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Zhang Shan Ni returned to her room and lay directly on the kang bed, seemingly still able to sense the remnants of his presence and warmth.
No matter how deep the sorrow in her heart, it only soured her mood for half an hour. Afterward, she lay on the bed and began to organize the supplies in her Space.
The items piling up within the Space were simply food and drink, too advanced in packaging, craftsmanship, style, and materials for this era, making them rare and bizarre! She could only accumulate many of the supplies in her Space; luckily, time within the Space was frozen!
She took a closer look at the Spirit Core Water and Chaos Liquid she had. These were her means of survival in this era! It was just that in her previous life, she often had to undertake missions, which left her with not much of the Crystal Core Water she had prepared.
Since time in the Space was frozen, she could only cultivate Crystal Cores outside.
During the apocalypse, any Crystal Core above Level 5, once its energy was emitted, could easily be detected by Superpower Users.
She was always afraid of death, always cherishing her life.
Therefore, in her past life, the highest-grade Chaos Liquid she ever prepared was with a Level 5 Crystal Core. To enhance Spirit Core Water to Chaos Liquid required at least twice the cultivation time or a minimum of two years.
Two years might not seem long, but the problem was that she only dared to secretly hoard them. Having lived in the apocalypse for nearly seven years, or so she should have, right?
Zhang Shan Ni didn’t even know how many years she had lived through the apocalypse. Anyway, after the apocalypse, it took at least three years before she discovered how to create that water quality through the intersupporting and restraining principles of the five elements.
During those three years, the amount of Spirit Core Water she actually saved up was relatively substantial, roughly ten liters. However, she had less than three liters of Chaos Liquid...
The quantity might seem decent, but in the apocalypse, she had to go on missions frequently. No matter the severity of her injuries, she dared not let anyone know, relying entirely on this Quality Water for healing. Thus, by the time she arrived in this era, her spiritual water was almost depleted.
The reason she couldn’t reveal her injuries was that they were all sustained while sneaking out to ’smuggle goods’! If she had been with the main group, under the protection of that scumbag of a man, she would have just been a mobile warehouse and wouldn’t have gotten hurt.
That was why she put so much effort into researching Superpower Crystal Cores, with her starting point being based on the speculative thoughts of authors she read about when she was younger. Her thought then was: Trying it out won’t hurt; what if it succeeds...
And indeed, she managed to achieve this pleasing outcome earlier than the official researchers.
Thinking back on her situation then, it really was a complete mess. A man she once married turned out to be scum, and she was tied down; unable to find a single relative, with ample time and an overwhelming lack of security. Besides collecting materials, her life was nothing but a gloomy silence.
Although she had more backup strength than others, deep down, she still felt insecure. Each time she went on a mission, she would collect as much as possible, taking everything that others overlooked or couldn’t take, sweeping through like a swarm of locusts. Later on, the use of Crystal Core Liquid became less and less. After her passage through time, she was left with just a mere three liters of Spirit Core Water and even less of the Chaos Liquid, not even reaching one liter.
Using anything below Level 3 to infuse was a waste of time and effort compared to using Level 5.
Feeling her spiritual power depleting, she wrapped a drop of Spirit Core Water around her in the Space, licked it with her tongue, and swallowed. Half a second later, she felt the energy in the droplet gradually improving her body and restoring her spiritual power.
In the end, she only made one batch of Sixth-level Chaos Liquid, which exhausted her recently recovered spiritual power again. This time, she refrained from drinking more Spirit Core Water and instead took out a bottle of Level 6 Superpower Water and drank half of it.
She had stayed in the house for most of the day, and she didn’t want to look like an abandoned woman when she went out. It wouldn’t be good.
Now that her husband was gone, she had to rely on herself for everything!
Zhang Shanni, you can do it!
Zhang Shanni encouraged herself mentally, then emptied the trousseau chest sent by Uncle and Auntie, inserted a similarly sized tin chest into the wooden chest, and carefully placed all the jars and bottles into the tin chest, securing it with a lock. She then covered it with a wooden board of the right size, and laid the original fabrics and her husband’s clothes on top, locking it with the original padlock.
In this hidden place, it was unlikely that anyone would discover her little secret. The tin chest, though small, weighed a hefty forty to fifty pounds, not something that could be easily stolen even if someone intended to.
She left one final spiritual mark that could barely be sensed within a kilometer, despite knowing it might only be temporarily effective. If it failed later, she would just set it again.
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