From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

The same applies to spiritual practice!

Just as Dragon Bone Village discovered during their research on the Devouring Beasts that the life essence they absorbed was stored within the Spirit Breath Seeds, the resulting "Return to Origin Method" naturally focused solely on the lower dantian. Their understanding of other acupoints and meridians was limited to viewing them as pathways and nodes for processing source energy and coordinating with external auxiliary equipment when unleashing potential. They never considered that these pathways could also be used for the circulation and operation of life essence, serving as the foundation for cultivating life and building a system…

Chapter 1180 Mark's Potential File—

"The Devouring Beast's 'talent' is truly unexpected."

Antarctic Star's eyes held both praise for Mark and apprehension about the Mana ecosystem—the more he understood about the Qi cultivation system built upon the life essence, the clearer his understanding of the essence of the Mana ecosystem's operation became, making him and his team realize just how terrifying humanity's true enemy truly was.

If a higher-dimensional deity were to truly descend to earth, perhaps only Boss Jiang... and the grown-up Mark would be able to contend with him.

"To be honest, I'd rather not have this talent."

Mark felt a pang of disappointment at the praise from Nanjixing, but the thought that this step brought him one step closer to Ran Bing's resurrection filled him with excitement. He asked Jiang Liu, "Can I officially begin my cultivation now?"

"No rush, let's test your potential first."

Jiang Liu spoke of his potential.

Mark frowned, not because he felt Jiang Liu was changing the subject, but because he himself wasn't quite sure what his potential was.

“Mark, this is normal. After the source potential is awakened, only a very few people can use it directly. Most people need to train for a period of time and be equipped with specific equipment according to their own potential before they can use the potential power normally.”

Summer truly treated Mark like her own child, comforting him, "Go back to the clinic, I'll give you a full check-up to help you truly understand the power of your potential, and then contact Belenkov in the village to help you create equipment that will allow you to unleash your potential."

Upon hearing this, Mark looked at Jiang Liu: "You should know what my potential is, right? Can you tell me in advance? I don't think I need to block Mana's perception of this, right? Anyway, I'll have to use it sooner or later."

“Hey Mark, I just helped you stabilize your life essence, preventing Mana Ecology from taking over your mind through the spinal worm in your body, and I also helped you awaken your life essence smoothly… You don’t have to thank me, but you should at least call me Boss Jiang, right?” Jiang Liu didn’t answer immediately. He raised his left thumb and pointed it at his nose, looking rather arrogant.

"...Boss Jiang."

There was nothing we could do.

Mark could only utter one sound.

Jiang Liu chuckled, then revealed Mark's potential function: "Fusion."

Maido asked in confusion, "Merge?"

Xia Dou asked, "What do you mean?"

“Mark is an ecological chimera, but in terms of his body, he is a Devourer Beast. And what is the most essential ability of a Devourer Beast?” Jiang Liu asked rhetorically.

"The abilities of Devouring Beasts? Absorbing life essence is an ability that every Devouring Beast can control. Besides that, Spiky Eels can spit out spikes, Snake Dogs are good at close combat, Earth Roars can emit red energy waves, and Bear-Beasts can throw their offspring... But these are definitely unrelated to Mark's abilities!"

Xia Tianlai was the first to speak, "If we're talking about the concept of 'integration'—"

Different types of Devouring Beasts possess varying abilities, but they are all fundamentally formed by fusing the genes of Earth's plants and animals...

Could it be that Mark, as an eco-chimera, possesses the potential to fuse the strengths of various plants and animals, like the Devouring Beast, and to achieve specialization through modifications to his body and source energy?

"exactly."

Jiang Liu confirmed Xia Tianlai's guess.

The ability to integrate and utilize the genes of all carbon-based life forms is the foundation upon which Mark will perfectly express all the wisdom and information recorded since the birth of life on Earth after he takes control of the Mindscape Control Room in the future!

otherwise--

All Mark can utilize is human wisdom and information.

We can only watch helplessly as the wisdom and information recorded in the evolutionary processes of other organisms on Earth are revealed...

Indeed.

Non-human beings, as defined by humans, do not possess intelligence. However, from the perspective of biological evolution, all living things that can adapt to their environment and survive contain corresponding "survival wisdom" in their genetic segments.

and so.

Having awakened his "fusion" potential, Mark has fully realized his identity as an "ecological chimera," enabling him to perform targeted fusion with the genes of specific organisms when using his potential.

"If Mark merges the genes of an organism, like a dog, will he always have a dog's keen sense of smell?" Xia Dou asked curiously.

"He can only have a dog's sense of smell for a short period of time. Over time, it will be metabolized and lost, unless he uses dog genes for a long time so that his body is completely adapted, or he can completely retain a dog's sense of smell."

At this point, Jiang Liu rubbed his chin and stated a fact, "When it comes to the sense of smell, pigs actually have much more sensitive noses than dogs."

"???"

Xia Dou looked at Xia Tianlai.

"Why are you looking at me? I've only ever seen pigs in biological encyclopedias, and your dad isn't a veterinarian, so how would he know if a pig's nose is more sensitive than a dog's? But since Mr. Jiang said so, it must be true." Xia Tianlai first confirmed Jiang Liu's words, but still hoped that Mark would have a full check-up first, just in case.

Mark himself is perfectly acceptable.

This examination took half a day, and Mark's potential was indeed consistent with what Jiang Liu had said, thus a potential file about Mark was created.

The situation is as follows—

Name: Mark

Population origin: Asylum seekers

Basic introduction:

Originally the commander of the Lighthouse Hunters, Dustman 4068, bribed by Charles during a power struggle within the Lighthouse's upper echelons, had his throat slashed. For unknown reasons, he was parasitized by XX's spine-worm and later transformed into a Devouring Beast on the Lighthouse, nearly destroying the entire facility...

After landing on the ground, it was retrieved by Bai Yuekui's team and became a key member of the "Attacking Blood Project"!

Even though Jiang Liu, an outsider, once mentioned the general situation of the Blood Vortex Central Region, and it seems that humanity has no way to defeat the Mana ecosystem through Mark, the "Conquer Blood Vortex Plan" will continue!

Part 1: Introduction to Potential

When using his potential, Mark can instinctively use his spiritual energy to temporarily fuse with the genes of other creatures, thereby gaining the most outstanding abilities of that animal for half an hour without needing any equipment assistance.

Perhaps the Devouring Beast's body is inherently capable of perfectly constructing an energy cycle path for unleashing its abilities.

Half an hour later, Mark's genes will break down the injected animal genes and cannot be preserved. However, if the same organism's genes are injected for a long time, theoretically, Mark's own genes can actively transform into those of that organism, and even make his appearance show the characteristics of that organism.

According to Xia Tian's research, Mark can fuse with the genes of awakened beings and use their potential without side effects for more than an hour!

Even without refining Qi, Mark possesses the ability to fight for extended periods, and this ability increases significantly as his source potential awakens!

This ability to sustain combat will be further enhanced once Mark truly enters the area covered by the Mana ecosystem, granting him unlimited stamina!

Part Two: Potential Risks

Perhaps because Mark is an ecological chimera, the risk of using his potential is almost zero. It is speculated that the only risk is that high-intensity combat may cause his bones to melt and his muscles to disintegrate. However, the physical strength of the Devourer is beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and it can even survive in the vacuum zone of cosmic radiation. Theoretically, when Mark is active on Earth, as long as he does not lock all the heat generated by his activities in his body, he does not need to worry about this risk.

Upon receiving the file transmitted by the shattered star, Bai Yuekui's eyes lit up with joy, and he said, "Gene fusion? That's an unexpected gain."

"That's actually more dangerous!"

At this moment, a spherical robot hovering in mid-air with an exaggerated -[○?｀Д'?○]- expression shouted, "Whether Jiang Liu really told you and those old guys in the village the truth or not, during the period when Mark awakened his source potential, the connection between his brain and Mana's primordial body reached an astonishing 80% or more!"

"now what?"

Bai Yuekui countered with a question.

"Only around five percent."

The spherical robot extended a long, black, rope-like claw from its left side and grabbed a dilapidated device that resembled an air conditioner remote control.

This is a brain electromagnetic spectrum analyzer, formerly a medical device from the Nirvana Research Institute. Now, after modifications, it is collecting Mark's DNA and can monitor in real time the resonance frequency and intensity of the left brain electrical activity left by the giant humanoid creature existing in this space with Mark's brainwaves.

Bai Yuekui picked up the brain electromagnetic spectrum analyzer and looked around—

A humanoid Devouring Beast, over fifty meters tall, lay quietly on one side of the platform where Bai Yuekui and the little robot stood. Its body was shriveled, its limbs were thin, its abdomen was bulging, its nose had been cut off and replaced with a metal structure, and its skull had been opened, with its right brain nowhere to be found and its remaining left brain in a state of atrophy.

Five percent?

Bai Yuekui smiled faintly, "That golden hoop does have an effect; it can effectively prevent the connection between the macro-will of the Mana ecosystem and Mark."

Perhaps Mark can escape his fate of being born with a skull.

"Aren't you getting too excited?"

A speechless expression appeared on the front of the spherical robot: (╯-╰)

"I'm just a little happy."

Bai Yuekui naturally understood the dangerous nature of the Mana ecosystem, especially after learning about and personally mastering the Qi cultivation system of the Nine Apertures and Eight Meridians. This gave her a deeper understanding of the higher-dimensional beings behind the Mana ecosystem.

It certainly deserves the definition of "deity".

But God is not invincible.

River flow.

A mere Earthling.

The memories and souls of the gods who wanted to invade a parallel-dimensional Earth were erased...

The reason why higher-dimensional deities could not invade that Earth is probably because in ancient times, there were cultivators like rivers that discovered and stopped those higher-dimensional beings from beyond the heavens in time, and even sealed them away, using the power of the heaven and earth's energy to slowly weaken their will until future cultivators were able to completely destroy them.

Besides that.

She was also able to fathom the purposes of higher-dimensional deities—

To seize Earth's resources?

It's not that superficial.

Any civilization that can leave its home galaxy will surely master controlled nuclear fusion and possess almost unlimited energy. Why would it need to seize resources from other planets?

There are only two possibilities.

From a material perspective, it means their home planet may have been destroyed, and they are trying to find a suitable new planet to survive.

The Devouring Beasts may be the primary carriers of this civilization's rebirth.

From the perspective of Qi cultivation, it's about using this to comprehend the rules of the universe—

The essence of spiritual practice is to achieve harmony between humanity and nature, and to perceive the essence of tectonic plate drift and ocean fluctuations from the perspective of space and time: the oscillation and movement of planets, thereby reaching the realm of emulating the heavens and the earth.

Similarly, for Mana Ecology, the scope of "Heaven and Earth" could be expanded further, that is, to use planets as the elixir and ecology as the sacred embryo to comprehend the entire universe... or rather, the rules of galaxies within a certain range, thereby further understanding the laws governing the operation of the universe.

And then—

Or perhaps it's to escape this universe!

The second law of thermodynamics:

The greater the entropy, the higher the degree of disorder; the smaller the entropy, the more ordered the system.

Energy cannot be transferred from a cold object to a hot object without causing other effects.