Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 834 Crazy conjecture

“If we could communicate, I wouldn’t have transferred the system to you.”

The terminal whispered, "However, this matter is very valuable for research. If we can figure out the criteria the system uses to give you things, and why it suddenly gave you the 'Inexhaustible Words' and the storage magic treasure, and then went silent for a long time, only giving you the completely useless wishing stone fragments..."

He seemed to be thinking about something, and said, "Perhaps you are right, our future really does depend on the system."

“With your supercomputer helping you with this, it’s definitely better than my brain, so I won’t worry about it.” Li Zheng thought for a moment and said, “Pull Yan Bujin over here, I have something to confirm with him.”

"What is it?" the terminal asked, using its permissions to directly transfer Yan Bujin to the central system: "Ask away."

Yan Bujin was in the lab preparing to open a branch office in Block 4 when he suddenly found himself unable to control his own destiny and saw Li Zheng and the terminal the next moment.

"My lord, Terminal Master," he bowed respectfully, "what are your orders for summoning me here?"

"Actually, I've always had a question," Li Zheng asked, "Yan Bujin, are there places in your world where spiritual energy is particularly scarce?"

"Replying to Your Majesty," Yan Bujin said respectfully, "Of course there are. Those places are called 'Wilderness Domains' by us. The Wilderness Domains are sparsely populated, and even cultivators with cultivation levels find it difficult to exert their full strength when they enter them."

Only those who cultivate the body remain unaffected there, making it a paradise for them; those of us who cultivate Qi rarely venture there.

"If..." Li Zheng continued, "I mean, if... if a Qi cultivator had to enter the Desolate Region for some reason, how would they generally ensure their strength wouldn't be affected? Your world has existed for who knows how long, you must have a solution, right?"

After a moment of contemplation, Yan Bujin said, "There are some, but most cultivators can't afford them."

"Oh?" Terminal raised an eyebrow, vaguely guessing the purpose of Li Zheng's questions, and said, "Tell me more."

There are only two methods.

Yan Bujin explained, "The first method is elixirs, which use countless elixirs to replenish the body's missing primordial energy. This is the most expensive method, and only elders of major sects can afford it."

The next level is the Spirit Stone School, which carries several spirit stone mines with them. When encountering enemies, they release the spirit stone mines and guide the spiritual energy emanating from the spirit stones into battle.

"Spiritual stone?"

Li Zheng's expression shifted: "Let's focus on spirit stones."

"Yes."

Yan Bujin bowed slightly and continued, "Spirit stones are mineral veins that are naturally formed after years of being imbued with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. They are a kind of translucent crystal with an extremely hard texture, and no cultivator other than the Nascent Soul stage or above can damage them in the slightest."

"However, the spiritual energy stored inside spirit stones is very pure, and depending on the quality, it contains different proportions of impurities. By refining the impurities, spirit stones can also accelerate a cultivator's cultivation. In our area, spirit stones are an essential resource for all cultivators in their daily cultivation."

“Besides cultivation, spirit stones can be used for many other things, such as alchemy, weapon crafting, and formations, all of which can be powered by spirit stones.”

“Some extravagant people would even build a dwelling using pure spirit stones for their cultivation and daily life.”

Li Zheng nodded secretly and asked again, "If I gave you a spirit stone, do you think it would be possible to use it to cultivate your original cultivation method as before?"

"This……"

Yan Bujin was stumped: "Replying to the Lord, without a lower dantian, Qi cultivation is not possible. But body cultivation is possible. Although body cultivation mainly focuses on strengthening muscles and bones, if one has spirit stones to assist in the tempering process, cultivation can progress by leaps and bounds, even more exaggeratedly than Qi cultivation."

Therefore, in that world of endless words, almost all body cultivators are madmen, spending their days either seizing resources or on their way to seize resources, and are known as the demon race or the monster race.

"Wait!" the terminal suddenly spoke up, asking, "Didn't you say you obtained Yan Bujin's storage treasure? There aren't any spirit stones inside?"

Yan Bujin was taken aback, then said awkwardly, "Originally there were some... but I used them all up when I set up the formation during my tribulation, and there aren't any left."

Given the circumstances at the time, he had no choice but to be frugal, and naturally he used up all his possessions, everything that was usable.

Unfortunately, he wasn't strong enough and ultimately couldn't survive the tribulation.

If it weren't for being captured by the system, Yan Bujin might have already vanished into thin air.

Regarding the dissolution of military strategy, there are still some things left unsaid.

That means if a Nascent Soul is captured by other cultivators before it becomes a Loose Immortal, the other party can refine it or devour it directly, which is extremely dangerous.

"What a pity," the terminal sighed. "If we had spirit stones, we could have analyzed them using technology and obtained a completely new type of energy."

Perhaps the way out for all races lies in those so-called spirit stones.

Yan Bujin looked at Li Zheng and the terminal, and hesitated, "Doesn't the master have advanced methods to retrieve objects from that world? Retrieving a mineral vein shouldn't be difficult, right?"

If you can even snatch your own storage magic treasure from the heavenly tribulation, surely you can snatch a few unclaimed spirit stone mines?
Li Zheng said, "Send him back first."

The terminal did as instructed, sending Yan Bujin back to the outer city, and then asked Li Zheng, "What did you discover?"

"Just a thought, but it might not be accurate." Li Zheng nodded and said, "Do you think... the system might be accumulating power, preparing for something big?"

The terminal's expression shifted: "You mean...?"

"Could we think of it this way?" Li Zheng speculated, "The system's abilities are indeed linked to the host; the stronger the host, the stronger the system. But the system should have some other methods to generate a burst of energy and then unleash it in a single moment, thereby acquiring things that the host's current strength is far from sufficient to obtain?"

For example, the Nascent Soul cultivator who couldn't express himself snatched a storage magic treasure during the Heavenly Tribulation.

These two instances clearly exceeded Li Zheng's strength limit at the time, but the system still managed to obtain them.

Before that, the system had been dormant for some time.

“That makes sense.” The terminal nodded. “So the system isn’t lending the host things, but rather depositing money to buy big items? Wait a minute…”

He was suddenly startled and said in horror, "If that's the case, then the system is actually intelligent, and it's consciously providing the host with the most useful things?"

A flash of realization crossed Li Zheng's eyes, and he put forward an even more outlandish conjecture: "Could the emotional storm have been orchestrated by the system itself?"

Upon hearing this conjecture, even the terminal inside the supercomputer almost crashed.

He carefully reviewed his past memories, trying to find some clues.

But everything indicates that the emotional storm arose from his own operational error.

"Rather than saying that the system orchestrated the birth of the emotional storm, it's more accurate to say that the system is cleaning up our mess." The terminal felt that the situation Li Zheng described was unlikely to happen.

"Really?" Li Zheng asked, "But have you ever thought about why the system gave you that blueprint for the mind interference device? At that time, it was completely useless to you!"

(End of this chapter)