chen Feng's communication through body language was effective.

"Hmph! Little white snake, how laughable." Chen Feng put his hands behind his back, raised his head, and walked away like a proud rooster.

Xiao Wu, who had watched the whole thing from a short distance away, curled her lip and said, "Tch, isn't it just a case of the fox borrowing the tiger's power?"

Chen Feng's method for dealing with the Silver Lightning Flying Serpent's aloof attitude was simple: he used Dugu Bo to threaten it.

His body language just now meant that if you don't listen to me, the person next to me will tear you apart.

The threat proved effective, and the Silver Serpent immediately backed down, indicating its willingness to cooperate.

After resolving the communication issues with the Silver Electric Flying Serpent, the experiment proceeded without further obstacles.

Before long, all the necessary elements for the first artificial soul bone experiment were ready.

These are the Thunder Stone (including its circuitry and material), the flesh and blood and soul power of the soul beast, and Tang San's life force.

Looking at the prepared elements before him, Chen Feng suddenly felt a sense of unease, as if something was amiss.

However, after careful consideration, Chen Feng couldn't find anything wrong.

These elements were all discussed and came about by the group of people. Theoretically, they should include all the possibilities that can be thought of, so it is unlikely that anything has been missed.

Even if some of these elements were superfluous, judging from the events of that night, these superfluous elements would not have caused the experiment, which would otherwise have succeeded, to fail.

After failing to reach a conclusion, Chen Feng suppressed his inner turmoil and decided to conduct an experiment first.

He first smeared the blood of the Silver Lightning Flying Serpent onto the Thunder Essence Stone, and then had Tang San and the Silver Lightning Flying Serpent respectively infuse it with life force and soul power.

A minute later, nothing happened on the Thunder Stone.

Ten minutes later, nothing had happened.

Even as Tang San struggled to hold on, the Thunder Stone, smeared with blood, remained unchanged.

This scene made Chen Feng frown. "This shouldn't be the case. Why is there no change?"

"Could it be that something was left out?" Tang San also felt that nothing should have been missed.

Chen Feng shook his head. "Even if there's something wrong, we won't let a successful experiment fail."

"How do you know you won't?" Dugu Bo asked in surprise.

Chen Feng hesitated for a moment, but still said, "Actually, we have a successful case once."

"You've successfully created a soul bone once before? Is that why you want to try again?" Dugu Bo asked, looking surprised.

Tang Hao, who was watching from the sidelines, was also somewhat surprised, as he was unaware of this matter.

“No, we obtained the soul bones from soul beasts,” Chen Feng said, shaking his head.

"What's so special about it?" Dugu Bo asked, puzzled. "Aren't all soul bones obtained from soul beasts?"

Chen Feng looked at him and said seriously:

“We obtained the soul bone from a living soul beast, and after obtaining the soul bone, the soul beast was completely unharmed.”

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Dugu Bo expressed his disbelief without hesitation.

Tang Hao's face also showed deep astonishment, because what Chen Feng was saying was too counterintuitive, and even reached the point of destroying one's worldview.

To obtain a soul bone from a living soul beast, and for the soul beast to remain alive and unharmed afterward, is simply a fantasy.

"Don't joke with me, we're talking about something very serious right now." Dugu Bo looked at Chen Feng, his face still full of disbelief.

But Chen Feng just looked at him quietly and didn't offer any explanation.

After a while, Dugu Bo scratched his hair, "How is this possible... this is impossible..."

He's already in his forties or fifties, and his values ​​are basically set.

And now, this mind-blowing thing has suddenly and quickly come crashing down on him.

This was clearly very unfriendly to the old man, Dugu Bo.

If this were in a fantasy novel, he might have his Dao heart shattered.

Dugu Bo remained silent for a moment, then looked at Chen Feng and asked:

"are you serious?"

"I'm very serious."

He then looked at Tang San and Xiao Wu, "You two know about this too?"

"Ah."

"know."

Dugu Bo took a deep breath and said in a serious tone:

"I understand. Don't worry, I swear on the name of my Dugu family that I will never leak this matter."

He didn't ask where the soul bone went or who it was with, but instead brought the topic back to the experiment.

"Since you say that extra factors will not cause a previously successful experiment to fail, then it is possible that we have missed some factors, or that some factors are wrong."

“But I can’t figure out what the problem is,” Chen Feng sighed.

The others thought about it for a while, but they also came to no conclusion.

In this matter, the two adults can't help much; it mainly depends on Tang San and Xiao Wu, since they witnessed what happened that night.

But if Chen Feng had no clue, the two of them were naturally just as confused.

Seeing Chen Feng's dejected expression, Dugu Bo patted him on the shoulder and comforted him:

"Don't be discouraged, little genius. Soul bones, these rare items that condense the essence of a soul beast, are naturally not so easy to create artificially. Failure is normal. I did it myself..."

"What did you just say?" Chen Feng suddenly interrupted Dugu Bo.

“I said that failure is a normal thing,” Dugu Bo said.

Chen Feng shook his head. "No, I was asking about the previous sentence."

"A soul bone is a rare item that condenses the essence of a soul beast..."

“Yes, a soul bone is a rare object that condenses the essence of a soul beast!” Chen Feng repeated Dugu Bo’s words, his eyes gradually brightening.

“The soul bone is formed from the essence of a soul beast, so its circuit should also come from the soul beast, not from some Thunder Essence Stone,” Chen Feng said excitedly.

"But we've already added the soul power and flesh of soul beasts to it," Tang San said, somewhat confused.

“No, that’s not enough. We must accurately depict the soul beast’s circuits before adding these elements. Soul power and flesh alone are not enough,” Chen Feng said, shaking his head.

"How is that possible? Can Xiao San see the circuits in the soul beasts?" Xiao Wu asked doubtfully.

Tang San's eyes shone with a golden-purple light as he stared at the silver lightning flying snake for a while, then shook his head and said:

"I can't see anything."

“Yes, that’s the problem.” Chen Feng frowned.

He had now figured out where the error in the previous experiment had occurred; the root cause was the incorrect choice of circuit.

That night in the Star Dou Great Forest, Chen Feng first transferred his soul power into the Flying Thunder Rat's body and circulated his soul power with it for a period of time before withdrawing his soul power.

The energy of the Thunder Stone was first absorbed into the Flying Thunder Rat's body and circulated before entering Chen Feng's body.

In other words, the internal circulation pathways within the Flying Thunder Rat must have played a certain role in the formation of the Soul Bone.

If there is some kind of circuit within a soul beast's body, then Chen Feng believes that the circulation route of soul power within a soul beast should be its own circuit.

Similarly, if we extract the meridians through which the soul power circulates in a soul master's body and visualize them as lines, wouldn't that be a complete circuit?

But then a problem arises: how do we observe and depict this circuit?

The reason why Chen Feng was able to successfully obtain the soul bone was because he used a new method of obtaining soul rings, which involved transferring soul power into the Flying Thunder Rat's body and participating in its soul power operation.

Even so, he only had a general impression of the Flying Thunder Rat's soul power path. He even almost went into a state of demonic possession when he created his own soul skill a few days ago, let alone now that he had accurately drawn out the circuit.

Does this mean that in the future, anyone who wants to obtain a soul bone will have to acquire one when they obtain a soul ring?

Chapter 145 Counterintuitive Viewpoints

Binding the acquisition of soul bones to the new soul ring method, so that one must absorb soul rings using the new soul ring method to obtain soul bones, seems like a very good idea.

On the one hand, it can make the new Soul Ring method quickly accepted by people, and on the other hand, it can reduce the killing of Soul Beasts by Soul Masters to a certain extent.

But if you think about it more deeply, you'll find that this can lead to very bad results.

The impact of an event needs to be viewed dialectically.

It is an obvious fact that different groups of people have different levels of demand for spirit rings and spirit bones.

For example, lower-level Soul Masters definitely have a greater need for Soul Rings because their Soul Power increases relatively quickly, making it easier for them to reach the level bottleneck every ten levels.

This gives them more opportunities to use the new Soul Ring method to obtain Soul Bones.

However, the situation is completely opposite for high-level Soul Masters and mid-level Soul Masters whose potential has been exhausted. On the one hand, they have few Soul Ring slots left, which means they have few opportunities to obtain Soul Bones through the new Soul Ring method.

On the other hand, their soul power increases relatively slowly, and it may take many years before they reach the bottleneck of their realm and get the opportunity to acquire a soul ring.

In this situation, the low-level soul masters who can increase their soul power quickly can absorb soul bones rapidly. What would these high-level soul masters and mid-level soul masters who have exhausted their potential think?

Will I feel resentful? Will I have any dark thoughts?

This is almost inevitable, and thus the contradiction arises.

The imbalance between the power one wields and the benefits one gains inevitably leads to conflict—a lesson learned from history.

A typical example is the aristocratic families in Chinese history, who controlled the channels of advancement and the right to acquire and interpret knowledge.

Although they possessed a certain level of military strength, it was insignificant compared to the vast majority of poor families and even ordinary people.

So in the end, "the imperial treasury was burned to ashes, and the bones of officials were trampled all over the streets."

In the Douluo Continent, martial power is mainly in the hands of Soul Masters, and the higher the level of the Soul Master, the stronger they are.

Even considering the number of people, mid-level Soul Masters who have exhausted their potential still constitute a large group.

It should be noted that most people in the Soul Master community have relatively average talent, and they may never be able to break through to become high-level Soul Masters in their lifetime, only remaining at the mid-level.

Furthermore, the power they wield is quite considerable, at least not as good as the best but not as bad as the worst. The group they form with high-level soul masters far surpasses the strength of the low-level soul master group.

Once the acquisition of soul bones is linked to the new soul ring technique, the damage that the former can cause will be enormous.

By then, acts of murder and theft of bones will likely become rampant.

You don't even need to carefully select your target. Just find a young person with multiple spirit rings and kill them. You'll likely get at least one spirit bone.

Just like opening a blind box, there's a high probability that you'll find a Soul Bone inside; the only difference is how many there are.

If this situation occurs, the Douluo world will inevitably fall into large-scale chaos, even entering an era of war.

Moreover, such times of war are very difficult to manage, and even a powerful figure might not be able to handle them well.

If we were to alert the soul beast forces and get them involved, things would probably get even more chaotic.