Inheritance Memories

Red Nose was utterly drained.

It looked as though he had indeed torn off a wisp of his soul and fused it into the stone before him.

But Yin Ming could not trust a deceitful demon.

"Store!"

Yin Ming hurriedly took out the Scavenger Gourd and tried to put the stone away, but it did not budge in the slightest.

"Not bad! It's actually genuine."

"I thought your Quasit inheritance might have some method for faking the offering of a soul. Looks like I was worrying too much!"

A stone was a lifeless, inanimate object!

Once it contained a trace of Red Nose's soul, it would be defined as an item with self-will and could not be stored in the yellow-skinned gourd.

If the stone could have been stored in the gourd, then no matter how flashy the process was or how convincing the performance, it would only have been an ordinary stone.

Red Nose: [...]

It had never occurred to me that this thing could be faked?

That's right!

I didn't have to truly offer up my soul!

I could have simply drawn the soul rune without splitting my soul, then acted as if my soul were being torn apart!!!

I failed to display the deceit a demon should possess and let your judgment fall flat. I truly apologize!

As a deceitful demon, I was actually two steps behind a human.

Red Nose lowered his head dejectedly. He had never dealt with Abyssal races before.

He only thought his own awareness was too poor and that he had brought great shame upon the Abyssal species and the demon race.

He did not realize that Yin Ming had never dealt with Abyssal creatures either and had no idea just how deceitful demons were.

[Kill Red Nose, dismantle his corpse, and see whether an Inheritance Memory Crystal drops.]

Upon seeing the Scavenger Gourd, such a thought suddenly surfaced in Yin Ming's mind.

Ever since he had dismantled the demon bloodline descendant last time and obtained an Inheritance Memory Crystal.

After the Vast Sea Wizard Legacy, it was the first time he had acquired knowledge from a supernatural world. Yin Ming had thus become particularly interested in inheritance memories.

The inheritance memories of Quasit bloodline descendants were granted by the Quasit at the source of their bloodline.

Rather than inheritance memories, they were more like a segment of brainwashing information, played over and over to implant itself into the memories of newborn, ignorant bloodline descendants.

Demon inheritance memories, on the other hand, were bestowed by the Abyssal Will. They possessed a complete mechanism and were directly embedded into the genes, becoming primal memories one possessed from birth.

That was the theory, but experiments were the sole criterion for testing truth. Without dismantling him, how would he know whether it could drop?

"Forget it! There's only one sample. I'll experiment again when I get the chance." Yin Ming shook his head and suppressed his urge to get to the bottom of it.

Red Nose felt an icy killing intent coil around the back of his head and hurriedly buried his head even lower.

After taking my soul, he still wants to kill me. What a vicious fiend!

Was this really the material plane, rather than the Abyss, where demons covered the ground?

"Red Nose! That'll be your name. It has some nostalgia to it."

Yin Ming accepted the stone and accepted Red Nose the Quasit's allegiance.

He snapped off the stone's edges and corners with force, leaving only a fist-sized piece that carried the core of the soul rune.

Of the little macaque's original bodily features, only the red nose remained. Yin Ming was not good at naming things, so he simply used the nickname he had been calling him. A name was merely a designation, after all. As long as one knew who was being called, that was enough!

"Red Nose thanks Master for granting him a name!" Seeing that Yin Ming had accepted the soul stone, Red Nose hastily kowtowed in gratitude.

"Other than this rune, do you have any other runes in your inheritance memories?" Yin Ming asked.

"Yes!"

"However, demons rely on innate bloodlines and master very few runes."

Red Nose did not dare conceal anything and hurriedly nodded. "There are three more runes, but none of them are very useful. One is an Abyssal Sacrifice Rune, one is an Abyssal Summoning Rune, and the other is my True Name Rune."

[Abyssal Sacrifice Rune.]

As its name suggested, it was a rune used to offer sacrifices to the Abyssal Will.

However, there were few treasures that could interest the Abyssal Will. Most demons would never use this rune in their entire lives.

[Abyssal Summoning Rune.]

A rune for summoning Abyssal demons.

However, there were no restrictions on the demon summoned. Without suitable bargaining chips for a trade, the summoned demon would casually kill the summoner.

[Dretch True Name Rune.]

A rune formed from Red Nose's demon bloodline.

It was incomplete. More than half of it was shrouded in gray mist. Only when Red Nose grew into a complete, First-Ring Quasit would the rune be fully unsealed and revealed.

"..."

The True Name Rune was a mark unique to Red Nose and held no value whatsoever for anyone else.

The other two runes were not particularly useful either.

An Abyssal sacrifice was like carrying gold to trade with the master for bones.

An Abyssal summoning was like spending money to hire a thug skilled in black-on-black robbery.

"They truly aren't worth much. What other knowledge is in your inheritance memories?"

Yin Ming silently noted down the two Abyssal runes. Once he later deciphered the fundamental principles behind rune construction, perhaps he could break them down into something valuable.

Then he pulled several of Red Nose's broken teeth, which had been slapped loose, from the tree trunk.

When using the Abyssal Summoning Rune, using an item bearing a demon's aura as a medium gave a high chance of summoning that demon.

"Uh... Master, Quasit inheritance is varied and vast. I've only digested a single hair from nine oxen. There's Demon Tongue, the common language, the Abyssal Demon Codex, the Abyssal Food Codex, the Abyssal Medicine Codex, Abyssal minerals..."

Yin Ming: "..."

The Demon Race of the immortal cultivation system.

They also possessed similar bloodline inheritance memories, gifts granted to descendants by the divine beasts at the source of their bloodlines.

But at most, one or two cultivation methods suited to the race would be engraved into the inherited bloodline genes, along with the majestic image of the divine beast itself. They were all relatively important pieces of information.

Humans possessed language and written inheritance, so they did not engrave inheritance memories. It was not that immortals could not do so. Rather, the more inheritance memories there were, the greater the consumption of a race's bloodline potential.

What was going on with the demon race?

They had entered an encyclopedia into their genes. Could genetic bloodlines still possibly continue evolving after being used like this?

"Good thing I didn't personally consume the bloodline potion."

Yin Ming looked at Red Nose with sympathy. After transforming into a Quasit, Red Nose's genes no longer had any possibility of further modification. Without a heaven-shaking stroke of fortune, he would never be able to break through the First-Ring bloodline limit in this lifetime.

"First, tell me some general knowledge about the Abyss, then go through the types of inheritance. I'll choose the important ones to learn."

The abundance of inheritance memories was absolutely a good thing for Yin Ming. He could learn much knowledge of the Abyss from Red Nose.

"..."

Seven or eight days passed in succession!

During the day, Yin Ming worked while continuing to slack off, humbly listening as Red Nose the Quasit taught him Abyssal knowledge.

At night, once darkness fell, he slipped back into the Magic Beast Forest to continue his studies.

Most of the inheritance consisted of reference materials and codices. The only true knowledge was Demon Tongue.

Over those seven or eight days, Yin Ming gained a basic understanding of the Abyss.

The Abyss was not a single plane, but a vast world formed from countless fragmented planes.

At the same time, he consumed his lifespan to maintain his brain at twenty percent high-frequency operation, never forgetting anything as he memorized all common pronunciations and writing of Demon Tongue.

"Red Nose!"

Red Nose wrote demon script while reciting the Abyssal Demon Codex.

Yin Ming naturally did not wish to waste the high-frequency state he had obtained by consuming lifespan. In order to memorize more knowledge, he made Red Nose multitask.

In any case, Red Nose only needed to repeat the knowledge in his inherited bloodline and did not need to think about it at all. For a supernatural creature, multitasking was not difficult.

"Master! I've truly reached my limit! There's no way I can go any faster!"

Hearing Yin Ming's voice, Red Nose's body stiffened, and he began trembling faintly beyond his control.

As a monkey, in merely seven or eight days, he had digested the Quasit inheritance memories and even learned to multitask.

If I had known enlightenment would lead to this, I would have been better off remaining a monkey.

"No, I've already learned Demon Tongue!"

Yin Ming was slightly embarrassed and also felt that this was somewhat inhumane. Who could endure working 007? After pausing, he said, "I plan to let you return to the Abyss!"