Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

Chapter 1068 769: Heaven and Earth Spirit Root?

Li Zheng handed the inscription card to Mirel, and then they split up; he went to the Heavy Research Institute for training while Mirel handled renting a house and getting two Outer City resident identities.

The training was as usual, spending a day in the twenty times gravity environment, Li Zheng walked out of the gravity field drenched in sweat.

Seeing Professor Rothschild, Li Zheng asked, "Professor, is there any scholar in the Block 375 who deeply researches Genetic Ability and Genetic Force?"

The professor seemed distracted, pondering over something, hesitated for a moment before saying, "You can try asking around at the other Genetic Research Institute. I have some connections there and can recommend you to avoid being turned away by those scholars."

"Thanks a lot, Professor." Li Zheng quickly thanked, then asked, "You seemed a bit distracted earlier, is something bothering you?"

"Yes, regarding your training plan, I have new ideas but haven't perfected them, it will take some time." The professor waved dismissively, "It's nothing major, don't worry about me."

"Okay." Li Zheng calculated the time, it was roughly six o'clock in the evening, "Why hasn't Mirel come back yet?"

"Daddy!"

At this moment, Sakura ran in from a distance, followed by Zhan Zhouzhou and Mirel.

Whiz~

The little one jumped from several meters away, landing perfectly into Li Zheng's arms, her little head burrowing around.

In the morning, Li Zheng went to Zhan Zhouzhou's place while Sakura was still sleeping in, so he didn't wake her.

"Yo, haven't seen you for a day and you've gotten heavier," Li Zheng joked while weighing Sakura in his arms.

"I haven't, I haven't, I haven't..." The little one was insistent, repeating "I haven't" over and over, then doubted herself thinking, 'Have I really eaten too much?'

Remembering her indulgence at dinner last night, Sakura frowned and shouted towards Mirel, "Mom Mirel, I'm hungry!"

Mirel sighed, rubbing her forehead, "How are you hungry again? Didn't I just give you something to eat half an hour ago?"

Upon hearing this, Li Zheng looked at the two and asked, "After finishing the rental issue, were you taking care of her all day?"

"Absolutely!" Zhan Zhouzhou replied, "This little one hasn't stopped eating all day. After breakfast, I brought her to the Heavy Research Institute; she started the training only to complain about her hungry stomach, wanting to find you. Luckily, Mirel ran into her at the door after finishing the errands and ended up taking care of Sakura, running back and forth between the Heavy Research Institute and home at least six times today."

"Six times!?" Li Zheng was surprised, "Your digestion capacity is something else, haven't even finished the day and you've eaten seven meals?"

"I didn't want to!" Sakura's face reddened with embarrassment, defensively exclaiming, "But Mom Mirel's cooking is just too delicious! I couldn't resist! Daddy, let's go home, I haven't eaten anything for half an hour!"

"Goodness gracious… Anyone else would find it impossible to keep you fed." Li Zheng shook his head in mock irritation, flicking Sakura's nose before mentally requesting to Old Pu, "Check Sakura's body, is there an issue?"

Information quickly displayed before him:

[No major issue, the kid is in her growth stage, healthy appetite, quite normal.]

Growth stage, healthy appetite...

This is more than just a growth stage and healthy appetite, isn't it?

Which kid in their growth stage eats like this?

An elephant?

[She's a dragon...]

Alright then.

Recalling the size of the Black Dragon ancestor's true form, Li Zheng nodded understandingly.

Perhaps the growing Blood Patterned Black Dragons are all such big eaters.

Seems like I'll need to find time to do some shopping, stock up on some cheap, filling groceries.

The professor and Feng Yue had already greeted Sakura and others upon their arrival, and left.

Li Zheng called upon Zhan Zhouzhou, they went back for a meal, then sent Sakura off to stay at Zhan Zhouzhou's place again.

Li Zheng and his group took a meal along to the house Mirel rented for Yan Jinjin.

Yan Jinjin lived in another direction as well, the distance wasn't close either.

On arriving outside the alley, Li Zheng glanced at the nearby building and discovered that it was the Genetic Research Institute the professor had mentioned.

But the doors to the Genetic Research Institute were firmly shut, the researchers inside must have left for the day.

Yan Jinjin opened the door for the two with a worried look after hearing the knock.

Passing the food inside, Yan Jinjin wolfed it down, devouring the standard adult portion in a mere three minutes.

He... She... He felt his stomach, sighing, "Ever since I broke the pill to infant and started grain avoidance over a hundred years ago, I haven't eaten a meal like today's."

Who could have imagined that a Nascent Soul True Person would be reduced to such a state?

Not even Yan Jinjin himself could have thought of it.

Li Zheng asked, "I noticed earlier that you didn't seem worried about food, more like you're stuck with modifying your cultivation technique?"

Talking about matters that could impact his future, Yan Jinjin became serious, sat upright, and spoke solemnly, "Indeed, there are several issues."

"After thorough research, I've discovered it's not just the Lord's lineage lacking a dantian... Hmm, like the Lord said, there's no lower dantian, the current body's owner also lacks it."

"Moreover, I've found what is called a middle dantian, with a small amount of peculiar energy within, but strangely enough, I can't control these energies for personal use."

The so-called peculiar energy should be the residual Genetic Force left behind by the body's original owner, who had developed Genetic Ability.

Yan Jinjin had no experience with Genetic Ability development, thus didn't know how to control Genetic Force.

"I overlooked this." Li Zheng took out a modified Arctic Cattail Fruit, placing it before Yan Jinjin, "Eat this, it should help you understand how to summon that power."

"What's this..." Yan Jinjin picked up the fruit, "This strange item contains a thick cold yin aura, like a fragmented portion of a grand path forcibly inserted within, yet the sharpness is considerably diluted, allowing consumption without refining."

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

"Yes." Yan Jinjin toyed with the Arctic Cattail Fruit, replying, "But anything similar would be a Heaven and Earth Spirit Root, with a grand path aura therein a billion fold purer and a billion fold more dangerous, surviving its consumption gains one exceedingly complete understanding of the grand path."

Heaven and Earth Spirit Roots are extremely rare, not seen even once in ten thousand years, their appearance always stirs bloody storms across the entire Cultivation Realm."

Yan Jinjin slightly frowned, "Odd, why does this place have so many weakened Heaven and Earth Spirit Roots?"

Clearly, Heaven and Earth Spirit Roots require Spiritual Qi for growth, yet he had long noticed a lack of Spiritual Qi here, theoretically these Spirit Roots shouldn't survive.

Yan Jinjin couldn't comprehend, "What's going on here?"