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

Secondly, we need to understand the mysteries of spirit rings and spirit bones, find ways to create artificial spirit rings and spirit bones, and strive to enable spirit masters to break through their cultivation levels without killing spirit beasts.

However, if this research goal is successfully achieved, it will also bring a problem: once the breakthrough of a Soul Master is completely decoupled from Soul Beasts, there is a high possibility that Soul Masters will slaughter Soul Beasts indiscriminately to obtain Soul Bones.

The secret soul bone technique of Douluo Continent II is a product of a similar method.

Therefore, Chen Feng wanted to ensure that Soul Masters no longer needed to kill Soul Beasts to break through, but he also couldn't completely decouple Soul Masters from Soul Beasts. He had to strike the right balance.

As for the third research objective, it is about the redefinition of Soul Master roles. Chen Feng felt that the original classification of strong attack and agile attack was not rigorous enough.

For example, according to the original classification method, Dai Mubai is a strong attack type, and Ma Hongjun is also a strong attack type.

However, the two men have completely different fighting styles. Dai Mubai is more like a warrior, while Ma Hongjun is more like a mage.

Chen Feng found it utterly absurd to classify warriors and mages together.

Are all the people here Gandalf? Light spells in their left hands, swords in their right?

Or perhaps they are both skilled in both magic and martial arts, wielding Arcane Explosion in one hand and Whirlwind Slash in the other, right?

While this is certainly cool, Douluo Continent, being a fantasy-themed story, is clearly not qualified to play like this.

In addition, the defensive-type Soul Masters in the original work are also quite outrageous.

Although it's called a defensive type, it's not much different from an offensive type. It protects teammates entirely by using its body to block them, and it doesn't have any functional soul skills.

Even if you don't want a Holy Spirit Furnace like the Guardian Knight in "Throne of Gods," you could at least give us a support or taunt skill.

If you can't even hold back hatred, what kind of defensive Soul Master are you? You might as well switch to offensive Soul Master. You're such a hybrid.

In Chen Feng's view, the defensive-type Soul Masters in this world have not been fully developed, and they should take on a very important task.

That is, to ensure compliance.

Yes, protecting the core is their job, not blindly charging forward with the offensive Soul Masters. This has even led to absurd teams like the Elephant Armor Academy team, which consists entirely of defensive Soul Masters.

That's written as a defensive style but read as an offensive style—purely heretical.

Based on the responsibilities that defensive Soul Masters should bear, Chen Feng also gave them a new name.

That is, Reload, cross that, Shield Guard.

Chapter 72 Reflections on the Essence of Soul Power

A few nights later, Chen Feng returned to his room.

He has spent most of the past few days in the library, researching information about soul beasts and soul masters collected by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School over the generations.

On the one hand, Chen Feng used this opportunity to refine his method of classifying Soul Masters, and on the other hand, he also wanted to resolve the doubts in his heart.

What's the question? A question about the origin of the weapon's spirit.

If Chen Feng can figure out the origin of the weapon spirit, then he will be able to find a breakthrough point and then conduct research based on that breakthrough point.

However, as one of the oldest weapon spirit sects on the continent, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School has no records of the origin of weapon spirits.

It's as if everyone accepts the existence of artifacts and martial spirits, but no one explores where they come from or how they are passed down.

To be honest, this gave Chen Feng a headache, because he couldn't find a breakthrough and therefore couldn't apply his research talent to his weapon spirit.

With no other option, he could only focus on other research goals, namely the mysteries of spirit rings and spirit bones.

Compared to soul bones, soul rings are undoubtedly more common and easier to study, and Chen Feng has already gotten a clue.

As a unique product of the Douluo Continent, spirit rings possess many characteristics.

For example, a soul beast can be created after it dies; a soul master can use it to break through their cultivation level; and a soul skill can be released by inputting soul power into it.

Of all the characteristics of a spirit ring, the one that Chen Feng cares about most is that it can actually alter human genetic material.

The most representative example is the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex.

From the master's explanation, Chen Feng discovered that all members of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan who experienced martial soul mutations could find their mutated martial soul attributes in their parents' spirit rings.

For example, the eighth spirit ring of the Grandmaster's father was of the Light attribute, and the sixth spirit ring of Liu Erlong's father was of the Fire attribute.

If there were only two examples, Chenfeng certainly wouldn't consider them a pattern.

However, according to the master, such examples are very common in the family history of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex, which led Chen Feng to summarize a pattern.

That is, the parent's soul ring can change their genetic material to a certain extent, leading to the emergence of mutated individuals in their offspring.

This phenomenon is relatively common among biological Soul Masters, and it is especially evident in the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex family, which specializes in dragon bloodlines.

However, Chen Feng was very clear that genetic material was not something that could be easily changed.

He didn't quite understand the rules of the Douluo world, so he had to use his knowledge from Earth to think about it first.

On Earth, there are three types of factors that can affect genetic material.

These are physical factors, chemical factors, and biological factors.

To put it simply, it involves radiation and some rays, certain chemicals, and some viruses.

First, there's the possibility of a virus, but Chen Feng thinks that's relatively small.

While the idea of ​​cultivating immortality through viruses is exciting and has a strong K-pop vibe, logically speaking, it's unlikely that viruses are the cause of changes in genetic material.

Because Soul Masters can obtain Soul Rings without any contact with Soul Beasts, there is no channel for virus transmission, and therefore no risk of infection.

If there really is a virus.

Secondly, there's the possibility of chemical factors, but this is also relatively low, because, as mentioned before, when a Soul Master acquires a Soul Ring, they can avoid any contact with the Soul Beast throughout the entire process.

Could it be a physical factor?

If it's a physical factor, then it means that the spirit ring alters the spirit master's genetic material through radiation or rays.

But what exactly is this process like?

Is it that the spirit ring itself carries radiation or rays, and the spirit master is affected because they frequently summon spirit rings, or is it through other means that it affects the human body's genetic material?

As Chen Feng twirled his pen in thought, the jade pendant of eternal concentration on his chest swayed gently, making his thoughts clear and focused.

But at the same time, his face gradually turned pale, as if he had unknowingly paid a price while thinking about these things.

“Spirit rings… Martial spirits… these two are one, so the influence of spirit rings should first affect the Martial spirit, and then the Soul Master’s genetic material. Therefore, we must first clarify the process by which spirit rings affect the Martial spirit.”

As for this question, Chen Feng already had the answer.

Soul Power!

He wrote the two words on the paper and circled them.

Without a doubt, spirit rings influence a martial spirit through spirit power.

Over the past year, Chen Feng has been releasing his first soul skill every day. He is now extremely familiar with the process of soul power flowing out of his martial soul, being injected into his soul ring to release the soul skill, and then flowing back into his martial soul.

Compared to spirit rings changing martial souls through their own radiation, Chen Feng believes that the process of spirit rings changing the nature of spirit power, and then spirit power changing martial souls, is more likely and more logical.

So here's the question: after the spirit ring changes the nature of spirit power, how does spirit power then change genetic material?

Chen Feng thought for a moment and wrote a line on the paper.

"Is soul power a kind of radiating energy?"

This is a conjecture that may not be correct, but it is the one that Chen Feng can think of most at this stage.

The question now is, how can proposing this conjecture help him?

Chen Feng bit his left thumb nail and wrote two words on a piece of paper.

"Humans" and "Soul Beasts".

"In this world, soul beasts will develop soul rings after they die, but humans will not. Could the difference between the two lie in the different nature of their soul power?"

Between the words "human" and "soul beast", Chen Feng wrote the phrase "soul power nature".

"However, the concept of the nature of soul power is still too abstract. I need to find a more accurate term to describe it."

Chen Feng stared at the words on the paper, lost in thought. After a while, he blacked out the word "property" and changed it to "frequency".

"Soul power is a kind of energy, and it is easiest to understand it as a wave. This understanding may not be correct, but it is the only thing I can think of at this stage, so I will temporarily assume it to be a wave."

"Waves have frequencies. If the ability to generate soul rings is due to the difference in the frequency of soul power within humans and soul beasts, then if we can find a way to change the frequency, perhaps humans will be able to condense soul rings on their own."

"Moreover, this theory can also explain why human cultivation can hit a bottleneck, but can continue to cultivate after obtaining a soul ring."

"If we set the frequency of human soul power as X and the frequency of soul beast soul power as Y, then human advancement should be a process of constantly moving X closer to Y... but something seems wrong."

Chen Feng frowned. "Doesn't this mean that humans will eventually have to cultivate into soul beasts? That's clearly unreasonable. It should be closer to some value in between."

He picked up his pen and, with some hesitation, slowly wrote a single character above and between "human" and "soul beast".

"god"!

Chapter 73 The Soul Power Frequency Hypothesis

The idea that human cultivation involves bringing one's own soul power frequency X closer to the frequency Y of a soul beast is clearly unreliable.

This is because it implies that the ultimate goal of human cultivation is to become a soul beast, which is not the case in reality.

Whether human or spirit beast, the goal of cultivation should be to become a god.

Therefore, Chen Feng speculated that there was an extremely special frequency between the soul power frequencies of humans and soul beasts.

That is the frequency of "God".

Only this frequency can resonate with the energy frequency of the Douluo Continent itself.

Or, to use a more appropriate term, resonance.

After resonance is achieved, the "god" can wield immense power within the Douluo plane, and even transcend this plane to enter the realm of gods.

Other soul power frequencies are affected by the frequency of the plane itself.

The external manifestations are various limitations, such as the cultivation bottleneck for humans, the tribulations of soul beasts, and the rule that they cannot become gods.

Chen Feng looked at the triangle formed by the three words on the paper and felt as if the fog in front of him had instantly dissipated, giving him a feeling of seeing the sun after the clouds had parted.

In his view, the soul power frequency hypothesis explains many things.

For example, why do Soul Masters encounter a bottleneck every ten levels of Soul Power, requiring Soul Rings to continue advancing?

That's because as a Soul Master cultivates, the energy (Soul Power) within their body continuously increases.

However, the energy that the current energy frequency can hold is limited, so it is necessary to undergo a frequency conversion in order for the energy in the body to continue to increase.

"No, that doesn't explain why one can continue meditating without acquiring a soul ring, and why the acquired soul power doesn't disappear."

"Since it is the upper limit of capacity, it should be the level at which it is impossible to continue to obtain soul power under any circumstances. Therefore, the upper limit of energy capacity for each soul power frequency should not be level ten of the current realm, but level nine of the next realm."

Taking a newly awakened Soul Warrior as an example, the upper limit of the Soul Warrior stage's Soul Power frequency energy capacity should be level nineteen, not level ten.

"So, what does this level ten represent?"

Chen Feng's mind was racing at this moment. He felt his thoughts flowing like a spring, his ideas flowing smoothly, and all sorts of ideas kept popping up, which he then either adopted or rejected.

A short while later, he wrote down his conjecture on a piece of paper:

"The bottleneck at level ten may not be the upper limit of the current soul power frequency, but rather the minimum energy level required to change the current frequency. Once a soul master meets this minimum energy requirement, they can acquire a soul ring to change the frequency of their soul power and advance to the next realm."

"Human bodies are relatively fragile and their ability to control soul power is insufficient, so they are not able to actively change the frequency of their own soul power. They must absorb the soul rings of soul beasts to fuse their own soul power with them and use the soul power frequency of the soul beasts to change the frequency."

"Soul beasts have stronger bodies and more powerful energy, as well as excellent soul power control developed over a long period of time. Therefore, there is no bottleneck in the growth of soul beasts, but their growth rate is far slower than that of humans, because the growth of soul beast energy and soul power control requires sufficient time."

"The age of a soul beast should refer to the intensity of its internal energy. The higher the intensity, the higher the frequency, and the higher the frequency of the soul ring formed. It is also more difficult for a soul master to change the frequency when absorbing a soul ring. However, the soul power frequency after successfully changing the frequency will be higher. Therefore, absorbing a soul ring with a higher age will make the soul master stronger."

"However, if the frequency of a soul beast's soul ring is too high, making it impossible for the soul master to complete the frequency conversion process, then at best, the soul master will be seriously injured and their cultivation will regress; at worst, their soul power will go berserk and cause the soul master to die."

Chen Feng put down his pen and examined the conjectures he had written down, feeling that there were no logical problems.

"If this conjecture is correct, then the different colors of the spirit rings may also be explained, because spirit rings of different ages have different frequencies, which is why they emit different lights."

As for why the colors of the spirit rings are white, yellow, purple, black, and red, instead of being arranged according to the spectrum.

Chen Feng speculated that either the spectrum of this universe is different from that of Earth, or the color of the spirit ring has more complex influencing factors.

Or perhaps his assumption that soul power is a wave is completely wrong, in which case all of tonight's work will have to be overturned and started over.

Verifying this is actually quite easy; just place a prism under sunlight, and the prism will clearly display the spectrum of the world.

"Okay, let's do a spectral experiment tomorrow to see if there are any problems with the spectrum of this world." Chen Feng wrote it down so he wouldn't forget it later.

He then turned his attention back to the hypothesis he had proposed.