Jiang Yuan didn't know how many times he had been stabbed; all he knew was that the fur of the big cat beneath him was dyed red, some of it his and some of the cat's own.

"The world has changed after all!"

Jiang Yuan stood up, panting heavily, and stared into thought at the huge cat that weighed dozens of kilograms. The world was changing far faster than he had imagined. When he woke up, the world was no longer the same, and even the cat was no longer the same cat.

As Jiang Yuan was reflecting on this, he caught a glimpse of light beneath the big cat, and immediately thought of the seven-colored Rubik's Cube from before.

"What's this?" Jiang Yuan reached out to grab the object. "It really is a Rubik's Cube!"

At this moment, Jiang Yuan was holding a cube that emitted a dark gray light.

"Heavenly Eye, look at this thing!" Jiang Yuan tried to slowly accept this bizarre world. Since the world had changed, his perspective had to change as well.

"Tier 1 Black Iron Core, Status: Unused".

"Unused? What is this thing?!" Jiang Yuan fiddled with the dark gray cube in his hand.

"A gift from the gods to this world! Living beings can obtain various resources from the core to achieve their growth or survival!" said the Heavenly Eye Machine.

Jiang Yuan seemed to understand something, and then asked, "How do you open this thing?"

"Just provide the corresponding energy!"

"What kind of energy?" Jiang Yuan asked, puzzled.

"The Golden Gate is transforming this world, which will become a cultivation paradise. Any demon beast can become a holy spirit, and holy spirits have holy spirit stones within their bodies. Holy spirit stones are essential for unlocking the core!"

"So, finding the treasure chest isn't enough; we need to get the key too!" Jiang Yuan examined the so-called Tier 1 Black Iron Core.

"The Holy Spirit is omnipresent, so the host need not worry about the source of the Holy Spirit Stones! This world is no longer just your race; the weak will eventually become the prey of the strong who plunder the Holy Spirit Stones!" Heavenly Eye said coldly.

"The Holy Spirit Stone you mentioned!" Jiang Yuan slowly pulled a stone the size of a pigeon egg from the big cat's wound. "It can't be this, can it?"

“Yes, this is a half-tier Holy Spirit Stone!” Tianyan explained.

"I thought this cat had kidney stones!" Jiang Yuan wiped the bloodstains from his hands and the Holy Spirit Stone on the cat's clean fur, then asked, "What does 'half-tier' mean?"

"There are nine ranks of newly awakened Holy Spirits, with the first rank being the weakest and the ninth rank being the strongest!" The Heavenly Eye paused for a moment before continuing to transmit information, "A half-rank Holy Spirit is someone who has just successfully awakened their spirit and has not truly entered the ranks of first-rank Holy Spirits. You are lucky to have obtained a Holy Spirit Stone!"

"Are you alive?" Jiang Yuan suddenly asked.

"The Heavenly Eye is a manifestation of order; it does not possess life!"

Jiang Yuan nodded with some doubt, then held the Holy Spirit Stone and the Black Iron Core, "What do we do now!"

"You only need to silently recite it to use the Heavenly Eye!" A message about the Heavenly Eye entered Jiang Yuan's brain.

"So that's how it is!" Jiang Yuan wrote it down and then silently recited the Heavenly Eye.

Immediately afterwards, information about the two items was revealed. Jiang Yuan activated his Heavenly Eye again, and the black iron core became even clearer in his eyes. After a while, he could even see the items that could be extracted from the black iron core.

"A second-rate inner armor!"

"A second-rate healing medicine!"

"A third-rate stray cat bloodline!"

"A low-level, continuous cat claw technique!"

Jiang Yuan lost his temper after reading through a series of utterly worthless comments. When he had almost finished reading them, he said speechlessly, "Do you dare to give me a first-tier treasure?"

As he spoke, he actually spotted a Tier 1 treasure: "Tier 1 Cat Claw Gauntlets!"

"There are only five things I can open, and this only Tier 1 treasure is so strange!" Jiang Yuan complained helplessly. What is this cat paw gauntlet? It's not even as good as the other second-rate treasures!

"Let's see the probability of getting them!" Jiang Yuan activated his Heavenly Eye and saw a spinning wheel appear in the black iron core, with the five treasures occupying equally sized positions. "Are the probabilities all the same?"

"Wait, what's that?" Jiang Yuan's gaze lingered on a corner of the turntable, where a black line appeared. Because it was so small, Jiang Yuan immediately overlooked it.

Jiang Yuan subconsciously used his Heavenly Eye, and the information from the black line was fed back into his mind.

"Unknown, items that appear randomly within the core. The probability of an item being present is no more than 10%, and the item's grade will not exceed the third grade of the core!"

Jiang Yuan was at a loss. He asked the Sky Eye, "If I activate the treasure-hunting location, will I be able to get what I want?"

"Yes, but locating the treasure requires consuming some energy! It depends on what you take out of the core!" The Heavenly Eye directly transmitted the information to Jiang Yuan's mind.

"These five treasures are all of average value, and the probability of getting nothing when these randomly appearing treasures is too high. I definitely can't waste the three free treasure hunting locations in the early stages here!" Jiang Yuan thought to himself.

Looking at the five treasures and the black line that resembled a lottery, Jiang Yuan finally made up his mind. "These Tier 1 Cat Claw Gauntlets aren't even as good as cultivation techniques. I might as well just open them randomly. That way, I won't feel like I've lost out no matter what I get!"

"Alright, let's open the treasure!"

The Holy Spirit Stone began to burn, and in a short while it disappeared without a trace, while the Black Iron Core also cracked and turned into a large box about half the height of a person.