What Cao Pi Did Might Work

Xiao Bai?

Chen Feng glanced at the White Dumpling in Bai Chenxiang's arms and nodded, "Alright, let's give it a try."

3

He felt that Xiao Bai's intelligence was insufficient to cooperate with the experiment.

But experiments are meant to explore all possibilities.

After receiving permission, Bai Chenxiang placed Xiao Bai on the ground and then demonstrated by channeling her Soul Power into the frame in front of it.

But no matter how Bai Chenxiang demonstrated, Xiao Bai just stared at her with her big, innocent eyes, showing no sign of trying to do it.

This made Bai Chenxiang a little discouraged. "Bro Feng, why don't we let Xiao Hei do it? Xiao Bai isn't smart enough."

Chen Feng stroked his chin, a thought suddenly forming in his mind. "No rush, let me try again. Inputting Soul Power isn't as complicated as Ring Expansion; even low-intelligence Soul Beast might be able to learn it."

"Then what should we do?" Bai Chenxiang asked curiously.

Huo Wu, who had been observing from the sidelines, now had a question: What is Ring Expansion?

She instinctively felt this was a very important question, but she didn't ask it at that moment, instead continuing to remain a quiet observer.

Chen Feng approached Bai Chenxiang. "Xiangxiang, do you still have any of the fruits that Xiao Bai usually eats?"

"Yes, Bro Feng, do you want some?" Bai Chenxiang asked blankly.

"No, I want to use it as a teaching aid."

"Oh." Although Bai Chenxiang didn't understand, she still took out two apples from the Indigo Sea and handed them to Chen Feng.

"Xiao Bai's favorite food is apples, so I buy some every day, and I eat some myself when I have free time."

Chen Feng took the apple and asked, "Has it been washed?"

"It's been washed."

"Alright, Xiangxiang, you'll follow my instructions from now on." Chen Feng squatted down, holding an apple in each hand.

"Okay." Bai Chenxiang also squatted down, looking ready for battle.

At this moment, Xiao Bai's gaze had shifted to the apple in Chen Feng's hand, his big, innocent eyes filled with longing.

Chen Feng ignored it and instead pointed to the soul-guiding frame in front of him, saying, "Input Soul Power."

Bai Chenxiang obediently did as she was told. Two seconds later, Chen Feng called for a stop and handed her the apple in his left hand, saying, "Take a bite."

Although Bai Chenxiang didn't understand, she still took a small bite of the apple.

The White Dumpling looked at Bai Chenxiang, then at the bitten apple, and blinked its big eyes.

Chen Feng observed its reaction, then repeated the same trick, and Bai Chenxiang obediently followed the command.

He wasn't sure if his method would work, because theoretically, conditioned reflexes require a nervous system as a hardware foundation, and the White Dumpling clearly didn't meet the requirements.

But Soul Beast are not ordinary creatures; who knows, they might just become one?

With this in mind, Chen Feng and Bai Chenxiang repeated the exercise several times together. Then, Chen Feng held the apple in his right hand a short distance in front of Xiao Bai and said to it, "Input your Soul Power."

Xiao Bai instinctively hopped forward, wanting to eat the apple, but Chen Feng pulled his right hand back, pointed to the soul guidance frame, and said in a more emphasizing tone, "Input Soul Power!"

Xiao Bai looked at the metal frame in front of it, and seemed to finally understand something. It hopped lightly and landed on the frame, then closed its big eyes.

The three Foundation Establishment items within the framework immediately reacted, emitting a white light. This white light began to spread across the Soul Guidance Framework, starting Starting Point the three Foundation Establishment items, and soon connected with each other to form a complete ring.

But soon, the white ring began to dissipate.

After a moment's thought, Chen Feng had Tang San try to inject his Life Force into the metal frame as well, and then prepared to have Bai Yang try it again.

But before Chen Feng could speak to Bai Yang, just as Tang San was injecting his Life Force into the framework, an astonishing scene unfolded.

The white ring that was dissipating reformed and, as time passed, its color rapidly deepened, turning yellow in the blink of an eye.

Chen Feng, seeing the yellow ring still deepening in color, suddenly realized what was happening. He pulled Bai Chenxiang back a few steps away from the soul-guiding frame, then reminded the somewhat dazed Bai Yang, "Quickly absorb the Soul Ring!"

Bai Yang snapped out of his daze, swallowed hard, and tried to use his Soul Power to activate the yellow ring around him.

He succeeded. As he activated it, the yellow ring gradually shrank, transforming into a beam of light that entered Bai Yang's body.

The Shunatsu the yellow ring disappeared, the Wind Slime Xiao Bai seemed to be struck by some invisible force, bouncing off the Soul Guidance Frame and landing not far outside the frame.

It opened its eyes, its big, innocent eyes filled with confusion and bewilderment, clearly not understanding what had just happened.

But this doubt and confusion came and went quickly, because Chen Feng handed it a plump, red apple.

"Thank you, little one. History will remember you—no, yours."

Just as Xiao Bai began to enjoy the delicious and sweet apple, the others had already gathered around Chen Feng, their faces mostly filled with excitement and agitation, except for Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu, who looked completely shocked.

"Really, it really happened?" Huo Wushuang was dumbfounded.

"This is unbelievable, am I dreaming?" Huo Wu looked at the now-calm metal frame, her voice slightly unsteady. She subconsciously pinched her thigh. "It doesn't hurt."

Huo Wushuang's voice was full of resentment, "Sister, is it possible that you pinched my thigh?"

Huo Wu coughed awkwardly, then walked forward as if nothing had happened and said to Chen Feng, "Mr. Chen Feng, congratulations, your experiment was a success."

"Without Miss Huo Wu's help, this experiment would have been impossible," Chen Feng said with a smile.

"Just call me Huo Wu. What are your plans for the future?" Huo Wu asked.

"After conducting two more experiments to confirm that this is not a coincidence, we can consider how to apply this technology," Chen Feng replied without hesitation.

"A very cautious approach. I'm really looking forward to the final result," Huo Wu praised.

Gu Yue Ling glanced at Bai Yang, who was absorbing the Soul Ring, and said, "Previously, obtaining the Foundation Ring required hunting specific types of Soul Beast; that problem should be solved in the future."

Chen Feng nodded. "Indeed, the earlier the Foundation Ring is acquired, the better. A low age limit makes it difficult to Ring Expansion. Only with the Artificial Foundation Ring Technology can this path be considered basically smooth."

"I was just about to ask, what exactly is Ring Expansion?" Huo Wu asked curiously.

"This is a special technique for obtaining Soul Ring, different from the traditional method of hunting Soul Beast to obtain them," Chen Feng explained.

"Such a technique actually exists?" Huo Wu's eyes widened, and she quickly seemed to remember something, asking, "How many of you have a ten-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, and you used this technique as well?"

"That's right," Chen Feng said with a smile.

"Can you teach me this technique?" Huo Wu asked eagerly.

Chen Feng nodded slightly. "Of course I can teach you, but you need to accept our philosophy. Otherwise, even if I give you the technology, you won't be able to use it."

"What are your philosophies?" Huo Wu asked.

"This can't be explained in just a few words," Chen Feng said with a smile.

In the days that followed, Chen Feng explained his own ideology to Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang in detail, successfully getting them on board.

He then conducted several more experiments with Artificially Created Foundation Ring and drew some conclusions.

First, there's the issue of age. The Artificially Created Foundation Ring requires the assistance of Soul Beast, and its age is inevitably shorter than that of the assisting Soul Beast.

But this isn't a big problem, because at this stage, the Soul Master who need the Foundation Ring are basically the new generation of junior Soul Master.

After all, the Foundation Building Method has been published for six years, and most Soul Master who need the Foundation Ring Foundation Ring have already obtained it.

In other words, the age of the auxiliary Soul Beast for the Artificially Created Foundation Ring does not need to be too high; Soul Beast with seven or eight hundred years of cultivation is more than enough.

Although Soul Beast of this age are not particularly intelligent, with proper training, they can still easily perform simple tasks such as inputting Soul Power.

Just like when Chen Feng trained the Wind Slime, using food as bait to tame a group of docile Soul Beast as Foundation Establishment auxiliary Soul Beast is a promising endeavor.

Then there's the issue of attributes. The attributes of the Foundation Establishment object within the Soul Guidance Framework must be the same as the attributes of the Soul Beast into which Soul Power is input, or more accurately, the same as the attributes of the Soul Power input into it.

For example, the Wind Attribute Foundation Ring can only be created by Wind Slime; if it's Dark Soul Cat, nothing will happen.

This means that to create Foundation Ring with a certain attribute, you need Soul Beast of the same attribute to assist you.

Unless there is a soul tool like the Nine-Turn Soul-Changing Instrument Soul Tool can change the attributes of Soul Power.

But in this day and age, it's just a dream.

Furthermore, regarding the attribute issue, there is another shortcoming of Artificially Created Foundation Ring that cannot be solved for the time being: it is impossible to create Foundation Ring of all attributes, because not all attributes can find corresponding Foundation Establishment materials.

For example, the Poison Attribute.

This question was raised by Meng Yiran. She pointed out that there were no Poison Attribute Foundation Establishment items on the market, and that she enhanced the toxicity of her Martial Soul by directly absorbing poison.

Similarly, for rare attributes such as killing, fate, and evil, no corresponding Foundation Establishment materials can be found.

In addition, there is the Life Attribute. Although Chen Feng knew of the existence of the Gold of Life, it was impossible to find in this era, so it could basically be considered as non-existent.

Therefore, the Artificial Foundation Ring Technology has limitations.

Even so, it can still meet the needs of most Soul Master and can become an important piece of the puzzle for the New Order of Chen Feng.

However, a favorable wind is needed for its proper application.

Just then, this favorable wind arrived.

"An invitation to a court gala three days from now?" Chen Feng asked, flipping through the invitation.

"Yes, Mr. Chen, His Majesty originally intended to invite you and your companions upon your return, but His Highness the Crown Prince heard that you seem to have been busy lately and suggested that the party be postponed for a few days until you have more free time," replied the attendant dressed in court attire.

"Okay, I'll be there."

"I look forward to your arrival. Goodbye."

Watching the waiter leave, Chen Feng put down the invitation, a thoughtful look on his face.

He had already set the development path for Hydra, with Heaven Dou as the primary focus and Star Luo Empire as a secondary focus, which meant that he needed to cooperate with the Heaven Dou Empire.

However, there are different ways to cooperate, and one of the most important issues is the right to take the lead.

How can one gain control? Naturally, it requires Heaven Dou to actively seek Chen Feng's help, thus giving him a chance to take the lead.

In addition, finding suitable partners is also very important.

First, Xue Ye should be ruled out; as an Old Deng, he clearly lacks ambition and wouldn't be willing to go through all that trouble with Chen Feng.

Between Xue Qinghe and Xue Beng, Chen Feng leans more towards Xue Qinghe, or rather, Qian Renxue.

Based on their previous interactions, Qian Renxue seemed to have little interest in the Nobles, while Xue Beng was the opposite, looking down on the Commoners.

If Chen Feng could convince Qian Renxue to be one of his kind, that would be ideal. The two could then work together to deal with the stubborn faction among the Nobles. In that case, Qian Renxue's identity would need to be properly addressed.

However, if Qian Renxue doesn't cooperate, her identity can be used as leverage to ensure that Chen Feng can remove her at any time and then promote Xue Beng as a backup option.

In this situation, if even Xue Beng refuse to cooperate, then...

"Cao Pi's plan might be feasible..." Chen Feng silently conceived this idea.

Cao Pi replaced the Han dynasty with the Wei dynasty. If Chen Feng really can't find a suitable collaborator, then replacing Xue with Chen Feng wouldn't be a bad option.

However, unless absolutely necessary, Chen Feng still doesn't want to personally take charge, because managing a country is no easy task. He's already busy enough and doesn't want to be a workaholic.

"The key to everything lies in what Qian Renxue is thinking. I hope to find out something at the palace gala three days from now," Chen Feng pondered to himself.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

That evening, several carriages from the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace stopped at the entrance of the Hydra Academy.

Chen Feng and his friends, along with the Huo Family siblings, dressed in their finest clothes, boarded the royal carriage one after another and slowly made their way towards the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.

Chen Feng, Ning Rongrong Zhu Zhuqing were sitting in the same carriage. He noticed that both girls were wearing the bracelets he had given them before, and couldn't help but laugh, "These two bracelets don't quite match the rest of what you're wearing."

The jewelry he bought wasn't cheap, but it wasn't particularly high-end either. Compared to the two girls' outfits today, the two bracelets looked rather cheap.

Zhu Zhuqing said calmly, "I think it matches perfectly. None of my other hand jewelry suits it better."

"I think so too," Ning Rongrong said with a grin. "This is a gift from the Biological Pioneer; it's not something you can easily buy on the market. Besides, we don't need to use superficial things to show off our value."

"Alright, I was the one who was too superficial." Chen Feng shook his head and chuckled.