Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

The first three items are self-explanatory; their uses are clear from their names. They can be stored directly in capsules. The Xuan Tie and Five Elements Spiritual Soil can be given to suitable people later when the opportunity arises.

Li Zheng was most interested in the two martial arts manuals at the back, and he picked them up and started flipping through them.

The first book is naturally the so-called "commonplace" Pure Yuan Gong technique.

The text in the cultivation method is also something mysterious and profound. Even though you don't recognize it, it seems to touch your instincts, and anyone who sees it can understand its meaning.

The first page contains only a strange symbol, but its interpretation, as Li Zheng understands it, is enough to fill a book.

In short, the main idea is that the Pure Yuan Gong is the most basic cultivation method. Its wonder lies in the fact that it can be practiced simultaneously with any other cultivation method without interfering with each other. Moreover, there is absolutely no possibility of going into qi deviation when practicing the Pure Yuan Gong.

Rumors circulate throughout the eight wastelands that many demonic cultivators also supplement their practice with the Pure Yuan Technique in an attempt to reduce the probability of them going mad from practicing demonic arts, but this claim has never been effectively confirmed.

Because most demonic cultivators will eventually fall into a state of demonic possession and be doomed.

The biggest drawback of the Pure Yuan Technique is that its cultivation progress is extremely slow and there is no way to take shortcuts by using spirit-absorbing stones. Even prodigies with a single-attribute heavenly spiritual root cannot quickly achieve enlightenment.

Those with slightly inferior spiritual roots will never be able to cultivate to the right path in their entire lives.

Therefore, the Pure Yuan Technique can only be used as a supplementary cultivation method in the Eight Desolate Continent. If it is used as the main cultivation method, there is no hope of entering the Dao in this lifetime.

Finally, the greatest use of the Pure Yuan Technique is that it can increase the success rate of breaking through to the Golden Core stage. In other words, this technique has no value after breaking through to the Golden Core stage.

At the end of the first page, it is also noted that this technique does not discriminate based on the attribute or quality of "qi" during cultivation. It can be cultivated in blessed lands, in wild and desolate regions, and even in the demon realm and the demon world where demonic energy and miasma abound. This technique can still be cultivated safely.

In a sense, although the Pure Yuan Technique is very common, it is not entirely without merit, and some of its characteristics are even more powerful than those of high-level techniques.

"Why do I feel like this kind of cultivation technique is a standard feature of protagonists in fantasy novels?"

Li Zheng raised an eyebrow: "The cultivation is slow, but the process is more stable, and there is no risk of qi deviation. Is it possible that because the cultivation speed is slow, the foundation is more solid?"

Moreover, while this cultivation technique might be considered useless in the so-called Eight Desolations World, it is a truly god-level cultivation technique in Li Zheng's universe.

Because this world is barren of spiritual energy, even high-level demonic cultivation techniques like the Myriad Evils Technique require the aid of spirit stones to be mastered. However, the Pure Yuan Technique does not discriminate based on the type of "qi" and can be promoted to the general public, allowing people to enter the Sin Domain and cultivate using the black mist.

And you don't have to worry about "going astray" or being corrupted by the high concentration of negative emotions that come with the black fog.

Presumably, as long as enough people enter the black mist to cultivate the Pure Yuan Technique, sooner or later they will be able to squeeze all the black mist in the entire universe dry!

"Hmm, this is interesting. I'll hand this over to the terminal when I get back and promote it to all races in the outer city." Li Zheng put away the Pure Yuan Technique and thought to himself, "If anyone doesn't accept it, I'll have the terminal issue a nationwide mission that everyone must regularly enter the Sin Domain to cultivate this technique, or they'll be fined or even directly expelled to the wilderness!"

Next up is the "Savage Lion's Roar Technique".

Judging from the name alone, this manual must be one of the techniques used by minor characters in fantasy novels. However, after reading it, Li Zheng discovered that although the technique was not of high grade, its upper limit was surprisingly high.

Once mastered, the power of this thing depends on the cultivator's own strength.

When the level is low, the lion's roar can only shatter the eardrums of enemies below the same level. When the strength is slightly stronger, it can directly shatter the brains of the attacked person into mud. When the strength is even stronger, it can directly attack the "Purple Mansion".

The Purple Mansion is one of the cultivation realms in the Eight Desolations World, and it is also a necessary step in the cultivation process. It is the last stage of refining essence and nourishing qi, refining qi and nourishing spirit, and refining spirit and returning to emptiness. One can open the Purple Mansion between the eyebrows to release "divine thoughts". The description of "Purple Mansion" and "divine thoughts" is very similar to Li Zheng's concept of "spiritual world" and "materialized spiritual body".

Legend has it that a powerful cultivator from the Primordial Spirit Realm once unleashed his Lion's Roar technique at full power during an attack on a certain sect. With just one roar, he shattered the Purple Mansion Realm of all the disciples in that sect, causing their divine senses to dissipate! Because this technique was too domineering, the Eight Desolate Worlds quickly developed a countermeasure, which could provide damage-free defense within the same level.

As a result, the Wild Lion's Roar Technique was downgraded from the high-level Earth rank to the Yellow rank. If it weren't for this story, Li Zheng would not have been able to draw this manual from the Yellow rank treasure chest this time.

"Wow, does that mean I got a bargain?"

Li Zheng pondered for a moment, then couldn't help but complain, "It's even more like a fantasy novel! Isn't this kind of bargain-hunting behavior a standard feature of protagonists?"

The higher evil spirits still have some time to develop, so Li Zheng decided to take this opportunity to read through the entire manual of the Savage Lion's Roar Technique. Whether he could learn it quickly was not important; what mattered was that once he finished reading it, he would be able to use it once he entered the Formless State and was "absolutely focused."

Judging from the fact that the Lion's Roar technique can damage "divine thought", it is precisely because it is effective against high-level evil spirits.

The probability of capturing it and exchanging it for fantasy points is quite high.

"I'm afraid that once I enter the formless state, I might go too far and kill a high-level evil spirit."

Li Zheng has yet to master the method of controlling himself in the formless state. Even his ridiculously strong mental power cannot keep him conscious in the formless state, or rather, it is a change that transcends the mental level. Li Zheng temporarily calls it "soul perversion".

Only a change at the level of the soul can cause this complete loss of consciousness.

but……

Li Zheng turned his head and glanced at the corpse of clone number 996 not far away. He suddenly realized that the other clones did not seem to have mastered the formless state, and might not even know that their original body possessed the formless constitution.

This is an advantage that puts me ahead of other clones, and even ahead of Terminal and Void, two existences split from the original body due to different consciousness tendencies.

Because the cultivation techniques and secret manuals of the Eight Desolations World are written in esoteric script, they are often very thin. Millions or even tens of millions of words are compressed into dozens or hundreds of symbols, making them easy to read, but understanding them takes some time.

Fortunately, Li Zheng himself does not need to fully understand it for the time being; he only needs to be able to understand it in his formless state.

After quickly flipping through the manual, he waited for the higher evil spirit to mature while taking the opportunity to digest some of its contents.

About half a day later, the system notification sounded in Li Zheng's ear.

[A high-level evil spirit has been fully conceived; capturing it will earn you fantasy points.]

Li Zheng stopped thinking, looked up at the black spiritual entity floating in front of him, and grinned with a sinister smile.

The higher evil spirit seemed to sense something was wrong and fled deeper into the sinful realm without looking back, its black figure quickly merging into the black mist.

Li Zheng slowly emptied his mind, his eyes gradually becoming lifeless and hollow.

The next second, he vanished from the spot.

In the distance, a roar that seemed to come from a ferocious beast in the ancient wilderness suddenly exploded.

Boom boom boom~
The black-level twisted beasts within a ten-mile radius didn't even have time to react; their heads exploded, and their mountain-like bodies collapsed like a tidal wave, utterly dead. (End of Chapter)