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

"This Flying Thunder Rat is so smart! It can actually understand what Chen Feng means," Ning Rongrong said in surprise.

"It's mainly because Chen Feng's gestures are very vivid. Even if you can't understand human language, you can understand the general meaning just by watching his actions," Dai Mubai said, arms crossed.

Xiao Wu was also a little surprised. She only knew that there was a Flying Thunder Rat with 30,000 years of cultivation in the Star Dou Great Forest, which was the current patriarch of the Swift Lightning Rat clan. She didn't expect that another Flying Thunder Rat would be born at some point.

Considering the time frame, this kind of special individual is truly a once-in-a-millennium occurrence, and the age of this Flying Thunder Rat is just right for Chen Feng. He is really lucky.

Meanwhile, Tang San was closely monitoring Chen Feng's condition. This experiment had started better than ever before, so they should know tonight whether Chen Feng's soul ring idea was feasible.

However, Chen Feng encountered a problem at this moment. When he made contact between his soul power and the Flying Thunder Rat's soul power, he immediately felt a sense of familiarity.

He had felt this way before, during the two times he absorbed spirit rings.

However, just as Chen Feng was about to draw the Flying Thunder Rat's soul power into his body, just like when he absorbed the soul ring before, he found that he couldn't draw the unique soul power from the other side at all.

The Flying Thunder Rat has stronger soul power, while his soul power is relatively weaker. The only way to use the weak to draw out the strong is for the stronger one to lose its self-awareness.

This refers to the traditional method of hunting and ring-collecting.

After failing to draw soul power into his body, Chen Feng began to try to directly merge soul power with the Flying Thunder Rat.

The attempt was successful, but Chen Feng felt something was very wrong.

To put it simply, it's like mixing sand and water together. On the surface, they appear to have become one lump, but in reality, the sand is still sand and the water is still water.

It remains the same as it was before it came together.

Then the experiment cannot be considered a success.

Chapter 107 A Series of Twists and Turns

As Chen Feng sensed the fusion of soul power, he felt somewhat troubled.

The water and sand appear to be mixed on the surface, but in reality they are clearly distinct, making it impossible to achieve the desired effect of the dust storm.

If it were a matter of hunting for a ring, then Chen Feng could directly seize this clump of fused soul power.

Even though the water and sand haven't mixed together yet, it's still more powerful than before overall.

This is equivalent to a promotion.

But since the Flying Thunder Rat is alive, Chen Feng can't take this lump away. Water and sand will eventually separate, so he won't be able to advance.

While maintaining the fusion of soul power with the Flying Thunder Rat, Chen Feng's mind raced.

He couldn't draw the Flying Thunder Rat's soul power into his body, nor could he directly seize the clump of soul power he was currently fusing with. So he had to find another way to make his own soul power stronger.

So, where is the solution?

Chen Feng frowned, racking his brains as he pondered.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning struck his mind, and he remembered an idiom from his past life.

If you want to take it, you must first give it to it.

Since he couldn't draw the Flying Thunder Rat's soul power into his own body, he might as well do the opposite and simply transfer his own soul power into the Flying Thunder Rat's body.

It's just a change of venue; the effect is the same.

Without hesitation, Chen Feng immediately activated his soul power and began to slowly transfer it to the Flying Thunder Rat.

The Flying Thunder Rat sensed the human opposite it transferring soul power to it and initially resisted instinctively.

Because it has never experienced anything like this before.

However, it quickly remembered the forest overlord's command, suppressed its resistance, and allowed the human's soul power to flow through its body.

The Flying Thunder Rat knew it wouldn't get hurt because the forest overlord was watching nearby, ensuring its safety.

Chen Feng tried his best to control the soul power he was sending out, making it participate in the soul power circulation within the Flying Thunder Rat's body, over and over again.

During this process, Chen Feng's soul power gradually began to deplete because his soul power control ability was not strong enough, so he could not fully control the soul power sent into the Flying Thunder Rat's body.

The soul power he couldn't control dissipated into the Flying Thunder Rat's body, becoming disordered energy.

In the future, these disordered energies may be slowly absorbed by the Flying Thunder Rat, but that has nothing to do with today's events.

Chen Feng didn't care about the loss of his soul power. He only firmly controlled the portion of soul power that he could control, using it as the core to continue participating in the soul power operation of the Flying Thunder Rat.

Gradually, Chen Feng's soul power began to undergo some subtle changes, and he also gradually became familiar with the Flying Thunder Rat's soul power circulation route.

During this process of change, although some of Chen Feng's soul power dissipated into the Flying Thunder Rat's body, the Flying Thunder Rat's soul power was also absorbed by Chen Feng in wisps.

The soul power of the man and the rat thus achieved a very weak exchange, which promoted further changes in Chen Feng's soul power.

When Chen Feng's soul power changed to a certain extent and began to be able to compete with Flying Thunder Rat's soul power, this change naturally stopped.

At this moment, Chen Feng understood that the soul power fusion experiment he had personally conducted had been a success.

At this point, the experimental process is complete, and he should now use the soul power detection crystal to test his soul power.

Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Feng withdrew his soul power from the Flying Thunder Rat's body. At this moment, his soul power was only about 10% of its total amount, but its intensity had increased significantly.

After he had collected all the remaining soul power, he began to try to use Tai Chi to restrain it and bring it back to its original circulation path.

However, although Chen Feng successfully controlled most of the soul power in his body, a small portion of the soul power escaped his control and spread outwards.

At this moment, Chen Feng's heart stirred. Recalling the circulation route he had felt inside the Flying Thunder Rat, he began to guide this small part.

The next moment, to the astonishment of the Shrek Academy members, a purple spirit ring emerged from Chen Feng's body.

However, this spirit ring appears slightly ethereal compared to a normal spirit ring, with a fleeting and uncertain feel, as if it lacks something that holds it together.

"Oh my god!"

Upon witnessing this miraculous scene, Ning Rongrong couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

The faces of the others were also filled with shock.

Oscar said in a hoarse voice:

"I feel like I've witnessed history."

Dai Mubai looked at Chen Feng with admiration in his eyes, and he said with emotion:

"This history was created by Xiaofeng. It is our good fortune to live in the same era as him and witness such a scene."

At this moment, Chen Feng was also filled with joy.

When that small portion of uncontrollable soul power spread outwards, and he tried to guide it using the soul power circulation path he had previously sensed within the Flying Thunder Rat, he clearly felt the sensation of a breakthrough.

This feeling is real, not just speculation like before.

Although this feeling was subtly different from the previous two times he obtained a spirit ring, he had undoubtedly succeeded.

The small portion of soul power he guided should have transformed into his third soul ring.

It's just unclear whether there are any soul skills involved.

Chen Feng could certainly sense that there was something wrong with his third spirit ring; it probably wasn't fully formed yet, but he didn't care.

Since this experiment wasn't originally intended to involve spirit rings—that would be the next step in the experiment—Chen Feng was already completely satisfied with what he had accomplished.

He believed that once he summarized the experiment, he would be able to complete the task of condensing soul rings.

Just as Chen Feng was about to end the experiment, a new surge of soul power flowed out from the Flying Thunder Rat's body.

Perhaps because his earlier action of withdrawing his soul power caused the Flying Thunder Rat to misunderstand and think that he needed more soul power, the Flying Thunder Rat then transferred its own soul power to him.

After all, it was brought here by the forest overlord, and this human has given it so much reward, so it definitely has to cooperate.

However, the Flying Thunder Rat cannot allow itself to deplete too much of its soul power. After all, the Star Dou Great Forest is not a particularly safe place, and it must maintain a good state at all times, which is an instinct of a soul beast.

However, on the one hand, one must transfer soul power to the human on the other side, and on the other hand, one cannot allow one's own soul power to be depleted too much. These are two completely contradictory requirements.

It's very difficult to do both of these things at the same time; most spirit beasts would probably be stumped by this problem.

However, the Flying Thunder Rat was a clever rat in its pack, and this problem was no challenge for it. It quickly came up with a good solution.

It's very simple, it just gets its energy from other sources, right?

Where else could there be energy around? The Flying Thunder Rat quickly remembered the pile of stones that the human had placed nearby.

These stones seemed incredibly magical to the Flying Thunder Rat, containing abundant lightning-attribute energy—truly a treasure unlike anything they had ever seen before.

The Flying Thunder Rat felt that these stones could replenish its energy, so it began to absorb them without hesitation.

In this way, the Flying Thunder Rat's soul power surged into Chen Feng's body, while the energy of the pile of Thunder Element Stones next to it was absorbed by the Flying Thunder Rat, and the three of them successfully formed a chain.

Once this chain was formed, Chen Feng couldn't end the experiment even if he wanted to, because the renewed convergence of soul power made it impossible for him to let go.

He was caught off guard at first because the Flying Thunder Rat's soul power was fundamentally different from his own. If it was only a very small amount, he could still consume it, just like before.

However, the Flying Thunder Rat was now supplying too much soul power, and Chen Feng suddenly felt like he had indigestion.

Fortunately, he quickly came up with a solution: to directly channel the soul power into his new soul ring.

However, this approach soon became ineffective because the soul power surging from the Flying Thunder Rat suddenly increased in strength, completely breaking free from Chen Feng's control.

These violent soul energies surged and crashed through Chen Feng's body, transforming it in an extremely forceful way, while also causing him immense pain.

"Pfft!" Chen Feng spat out a mouthful of blood, and his body began to tremble, a sign that he was enduring great pain.

The spurting blood splattered onto the Flying Thunder Rat, making it realize that something was wrong and immediately stop transmitting its soul power.

It also tried to retrieve the soul power it had sent out, but only managed to retrieve a portion of it.

This situation would never have happened before. As a special individual with a thousand-year history, the Flying Thunder Rat has a pretty good control over its own soul power.

However, it has now absorbed a large amount of energy from the Thunder Stone, which has brought about some changes to it.

Soul beasts are able to absorb energy directly from the outside world, a unique ability they possess compared to humans.

This ability varies in strength, and the stronger ones are able to develop it into a talent.

The principle of the Foundation Building Technique is to allow biological Soul Masters to acquire this talent from Soul Beasts through Soul Rings.

Even so, the abilities that humans acquire cannot compare to those of soul beasts.

For example, right now, the Flying Thunder Rat directly absorbed the energy of that pile of Thunder Element Stones into its body.

While this increased its total soul power, it also reduced its ability to control its own soul power.

The flying rat must go through a long period of digestion and adaptation before it can fully control this energy.

This is certainly a good thing for the Flying Thunder Mouse, because it has become stronger.

But at this critical juncture, this increase in strength has made it unable to reclaim all the soul power it has sent out.

Some of the soul power remained in Chen Feng's body, causing him considerable pain. Flying Thunder Rat could only do its best.

It can't let anything happen to this human, otherwise the forest overlord won't let him get away with it.

Chen Feng's vomiting of blood shocked everyone around him. Zhao Wuji, who was standing next to him, stared intently at the Flying Thunder Rat, instinctively suspecting that the little thing was behind it all.

"Wasn't everything fine just now? How could this happen?" Ning Rongrong asked Chen Feng with concern.

“Tail…” Xiao Wu murmured.

"What tail? Explain yourself!" Zhao Wuji snapped impatiently.

“The Flying Thunder Rat’s tail has grown longer; its cultivation level has increased at this time.” Xiao Wu was somewhat at a loss. “This Flying Thunder Rat’s current age may have exceeded Xiao Feng’s tolerance, which is why this situation has occurred.”

"What!?" Everyone was in disbelief. They had never encountered such a situation before, let alone heard of it.

That makes sense, since in the past, when humans obtained spirit rings, the target spirit beasts were already dead, so the age limit would definitely not change.

However, the target of Chen Feng's soul ring experiment this time was a special individual among soul beasts that is rare to find even once in tens of millions of years.

What is a special individual? In human terms, it's a genius.

A person with a higher IQ than their peers, who cultivates faster than their peers, and whose breakthroughs are as easy as eating and drinking—that is what is called a genius.

Previously, the Flying Thunder Rat was already close to breaking through, but the Thunder Element Stones that Chen Feng took out helped it kick that final step, allowing it to directly enter the next stage.

That is, it has advanced to a two-thousand-year-old soul beast.

The sudden increase in the Flying Thunder Rat's soul power, coupled with its sudden advancement which made it unable to control its own soul power, led to the current situation.

Previously, the unique characteristics of the Flying Thunder Rat facilitated Chen Feng's soul ring experiments, but now these same characteristics have backfired on him.

This is the capricious nature of fate.

"Wait!" Zhao Wuji pointed to the purple soul ring on Chen Feng's body and said:

"Hasn't the spirit ring already been successfully formed? Why is he still continuing?"