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

"what?"

"Prepare a colorless, transparent crystal for me, and then cut a triangular piece off it. The surface of the crystal should be as smooth as possible, and the impurities should be as few as possible," Chen Feng explained his requirements in detail.

After listening, Ning Fengzhi asked:

"Do you only need one? Should I prepare a few more in different sizes and shapes for you?"

"No need, no need. All I need is a palm-sized triangular crystal, but it must be colorless and transparent, the more transparent the better," Chen Feng said.

"Of course crystal should be transparent. Can opaque crystal be considered crystal?" Ning Fengzhi asked in confusion.

Chen Feng: ...

He forgot that the person in front of him was the strongest appraisal expert on the entire continent. Ordinary things couldn't catch his eye, and crystals with impurities were probably no different from stones in his eyes.

Of course, this excludes slab crystals and rutilated quartz, because the needle-like inclusions in them are not impurities.

Once Ning Rongrong's martial soul evolves into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, Ning Fengzhi's title as the strongest treasure appraiser will have to be relinquished.

At that time, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda was the martial soul with the strongest treasure appraisal ability in the world.

Chapter 76 The New Role of Soul Masters

Over the next two days, Chen Feng obediently began his recuperation.

He couldn't be dishonest either, because Chenxin had forbidden him from touching books these past few days; there wasn't a single piece of paper to be seen within a hundred meters of him.

Moreover, with Ning Rongrong, the little supervisor, by his side, he couldn't even take a book out of the Blood Sky to read.

That day, Chen Feng and Ning Rongrong were sunbathing together on the balcony.

Chen Feng lay on the recliner, covered with a blanket, looking just like a retired old cadre.

"Rongrong, aren't you tired of watching me like this these past few days?" Chen Feng asked the pink-haired little girl beside him helplessly.

"I'm not tired. Daddy, Grandpa Sword, and Grandpa Bone all told me to watch over you so you can get some rest," Ning Rongrong said, swinging her short legs as she sat on the chair next to her.

"It's not that exaggerated," Chen Feng said with a wry smile. "I've been drinking calming and brain-boosting medicine every day for the past few days. I should be almost fully recovered by now, right?"

Ning Rongrong shook her head. "It's not up to you. It's up to Dad and the others."

"Could you please ask Uncle Ning and the others when I can move around freely?" Chen Feng sighed.

Although the life of a retired cadre is very comfortable, it is also boring.

He would feel better if he had a smartphone and Wi-Fi; he could just play games to pass the time. The problem is that he doesn't have any.

This made Chen Feng feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Seeing Chen Feng's listless appearance, Ning Rongrong thought for a moment and said:

"Then I'll go ask for you."

After saying that, she turned and ran outside.

Chen Feng sprawled back on the recliner, basking in the sun as he fell into deep thought.

The prism that Lao Ning promised was delivered yesterday. After receiving it, Chen Feng couldn't wait to conduct an experiment, and the resulting spectrum showed no abnormalities.

There are two possibilities in this situation.

The first type is that soul power is not electromagnetic waves, and the color of the soul ring is formed by the combined influence of multiple factors, so it does not follow the spectral order.

The second possibility is that his soul power wasn't even a wave, and he had wasted his time that night.

Of the two possibilities, Chen Feng felt that the former was more likely.

After all, he paid a heavy price that night, which resulted in him being forced to rest for two days and even having his jade pendant confiscated. The results he obtained could not be fake.

However, the results of the spectral experiment are also facts, so Chen Feng still needs to find a way to prove the fluctuation of soul power.

In this regard, the double-slit interference experiment is undoubtedly the most classic.

But to conduct this experiment, the first step is to find a material that is sensitive to soul power.

Furthermore, this material must only change color in the areas affected by soul power so that the results can be observed more clearly.

This kind of material is usually hard to find.

Fortunately, he is currently at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School. Given Chen Feng's current value, he only needs to ask Lao Ning for help in finding a certain material.

While searching for materials, Chen Feng planned to continue using the soul power frequency model, since he had no other theories available.

Based on this model, Chen Feng explained the process of Soul Master advancement and provided a theoretically feasible method for advancement, which he planned to try next time he acquired a Soul Ring.

Chen Feng felt that Xiao Wu could provide him with some help in this regard.

In fact, if he could choose a helper to research spirit rings, Chen Feng would prefer to choose Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin.

Because Ah Yin was someone who had experienced both the 100,000-year-old soul beast stage and cultivated for a sufficiently long time in the human stage during the Douyi era, Chen Feng felt that she should be able to provide him with enough help in soul ring research.

As for Xiao Wu, to be honest, she doesn't seem very bright, and Chen Feng seriously doubts whether she can be of any use.

However, that's for later. What Chen Feng needs to do now is to compile the paper on the classification of Soul Masters.

Chen Feng has already gotten some ideas about the new Soul Master positioning classification.

The Soul Master system in Douluo Continent is quite similar to that of the game, so Chen Feng also plans to refer to the game to build a new Soul Master positioning.

When it comes to games, the most classic one is undoubtedly the classic combination of tanks and healers and DPS in World of Warcraft, which can also be called the warrior-mage-priest combination.

However, this classic combination is not entirely applicable to the Douluo World and must be modified to some extent.

First, there's the tank. As mentioned before, the defensive-type Soul Masters in this world are essentially offensive-type Soul Masters in another sense. They protect their teammates entirely by using their bodies to block enemy positions, and they basically don't have any functional protective Soul Skills.

In short, defensive-type Soul Masters cannot protect anyone.

Therefore, Chen Feng plans to rename the defensive Soul Masters as Shield Guardians and suggests that they acquire Soul Skills such as Support, Protection, Taunt, and a few excellent single-target or group control skills that can reduce or prevent damage to their teammates.

At the same time, it is also necessary to strengthen one's own ability to withstand damage, and when necessary, use one's body to absorb damage for the core position of the team, just like Braum in LoL.

Besides the Shield Guardians, there is another type of Soul Master who engages in close combat with enemies, using hand-to-hand fighting as their primary fighting method.

Chen Feng plans to refer to these Soul Masters together with the Shield Guards as Vanguard, meaning to take the lead.

Among them, the one with the most outstanding offensive capabilities and the slightly weaker defensive capabilities is referred to by Chen Feng as the Sharp Knife.

Their duty is to break through the enemy's defenses from the front and penetrate their formation, for example, soul masters whose martial souls are the Clear Sky Hammer and the Seven Kill Sword.

Other Soul Masters with relatively balanced offensive and defensive capabilities, who can stand at the front of the team for a long time to entangle the enemy, are called warriors by Chen Feng.

They are the backbone of the team, supporting the entire team's structure, and are an indispensable part of it.

Generally speaking, shield guards need Soul Masters with strong defensive capabilities, while warriors have a more balanced offensive and defensive ability, and sharp blades need strong offensive capabilities.

But this is just a theoretical classification. If some people insist on doing something unconventional, then Chen Feng can't stop them.

Then there are mages, but the concept of mages doesn't exist in this world.

All Soul Masters who use energy release as their attack method are either classified as offensive type like Ma Hongjun, or as control type like Huo Wu and Shui Bing'er.

Honestly, Chen Feng had no idea what the basis was for training these two as control-type characters.

Such promising ice and fire mages have been wasted.

Since the concept of a mage does not exist in this world, Chen Feng changed the name of the mage to archer to make it easier for people to understand.

Since their attack method involves shooting out energy, it's quite reasonable to call them archers.

Anyway, archers aren't exactly inconvenient. For example, in some games, there are archers who throw stones, throw treasures, and even wield two swords to fight each other.

These are all considered archers, which is another name for archers, so it's perfectly fine for Chen Feng to change the mage into an archer.

Chapter 77 At this juncture, advancing brings many advantages, while defending brings many disadvantages.

The mage's inspiration initially came from Xiao Wu, who was able to control the absorbed moonlight energy to attack enemies.

So, if you want to become a mage, no, an archer, the ability to control soul power is essential.

As an archer, releasing energy is the primary means of attack. Only those with strong enough soul power control can effectively control the released energy to inflict damage on the enemy, preventing situations where they miss or fail to hit their target.

This also brings a problem: if you only use the soul power in your body to attack, the destructive power will be very weak, and it will hardly have any practical significance in combat.

Therefore, archers must control external energy to launch attacks.

To achieve this, a Soul Master must possess a Foundation Building Ring, as only in this way can they absorb external energy and store it within their body.

This means that archers can only be biological-type soul masters, because Chen Feng has not yet solved the growth problem of artifact-type soul masters.

At this stage, Ling Luochen from Douluo Continent II can only play a control role, not a marksman.

Thus, Chen Feng determined the two conditions for becoming an archer: a biological soul master and excellent soul power control.

What constitutes excellent soul power control?

In Chen Feng's opinion, anyone who can achieve Xiao Wu's level is definitely outstanding.

The fact that one can use the energy within their body to cause a certain degree of damage upon obtaining the Foundation Establishment Ring for the first time demonstrates that their soul power control ability is definitely up to standard.

But if we use this as the standard, probably no one can become a marksman.

Therefore, Chenfeng needs to find a more reasonable standard.

Only Soul Masters who meet the standards are qualified to be noble archers; those who don't should obediently be idiot melee fighters.

In terms of DPS, besides ranged damage dealers like archers, there are also melee damage dealers with powerful attack capabilities.

Among them, those who primarily engage in direct combat are naturally called Sharp Knives, while those who employ unpredictable assassination methods are referred to as Assassins by Chen Feng.

As for the concept of agility-based attacks, Chen Feng rejected it outright.

Therefore, the Soul Master classification system reconstructed by Chen Feng is as follows:

Shield guards, snipers, and warriors primarily engage in close-quarters combat.

A marksman whose output method is to release energy.

Assassins who rarely engage in direct combat and whose whereabouts are elusive.

And control and support.

The field control skill needs little explanation; it refers to Soul Masters who apply various debuffs to the enemy. They have more diverse and versatile control methods than Shield Guards and usually assume command positions.

As for support, Chenfeng divides them into recovery type and amplification type, the specific meanings of which need not be elaborated.

With this, Chen Feng's new Soul Master positioning system was completed.

Since Chen Feng had recovered well, the ban on him was lifted after Ning Rongrong went to Ning Fengzhi to check on him.

Of course, he still couldn't get the jade pendant back, which made him feel very regretful.

Even so, Chen Feng still managed to complete his second paper.

On the New Soul Master Positioning System

He handed the paper to Ning Fengzhi, and unsurprisingly, it received a stunning response.

"This article... can be described as a growth guide for Soul Masters. With it, Soul Masters can clearly understand their position after choosing a path, and then acquire Soul Rings according to the recommended Soul Skills."

"Xiao Feng, your article is likely to cause a huge uproar in the Martial Soul world, just like last time."

Inside the council hall, Ning Fengzhi sighed as he handed a few pages of paper to the curious Chen Xin and Gu Rong beside him.

"That's not all," Chen Feng said with a smile. "I wonder if Uncle Ning can tell that I added some things to the article."

Ning Fengzhi recalled what he had just seen for a moment and asked:

"You mean... the Shield Guard?"

“That’s right, Shield Guards. Uncle Ning, don’t you think our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School really needs Shield Guards?” Chen Feng asked with a smile.

He didn't quite understand. Logically speaking, a support-type sect like the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School should have established a powerful subordinate organization of fighters.

In the original story, it was actually the powerful Haotian Sect that had four subordinate clans, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had nothing and relied solely on two Title Douluo to maintain its prestige.

It feels really strange.

Moreover, after Haotian Sect retired, Ning Fengzhi did not think of winning over the four isolated clans.

It's worth noting that Titan clearly stated in the original work that the Min clan were the best scouts on the entire continent, a fact that is universally acknowledged.

It's not that no one realizes the value of the Min clan.

As a result, this so-called best scout ended up bankrupt and starving. This is more than just magical; it's downright magical.