Chapter 120: Chapter 112: Lotus of Purity, Human Body Modification Platform

[Purification Lotus, Gold Level

Description: Born in filth, cleansed pure and holy.

Consuming a petal can purify all negative states (limited to below Gold Level).

Old Preli: Did you see that? Such a beautiful flower… If you hadn’t seen it with your own eyes, could you imagine its growing environment is so bad?]

The Purification Lotus grows in a foul-smelling black mud, Li Zheng stood at the edge of the pit, vaguely seeing the rotting flesh and bones churning within the mud.

Various disgusting insects burrowed in and out of the mud, devouring the rotting flesh, and their excrement added another layer of nutrients to the mud.

However, the Purification Lotus that grows in such an environment is pure white and holy, like nothing of this world.

Li Zheng seemed to see a faint halo shimmering on the lotus surface, as if the legendary Heaven had cast its glow, favored even by God.

“This lotus flower, even from afar, makes one reluctant to eat it, truly peculiar.”

Li Zheng didn’t care about any of that; if it was useful, he’d take it all.

“Such crops with special growing environments are probably not transplantable, such a pity.”

Activating his flying device, Li Zheng flew close to the surface of the mud pit, tore the large, eight-petal Purification Lotus from its stem mid-air, and stuffed it into his capsule home.

“Let’s go.”

The only two valuable things in this room were all collected, and Li Zheng no longer lingered, flying quickly past several metal doors with his flying device.

[There are no materials behind this door, but there is a piece of equipment that might interest you.]

Ignoring those empty or less valuable rooms, Li Zheng eventually chose this metal door displaying just one piece of equipment.

“Beep!”

Swiping the card directly, Li Zheng entered the light curtain without looking back.

“The equipment that interests me, apart from a hibernation pod, is only the human modification platform that Yan Guang encountered.

Since there’s no pet reminder, the type of equipment is already indicated.”

Sure enough, as soon as Li Zheng’s thought ceased, the brilliance disappeared from in front of him, and he at once saw a metal device resembling an operating table.

[Human Modification Platform, several human modification plans have been stored internally. By choosing one, and consuming specific materials, modifications to certain organs can be achieved.]

After approaching, the Matrix System provides a brief information prompt.

Li Zheng came to the display next to the modification platform, and after checking, he found that the stored modification plans were limited to limb modifications only; he did not find any plans akin to the “Nuclear Heart” he had given to Xiao Siyuan before.

If he chose to modify himself, the materials he obtained in the future could also be used to upgrade the modified organs, and such upgrades could be carried out without using the modification platform.

For instance, Yan Guang’s silver-white arm has actually been upgraded several times, and Li Zheng had previously looked at its detailed attributes through Prelis’ Eye.

This strong girl has already upgraded her arm to Silver, and some parts have even been replaced with Gold Level.

It is precisely because of this that her performance in the Ancient Ruins was so remarkable, a single punch could easily crush the mechanical Sword Mantis.

This was more violent than when Phoenix Mountain used its bursting power.

“Such modification also has its pros and cons.”

After careful consideration, Li Zheng decided against replacing any of his parts.

“The advantage of metal body parts lies in their solidity, extremely high defense, and difficulty for ordinary creatures to contend with.”

“The downside is also apparent, they’re not flexible enough, and can’t control the way the original limbs can.

There was such an occurrence when Yan Guang was fighting monsters yesterday, every attack was direct with little variation.

If Yan Guang were to fight Zhan Zhouzhou, she would likely be defeated in a single move.

She might even be inferior when facing Phoenix Mountain.”

Li Zheng knocked on his chin, then propped it up with his fingers: “Of course, the greatest drawback of mechanical limbs is their unstable limits.

Raising the limit of mechanical limbs is both simple and infinitely difficult.

In the early stages, low-level materials are easily gathered and levels increase rapidly.

In the mid to late stages, especially after reaching Gold Level, the difficulty of acquiring mid-to-high-tier materials rises sharply, often requiring days of exploration for the tiniest amount needed.”

Li Zheng takes himself as an example.

Apart from the “Daily Treasure Chest” providing him some materials every day, even with the assistance of Prelis’ Eye, he hasn’t been able to acquire much Platinum Level stuff these days.

The most Platinum Level materials have come in, were the two instances achieved through instance dungeons in these two days.

One of those instances was even triggered by Zhan Zhouzhou.

It is imaginable how difficult it is to obtain all items above Gold Level!

“For me, instead of pursuing a short-term increase in combat power through human modification.

It’s better to take it one step at a time, gradually collecting materials to improve myself through the Genetic Potion.”

Li Zheng circled the human modification platform several times, measured the dimensions of the device, and found that he couldn’t move it into his capsule home like he did with the fridge and computer.

Helplessly, he pulled out the Salted Fish Spear, aimed at the human modification platform, and fired multiple rounds quickly.

Ever since he blew open that computer column with one shot, Li Zheng became too lazy to dismantle things with materials like Iron Ingot. Not only was it slow, but striking areas made with more advanced materials could even cause the Iron Ingot to dent.

Intentionally avoiding the display area most likely to yield special materials, within a short minute, Li Zheng blasted the human modification platform into smithereens.

[Decomposing the damaged human modification platform yields: Medical Multi-Joint Mechanical Arm Design Diagram +1, Analyzer +1, Data Processor +1, Orichalcos 200g, Intermediate Module +30, Basic Module 31, Advanced Components +28, Titanium Alloy 300g, Iron Ingot +100, Power Core Type IV +1.]

“Oh? There are quite a few things, and the level is generally high.” Li Zheng looked at the incoming materials, raising an eyebrow, “Last time, Yan Guang regretted after knowing the equipment could be smashed. If she knew that deconstructing the human modification platform could yield so many Intermediate materials, how would she react?”

This thought occurred only momentarily for Li Zheng.

Yan Guang is not Phoenix Mountain; if he teases her randomly, he might have to face her iron fists next time they meet.

If he can avoid trouble, he should stay away.

“Deconstructed a blueprint, but it’s not for the human modification platform?” Li Zheng flipped his hand, and a USB stick appeared in his palm.

[Medical Multi-Joint Mechanical Arm Design Diagram, Gold Level, component, learnable

Description: Allows one to master the manufacturing method of medical multi-joint mechanical arms.

Medical multi-joint mechanical arms can be used to create equipment related to ‘medical.’

Required materials: Advanced Module*10, Iron Ingot*20, Advanced Components*5, Titanium Alloy 100g]

“Just a part for making other equipment?” Li Zheng was a bit surprised.

He had seen this type of blueprint before, and even learned one.

The blueprint he learned was for “Pipes,” which also mentioned in the description that they could be used for making certain equipment.

But, so far, Li Zheng has not discovered any blueprint requiring these “special parts.”