A Roundtable Discussion

After returning to the Academy, Chen Feng went straight to the woods.

If nothing unexpected happens, A Fei will be placed here.

However, not long after entering the woods, Chen Feng heard a frantic squeaking sound approaching from afar, and soon A Fei's figure appeared in front of him.

However, at this moment, A Fei was somewhat panicked and was in a state of running away like a rat with his head in his hands.

Behind it, a dark shadow was following closely.

Seeing this, Chen Feng was startled.

Oh no! How could he forget there's a cat in the woods? What good can come of Tom and Jerry getting together?

"Xiao Hei, stop!" Chen Feng shouted as he shielded the Flying Lightning Rat behind him.

The dark figure stopped in front of him, revealing Xiao Hei's smooth, oily body.

"Meow?" Xiao Hei's cat face was full of confusion.

It was at this moment that Tang San rushed over, stepping on the Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and only stopped when he saw Chen Feng.

"Thank goodness, I almost missed it." Tang San breathed a sigh of relief and then explained the current situation.

It turned out that after Chen Feng and he parted ways, he returned to the Academy with Xiao Wu.

Although everyone else in the Academy had already returned, Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu, the siblings from the Blazing Fire Academy, went out to find a place to eat as a way of entertaining their guests.

Xiao Wu is a lively person, so she immediately wanted to go out and find the group, and also wanted to go shopping.

Tang San did not follow along, intending to settle A Fei first. So he took the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch and went to the forest in the Academy to release A Fei.

After being released, A Fei said he wanted to wander around and familiarize himself with the surroundings. Tang San understood what he meant and didn't stop him. He thought that there couldn't be any danger inside the Academy, so he let A Fei go.

He himself went to the Wooden House to cultivate for a while, but before he could even sit down properly, he noticed through the plants that A Fei had wandered around and actually ended up at Xiao Hei's nest.

It was only then that Tang San suddenly realized there was a cat in the woods, which is the natural enemy of rodents!

So he rushed over.

After hearing Tang San's explanation, Chen Feng understood the situation and said to the Dark Soul Cat squatting to the side, "Xiao Hei, A Fei is my friend, you can't eat him."

Xiao Hei tilted its head, opened its mouth, and patted its mouth with its paw.

Chen Feng leaned closer to take a look and found some food scraps in its mouth, and smelled the aroma of canned food.

"Are you full?"

Xiao Hei nodded, squatted on the ground, rubbed its belly with its paw, and then shook its head, pointing at the Flying Lightning Rat behind Chen Feng.

"Didn't you want to eat it? Then why were you chasing it?" Tang San understood what Xiao Hei meant and couldn't help but ask.

Chen Feng, who was familiar with the habits of felines, guessed, "You're not just chasing them for fun, are you?"

A sheepish expression appeared on Xiao Hei's face. Clearly, Chen Feng had guessed correctly; it had been chasing A Fei just for fun.

Chen Feng rolled his eyes. "Don't mess around like that anymore, you hear me? Other Soul Beast might come and live here, and you can't hurt them."

Meow~

After dealing with Xiao Hei's matter, Chen Feng turned around to comfort A Fei.

In fact, A Fei had calmed down by this time. It understood the conversation between Chen Feng and the Dark Soul Cat and knew that the black cat didn't want to eat it, so it was no longer as scared as before.

"Alright, you two go play by yourselves." Chen Feng ruffled the hair of both the Tom and Jerry.

After the Tom and Jerry left, Chen Feng and Tang San went to the Wooden House together. The others were eating outside, and they didn't plan to go out to look for them, so they stayed there to wait.

While waiting, Chen Feng took out the Music Box that Flender had given him and asked Tang San to try to disassemble it.

The reason he didn't do it himself was because in his previous life he had dismantled countless things from childhood to adulthood, and almost none of them could be completely restored. He could only accept the fact that he was mechanically incompetent.

"So, Xiao San, can you understand this Music Box?"

As a Grandmaster Hidden Weapon making, Tang San had no problem disassembling a Music Box. He first used his Purple Demon Eye to observe the circuitry inside, then used Blue Silver Grass to make a rough copy in case there were any anti-tampering features in the Music Box, and then disassembled the Music Box into parts.

After examining the various parts for a while, Tang San said, "This Music Box is ingeniously designed. The sound-producing structure should be this comb-like metal plate and the metal cylinder it contacts. Inside the metal cylinder, there are protrusions distributed in a certain pattern. As the metal plate rotates, it is moved by these protrusions, which produces regular sounds to form music—that's roughly it."

Chen Feng already understood the principle behind Music Box, and nodded, saying, "Yes, different lengths of metal produce different sounds when plucked. This Music Box should be made using this principle. You see, the teeth of this metal comb are arranged from long to short, so when plucked, the sound produced goes from high to low."

Tang San moved the comb teeth on the metal plate in order and found that it was indeed the case. He shook his head and sighed, "Unfortunately, I don't know much about music. Even if I understood the principle behind this thing, I still couldn't replicate a Music Box that could produce music instead of noise."

Chen Feng smiled. "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 started spinning after he inputted Soul Power.

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 Lightning Yuan 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 anticipation, then suddenly thought of a question, "Xiao San, you said that the Soul Power Circuit of Soul Tool is exposed. So, when we make Soul Tool in the future, shouldn't we prepare a special tool for making Soul Power Circuit?"

"For example?"

For example— Carving Knife.

"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 engrave 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 most often. It can interact significantly with Soul Power. As long as a diamond can carve it, it can be used as a Carving Knife 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 Tool Metal '?"

"Very vivid."

During their conversation, the concepts of Carving Knife and Soul Tool Metal, both related to Soul Tool, 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 the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch and looked at it, saying, "It's not very noticeable from the outside, and it's not convenient to open it right now. Let's go to my dad's place later; I can take out all the medicinal herbs there and see how this Hundred Treasures Pouch works."

Chen Feng nodded. "Alright, the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch is made of fabric. I think its loops might be sewn on, but figuring out the specific technique would be difficult. 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. For a moment, the two were speechless.

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

Time passed slowly amidst casual conversation, 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, scolding them, "Why didn't you two come over when you got back? If Xiao Wu 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.

"A Fei?" Dai Mubai, somewhat puzzled.

They ate outside, so Xiao Wu didn't tell them much, 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, she's protected," Chen Feng said.

"Oh----" Dai Mubai assumed that someone from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect 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 the Blazing Fire Academy. It seems you've made your choice, Huo Wu."

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 come here with the others.

"Few could refuse an invitation from Biological Pioneer, but I'd like to ask, what exactly am I supposed to do here?" Huo Wu asked curiously.

"Here's the thing, I've already read Huo Wu Wu's insights on Ring Fusion, and we also have some of our own understanding of Soul Ring. I invited you here to study together what exactly Soul Ring 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 guys have on Soul Ring?" Huo Wu asked curiously.

"Please have a seat." Chen Feng brought out several wooden stools from the Wooden House and had everyone sit down before beginning to speak, "Through some experiments and our own unique observation techniques, we have preliminarily deduced that Soul Ring might be a special circuit. When Soul Power flows into this circuit, it can produce some magical effects. This is the process by which we use Soul Skill."

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

"Through this," Chen Feng, taking out a Lightning Yuan Stone, "We used some special abilities to observe the existence of circuits within it, then used metal to replicate this circuit structure, and found that the resulting object possessed 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.

"Alright." 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 what I've been feeling."

"Oh?"

"As I've said before, the reason I can perform Ring Fusion is because I can sense the commonalities between different Soul Ring. Then, based on these commonalities, I fuse different Soul Ring together. If the essence of Soul Ring is indeed a circuit, then my Ring Fusion is to connect different circuits through the same structure in different circuits, forming a new circuit." Huo Wu explained her insights to everyone.

She paused, then continued, "Also, I discovered something rather strange."

What is it?

"As you know, I have successfully fused with the Soul Ring 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 Ring was the same."

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

Huo Wu thought for a moment and said, "To be more precise, it's the Foundation Ring on Soul Master of the same attribute. Their circuit structures should be the same, if your circuit theory is correct."

"Furthermore, I have a feeling that the Foundation Ring is very unique compared to other Soul Ring."

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

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

Upon hearing this, Chen Feng instantly had an idea.