Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

Chapter 1070 771: Grudge

"You have these things too?" Li Zheng looked at the red crystal coins, wondering if these things, produced within twisted creatures, could be found elsewhere.

"Of course, and they are extremely precious!" Yan Jinjin counted them with amazement, exclaiming, "There are as many as twelve of them!"

Li Zheng exchanged a glance with Mirel and asked him, "Can you tell me, what do these things do in your place?"

"This item is called ghost essence, and it comes from..." Yan Jinjin cautiously said, "A person's obsession. Generally speaking, cultivators dare not easily use this on themselves; they usually use it to draw various talismans."

"Obsession? What does that mean?" Li Zheng looked at the red crystal coin, thinking about how twisted magic crystals are extracted from twisted creatures, wondering how they relate to a person's obsession.

"It's the strongest thought in a person's mind before death." Yan Jinjin continued to explain, "Thoughts are divided into two kinds: the ones tending evil become ghost essence, while the ones tending good become spiritual essence. Relatively speaking, spiritual essence is much rarer and much more useful than ghost essence."

"And depending on the depth of the obsession, it affects the quality of the ghost essence formed."

"My hometown once burst into chaos, where many rogue cultivators slaughtered mortals just to harvest ghost essence, causing outrage and resentment."

"Later, righteous sects united to suppress those rogue cultivators, and since then, any cultivator harming mortals using demonic methods is swiftly attacked and eliminated."

"Gradually, ghost essence and spiritual essence became increasingly rare, mostly produced within the bodies of executed criminals at mortal execution grounds."

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"I understand now." Li Zheng nodded thoughtfully.

The twisted creatures in the Sin Domain could not have been formed from nothing; they must have been outsiders in history, unable to resist the erosion of emotional storms, gradually transforming into their current state after being infected.

And twisted magic crystals are either formed at the moment these outsiders are completely consumed or they gradually improve in quality.

Li Zheng tended to believe both factors played a role.

Being eroded by an emotional storm is equivalent to dying, and the moment of death gives birth to ghost essence, which may be good or bad at that moment.

But over time, the transformed twisted creatures might advance for some reason, with the ghost essence inside them also improving in quality.

"Master." Yan Jinjin suddenly thought of something, and with a solemn expression, asked, "Master just said that these ghost essences are currency, indicating their number must be astonishingly large. Dare I ask where these ghost essences come from? If production is too high, I fear there might be a demon cave in the world..."

He glanced cautiously at Mirel, fearing she might misunderstand, and explained: "This demon is not that demon, Mistress, please don't misunderstand."

Suddenly, as if noticing it for the first time, Yan Jinjin's gaze fell on the waterfall-like black hair behind Li Zheng. His face turned pale, he fell off his chair with a crash, and hit the ground.

His fingers trembled as he pointed fearfully at Li Zheng, his lips quivering for a long while before he managed to utter two words: "Resentment... obsession!"

"You've only just noticed?" Li Zheng said with a half-smile, "I thought you cultivators didn't recognize this thing."

Yan Jinjin crawled backward on all fours, fearfully saying, "Master... why is Master beset by such thick resentment? This... this suggests having personally killed tens of thousands of people! And it was done in front of them, allowing others to watch their faces as you personally cut off their life force!"

"Ha." Li Zheng chuckled lightly, acting unconcerned, "Who doesn't have a few enemies? It's just that I have a few more than average."

"Gulp~"

Yan Jinjin felt his throat sticky, swallowed hard, saying, "With so many enemies, Master... Master is indeed a great demon!"

He felt a chill in his heart, full of fear.

To become Master's enemy, their strength must not be weak, right?

Thinking about Li Zheng's huge, terrifying primordial spirit, to become his enemy, one's primordial spirit should be at least half his size?

Such a demon, and yet he survived in his hands, even working for him...

If this were to be known, wouldn't fellow cultivators consider him a demon dao member and attack him together?

"Are you scared?" Li Zheng looked at Yan Jinjin's awkward state, laughed, "Just right, since you recognize this thing, tell me how to get rid of it. Ever since being entangled by this, I always hear whispers in my ears, very annoying."

"It's extremely difficult to eradicate this thing." Yan Jinjin pondered and said, "I only heard that only the most yang, most firm, most holy things in the world can completely eliminate resentment. The most famous being the Samadhi True Flame. But Samadhi True Flame, I've only heard of it in legend, never seen it myself, nor do I know if it's real. So... I can't eradicate it either."

"Additionally, I must warn Master, never to continue creating slaughter, otherwise, deep resentment might grow, and I'm afraid, regardless of Master's immense power, you could end up with a day of inner demons."

Unexpectedly, this resentment black hair turned out to be so dangerous.

Li Zheng mused to himself, those little devils have left him quite a hassle, even in death...

"The most yang, most firm, most holy things." Li Zheng muttered and asked Yan Jinjin, "Do you think celestial tribulation thunder counts?"

"Tribulation thunder can purify all impure things, so of course, it counts." Yan Jinjin thought for a while, and said, "But Master must not think about crossing the tribulation. With the slaughter you have now, unless you have a perfect flawless body and sky-high magical power, crossing the tribulation is tantamount to seeking death."

Although rogue cultivators' strength increases very quickly, Yan Jinjin, with 500 years of cultivation, has heard of many great demons, but none have managed to ascend immortally through heavenly tribulation.

Not to mention the ascension tribulation, many demon dao cultivators entangled in karma, can't even get through the golden core tribulation or nascent soul tribulation, dying under tribulation clouds, turned into ashes by tribulation thunder.

The most tragic part is, karma doesn't only entangle the body but also the primordial spirit.

So if a demon dao cultivator fails the tribulation, even the method of soldier resolution can't save the nascent soul.

Once the nascent soul leaves the body, it will also be cleansed by the celestial tribulation, killed by the tribulation.

"So, even if you come up with a cultivation technique, I can't cultivate it?" Li Zheng touched his chin.

If cultivating might lead to crossing the tribulation, and crossing the tribulation leads to getting struck by lightning, which could turn him into ashes if he couldn't endure it?

Then what's the point?

Might as well wash up and sleep!

"Not necessarily." Yan Jinjin said, "I don't know much outside of qi refining, perhaps there's no celestial tribulation in this realm."

As long as it doesn't come to the moment of tribulation, Yan Jinjin couldn't be certain if the future would be like the qi refining cultivators, having to undergo the test of tribulation.

After all, different worlds, different rules, different cultivating methods.

So the future can turn out any way, all is possible.

"Hmm, the future can be talked about in the future." Li Zheng turned around and said, "Let's stop here today, I'll come back and check progress periodically, you work hard."

Having said that, he held Mirel's hand and left, heading home.

Yan Jinjin only relaxed heavily after Li Zheng left, feeling lingering fear, "This realm has no spiritual qi, the suppression on me is really harsh, having a nascent soul realm, yet can't even compare to foundation establishment stage cultivators."

The resentment black hair behind Li Zheng had never been hidden, yet he had only just noticed it, which shows the impact of the rules of this place was significant on him.

In their world, let alone face to face, even dozens of miles apart, he could sense the evil qi emitted by resentment.

His gaze fell on those twelve red crystal coins and frowned again, "Such a large number of ghost essences, I'm afraid there's a terrifying demon cave nearby..."

For a moment, Yan Jinjin felt even more uncertain about the future.