Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 534 The most outrageous ability is actually right beside me?!
Li Zheng thought life would be more comfortable once he moved to the outer city, but he was surprised to encounter so many things in just half a day, which really left him a bit bewildered.

Seeing that Basil was busy and hadn't stopped working, Li Zheng felt embarrassed to bother her any longer and took Kota back to his greenhouse.

"You... are you done with your work?" Miriel asked without looking up when she heard the noise.

In less than twenty minutes, her Chinese became more and more fluent, and she even mastered phonetics on her own, striving to pronounce each word clearly and accurately.

"I'm done with the work. In general... although I've gathered a lot of intelligence, it's not very useful to me right now." Li Zheng sat down next to Miriel and waved for Kota to go next door to take care of his two silly younger brothers, so they wouldn't cause any more ridiculous trouble.

"And you? How's your studies going?"

“Not bad.” Miriel tapped the screen to flip it over: “I’m almost mastering Chinese. And I find your language quite strange. It has more than 40,000 characters, but you can only use about 2,000 in daily life. Once you learn those 2,000 characters, there will be almost no problem communicating with you.”

“Speaking of which…” Miriel looked up and asked, “What exactly are those extra 40,000 words for? I don’t think you guys usually need them.”

"Well……"

This question stumped Li Zheng, because he didn't understand the purpose of so many obscure characters, and he wasn't going to be so bored as to delve into the question. So he simply said nonsensically, "They're for showing off your knowledge. You can think of it as pretentious."

"Showing off?" Miriel paused for a moment, then started flipping through the dictionary, muttering to herself, "Although I can use my special senses to know the specific meaning of this word, which is to show that someone is very capable and different from others, in terms of its literal meaning... I found it!"

"装" means to fill, assemble, or pretend.

I consulted the dictionary again.

"逼: It includes coercion, coercion, and also women's... um???"

After reading the dictionary explanation, Miriel was practically covered in question marks: "It doesn't make sense... It doesn't make any sense at all... Why would the words 'pretend' and 'pretend' together mean this? Literally, doesn't it mean to install something on yourself or to pretend to be someone else?"

Seemingly in order to fully understand its meaning, Miriel pondered for a long time before finally realizing it.

"I get it! The reason why showing off is to show that a person is amazing and different is because this person has installed an organ that doesn't belong to them, so of course they are different! And from a biological point of view, this behavior is actually impossible to accomplish without special means, so this person is amazing!"

"Yes! That's it!" Miriel exclaimed excitedly, clenching her fist in celebration. "I've learned it! I've learned it!"

Li Zheng: "..."

Seeing how serious Miriel was, he felt embarrassed to remind her that this word wasn't a compliment, but rather an insult.

Forget it, as long as she is happy.

"You learn first, I need to go find Xu to do something."

After informing Miriel, Li Zheng found a corner, set up the bed, and lay down on it, touching the lines on his palm.

The next second, everything went black, and I was transported to another world without light.

"You came."

The illusory figure appeared before Li Zheng, seemingly having anticipated his arrival.

"I'm here," Li Zheng nodded.

"You are late."

"Something came up and I was delayed."

"What could be more important than seeing me? Huh?" With a startled look, she scrutinized Li Zheng for a moment: "How come your mental strength has suddenly increased so much?"

When Li Zheng entered the Dark Realm before, his body, though solid, was not very stable. This time, however, he was much more stable than before.

My mental strength is at least three times what it was before!
"I was lucky enough to get a treasure, so my improvement was quite significant." Li Zheng didn't hide his situation, since he was an ethereal being in the Dark Realm and couldn't get out anyway.

Even if he could get out, he wouldn't be interested in things that were too low-level for him.

"Not bad, not bad!" Xu circled around Li Zheng, nodding repeatedly: "With your current mental strength, you can already condense the first node."

“Nodes…” Li Zheng looked up at the starlight overhead: “I forgot to ask last time, what is the purpose of condensing spiritual energy nodes? And why do we need to condense nodes?”

"That's a good question." Xu stopped spinning. "Do you ever feel that you can't control your mental energy precisely enough, and that it tends to dissipate over time?"

“It’s true that the control isn’t precise enough, but can’t this be improved through practice?” Li Zheng asked, puzzled, because today Miriel had helped him practice in her own way and achieved considerable results.

"It's possible, but there are limits." With a flick of his finger, a node above descended, gradually transforming from starlight into a massive star.

Li Zheng stood before this point, feeling as insignificant as an ant.

The next moment, the star-like node suddenly compressed to the size of a ping-pong ball and slowly moved around the virtual space, repeating the trajectory of the previous time with each circle without the slightest error.

"Can you do what I do?" Xu asked.

"...I can get the general shape right, but I'm not quite there yet when it comes to making the object circle around me and repeat perfectly without any error each time."

Li Zheng had done this before; with eight ice needles swirling around him, he had completely terrified the multi-eyed tribesman.

“Once you condense your first node, you will be able to precisely control an object, just like I do.” As he spoke, he flicked his finger, and another node appeared around him: “Two nodes mean two, three nodes mean three, and so on.”

"So you can now control objects worth at least six figures?" Li Zheng stared in astonishment at the sky full of 'stars'.

“Theoretically speaking, yes.” With a flick of his finger, the two nodes that were spinning around him shot back into the sky.

Li Zheng: "Theory?"

“Yes, this is only a theoretical possibility.” Xu smiled slightly. “In reality, even at my level, I don’t know where the upper limit is, but it’s at least no less than seven figures.”

"Seven...seven digits!"

Li Zheng was dumbfounded, knowing that the unit Xu was referring to was not the kind of concept like 'dust' or 'gravel'.

At his level, he could probably move mountains and fill seas with just a thought!

If Yu Gong had been as powerful as him back then, he would have smashed those two troublesome mountains all the way to the Heavenly Court long ago!
"Now that we've talked about control, let's discuss power."

Xu paused here, then smiled sheepishly, “Just now, to make it easier to describe, I read a little bit of your memories, but don’t worry, I didn’t look at anything else. I just learned about the power levels on your side.”

"It seems like if you take another step forward, you'll reach the so-called beginner level threshold, right?" Xu said arrogantly. "Once you successfully condense your first node, your strength will naturally become beginner level. Once you expand your first node to my current single standard, you'll reach the threshold for the next level."

Li Zheng: "..."

He looked up again, trying to count exactly how many stars were in the sky.

It's just that it's impossible to get out; otherwise, wouldn't it be able to destroy the world with a single thought?

Li Zheng felt that he had discovered a cultivation and advancement method that was more outrageous than any ability in the matrix. As long as he didn't die, he could continue to grow stronger!
(End of this chapter)