Self-righteous love can become a burden to others.
Although
He Li’s overflowing talent did not become a burden, it became a constraint on his unlocking of his gene lock.
Susan’s words gave He Li a moment of clarity.
Repeatedly tempering and crushing his mental power, causing dopamine to continuously break through the threshold and then reach new heights, was the way to unlock the gene lock.
The ability He Li often used was Li Qin’s gravity, and gravity was a high-level ability within Nen abilities. It was inherently difficult to break through the dopamine threshold, let alone the fact that there were six other abilities similar to gravity, and He Xi and He Jun’s abilities were even stronger than Li Qin’s gravity.
These powerful abilities, when placed upon him, instead became the key to unlocking.
He Li felt both joy and helplessness.
Joyful that so many powerful abilities were within him,
Helpless that there were too many.
But,
He Li also vaguely understood what the gene lock was about.
Dopamine, threshold,
Such familiar terms.
What is dopamine?
The pleasure obtained after satisfying desires is given by dopamine.
In short, dopamine is happiness, greed, desire, indulgence.
“Wanting more” is dopamine.
In other words, it is the source of “striving to obtain more.”
In the context of gene locks, dopamine is the driving force that prompts ability users to unlock the next stage of their gene lock.
He Li arrived at the 20th floor of the Spirit Management Association building, the library.
He browsed through books.
Ordinary people only had one in 200,000 brain cells capable of producing dopamine. Ability users undoubtedly had more than ordinary people, but there was no precise figure to indicate this,
Because not everyone had the same number of brain cells.
He Li’s expression turned somewhat grim. When cultivation and science became linked, everything became complicated.
Like a certain unfortunate soul.
“Troubled?”
He Li nodded slightly, admitting it. He returned the book to the shelf, then walked to another shelf, picked up a book, flipped through it, and said, “The currently known method to unlock the gene lock is dopamine secretion. To put it more simply, it is stimulating brain cells to secrete more dopamine. But my doubt is, can human brain cells truly all secrete dopamine?”
Yan Ping stood beside He Li with his arms crossed. After a moment of thought, he said, “I’m not good at thinking about such things, but I know what you suspect.”
He Li turned to look at Yan Ping and asked, “What do you know?”
Yan Ping said seriously, “Human potential has no limits.”
He Li was immediately speechless and said irritably, “I know that, of course. Body cells rub against each other and divide, possessing activity to generate spiritual power, and brain cells secrete dopamine to unlock the gene lock.
Rather than saying we are cultivating step by step upwards, it is more like we are exploring our own bodies, breaking through limits time and time again.”
“No, you don’t know,” Yan Ping denied directly.
“Oh? Then what is your explanation?” Yan Ping’s denial made He Li feel intrigued.
As everyone knows, cultivation is not scientific. Spiritual power and gene locks are more like bugs, the activation of self-evolution and protection mechanisms generated by humans to counter demons.
Some people unlocked their gene locks and gained abilities, while others awakened spiritual power and became spirit warriors.
Then,
People with special abilities began to grasp the tail of “special abilities” and climb upwards, cultivating to higher levels.
It’s like digging a well in the ground, but you’re not satisfied. You continuously expand the well, build dams, and turn it into a reservoir. But even with the reservoir, you’re still not satisfied and want to possess great rivers and streams, until you want… to possess the sea.
But He Li’s idea was that the human body is a flat plain, and spiritual power and abilities are a well dug into that plain. Below this well is a spring, which connects to an underground river, which connects to rivers, which connect to the sea. Constantly exploring, from the well opening to the spring, to the underground river, to the rivers, and finally to the sea.
Although the process is the same, and both are active, the processes are contradictory: one accumulates externally, the other excavates internally.
Yan Ping wagged his finger and chuckled, “Your idea is wrong. All of this starts from your own powerful abilities. It’s not surprising you have this idea.
But,
Conversely, if you didn’t have such powerful talent, if your body wasn’t a treasure but barren land,
Would you choose to build dams to divert river water, or dig for underground rivers?”
He Li was stunned for a moment, then realized and said, “You mean, I shouldn’t just focus on excavating my own potential, but also accumulate externally.”
“Exactly, He Li. Since you’ve realized your uniqueness, your cultivation path should also be different. Ordinary people reach higher levels through continuous accumulation.
As for you, while excavating your own potential, you must also continuously accumulate.”
“Of course, don’t be too hasty. Dopamine is both motivation and poison. He Li, don’t get addicted.”
Yan Ping’s last sentence was a warning: obtain power and then drive power, not pursue power and then misuse it.
He Li was silent for a long time, then pursed his lips and smiled, closed the book he had opened, returned it to the shelf, and left with the half-bottle of water on the table.
Yan Ping gave He Li new insight: cultivation is like learning methods; it is not fixed. No matter how you learn, as long as you acquire knowledge and can apply it flexibly, it is sufficient.
He Li was always calm and collected. In the first semester of junior high, he scored first place in the entire grade due to nervousness. At the end of the second semester, he was again first in the entire grade. It wasn’t until junior high that he realized his classmates were beginning to distance themselves from him, and he started to control his scores. From that moment on, he had his first motto in life: “What’s the rush!”
During his three years of high school, He Li found that he increasingly couldn’t understand the behavior of his classmates. What was so good about “turning” books and pens? They were clearly exhausted from studying, yet they still had the energy to jump up and touch the door frame when passing by.
And, pulling girls’ straps and untying the knots at the back of their necks for no reason.
If you like a girl, just confess. Why create a commotion to attract her attention?
He Li walked to the door, finished his water, then struck a basketball pose, jumped lightly, and shot a fadeaway jumper. Clang! He tossed the empty bottle into the trash can.
He Li’s eyes held a mixture of disdain and pride. “The one who made the game-winning shot was He ‘Chris’ Li!” Then, he walked潇洒ly into the elevator.
The aunt in the library, who witnessed the entire scene, softly uttered two words, kuAiδugg.
“Crazy!”
He Li arrived at the shooting range. After emptying three magazines, he looked at the target paper and felt utterly uninspired.
Only the poor aim for precise strikes. Am I poor?
Clearly not!
Heavy firepower is the truth. Shotguns and grenade launchers are the weapons I should be using.
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