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

To Tang San's astonishment, a gigantic head emerged from the lake.

"Sister Xiaowu, it's been a long time."

"Long time no see, Daming. Let me introduce you. This is my good friend Daming, the Azure Bull Python." Xiao Wu waved to Daming while speaking to Chen Feng and Tang San.

Then she introduced Da Ming and Er Ming: "These two are also my good friends, Chen Feng and Tang San."

Da Ming's lantern-like eyes scanned the two of them, and he spoke in a deep, human voice:

"Humans, Sister Xiaowu brought you here because she has placed great trust in you. I hope you will not let her down."

"I would never do anything to hurt Xiao Wu," Tang San said.

"I can't guarantee that, after all, I've fought with her before, but you should know what I'm doing, so there's no need to worry that I'll betray Xiaowu." Chen Feng smiled.

Da Ming looked at him and said:

“You are a very talented human, Chen Feng. Er Ming told me about what you did last time you came here. It was a great achievement. I hope you can promote that method of obtaining soul rings to the human world.”

"That's exactly what I want to do, but there are still some problems to solve, and the cooperation from the soul beasts is also very important."

"You don't need to worry about us. As long as you can really get things done, Erming and I will get the soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest to cooperate," Daming promised.

Xiao Wu then said, "Da Ming and Er Ming, you don't know yet, do you? Xiao Feng plans to build an academy in the northern part of the Star Dou Great Forest. It's sure to work out."

Chen Feng shook his head. "Don't be so optimistic. It will take time to build the academy, and there's still a problem with the Tuohuan Method that hasn't been solved."

"What's the problem?" Xiao Wu asked, puzzled.

Chen Feng looked at Da Ming and said seriously:

"If we want to establish a new order between humans and soul beasts and make this order last, it must be beneficial to both humans and soul beasts. Only in this way will both sides spontaneously maintain it."

"The benefits of the Ring-Raising Technique to humans are obvious, allowing them to obtain higher-age Soul Rings in a safer manner. However, its benefits to Soul Beasts are currently unclear. You may be able to use force to make Soul Beasts accept it in the short term, but problems may arise in the long run."

Chapter 255 The Discussion by the Lake (Happy New Year, everyone!)

After hearing Chen Feng's words, Da Ming gave him a deep look.

“You are indeed a special human being. The fact that you can consider this aspect shows that you are not just trying to use us.”

"Because I know that if it's just about simple exploitation, it can't last long," Chen Feng said with a smile.

“That makes sense.” Da Ming nodded in agreement.

"So what do you plan to do?"

"I actually already know some of the effects of the Ring-Raising Technique on soul beasts, but how should I put it? For the vast majority of soul beasts, it doesn't mean much."

“Therefore, I want to further confirm whether there are any omissions in the effects of the Ring-Raising Technique on soul beasts,” Chen Feng replied.

He once received help from the Snow Empress and obtained the fourth soul ring, Ice Heart, from her using the Ring-Expanding Technique. The Snow Empress also told him about her gains from the Ring-Expanding Technique.

That is, you can feel a slight decrease in the difficulty of breaking through 700,000 years.

However, firstly, such gains are meaningless for most soul beasts, because it is already very difficult for them to break through to 100,000 years old, let alone the difficulties that follow.

Secondly, as a being with 700,000 years of cultivation, the Snow Empress's position is too high. Things that ordinary soul beasts care about may not be taken seriously by her, so she simply ignores them.

Just like the difficulty of breaking through the major barrier that she cared about, it was not something that ordinary soul beasts could pursue.

Therefore, the information about the Ring-Turning Technique given by Xue Di is likely biased or inaccurate because of her high vantage point. Chen Feng needs to conduct more experiments to gather more information.

Da Ming understood Chen Feng's meaning. "Do you need me to help you find a suitable target?"

“It’s still early. None of the three of us have reached our bottleneck yet, so we don’t have the conditions to use the Ring-Expanding Technique. Even if we do reach our bottleneck, we don’t have the ability to withstand high-age, ten-thousand-year-old soul rings, so the age of the target soul beast can’t be too high. In that case, communication will still be a problem,” Chen Feng said, shaking his head.

For example, Wuxiang, although it has undergone the method of expanding the circle and can be considered to be able to speak, cannot provide any useful information. Firstly, its language function is very weak, and secondly, its wisdom has not grown to a sufficient level.

“Right, for barrier-free communication, the target soul beast needs to be able to speak, but such soul beasts usually have a cultivation level close to or even exceeding 100,000 years. Erming still can’t speak.” Xiao Wu scratched her head, also feeling a bit troubled.

Not far from her, Erming sat quietly on the ground, looking inexplicably aggrieved.

"It's alright, we still have time, there's no need to rush," Tang San reassured him.

“That’s true. We came here to accompany Xiaowu. She brought something back.” Chen Feng temporarily put the question aside.

Actually, to be honest, he wasn't completely without options. The Blue Silver King, who helped Tang San awaken his bloodline, was a good target. He was around 80,000 years old, could speak, and was quite intelligent.

Furthermore, those who can absorb the Blue Silver King's spirit ring possess relatively strong vitality, meaning they have a greater capacity to withstand it. For example, Tang San might have been able to try it when he reached his fifth spirit ring.

Even if the attempt fails, it is acceptable for Tang San because his health bar is longer than others.

"What did Sister Xiaowu bring back?" Daming asked curiously.

Xiao Wu's expression turned somewhat sad. She took out a soul bone from the white cloud smoke. "This is what Ah Huan left behind. I also know who those people were back then."

"What? Sister Xiaowu, who exactly are they? Who killed Aunt Rou and Ahuan back then?" Da Ming's face immediately turned furious.

Erming suddenly stood up, letting out an angry growl, and gently touched the soul bone in Xiaowu's hand.

“It’s Bibi Dong, the Pope of the Spirit Hall,” Xiao Wu said sullenly.

"Damn it! From now on, anyone wearing the Spirit Hall uniform who enters here will be killed!" Da Ming said through gritted teeth.

“This is inappropriate; it’s just a pointless act of venting anger,” Chen Feng said.

"What did you say?!" Da Ming suddenly looked at Chen Feng.

Erming simply punched Chenfeng in the face, glaring at him angrily, as if to say, "If you don't give me an explanation, I'll give you one."

But Chen Feng's expression remained unchanged; he ignored Er Ming's threats and simply looked at Da Ming, saying:

“True revenge is to eliminate the culprit and find the root of the problem to destroy it, preventing similar incidents from happening again. Your approach neither harms the ringleader nor avoids exacerbating the conflict. Am I wrong to say that this is just a meaningless act of venting?”

Erming clenched his fists, his eyes turning red, but in the end he didn't make a move, only looking at Daming.

Da Ming was silent for a few seconds, then asked:

"In your opinion, we should target that Spirit Hall Pope, but what if she stops coming here?"

Chen Feng shook his head. "What you should be considering is how to deal with her when she comes here again, or sends someone here. As far as I know, Bibi Dong's cultivation level is close to the limit of humanity, and she has many powerful subordinates."

Da Ming's brows furrowed immediately.

Chen Feng continued:

"As a soul master organization, the Spirit Hall has an almost unlimited demand for soul rings and soul bones. Your existence means two 100,000-year soul rings and soul bones for those soul masters who use the traditional hunting method."

"Therefore, it is inevitable that the Spirit Hall will take action against you again. You should not have acted rashly before this. If you indiscriminately kill the Spirit Hall's soul masters as you suggested, the result will only be to alert them. Either do nothing or strike a fatal blow. I think you, as a snake, understand this."

Da Ming paused for a moment, then said:

"What you're describing is the attack method of a venomous snake, while I am a python. However, I understand what you mean, and I will make preparations accordingly."

Chen Feng nodded. "In addition, I have a technique related to dragon species that a dragon blood soul master has successfully tried, but I don't know if it will work on dragon species soul beasts."

"You said."

"I call this technique Bloodline Refinement, or you could call it Bloodlust..."

At that moment, Chen Feng explained the general idea of ​​"Bloodlust" and also shared the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex family's insights on "Bloodlust" that he had learned from the master.

As he listened to Chen Feng's story, Da Ming's expression changed several times, and his eyes gradually brightened.

"Interesting, this idea is very interesting."

Da Ming closed its lantern-like eyes, and neither the three people nor the ape disturbed it. After a while, when Da Ming opened its eyes again, its eyes had transformed into golden dragon pupils.

Not only that, its body also swelled up a bit, pale golden patterns appeared on its scales, and ominous bluish-black lightning appeared around its body.

However, these strange phenomena quickly disappeared. Da Ming took a couple of heavy breaths and said in a low voice:

"This is a desperate, risky technique. Thank you, Chenfeng, you've given me a very useful trump card."

"No need to be polite. I hope you will heed my advice and not indiscriminately kill humans who enter the Star Dou Great Forest," Chen Feng said.

Da Ming nodded his big head. "Don't worry, I will ignore the humans who enter the Star Dou Great Forest as before, and I will not blindly escalate the conflict between humans and soul beasts. The only enemy I have is that Pope Bibi Dong. However, if the Spirit Hall really sends people to attack us, I will not be merciful."

“Of course, there’s no reason not to resist when a knife is at your throat,” Chen Feng smiled.

He always believed in repaying injustice with justice.

Da Ming looked at Chen Feng with increasing satisfaction. He felt that this human was very much to his liking, so he asked:

"I can do you a favor in return for telling me the Bloodlust Technique."

"No need... Oh, I think I do need your help with something." Chen Feng suddenly remembered something.

"You said."

Chen Feng: "It's like this, I've developed a technique for creating soul bones, but there's a slight problem with this technique. A soul beast can't create two soul bones in a row. My initial guess is that the soul beast loses something in the process."

"But since the spirit beasts that cooperated with my experiment were not very old, I don't know exactly what they lost. Could you cooperate with me to conduct another study and figure out this problem?"

Both Da Ming and Er Ming were stunned by these words.

Da Ming asked, somewhat incredulously:

"What did you say you've discovered?"

"Soul bone manufacturing technology," Chen Feng replied.

“It’s true, I saw it with my own eyes,” Xiao Wu said from the side.

"I thought I thought you were good enough, but I didn't expect..." Da Ming sighed softly, then agreed to Chen Feng's request without hesitation.

Clearly, it wanted to see this incredible soul bone manufacturing technique.

With permission from the Ming Dynasty, Chen Feng began setting up the experimental site with Tang San.

"Will we still use that bead with the Thunder Stone pattern as the receiving material?" Tang San asked.

“Let’s use that one. We don’t have anything more suitable. Besides, the lightning that was wrapped around Da Ming just now shows that it has this ability,” Chen Feng replied.

They currently possess two types of soul bone carriers with different attributes: lightning and fire. The lightning attribute circuit is definitely a better fit for the Azure Bull Python.

Under the curious gazes of Daming and Erming, the experimental site was quickly set up. After Chenfeng explained the process, the soul bone manufacturing experiment began.

Soon, Da Ming completed the process of mixing his own energy with the energy of the Thunder Stone, and then injected it into the Star Soul Mithril Sphere.

Instantly, the metal sphere flashed with cyan lightning, mixed with ripples of cyan energy.

As the lightning on the Star Soul Mithril sphere gradually shone, Da Ming's expression also became increasingly solemn.

Chen Feng noticed this and his heart sank slightly.

After a while, the lightning and ripples on the Star Soul Mithril sphere dissipated one after another, and a soul bone as lustrous as blood-red jade appeared in front of the three people and two beasts.

"It's actually true..." The Azure Bull Python looked surprised.

Erming also looked like he had learned something new.

Chen Feng glanced at the soul bone and recognized it as a left arm bone, so he stopped paying attention to it and focused his attention on Da Ming.

"Da Ming, you didn't look well just now. Is something wrong?"

Da Ming came to his senses and said:

“There are indeed some problems. You just said that you didn’t know what part of the soul beast the soul bone manufacturing technology consumes. I can give you the answer now: it’s the essence.”

"origin?"

"That's right. When I mixed the energy of the Thunder Essence Stone with my own energy and injected it into that metal ball, I could feel that a portion of my primordial energy also entered it."

“I could have forcibly taken back this part of the source, but I was worried that it would affect the success or failure of the experiment. Also, I thought this was a gift to you, so I didn’t do it and even added some more.”

Chen Feng sighed and said:

"Thank you, Daming. Could you tell me how much primordial energy you lost, how long it will take to recover, and what kind of impact this will have on you?"

"I lost a small portion, which is hard to quantify. It would probably take about a thousand years to recover. As for the impact... mainly my ability to control my own soul power has decreased. Things that I could do easily before are now more difficult," Da Ming replied.

“Over a thousand years… Ming Dynasty, you’ve made quite a sacrifice.” Chen Feng sighed softly.

"Actually, it's acceptable. It's just a matter of sleeping on it. The main thing is that if you're going to give a gift, you can't give a defective one," Da Ming said with a smile.

Chen Feng shook his head helplessly. He hadn't expected Da Ming to choose to do this. "Da Ming, you are a 100,000-year-old soul beast, and you actively increased the cost in the experiment, resulting in a recovery time of over a thousand years. So, if a 10,000-year-old soul beast were to create a soul bone normally, the time should be shortened accordingly."

Da Ming: "That should be the case, but I estimate it won't be much shorter, because although they will expend less of their essence than I do, they are not as powerful as I am, so their recovery ability is naturally weaker."

“If we consider the past thousand years, then it’s not surprising that soul bones are still considered rare. But at least it’s much better than before. It seems that the soul bone manufacturing technology has value in being disseminated,” Chen Feng said after thinking for a moment.

"I'm afraid that once the soul bone manufacturing technology spreads, some people will choose to raise soul beasts in captivity," Tang San interjected.

"Yes, I think so too," Xiao Wu agreed.