Ning-niang: “I still have over ten taels of silver in my hand. Speaking of which, this silver was left to us by the Marquis Mansion.”
“When the Marquis Mansion took Miss Xue away, they gave us a hundred taels of silver to thank us for raising her.”
“Originally, I wanted to save it for your brother’s wedding, but who knew your father would meet with such a major accident.”
“The family originally had over twenty taels in savings. After your father was injured, I used those twenty-some taels first, and then the hundred taels.”
“And that was only the cost for conservative treatment. If we had treated him like a wealthy family, regardless of the cost, I wouldn’t have been able to afford it even if I sold myself.”
Xue Ning handed her remaining silver to Ning-niang:
“Don’t worry about Father’s treatment fees, I’ll find a way. You take this silver first and use it for building the house. Since we’re building it, we should build it well.”
“I’ll be going out early tomorrow morning and will return before dark. I’ll leave it to you to discuss the details of the construction with the village chief. I have a few requirements for the new house. First, my room needs to be spacious, and it must have its own toilet… bathroom… kitchen… warehouse… cellar…”
Ning-niang originally wanted to ask Xue Ning what she was doing going out tomorrow, but upon hearing her building requirements, she quickly listened intently.
After Xue Ning finished speaking, the two discussed some details. Then Xue Ning said she was sleepy, so Ning-niang quickly had her lie down to rest. As for the question she wanted to ask, she had already forgotten it.
Xue Ning didn’t actually go to sleep after lying down. After admiring the starry sky for a while and hearing even breathing beside her, Xue Ning closed her eyes and began to cultivate.
A Triple-element Ability sounded very impressive, but for Ability Users of the same level, a Triple-element Ability User required three times the energy to level up compared to a Single-element Ability User.
This was why there were many Multi-element Ability Users in the base, but high-level Ability Users were mostly Single-element Ability Users.
As a Triple-element Ability User, the fact that she could reach Level 8 was truly something she had risked her life for.
Many people didn’t understand why she pushed herself so hard.
After all, with just a Space Ability alone, she could have become a key person to be protected within a team.
For her, entrusting her own safety to others in the Post-apocalypse was a very foolish thing to do.
After all, the world was a vast place with all kinds of people.
To normal people, a Space Ability User was someone who needed priority protection, but to abnormal people, a Space Ability User was just a mobile warehouse.
In the eyes of abnormal people, a Space Ability User was also human, and as long as they were human, they could be conquered through various means. In their eyes, a Space Ability User was merely an ordinary person carrying a massive treasure.
In the eyes of abnormal people, they held the dominant position over Space Ability Users.
Xue Ning had suffered from this in the past. If she hadn’t been a Triple-element Ability User, she might have become someone’s plaything.
From then on, she learned that it was better to rely on oneself than on others.
Although her current strength allowed her to walk tall in this world, that was under the premise that this world had no intention of being her enemy.
If she wanted to truly walk tall in this world, she needed to become stronger.
“Cock-a-doodle-doo”
Before the break of dawn, the roosters in the village began to crow.
Xue Ning sat up as the roosters crowed, pleasantly surprised to find that her Ability had actually risen to Level 2 after a night of cultivation.
She remembered that it had taken her a full month of cultivation to become a Level 2 Ability User back then.
Part of this was due to the large amount of energy she needed to level up and the fact that she was still in the exploration stage of just having triggered her abilities, but this world seemed more suitable for her cultivation.
—Even though there were no Crystal Cores here to help her quickly recover her energy.
As for Crystal Cores, although they could quickly replenish energy, Xue Ning generally didn’t use them unless necessary.
This was because the Crystal Cores dug out of Zombie heads contained impurities in addition to the energy needed by Ability Users. Long-term use of Crystal Cores would inevitably lead to the intake of impurities, and if these impurities reached a certain amount, they would definitely affect the Ability User’s body.
Although the base later invented a potion to remove impurities, that potion could only remove about fifty percent of the impurities in the body and was very expensive. To completely purify the impurities accumulated in the body due to absorbing Crystal Cores, one needed the help of a Light-type Ability User or a Wood-type Ability User.
In the ten years of the Post-apocalypse, only one Light-type Ability User appeared. There were quite a few Wood-type Ability Users, but they could only perform purification after reaching Level 8.
She was the first Wood-type Ability User to reach Level 8.
Before this, Wood-type Ability Users generally served in logistical roles because their attack power was not high.
Wood-type Ability Users in logistical roles spent every day in the base accelerating the growth of plants.
A relatively easy life made the Wood-type Ability Users lazy.
Without a large number of Crystal Cores for them to level up, and without working hard to accelerate plant growth, everyone’s Ability levels naturally grew slowly.
It was only after her Ability level reached Level 8 and she discovered new uses for the Wood-type Ability that everyone’s enthusiasm for leveling up was piqued, and the status of Wood-type Ability Users also rose accordingly.
The Wood-type Ability was different from other abilities.
The Wood-type Ability represented new life.
Therefore, when the Wood-type Ability leveled up, it would expel some impurities from the body.
The higher the level, the more impurities were expelled.
Because Xue Ning was a Triple-element Ability User, the energy required to level up was three times that of a Single-element Ability, so the impurities she expelled were also three times that of others.
After the joy passed, she noticed a faint foul smell coming from her body. Xue Ning quickly got up and, in the dark, followed her memory toward the small river in the village.
Just as she reached the riverbank, dawn had already broken.
Fearing that people would come soon, Xue Ning didn’t care about the cold water in the morning and took off her clothes to jump into the water for a quick wash.
While washing, Xue Ning remained alert, watching and listening in all directions.
After washing, Xue Ning took out the new clothes she had bought yesterday from her space and changed into them, then quickly washed the clothes she had taken off and headed home.
In just that short amount of time, the sky had become fully bright.
When Ning-niang saw her, she quickly asked where she had been.
It had given her a fright not to see her when she opened her eyes.
Xue Ning: “I went to sleep without bathing last night, and I felt a bit uncomfortable when I woke up this morning, so I went to the river to wash up.”
Ning-niang took the washed clothes from Xue Ning’s hand to help hang them up:
“In this weather, the river water is already cold, especially in the mornings and evenings. What if you catch a cold washing like that? You should have let me boil some hot water for you.”
Xue Ning: “I think it’s fine, the river water isn’t particularly cold. Maybe it’s because I have the high vitality of a child.”
Ning-niang: “…You’re a girl. No matter how much vitality you have, you can’t act like this. What if you damage your body one day?”
Xue Ning: “…I understand.”
Seeing that it was fully light, Xue Ning told Ning-niang she was heading out.
Ning-niang: “I haven’t made breakfast yet~”
Xue Ning: “I won’t eat. I’ll buy something to eat outside.”
Without waiting for Ning-niang to say more, Xue Ning turned and left.
She first pretended to leave the village and then took a detour to the back mountain.
Given her current age and gender, it wouldn’t be easy to find work in the city, so she planned to go into the mountains to find treasure.
According to incomplete statistics, the mountain range behind Xue Family Village crossed the boundaries of over a dozen villages. There were many large wild beasts in the depths of the mountain range.
Ning-niang had told her last night that twenty years ago, over a dozen strong young men from Xue Family Village, not knowing their limits, wanted to go deep into the mountains to hunt a large wild beast. In the end, none of them ever returned.
Since then, no one dared to casually challenge the authority of the beasts in the deep mountains.
To others, the deep mountains meant danger, but to Xue Ning, the deep mountains meant opportunity.