Chapter 375: The Last Inheritance
"You... have been waiting for me?"
Looking at the ghost dragon opposite in astonishment, Geng Chen never thought that he would get such an answer from the other party.
"What is going on? Did you lead me to Youquan on purpose?"
Laughing again, Guilong confirmed Gengchen's statement with his eyes.
"I originally just wanted to find a successor..."
"It doesn't matter whether it's you or another individual born from the 'Devil's Egg'."
"Ghost Dragon... um, that's what you and the Shanhai Civilization call me, right?"
"Because the ghost dragon is such a special existence, it can't even be considered a species."
After a slight pause, Guilong ignored Gengchen's shocked look and continued speaking.
"Ghost Dragon was born from the Canglong clan, but it can never truly separate from the Canglong clan and exist independently."
"Every ghost dragon that is born must absorb enough souls from the Canglong clan..."
"I have been in this dark spring for thousands of years. Countless newborn ghost dragons have come here, wanting to replace me and become the only ghost dragon."
"Unfortunately, most of them cannot even inherit the 'inherited memory' completely."
“Even if a few of the ghost dragons persisted like you…”
"But a personality that is confused in cognition can only become a part of me, but cannot completely defeat me."
After hearing this, Gengchen finally solved a question that had been bothering him for a long time.
That is, there is clearly a "Ghost Egg" on every Canglong Island, but there seems to be only one Ghost Dragon.
Now it seems that there is not only one ghost dragon, but the only ghost dragon that can survive is the one in front of us.
"What on earth is going on?"
Faced with Gengchen's questioning, Guilong just shook his head slightly.
"In fact, the whole truth is in your memory..."
"It's just that you seem to be very resistant to those memories, so you ignore the 'gifts' from the previous generations of blue dragons."
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The first generation Canglong's practice of engraving memories into genes is actually a very dangerous behavior.
Stuffing all kinds of random things into genes will only cause the offspring who inherit these genes to be very prone to mutation.
The second generation Canglong, who stood out from many of his compatriots, had realized this long ago.
The memory inheritance of the first generation Canglong is not only extremely dangerous, but also incomplete.
Only by killing and plundering each other among compatriots can they obtain all the memories of the first generation of Canglong.
Therefore, in order to put an end to this dangerous inheritance.
The second generation of Canglong began to choose to use the soul as a carrier and inherited all the memories of his predecessor.
By the time the third generation of Canglong was born, there were actually many individuals who inherited the memories of their predecessors.
All individuals born from the second-generation Canglong vesicles basically inherited most of the memories of the second-generation Canglong.
However, the only ones who can truly be identified as the third generation of Canglong are the direct descendants who ventured into the Nether Spring and survived.
Because even if there is a problem with genetic inheritance.
It causes physical deformation of direct descendants, or the failure to inherit all the memories of the previous generation.
The inheritance in the Youquan can still engrave the memories of past lives into the souls of direct individuals, minimizing the risks to the greatest extent.
Especially after the ghost dragon was born.
Even individuals who are deformed due to gene mutation can be transformed back into ghost dragons through inheritance rituals.
This is an advantage of the ghost dragon as a spiritual creature, and it is also the fundamental reason why the ghost dragon heritage can continue to this day.
It’s not that the ghost dragons are tired of living, but they all insist on entering the Nether Spring to seek death.
Rather, those ghost dragons are deformed individuals due to genetic mutations, and only by entering the dark spring can they return to their complete form.
From this perspective, the "ghost egg" that Kuilong brought back to the Shanhai civilization was destined to be a deformed existence, and it had nothing to do with whether it was forcibly taken away.
Even the short lifespan of the first generation of ghost dragons is essentially the result of this genetic mutation.
On the contrary, Gengchen, as the fusion of the first Canglong and the Guilong, is a perfect existence without any genetic defects, and is the outlier in the eyes of the Guilong.
Genes aren't written with some random shit in them...
It successfully merged with the ghost egg and possessed the characteristics of the ghost dragon...
In addition, through the inheritance of Youquan, the memory of the previous Canglongs was perfectly inherited...
It is no exaggeration to say that Gengchen is simply the most perfect individual born from the Canglong race that has evolved for billions of years.
From body to soul, from genes to memory, from beliefs to personality...
Today, Geng Chen is perfect in Guilong's eyes and is the most suitable candidate to become the next Guilong.
"bring it on!"
"The last step to enter the inheritance!"
"Defeat me! Replace me! And become the new generation of Ghost Dragon!"
The ghost dragon, who had already lived enough, roared in a low voice, with madness in his eyes.
The Guilong of the past was just like the Gengchen of today, with his own life and his own hopes.
However, because of the inheritance, he was forced to be branded with the idea of "transcending the cycle of reincarnation" and gave up everything that belonged to him.
Now, thousands of years have passed, and the things that Guilong is familiar with have long disappeared.
He himself was trapped in this cage called "eternal life" and could not be freed.
"Don't worry about the situation outside. This is a war between you and me."
"If you defeat me, not only will you become the new generation of Ghost Dragon, but you can also do whatever you want."
"Whether you want to lead the Canglong clan to join the Shanhai Civilization or inherit the obsession of the Canglongs of past generations to pursue immortality, that is your own choice."
"I am destined to be unable to realize the long-cherished wish of the Canglongs of all generations, so what I seek is the ultimate liberation!"
Slowly turning his body, Guilong had been bound by obsession for so many years, and for the first time he truly planned to live for himself.
"What ghost dragon? What inheritance? That has nothing to do with me!"
Although he was also influenced by the obsession of successive Canglongs, Gengchen maintained his own beliefs as an individual from beginning to end.
Transcending the cycle of reincarnation and pursuing eternal life are the obsessions that the first generation of Canglong left to their descendants.
All the Canglongs of all generations were influenced and bound by this obsession, except Gengchen, who was educated in mountain and sea civilization and disdained it.
"My life has just begun. There are so many interesting things in this world..."
"I don't want to be like you and give up my entire life for an illusory goal."
Before he finished speaking, Geng Chen took the initiative to attack Guilong.
Boom boom...
The thunder roars and the ocean surges.
Geng Chen, whose body was still growing larger and larger, single-handedly stirred up a storm in the entire West Sea.
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(End of this chapter)
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