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Chapter 241 Divine Beast Bloodline, Genetic Predisposition
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into the night.

In front of the Golden Hall on Tianzhu Peak.

Wu Wen sat by the campfire.

Look up at the stars.

Although the clouds obscured the starlight.

However, Wu Wen was still able to observe the stars in the night sky through the gaps in the clouds.

"The moon sets behind the Azure Dragon!"

"A lunar halo also appeared."

"It's going to get windy!"

Looking at the stars that night, Wu Wen muttered to himself.

"The moon enters the tail of the Azure Dragon" refers to the moon entering the position of the Tail Mansion, one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions.

This celestial change foreshadows windy weather.

A lunar halo is a white ring of light formed by the refraction of moonlight through ice crystals in cirrus clouds at high altitudes.

Its appearance is usually accompanied by the development of cirrostratus clouds, which are often located at the forefront of warm fronts, indicating that there may be wind and rain in the next day.

This perfectly illustrates the proverb: "A halo around the sun at midnight means rain before dawn; a halo around the moon at noon means wind before dawn."

Understanding celestial phenomena and observing celestial bodies to predict weather changes is the foundation of Louguan Daoism.

Wu Wen observes the stars every day, which is actually a way of checking the weather forecast.

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"嘤~"

"嘤~"

Suddenly, a baby-like cry came from afar.

Wu Wen turned his head and looked in the direction from which the sound came.

The Li people's leader, Ma Daxiong, and others also turned around to look curiously.

Only Master Zhiyuan remained seated firmly in place, without moving an inch.

In the deep mountains and forests, the cries of many animals are very similar to those of a baby crying.

This wasn't the first time Wu Wen had encountered this situation.

For example, he heard about it at night when he first accompanied Master Zhu to Nanshan to collect herbs.

But this time, the sound was clearly different from before. This baby-like cry was mixed with highly enticing sound waves.

Once an ordinary person hears it, they will be distracted and bewildered, and will involuntarily walk towards the source of the sound.

Anything capable of making such a sound must be extraordinary.

Wu Wen stood up, went to the edge of the cliff, and looked down into the distance.

Under the dim moonlight.

He suddenly caught a glimpse of a dark shadow flashing past in the dense forest.

Despite the shadow's extremely fast movement, Wu Wen instantly caught a glimpse of its appearance: a human face and a jackal's body, with wings on its back, and it moved like a snake, slithering and coiling.

Combined with the baby-like crying, Wu Wen immediately recognized the dark figure.

The mythical beast recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas: the Huashe (化蛇).

"Seriously, such a thing really exists in this world!"

Wu Wen was startled.

Remembering that he had previously encountered a giant python that was a hundred meters long, he was no longer puzzled.

Wu Wen's eyes were fixed on the snake, and he noticed that every time it hid in one place, it would emit an alluring call, and then move to another place to continue calling.

Judging from the direction it changed, it is gradually moving closer to Tianzhu Peak where Wu Wen is located.

"Is this directed at me?"

Wu Wen's lips curled up slightly, revealing a smile.

He was still wondering whether he should go down the mountain to find this thing and study it, but unexpectedly the other party took the initiative to deliver it to his door.

So Wu Wen simply stood there and waited quietly.

The snake changed positions several times.

An hour later, we finally arrived at the foot of Tianzhu Peak.

However, after a long time, it still showed no sign of going up the mountain, as if it knew that there was something terrible on Tianzhu Peak that made it afraid and dared not go forward rashly.

"Not coming up?"

"What a coward! He doesn't even deserve to be called a divine beast!"

Wu Wen saw that it really dared not go up the mountain.

Without wasting any more time, he leaped down from Tianzhu Peak.

At the foot of Tianzhu Peak.

The snake, hiding in the shadows, saw a figure falling rapidly above its head and was so frightened that it immediately darted away into the distance.

"Why run!"

Wu Wen descended from the sky, his body gliding nimbly through the air as he sped after the snake.

Seeing this, the snake sped up its escape, plunging into the dense forest and weaving between the giant trees, attempting to use the trees to block Wu Wen's pursuit.

However, Wu Wen was completely unaffected by these trees.

He first practiced his movement techniques in the forest.

"Crane Dance Steps!"

Wu Wen then used his initial movement technique.

Although Crane Dance Step is only a basic martial art, with Wu Wen's current powerful strength, it has long since broken through the boundaries of martial arts and is as powerful as magic.

At this moment, Wu Wen was like a ghost in the night, his shadow flickering as he moved through the forest like the wind, and soon caught up with the fleeing snake.

"A crane carrying a plum blossom!"

Wu Wen's palm was as sharp as a crane's beak, striking out with supersonic speed.

Just as his palm was about to strike the snake on the back of its neck and subdue it.

Suddenly, the other party twisted its body, turned around, opened its mouth wide, and let out a sharp roar at Wu Wen.

That piercing scream tore through the night!
The sound waves exploded like materialized blades, and visible ripples spread wildly from the snake as the center.

Wu Wen was suddenly struck and staggered back several steps.

He steadied himself and gazed intently at the snake.

At this moment, the strange beast also stopped fleeing, its blood-red eyes gleaming with an eerie light as it locked onto Wu Wen.

The two sides were locked in a stalemate.

"What a strange cry!" Wu Wen thought to himself in surprise.

That cry just now was far more than an ordinary sonic attack; it concealed a double-edged killing move:
The first layer is a spiraling sound wave, like a mental shock, transforming into thousands of silver needles that pierce the brain; it is also like a heavy hammer, penetrating the body and smashing the internal organs.

The second move is the most lethal. The high-frequency vibration in the snake's throat actually tears a miniature vacuum vortex in the sound waves!
Before the air molecules pushed aside by the sound waves could be refilled, they were swept up by the vortex into a spiral column of air, which came crashing down like a shock wave.

"Looks like we need to take this seriously!"

Wu Wen's eyes narrowed; his earlier hand-to-hand combat was merely an attempt to capture the strange beast alive.

Now that the snake has revealed two deadly moves, holding back any longer would only lead to trouble.

He suddenly stretched out his arms, and a powerful aura spread rapidly outward from his body, causing his robes to flutter.

The snake's pupils contracted sharply. Sensing danger, it immediately ricocheted several steps backward, thus escaping Wu Wen's magnetic field strangulation ahead of time.

Seeing this, Wu Wen raised his right hand, and the Secret Treasure Water Spirit transformed into an electromagnetic cannon. The cannon was aimed at the snake, and a bright bolt of lightning shot out instantly.

In the dark, dense forest, the bullet shot out like a bolt of lightning.

Although the snake reacted immediately, it was too late to dodge and was shot directly into its body. As the bullet pierced through its body, the huge impact caused its body to slam heavily into a giant tree.

Seeing that its life was in danger, the snake launched a desperate counterattack.

Suddenly, the scales on the snake's neck stood up, its chest heaved violently, and it raised its head to let out a piercing shriek!
The compressed sound waves spread out in layers like a sound ring.

"Drink~"

Faced with the attack of the snake, Wu Wen stomped his right foot on the ground, and a thunderous sound, like the sound of a great bell, surged out from his body!

The roar, combined with his own aura, created a sonic shockwave that spread outwards in layers.

The two collide with each other.

Under the interference of sound waves.

Visible ripples immediately spread through the air, like waves crashing on a surging sea, one after another, sweeping up the surrounding sand, stones, and fallen leaves, scattering them wantonly.

The sharp and deep sound waves intertwined and collided, bursting out a piercing friction sound, as if countless sharp blades were scraping against each other.

After a while.

As the snake's body went limp, everything gradually returned to calm.

Wu Wen stepped forward and picked up its body.

ah~
Wu Wen sighed.

He originally intended to capture them alive, but unfortunately, he lacked the ability and could only capture them dead.

The sonic attack I just used.

It was something I had just learned from this serpent.

It was just a little trick, but I didn't expect it to be so useful.

This involves principles such as oscillation, sound waves, frequency, air compression, vacuum, and cyclone...

I can try to study it in more depth later.

While the electromagnetic cannon can handle many situations, it is also necessary to diversify one's attack methods.

After all, relying on a single trick doesn't always work. If you encounter a situation like the snake in the story, where you want to catch it alive but find that your methods aren't enough, then you're really helpless.

Wu Wen carried the corpse of the serpent back to Tianzhu Peak.

When Master Zhiyuan saw him return, he opened his eyes and saw the blood-dripping corpse of the snake in his hand. He got up and went forward to examine it.

“Grandmaster, I never expected to encounter the serpent described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas here!” Wu Wen said with a smile.

Grandmaster Zhiyuan stared at it for a few moments, then shook his head and said, "This is not a real snake transformation."

"No?" Wu Wen looked at the corpse in his hand with suspicion. "It looks exactly like the one described in the book!"

"This is just a strange beast with the bloodline of the Transformation Serpent. The real Transformation Serpent is a divine beast. Not to mention its abilities, its size alone is much larger than this," Master Zhiyuan explained.

After listening, Wu Wen pondered for a moment and nodded in agreement.

Indeed, the serpent described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas possesses the supernatural power to cause natural disasters; with a single roar, it can unleash a massive flood.

The one in my hand can only generate a small vortex of sound when it roars, which is indeed worlds apart from the mythical beasts recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Grandmaster Zhiyuan reached out and took the snake corpse that Wu Wen handed over.

"However, this serpent transformation is truly rare and precious. If we can extract the serpent transformation bloodline from this strange beast, we might be able to cultivate the transformation supernatural power."

Upon hearing his master's words, Wu Wen immediately became interested and asked, "Master, what kind of transformation technique is it?"

Grandmaster Zhiyuan smiled slightly and slowly said, "There is a transformation technique in my Louguan Sect that no one has been able to cultivate successfully. This is because the prerequisite for cultivating this technique is to first cultivate an immortal body. Unfortunately, this secret method has not been preserved in the lineage of my Louguan Sect."

Upon hearing this, Wu Wen's eyes lit up.

The "Secret Techniques for Immortal Body" didn't exist before, but it does now!
Grandmaster Zhiyuan saw through Wu Wen's thoughts and said with a smile, "Come here, and I will teach you this supernatural power."

Wu Wen hurriedly and happily followed his master to the gate of the Golden Hall.

Sitting cross-legged, holding my breath and concentrating, I listened attentively to the teachings of my master.

After listening to the entire story of the supernatural power.

Wu Wen slowly closed his eyes, immersing himself in the thought and pondering it carefully.

The night passed quickly.

As dawn approached, Wu Wencai slowly opened his eyes.

He exhaled softly, secretly marveling: This transformation ability is truly profound!

However, after careful consideration, he discovered that the core secret of this supernatural power actually lies in the bloodline of divine beasts.

The so-called bloodline is essentially the genetic material of divine beasts.

As long as one can analyze its inherited genes, and with the powerful computing power and gene editing ability of the immortal body, one can transform oneself into the appearance of a divine beast, and even possess some of its abilities.

However, compared to this ability to change, Wu Wen suddenly had a flash of inspiration and a bolder idea popped into his mind.

That is, can we use the method of creation to create a snake ourselves?
The method of creating a god is extremely difficult.

The difficulty lies not only in giving the created gods a reasonable identity, background, and complex experiences.

Furthermore, their capabilities should be supported by accurate and valid information.

In other words, the abilities displayed by deities must conform to reality.

It's not that it's just a figment of imagination that it has three heads and six arms, and can fly and disappear into the earth; the gods created do possess these abilities.

If you want the gods you create to truly possess these abilities, you must first know how to achieve having three heads and six arms, and the ability to fly and escape into the earth.

Only in this way can gods created through imagination truly become reality.

This bloodline of the serpent gave Wu Wen the possibility of creation.

He was able to perfectly fabricate a plausible identity and experience for the snake-transformation.

It can also be endowed with the corresponding genetic material.

Most importantly, he possesses an interior view!
Many factors converged in one place.

This perfectly fulfilled all the conditions for Wu Wen to create the snake using the method of creation!
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(End of this chapter)