CHAPTER 94: CHAPTER 092 HIS BREATH AND LINGERING WARMTH [HE’S BI+]

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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.

It was truly a case of each drop used being one less drop; she wouldn’t have any finished products in the coming year!

At this moment, she always felt grateful that this era was safe. Yet, Zhang Shanni was always aware of the potential dangers. Taking advantage of the fact that she had full control over her own house, she took out all grades of Crystal Cores from her Space.

Sorting them into six small piles, she prepared ten portions for each grade. In order to create Chaos Water and Spirit Core Water, she had collected many transparent glass jars in the apocalypse, all palm-sized. The final product would have a capacity of about half a pound.

With her current spiritual power, she could easily control anything below Level 5, but when it came to Level 6, she might get spiritually exhausted after doing it two or three times, which would not be cost-effective at all.

Moreover, she considered her physical body at the moment, which probably couldn’t withstand the Crystal Ability of Level 6 or higher. Thus, it was enough to prepare a little Level 6 just in case, but most of the Crystal Core Liquid she prepared was of Level 3, 4, and 5.

To make Crystal Core Liquid, the nature of the water itself had to be driven by the superpower of a Water Element Superpower User to be of the highest quality and purest form.

In the apocalypse, it took her three years to understand this principle. Therefore, there was a period when she secretly approached several Sixth-level Water Element Superpower Users to acquire N bottles of water. To avoid detection, she managed these transactions in secrecy, buying over time. Even though the Level 6 Superpower Water was expensive, she was not lacking in materials at that time; what she lacked was the Level 6 Superpower Water.

Once it reached Sixth-level, the water wasn’t just very sweet and tasty; it could also cleanse viruses and reduce inflammation, enhance immunity, and slowly stimulate the body’s latent abilities. It was reasonable for the price to be high.

The most important fact was that when not much of this water was consumed, the effects were minimal. It was nowhere near as miraculous as the Crystal Core Spirit Liquid she made, which could only boost physical condition and hasten the body’s recovery abilities. Such functionality might be marginal in the apocalypse, but in the modern world, it was perfect for her needs.

Therefore, she had stuffed three bottles in her husband’s backpack. Earlier in the kitchen, she had explained to him in detail what was in the backpack, what could be given away, which were the black cloth bags she specially made for his food, and that he was not allowed to give away the things she had made for him as favors to others.

Thinking of Xie Jingchen, Zhang Shanni’s movements paused for a moment. Seeing the nearly three-hour production on the bed, a sweep of her spiritual power revealed that today’s yield was thirty-three jars, which was pretty good! Most were Level 3, followed by Level 4, and Level 5 was the least. Level 5 was what she planned to use to infuse into the Chaos Liquid, which had the best effect.

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.