Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 766 Loyalty Contract? Lie Detector Contract!
Yan Bujin wiped non-existent sweat from his forehead and replied, "My lord, I have already sensed that there is no spiritual energy in this world. Even if I offer up my cultivation technique, you will not be able to use it. It is not that I am unwilling to offer up my technique, but if you insist, I will certainly not dare to disobey."

"Spiritual energy of heaven and earth?" Li Zheng and the terminal looked at each other in bewilderment: "Does such a thing really exist?"

After a moment's thought, the terminal said, "It's alright. Just hand over your cultivation technique and don't hold back. You don't need to worry about the rest."

Li Zheng thought about it for a moment. He just wanted to study how cultivators condensed their spiritual bodies into nascent souls. Whether or not there was a method of "qi refining" was not important.

"Yes, you only need to give up the cultivation technique, and you don't need to worry about the rest."

Li Zheng and the terminal both said so, and no matter how unwilling he was, there was nothing he could do. His life was now in their hands, so he could only obediently hand over a cultivation technique.

He recited the so-called "Golden Light Big Dipper Sword Technique" that he had been practicing, but he was also careful and had hidden several traps in it.

After he finished reading, Li Zheng suddenly said, "I didn't remember it clearly just now, please read it again."

Yan Bujin paused slightly, then read it aloud again, word for word.

Li Zheng noticed that the contract runes became slightly hot when Yan Bujin read out a few of the nodes, which clearly indicated that he was lying.

Without saying a word, he glared at Yan Bujin and unleashed his spiritual power to sweep him over and beat him mercilessly: "You son of a bitch, I gave you two chances and you still dare to lie? You think I'm being too nice to you?"

"I won't do it again! I won't do it again!" Yan Bujin cried out repeatedly, begging for mercy. "I'll change!"

"Change it immediately!" Li Zheng transformed his mental energy into hundreds of fists, beating Yan Bujin while warning, "I'll stop after you change it. If you still dare to lie, I'll shatter your nascent soul and erase your consciousness!"

Yan Bujin immediately pointed out where he had lied and recited the correct technique to replace it, causing him to writhe in pain.

Li Zheng checked the contract seal to confirm that he hadn't lied this time, then stopped, angrily cursing, "Why didn't you just behave this way from the beginning? You had to get beaten up first, you're such a damn jerk!"

At the same time, he sighed inwardly, thinking that Yan Bujin's Nascent Soul was indeed unique. If Mudala were here, she would carry out his orders in detail without any lying.

This indicates that although both Yan Bujin and Mudala used contracts on themselves, Yan Bujin was much less affected than Mudala, which should be due to the changes brought about by the Nascent Soul.

"How come I can understand every single word of this so-called technique, but I don't understand it when they're put together?" The terminal displayed a text on the screen and called Yan Bujin to correct the parts with different pronunciations and meanings. In the end, it became an article of more than three thousand words, most of which were composed of rare characters.

"You two are unaware of this, but this technique is merely a general outline. Each word must be carefully analyzed to understand its meaning, and only the final combination constitutes the true technique." Yan Bujin honestly explained, "In our region, this is primarily to prevent the technique from being leaked and stolen by others. Only through oral transmission can one truly grasp its essence..."

Suddenly, he noticed Li Zheng's brow furrow, and his heart skipped a beat: "I will immediately provide the interpretation for Your Majesty, please do not be hasty!"

He then floated in front of the supercomputer display and helped the terminal integrate the complete cultivation technique.

What are Qi sensing, Qi guiding, and Qi refining?

What about Dantian, meridians, and Zifu Palace?

I spoke honestly and truthfully, explaining everything clearly and without making any mistakes.

This process took more than three hours to complete.

Li Zheng, listening from the side, was completely confused: "So, the foundation of everything you have is 'qi'. Without 'qi,' even if you have cultivation techniques, it's all just empty talk?"

"Qi is the foundation of cultivation, the basis of its construction," Yan Bujin said. "Without the existence of Qi, cultivation techniques are nothing more than complex texts, without any practical value." "Is that so?" Li Zheng's expression darkened. "If they have no practical value, why didn't you just hand them over more readily?"

That bastard, he's up to his old tricks again!

Seeing that Li Zheng was about to make a move again, Yan Bujin quickly said, "However, there is an alternative!"

"Tell me in detail," Li Zheng said, suppressing his pent-up desire to continue the beating.

"According to the cultivation method, practitioners must draw qi into their bodies and absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for their own use." Yan Bujin's tone was somewhat uncertain: "However, as far as I know, cultivation is not limited to qi refining. There are other methods. For example, demon cultivators and evil cultivators. The former only cultivates the physical body and breaks through the law with force, while the latter specializes in the primordial spirit and soul, feeding on people's thoughts."

"Is that so?" Li Zheng's eyes were clear. "But this doesn't seem to have anything to do with your refusal to hand over the cultivation technique earlier, does it?"

Yan Bujin immediately felt embarrassed and stammered, "If the master can find something to replace the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the Qi refining technique can actually be used."

"Something to replace the spiritual energy of heaven and earth?" Li Zheng pondered. Where could he find such a thing?
According to the method described in that cultivation technique, one needs to nourish one's "spirit" with "qi". Only through the nourishment of "qi" can one gradually become stronger and eventually undergo layers of transformation to become a nascent soul, and then break through to the primordial spirit.

However, there is no such thing as "qi" in the outer city, so there is no way to nourish "spirit" with "qi".

This is a dead end.

"Genetic Force!"

The terminal suddenly said, "I've always been curious about Gene Force, a power generated within the human body. The lack of a systematic method to strengthen it makes it seem extremely useless. But what if we could modify cultivation techniques and use Gene Force as a substitute? Would that be feasible?"

Genetic Force?

Li Zheng was taken aback. When he first awakened his mental power, he tried to use it to observe himself and knew that the genetic force was actually a strange power born from within the cells.

Normally, this power accumulates at the junction of the chest and abdomen. When triggered and mobilized with weak mental energy, it will condense into corresponding attack, defense, or auxiliary means according to certain fragments in the genes.

Because this method is performed through gene fragments, its power and intensity are generally fixed.

Unless one can acquire an uncertain ability like "shaping," it is possible to create methods with a certain number of variables, but even then, the variables are extremely limited.

This is precisely why genetic abilities are only suitable for people who have not yet grown up and have weak self-protection capabilities.

Once they reach a certain stage of development, their genetic abilities become of little use to them.

Some of the outer city residents that Li Zheng encountered when he went to the Matrix to participate in missions scoffed at and disdained genetic abilities.

The weakness of genetic abilities and genetic force lies in the fact that they are too rigid, and there are no stable means to make them stronger.

If a method can be developed to enhance this ability, genetic force will undoubtedly become a powerful weapon against twisted creatures in the future!
"We can give it a try!" Li Zheng thought excitedly.

Who knows, they might become so-called "immortal cultivators" in the future?

After a moment of contemplation, the terminal raised the first challenge: "The first thing to solve is to figure out what exactly the 'dantian' is."

(End of this chapter)