Douluo: I am a biologist, awakening the weapon spirit?

Chapter 72: Thoughts on the Essence of Soul Power

A few days later at night, Chen Feng returned to his room.

He had basically spent the past few days in the library, looking up information about soul beasts and soul masters collected by the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect over the generations.

On the one hand, Chen Feng used this opportunity to improve his method of classifying and positioning soul masters, and on the other hand, he also wanted to resolve the doubts in his heart.

What's the doubt? The doubt about the origin of the artifact spirit.

If Chen Feng could figure out the origin of the weapon's martial spirit, he would be able to find a breakthrough point and then conduct research based on the breakthrough point.

However, as one of the oldest sects of artifact martial spirits on the continent, the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect has no records of the origin of artifact martial spirits.

It's as if everyone tacitly accepts the existence of things like artifact martial spirits, but doesn't bother to explore how they came about or what logic they're passed down through.

To be honest, this gave Chen Feng a headache, because he had no way to find a breakthrough, and thus could not bring his research talent to the artifact martial spirit.

There was no other way, he could only focus on other research goals first, which was the mysteries of spirit rings and spirit bones.

Compared with spirit bones, spirit rings are undoubtedly more common and easier to study, and Chen Feng already has some clues.

As a unique product of Douluo Continent, the soul ring has many characteristics.

For example, it can be produced after the death of a soul beast, a soul master can use it to break through the realm, and soul skills can be released as long as soul power is input into it.

Among all the characteristics of the soul ring, the one that Chen Feng cares about most is that it can actually change human genetic material.

The most representative example is the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan.

From the master's explanation, Chen Feng discovered that for any member of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan whose martial soul mutated, the martial soul attributes after the mutation can be found in the soul ring of their parents.

For example, the eighth soul ring of the master’s father is of light attribute, and the sixth soul ring of Liu Erlong’s father is of fire attribute.

If there were only these two examples, Chen Feng would definitely not regard them as a rule.

But according to the master, this kind of example is very common in the family history of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex, which allowed Chen Feng to summarize a rule.

That is, the soul ring of the parent will change its genetic material to a certain extent, resulting in mutant individuals in the offspring.

This phenomenon is more common among biological soul masters, and is particularly evident in the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex family who specialize in dragon blood.

However, Chen Feng knew very well that genetic material was not so easy to change.

He didn't quite understand the rules of the Douluo World, so he had to think about it using the knowledge of Earth.

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

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

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

First of all, it is a virus. Chen Feng thinks this possibility is relatively small.

Although the idea of cultivating immortals through viruses is very exciting and has a strong anti-style, from a logical point of view, it is unlikely that the factor that causes the change in genetic material is a virus.

Because soul masters can obtain soul rings without any contact with soul beasts. Without contact, there is no channel for virus transmission, so naturally they will not be infected with the virus.

If there really is a virus.

The second is chemical factors, which are also less likely because, as I said before, when a soul master obtains a soul ring, he or she can avoid any contact with the soul beast throughout the process.

So, could it be a physical factor? If it is a physical factor, it means that the spirit ring changes the spirit master's genetic material through radiation or rays.

But what does this process look like?
Is it that the soul ring itself carries radiation or rays, and the soul master is affected because he often summons the soul ring, or is it that the human body's genetic material is affected through other means?

Chen Feng was thinking while spinning the pen. The Wanzai Ningshen jade pendant on his chest swayed gently, making his mind clear and focused.

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

"Spirit rings... martial souls... these two are one and the same. Therefore, the influence of spirit rings should first act on the martial soul, and then on the spirit master's genetic material. Therefore, we must first understand the process by which spirit rings affect martial souls."

Chen Feng already had the answer to this question.

Soul power!

He wrote the two words on a piece of paper and circled them.

There is no doubt that the spirit ring affects the martial spirit through spirit power.

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

Compared to the spirit ring changing the martial soul through its own radiation, Chen Feng believes that the spirit ring is more likely and more logical to change the martial soul by changing the nature of the soul power and then the soul power changes the martial soul.

So the question is, after the soul ring changes the nature of the soul power, how does the soul power change the genetic material?

Chen Feng thought about it and wrote a line on the paper.

"Soul power is a kind of radioactive energy?"

This is a guess that may not be correct, but it is the easiest one for Chen Feng to think of at this stage.

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

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

"Humans" and "Soul Beasts".

"In this world, soul beasts will produce soul rings after death, but humans will not. Could it be that the difference between the two lies in the different nature of their soul power?"

Chen Feng wrote the phrase "soul power nature" between the two words "human" and "soul beast".

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

Chen Feng looked at the words on the paper and fell into deep thought. After a while, he blacked out the word "nature" 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 this is all I can think of at this stage. For the time being, I will assume it is a wave.

“Waves have frequencies. If the ability to produce spirit rings is determined by the difference in spirit power frequencies between humans and spirit beasts, then as long as we find a way to change the frequency, perhaps humans will be able to condense spirit rings on their own.

“Furthermore, this theory can also explain why human cultivation often reaches a bottleneck, but can continue to cultivate after obtaining a spirit ring.

"If the human soul power frequency is set to X and the soul beast soul power frequency is set to Y, then the human's advancement should be the process of continuously approaching X to Y... something seems wrong."

Chen Feng frowned. "Doesn't this mean that humans will eventually cultivate into soul beasts? This is obviously unreasonable. They should be somewhere in between."

He picked up the pen and hesitantly wrote a word between "human" and "soul beast".

"god"!
(End of this chapter)