With the spiritual stones, A-Wu successfully drew spiritual energy into her body and reached the first level of Qi Refining.
The moment she successfully advanced, spiritual energy began circulating throughout her body, and A-Wu’s soul finally became completely compatible with this body.
It was also at this moment, after fully taking control of the body’s sea of consciousness, that A-Wu discovered a lingering wish buried deep within it, along with all of the original owner’s memories.
A-Wu swept through the memories with her spiritual sense and accepted everything.
It turned out that the egg-shaped robot was the original owner’s caretaker robot.
Its name was Dandan.
The original owner’s parents had bought Dandan for her when she was born. It had accompanied her throughout her childhood.
Although its model was already extremely outdated, the original owner had depended on it for so many years that she had long since come to regard it as family.
She had never considered replacing it.
The original owner’s parents were explorers.
When she was sixteen, they died on an uninhabited planet.
The original owner was now twenty.
Since both of her parents had been orphans themselves, she had spent the past four years relying entirely on Dandan.
After receiving the original owner’s memories, A-Wu also inherited her final wish.
A-Wu summoned a water mirror and carefully examined the face reflected in it.
The original owner’s parents were both members of the Hua ethnic group, known for their relatively rare black hair and black eyes in the interstellar era.
The original owner was a typical Eastern beauty.
Unlike the striking and seductive beauty A-Wu had developed after cultivating before, this girl’s beauty was pure and innocent—the kind of beauty that even the alluring female cultivators of Bixue Palace could only dream of.
She had a naturally sweet appearance that made people feel fond of her and want to get close to her at first sight.
The original owner’s name had been Lin Wu.
She had always been a gentle and soft-hearted person.
She had been born with a weak and sickly body and had suffered from illness her entire life.
Yet despite all that pain, she had somehow managed to keep a kind heart.
It was also because of her poor health that her parents had continued working as explorers, an occupation with both extremely high risks and extremely high rewards.
Lin Wu had always blamed herself for their deaths.
The guilt and worry had gradually made her condition worse until she eventually died.
Of course, there was another reason.
And in A-Wu’s opinion, the most important reason was—
Lin Wu had run out of money!
Her parents had left her a considerable inheritance.
But Lin Wu could not work.
She spent about 360 days out of every year sick, so her money disappeared as quickly as water.
Within just a few years, her inheritance was completely gone.
Her parents had died without leaving even their remains behind.
They had not simply gone missing.
So naturally, Lin Wu’s final wish had nothing to do with them.
Her lingering wish was about Dandan.
Dandan was an intelligent robot.
When A-Wu was still a child, its emotional system had awakened automatically.
This made it a branch of intelligent life—a form of mechanical life.
The current year was Interstellar Era 3259.
There were countless forms of life throughout the universe, and the interstellar civilization was extremely accepting of different kinds of intelligent beings.
Lin Wu’s final wish was to buy Dandan the artificial body it had secretly kept sitting in the shopping cart of its caretaker-robot shopping system.
She wanted to set Dandan free and allow it to become an independent life-form.
That way, it would never have to worry about one day being abandoned by a new owner and sent to a recycling center.
As Dandan’s owner, A-Wu could access its shopping cart.
She sent Dandan away for a moment, then opened the shopping cart and took a look at the artificial body it had been secretly saving for.
It was the body of a cute boy who looked around ten years old.
A-Wu’s eyes darkened.
She remembered something from Lin Wu’s memories.
Lin Wu had once told her parents that she wanted a little brother.
She had simply wanted her parents to have another healthy child.
She had never expected Dandan to take her words seriously and secretly decide that it would become her “little brother” instead.
Although Dandan had awakened an emotional system, its thoughts were still extremely simple.
To Dandan, Lin Wu would always be its master.
It wanted to become its master’s little brother, but it only dared to secretly think about it.
A-Wu took a deep breath.
She carefully checked the price of the artificial body before closing the shopping cart.
There was no way she could afford it right now.
Since she had already inherited this cause and effect, she would settle this lingering wish once she had enough money.
There was no point letting it interfere with her cultivation.
And A-Wu absolutely refused to admit that seeing Dandan had reminded her of the spirit bird she used to raise.
That ungrateful little thing!
They had been together for so many years.
Yet the moment it met another bird it wanted to have eggs with, it abandoned its own master!
And now…
She would never get to see it again in this lifetime.
A-Wu angrily missed her spirit beast for a moment before getting out of bed and walking around the room.
After successfully drawing spiritual energy into her body, she already felt much better.
In fact, the original owner’s body did not have any serious disease.
A-Wu had discovered this while circulating spiritual energy through it.
Combining this with Lin Wu’s memories, A-Wu realized that humans in the interstellar era had all undergone either natural or artificial genetic evolution.
Not only had supernatural ability users appeared, but the physical bodies and mental strength of ordinary humans had also been enhanced to a certain degree.
The mental strength of this world was actually a primitive form of spiritual sense.
People simply did not know how to use it because they lacked the proper cultivation techniques.
The few methods for cultivating mental strength that existed were so crude that A-Wu could barely look at them.
Among interstellar ability users, the Five Elements abilities were the most common.
A-Wu guessed that these ability users probably possessed spiritual roots.
The problem with Lin Wu’s body was that it had never undergone genetic evolution.
Both of her parents were ability users, but she had a primitive, unevolved physique.
This kind of body had not been seen much for thousands of years.
It had never undergone genetic evolution and was basically unable to adapt to the interstellar environment.
It had to be said that the original owner had managed to survive until the age of twenty entirely because her parents had spent money and medicine to keep her alive!
As for the spiritual stone A-Wu had absorbed earlier, it was actually only the lowest-grade energy block refined from a broken energy stone.
In the interstellar world, energy stones were ranked from highest to lowest:
SS, S, A, B, C, D, E, and F.
The original owner had never seen an energy stone above Grade B.
In her memories, even a Grade B energy stone was already extremely rare.
A-Wu searched through Lin Wu’s memories and roughly sorted the grades.
Grade A and B energy stones should correspond to high-grade spiritual stones.
Grades C and D corresponded to mid-grade spiritual stones.
Grades E and F corresponded to low-grade spiritual stones.
Then energy stones above Grade S…
Those had to be the legendary supreme-grade spiritual stones!
A-Wu used the smart ring around her left wrist to search for pictures of an S-grade energy stone.
After confirming that it really did look exactly like a supreme-grade spiritual stone, she stared at the pictures greedily for a while before finally lying back down.
A-Wu lay on the bed and thought about her current situation.
She decided that the most important thing now was—
Making money!
The inheritance Lin Wu’s parents had left her consisted of the house she currently lived in on a Grade B habitable planet…
and Dandan.
That was basically it.
Humans in the interstellar era had much longer lifespans than people from A-Wu’s original world.
Ability users lived even longer.
Although people gained all the legal rights of adults at eighteen, the social assistance provided by the Interstellar Federation continued until the age of twenty-five.
Lin Wu was currently receiving a monthly allowance of 2,000 credits.
The fruit-flavored nutrient solution A-Wu had just drunk could keep a person full for an entire day.
One tube cost 50 credits.
It was slightly better than ordinary nutrient solution, which cost only 10 credits per tube.
Lin Wu had always been sick.
Even after she could no longer afford medicine, Dandan had continued buying the fruit-flavored nutrient solution for her.
Most of the remaining money was spent on energy blocks.
Dandan needed energy blocks to operate.
The house’s systems needed them too.
Only after energy blocks were installed could the water and electricity systems operate normally.
Lin Wu could barely survive on the Federation’s monthly allowance.
But A-Wu couldn’t.
Now that she had successfully drawn spiritual energy into her body, her health would gradually improve.
She had no particular demands regarding food.
As long as she could get full, that was enough.
Of course…
If it tasted good too, that would be even better!
Money!
She needed money!
She needed a huge amount of energy stones for cultivation.
But the current Lin Wu was completely broke.
A-Wu closed her eyes and sent her spiritual sense into her Violet Palace.
Floating inside was a blue jade ring.
It was A-Wu’s storage artifact—the most popular type of storage equipment on the Cultivation Continent, directly bound to the owner’s soul.
According to what she had heard, if A-Wu’s arrival in the Cultivation Continent had been a hundred years earlier, soul-bound storage artifacts would not yet have been popular.
For one thing, they were expensive to make.
For another, cultivators did not want to waste their soul power nourishing a storage device that wasn’t particularly useful.
Unless it was some kind of spatial treasure on the level of a legendary immortal or divine artifact, simply having storage space was not enough to attract cultivators.
This situation continued even after these storage artifacts became very cheap.
According to the rumors, the weapon-refining master who eventually improved and created these soul-bound storage artifacts refused to accept that his invention was being looked down upon.
So he secretly teamed up with the major auction houses and launched an aggressive advertising campaign.
After that, soul-bound storage artifacts suddenly became extremely popular among cultivators.
A-Wu thought they had every right to become popular.
Just look at their advertising slogans!
“Still worried about being killed and having your treasures stolen when you travel outside?”
“Still afraid that after barely surviving a dangerous secret realm, someone else will take everything you worked so hard for?”
“Get a soul-bound storage artifact!
What you carry lives when you live.
When you die, it dies with you!”
A-Wu had been completely fooled by those advertisements.
But as it turned out…
The product really was as good as advertised!
A-Wu swept through her storage artifact with her spiritual sense.
Ever since she had bound it to her soul, she had developed the habit of carrying all her belongings with her.
Unfortunately, right before she transmigrated, she had only just reached Foundation Establishment.
She had already used up all the good things she owned, including her spiritual stones.
All that remained were some low-grade pills she had refined herself and a few cheap medicinal herbs.
The most valuable things were probably the two remaining Goddess Pills.
But now she couldn’t even go back to that inner-sect senior sister and trade them for anything…
What a waste!
Sure enough, greed was a bad thing.
If she had known this would happen, she should have traded those two pills to the senior sister as well~
A-Wu organized the items in her storage artifact.
Then she found the only bottle of Qi-Replenishing Pills she had left.
She swallowed one and refined the spiritual energy inside it.
At least she could use it to restore her body first.
A-Wu solemnly put away the remaining Qi-Replenishing Pills.
These were her only source of spiritual energy right now!
The remaining pills were mostly low-grade pills that were extremely popular among newly admitted female outer disciples.
There weren’t many of them either.
Most types only had one or two bottles left.
Normally, when someone ordered pills from A-Wu, they provided the ingredients themselves.
A-Wu would refine the pills and keep a portion of the finished products as her payment, which she would then sell to other people.
So she had never kept much of a stockpile herself.
After arriving in this interstellar world, A-Wu was practically blind to everything except the original owner’s memories.
But because of Lin Wu’s health problems, she had never attended school or worked.
What she knew was therefore of very limited use to A-Wu.
No education.
No connections.
No work experience.
A complete “three-nothing” person.
After counting the pills she had left, A-Wu decided that she might as well return to her old profession—
Selling pills.
A-Wu rolled a pill between her fingers, sensing the medicinal power inside it.
The medicine was still the same medicine.
But she had no idea whether people in this world could withstand its effects.
What if the medicine was too strong and ended up acting like poison?
That would be disastrous.
Lin Wu had studied pharmaceutical science on her own.
However, she did not have a formal degree in pharmacy.
Under normal circumstances, A-Wu would not be legally qualified to manufacture pharmaceutical products.
Fortunately, to make things easier for independent pharmacists who preferred to remain hidden, the Federation had established a formal system for testing the effects of medicines.
That happened to make things convenient for A-Wu.
She was afraid of revealing too much information.
She was also worried that the physical constitution of interstellar humans might not be able to tolerate cultivation pills.
So she did not dare send too many pills for testing at once.
She selected just one type.
She wrote down the pill’s effects on a professional form she had downloaded, packed one pill together with the form, and mailed everything to the address of the Federation Pharmaceutical Research Institute that she had found on the Star Network.
After sending the pill away, A-Wu calmed herself and spent some time cultivating.
Once she finished, she logged onto the Star Network with a heart full of curiosity.