Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 691 Destroying a Clan

"no!"

Miriel grabbed Li Zheng and said to him in a firm tone for the first time, "It's too dangerous, you can't go!"

Li Zheng was severely exhausted at this moment. Every muscle in his body felt as if it had been soaked in strong acid, and even the slightest movement caused him excruciating pain.

"I have to go!" Li Zheng gritted his teeth and shouted, "This is a rare opportunity to obtain a large amount of Purple Magic Crystals!"

Miriel's eyes twitched. In her memory, Li Zheng was not the kind of person who would put himself in danger for a little benefit. He must have some purpose in saying that!
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw that the people dressed in disguise seemed eager to try, and suddenly she understood what Li Zheng meant. She cooperated and said, "But it's too dangerous, is it worth it?"

Li Zheng shouted back, "Fortune favors the bold! Do you want us to be like these cowardly cowards, stuck here forever, hoping to snatch those twisted creatures that occasionally wander by? There are so many gluttonous beasts now, all of them purple-level, not a single one near-purple. Their magic crystal concentration is purer, and they have more energy!"

Don't you want to become stronger? If we take just one more step, we can leave the Golden Zone together and go deeper into the land to hunt twisted creatures. There are countless purple-level twisted creatures there!

"As long as we're one step ahead, those things will all be ours!"

Miriel seemed to be persuaded, and her tone softened: "But you're in too bad a condition right now. Anyway, these people don't dare to go out, so why don't you rest for a while and go out after you've recovered a bit?"

Li Zheng looked around and chuckled, "You're right, they don't dare to leave here at all. I was overthinking it."

After saying that, he actually sat down on the spot, panting heavily.

The reactions of those who remained around him varied. Some sneered inwardly, realizing that Li was deceiving others into joining the war.

Some people were genuinely tempted, because they discovered that those seemingly invincible purple-level twisted creatures, and the strongest type among purple-level creatures, were actually at a disadvantage throughout the entire attack by the manifested fighting spirit of the Heavenly Dragon Clan.

Although there were no large casualties, if they stepped out of the golden zone to join the battle and provide assistance, the task of wiping out this beast tide should not be as difficult as imagined.

After all, only a portion of the twisted creatures that had besieged the three Black Dragon Ancestors were able to persist in pursuing them for a hundred kilometers to reach this place. Most of the twisted creatures gave up the pursuit halfway and returned to the deeper parts of the Sin Domain.

At this time, there was only a beast tide of about a thousand Gluttonous Beasts, but each one was extremely large, like a walking mountain of flesh, making it very difficult to kill.

Even the queen of the Painful Clan needs to launch thousands of attacks to completely kill one of them, demonstrating its terrifying vitality, far surpassing the twisted creatures in the Fourth Sin Domain and the Wrathful Sin Domain.

“The Gluttonous Beasts excel in strength, defense, and regeneration. As long as we can successfully break through their defenses, with the help of the Heavenly Dragon Clan’s fighting spirit, killing them is only a matter of time.” Li Zheng sat there, his mind racing: “Now it depends on whether these people have the courage to leave the golden light zone and resist the omnipresent environmental factors.”

If no one dared to go out and take the risk, Li Zheng truly felt sorry for the three Black Dragon Ancestors.

Because no one has the ambition to strive for advancement, it's uncertain how long it will take for the community of dedication they created to be passed down to future generations.

"I wonder how long those three can exist." Li Zheng thought, "The Heavenly Dragon Clan's battle intent domain has existed for countless years, but there are always residents from the outer city here, and occasionally a few people will come in to hunt twisted creatures. Perhaps the battle intent of those people can become the nourishment for the Heavenly Dragon Clan's battle intent domain to maintain the existence of this golden area?"

He surveyed the area once more, silently asking the Eye of Preers, "Old Preers, help me check the factors that maintain the Battle Intent Domain."

The words flashed before his eyes, and Old Putin quickly responded.

As long as the Heavenly Dragon Clan's fighting spirit remains undiminished, this territory will never be extinguished.

"It seems my guess was somewhat wrong..." Li Zheng pondered, "That's right, this battle intent domain is actually a small emotional storm formed by another kind of emotion. The Seven Sins Storm has plagued the universe for countless years, annihilating countless races. The reason for doing this is to continue expanding?"

He couldn't understand what would happen if the last life in the entire universe was swallowed up by the emotional storm, and the universe entered a period of barrenness for intelligent life.
Are they hiding in some corner of the universe, waiting for new intelligent life to be born in the universe, and then going to continue reaping?
Or will they create countless twisted creatures to occupy every corner of the universe?

Or...

Will it break through the barriers of the universe and travel to another universe?
For example, the universe in which Earth exists.

"That's not right either!" Li Zheng frowned. "If the twisted creatures' impact on the golden light zone couldn't destroy the Heavenly Dragon Clan's battle intent domain, then does that also mean... the Seven Sins Storm that we'll have to face in the final calamity can't be completely resolved either?"

Does this mean we should eliminate the seven sins from the entire universe?
This is simply impossible to do!

Because these seven original sins are rooted in the nature of all intelligent life and cannot be erased.

Human nature has both light and darkness, good and evil.

Both sides are integral and indispensable.

This world cannot consist of only good, nor can it consist of only evil.

Even the wilderness dwellers, despised by the terminal and the outer city, and the bloodthirsty ones, didn't they take the initiative to shoulder everything when no one was there to resist the Seven Sins Storm, thus establishing a place like the Seven Sins Domain?
In contrast, look at these people in the outer city...

Looking at those around him who were tempted but couldn't make up their minds, Li Zheng sneered inwardly: "To be afraid of difficulties and stand still is worse than that of wild men like the Black Dragon Ancestor. What face do they have to claim that they are kinder and nobler than wild men?"

Finally, a hooded figure couldn't resist any longer. After hesitating for a long time, he took a step out of the golden zone.

hum!
An overwhelming hunger struck him, and he opened his mouth and bit his tongue, almost biting it off and swallowing it.

Fortunately, he used his strong willpower to resist the urge brought on by hunger.

"If the Celestial Dragons can do it, I refuse to believe I can't!" The man gritted his teeth, staring at the Celestial Dragons in front of him, radiating golden light as they battled the Gluttonous Beast. Suddenly, as if he had figured something out, he burst into maniacal laughter: "I understand! I finally understand! The meaning of survival! This is the true meaning of survival!"

He ran wildly, leaving trails of silvery-gray blood. The blood spontaneously combusted upon landing, scorching shallow pits into the ground.

"Madmen." Someone muttered under their breath from not far away, "The Destroyer Clan really are just like the legends say, every single one of them is a madman!"

Li Zheng's eyes flickered as he locked onto the man laughing maniacally: "Is this the one who destroyed a clan?"

He seems to be mentally unstable.

According to Black Dragon Ancestor and others, the Destruction Clan is born warlike and loves war. They are particularly fond of destruction, and their genes are filled with the words "war fanaticism".

Logically speaking, with such a mindset, the Destroyer Clan should have been wiped out in the final battle long ago.

Because they are too easily assimilated by negative emotions.

However, for some unknown reason, a group of members of the Destruction Clan survived and returned to the wilderness under the leadership of the Destruction Saintess. However, the Black Dragon Ancestor and his group held different beliefs from the Destruction Clan, so they were not close and had not been in contact for a long time. They didn't know what the Destruction Clan was like now, or how many remained.

All I remember is the code for the wilderness region where the Destroyer Clan lived.

What sorrow is there in living, what fear is there in dying?

"We are born to face death; what difference does it make whether we die early or late?"

"But death can be as light as a feather or as heavy as a mountain."

"I am unwilling to continue living a wretched life, having gained nothing in my half-life. Today, I will follow you all to die a heroic death!"

"Hahahahahaha..."

The member of the Destroyer Clan drew a demon-headed machete and uttered incoherent ravings. Despite failing to ignite the fighting spirit of the Sky Dragon Clan, he fearlessly charged into the battlefield, brandishing his weapon and engaging the gluttonous beasts in battle.

Compared to the mountain-like size of the Gluttonous Beasts, he was like a tiny ant. When the Demon Head Cleaver struck the Gluttonous Beasts, it was like an insignificant thorn piercing into their flesh, posing no threat whatsoever.

The gluttonous behemoth casually swatted at it, as if it were swatting a mosquito.

Snapped!
The man was smashed to pieces, his flesh and blood sticking to the gluttonous beast, where they burst into flames.

However, the burning flames were nothing to the enormous Gluttonous Beast. The Beast waved its hand twice, pressing the flames to the ground and making them much weaker, as if they would be extinguished at any moment.

"Dead...dead?" Li Zheng was dumbfounded. The member of the Destruction Clan was actually killed by the Gluttonous Beast in a single move?

"That shouldn't be the case... He doesn't seem weak, why..."

Before the doubts could be fully formed, the flames caused by the flesh and blood suddenly shot up dozens of meters high, as if someone had poured a bucket of gasoline on them, and went straight into the thick black fog above!

The gluttonous beasts, some tens of meters tall, had most of their bodies shrouded in black mist. The flames instantly enveloped the entire beast, and the intense heat of the flames caused their massive flesh to sizzle.

The gluttonous beast roared in agony, enduring immense pain; its cries echoed from the black mist, utterly shrill.

Li Zheng looked at Xiao Ying, then at the burning flames, and suddenly wondered how the Destruction Clan had obtained the Destruction Saintess's genes, given their spontaneous combustion characteristic.
And this fighting style of committing suicide at the slightest disagreement, the Destroyer Clan must be very prolific, right?
Otherwise, how come they haven't been wiped out yet?

The raging flames, fueled by the flesh and blood of the gluttonous beast, burned ever brighter, gradually turning from orange-red to pale blue, and the color deepened over time.

Meanwhile, the gluttonous beast engulfed in the center of the flames gradually "shriveled up," becoming thin and short, until it was completely reduced to a pile of charcoal. Everything that could be burned away was consumed, except for a pure, eerie purple glow within the charcoal.

"It's a purple magic crystal! And judging from its concentration and luster, it's the highest quality one!" someone exclaimed. "I've lived for over three hundred years, and I've only seen magic crystals of this quality three times!"

The better the magic crystal, the more amazing the effect. Even among purple magic crystals, there are significant differences. Depending on the quality, the upper limit of the mental energy that can be compressed also varies.

At this moment, everyone in the golden light zone felt a surge of excitement as they looked at the purple magic crystal.

Some people couldn't hide their greedy eyes and were itching to rush out and snatch the purple magic crystal.

Fortunately, this is not the Domain of Greed and Sin, but rather the Golden Light Zone; otherwise, these people might have been directly assimilated, producing several infected individuals.

However, the blue flames caused by the destruction of the clan did not extinguish due to the fuel problem. Instead, after fluctuating a few times, they surged towards another gluttonous behemoth.

"The Flame of Destruction won't last long. Once it fully transforms into deep blue, it will lose its potential and slowly extinguish." The one who had previously revealed the identity of the Destruction Clan whispered again, "At that time, we can go out and pick up the scraps."

Hearing this, Li Zheng was disgusted. These people were so patient. Even with others taking the lead, they remained unmoved. They were nothing like the people Li Zheng had encountered in the Fourth Sin Domain.

"It's a pity those people were attacked and killed by Nato and his gang. Otherwise, with them leading the way, the atmosphere in the Golden Light Zone would definitely improve over time." Li Zheng gritted his teeth. "Nato, and the Heavenly Will Organization, you deserve to die!"

It's not fair to say that these people are worse than the original batch.

However, this time they were facing a pure purple-level twisted creature, whose strength was several levels higher than the quasi-purple-level creature Li Zheng had faced before. Many people had no experience fighting against twisted creatures of this strength, so they naturally dared not make a move rashly.

After a fierce battle fought with the fighting spirit of the Heavenly Dragon Clan, the Gluttonous Beasts had begun to suffer casualties. The occasional fall of a Gluttonous Beast would stir the interest of many people.

Every time a gluttonous beast falls, it's a windfall for them.

However, apart from the Destroyer Clan who rushed out to carry out the terrorist attack at the beginning, no one else was willing to take the risk, which disappointed Li Zheng utterly.

He looked at the tireless, relentless battles of the Heavenly Dragon Clan ahead, and his heart was filled with sorrow.

The Tianlong clan mobilized all its resources to establish a perimeter in the Seven Sins Domain, creating a relatively safe area. Their intention was certainly not to charge ahead and let others reap the benefits.

Instead, they hoped that future generations would use this place as a solid backing, and could confidently entrust their backs to the Celestial Dragons, freely attacking the areas where those twisted creatures resided.

The safe zone is being expanded larger and larger.

However, the final result was extremely disappointing and went against the original intention of the Celestial Dragon Clan.

“Sometimes, I really feel sorry for you…” Li Zheng murmured, “These are the successors you’ve been waiting for… They’re taking advantage of you, their minds are full of nothing but reaping the benefits without sowing.”

"If you could have foreseen this outcome, would you have changed your minds?"

He gazed at the dragon figures, arrayed in battle formation, seemingly tireless: "Perhaps...it won't happen..."

Li Zheng stood up, the Black Dragon Spear reappearing in his hand. He endured the discomfort and stood up resolutely, taking a step forward: "Even if everyone in the world is selfish and self-serving, I am unwilling to go along with it and betray your trust."

Ignoring Miriel's attempts to stop him and Sakura's crying, he resolutely stepped out of the golden zone, singing the war song of the Heavenly Dragon Clan, his voice ringing out: "I, Li Zheng of the Human Race, join the war!"

As soon as he finished speaking, golden light rippled, and a surge of battle intent from the Heavenly Dragon Clan enveloped him, filling him with a sense of pride.

Just then, a sudden change occurred on the battlefield ahead!
(End of this chapter)