Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day

Chapter 1144 - 844: A Small Favor Saved a Life

"You’re back."

After Zhan Zhouzhou and the others were teleported back to the Outer City, they didn’t go far but gathered around the teleportation gate, not leaving.

After a long wait, they finally saw a familiar figure slowly walking out from the teleportation gate, each of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhan Zhouzhou looked him up and down, with concern mixed with a forced smile: "It seems we really faced a strong enemy this time; even your clothes are torn, and you didn’t have time to change."

Li Zheng looked extremely ragged now, with his armor utterly tattered, and a large hole at his chest, visible both in the front and the back.

Actually, anyone with a keen eye could infer from the holes in the front and back that Li Zheng’s heart had been cut open.

"Almost didn’t come back," Li Zheng said with a bitter smile, "Fortunately, we’re all okay. Let’s disperse now; don’t waste time hanging around here. Zhan Zhouzhou, come with me."

Having said that, he led the way to his residence.

Zhan Zhouzhou opened her mouth, intending to ask Li Zheng what he wanted to talk to her about. Suddenly, she saw the corresponding hole in the back of Li Zheng, and her pupils shrank for an instant, her expression becoming unusually grave.

She took a step forward and followed.

Back at the residence, Li Zheng took off his shirt, revealing a strong and smooth upper body, and collapsed by the bedside as if he were exhausted.

"Let’s get to it," Zhan Zhouzhou said directly after coming in and closing the door, "how did you come back alive?"

She didn’t ask how he survived, but how he came back to life, which indicated she already noticed Li Zheng died once.

"No one can survive a destroyed heart, you..."

Zhan Zhouzhou focused silently, gathering energy, ready to unleash a lightning attack at any moment: "Either you’re resurrected, or you’re not you anymore."

The peculiar methods in the Outer City and Wilderness were numerous, especially after witnessing Yan Jinjin’s soul possession trick; Zhan Zhouzhou had been on guard, fearing others may have similar means.

Especially since many strange things happened with Li Zheng, leaving her wary.

"You’ve figured it out." Li Zheng held his forehead, smiling wryly: "You’re right, I did die once, and even after death, I retained my consciousness."

Then, he narrated how he survived in spiritual form: "You know the origin of my spiritual power; before Xu infused all his spiritual power into me, he was surviving in the Dark Realm in that state."

Pausing for a moment, Li Zheng continued: "For at least tens of thousands of years, he existed in that form, lasting tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years without dissipating, but getting stronger."

"I suspect that once spiritual power reaches a certain magnitude, the body becomes a limitation for its enhancement."

"However, the body limits the development of spiritual power, while also protecting it from dissipating."

"Without suitable constraints, spiritual power will surely slowly dissipate if detached from the body, and eventually vanish between heaven and earth..."

Li Zheng rubbed his forehead and concluded: "There are many power systems in this world we haven’t even touched the edges of, whether it’s the self-cultivation growth method taught by Xu or the Wilderness Celestial Will Organization’s transplantation methods, we can’t be certain what the final outcome looks like."

"We can’t even be sure if the future is safe; perhaps, following a certain path, we might eventually lead ourselves to ruin."

Li Zheng spoke in a conflicted manner because he had obtained a cultivation path from a Mystical Treasure Chest, and it was likely a mature system, but surely with limitations, and unsure if it could be universally promoted.

Moreover, time seemingly wasn’t ample enough for them to slowly cultivate, explore, and research.

He was very hesitant now, hesitating whether or not to share the newly obtained "Ten Thousand Demons Cultivation Technique" with Zhan Zhouzhou.

Firstly, Zhan Zhouzhou’s talent surpassed his, if he lets her comprehend this mature cultivation technique, she might achieve accomplishments before him.

Secondly, he wasn’t sure if revealing such a thing would make Zhan Zhouzhou probe extensively.

And this was indeed his real trump card, selfishly speaking, he should let this secret stay buried within him, only telling Mirel and no one else.

To Zhan Zhouzhou, his conflicted look seemed very much like confusion caused by memory clashes after being possessed.

She had already gathered a strand of Thunder Power in her palm, ready to strike at any moment Li Zheng showed any anomaly.

But before that, she had another question to ask: "Are you Li Zheng now, or Clone No. 1024, or that Xu?"

Li Zheng was stunned by her question, snapping out of his hesitation, chuckling: "Why have you become so suspicious? Of course, I am Li Zheng. I have some guesses about Xu’s whereabouts, but he’s certainly not in the Outer City."

"No!" Zhan Zhouzhou shouted suddenly, raising her hand to condense the Thunder Longsword, her clothes and hair fluttering: "You’re not Li Zheng, I’m inherently suspicious, the real Li Zheng would never say I’ve just become suspicious now!"

As she spoke, the Thunder Longsword fiercely stabbed toward Li Zheng’s chest.

Li Zheng’s expression changed, for Zhan Zhouzhou’s murderous intent was unmasked, she truly wanted to kill him.

He immediately rolled to avoid it, cursing: "You crazy woman, what madness are you up to now?"

The sword light flickered, Zhan Zhouzhou eerily followed like a shadow, shouting: "Unless you can prove you’re Li Zheng, today you’ll die here!"

Swish~

Sizzle~

An electric arc swept past Li Zheng’s forehead, nearly flipping his scalp off.

"Skewers! Two skewers!"

"The first time we met, you gave me two skewers with healing ability!"

"Damn, happened so long ago and I can still recall it, yet you still don’t believe me?"

"Don’t push me, I’m dodging not because I can’t beat you, but because I don’t want to hurt you!"

"Darn it!"

"A little favor!"

Li Zheng suddenly remembered an embarrassing matter, shouting: "You once asked if I could do you a little favor that could let you rest for ten months, I didn’t agree!"

Sizzle~

The Thunder Longsword stopped in front of Li Zheng, and he immediately exhaled a long breath; if it weren’t for his temporary inability to control the Genetic Force within, he would’ve retaliated.

"You truly are Li Zheng." Zhan Zhouzhou dispersed the Thunder Longsword: "Only Li Zheng would shamelessly bring up such a thing."

"You crazy woman!" Li Zheng felt a surge of relief, his back drenched in sweat: "If I wasn’t in this poor state now, you’d be the one being pressed into the ground and rubbed!"

"Hmm?" Zhan Zhouzhou’s eyebrows shot up, ready to explode.

"Stop!" Li Zheng hurriedly intervened: "I really called you here for something important, about another cultivation system, and it’s an already mature cultivation system!"