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

Chapter 257 Formulating a Program, Revisionism

The process of Chen Feng absorbing the soul bone lasted for two Kuntian.

When he woke up again, he felt the changes that had occurred in his body.

At this moment, Tang San had already absorbed all the spiritual energy and condensed it into the head bone.

Seeing that Chen Feng had woken up, he asked:

"Xiao Feng, is the soul bone absorption going smoothly?"

"Overall, things went fairly smoothly, but it seems there was a minor hiccup." Chen Feng touched his forehead.

The horns there have been retracted into the body, but the changes they brought will not disappear.

He sensed it briefly and said, "Da Ming's soul bone caused a change in my head soul bone. Originally, the effect of this head soul bone was to absorb the lightning attribute energy in the surrounding environment, condense it, and then release a lightning strike. Now, the attack it releases has become the Azure Annihilation Thunder. As for the soul skill provided by Da Ming's left arm bone, it is the Azure Sluggish Divine Claw that it mentioned before."

In other words, the power of the Azure Bull Python's left arm bone was split in two: one part fused with the head soul bone of the Silver Lightning Flying Serpent, while the other part remained in the left arm bone.

The fusion of the head soul bone produced a synergistic effect greater than the sum of its parts, because in the original work, Tang San's use of the Heavenly Annihilation Thunder was not affected by the environment and relied solely on his own soul power to release it.

However, the fused soul bone of Chen Feng can absorb the lightning attribute energy of the surrounding environment and can also form a synergy with his external soul bone, Vengeful Wrath.

"I wonder if the effect of this left arm bone will be weakened after some of the energy is separated." Chen Feng rubbed his left hand.

“Try it and you’ll see,” Da Ming said, emerging from the lake. “Use the Azure Sluggish Claw on Er Ming; it knows best how effective this skill is.”

Chen Feng glanced eagerly at Er Ming, who was squatting not far away. Er Ming rolled his eyes in annoyance, but still nodded in agreement.

After some testing, the Azure Sluggish Claw effect released by the Soul Bone was revealed. After hitting a target, it could slow down the target's six senses and physical abilities by ten times. This effect could be broken by powerful energy attacks.

In addition, it requires four seconds of charging before use.

As for the duration of its effect, it mainly depends on the comparison of the mental strength of both parties.

After Chen Feng used the Azure Sluggish Claw to grab Er Ming, it broke free in less than a second. However, after this Soul Bone Technique hit Tang San, it controlled him for about ten seconds, which was basically the same as in the original work.

This indicates that the left arm bone of the Azure Bull Python is indeed a soul bone of the 100,000-year level, but it only consumed a small portion of the original essence within Da Ming's body.

The significance of this is self-evident.

"In other words, your human practice of hunting soul beasts to obtain soul rings and soul bones actually wastes most of the energy within the soul beasts," Da Ming said with a hint of sarcasm.

"And it's a thankless task, there's no guarantee we'll even get the soul bone," Xiao Wu muttered.

Chen Feng smiled and said, "This has always been my view: outdated productivity will be replaced by more advanced productivity. The old Ring Hunting Method was far too inefficient in terms of energy utilization. The Ring Expansion Method is the future for both humans and soul beasts because it provides a basis for cooperation between the two sides."

"We are all citizens of Douluo Star. One side is good at strength but not at wisdom, and the other side is good at wisdom but not at strength. We should complement each other's strengths and grow together, but we have been fighting each other for so many years because of the Hunting Ring Law. This situation must be corrected. This is the theoretical basis, or program, for what we are going to do. It can be called Soul Master Revisionism."

What is revisionism? To put it bluntly, it's turning right while signaling left, which is similar to opposing something else while claiming to be left-wing.

Chen Feng's theory is similar. His fundamental purpose is twofold: first, to break the major drawbacks of the inheritance of martial soul bloodlines; and second, to prevent the extinction of soul beasts from causing a decline in the energy level of the plane.

But he certainly couldn't reveal his true thoughts, so he had to put on a facade, saying something like, "To make the Soul Master world more prosperous," which could be considered as following the wisdom of his predecessors.

"A program? What is that?" Xiao Wu asked curiously.

"Well... to put it simply, it's a highly concise, guiding, and binding code of conduct and value declaration. The path we take in the future will be guided by this theory," Chen Feng said after thinking for a moment.

"Oh~ I think I understand now." Xiao Wu suddenly realized.

Da Ming then said:

“Your theory is indeed very good, but sometimes it’s not enough to just be reasonable to convince people. Not to mention that many soul beasts believe in power more than reason. For example, if it weren’t for Sister Xiao Wu, we might not have paid any attention to you.”

Chen Feng nodded. "Of course I understand. To carry out one's principles, one needs strong military force as an aid. If reason cannot persuade, then physical force must be used to persuade. Therefore, I will not give up cultivation."

So far, he has received support from two main sources among the soul beasts: Da Ming, Er Ming, and Xue Di.

Ultimately, this is all because of Xiao Wu and the Imperial Beast Gu Yue Ling.

Just as Da Ming said, without Xiao Wu mediating, neither Da Ming nor Er Ming would have paid any attention to Chen Feng.

Similarly, without Gu Yueling's existence, Chen Feng and his group would have had a hard time even finding Titan Snow Demon King, let alone meeting Snow Emperor.

After all, in this era, the existence of the three Heavenly Kings of the Far North is completely unknown, and the Ice and Snow Emperors are already close to the next major breakthrough in their cultivation, so they have no energy to pay attention to the outside world.

Under these circumstances, the Titan Snow Demon King could only adopt a conservative strategy and try his best not to attract the attention of humans.

Therefore, in effect, Xiao Wu and Gu Yueling have become a link between humans and soul beasts.

However, this kind of bond is not effective everywhere.

For example, would the million-year-old deep-sea demon whale king give face to the imperial auspicious beast? Most likely not, it doesn't even care about the face of a god.

So how do you persuade it? Naturally, you can only use your fists. And with so many sea spirit beasts, this situation is probably not uncommon.

There are still many challenges ahead, such as the desolate deserts, storm fjords, and dust swamps on land.

After meeting with Da Ming and Er Ming and paying respects to A Huan, Chen Feng and his companions set off again. However, they did not leave the Star Dou Great Forest, but instead followed Er Ming's directions to the living area of ​​the Swift Lightning Rat clan.

That's right, Chen Feng came to see an acquaintance this time, no, a familiar rat.

It has been almost two years since Chen Feng last said goodbye to Fei Lei Shu, but because of the existence of Yin Jian, the communication between Chen Feng and Fei Lei Shu has not been completely cut off.

Previously, when Chen Feng was researching the Samsara Abyss, he repeatedly summoned the Flying Thunder Rat to possess him and chatted about some interesting things in the human world.

During these casual conversations, Flying Thunder Rat gradually developed a longing for the human world. Chen Feng came here this time to see if he could lure the little guy to the human world.

He always felt that if he wanted to unravel the mysteries of the cycle of reincarnation, he couldn't rely on his own efforts alone. But Xue Di obviously couldn't come and do experiments with him, so he could only kidnap Fei Lei Shu.

As can be seen from the last experiment, this kid is actually quite intelligent. As a mutated individual in the group, its intelligence and cultivation talent far surpass those of other ordinary soul beasts.

However, precisely because of this, it must be highly valued by its own kind, and it would probably not be easy to abduct it.

Upon arriving at the settlement of the lightning rats, Chen Feng and his companions did not go in directly. Instead, Chen Feng activated the Yin Sword to notify the Flying Thunder Rat, and then waited quietly in place.

During this time, some swift electric rats hid in the forest and curiously spied on them. There were even some rats that thought they were good at fighting and wanted to come out and challenge them, but they were all driven away by Xiao Wu's charm.

After a while, the Flying Thunder Rat that had been notified came running through the forest, followed closely by another Flying Thunder Rat that was much larger.

When the Flying Thunder Rat arrived in front of the three, Chen Feng smiled and said:

"It's been a while, hasn't it? You seem to have gained some weight."

The Flying Thunder Mouse stood up on its hind legs and patted its round belly with its paws, indicating that it had indeed gained weight.

Chen Feng looked at the giant Flying Thunder Rat behind it and knew that this was the Flying Thunder Rat's father and the patriarch of the Swift Electric Rat clan. He then politely introduced himself:

"Hello, Chief Flying Thunder Clan, I am Little Flying Thunder Mouse's friend."

The Flying Thunder Clan Chief looked at Chen Feng, Tang San, and Xiao Wu, focusing on Xiao Wu, and then squeaked a few times.

Its voice is not as sharp as the Little Flying Rat's; it sounds somewhat deep, giving it a serious feel.

"What did the clan leader say?" Chen Feng asked Xiao Wu, this time he really couldn't guess.

"It says it knows us. The little flying rat has grown very quickly during this time, and that's all thanks to you," Xiao Wu replied.

"Oh? It's growing very fast?" Chen Feng looked at the little flying rat.

Little Flying Thunder Mouse patted its chest proudly, then patted Dust Blade's right hand.

Chen Feng understood this time, "You grow every time you receive my call?"

The little flying rat thought for a moment, then nodded, then shook its head, and then patted its head with its paw.

"Head?" Chen Feng pondered for a moment, then suddenly thought of a question and asked Xiao Wu:

"Xiao Wu, after a soul beast awakens its intelligence, will its growth rate increase?"

Xiao Wu nodded. "Of course. Without enough intelligence, they can only grow by eating and absorbing the essence of heaven and earth and the sun and moon. But if they have intelligence, they can cultivate on their own. This is also why plant-type soul beasts grow slowly. It is more difficult for them to develop intelligence than animal soul beasts."

Chen Feng understood. "Then I get it. The reason why the little flying rat's growth rate is faster is probably because it shared some of my wisdom after being summoned by me."

When Chen Feng summoned Xue Di in order to kill Shi Nian, Xue Di once said that her mind would become more agile when she possessed Chen Feng.

It's important to know that Snow Empress is a super soul beast with 700,000 years of cultivation. If Chen Feng can influence her, then it's obviously not a problem for Little Flying Thunder Rat to grow in intelligence.

This allowed Chen Feng to grasp an important need of soul beasts: intelligence.

As he said before, humans are good at intelligence but not at strength, while spirit beasts are good at strength but not at intelligence. If the two can learn from each other's strengths and make up for each other's weaknesses, they can both achieve good growth.

However, this requires solving one problem: extracting the spirit-summoning function from the cycle of reincarnation and turning it into a reproducible technology.

With that in mind, Chen Feng directly stated his thoughts:

"Chief Flying Thunder Clan, I wish to take Little Flying Thunder Rat to the human world. I hope you will allow me to."

Upon hearing this, Chief Fei Lei frowned, glanced at his son, shook his head, and squeaked a few times.

Xiao Wu translated:

"The chieftain said that the human world is not safe, and humans will hunt the little flying rats, but it can be protected here."

“But clan leader, our academy already has several soul beasts residing here, and they are all with ten thousand years of cultivation. Even if you don’t believe me, you can trust Xiao Wu. As for the protection of the little flying thunder rat, our academy has many experts, and I think its safety there is much better than here,” Chen Feng said.

Tang San then raised a question:

"But how are we going to get the Little Flying Thunder Rat to the academy? It's not a short distance from here to Heaven Dou City. If we get spotted on the way, we'll definitely be in trouble."

Chen Feng had already thought about this question. "Have you forgotten? The old poison master gave you a magic pouch."

"Use that? That's fine, but I don't know if it will be comfortable inside." Tang San stroked his chin.

"This is just a temporary measure. We will definitely develop more convenient and better items for carrying soul beasts in the future," Chen Feng said.

If humans and spirit beasts can truly cooperate successfully, then this kind of thing will definitely be indispensable. After all, some spirit beasts are quite large, and human cities are obviously not suitable for them to roam freely. Therefore, a storage device that allows them to stay comfortably is needed.

For example, Poké Balls or something.

However, the reason why a Poké Ball is a ball is because the raw material used to make it is a Berry, so Dust Blade doesn't need to completely replicate it.

His initial plan was to use the Ruyi Treasure Pouch as a base, and then improve it step by step, striving to create a prop suitable for soul beasts to inhabit.

You can get all sorts of things like the Super Treasure Bag, the Master Treasure Bag, and the Deluxe Treasure Bag. It can even be a business. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is perfect for this.

While Chen Feng and Tang San were discussing the issue, the Flying Thunder Clan Chief hesitated.

It had taken Chen Feng's words to heart and knew that with a powerful being who had transformed from a 100,000-year-old soul beast present, its son should be safe.

Moreover, since Little Flying Thunder Rat is the object of Chen Feng's summoning, Chen Feng will definitely protect its son.

But as a father, he was still somewhat worried.

After thinking for a while, it looked at Chen Feng seriously and then squeaked twice.

Xiao Wu paused for a moment, then said to Chen Feng:

"The chieftain said that as long as you defeat it, the little flying rat will go with you."

Chapter 258 Departure

Winning...that's going to be quite a challenge.

Chen Feng glanced at the Flying Thunder Clan Chief, who was far more imposing than the Little Flying Thunder Rat, and asked:

"May I ask how much cultivation the clan leader possesses?"

"Squeak!" Chief Fei Lei extended three claws.

"Xiao Feng, the clan leader has 30,000 years of cultivation, you need to be careful," Xiao Wu reminded him.

Thirty thousand years of cultivation? Chen Feng silently considered it for a moment and decided that he could take on the challenge.

He had just acquired a new soul bone, which could serve as a trump card. As long as Chief Fei Lei was caught by the Azure Slow Claw, Chen Feng would definitely win this match.

However, the Azure Sluggish Claw needs a few seconds to charge before it can be released, and the Flying Thunder Clan Chief's speed will definitely be very fast, so how to hit it is a problem that needs to be considered.

"I accept this challenge," Chen Feng said.

"Should we find a more open space?" Tang San suggested.

He felt that since the Lightning Rat clan lived in this forest, they must be very well adapted to the environment here, while Chen Feng was not. Therefore, he wanted to set up the site in an environment that was favorable to Chen Feng.

"No need for that, this place will do." Chen Feng summoned his martial spirit.

The forest environment is indeed quite complex, which is theoretically unfavorable for his battle with Chief Fei Lei, since the latter has the home-field advantage.

However, with the Reincarnation of the Dead in hand, Chen Feng can turn any environment into his own domain with this skill.

This is the confidence that the dark room gave him.

Upon hearing Chen Feng's words, Tang San understood his plan and said no more. He and Xiao Wu, along with the Little Flying Thunder Rat, moved aside to clear the area.

Chen Feng and Chief Fei Lei distanced themselves, each finding a place to stand and facing each other from afar.