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

"Unfortunately, I don't know much about music. Even if I understood the principle behind this, I couldn't replicate a music box that could produce music instead of noise."

Chen Feng smiled and said, "It's alright. We're not trying to replicate the music box anyway, and there are plenty of talented musicians on the mainland. We can just hire one if needed."

“That’s true.” Tang San stopped focusing on the music and turned his attention to what Chen Feng cared about most: why the music box would start spinning after soul power was inputted into it.

He quickly came to a guess.

"This soul power circuit is divided into two parts, one on the metal cylinder and one on the metal plate. The rotation of the music box should be the result of the combined action of these two parts of the circuit. Moreover, since this music box is man-made, the soul power circuit is exposed, which makes it very convenient for us to replicate and experiment with it. This is quite different from the Thunder Essence Stone."

"Can we do it now?" Chen Feng asked.

"I don't have any forging tools," Tang San said, somewhat embarrassed.

"Never mind, there's no rush." ​​Chen Feng suppressed his expectations, then suddenly thought of a question:

"Xiao San, you said that the soul power circuit of the soul tool is exposed. So, when we make soul tools in the future, shouldn't we prepare a special tool for making soul power circuits?"

"for example?"

"For example... a carving knife."

“A carving knife…it seems we really do need such a tool.” Tang San thought for a moment and agreed. “However, if we want to be able to carve patterns on any metal, then the material of this carving knife needs to be specially selected.”

“It’s probably difficult to get a top-quality carving knife right away. We can prepare a usable one for now, such as a diamond carving knife, as long as it can leave a mark on the Star Soul Mithril,” Chen Feng said.

Tang San nodded. "Yes, Star Soul Mithril is the metal we use the most. It can interact significantly with soul power. As long as a diamond can carve it, it can be used as a carving tool material."

"For metals that can interact with soul power, we should classify them into a special category. What do you think of the name 'soul-guided metal'?"

"Very vivid."

During their conversation, the concepts of carving knife and soul-guided metal, both related to soul-guided devices, were thus established.

"Speaking of which, how was the soul power circuit on the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch installed? It couldn't have been done by carving, could it?" Chen Feng asked with some doubt.

Tang San took out his Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch, looked at it, and said:

"It's not very noticeable from the outside, and it's not convenient to open it up right now. I'll go to my dad's place later, and I can take out all the medicinal herbs there to see how this treasure pouch works."

Chen Feng nodded. "Alright, the Ruyi Hundred Treasure Pouch is made of fabric. I think its loops might be sewn on, but it would be difficult to figure out the specific technique. By the way, Xiao San, do you know how to sew?"

Tang San blinked at Chen Feng, and Chen Feng looked back at Tang San. The two were speechless for a moment.

"Well, it seems we still need to find a tailor with excellent skills," Chen Feng sighed.

Time passed slowly as they chatted, and everyone who had gone out for dinner returned to the academy.

"Xiao San, Xiao Feng, come quick, I brought you some food." Xiao Wu led the others to the wooden house and took out two sumptuous meals from the white cloud smoke.

Dai Mubai came over and punched Chen Feng and Tang San on the shoulder each, scolding them:

"Why didn't you two come over when you got back? If Xiaowu hadn't come looking for us, we wouldn't have even known you were back."

"I'm going to see Uncle Ning about something. Xiao San needs to settle A Fei in, at least to let A Fei get used to the environment here," Chen Feng explained.

"Ah Fei?" Dai Mubai asked, somewhat puzzled.

They ate outside, so Xiao Wu didn't tell them much, and Dai Mubai naturally didn't know anything about A Fei.

Chen Feng didn't go into too much detail, only saying that A Fei had long wanted to see the human world, and on his way home with Xiao Wu, he made a detour to the Star Dou Great Forest and brought A Fei out with him.

"Just the three of you going into the Star Dou Great Forest?" Dai Mubai frowned.

“Of course not, he’s protected,” Chen Feng said.

"Oh..." Dai Mubai assumed that someone from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School was secretly protecting Chen Feng, so he didn't ask any more questions.

Chen Feng then looked at the people behind Dai Mubai and said with a smile:

"It's a pleasure to meet you two from Blazing Academy. It seems you've made your choice, Fire Dance."

Previously, when Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang arrived, everyone accompanied them out for a meal as a way of entertaining guests, and also to treat themselves. Now, Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang have also come here with the others.

"Few could refuse an invitation from a biological pioneer, but I'd like to ask, what exactly do I need to do here?" Huo Wu asked curiously.

"Here's the thing, I've already read Huo Wu's insights on Soul Ring Fusion, and we also have some of our own understanding of Soul Rings. I invited you here to study together what exactly Soul Rings are and what we can gain from them." Chen Feng presented his prepared explanation.

"This topic sounds like a lot of stuff. What kind of research do you have on spirit rings?" Huo Wu asked curiously.

"Please have a seat." Chen Feng brought out several wooden stools from the cabin and had everyone sit down before he began to speak:

"Through some experiments and our own unique observation skills, we initially speculate that a soul ring may be a special circuit. When soul power flows into this circuit, it can produce some magical effects. This is the process of using soul skills."

"Circuit? How did you come to such a guess?" Huo Wu asked after thinking for a moment.

“Through this,” Chen Feng said, taking out a Thunder Essence Stone, “we used some special abilities to observe the existence of circuits within it, and then used metal to replicate this circuit structure. We found that the things we created had the same function as this stone. After some further experiments, we finally made this hypothesis.”

"What kind of experiment?" Huo Wu pressed.

"It's not convenient to talk about this right now, but you'll find out later," Chen Feng said with a smile.

"Okay." Huo Wu didn't ask any more questions, suppressing her curiosity for the time being, and then said:

"Regarding your speculation about this circuit, I don't know if it's correct or not, but I feel that this theory can explain some of the things I've been experiencing."

"Oh?"

"As I said before, the reason I can perform ring fusion is because I can sense the common parts between different spirit rings, and then use these common parts as a basis to fuse different spirit rings together. If the essence of a spirit ring is indeed a circuit, then my ring fusion is to connect different circuits through the same structure in different circuits to form a new circuit." Huo Wu explained her insights to everyone.

She paused, then continued:

"In addition, I discovered something rather strange."

"What is it?"

"As you know, I have successfully fused the soul rings of different people. The reason I was able to do this is because I discovered that although they were on different people, the feeling I got from their foundation rings was the same."

Chen Feng raised his eyebrows. "You mean, you think the circuit structure of the Foundation Establishment Ring is fixed?"

Huo Wu thought for a moment and said:

"To be more precise, the Foundation Establishment Rings on Soul Masters with the same attributes should have the same circuit structure, if your circuit theory is correct."

"In addition, I have a feeling that the Foundation Building Ring is very unique compared to other Soul Rings."

"What do you mean by that?" Chen Feng asked, puzzled.

"In my opinion, the other spirit rings are actually quite complex. Even if they have some similarities, they are very different in other aspects. However, the Foundation Establishment Ring seems to me to be a constant repetition of a structure."

Upon hearing this, Chen Feng instantly had an idea.

Chapter 261 The Mystery of Soul Rings

The reason Chen Feng wanted to invite Huo Wu to the academy was because he discovered that Huo Wu had a special talent.

It allows Huo Wu to sense some of the characteristics of the spirit rings, thus enabling her to perform certain operations on the spirit rings, such as ring fusion.

In Chen Feng's view, this unique perception ability could help him understand the mysteries of spirit rings more deeply, and at least open up a breakthrough.

Now, Chen Feng obtained his first useful information through Huo Wu's perception ability: the soul power circuit of the Foundation Building Ring is a continuous repetition of a certain structure.

So, if we can figure out what this structure is, we can piece together the soul power circuit of the Foundation Building Ring by repeating it continuously.

This will also be the first soul ring circuit that humanity has mastered.

Furthermore, the basic structure that makes up the foundation ring should itself have some special significance.

But how do we figure out this basic structure?

Just as Chen Feng was deep in thought, Huo Wu continued:

"Furthermore, I'm not sure if my feeling is correct, but when I'm cultivating, I feel that my foundation-building artifact is very similar to my foundation-building ring. According to your soul power circuit theory, the circuit structures of these two might be quite similar?"

Chen Feng's eyes lit up. "How similar are they?"

"I'm not entirely sure. My perception is more acute for spirit rings, but weaker for other things. The reason I was able to detect the Foundation Establishment artifact's special properties is because I've been in contact with it for many years and have been using it for cultivation," Huo Wu sighed.

"Could it be due to the quality of the Foundation Establishment item? Soul rings are made of pure energy, while Foundation Establishment items are mostly minerals, which may have hindered your perception to some extent. If you had a higher quality Foundation Establishment item, perhaps you would be able to perceive it more clearly?" Tang San offered a guess.

“But my foundation-building item is the Flame Stone, which is already a very good foundation-building item.” Huo Wu did not quite agree with this guess.

Ma Hongjun chuckled, "Then it just means you haven't seen enough. Why don't you try this one?"

As he spoke, he took out the Fire Cloud Rock from the Rose Cloud Pond.

Huo Wu stared wide-eyed at the hot, hard object in front of her, muttering to herself:

"Wow, it's so big...it's amazing!"

"How do you feel about this? Is it clearer now?" Chen Feng asked.

Huo Wu snapped out of her daze, summoned her martial soul, and began to carefully sense it. After a while, she said:

"I understand much more now. I can confirm that although the Foundation Establishment Object and the Foundation Establishment Ring give me different feelings, they are similar, no, they are almost the same thing."

"Almost? In other words, there will still be a slight difference?" Chen Feng asked.

Huo Wu shook her head. "It's not a matter of difference. Although this stone gives me a much stronger feeling, there are still some parts that I can't quite feel clearly, so I can't be completely sure."

Chen Feng nodded. "That's good. You've put it very rigorously. You have the basic qualities of a researcher."

Tang San activated his Purple Demon Eye, then used Blue Silver Grass to construct a structure and asked:

"This is the circuit structure inside the volcanic rock. What can we obtain from it?"

Chen Feng looked at the winding path of the Blue Silver Grass and vaguely sensed a certain pattern, but for a moment he couldn't quite grasp it.

He hadn't felt this way before, but after Huo Wu reminded him, he followed her words and began to think about it, and that's when he had this strange feeling.

So he said:

"I have a preliminary idea. Since Huo Wu said that she feels that the Foundation Building Ring and the Foundation Building Object are very similar, and the former is formed by a certain structure being repeated continuously, let's assume that they are composed of the same basic structure and find out this basic structure first."

Xiao Wu looked at the Blue Silver Grass in Tang San's hand, her face somewhat bewildered:

"How do I find it? Should I just chop it up?"

Chen Feng sighed, feeling a bit of a headache as well.

He had a wonderful idea: once he figured out the basic structure of the Foundation Building Ring, he could assemble it.

However, the current task is to find its basic components through a complex circuit, which will take a lot of effort.

"I'll give it a try. I have some experience in disassembling and reassembling this kind of spatial structure." Tang San took the initiative to undertake the task.

Chen Feng nodded. The spatial imagination ability of the master craftsman Tang Xiaosan was still trustworthy. "In addition, even if we can't break it down into its basic structure for the time being, we might still gain something by using this circuit as a whole."

Oscar barely managed to follow the train of thought, "Both of them are composed of the same structure, so they can be converted into each other? It's just a matter of how many times they are repeated?"

"That's exactly what I mean," Chen Feng nodded.

"So how should we use this foundation-building artifact?" Huo Wu asked curiously.

"To use it to create the Foundation Building Ring?" Zhu Zhuqing suggested.

"How could a spirit ring possibly be created?" Huo Wu thought this idea was a bit outrageous.

Zhu Zhuqing smiled silently and looked at Chen Feng, who agreed.

"You can try it."

"No, are you serious?" Huo Wushuang was a little stunned.

He didn't understand most of what happened earlier, but he does understand now. But can spirit rings be created? And why do these people all seem so unfazed?

"It's worth a try, what if it works? Don't limit your thinking." Dai Mubai patted Huo Wushuang on the shoulder.

Huo Wushuang looked at Dai Mubai with a puzzled expression, then at the others who seemed to find it strange, and felt that she was somewhat out of place.

But he wasn't a person who liked to think things through, so he made a very wise decision: to give up thinking and make peace with himself.

"If we want to create a Foundation Building Ring, where should we start, Xiao Feng?" Ning Rongrong asked.

"First, we definitely need to find a suitable test subject. Since it's the Foundation Establishment Ring, we need a level 10 or 20 Soul Master, preferably with lightning or fire attributes, before we can begin the next step of the experiment," Chen Feng said without hesitation.

"Then how do we determine the lifespan of the Foundation Establishment Rings we create? If it's too short, it'll be a disaster for people, won't it?" Meng Yiran thought of a problem.

“Too high a height can actually be dangerous and even life-threatening, so the subjects must be volunteers, and we must inform them of the potential risks before the experiment,” Chen Feng said after thinking for a moment.

Xiao Wu raised her hand, "Xiao San and I can also prepare a spirit fusion skill. That way, if the spirit ring's age is too high, as long as we stop the experiment in time and use the Jade Rabbit to pound medicine for treatment, there shouldn't be a big problem."

"Yes, that's certainly a safer approach, but what if the spirit ring's age is too low?" Ning Rongrong asked, nodding her chin.

"There's no really good way; we can only adhere to the principles of voluntariness and informed consent," Chen Feng said, shaking his head.

Bai Chenxiang then spoke up: