Enter the Immortal Cultivation

Wang Qi still remembers that he took an elective course when he was in Xinyue Immortal Academy. The main content included more than a dozen laws and common methods on "transferring tribulations". Because the content of that class was quite interesting, he listened more carefully.

That class specifically talked about the ethical issues that need to be faced when replacing physical bodies and reversing tribulations.

Seizing a body is an absolute violation of the law. Once discovered, the death penalty is not negotiable, so we will not discuss it for now. Generally speaking, reviving a corpse is least recommended. Not to mention how active the cells in the body are and how much protein is hydrolyzed after the death of a corpse. Just dealing with the original social relationship of the corpse is a complete troublesome matter.

The situation of the soul-possessed beast is slightly better than that of the soul-possessed beast. Unless their descendants also serve as their inheritors, the demon clan themselves will not care about their descendants or brothers. For the monks who possess soul beasts, there are no entangled social problems at all.

And fabricating a physical body is also a good choice. For example, crushing soil, taking shape from vegetation, etc. This is equivalent to a different kind of "demon body". Especially the incarnations of soil, wood and stone, there is no need to face such things as "children".

However, no matter what kind of tribulation it is, you have to face this problem.

Can the descendants of "my" after rebirth really be counted as "my" descendants?

After all, the purpose of reproduction is to reproduce one's own biological offspring and continue one's own bloodline. This is the original and most basic instinct of living things. If you just want to continue the spirit, then legal descendants - such as adopted sons and daughters. There is no difference between parents and children.

Unfortunately, whether on Earth or in China, the status of adopted children and parent-child have never been equal.

So what counts as a "biological descendant"?

Are the descendants of "my" current physical body, or the descendants of "my" previous physical body? Or does it count? Or, there is only the bloodline bound to the subjective consciousness of "I" when it was born. Is it considered "my" bloodline?

This is a messy thread that keeps getting cut and pulled out.

Not to mention the fucked-up question of whether "mitosis" and "reproduction" are considered clones or descendants for the human race.

Of course, some monks generously stated that they did not care about this issue. There are also some people who practice Tongzi Kung Fu and Kuzen Zen who don’t care much. It's a pity that Zhenchanzi is not the path of Qingxiu. As the leader, he still has a certain sense of responsibility, and he is not completely indifferent to passing on the family lineage.

In order to avoid this ethical problem, the best way is to use the original bloodline.

Someone like Wang Qi was from the Immortal Alliance. The current method of practicing the Eight Classics of Zheng'er. The need to recast his body was actually a very simple matter, because when he first entered the Immortal Academy, the Immortal Alliance collected his blood samples and included them in the blood bank. As long as necessary, the Immortal Alliance can generate exactly the same bloodline based on his bloodline at any time.

But Zhen Shanzi was not so lucky. He was beaten to death back then and did not become an immortal. The physical body is not yet immortal, and has long since returned to the cycle of the biosphere. Even the ring that houses his remnant soul was passed through two hands before it came to Wang Qi's hands, and no blood sample could be found.

After Zhen Shanzi knew this, his expression completely changed. He asked humbly: "Doctor Liu, is this... really hopeless?"

"Well, actually it's not hopeless." Liu Huanfeng thought for a while and asked Wang Qi: "Were there many evil monks ten thousand years ago?"

"Evil cultivator..." Wang Qi nodded: "Well, I don't know much about history. Old man, were there many evil cults at that time?"

"There are some." Zhen Shanzi asked, "Why are you asking this?"

"What if tens of thousands of years ago, an evil monk suddenly claimed that the magic weapon in his hand was made from the bones of the Mahayana period..."

Liu Huanfeng was only halfway through his words when Zhen Shanzi was already so sick that he was about to vomit: "You mean, my body?"

"Ten thousand years ago was the last era of ancient Dharma, which was the so-called 'End of Dharma Era'." Liu Huanfeng said with a smile: "There were only a handful of Mahayana monks who died in that period, except for those who died later when the Holy Infant Sect rose. Two, just...you."

Wang Qi was sincerely amazed this time: "It's yours, old man! It's so historically significant!"

"I don't want this kind of historical significance at all." Zhen Shanzi looked like he had eaten shit: "If I am lucky, the body may be refined into a magic weapon or a walking corpse by evil people, and then my bloodline will be connected. Instead, it will survive because of...that form?"

Liu Huanfeng nodded: "That's true."

"A powerful corpse-refining monster that was born ten thousand to nine thousand years ago...an evil magic weapon..." Wang Qi had already begun to "cross over" in the fantasy world of ten thousand immortals. Liu Huanfeng probably had the heart of a doctor, and kindly advised Zhen Shanzi: "Don't have too much hope, because the Holy Infant Cult is a Shinto that practices the five innate virtues, attaches great importance to order, and the first thing to do after gaining power is It means to wipe out the evil ways and demonic ways in the world. Even if your body is really transformed into something extraordinary, it will probably be destroyed."

Zhen Shanzi's face was so dark that she was almost at the bottom of the pot. He died suddenly, and he only had time to escape the remaining soul into the ring, leaving his physical body with no one to take care of him. Originally, he didn't particularly care about "resting in peace". He felt that even if he fed insects, he would return to nature. But now that I think about it...oh, the physical body in the Mahayana period! What a weapon-refining material! The possibility of being trained into a zombie by an evil monk and then beaten to death by the Holy Infant Cult is not small!

How can one bear this!

He didn't know whether to say that Zhen Chanzi was lucky or unlucky. In the end, Wang Qi did not find out that any powerful evil magic weapon appeared in the period after Zhen Chanzi's death and before the Holy Infant Sect became the dominant family.

Since you can't find the original one, you can only find one that is closest to the original one.

However, Liu Huanfeng made a special explanation here. The so-called "closest" can only guarantee that the Yuanjing bloodline root [y chromosome] and part of the bloodline root [DNA] are basically consistent with the original.

The Y-chromosome, the root of Yuanjing blood vessels, is probably the best marker among the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in the human body. Because it is always inherited from the father's line, from father to son, and from son to grandson, endlessly and continuously. The last name is the marker of the y chromosome.

As for the x-chromosome, the root of the Yuanxue bloodline, it is not so easy to track.

Women have two X chromosomes, but only one is truly functional. The other will be inactivated and become a hemorrhagic nodule [Barthore's body]. In different cells of the same individual, the inactivated Yuanxue blood vessel root [x chromosome] can be derived from the female parent or the male parent. As for which one is passed on to the next generation...it's really a random process.

It is basically impossible to trace a person's maternal bloodline through his Yuanxue bloodline roots.

"In other words, the best case scenario is... I get my paternal line back, but my maternal line..."

"Ten thousand years, five hundred generations is almost enough. Each generation has only half a chance of passing on your maternal bloodline. Calculate the odds for yourself." Liu Huanfeng was quite impressed. He shook his head sympathetically.

You don’t need to be a real person to know this. Two to the power of 500 is definitely not that big.

"Old man, I have to tell you some unfortunate news." Wang Qi said: "Actually, even the Yuanjing bloodline root is not that easy to find."

Zhen Shanzi said with a face: "Why? Is it okay to have a surname of Su?"

"That guy Su Junyu's surname is also Su. You have to come and tell him that you have relatives and see if he recognizes him." Wang Qi shook his head: "The bloodline of Yuanjing is indeed marked by the surname. But, changing one's surname is rare. ?"

The surname is given by senior masters or the emperor, the surname is changed when a child enters the family, the adopted son, adopted son, the son of a noble family, the slaves adopt the surname, the mother remarries and changes the surname, the surname is changed to avoid misfortune...

There are so many reasons to change your last name. This is completely forcibly increasing the difficulty of bloodline research.

And even if they have the same surname, they usually have different origins. Take the earth as an example. The surname "Wang" has at least seven origins.

The history of the human race in China is much longer than that of the earth, and there will only be more such nonsense.

Then, Wang Qi added: "In addition to heredity, you should also consider mutation. You know, no offspring can have exactly the same bloodline as their parents. If nothing else, the sun in China changes every seventeen years. When an explosion occurs, there will always be some small changes in the creatures in China - usually this kind of change is extremely small, so small that even if it is magnified a hundred or ten times, it will not have any macroscopic impact every ten thousand years. Once every seventeen years, that's about 588 times, maybe 599 times. Even if there are only minor changes each time, the bloodline roots cannot be the same as ten thousand times. Exactly the same as before.”

Zhen Shanzi finally couldn't bear it anymore and roared: "You kid, you did it on purpose, didn't you?"

"Old sir, you don't have to be angry about this. In fact, this may not be a bad thing. Even if we can't find your original bloodline, we can actually do something better." Liu Huanfeng has probably seen this kind of thing too many times. He comforted: "You can think of it this way. Since we can't find the exact same ones, we can also use better ones instead. I can recommend several God-given bloodlines and several half-demon bloodlines. The former is very powerful when paired with special practices. Although the latter is a slow start, you are originally a high-level monk, and to you, the brain is just an accessory organ, right? If you don't like it, we also offer human-dragon hybrids. The dragon race is also an intelligent race, with innate intelligence and development potential. It's top-notch. However, this project has not yet released a stable version, but we can give a discount..."

Wang Qi slapped his hands: "So there is still such a way! Do you want to do an experiment by the way? Come on, old man, let's go home. I still have a little bit of Xuansi body in the bucket. That thing is the blood of an immortal-level creature. It's better than You don’t know how high you are…”

Zhen Shanzi gritted his teeth: "If I can be particular about it, what's the point of coming here?"

Wang Qi blinked and then remembered that Zhen Shanzi seemed to want "a human body". He could only look at Liu Huanfeng and asked: "Well, Senior Liu, these are some projects. Is there any additional charge? Is it expensive?"

Liu Huanfeng showed a fox-like smile: "If the old gentleman is willing to serve as a volunteer..." (To be continued ~^~)