Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 767 Demon Clan
"The dantian is located three inches below the navel. I can help you locate it!" Yan Bujin revealed a fawning expression, seemingly wanting to take the opportunity to show off.

However, when Li Zheng told him to go ahead and do as he pleased, he groped around in Li Zheng's lower abdomen for a long time, and finally said with a worried look, "My lord, it seems you don't have a dantian..."

Li Zheng was taken aback: "No dantian?"

He glanced at the terminal: "Is it because I'm a clone that I don't have a dantian?"

The terminal rolled its eyes at him: "How should I know? I don't understand these things."

Like Li Zheng, the terminal was encountering the knowledge of "cultivation" for the first time. Before this, they had never considered that something that only existed in novels could actually become a reality.

“Well…” Li Zheng glanced at the time. He had been in the central office for a long time, and it was almost dawn. He decided to suggest, “I’ll take this guy back first, and then find a few people to study him. Zhan Zhouzhou is nearby too, I’ll ask her.”

"..." The terminal gave Li Zheng a deep look and said, "Aren't you afraid Zhan Zhouzhou will chop you up?"

Li Zheng recalled the process of Yan Bujin groping and locating his dantian on his body, and couldn't help but shudder: "Cough, I'll think of other ways. If all else fails, I'll send Yan Bujin to Zhan Zhouzhou to torture her and let her vent her anger."

"Whatever you say."

The terminal sighed: "You've wasted so much of my time. My research just now failed... Oh well, I'll focus on this cultivation technique for now. I'll let you know if there's any progress."

As he spoke, Li Zheng's vision blurred, and he was back in his rented room in Block 375.

Upon witnessing such methods once again, Yan Bujin's eyes narrowed subtly.

This seems to be a teleportation technique that only cultivators at the Mahayana stage can master.

Isn't this a place where one cannot cultivate?
How could someone... no, how could someone possess a magical artifact that could wield such supernatural powers?
"Li Zheng, why did it take you so long this time?" Miriel's voice came through: "Have you figured out this guy's background yet?"

"Yes, it's basically confirmed that he should come from a strange world, possibly an inhabitant of another universe, because his physical body was destroyed, leaving only his spiritual body to survive." Li Zheng explained to Miriel what Yan Bujin was roughly.

Only then did Yan Bujin have the leisure to take a look around. When his gaze fell on Miriel, his heart skipped a beat, and he almost cried out.

"Demon!"

He glanced away furtively, a sense of unease creeping into his heart: "So this is where I've come from, it turns out to be the Demon Realm!"

It is said that the demon realm is inhabited by demonic cultivators who manipulate people's hearts, and they are also known as the demon race.

The most distinctive feature of the demon race is that they lack the supernatural abilities of cultivators, but they are skilled at bewitching people's hearts, and even cultivators at the Mahayana stage can fall for their spells.

It is said that when a Mahayana cultivator undergoes the Ascension Tribulation, powerful demons participate in the process, attempting to induce the cultivator to suffer a qi deviation and devour their primordial spirit.

Yan Bujin once had the chance to see the corpse of a demonic cultivator. She was so beautiful that one glance would make you fall in love with her, leaving a deep impression on him.

That innate temperament and the special aura emanating from them are exactly the same!
Yan Bujin felt a sense of panic, because a cultivator's nascent soul and primordial spirit were highly nourishing to the demon race. Wasn't he just walking into the lion's den?
"It really is a spiritual entity!" Miriel stared intently at Yan Bujin. "If we could research and promote this method of solidifying spiritual entities, and use it in conjunction with our current methods of condensing nodes, what a scene that would be!"

“I’ve already gotten the cultivation method from him through the terminal, but there are still some problems to solve.” Li Zheng tidied up, raised his hand to put the timid Yan Bujin into the Dark Realm, and said, “Come with me to Zhan Zhouzhou’s place. There are some things we need her cooperation on.” “So urgent?” Miriel said, “You haven’t slept all night. Why don’t you rest first and get some rest?”

"No need." Li Zheng opened the door and walked out: "With my current mental strength, not sleeping for ten days or half a month won't have any effect."

"OK then."

Miriel followed him, took his arm, and they went together to the house that Zhan Zhouzhou had rented.

It was quite a distance away. By the time they arrived at Zhan Zhouzhou's place, the streets were already bustling with activity, and many residents were starting their new day's work.

When I knocked on the door, Zhan Zhouzhou was already up, dressed in a smart outfit, with a brown tank top on her upper body. Her skin was damp with moisture, so she looked like she was doing her morning exercise.

"So early?" Zhan Zhouzhou ushered the two inside and took out a towel to wipe her sweat. "Did you need something?"

Sakura was still in bed, and Li Zheng and the others didn't need to come pick her up early in the morning, so they must have had something else to do if they made a special trip.

"I have a question I'd like to ask you," Li Zheng said honestly. "In your martial arts circle, is there a concept called 'dantian'?"

"Dantian?" Zhan Zhouzhou paused in wiping his sweat, then asked in surprise, "It does exist, but it's just a concept. The so-called 'qi sinking to the dantian' is just concentrating strength in a general area, which is a kind of power exertion technique. It's quite different from the 'dantian' in novels. Why are you asking about this out of the blue?"

“I caught a strange guy last night.” Li Zheng pondered for a moment and decided to tell Zhan Zhouzhou about Yan Bujin’s existence: “This guy claims to be a cultivator. I forced a cultivation technique out of him, and there is a section in it that is very useful for mental power. You are the person I know who has studied martial arts and other metaphysical arts the most. Maybe you can help me.”

"Cultivators?" Upon hearing this term, Zhan Zhouzhou couldn't help but laugh. "I think it's just chuunibyou (middle school syndrome). How could there be cultivators in this world? I've never heard of them."

"I didn't believe it at first either, but you'll understand once you see it." Li Zheng released Yan Bujin, whose crystal-like body emitted a radiant light, immediately attracting Zhan Zhouzhou's attention.

"These are the cultivators you're talking about?" She looked at them for a moment, still unconvinced. "They must be some kind of strange race with unusual life forms, right?"

Li Zheng pointed at Yan Bujin and said, "Don't you think this guy's body is extremely similar to his spiritual body?"

"!!!" Zhan Zhouzhou paused, "Indeed, it looks like a highly concentrated spiritual entity..."

She frowned deeply: "As far as I know, the outer city has made no progress in the study of mental power for countless years, so there shouldn't be such a guy. Where did you catch him?"

"Cough..." Li Zheng casually made up a lie: "Well... last night when I was seeing you off at the door, you had just left when he suddenly appeared and attacked me, trying to take over my body, but I managed to subdue him."

Yan Bujin's eyes darted around as he noticed that both the master and the newly appeared human woman seemed to get along quite harmoniously with the demons.

Moreover, the two were in extremely strange condition, with very complex auras surrounding them, yet neither showed any signs of cultivation.

But they have a full mind and some details that only appear in people who are engaged in cultivation.

Especially this human woman, one can sense a sharp, sword-like aura emanating from her, as if a heavenly sword capable of splitting the heavens and earth is hidden within her body!

"This feeling is like the Heavenly Sword Dao Body described in ancient books..." Yan Bujin was secretly surprised. What great luck he had. He had just encountered a Formless Body and now a Heavenly Sword Dao Body had appeared.
(End of this chapter)