Inheritance Memories

Red Nose was completely 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 crafty demon.

"Store!"

Yin Ming hurriedly took out the Scavenger Gourd and tried to put the stone away. The stone did not budge.

"Not bad! It really is genuine."

"I thought your quasit inheritance might include some method of faking a soul offering. Looks like I worried too much!"

The stone was a lifeless dead object!

Once it contained a trace of Red Nose's soul, it was defined as an object with its own will and could not be stored in the Yellow-Skinned Gourd.

If the stone could be put into the gourd, then no matter how flamboyant the process was or how convincing the performance, it would still just be an ordinary stone.

Red Nose: [...]

I never thought this thing could be faked?

That was right!

I did not need to truly offer up my soul!

I could have merely drawn the Soul Rune without splitting my soul, then acted out the state of having my soul torn apart!!!

I failed to display the cunning a demon should possess and caused your prediction to fall flat. I truly am sorry!

As a crafty demon, he had actually fallen two levels behind a human.

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

He only thought his own awareness was too lacking, that he had disgraced the Abyssal species and demonkind.

Yet he did not realize that Yin Ming had never dealt with creatures of the Abyss either. He had no idea just how crafty demons were.

If I kill Red Nose and break down his corpse, will I get inheritance memories?

The moment Yin Ming saw the Scavenger Gourd, this thought suddenly surfaced in his mind.

Ever since he had broken down the Demon Bloodline 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 become especially interested in inheritance memories.

The Quasit Bloodline's inheritance memories were bestowed by the quasit at the source of its bloodline.

Rather than inheritance memories, they were more like a segment of brainwashing information, played over and over as it was implanted into the memories of newly born, ignorant bloodlines.

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 present from birth.

Theory was one thing, but experiment was the sole criterion for testing truth. Without breaking him down, how would he know whether it could drop?

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

Red Nose felt a chilly killing intent winding around the back of his head and hurriedly buried his head even lower.

I offered up my soul, and he still wants to kill me. What a vicious and merciless fellow!

Is this really the material plane, rather than an Abyss crawling with demons everywhere?

"Red Nose! That'll be your name. It has sentimental value."

Yin Ming took the stone and accepted Red Nose the quasit's loyalty.

He forcefully snapped off the stone's corners and edges, leaving only a fist-sized piece that bore the core of the Soul Rune.

Of the little macaque's original bodily characteristics, 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 only a designation anyway; 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 Soulstone, Red Nose hurriedly kowtowed in thanks.

"Besides this rune, are there any other runes in your inheritance memories?" Yin Ming asked.

"Yes!"

"But demons rely on innate bloodlines, so we do not master many runes."

Red Nose did not dare hide 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 last is my True Name Rune."

Abyssal Sacrifice Rune.

As its name implied, it was a rune for making sacrifices to the Abyssal Will.

However, there were not many 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 Abyss Demons.

But it placed no restrictions on the demon summoned. Without suitable stakes for a deal, 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 fully unseal and reveal itself.

"..."

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

The other two runes were not particularly useful either.

Abyssal Sacrifice was like carrying gold to trade with your master for bones.

Abyssal Summoning was like spending money to hire a thug skilled at robbing robbers.

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

Yin Ming silently memorized the two Abyssal runes. Once he deciphered the basic principles behind rune construction in the future, perhaps he could break them down into something valuable.

Then, he pulled several broken teeth that Red Nose had been slapped loose from the tree trunk.

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

"Um... Master, quasit inheritance is miscellaneous and vast. I've only digested a mere drop in the ocean. 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 Path System

also possessed similar bloodline inheritance memories, gifts bestowed upon descendants by divine beasts at the source of their bloodlines.

But at most, they only engraved one or two cultivation methods suited to the race into the inherited bloodline genes, along with the majestic image of the divine beast itself. All of it was relatively important information.

Humans had 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 demonkind?

They had entered an entire encyclopedia into their genes. Could bloodline genes still have any possibility of continuing to evolve after being used like this?

"Good thing I didn't personally consume the Bloodline Potion."

Yin Ming looked at Red Nose sympathetically. Red Nose, who had transformed into a quasit, no longer possessed genes that could be modified again. Without an immense stroke of fortune, he would never be able to break through the limits of a First-Ring Bloodline in this lifetime.

"First, tell me some common knowledge about the Abyssal world, then go through the categories of inheritance. I'll choose some important things to learn."

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

"..."

For seven or eight days in a row!

During the day, Yin Ming worked while continuously slacking off, humbly listening as Red Nose the quasit taught him Abyssal knowledge.

At night, taking advantage of the darkness, he slipped back into the Magic Beast Forest to continue seeking instruction.

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 composed of countless Fragment Planes.

At the same time, he consumed his lifespan to keep his brain operating at twenty percent high frequency, 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 want to waste the high-frequency state gained by consuming lifespan. In order to remember more knowledge, he made Red Nose divide his attention between two tasks.

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

"Master! I really am at my limit! I can't go any faster!"

When Red Nose heard Yin Ming's voice, his body stiffened, and he trembled faintly beyond his control.

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

If I'd known gaining intelligence would lead to this, I would've 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 a 007 schedule? After pausing, he said, "I plan to let you return to the Abyss!"