Start with a photographic memory and build a memory palace

Chapter 307 Bloodline, Gene Lock

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They led the cattle herders into the stone chamber.

Wu Wen's eyes were deep and exuded an undeniable air of authority.

"Young Master!" Hua Nu greeted him respectfully.

"Get out!" Wu Wen said briefly and forcefully.

Upon hearing this, Hua Nu didn't ask any questions. She immediately turned and left, standing quietly at the entrance of the stone chamber like a loyal guard, protecting Wu Wen from being disturbed.

The atmosphere inside the stone chamber was solemn and mysterious.

Wu Wen began to use his memory search on the cattle herder.

His gaze became sharp and deep, as if it could pierce through the cowherd's soul.

Soon, he discovered all of the cattle herder's memories like a tidal wave.

After obtaining the desired information.

Wu Wen suppressed the cattle herder to the side, his eyes flashing with a thoughtful light.

"Heaven-sent..."

Wu Wen muttered to himself.

He had assumed that the cattle herder was someone from a special force with an unknown background.

But unexpectedly, judging from his background, he was just an ordinary person.

However, he did have a miraculous encounter, namely that mysterious "divine gift"!
The cattle herder was born a thousand years ago, during the Zhou Dynasty, though the exact time is unknown.

He was originally just an ordinary, impoverished, and solitary cattle herder on the grassland, living a simple but arduous life with his cattle every day.

But in his middle age, he suddenly fell seriously ill.

The illness came on suddenly and severely weakened him.

Alone, he lay on the cold bed, thinking he would die on this cold night, when fate quietly took a turn.

In his daze, he had a very strange dream.

In his dream, he appeared in the middle of a vast grassland with a clear blue sky and green landscape.

He lay on the soft grass, gazing at the azure sky, as blue as a jewel, where everything was so peaceful and serene.

This scene and feeling were as if God knew he was going to die and gave him peace in his final moments.

However, just as he was quietly enjoying this moment, the celestial phenomena suddenly changed.

The clear blue sky suddenly burst into dazzling light, so bright and intense that it seemed to devour the entire world.

What followed was an intense burning sensation; the world seemed to have turned into a giant furnace, with raging flames raging.

The extreme heat caused everything to wither and melt; all the plants on the grassland turned scorched yellow instantly and perished in the flames.

The cowherd, who had just been immersed in peace, now seemed to have fallen into a living hell.

He struggled in the flames, screaming in agony, his body riddled with holes from the fire.

After a period of agony, he died immediately, his soul seemingly consumed by flames.

Then, he woke up from that terrifying dream.

When he woke up, he found that his illness had miraculously disappeared, as if the serious illness and the terrifying dream were just an illusion.

Furthermore, many unfamiliar memories appeared in my mind.

These memories are chaotic and disordered.

Some were mountains and rivers in unknown places, with towering snow-capped peaks and vast grasslands; others were scenes of rituals, with people dressed in strange costumes singing and dancing, performing mysterious and solemn ceremonies; still others were fragments of people's life experiences, their joys and sorrows, their partings and reunions, all vividly presented in his mind...

It took the cattle herder many years to slowly digest these extra memories in his mind.

Based on these memories, he traveled throughout the north and saw many scenes from his memories: clear lakes, vast grasslands, towering snow-capped mountains, and precipitous peaks...

Everything was as real and beautiful as I remembered.

He also learned the identities of the people who appeared in his memories during his travels.

They were tribal leaders who appeared in history and were once great, leading their tribes to thrive and create a glorious civilization on this land.

Some people left no records, but we know from memory that they were also such people, with extraordinary courage and wisdom.

In this process, in order to ensure that those who had once led his tribe to prosperity would not be forgotten by future generations, the cattle herder wove these fleeting memories into stories.

He sang wherever he went, sharing these stories with the herders he met.

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And in this shattered dream.

The memories the cattle herder gained were not limited to these.

He also obtained a method of cultivation to strengthen himself.

That was a blood refining method that the ancient grassland tribes once possessed, but which has now been lost.

According to the cultivation method, they, the grassland people, are descendants of the Beast God, and the blood of the Beast God flows in their veins.

Through cultivation and various awakening rituals, one can enhance their bloodline power and gain various super abilities, such as the strength of a bear, the speed of a horse, the eyes of an eagle, and the wisdom of a wolf...

At the beginning.

The cowherd thought that his bloodline might not be pure enough. After so many generations, the power of his bloodline was probably already diluted, making it impossible for him to master the mysterious blood refining method.

But the fact is just the opposite.

Not only did he succeed on his first try, but the results he achieved were even better and stronger than the ancient tribes' blood-refining techniques he remembered.

Therefore, he, who already believed himself to be a cowherd favored by God, became even more convinced that he was exceptionally talented and of pure blood, which was why he was favored by the gods.

From then on, he considered himself a guardian, feeling that he had a mission to protect this land and its ancient traditions.

They also found a newborn white yak, which was pure white, like a cloud.

He kept the white yak by his side, took good care of it, and raised it into a rare and exotic animal.

As he cultivated, the white yak gradually became stronger and more mysterious, possessing extraordinary power.

that's it.

A century has passed.

Time has left no trace on him. He remains young and full of vitality, as if time has stood still for him.

Over the long years, the mindset of the cattle herders has gradually changed.

He believed that as one favored by the gods, he should not be bound by worldly affairs.

So he gradually downplayed his identity as a guardian and devoted himself to ascetic training every day, hoping to strengthen himself and get closer to the gods.

In the years that followed, he traversed snow-capped mountains and plateaus, lost his way in windswept grasslands, and wandered among lakes and rivers...

Gradually, his figure faded from the memories of the tribal herders as time went by.

Only the legends and stories about him are passed down from generation to generation among the herders.

Until recently.

The cattle herder, who had wandered to the northern desert, suddenly had a telepathic connection, as if he were being guided by the heavens to the place of Turkic sacrifice.

So he began his journey south.

Along the way, after hearing about what had happened at the sacrificial site, he immediately concluded that the situation there was blasphemy against divine authority, which was a taboo crime.

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Memories of cattle herders.

After careful organization and analysis, Wu Wen found the most useful information to be found.

There are actually only three sections!
First, it was "given by heaven"; second, it was the "method of blood refinement"; and third, it was "guided by spiritual intuition" that led them to come to them.

The herdsman's "divinely bestowed" dream.

In the dream, the strange phenomena that occurred in the sky were unknown to the cowherd, but Wu Wen knew them perfectly well.

The dazzling light and the extreme high temperature made it clear that "the sky had broken."

The Earth's atmosphere has been breached, allowing cosmic rays and sunlight to directly reach the ground.

In this situation, a hole appears in the Earth's energy field, and the magnetic field becomes disordered.

If there truly is a God, then that God must be dead!
Then, its legacy was taken over by the cattle herders.

But recently, the cattle herders have received guidance again. According to Wu Wen's guess, it must be because the continuous sacrificial incense offerings of the northern tribes over the past thousands of years have revived this "god".

Then he directed the cowherd to find him.

Because, judging from the situation, Wu Wen was indeed digging up the grave of this "god".

Judging from the situation, Wu Wen guessed that this god's current abilities were definitely not very strong, otherwise it should have come directly to him instead of first guiding this cowherd to find him.

"God!"

Wu Wen sighed softly.

Apart from the goddess Miluotuo in the south, he has never encountered a second god!
Wu Wen thought he could go and find it; a "god's" treasure trove must contain many good things.

Just like this blood refining method.

The so-called power of bloodline.

It's actually just genes.

The human body contains a large number of unused gene fragments.

These genes are a reflection of the evolutionary history of life on Earth.

From primitive single-celled organisms to fish, reptiles, and humans, gene fragments from many different species can be found within it.

It even includes some "junk DNA" whose uses and origins are still unknown to humans.

These are all hidden blood vessels within the human body.

If these dormant gene fragments can be activated, it is equivalent to awakening the power of one's bloodline, thereby breaking through the limits of human potential.

That potential is like a huge treasure trove, waiting to be discovered.

Therefore, the so-called pure bloodline does not mean that the closer the blood relationship, the purer the bloodline.

Rather, it means that the offspring of a powerful life form are more likely to directly manifest the powerful genes within them.

So even if many generations have passed, as long as the bloodline has not been broken and the clan has not perished, the lineage will continue.

However, it will gradually hide itself during this process.

But this also means that as long as a creature exists for a long enough time and powerful life forms have appeared in it, then its bloodline will be strong enough and its bloodline power will be abundant enough.

It's like a chicken; although it looks very weak now, it is very ancient and is an evolutionary branch of dinosaurs from millions of years ago.

Therefore, chickens carry dinosaur genes.

Either they don't awaken, or if they do, they push the lineage upwards generation by generation. In a sense, even a weak chicken can recreate the glory of its ancestral dinosaurs.

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Therefore, when this cowherd was practicing the Blood Refinement Technique, he seemed to be cultivating faster and stronger than the ancients.

This is not because he has pure blood, but because he has enough bloodline power within him.

In this method of blood refining, the power of the bloodline within the human body can be awakened through various behaviors, medicines, rituals, and other stimulations.

In Wu Wen's view, these methods are essentially about unlocking the body's silent mechanism.

There is a natural gene silencing mechanism in the human body.

Just like DNA methylation, DNA can be modified to downregulate or stop gene expression.

Chromosomal isomerism can silence genes in specific regions.

Messenger RNA is degraded at the transcriptional level through RNA interference.

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These mechanisms limit gene expression.

They are like chains, together forming the "gene lock" system within the human body, like a sturdy cage, imprisoning the power of bloodline within.

The awakening of one's bloodline means breaking these chains.

Release the power of bloodline hidden within the human body.

It is the manifestation and expression of silent genes that endow the human body with various superpowers it once possessed.

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(End of this chapter)