Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 770 Heavenly Spiritual Roots?

Li Zheng handed the Inscription Card to Miriel, and then the two went their separate ways. He went to the Research Institute for training, while Miriel went to help him with renting a house and getting two out-of-town resident identities.

The training continued as usual. After a day of being tossed around in an environment with 20 times the normal gravity, Li Zheng emerged from the gravity field, drenched in sweat.

Upon meeting Professor Rothcal, Li Zheng asked, "Professor, are there any scholars in Block 375 who have conducted in-depth research on genetic abilities and genetic forces?"

The professor seemed lost in thought, and paused for a moment before replying, "You can ask the gene research institute on the other side about this. I have some connections there and can recommend you so that those scholars won't refuse to see you."

"Thank you very much, Professor." Li Zheng quickly expressed his gratitude, then asked, "I noticed you seemed a bit distracted earlier. Are you preoccupied?"

"Well, I have some new ideas about your training plan, but they're not finalized yet and will take some time." The professor waved his hand and said, "It's nothing serious, don't worry about it."

"Okay." Li Zheng calculated the time; it was almost six o'clock in the afternoon. "Why hasn't Miriel returned yet?"

"father!"

At that moment, Sakura ran over from not far away, followed by Zhan Zhouzhou and Miriel.

huh~
The little guy jumped straight up from several meters away and landed precisely in Li Zheng's arms, nuzzling his head back and forth.

When Li Zheng went to Zhan Zhouzhou's place in the morning, Xiao Ying was still sleeping in, so he didn't wake her.

"Hey, you've gotten heavier in just one day," Li Zheng teased Xiao Ying, lifting her up a few times.

"I didn't, I didn't, I didn't..." The little guy was really something, repeating "I didn't" over and over again, and then he doubted himself, wondering if he really ate too much.
Thinking about how much she had enjoyed her meal at the dinner party last night, Sakura frowned, turned around and called out to Miriel, "Mommy Miriel, I'm hungry!"

Miriel sighed, rubbing her forehead. "Why are you hungry again? Didn't I just make you something to eat half an hour ago?"

Hearing this, Li Zheng looked at the two of them and asked, "After you finished dealing with the rental, you didn't spend the whole day taking care of her, did you?"

"That's right!" Zhan Zhouzhou said, "The little one's mouth hasn't stopped all day. I brought her to the Institute of Reconstruction after breakfast this morning, and as soon as training started, she started complaining that she was hungry and wanted to come find you. We happened to run into Miriel, who was coming back from running errands, at the entrance. She went to take care of Xiaoying. She's been going back and forth between the Institute of Reconstruction and home at least six times today."

"Six meals!?" Li Zheng exclaimed in surprise, "Your digestive ability is quite impressive! The day isn't even over yet, and you've already eaten seven meals?"

"I didn't want to either!" Sakura blushed and argued, "But Mommy Miriel's cooking is just so delicious! I couldn't resist! Daddy, let's go home quickly, I haven't eaten anything for half an hour!"

"Goodness... anyone else really couldn't support you." Li Zheng shook his head irritably, flicked Xiaoying's nose, and then thought to Old Pu, 'Check Xiaoying's body for me, is something wrong?'

The information quickly appeared before my eyes:
[No major problem. It's normal for kids to have a big appetite during puberty.]

Puberty, big appetite...

This can't be summed up by puberty and having a big appetite, okay?
Whose teenager eats so much?

An elephant?
She is a dragon...

Fine.

Thinking of the Black Dragon Ancestor's original form, Li Zheng nodded in relief.

Perhaps all Blood-Striped Black Dragons in their growth stage are such gluttons.

It seems I'll have to find some time to go shopping and stock up on some cheap and filling ingredients. The professor and Feng Yue had already said goodbye when Xiaoying and the others arrived and then left.

Li Zheng invited Zhan Zhouzhou to go back and have a meal together, and then sent Xiaoying to stay at her place again.

Li Zheng and his group took a meal and headed to the house that Miriel had rented for Yan Bujin.

Words cannot express why they live in another direction, and the distance between them is equally short.

Upon arriving outside the alley, Li Zheng looked up at the building next to him and discovered that this was the gene research institute the professor had mentioned.

However, the doors of the gene research institute were closed at the time, presumably because the researchers inside had all gone home.

Upon hearing the knock, Yan Bujin opened the door for the two with a troubled expression.

He handed over the food and wolfed it down, finishing off a standard adult portion in just three minutes.

He...she...He touched his belly and sighed, "I haven't eaten like this since I broke through to the Nascent Soul stage and began abstaining from grains more than a hundred years ago."

Who could have imagined that a Nascent Soul cultivator would fall to such a state?

There's so much to say that I never even imagined it myself.

Li Zheng asked, "Your expression just now didn't seem like you were worried about food. Did you encounter some difficulties modifying your cultivation technique?"

When the topic turned to important matters concerning his future, he became very serious, sat up straight, and said solemnly, "There are indeed quite a few problems."

"After careful study, I discovered that it's not just our lord's clan that lacks a dantian... well, in our lord's words, they lack a lower dantian. The owner of this body of mine also lacked one."

"In addition, I have found the so-called middle dantian and discovered a small amount of strange energy in it, but strangely, I cannot control that energy for my own use."

The so-called strange energy should be the result of the original owner of this winged body developing genetic abilities, thus leaving behind a small amount of genetic force.

Yan Bujin had no experience in developing genetic abilities, so much so that he didn't even know how to control genetic forces.

“It was my oversight.” Li Zheng took out an evolved Arctic Ibaraki Fruit and placed it in front of Yan Bujin: “Eat this, and you should be able to understand how to mobilize that power.”

"This is..." Yan Bujin picked up the fruit: "This strange object contains a very strong cold and yin energy, as if a part of the Great Dao has been disrupted and forcibly stuffed inside. However, the sharp aura within it is much weaker, and it can be eaten without refining."

Li Zheng asked him, "Don't you have such things where you live?"

"Yes." Yan Bujin played with the Arctic Ibaraki fruit and answered, "But every one of them is a spiritual root of heaven and earth, and the aura of the Great Dao contained within them is billions of times purer and billions of times more dangerous. Eating one will not kill you, and you can grasp an extremely complete understanding of the Great Dao."

"Spiritual roots of heaven and earth are extremely rare, appearing only once every ten thousand years. Even the occasional appearance of one can unleash a bloodbath throughout the entire cultivation world."

Yan Bujin frowned slightly: "Strange, why are there so many weakened spiritual roots of heaven and earth in this place?"

It is clear that the spiritual roots of heaven and earth need spiritual energy to grow, but he had already noticed that there was no sign of spiritual energy here. Logically speaking, these spiritual roots of heaven and earth should not be able to survive.

Unable to understand, Yan Bujin asked, "What exactly is going on?"

(End of this chapter)