The function that does what I think you are referring to is wpautop(), probably the most complained about function is all of WordPress-dom. It is a filter on the the_content hook among others. You can remove that with:
remove_filter('the_content','wpautop');
I would suggest that you spend some time looking through the many related questions to see what you are getting yourself into.
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