My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1116 Authority in the Field of Human Creation

After the female official Qingluan transformed into a beam of blue light and departed, seeing off the aggrieved Guang Chengzi, Nuwa did not return to the courtyard. Instead, she turned and headed towards the "Sculpting Workshop" deep within the Nuwa Palace.

Although this place is named "Sculpting Workshop", it is actually a library. The bookshelves inside are filled with scrolls from the beginning of time, from the records of human reproduction at the beginning of the human race to the bloodline charts of various races in the three realms. All of these are the fruits of her hard work accumulated over ten thousand years.

The process of Nuwa creating humans was not as simple as the mythical description of her casually taking some mud, injecting divine power, kneading it into shape, and blowing a breath of immortality into it. Rather, it was a rather complex metaphysical system engineering project.

Even if divine power is truly a superpower that allows one to manifest whatever one desires, one must understand and thoroughly comprehend every detail before imagining and reflecting reality, and creating creatures that conform to the logic of survival.

Otherwise, given the complexity of life, even a simple primitive life form like cyanobacteria would be difficult for ordinary people to imagine, let alone have the ability to reproduce, form a species, and survive generation after generation.

Nuwa didn't just create humans and then abandon them. For a considerable period after the birth of humankind, she sampled, observed, compared, and analyzed, searching for flaws in her creation and ways to further improve it.

While waiting for her female official to return with the information, Nuwa decided to combine her own experience to deduce Wen Rui's success and see if she could figure out Wen Rui's secret before seeing the information.

It's like a top student encountering a difficult problem. Before looking at the reference answer, they always have to try to solve it themselves, otherwise they will feel very unwilling.

Pushing open the carved wooden door of the Sculptor's Pavilion, a warm, cool breeze mixed with the scent of ink and earth rushes in.

The interior of the pavilion was not like a traditional immortal abode: the bookshelves on the left were piled high with animal skin scrolls and bamboo slips, and the top scroll, written in ancient runes, was the "Record of Creating Humans," which recorded her insights on creating humans by "using five-colored stones as bones, drawing on the primordial energy as the soul, and taking the breath soil to mold flesh and blood."

Nuwa took the "Record of the Creation of Humans" and slowly opened it, her memories seemingly returning to countless millennia ago.

The Record of Creation begins with a diagram of the Breath of Earth drawn in cinnabar, followed by runes that record:

"To create a human, one must obtain three essential materials from the primordial world: the first is the Nine Heavens' Breath Soil, selected for its sticky, viscous texture and rich earth vein energy, which is then tempered by the Chaos Fire for three days and nights to remove impurities and retain its essence, forming the foundation of the physical body;"

"The second is the water of the Milky Way, taken from the clear, cool water reflected by the stars and moon, mixed with the juice of the immortal herbs of Kunlun, filtered to remove impurities, yielding 'spiritual liquid,' the source of bloodline;"

"The third is the primordial pure energy, which is taken from the original energy at the beginning of heaven and earth. It needs to be nurtured by the primordial spirit for a hundred days to make it soft and not dissipate, and it is the core of life."

……

Nuwa spent over a hundred years just selecting the raw materials for creating humans, traversing every corner of the prehistoric world. The effort she put into this one step was no less than that of Shennong, who tasted hundreds of herbs.

Skipping over the material section, and then flipping through the "body shaping" and "soul-pointing" sections, we finally arrived at the "reproduction" section that Nuwa wanted to examine in detail.

This chapter is the core of "The Record of the Creation of Humans," representing the greatest challenge Nuwa overcame in the process of creating humans. Only after completing this chapter could the great undertaking of creating humans be considered complete and successful.

Otherwise, even if the created species have bodies and souls, they cannot reproduce and are no different from clay puppets, and it is impossible for them to obtain the immeasurable merits bestowed by the Heavenly Dao.

Without this chapter, there would be plenty of gods, demon kings, and demon emperors who could create puppets. Why would Nuwa be able to take the lead and be granted sainthood for her merits?

The animal hide scrolls were covered with numerous hand-drawn "bloodline diagrams," the runes recording Nuwa's early understanding of human genetics. Although she didn't know the name "gene," she observed the patterns of human reproduction and summarized the secrets of "bloodline inheritance":

"The reproduction of humankind requires the 'essence and blood' of both men and women. When the essence and blood are combined, they condense into the 'fetal essence'. The essence and blood of men are like 'seeds', containing the 'breath of yang meridians'; the essence and blood of women are like 'soil', containing the 'breath of yin meridians'. When the 'seed' is planted in the 'soil' and nourished by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the fetal essence is born."

The volume contains a detailed record of her observations and research:

“Observing the reproduction of a hundred households, if both parents are tall, their children will also be tall; if both parents are bright-eyed and sharp-eared, their children will also be intelligent; if the parents have congenital defects (such as missing fingers or blindness), their children will occasionally have the same condition. This is the principle of ‘bloodline inheritance’.”

“I take the essence blood of different human races, dilute it with spiritual liquid, and observe it. I find ‘tiny particles’ in the essence blood, and within these particles lies ‘the breath of inheritance,’ which is a spiral shape of two meridians, yin and yang, that are mutually complementary. When the ‘breath’ of the parents is combined, it determines the form, intelligence, and abilities of the children…”

……

After flipping through the pages for a while, Nuwa put down "The Record of Creating Humans," frowned, and went to the bookshelf. With a look of disgust but also helplessness, she took out a beautifully bound paper book from the innermost shelf.

The book's header page read "New Knowledge Series of the Jie Sect," while the title itself was printed with the five large characters "Biological Genetics."

Turning to a page in "Biological Genetics" marked with a bookmark, a colorful double helix diagram of genes is presented, almost identical to the image of Nuwa observing the genetic material of the human race with her celestial eye microscopic vision, with every detail clearly depicted.

"Ugh……"

Nuwa couldn't help but sigh inwardly. When she wrote the "Record of the Creation of Humans," she did not intend to pass on her unique skills to future generations who were destined to learn them.

Creating humans is a high-level technology that ordinary cultivators or immortals are not capable of. There are simply too many prerequisite skills required before creating humans.

Even if Nuwa took on a disciple, nurtured him with care, infused him with magical power, and fed him rare and precious herbs and elixirs to improve his cultivation level, there would be absolutely no possibility of replicating her creation of humankind unless he reached the level of a Primordial Golden Immortal.

Writing this book, "The Creation of Humans," is actually like a famous person writing a memoir. It's more about boasting and showing off, so that future generations will know how great and unparalleled Nuwa's achievements were and how she accomplished the impossible miracles.

However, compared to Wen Rui's mass-produced "Biological Genetics," even though "The Record of Human Creation" was written by a sage, it seems somewhat less appealing.

Many of the definitions, concepts, and theories are somewhat vague, leaving readers confused. If one were to actually use "The Book of Creation" to create humans, even a great deity of the same level as Nuwa would likely be unable to replicate it.

Nothing can compare to "Biological Genetics," which is written so thoroughly and clearly, with perfect logic and every word a gem. As long as one has a solid foundation in the basic knowledge of the Jie Sect, one can easily understand it.

Of course, this book on the knowledge of the Jie Sect is just a textbook for interpreting "Genetics" and does not teach readers how to create a human from scratch.

But that's not important, because as mentioned in the last chapter of this book, if readers are interested in further research on this theory, there is a whole series of follow-up books available for study, such as "Molecular Biology," "Gene Editing," and "Biochemistry."

(End of this chapter)