Han Ying had already made plans for what to plant on this patch of land in her space. She didn’t know how many levels the space could reach, nor the maximum amount of time she could stay in it each day. So she decided to plant crops with long growth cycles that didn’t require constant attention. Naturally, the first choice was fruit trees, but she didn’t have any saplings on hand. She did have seeds, but planting from seeds would take even longer. So she decided to start with what she had.
She dug some holes with a hoe and took out seeds she had bought online. She found watermelon seeds and dropped two seeds into each hole. Normally watermelons need to be grown as seedlings first, but since she only put two seeds per hole, she skipped that step.
While sowing the seeds, Han Ying didn’t notice that as soon as she dropped the first seed into the soil, her white SUV, which had been parked in the back corner, began rising into the air. It floated steadily upward until it reached 10 meters above the ground, as if an invisible barrier were holding it in place.
After planting the entire bag of over 500 watermelon seeds, Han Ying finally paused and turned to check her work. But when she looked up, something felt off. Standing there and thinking carefully for two minutes, she realized what was wrong: where was her white SUV? The large SUV she had left on the ground… where did it go?
She wondered if she had accidentally stored it in the spatial talisman, so she mentally searched the talisman—but it wasn’t there. Her SUV had somehow floated into midair! She remembered parking it on the ground when she first entered. How did it get into the sky?
Han Ying pulled the car down from midair as she normally would from the space talisman. It came down smoothly and stayed put, no longer floating upward.
She realized something and took a chair from the spatial talisman. Magically, the chair appeared in midair! When she pulled it down again, it landed safely on the ground. Han Ying guessed this was related to planting on the land. Previously, she had never planted anything here, so the space had defaulted to storage mode. Now that she planted watermelons, the area became a planting zone, and the storage space naturally shifted upward.
After several experiments, she discovered the rule: anything taken from the spatial talisman while standing on this land will appear in midair unless she’s holding it in her hands. To place something on the ground, she must retrieve it from above.
Excited by this discovery, she tried placing a freshly cooked bowl of noodles on the land. But the time flow on the land was the same as outside—there was no preservation effect. Han Ying’s hopes of avoiding talisman-drawing were dashed. Clearly, her greatest career this life was still in talisman crafting.
After examining the space’s behavior, Han Ying planned to draw more spatial talismans. But a sudden weightless feeling hit her, and the next moment she was back on her bed at home. The teleportation talisman’s effect had expired. Even hiding in the space couldn’t prevent her from being sent back when the time ran out.
Han Ying hadn’t slept much that day, only napping two hours inside the space. She was tired, but something unresolved kept her awake.
Without further delay, she retrieved a full shelf stacked with 600 gold bricks from the spatial talisman. The shelf was so large she had to move the living room sofa to make space. Looking at the gleaming gold bricks, Han Ying couldn’t resist: she picked one up and bit it with her teeth, leaving a shallow mark.
“I’m rich! I’m rich!” she exclaimed, circling the shelf several times to calm down. Then she stored the entire shelf into the spatial talisman. Once inside, the shelf floated into the sky above her land, and all 600 gold bricks vanished without a trace—a total of 1,200 jin (about 600 kg)! Heavy enough to crush a person, gone in an instant.
Although she felt a pang of regret, Han Ying knew the importance of upgrading the space. The time she could spend inside the space could save lives. Sure enough, after the 600 gold bricks were absorbed, she felt the space upgrade—jumping from Level 3 to Level 6. The daily limit for staying in the space increased to 3.5 hours! She knew this wasn’t the maximum yet.
Determined, she placed another shelf of gold bricks into the space. Like before, the shelf floated above, and the bricks disappeared. She had hoped for another 2-hour increase, but this time 1,200 jin only upgraded the space to Level 7, increasing the limit to 4 hours.
Frustrated, she tossed in two more shelves, which upgraded the space to Level 8, allowing 4.5 hours. Two shelves only added one level—Han Ying realized the experience needed for leveling up increased as the space got higher.
Finally, she threw in four more shelves. This time, not all the gold disappeared—90 bricks remained, and the daily time limit reached 5 hours. Han Ying knew the space no longer needed gold. Whether it could upgrade further was uncertain, but for now, 5 hours a day was enough. Even if she accumulated slowly, a month’s worth would give her over 100 hours, plenty for her purposes.
Since the space no longer required gold, the remaining gold was entirely hers. She calculated: the space had absorbed 4,710 gold bricks, totaling 9,420 jin (about 4.7 tons). That meant she still had over 49 tons of gold left!