In Ren Yang's eyes, the world was like a book, filled with various kinds of information. By understanding and even altering this information, one could manipulate everything in existence.
Now, with the fusion of Ren Yang's memories and Liu Nanfeng's, he gained new insights.
For instance, Ren Yang's perception could be understood by Liu Nanfeng as DNA and genes. DNA was the book, and genes were the text within, recording genetic information. This information included biological traits such as baldness after thirty, being born with legs of unequal length, or being five centimeters shorter than expected, as well as all life phenomena like birth, aging, sickness, and death.
At this point, everyone would surely recall the mythical Book of Life and Death, how similar it seemed.
From birth, everything about a person was recorded in the Book of Life and Death, including their destined family, when they would live, when they would die, and when they would fall ill.
The human life process, from birth to death, was a process of decay. Biological aging and death were essentially the aging and death of cells, and DNA resided within cells.
Therefore, cells were responsible for protecting DNA and genetic information.
If cells could be made to never age or die, then immortality could be achieved.
Of course, cells contained more than just DNA; they also had cell walls, vacuoles, mitochondria, and other organelles.
Mitochondria, in particular, were like the blank pages at the beginning and end of a book if DNA was the book itself.
The process of human life was like tearing apart this book, page by page. Since mitochondria were the first to bear the brunt, many institutions in the scientific community were researching ways to extend the lifespan of mitochondria. The longer the mitochondria lasted, the longer the lifespan.
Thus, what Ren Yang referred to as "parsing" was essentially the reading of biological information. Of course, this wasn't limited to biology; it extended to all things in the world, reading the information about their composition. With this understanding, the world held no secrets for him.
However, his most formidable ability was to alter or even write this information using specific carriers. The "micro-light" was created this way. Because Ren Yang had parsed the micro-light and remembered its information, he used water as a carrier to directly recreate the micro-light that had vanished in the river of time. Apart from the inability to create something from nothing, this was almost equivalent to the ability of a creator.
This ability was analogous to "read" and "write" in computers, with Liu Nanfeng being the programmer of this world.
Therefore, reading was easy, but writing was difficult, and among writing, alteration was the most challenging.
Writing on blank paper was easy; as long as one mastered the information, they could simply write it down sequentially. For instance, the micro-light was "created" by him with little effort.
But to alter another living being into something like the micro-light was incredibly difficult. Of course, if it wasn't a specific alteration but a random change, it would be easy.
The reason Liu Nanfeng wanted to master alteration was due to the "Maternal Mother Grass." He had already deciphered the information of the Maternal Mother Grass, and its basic information exhibited the characteristics of grass.
Thus, finding a carrier was easy, especially in rural areas where they were everywhere. However, after finding the grass, it became difficult to alter its information.
The most perfect method would be to find a grass that was naturally similar to the Maternal Mother Grass and then modify its information slightly, which would be the simplest approach.
But it was clear that the Maternal Mother Grass was very special.
Based on Liu Nanfeng's parsing, the Maternal Mother Grass was not a grass that helped people conceive at all, but rather a seal, a restriction.
It could seal all extraordinary abilities of the user, turning demons and deities into ordinary humans. The only way to unseal it was by transferring it to a child through conception. This was also an opportunity to transfer one's cultivation to the child. However, this was very dangerous. If the user were a demon, they might be directly reverted to their original form, and years of cultivation would be wasted.
This was why the Maternal Mother Grass was also referred to as poisonous grass or sealing grass, as it was not initially intended for childbirth.
Instead, it served as a weapon to seal great demons or powerful individuals.
Nature was truly miraculous to naturally produce such a powerful restriction.
Thus, Liu Nanfeng gradually realized he had entered a conceptual pitfall. Why bother altering the grass's information to create a second Maternal Mother Grass?
He could simply learn this restriction and seal the opponent's cultivation directly.
However, this presented two more troublesome problems. Since the Maternal Mother Grass's seal used plants as carriers, it contained powerful vital energy and information from plants. This vitality and information also played a significant protective role in the seal, preventing the person from being "poisoned" to death instantly.
Therefore, Liu Nanfeng now had two directions. One was to find plant life devoid of any DNA and then write all the information of the Maternal Mother Grass onto it.
The other was to exert the sealing ability directly without a carrier.
If this were the case, he would need to parse the sealing ability to a deeper level, removing unnecessary conditions.
Simply put, the first method was like cut or paste, while the second was to understand its essence and write it himself, deleting any content he didn't need.
Clearly, the second method was more difficult.
However, Liu Nanfeng leaned towards the second method, as it would not only grant him a powerful means but also eliminate the headache of searching for suitable carriers.
But to decipher the information of the Maternal Mother Grass, the weeds in the vegetable garden in front of Liu Nanfeng's house suffered, all being "ruined" by him. Of course, if it were only this, Yu Huilan would have thought he was helping with weeding and would have been quite happy.
However, when she later discovered that many of the vegetables had also been ruined, she became angry and chased Liu Nanfeng to beat him.
Another matter that made Yu Huilan even more frustrated was that the stone slabs by the pond behind the house had been stolen by someone, making it very inconvenient for her to wash vegetables and clothes.
After staying at home for two days, he returned to Jiangcheng amidst Yu Huilan's disdainful gaze.
However, Liu Nanfeng's complete deciphering of the Maternal Mother Grass's information remained elusive. But it wasn't entirely without reward. Although he only deciphered some fragments of information, these fragments were extremely useful.
For example, promoting growth, absorbing spiritual energy, photosynthesis, and secreting chlorophyll.
These abilities were all very practical. Through this, Liu Nanfeng finally understood why Ren Yang could become famous throughout the Great Wilderness and why legends of him circulated among the tribes of the Great Wilderness.
While parsing the information of the Maternal Mother Grass, Liu Nanfeng was also organizing Ren Yang's memories. Ren Yang's memories were too vast, encompassing various experiences and parsing knowledge, and many species were unknown in this world, whether they were extinct or had never existed.
Therefore, the priority was to extract useful knowledge from these memories and categorize them for future use.
Moreover, from Ren Yang's memories, many pieces of information that had been thoroughly deciphered were also extracted. This information was not only useful but also extremely powerful.
Because in his era, there were countless powerful species, and even information about the abilities of many wild beasts had been deciphered.
Liu Nanfeng was like a sponge, continuously absorbing this knowledge.
In the days since his return, life seemed to have returned to its former calm. The two sisters went to and from work on time, and Liu Nanfeng idled away his days.
The only difference from the past was that Liu Nanfeng would subconsciously parse anything he saw.
In this process, Su Jinxiu, Su Huamei, Guanshanhai, and even the "gugu" and various monsters within Guanshanhai were all parsed.
The more he parsed this world, the more Liu Nanfeng felt his own ignorance and lack of knowledge, and the more awe he felt towards the world and towards the Creator.
Until he met the little carp again, Liu Nanfeng also parsed it.