Chapter 1731 Memory Inheritance
Joan lent Fu Lu the "Infinite Psychic Book", so he spent some time doing "deep meditation", using the skills he learned from Jessica to condense his spiritual power into a probe.
Joan pierced the plane barrier between the "material world" and the "star world" with a spiritual probe, extracted the ectoplasm from the void of the astral world, shaped it into a silver-gray scroll similar to parchment, and analyzed the blood from Fu Lun's blood. Write it down with the power, wait until you get back the "Infinite Power Book" tomorrow, and then bind these loose pages in the book.
There were only three abilities that Fu Lu had mastered, and Joan quickly settled them. The final focus was on the blood sample of the mythical aboleth Shanluar.
The gray-green blood of this old catfish looks a bit disgusting, but it is an out-and-out "treasure".
Joan analyzed a large number of psychic powers from Shanruyar's blood. In addition, there is a "mythical power" and the unique supernatural ability "memory inheritance" of the aboleth family.
The hermaphroditic aboleths occasionally give birth to offspring throughout their long lives.
When the aboleth larvae are hatched, they are also imbued with the mother's (father's) lifelong memory, which in turn contains the mother's mother... all the way back to the memory of the family's first naturally hatching ancestor .
In fact, due to the incomplete brain development, the vast majority of aboleth larvae could not withstand such a vast and violent memory instillation, and died within a few days after birth. Not only were the number of surviving aboleth larvae , and most of them left psychological shadows because of being forcibly instilled with memories. While inheriting the memories of their ancestors, they also inherited the extremely distorted and pathological thoughts of the aboleth clan.
An aboleth that was lucky enough to survive, spent most of its energy in digesting and absorbing the memories of its ancestors during its lifetime.
They have indeed obtained a wealth of knowledge from their ancestors, but at the same time they have given up their lives and spent a dull life in the dark water, leaving only pain, loneliness, boredom and unrealistic ambitions to their offspring, not many wonderful things. Moments are available for aftertaste, and there are no fresh experiences to miss.
Over time, the aboleth family has become a lonely and weird "dead house". They have not enjoyed a rich and colorful life, so they deny that life is possible to be rich and colorful, arrogant and stubborn. They have been experienced by their ancestors. As individuals, they don't need to experience all aspects of life, travel and adventure, because they are destined to have no new harvest, and they can't find a plant that their ancestors have never experienced. seen flowers.
Based on this cognition, aboleths generally believe that the meaning of their existence is to be a "living container", a "breathing library", to preserve the memories accumulated by the ancestors of the past generations, and to pass on this knowledge to future generations .
However, this inevitably leads to two contradictions:
First of all, if the meaning of existence of the aboleth is only as a "memory transfer station" between ancestors and descendants, then as an individual, what fun is there in living?
Qiao An couldn't help but imagine that if he was an aboleth, and he learned that his lifelong mission was to be a "scribe" and he didn't even have the fun of being innovative, he would definitely find it boring to live like this, and it would be better to die and pass on the inheritance. The task of ancestral memory is left to other brothers and sisters to fulfill.
If all aboleths thought this way and tried to use death to evade the responsibility of connecting the past and the future, this race would not be far from extinction.
Worse than this is another problem.
The aboleth family spent too much time and energy digging, recording, sorting out and passing on the knowledge of their ancestors, but they neglected their own lives, burying their heads in recalling the past thousands of years ago, but they refused to spend more time absorbing new knowledge. Knowledge.
If things go on like this, although their knowledge system is vast and broad, it will inevitably become outdated, which will lead to the general conservative thinking of the aboleths, and they will not be able to keep pace with the times.
To this day, the aboleth family is still obsessed with the glory of the past, turning a blind eye to the ever-changing changes around them, fantasizing about taking revenge on the gods and restoring the status of ruling the world millions of years ago, which is simply pedantic and ridiculous.
From this point of view, the "memory inheritance" of the aboleths is not only a precious legacy, but also a heavy burden, which has been continuously increased from generation to generation, making them overwhelmed.
On the contrary, most creatures, including human beings, cannot obtain the memories of their elders through inheritance, and have to learn all kinds of knowledge from scratch. Although it consumes a lot of energy, it also brings relatively fair and richer possibilities at the intellectual level.
Joan further imagined that if human beings could inherit memory like aboleth, and if knowledge could be hereditary like wealth and status, it would bring at least two serious social problems.
Children no longer have curiosity about the world they live in, and lose the motivation to seek knowledge.
The offspring of smart people will become smarter, and the offspring of stupid people will only become more and more stupid. A small group of people in society will become monopolies of knowledge. The polarization will develop to the extreme, and sooner or later the whole society will be divided into a small group.” Intellectual aristocrats" and "human animals" are two classes that cannot communicate. The former will even deny that the latter belong to human beings.
The more Joan thought about it, the more she felt shuddering, and quickly dispelled these distracting thoughts, and copied down the magic imprint of "Memory Inheritance".
"Inheritance of memory" is like a double-edged sword. It is hard to predict whether the advantages will be great or the disadvantages will be great. Moreover, this ability is only effective for direct descendants. If he does not plan to marry and have children, this ability is meaningless to him. The need for inquiry.
Joan also deciphered a lot of psychic powers from Shanruyar's blood, including the powers he had learned, as well as many powers that he had never learned but had mastered the corresponding arcane version. able.
After being promoted to "Level 5 Mythic Master", Qiao An obtained the path ability "Arcane Transformation", which can convert the arcane spells he has mastered into the corresponding power version, so there is no need to learn this kind of power again up.
Excluding these two types of repetitive content, there are still 8 abilities in Shanruyar's blood sample that are worthy of in-depth study, namely, the first-level "beast claw technique", the second-level "heart pain technique", and the fourth-level "trigger suggestion technique" And "tampering memory", 5th-level "psychic enlightenment" and "remote viewing", 6th-level "advanced supernatural work", and the last 9th-level "monster domination".
"Beast Claw Technique" can turn the manifester's forelimbs into deadly sharp claws, and the lethality is positively related to body size. For medium-sized creatures like humans, after the blessing of "Beast Claw Technique", it does not count as a bonus to their own strength. One attack can cause 1 level of damage, which is equivalent to a pair of daggers.