Nan Feng: I Asked the Sea God for Technical Advice, but That Old Geezer Said He Couldn't Understand It Either!

"Could I ask you, this peerless genius, to explain it to me?" Bibi Dong asked patiently.

"Ahem."

Nan Feng cleared his throat, thoroughly enjoying the feeling of being a teacher,

"What I explained just now was merely the standard manufacturing process for Soul Tools. At their core, it was nothing more than gathering Soul Power, converting it, and guiding it."

"But the core of my Soul Tool is the Frequency Locking Array I painstakingly developed, combined with the Resonance Coupling Array!"

Nan Feng raised three fingers and began breaking it down in an orderly manner:

"Step one: self-synchronization."

"Through their built-in Soul Guidance Circuits, the multiple pendulums rapidly achieve exactly the same oscillation frequency the instant they are activated."

"By using physical Synchronous Resonance together with Soul Power wavelength locking, they form an absolutely stable reference frequency source."

"Step two: lock onto the Soul Master's energy frequency."

"Once activated, it precisely reads and locks onto your Soul Power fluctuations, making the Soul Power wavelengths emitted by the Pendulum Soul Guidance Device perfectly match your personal Soul Power frequency. In other words, it synchronizes your exclusive frequency into it."

"Step three: modulate the frequency of ambient spiritual energy and create deep resonance."

"The array radiates a finely adjusted Soul Power field outward, forcibly pulling the energy frequency of the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy into the same frequency as the Soul Master."

"That way, the environmental energy produces intense energy resonance with you. It is equivalent to the outside world becoming a pair of hands pushing you to cultivate, greatly reducing consumption and accelerating absorption."

Nan Feng crossed his arms. "It sounds simple, but actually developing and engraving such a compound logical array onto a piece of metal no larger than your palm is extremely difficult and extremely complex."

Bibi Dong looked at him strangely. "I think... it doesn't sound simple at all."

Nan Feng coughed twice. "That's because you don't understand the principles! If you understood the principles, it wouldn't sound difficult in theory either."

"But actually making this thing is practically hell difficulty!"

Nan Feng's expression turned serious. "First of all, just researching the Frequency Locking Array and Resonance Coupling Array took me nearly twenty years before I succeeded. Even then, they could only barely provide preliminary assistance."

"But as you know, Soul Masters of different ranks possess completely different Soul Power intensity and density. Synchronizing with those frequencies is far too difficult. If a Soul Master's Soul Power intensity is too high, it can easily damage the Soul Guidance Circuits in reverse, causing the array to fail instantly."

"It's like hard friction between precision gears. The intense Soul Power fluctuations of high-level Soul Masters wear down the Soul Guidance Circuits like a file. So, the stronger a Soul Master's Soul Power is, the greater the demands on the load-bearing capacity of this Soul Tool's core material."

Nan Feng let out a long sigh. "At first, I always wanted to find and fuse extremely high-strength rare metals to withstand it head-on."

"But I kept failing, because I discovered that no inert metal could endure the long-term resonance of Titled Douluo-level Soul Power. Over time, the Soul Guidance Circuits inside the metal would inevitably suffer fatigue damage."

"This dead end stumped me for a long time, until I later accidentally obtained a special head Spirit Bone."

Bibi Dong froze. "A Spirit Bone?! You used a Spirit Bone to make a Soul Tool?!"

Nan Feng stretched out his fair little hand and rapped Bibi Dong on the forehead with a tap, then scolded her in an old-fashioned tone:

"Stay quiet during the teacher's lesson, listen carefully, and stop interrupting."

Bibi Dong covered her forehead and glared at him, but she still forcibly held herself back.

"That Spirit Bone came from a bat-type soul beast whose name I didn't even know."

Nan Feng sank into reminiscence. "Its cultivation wasn't particularly high, only around a thousand years. It accidentally wandered into my poisonous spiderweb and was trapped fast. The poison wasn't lethal, so it was left unable to live or die, suffering in the web for several days. By the time I found it, it had just drawn its final breath."

"And it was precisely because of that extreme pain and resentment that it produced an extraordinarily special head Spirit Bone."

A feverish light flickered in Nan Feng's mismatched eyes:

"Normally, a head Spirit Bone should be one complete skull. But the head Spirit Bone produced by that bat was split into three pieces—one left, one right, and one in the middle."

"And I was surprised to discover that there was a special natural resonance between those three bone fragments!"

"At the time, I thought that bats were predators that relied on emitted echo waves to locate and catch prey. Perhaps this mutated Spirit Bone had perfectly inherited that characteristic of sound-wave resonance."

"More importantly, whether it was a low-level Soul Master who had just begun cultivation or a level ninety-nine Peak Douluo, they could absorb Spirit Bones without any rejection! That showed that Spirit Bones possessed extremely powerful adaptability and load-bearing capacity for Soul Power, far surpassing any inert metal!"

"So I let my imagination run wild and tried embedding those three Spirit Bones of the same origin into the cores of these three Pendulum Soul Guidance Devices! I used the natural sympathetic resonance between the Spirit Bones to cushion and reduce the physical wear on the Soul Guidance Circuits during high-intensity Soul Power resonance."

Bibi Dong held her breath as she listened, her hands unconsciously clenching. She could not help asking, "Then did you succeed?"

Nan Feng looked at her, his expression somewhat complicated as he shook his head:

"No. I succeeded, but I also failed."

"I succeeded because this method really did work. The Spirit Bones perfectly served as buffer layers, greatly reducing that high-frequency wear."

"I failed because the laws of physics ultimately could not be completely defied. The Soul Guidance Array would still suffer wear under ultra-high-intensity resonance."

"The three thousand-year Spirit Bones merely prolonged the process of that wear. The fundamental problem still had not been thoroughly resolved."

Nan Feng spread his hands helplessly,

"But it could still barely be used."

"At least, I forcibly extended it from a disposable model that broke after one use into a monthly disposable model."

Bibi Dong looked at Nan Feng before her, her expression growing increasingly complicated. She took a deep breath and pressed on, "Then... what happened afterward?"

"Afterward?" Nan Feng shrugged helplessly. "Since I couldn't find a way to completely solve the wear on the Soul Tool base, I could only use the simplest and crudest rich-man approach."

Bibi Dong paused. "A rich-man approach?"

"Yeah, just replace it when it breaks!"

Nan Feng said righteously, "Every month without fail, I re-engraved and replaced the base. It was a little troublesome, but this thing was the key cheat that let me safely reach the realm of a level ninety-nine Ultimate Douluo so quickly. No matter how troublesome it was, I had to grit my teeth and keep using it!"

He paused, rubbing his little chin. "As for the ultimate improvement to this thing, that was something that happened after I later went to Sea God Island."

At the mention of "Sea God Island," Bibi Dong's expression instantly became somewhat unnatural.

The source of that crushing defeat and humiliation from back then seemed to have been stirred once more. She suppressed the discomfort in her heart and asked with slight hesitation, "Could it be... that Sea God Island had a way to solve this problem?"

"Them?" Nan Feng rolled his eyes dramatically and mocked them without restraint. "What the hell would they know!"

Bibi Dong was a little bewildered by his sudden disdain. "Then you..."

"When I first went to Sea God Island, I went there to seek advice from the Sea God."

Nan Feng curled his lips, his face full of disappointment. "After all, before that guy became a god tens of thousands of years ago, he was at least a top-tier Soul Engineer. The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, that genuine god-level Soul Tool, was personally made by him!"

"I figured that since he could make a god-level Soul Tool, his vision and technical skill had to be beyond question! Asking him to give me some pointers on my Resonance Array should have been easy, right?"

"And what happened?"

Bibi Dong unconsciously followed his words and asked, "What happened?"

"That old geezer stared at my array for ages, then finally said that he couldn't understand it either!"

Nan Feng threw back his head with a long sigh, his delicate little face filled with shattered illusions and resentment:

"Damn it! Every lofty, glorious illusion I had about the Sea God shattered all over the floor that day!"