From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Jiang Liu revealed a fact.

The Incarnation-level Devouring Beast is no longer a "beast." As the name "Incarnation" suggests, it is the embodiment of the higher-dimensional will and the macroscopic ecological will of Mana walking in the three-dimensional space of Earth.

Comparing games, that is—

[Player]

but!

Just as humans need to control game characters to play games, higher-dimensional wills need to connect with avatars to control them, and this connection requires a medium.

Playing games...

Taking a simple King of Fighters arcade game as an example, it requires a joystick to control the character's movement, as well as buttons for attacking, blocking, jumping, etc. The will of the Mana ecosystem, in order to walk on Earth through its avatar, must also have the corresponding "joystick" and "buttons," and it is even more complex, requiring "keyboard," "mouse," etc.

It even requires a "login account" step!

Mark is the beacon of the higher-dimensional will's "login account"!

Without a beacon, the Mana ecosystem proceeds according to the set "program," giving birth to "avatar-level" Devouring Beasts. These avatars will then gain their own independent consciousness and thoughts, and will actively seek to understand the world, thus undergoing transformation.

Or perhaps they follow the instincts bestowed upon them by the Mana ecosystem and continue to plunder the life essence of humankind;

Or remain neutral and contemplate the meaning of your own life;

Or perhaps they are attracted by human civilization and ideas, thus joining the human side and engaging in a "motherly love and filial piety" with the Mana ecosystem.

Just as the Earth's natural ecology eventually evolved into the intelligent species of humankind, it was not the Earth's own will to use humans as its embodiment to walk the world, but rather an inevitable result of the biological body structure and nervous system evolving into increasingly complex forms over time!

The same applies to the ecology of manna.

Without a beacon, the higher-dimensional "players" cannot truly descend to Earth. The "program" of the Mana ecosystem is already set, and even its macroscopic will cannot modify it before it possesses a physical body capable of walking on Earth.

"A Transformation-level Devouring Beast?"

Mark asked Bai Yuekui in confusion, "There are even Devouring Beasts of this level?"

Bai Yuekui did not answer, but stared at Jiang Liu and said, "Let's talk in my room."

The existence of a Transformation-level Devouring Beast is too significant, so it's best to discuss it with the village elders first. Therefore, Bai Yuekui said to a burly old man nearby, "Ao Deng, stop what you're doing for now and go call Xia Tianlai, Qiu Shi, and Nanji Xing. We need to have a meeting."

Can I participate?

Mark had a premonition that the transformation-level Devouring Beast might be related to his situation, since he had never heard of a human being able to transform into a Devouring Beast after being parasitized by a spinal worm.

“No, you’ve only just arrived in the village. You need to take full control of this body first,” Bai Yuekui refused, leaving no room for argument.

"Mark, right?"

Jiang Liu sized the other person up and down, a smile on his face. "Being schemed against by Charles the Lighthouse, having his throat slit by 4068, being..."

At this point, he glanced discreetly at Bai Yuekui before continuing, "Some special spinal parasites were experimented on by Dr. Carrie at the Lighthouse, then incinerated, and ended up looking like this..."

However, compared to before, you look more human now... If you were in the old world, and you licensed your image, I bet quite a few people would be willing to buy your figurines.

In some fantasy films and television shows, your appearance would definitely be considered handsome.

mark:"???"

"Well, people educated under the Lighthouse system certainly don't have the same sense of humor as those from Dragonbone Village."

Jiang Liu sighed and added, "Do you know what this Boss Bai is worried about?"

"what?"

Mark knew Jiang Liu was guiding him, and it was obvious, but he really wanted to know why—he was straightforward, but definitely not stupid. He could sense that Bai Yuekui and other high-ranking members of Dragon Bone Village were hiding things from him, but because they had saved him, he was grateful, and he had only recently joined Dragon Bone Village, and many people in the village still had opinions about him, so he didn't ask in detail.

But now!

Jiang Liu, emerging from the globular medullary crystal, seemed to possess some special potential, as if he knew everything, and naturally wanted to find out the truth.

"The attack on the bloody plan was carried out once. One of the consequences was that the body cells of the Boss Bai who saved you were subjected to strong radiation, resulting in irreversible damage to his genes. Every time he uses his potential, his body's hematopoietic and nervous systems will have problems."

Chapter 1168 The Difference Between Source Potential and Qi Refining

“I know that.”

Mark understood that humans couldn't enter the vortex and that Bai Yuekui's DNA had suffered irreversible damage, which was why he needed someone who could ignore radiation to handle that matter.

But by a twist of fate, he ended up with the body of a Devouring Beast, which turned out to be the best choice for him.

"However, the mana ecosystem possesses a macroscopic will. Just as before the Earth was eroded by the mana ecosystem, some scholars proposed the theory that the Earth itself is an 'organism' that is constantly evolving."

The Earth also possesses a macroscopic will.

grand!

Vast!

A practitioner like myself calls it—

Road!

Heaven!

All things under the rule of Heaven, especially living and intelligent beings, whether or not they can perceive the rule of Heaven, are connected to it in some mysterious way. Their thoughts and ideas can be sensed by the rule of Heaven. However, the rule of Heaven is emotionless and without inherent nature, and follows the way of all things competing freely under the frosty sky.

Jiang Liu first explained the concept of "the Way of Heaven" before revealing the fundamental truth to Mark: "Now, the Way of Heaven on Earth has been largely replaced by Mana's 'Way of Heaven,' and it's all planned and premeditated."

Moreover, this Mana Heavenly Dao possesses emotions and intelligence, and can establish direct connections with the creatures nurtured by the Mana ecosystem—the Devouring Beasts—through various fields of time and space.

"Even if you retain your human soul despite possessing the body of a Devouring Beast, and even if you live in Dragonbone Village, which can shield you from the Devouring Beasts' senses, there's still a chance that the Mana ecosystem will actively connect to you... They might not be able to control your thoughts, but they might be able to sense your ideas. Therefore, they can't tell you the real plan, or rather, some details, and they might even mislead you. You'll have to discern the truth for yourself, understand?"

Upon hearing this, Mark was shocked, unable to comprehend what kind of powerful and bizarre enemy humanity had to face, that even he, the "hope" of all mankind, had to be kept in the dark.

Is it alright if I say that?

Jiang Liu asked Bai Yuekui, "Anyway, I think your plan is unlikely to succeed. Having been to the Blood Vortex, I can only think of one way to completely eradicate the Mana ecosystem and prevent it from recurring: to return this planet to its molten state of 4.6 billion years ago and create a new era."

Only the extreme temperatures of that period could completely eradicate the mana ecosystem.

"How did you get to Xingxuan?" Bai Yuekui frowned.

"I didn't go there voluntarily. Instead, during the space-time teleportation, I was discovered by the will of the Mana ecosystem, which wanted to destroy my body's DNA."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Liu used his magical abilities to summon Mark and Shan Shihui, who were standing on the stone steps, to the pool with a wave of his hand.

This scene stunned Tasia, who also possessed the ability to teleport: "My ability to make people appear out of thin air still relies on equipment, but he only needs to wave his hand? And the teleportation is so precise... Is your potential also related to quantum superposition?"

"Strictly speaking, my ability is somewhat different from your potential."

The concepts of awakening potential and cultivating Qi are not quite the same.

It generates willpower, source turbulence, and stimulates potential.

These are the three steps of awakening one's potential. It mainly relies on strong emotional fluctuations to bring the body's electromagnetic field into a special state, which in turn affects the body's life essence to enter a special fluctuation state. Finally, depending on each person's constitution and talent, it activates the hidden gene fragments in the body, causing the corresponding tissues to grow in the corresponding parts of the body, or causing the corresponding organ cells to undergo certain changes, and then constructing a complete energy circulation system.

That's right!

It's incomplete!

It is precisely because of this defect that most of the awakened beings in Dragonbone Village experience problems with the corresponding organs of their bodies when they awaken.

For example, Udin and Naen, one can see through things and the other can hear sounds that ordinary people cannot hear, but in order to fully unleash their potential, they must be aided by external objects.

That is, one needs to wear a specially designed integrated multimodal imaging goggles, and the other needs to wear adjustable sound pressure filtering earmuffs; otherwise, their daily lives would be in serious trouble.

Therefore, although the so-called awakened ones are close to the innate superpowered individuals below one, they tend to use the special magnetic field state after an emotional outburst to make the innate Qi in their bodies fluctuate at a specific frequency, generating a specific turbulent state, and thereby activating certain gene fragments in the human body, which in turn causes the cells of certain organs and tissues in the human body to proliferate or mutate, thereby releasing superpowers.

And what about those with innate superpowers?

It also involves the genetic level, but it doesn't present the situation where most awakened individuals in Dragonbone Village have difficulty controlling their abilities without external assistance.

of course.

Jiang Liu did not deny that the cultivation path of the Golden Core and Holy Embryo did indeed require external assistance, such as the significance of magical artifacts for human cultivation. However, like most awakened individuals in Dragon Bone Village, some even needed equipment to assist in the normal use of their supernatural abilities—

That's really an exaggeration.

This has led to a problem: the superpowers these people wield are quite powerful, meaning they have a high efficiency in utilizing Qi. Even most Qi cultivators below the level of one person, after a lifetime of cultivation, might not be able to match the power of these awakened individuals.

However, since these guys' great strength was not obtained through true cultivation, their life cultivation level is only slightly stronger than that of normal adult young men.

Although he also mastered some methods of utilizing Qi, such as: the ability to shield one's own life essence from returning to its origin, and breathing techniques that can improve bodily functions and physical qualities in a short period of time.

However, none of them can be considered true cultivation techniques.

This also means that once the Guiyuan warriors and Awakeners of Dragon Bone Village are overexerted, they are unable to recover quickly through meditation. Their "endurance" is far weaker than that of the extraordinary individuals from the extraordinary families below one person, let alone those who cultivate Qi in Taoism and Buddhism.

Even Bai Yuekui's extraordinary strength and speed were not obtained through cultivating his life force, but rather through the accumulation of years—this is the advantage of long-lived individuals. After awakening their potential, they can gradually improve their cultivation even without specific methods of cultivating their life force.

However, such improvements are extremely inefficient.

Fortunately, Bai Yuekui is an expert in medicine and human anatomy. Although she does not understand the way of cultivating life, she is extremely clear about the details of how the life essence works on the human body. As a result, her efficiency in utilizing the source energy, that is, Qi, is equivalent to that of a Qi cultivator who has mastered the "cellular Qi formation". With the help of her special weapon, splitting a small mountain is no problem.

What's the difference?

Tasia pressed for an answer.

"I acquired this ability through cultivation, rather than through the expression of latent abilities after activating my genes."

Jiang Liu was not stingy, "You have also figured it out a little, but it is not yet systematic... Although it is due to the end times, if you want to figure out a complete method of cultivating life, it will probably take at least another hundred years."

Chapter 1169 Contra

"Could you tell us about your spiritual practice?"

Bai Yuekui's house was built inside a cliff face near the mountaintop. It was spacious but also dark, and the furniture was placed very casually, as if it could be placed wherever he wanted.

She was clearly a rather slovenly old woman.

Therefore, the meeting was held in front of a television set.

Bai Yuekui sat down on the ground, took out a pair of reading glasses from a glasses case casually placed on the ground, turned on the square old-fashioned television, and started playing an adventure shooting game called "Contra". He then handed Jiang Liu another pair of reading glasses and a controller.

"Thanks, but I'm not even twenty yet, so I don't need to wear reading glasses like you, Grandma Bai." Jiang Liu took the game controller and sat cross-legged next to Bai Yuekui, but refused the reading glasses she offered.

Upon hearing the title "Grandma Bai," Bai Yuekui was momentarily speechless, and for the first time, a look of disbelief appeared in her clear eyes behind her reading glasses.

Xia Tianlai, Qiu Shi, Ao Deng, and Nanji Xing, who were raised by Bai Yuekui, were suppressing their laughter.

Mr. Bai doesn't often suffer setbacks.