Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 817 Four Elemental Abilities
Yan Bujin gave Li Zheng a thorough explanation of the wonders of the Formless Body, and also mentioned a few other lesser-grade wondrous physiques.

For example, Zhan Zhouzhou's Heavenly Sword Dao Body and Qi Ming's Overlord Blade Body are both ways to enhance one's understanding of a certain Dao. As long as they do not make any mistakes in their cultivation, they are both outstanding among their peers and unparalleled.

"My lord, I have discovered some things through extensive research these days, things that even Professor Reina has not noticed." Yan Bujin whispered, "Currently, almost all the gene abilities that have appeared and been recorded are related to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Based on these characteristics, I have roughly deduced that gene abilities can be classified into the following categories."

Yan Bujin tidied up his words, trying to get rid of his mindset from the concept of cultivating immortality: "The first type is called 'elemental system'. This ability is all-encompassing. It can be the use of fire, water, ice, or even lightning, light, and shadow."

"The second type is called 'Materialization.' The abilities of this type mostly require the use of known physical objects, such as manipulating stones to smash people or manipulating metal to kill enemies. Similar to the weapon cultivators in my hometown, their combat ability is directly proportional to the strength of the object they control; the stronger the object, the stronger their combat power."

"The third type is called 'Specialization Type'. This type of ability is quite special, and it includes a much wider range of types than the Elemental Type. It doesn't provide much benefit in combat, but it has all sorts of wonderful effects, and can even affect... fate."

"The fourth type is the 'enhancement type.' This type of ability rarely manifests outwardly; it simply enhances the individual. Perhaps it results in greater strength or a more robust physique."

"The abilities that my lord currently possesses are mostly of the first type, 'Elemental,' which are related to fire, ice, and electricity. There are also two abilities that should be classified as 'Specialization' and 'Enhancement,' but I have not studied their functions in detail and am not sure what they are."

He spoke fluently and eloquently, showing no signs that he was a completely ignorant cultivator not long ago. An outsider might mistake him for a researcher who had been immersed in the research institute for at least thirty years.

“I know about elemental types, like ice and fire attachment, explosion, and shaping. Specialization types should be about extreme isolation. So what are the abilities of enhancement types?” Li Zheng tilted his head, wondering when he had ever gained the ability to simply enhance his body.

He focused his mental energy into his body and carefully counted the patterns. Sure enough, there was an extra pattern that looked like a strange human figure with exaggerated bull horns.

"Hmm, this looks familiar." Li Zheng thought for a moment and then remembered.

Isn't this the berserker demon incarnation that we haven't used in a long time?
Because the transformation made movement inconvenient, I eventually stopped using it.

After all, once his physique is enhanced, whether he transforms or not makes little difference.

In certain specific environments, it may even reduce his combat effectiveness.

Even when he enters the "entering the Dao" state, this ability has no use.

Thinking about it, it seems that this ability from the bloodline of the Abyss Demons has no future. Li Zheng directly erased it, which freed up a level base to install other abilities.

"According to the terminal, the connection capability is related to the middle dantian as the 'source.' Now that we have the source, can this new system be considered complete?" Li Zheng asked, his voice full of questions. "Compared to your cultivation methods, is something still missing?"

"Replying to Your Majesty," Yan Bujin replied, "It's only half-formed. The path of advancement in the cultivation of immortality has undergone a qualitative change, but this path of genes... it seems that we can only work on gene abilities. Perhaps the more complete genes one has in one's body, the more unified, pure, and complete the types of abilities will be, and ultimately one will be able to grasp a Heavenly Dao through this path."

"The Way of Heaven?" Li Zheng didn't quite understand this concept. "For example?"

"For example, by gathering all the characteristics of fire and merging the essence of fire in the universe into oneself," Yan Bujin said, "at that time, one could destroy the world with a wave of the hand!"

A wave of the hand to destroy the world?

Li Zheng felt that Yan Bujin's statement was a bit of an exaggeration.

Even if he had that kind of power, his genetic energy wouldn't be enough to support it. With his current level 64 strength, he could at most use his explosive power to blast over a small mountain.

Even so, Li Zheng was still trying to be optimistic.

Seeing Li Zheng's disbelief, Yan Bujin asked, "My lord, how many complete bases do you think your body can still hold?" Li Zheng made a mental estimate: "One hundred thousand?"

Gene patterns are distributed between cells and are not much larger than the cells themselves.

"No," Yan Bujin said, "At least a million!"

million?

Li Zheng was taken aback: "Wait a minute, if my body can hold that much, why wasn't it fully engraved after I entered the Dao... Wait a minute!"

An idea flashed through his mind: "Although there is a lot of space in the body, the upper limit of the number of complete bases that can be contained at the same time is actually determined by the strength of the body. The stronger the body, the more it can contain?"

“That’s right!” Yan Bujin nodded and said, “As long as Master has a way to keep increasing his physical strength, one day he will be able to cover his entire body with complete foundations. Perhaps when the number reaches a certain level, a qualitative change will even occur!”

"However, one thing is certain: once you reach that stage, your own power will be world-destroying with every move you make, and the genetic aspect will become merely icing on the cake."

In fact, this is similar to the body cultivation in Yan Bujin's world, except that it is more like a combination of body cultivation and qi cultivation.

Body refinement is about infinitely increasing the strength of the body, using the physical body to withstand Qi cultivation treasures, and achieving sainthood through physical strength to prove the Dao.

Body cultivators can only rely on their bodies in battle; they cannot use various supernatural powers and techniques like Qi cultivators, nor can they control magical artifacts.

Therefore, physical cultivation was very weak at the beginning.

However, the higher the realm, the stronger the body cultivation.

When everyone is at the Nascent Soul stage, a physical cultivator can take down several Qi cultivators and emerge unscathed.

Yes, physical cultivators also have a primordial spirit.

Because in the world where Yan Bujin lives, both body cultivators and qi cultivators need to refine their spirit in the later stages, only the methods are different.

The genetic method they've developed combines the characteristics of body cultivation and Qi cultivation. Its drawback is the lack of a method for refining the spirit; it needs to be combined with Li Zheng's method of condensing spiritual energy nodes and cultivated simultaneously.

Li Zheng pondered for a moment and said, "Help me filter out all the patterns related to ice and fire. I want to try the method you mentioned."

"Yes!"

After bowing, Yan Bujin turned around and passed through the mental barrier to copy the relevant patterns from the center of all the patterns.

Actually, there is an even simpler method: to use external means to directly implant the pattern into Li Zheng's body, saving the trouble of recording it himself.

However, Li Zheng has the "Entering the Dao" assistance of the Formless Body, so after recording, it is directly optimized, while after recording from the outside, he still needs to "Enter the Dao" once to make adjustments.

(End of this chapter)