Chapter 601 Bloodline

Shackles Dawn 507.

This year, Mu Feng was 27 years old.

During the days when he worked in the farm, he was focused and devoted all his energy to learning.

Spiritual beast studies, spiritual material studies, field studies... Knowing that his foundation was shallow, he enriched his knowledge through self-study to lay the foundation for subsequent research.

Studying the atavism evolution of spiritual beasts has also become his hobby to kill time.

The process of exploring the unknown always makes Mu Feng full of fun.

Through repeated experiments, Mu Feng gradually formed his own preliminary theoretical framework for the reasons for the atavism of spiritual beasts.

At this stage, it is clear that the atavism evolution of spiritual beasts requires contact with or consumption of spiritual materials of the same attribute.

Following this direction, Mu Feng did a lot of experiments and asked his father to buy a lot of spiritual materials and spiritual beasts.

In the continuous experiments, the spiritual beast illustrations he made were constantly improved.

Mu Feng discovered that the reversion of spirit beasts is most likely due to external stimulation or pressure, and then absorbing energy of the same attribute, the bloodline value can be improved. It is not only the damage caused by the spirit materials of the same attribute that can increase the bloodline value of spirit beasts.

For example, if the body of the spirit pig is injured, it can also improve its bloodline potential by feeding it with spirit materials of the same attribute without damage.

But this improvement is very limited.

It seems that all spirit beasts have a bloodline lock that is difficult to break through, which prevents these spirit beasts from reversion to their ancestral bloodline.

And being injured seems to loosen the bloodline lock of spirit beasts, and then feeding them with spirit materials of the same attribute will make it easier for spirit beasts to reversion to their ancestral bloodline.

This reminds Mu Feng of a document he learned when he visited and studied at the Dawn Academy.

At this stage, spirit beast scholars have deduced the origin of the spirit beast system.

It mentioned that the origin of spirit beasts, "spiritual ancestors", chose to differentiate themselves because of insufficient resources. The first generation of spirit beasts after the spirit ancestors also further weakened their strength due to similar situations, thereby reducing the consumption of resources and allowing themselves to survive.

Environmental factors are the root cause of the problem that spirit beasts choose to degenerate themselves, and are also the root cause of the continuous degradation of the potential of the entire spirit beast system.

Considering this direction, can it be said that the current spirit beasts are still affected by environmental factors?

Bringing harm to spirit beasts will stimulate them, and in order to cope with the crisis in front of them, the degenerate shackles imprinted in their blood will be loosened.

And the corresponding spiritual materials can better help spirit beasts evolve towards a stronger direction when the blood shackles are loosened.

Two important factors are mentioned here.

First, injury.

Second, contact (devouring) spiritual materials of the same attribute to obtain energy.

In the theory of the origin of spirit beasts, the degradation of spirit beasts is caused by environmental pressure and insufficient resources. If

these two points are met, it seems that there is no need for spirit beasts to continue to degenerate.

In the following continuous experiments, Mu Feng found that his guess was completely correct.

With continuous injuries and sufficient spiritual materials, the spirit pig he mainly studied grew rapidly, and the blood potential value increased by one third faster than the other two spirit pigs.

After confirming that damage + spiritual materials of the same attribute can improve the potential of spiritual beasts' bloodline, Mu Feng faced a new problem.

This improvement seems too slow.

The cost of cultivating spiritual pigs in this way is more than 180 times higher than that of ordinary spiritual pigs.

The average number of spiritual pigs breeding is only about 23 per litter, and the gestation period is 1 year and 3 months.

The offspring of spiritual beasts generally have their growth potential weakened by 1/4.

Assuming that the bloodline potential of a spiritual pig is 1, then under normal circumstances, the bloodline value of the offspring of this spiritual pig is about 0.75.

The bloodline potential of a spiritual pig raised with 180 times the resources is 1.33, and the bloodline potential of its offspring is 0.99.

It seems to have reached the standard value.

But the investment here is 180 times, which is equivalent to feeding 180 spiritual pigs to adulthood.

A spiritual pig must give birth to more than 180 litters to offset the investment, but a normal spiritual pig can only reproduce about 80-120 litters before it is sent to the table.

After detailed calculations, Mu Feng found that the input and output of this feeding method were completely disproportionate. Even if the Lingluo pigs fed with this input could mate multiple times in adulthood, the offspring could only maintain the normal bloodline value level based on the 1/3 increase in bloodline growth potential.

This was obviously not the answer he needed for the return of the spirit beast.

Of course, these data were based on the consideration of the value of reproduction benefits.

If we only talk about strength, the Lingluo pigs with a bloodline value strengthened by one third are much stronger than ordinary Lingluo pigs.

After all, 1.33 is only the initial bloodline value. The bloodline value of the spirit beast will grow at an astonishing rate during its growth. The basic bloodline potential of 1.33 can make the adult Lingluo pig several times stronger than the ordinary Lingluo pig.

But the basic bloodline value is unchanged.

This is different from humans or domain creatures, who can change their basic bloodline values ​​after their strength increases.

After careful calculations, Mu Feng felt that the answer he found was not enough to make the bloodline return to the ancestral evolution field of spirit beasts truly develop.

This feeding method is obviously not the way used by spirit beast merchants, and there must be more effective methods.

But with a foundation, there is the possibility of opening up a future path.

In the days that followed, Mu Feng began to search for the deep evolutionary secrets of spirit beasts.

During this period, Mu Feng flipped through a document that he had known before in the database.

This document was left by Feng Qi and is a record of domain studies.

This document records a special life: the chimera demon.

Its situation is very similar to the spirit ancestor in the theory of the origin of spirit beasts. Due to the harsh environment, or the main body was severely damaged and could no longer maintain its life form, it chose to self-differentiate and split the huge individual into countless small individuals.

This mentioned a point of view that Mu Feng found very interesting.

After the chimera demon completes differentiation, the individual will choose to devour and grow independently, but will eventually move towards the direction of fusion.

The fusion here refers to mutual devouring.

When a chimera demon splits into two individuals after becoming an adult, it will look for other split individuals, devour them and obtain all the power of the devoured individuals, then continue to devour, fuse and evolve, and finally return to the chimera demon form.

This is the way the chimera demon is resurrected in the literature.

This made Mu Feng curious whether the spirit beasts could also gain strength by devouring each other.

After spending several days reading the relevant information, Mu Feng found that there were three cases of spirit beasts devouring each other in the database.

One of them happened in the laboratory of Xingcheng Academy.

Due to improper operation by a student, the two spirit beasts imprisoned in the laboratory were released at the same time and bit each other, resulting in one death and one injury. One of the spirit beasts was eaten by the other spirit beast for half of its body.

However, this document here does not record whether the spirit beasts had changes in bloodline values ​​after being injured.

Thinking carefully, Mu Feng felt that there should be no bloodline evolution.

He believed that the spirit beast laboratory in Xingcheng Academy must be equipped with the same life detection device as that of the Dawn Academy. If the bloodline values ​​change, they will definitely be recorded in real time, attracting the attention of spirit beast scholars.

But this alone cannot prove whether spirit beasts can change their bloodline values ​​by devouring their own kind.

After all, the spirit beasts devouring each other recorded in this data happened between spirit beasts of two different attributes.

According to the viewpoint he has sorted out now, spirit beasts must devour the energy of the same attribute to achieve atavism evolution.

With doubts, Mu Feng started the experiment.

Dad sent five wood-attributed spirit rabbits, and he slaughtered one that night, then mixed it with meat and fed it to the spirit pig that was focused on breeding.

After three days of observation and bloodline testing, Mu Feng found that the spirit pig that devoured the spirit beast of the same attribute did not undergo bloodline atavism evolution.

The bloodline potential values ​​were all normal.

This proved that the view of devouring evolution was wrong.

Just when Mu Feng was stuck at a critical node and could not break through, a new turning point soon came.

On this day, Mu Feng was preparing to feed the spirit pig, but found that the spirit materials sent by his father were almost consumed. After calling his father, he decided to save the spirit materials before his father arrived. The spirit beasts he raised did not need to be fed for the time being, and they would be enough for the next few days. As a

result, three days later, the enhanced Lingluo pig, which could never get full, began to snatch the food of the other two Lingluo pigs.

The other two Lingluo pigs were not to be outdone and immediately fought with the enhanced Lingluo pig.

In a two-on-one situation, when Mu Feng heard the alarm from the life monitoring device, the three Lingluo pigs were already covered with wounds.

Seeing this, Mu Feng was really helpless and immediately began to treat the injuries of the Lingluo pigs.

However, the blood value monitoring that night showed obvious changes. The blood value of the enhanced Lingluo pig that was always fed with the same attribute spiritual materials actually increased significantly.

This surprised Mu Feng.

Instead of increasing the food, it decreased, but the increase in blood value was more than three times the normal value.

This made Mu Feng realize one thing, that fighting might be the key factor in the evolution of spiritual beasts.

Competition, injury, and spiritual materials of the same attribute.

Mu Feng felt that he had found another key factor for the spiritual beasts to return to their ancestors and evolve.

Among them, spiritual materials of the same attribute are the key core. Based on the premise of having sufficient spiritual materials of the same attribute to eat, the competition between spiritual beasts can bring about significant bloodline numerical regression evolution.

While feeling surprised, Mu Feng immediately started a new round of experimental tests.

Half a year later.

Through continuous experiments, and even changing the experimental subjects of spiritual beasts, Mu Feng confirmed his guess.

The bloodline shackles of spiritual beasts will become loose under the pressure of the environment. During this period, if the spiritual beasts are given sufficient spiritual materials of the same attribute, the spiritual beasts will move towards the way of regression evolution.

This discovery has greatly improved the cost-effectiveness of feeding.

In the past six months, Mu Feng deliberately reduced the food for the spiritual pigs, allowing the three spiritual pigs to compete for food.

Among them, the spiritual pigs fed with spiritual materials of the same attribute have undergone obvious changes in their bodies.

Mu Feng named this spiritual pig "Hanpi".

After half a year of competition and feeding, Hanpi's strength is completely able to crush the other two spiritual pigs together.

Under the pressure of competition, Hanpi grew rapidly. A faint light emanated from the surface of his emerald green body. The emerald vines on his back were twice as large as those of his peers and more colorful.

At this time, Hanpi was no longer under competitive pressure, and his evolution slowed down significantly.

In order to increase the competitive pressure, Mu Feng decisively sought help from his father, hoping that his father could provide a more powerful spiritual beast to assist the evolution of Lingluo Pig.

Faced with Mu Feng's bottomless pit of resources, his father did not hesitate at all and immediately bought a mid-quality spiritual deer.

When the spiritual deer was delivered to Mu Feng, he decisively raised the spiritual deer and Hanpi together.

The increase in competitive pressure has greatly increased the appetite of Lingluo Pig, and it has also become more ferocious. In addition to Mu Feng, who has raised him since childhood, he is particularly hostile to the arrival of other spiritual beasts, and fights with the spiritual deer every time he has a meal.

The fighting power of the spiritual deer is far stronger than that of Hanpi.

After each battle, Hanpi was covered in wounds and was almost pierced in the belly by the spiritual deer.

But the result is that Hanpi's bloodline basic value has grown rapidly, with new changes every day.

In less than two months, Hanpi actually has the combat power to barely compete with the spirit deer.

This is simply unimaginable in Mu Feng's view.

The spirit pig is the lowest level of spirit beast, even if it is used as food, it can only be classified as a low-level spirit material.

The price of the spirit deer introduced by Xingcheng is 25 times higher than that of the spirit pig, which is a mid-level spirit material. The price difference of the same weight of meat in the spirit food restaurant is as high as 28 times.

Although the investment in feeding Hanpi is huge, the growth of Hanpi's bloodline potential value is the real data in front of him.

Mu Feng knows that he has opened a corner of the door to a new world.

This discovery will fill a lot of gaps in the field of bloodline return in the spirit beast study.

Mu Feng can already imagine the direction in which the future spirit beast study will develop.

The model of the breeding farm was taught by the spirit beast merchant, and the food for feeding the spirit beasts was also the plan given by the spirit beast merchant. The human race has always developed spirit beast science based on the foundation given by the spirit beast merchant.

This has led humans to go astray.

The growth of spirit beasts can also be described as natural selection, not just degeneration.

The root of atavism evolution lies in the pressure brought to spirit beasts by the environment and the sufficient replenishment of energy of the same attribute.

After solving these two problems, the blood shackles of spirit beasts will become loose, and they will evolve in a stronger atavism direction.

Dawn 508.

Near the New Year, heavy snow fell near the breeding farm.

Mu Feng stood in the breeding farm area on the sixth floor, observing the fierce battle between Hanpi and Linglu next to the artificial stream.

After another half a year of feeding, Hanpi now has a fighting power that is equal to that of Linglu.

The one-meter-tall Hanpi was not afraid of the antlers of the spirit deer at all, and hit the antlers of the spirit deer with his head wrapped in thick skin, launching a power confrontation.

The power confrontation lasted for a while. Hanpi's hind hooves, which were deeply trapped by the force, suddenly exerted force. With a roar, he suddenly exerted force forward, overturned the spirit deer to the ground, and then suddenly jumped up and pressed down on the spirit deer.

Under Hanpi's violent collision and biting, the spirit deer wailed.

Realizing that it could no longer fight Hanpi, the spirit deer chose to retreat for the first time and was unwilling to continue fighting with Hanpi.

The spirit deer moved very fast. After breaking free from Hanpi's bite, it turned around and was about to escape.

But at this moment, a scene that Mu Feng did not expect happened.

The body of the spirit pig was covered with emerald green light, and its body changed significantly. The emerald green vines on its back grew wildly, turning into a vine whip and whipping the spirit deer fiercely.

"Snap!"

With a crisp sound, the running spirit deer was whipped out by the vines and hit hard on the rockery.

"Innate ability?!"

This scene really shocked Mu Feng. He did not pay attention to the situation of the spirit deer, but stared at Hanpi.

The emerald green vines growing on the back of the Lingluo pig are a manifestation of the life form of the Lingluo pig, but there has never been a record of the Lingluo pig using vines to attack other targets.

Hanpi's sudden control of the vines on his back to attack the Lingluo deer really stunned Mu Feng.

At this time, Hanpi's body changes continued, and strong life fluctuations emanated from his body.

This made Mu Feng suddenly realize that the early spiritual beast scholars' theory of the evolutionary stages of the return of the bloodline of spiritual beasts may be correct.

For example, the digging worm has several stages of evolution in the theoretical model.

The changes that happened to Hanpi at this time were exactly the same as the theoretical bloodline return to the ancestral stage, and he was changing towards a new life form.

According to theoretical speculation, while reverting to the ancestral evolution, the spiritual beast will also gain the power hidden in the bloodline, and may be able to obtain new talents.

He felt that this might be the reason why Hanpi was suddenly able to control the vines growing on his back and attack the Lingluo deer.

Looking at Hanpi, who was shrouded in emerald green light, Mu Feng felt as if he was witnessing the birth of a miracle.

(ω) Getting on the right track