Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 847 First Cultivation, Not Too Difficult

After memorizing the entire "Ten Thousand Evil Demon Technique," Zhan Zhouzhou immediately set off for the Sinful Domain. Before she departed, Li Zheng extracted the barren spirit stone vein and selected nearly a hundred fingernail-sized, light blue crystals to give to Zhan Zhouzhou.

These aquamarine crystals are the so-called spirit stones. Whether it is due to the inherent characteristics of spirit stones or some other reason, each spirit stone is only the size of a fingernail, and contains immense energy.

This energy is what is known as "spiritual energy".

The spiritual energy is encased in a layer of crystalline material. If you use your spiritual power to sense it carefully, you can observe a layer of misty energy condensed and not dissipating on the surface of the crystal.

The abundant spiritual energy was locked within the spirit stone, much like explosives compressed many times over were packed into a container. Originally, it should have been extremely unstable and could have leaked at any time, causing a disaster.

But what's strange is that after studying it privately, Li Zheng discovered that even when he attacked the spirit stone with all his strength, only a small white mark appeared on the surface of the spirit stone.

When you run your finger across the mark, it disappears as if it had never existed.

"With such a stable energy source, I wonder what the natives of that fantasy world who extracted spirit stone mines from the treasure chests were thinking, actually using this thing to develop a cultivation system?"

"From a scientific point of view, spirit stones can be considered similar to a power core... no, or rather, a power core is a spirit stone weakened by countless times!"

"If we can figure out how to extract energy from the inside of spirit stones and establish a way to conduct spiritual energy, then the most despised mechanical arts in the entire outer city might just rise up completely."

"Um... wait a minute..."

"Using spiritual energy as a power source... this idea seems a bit familiar, doesn't it?"

"..."

"Isn't that a magic weapon!"

Li Zheng slapped his forehead and chuckled.

"The Ten Thousand Evils Demon Art says that there are three major dantian in the human body: upper, middle and lower. To cultivate this demonic art, one needs to nourish the upper dantian and cultivate the power of divine consciousness."

"Then use your divine sense to communicate with heaven and earth, draw in the free spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and send it down from the upper dantian to the middle dantian. Use the middle dantian as a forging platform to refine the spiritual energy, and finally let it flow into the lower dantian to be used by yourself."

"There is no spiritual energy in the matrix, so we can only use spirit stones as a substitute and use secret methods to draw energy from the spirit stones."

"But doing this is not much different from ordinary cultivation methods, and the final result is only mediocre."

"When cultivating, if one uses demonic energy as an aid, progress will be rapid. Those with exceptional talent can refine the Demonic Essence Golden Core in no time."

"Achieving the Golden Core Realm grants one unparalleled power, capable of moving mountains and overturning seas with a mere flick of the wrist..."

"real or fake?"

"Eh? That's not right!"

Li Zheng suddenly thought of those bizarre genetic abilities: "Earth-type genetic abilities, when strengthened to a certain level, can also move mountains, right? Water-type genetic abilities can also be strengthened to the point of causing seawater to overflow..."

"So, the so-called Golden Elixir is nothing more than this."

Based on the description alone, Li Zheng felt that this mystical technique was nothing special, as many things could be done using genetic abilities.

Furthermore, the genetic abilities can be formed even faster. All you need to do is go to the Gene Research Institute and sign up to have enough "genes" and various "skills" that can help each other to form.

If you're fast, you can finish it in a day. There's no need for the daily, arduous practice described in the manual...

But a description is just a description; its meaning is not precise but rather very general.

"After all, it's something from a mystical treasure chest, so it shouldn't be too bad." Sitting cross-legged, Li Zheng tried to circulate his cultivation technique according to the method conveyed by the mysterious characters. The characters were full of wonders, and Li Zheng easily entered the so-called "meditation" state on his first attempt.

This is a state very similar to entering the Dao with a formless body. After the mind is completely emptied, the fluctuations of mental energy become clear.

He channeled his spiritual power around the spirit stone, using it to replace his divine sense, and successfully extracted a pure energy from within the stone, which, carried by his spiritual power, entered his brow.

The next instant, an unbearable swelling sensation came from between his eyebrows, much like the feeling Li Zheng had when he overused his mental energy and was about to burst his physical body.

"Could the upper dantian mentioned in the ancient texts be the spiritual world?"

Li Zheng used his spiritual power to explore the upper dantian deep between his eyebrows, but to no avail. In the end, he turned his thoughts to the spiritual world.

"The ancient texts say that the divine consciousness is born in the upper dantian, and then it is nurtured and strengthened in the upper dantian, eventually becoming substantial."

"Isn't this exactly the same as the birth and cultivation of spiritual power?"

Thinking this, Li Zheng brought the spiritual energy wrapped in his mental power into his spiritual world.

The spiritual energy became restless as soon as it entered the spiritual world, as if it had become conscious and wanted to escape from the spiritual world.

"The ancient texts say that spiritual energy is the essence of heaven, earth, sun, moon and stars, and is a kind of spiritual energy, hence the name spiritual energy."

“Cultivation, on the other hand, is the process of taming spiritual energy and making it one’s own.”

"There are countless ways to tame, but the method used by the Ten Thousand Evils Technique is to subdue it with brute force and suppress spiritual energy with powerful divine sense, forcing it to become docile and submit to one's own power."

"Any technique that uses brute force to subdue spiritual energy is against the will of Heaven, and is therefore called a demonic technique."

"This kind of cultivation method has a drawback: the spiritual energy in the body may become unstable at a certain moment, and it may surge within the cultivator's body, attempting to break free from the cultivator's control."

"If the demon cannot be suppressed again, the cultivator will explode and die. This phenomenon is called demonic possession."

"Because the spiritual energy is tamed by divine sense and brute force, the spiritual energy will attack the divine sense as well, devouring the cultivator's divine sense completely, and finally dissipating together into the world."

"Therefore, cultivators who die from qi deviation and body explosion are often separated from their souls and return to nothingness, and even evil spells that control souls cannot find their souls."

"Therefore, when those cultivators who consider themselves righteous are driven to desperation, they will risk their souls to be scattered and actively detonate all the spiritual energy in their bodies to launch a final, all-or-nothing attack."

Following the method recorded in the ancient texts, Li Zheng mustered his spiritual power and forcefully suppressed the restless spiritual energy with the aura of a sovereign ruler.

Previously, he had only used a negligible amount of spiritual power, and the spiritual energy had behaved unruly. Now, with his spiritual power increased by more than a hundred times, the spiritual energy instantly became as docile as a chick, accepting whatever came its way.

"Well, according to the records, less than one in ten thousand people can succeed in cultivating the Ten Thousand Demons Technique on their first attempt."

"It doesn't seem that difficult."

With strong mental fortitude as a backing, one speaks with confidence.

"Next, we will send spiritual energy to the middle dantian. The channel for sending spiritual energy is an invisible pathway hidden in the human body, which is called the meridian."

The locations of the meridians were marked in the classic texts, so Li Zheng didn't need to try to find them; he could simply follow the information in the texts.

As spiritual energy was channeled into him, Li Zheng diverted a portion of his mental energy to observe himself.

Soon, a diagram of the human body's meridians appeared in his "eyes".

(End of this chapter)