Chapter 195: Inheriting Memory
"Now is not the time to ask these questions. The earth veins are about to open. Your spiritual power has not recovered yet. If you don't leave now, you may be affected. I will take you away first."
"Well, okay, don't worry, you will have to explain everything sooner or later anyway."
How could Zhou Ling not see that the word "avoid" was written all over this guy's mind.
It can hide on the first day, but can it hide on the fifteenth?
Zhou Ling put on a sweet smile, grabbed the feathers on its neck, climbed over it, and sat steadily.
The sun was shining brightly, and Erniu, in the shape of a colorful phoenix, had feathers that were already dazzling, reflecting intoxicating colors under the sunlight.
Zhou Ling rode on its back and tried very hard not to look down at its feathers, but the light reflected from the flapping of its wings still almost blinded her eyes.
It looks good, but it's a bit tiring on the eyes.
As they retreated, the big ox carrying his mother was about to arrive.
When the two parties met, the earth vein mentioned by Erniu opened, which was already a sign.
Previously, Zhou Ling didn’t quite understand what it meant by the opening of the earth veins. If understood literally, it should mean a crack in the ground surface?
But as the ground beneath his feet began to tremble, even the big cow running on the ground staggered and could not stand steadily. Zhou Ling suddenly realized that the so-called opening of the earth veins was actually a major earthquake?
The mountain range where the Hengyue Sword is located not far away looks like a rocky mountain, completely bare and without any grass.
The grassland at the back was a relatively flat surface with no big trees or anything that could collapse. Although the earthquake was loud, the impact it caused was not as serious as imagined.
The only victims of this earthquake are probably the giant bugs living under the grassland.
Although they are large in size, most of them are herbivores and are not very strong, so they can be crushed by brute force.
Now the ground started to shake, cracking and tearing open, letting some insects in, and then suddenly closed again. The insect fluid squeezed out almost merged with the green grass, becoming excellent nutrients.
The earthquake did not last long. After the ground gradually calmed down, Zhou Ling noticed something wrong in the air. He turned back in surprise and saw that the highest mountain where the Hengyue Sword was located had turned into an active volcano.
The scorching hot lava, which seemed to be able to swallow everything, gushed out from the crater, scattering gorgeous red flowers all over the sky.
At that moment, Zhou Ling almost forgot that Hengyue was a sword, and she was worried that the magma would burn Hengyue.
"Aren't those bugs chasing us?"
Zhou Ling felt tired, so he sat cross-legged on the ground, looked in the direction of the grassland where the insects were, and asked in confusion.
"They can't leave the grassland. We are now in the Earth Fire Mountain Range. They don't dare to come here."
It was Da Niu who answered Zhou Ling. After all, Er Niu was currently lying on the side sorting out his somewhat confused memories.
It also understood that as long as it told the little girl Zhou Ling about Heng Yue's affairs, she would definitely interrogate it thoroughly.
There are so many memories passed down, and he has to sort out in his mind what to say and what not to say, so that he can answer Zhou Ling's questioning without being so passive.
"Daniu, you know so much about things here? Why haven't I heard you talk about it before?" It wasn't that Zhou Ling suspected that Da Niu and Er Niu had ulterior motives, but her own curiosity was aroused, and she simply wanted to know.
These things have never been told to them, how did they know them? And they know them in such detail.
"Before, everything was uncertain, and it was useless to talk about it. Now... now that we have come to this point, just do it, no need to say more."
Although it was the big guy who answered, he was still a little hesitant. After all, Zhou Ling didn't know that the reason why their inherited memories were inherited was because they were private enough and had a single-line inheritance.
Generally speaking, these memories are the life experiences that ancestors give to their descendants. They are their own way of protecting their descendants, wanting them to know more, live more safely, pass on their bloodline, and also pass on the memories engraved in their bloodline.
It is difficult to reveal these things, even to one's master.
It's not because I don't want to, but because these things are engraved in my blood. Once the thought of making it public comes to mind, another instinct will subconsciously appear, and I will instinctively resist the idea of telling others.
For example, in his current situation, he was already trying to tell Zhou Ling what he could, but he was still strongly prevented by that inexplicable instinct, and it became difficult for him to speak smoothly.
Zhou Ling listened for a long time but to no avail. However, when she saw that something was obviously wrong with Daniu's expression, as if he was struggling, she immediately gave up the idea of continuing to ask questions.
Although she was very curious, she was not curious enough to embarrass her childhood friends.
Daniu is always very steady, and such complicated emotions rarely appear on his face.
It must have been put in a very difficult situation!
Feeling a little guilty, he raised his hand to smooth the hair around his ears.
"It's a rare moment of leisure, and the bugs over there won't come to attack me again, how about... we start a fire and have a meal?"
Although the two little ones are usually fed with spirit beast pills, Zhou Ling knows that they actually prefer one to eat grains and the other to eat grass.
In the past, when it was time to eat, she and her mother would prepare plenty of food for the two little ones and eat together.
How could Daniu not see that Zhou Ling didn't want to embarrass it and wanted to find an excuse to change the subject.
But hiding like this is not a solution. Zhou Ling is not someone else, at least not to it.
Now that he had the opportunity to provide Zhou Ling with information, he couldn't just go along with it and stop talking because of his instinctive resistance.
"I'm not hungry. I want to say... Erniu and I know what's going on in this secret realm because of the inherited memory! Our ancestors experienced the birth of the Hengyue Sword and knew its origins and some unknown details in later generations. They thought it was useful at the time, so they passed it on to us. That's how we know the current status of the Hengyue Sword and its relationship with the secret realm."
Whatever an animal wants to do, as long as it tries its best, there is rarely anything it cannot accomplish.
Just like it is now, it tried its best to fight against its instincts. Although there were some bumps in the middle, it still told Zhou Ling everything he wanted to know.
"Inheriting memories!" Zhou Ling slapped her head, and she remembered that she had read several books about spiritual beasts, and one of them wrote about this, saying that the stronger the animal's bloodline, the clearer it could pass on certain memories.
As for the instincts engraved in DNA, Zhou Ling understood that humans also had them, but they were just some survival instinct reactions, and they could not pass on the image memory clearly like the animals in this world.
(End of this chapter)
