Lin Yu slept in a building not far from B city's up an coming base. She spend this time farming her land, planting vegetables, fruits. Then she used the shelves that were taken from C city to make shelves inside the storage warehouse she is building in the magic space.
Lin Yu wrote down a schedule to do all her tasks including practicing her knife skills. As a thief she had trained fighting skills and defensive skills.
The spirit water in her space seems to be upgrading above her strength level which makes them useful to her even at tier 5.
When she merges with her spirit body she is 8 times faster and can jump from shadow to shadow.
The spirit body can now come out of her spirit palace and for the first time she saw what it is. "Are you a snake?" To this question, she felt an indescribable anger through their connection.
No matter how she looked at it, the full image seems blur as if she can not gaze directly into its form. It has two distinct horns on the side of its head and that gaze is filled with unparalleled arrogance.
It really looks like a snake to her, but the anger from their connection told her to not say it again. She is okay with a snake if it means she will be powerful enough to protect herself and live a care free life.
The flame can be attached to the spirit sense and aimed at an enemy in a 3 mile distance. With this, she thinks she is ready for phaze one of her plan.
'Build and underground palace.'
As soon as she had this thought, the creature always slumbering in her spirit palace stirred. A torrent of information is imprinted into her mind just as she had learned skills before.
Only this time she can feel it'd excitement. It seems the idea of having a territory to lord over is appealing to it.
"This can also be done with the flame? It kind of reminds me of Lin Yu's fond memories about the avatar lava bending. Instead of it being the earth super power it is a fire super power." Lin Yu muttered feeling immense joy at the prospect that she will not need to employ others to make her home.
At this thought, she walked towards the biggest forest several miles away from B city. It seems her plans have slightly changed.
She chose the deepest part of the virgin forest surrounded by mountains housing several creatures with powerful auras.
Upon her arrival, she surrounded herself with her flame and the ground gave in, she sank into the earth traveling several thousand meters underground.
The truth is the earth has been expanded during the past six months and the authorities just didn't tell the masses for fear of panic. This forest for instance used to be a third of its current size.
The ground is now harder to dig through and the world's resources have grown exponentially it is only the matter of seeking them out and overcoming difficulties to obtain them.
'Sigh...it reminds me of home.' She mused.
Feeling like she has dug deeply enough, she extended her shadow flame outwards from her body clearing a 360 degrees area around her current position.
In a mater of minutes she had cleared a 2000 Sq meter radius and 800 feet in height. The entire place is dark and she can feel the lack of oxygen affecting her little by little.
Luckily the shadow flame doesn't need oxygen to ignite otherwise she would have been at a loss. While extending the area, Lin Yu didn't forget to use her new skill to harden the walls. This will prevent unauthorized entry into her city.
This skill is a pure defensive skill that is useful to crystalize the soil and building a cave. According to her information, it is classified as a unique skill, several times harder than diamonds. That is why she has been collecting the soil from the underground space to use in the future.
The basic way to use it is to harden her black scales during a fight.
Another way is liquifying soil and then using that solution to build sturdy walls strong enough to withstand thunder tribulations.
But first she needs to make spirit inscriptions that transform spirit energy into oxygen. However, it has been a long time since she has has had a need for such inscriptions.
Thanks to her profession as a thief, she had needed breathing tools in places with no oxygen but plenty of treasures.
Unlike talisman that require paper or special ink, inscriptions can be made using spiritual energy to burn through jade to inscribe spells.
This place is deep enough to ensure nothing happening above ground will affect the city. Coupled with the extremely hard barrier she had just put up, all who live in this place will be isolated feom the world above.
The spirit power is still gushing into the atmosphere which means the evolution is still just the beginning.
The lives of the above ground dwellers are going to get even harder as time goes on.
People will move underground as the intensity of spirit energy will soon become so intense people will not be able to breath it. This is called spirit poisoning.
In her previous life, dense spirit energy was always a good thing. But here is means the body will collapse and the tainted energy will corrupt the spirit palace even faster than before. Like a barrier banning living things to remain at a certain level in power.
Lin Yu continued to extend the underground space just so she can make a better, cleaner city later. After she is finished with extending the size of the city, she hardened the walls with her new technique
When she was busy farming, taking spirit water and then pills to improve her level, a manual was placed on the bedside table in the magic courtyard. She knew it was the house opening up to her.
In the novel, it helped Lin Moxue become an alchemist fairy. Unlike that lady who couldn't identify herbs listed in the book, Lin Yu who came from the world of cultivation will be able to find them.
The first one she made is called KanKret powder that will help her build structures as solid as a block of metal. The texture is like hard wood but stronger than metal. Warm when the weather is cold, cold when the weather is warm.
The most important thing about this KanKret powder is that structures built using it will not be destroyed easily. They will remain in pristine condition for many many years to come.
Because of the time difference inside the space, she ended up making a few hundreds of KanKret powder 50 kg sacks enough for the foundation of the castle she wants to build.
She has also made inscriptions of sun rise spell, mid day and night stars mimicry inscriptions. The roof of the city has hooks made from Lin Yu's barrier power in preparation for the lights inscriptions that will be hang there. It will require a lot of spirit power to light up a city of this size.
An idea came to her. Coming out from underground, she made her way to S city. Hesitating is not like her so she made a decision immediately. As a thief, if she wants something, it's best to steal it.
It is said Lin Mei was chased by a long black snake and stumbled upon a stone mine she recognized as the legendary space stone from her sect records. She killed the snake, established a mining sight and made several space rings for the sect members.
To her surprise, the stone mine is a few miles away from her city but it is a distance she can manage with her flame that swallows everything it touches, she extended the size of her city by a few more miles.
The mine is dug out, separated from the ground along with the mineral vein and then moved into Lin Yu's space.
"Things have suddenly gone out of hand. The size of this underground city has become three times what I had intended." She blinked wondering if she should reduce it.
The inscriptions need to be carved into high level jade stones be powered with enough spirit stones but the spirit stone mine with a level enough to power such an endeavor is too close to the Yun family, which one of her sister's male leads backer.
In the novel, it was discovered by the female lead who informed the Yun family of the treasure in their territory, helping them triumph in a family war with their adversary, the Gu family.
"If I remember correctly, Gu Aang whom I kicked to the ground in the mall that day is pressuring the Yun family princess into a marriage because his family is powerful especially in the apocalypse as they are not only a military family but they also have Gu Fang who is the king of the underworld.
"Yun Su the heiress of the Yun family distains the good for nothing Gu Aang but has deep feelings for the already engaged Xu Jun. This makes her another cannon fodder. What a web of intrigue." Lin Yu had just uprooted an entire mountain worth of space stone, the forests nearby are also very rich in resources.
Thinking up to here, Lin Yu looked for a spirit stone mine nearby. She found 4 large mines but none of them are spirit stone mine. She had to continue looking after taking these mines into her space.
"A special metal ore suitable for making weapons because of its high quality and low density better than alloy." She wrote down 'Yuan Iron' to separate which resourse is which inside her space.
"Acrylic stones." This resourse material made her want to go back and install crystal lights all over the underground city.
When grinded with other materials and cooked thoroughly it is able to crystallize, and shaped at will.
Lin Yu wants to make hard glass for the houses and light holders for the entire city. The amount is enough to cover lighting and windows for at least 80% of the city since two of the mines are acrylic stones.
The last one is coal. The biggest and most valuable for lower class who can not afford gas and fire inscription stones.
Lin Yu looked thoroughly and did not find a spirit stone mine anywhere near the underground city.
The next morning she left towards C city. The snow has been falling heavily these past weeks the internet is already cut off, the water and electricity is the thing of the past.
Using her warping ability, she reached D county sooner than before and started looking for her friend. Lu Peng.
Taking out her phone she found that the connection is still up. "I have been trying to call you for days. Where are you?" Lu Peng asked worriedly.
"I am here at your house, where did you go?" Lin Yu asked uneasy.
"The few of us built a small base in the local clinic because insects started evolving to monsters and as a farming place we were hit first." Lu Peng said
"Local clinic? Are you still there?" Lin Yu asked genuinely concerned.
"Yes." Lu Peng answered with a light tone.
"I need to run a small errand, I'll come to pick you guys up in a few weeks alright? Try to be safe until then." Lin Yu said.
"Don't worry we keep our noses down and move with the wave." Lu Peng responded and hang up.
On her way to C city, she saw a convoy traveling in a high profile manner and watched them closely. It seems to be her brother in law and her dear brother.
Speaking of which, it has been a few days since she'd seen her siblings. Should she greet them?
Sigh, for the time being she only needs to take away the Yun spirit stone mine and leave un noticed.
Looking around, this may be the place where the protagonist discovered a spirit stone mine. There's supposedly a frozen lake here that her brother in law will fall into and the siblings will take him into a nearby cave where they discover a mine.
Remembering something, a smirk crept on her lips. 'This is going to be good.'
Lin Yu felt like she is racing against time because if they find it first, she can only bury her grievances and turn tail.
Seeing them walk on a frozen place, she tried feeling for water but she is not able to feel anything.
Lin Yu decided to double her dear sister's troubles. As soon as Xu Jun fell in, she made a hand gesture and several more people fell into the ice.
As a water cultivator, Lin Mei should be able to save everyone easily but this is still the beginning of her cultivation and her mental state is flustered, not able to decide who to save first.
Lin Yu smiled and looked for a nearby cave. After finding it, she melted the ice near the cave making it impossible for others to consider this direction safe.
Then she hid the cave as much she could before getting on with extracting it all along with the spirit vein. The size and quality of this mine really satisfied Lin Yu. Now, she can power the underground city for 12 hundred years without fail.
Just to be sure, she looked for any other valuable resource nearby. Lin Yu is in an extremely good mood, she didn't leave the cave hollowed out but flooded it with ice cold water from the large lake.
To her absolute delight she found more ingredients for the KanKret powder nearby, harvesting them all with a joyful smile. After she returns, she can commence with building her castle.
After this trip she went towards G city to take the temporary houses her half brother will discover and then use as resident for the army under their control. With light steps, she took out a truck and started driving towards the direction after reaching G city.
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Because of her warping power, she has a relationship with space but unlike the Lin Yu In the novel, who awakened space power, she can feel it is not the same but it allows her to build a flame wall in front of the truck without stepping outside as if she opened a door and released her power.
When she came out of the truck, someone took a shot at her. It landed of the large truck.
"Nice reflexes." A young man approached from the side pointing a shot gun at her.
"Thanks." Lin Yu looked at the young man wearing a thick stack of clothes pointing a long shot gun at her.
"I am only passing through. Why the hostility?" She asked tilting her head.
"Passing through? You have to pay the toll when you 'pass through' miss May's territory." He said through his nose.
"May Torry? Is she around here? May I meet her?" Lin Yu could barely hide her excitement.
"Supplies!" The guy gritted out, the shot gun in his hand is already covered in thick snow which made it feel like he is holding a block of ice.
"Alright come down." Lin Yu pulled down her bag pack which is full of small packs of supplies. Compressed biscuits, water, tampons and a pocket of hand sanitizers.
"This is it?" He grumbled but Lin Yu demolished a nearby building where the sniper was lying on his stomach about to take aim at her.
"What happened?!" This thick padded gunman shot to his feet looking around only to find the woman missing.
Lin Yu has already found the boss lady inside the small shopping mall in G city. Appearing on the stairs headed to the lady's exclusive chambers, many people pointed guns at her, the moment she appeared.
In response, Lin Yu let her flame eat away each gun barrel pointing at her. The men saw their guns become handles after a mysterious black smoke dispersed.
They have never seen such a power. It doesn't burn hot or cold there's just nothing after the smoke is gone.
"Gentlemen, that is no way to greet a lady." Lin Yu walked up the stairs wearing a light cream white hanfu dress, and a pair of embroidered boots.
She carries a light blue fur coat on her arm having felt too warm after entering the mall. The sight of such a clean and beautiful woman surprised the guards, especially her choice clothing.
But recalling how she disposed of their guns, they thought it made sense for a powerful person to be in pristine condition.
This mall has four floors. The ground floor has normal people huddled together in separate corners. Their condition doesn't look good.
Children women and young kids are in the first floor where the situation seems many times better than the ground floor.
Those with young children are placed in the first floor. Second floor is the armed men and their families living many time better than those in the first floor.
After seeing all this, Lin Yu is more and more convinced this is the place housing her favorite character in the entire novel. Boss May Torry.
Just as she is giddy inside, a cold voice sounded from the top of the stairs in the fourth floor.
"Who are you?" Hearing her question, Lin Yu warped next to her and excitedly answered her.
"I'm... a big fan." She said extending her hand to the woman, but then retracted it as if remembering something.
"You know me?" The woman looked at Lin Yu's expression trying to catch her in a lie.
"Of course. Four time champion of international women's boxing league. I love you too much. Can you sign an autograph?"
Lin Yu took out a paper and a pen giving it to May Torry who watched her with wary eyes.
"How did you know I am here?" May asked her.
"The puppy outside told me, the one with a shot gun." Lin Yu answered honestly. Hearing her, May squinted her eyes.
"Is he still alive?" She asked obviously troubled.
"He is fine. I snuck away while he was checking his spoils." Lin Yu couldn't help but poke the slim but strong arm of the other woman.
"I heard you like women, can you consider me?" Lin Yu asked her blinking coquettishly.
"That was just a rumor spread by my rivals." She said frowning.
"Alright. Can we talk? I have a proposition for you." Lin Yu spoke in a serious tone. Seeing how formidable Lin Yu is, May didn't struggle thinking about the lives of her men.
The two of them entered boss May's office to discuss business.
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