Lin Yu took the job of clearing the city very seriously hoping to make a good Impression on the novel's big boss. She removed all the buildings from the foundation with a light flick of her flame.
After reaching tier 5, she can send out a small flame with a lot of spirit power to completely consume anything within moments.
Clean up didn't take long but it took a lot of her spirit power. Today she saw what power the big boss has. Five elements, all of which have mutated making him very powerful.
While she is clearing the city, he was separating the ground for building a foundation for a city wall. He is crazier than she is.
Lin Yu had personality made a roof, side wall and the main road with her black crystal barrier ability which was a lot of work, but she not only drank spirit water daily.
She has body forging pills which has expanded her spirit energy channels to hold five times the power a normal spirit awakened possess.
Watching a massive all erected from ground up within a short period left her dumbfounded. No wonder his wall can withstand the erosive energy, it essentially has energy from all elements. If no one destroys it with force, it can last hundreds of years.
"Incredible!" She exclaimed. Seeing her reaction, he is a little proud.
"Can I employ you to build me a castle? I will then plaster the walls with my paste making it impervious to all known weapons!"
"A castle?" He looked at her amused. "What are you going to do with a castle?"
"What else? Lay down and let others pamper me." She answered without hesitation.
"You know what? I believe that." He took out the pills she had given him.
"Can you explain to me what are these?"
"Spirit cleansing pills. The spirit power in the air is not pure, sometimes when warriors are too powerful or too mentally unprepared for an awakening, their spirit palace will be tainted by this unclean energy which prevents a spirit body awakening."
"These pills can reverse the situation?" He looked at the pills as if he is carrying an unspeakable treasure.
"Only when taken on time." She gave him a curious glance. "With five different kinds of elements in your spirit energy, you will run a greater risk of getting tainted. How have you been able to hold back?"
"I haven't awakened a spirit body yet." He said with obvious longing in his voice.
"Thank you for clearing the city for me. I am going to be busy building the wall in the next few days, please help me keep an eye for intruders. Most of my men are still recovering.
"Alright." Lin Yu really kept her word. The rest of his family and the enemies are still on the way. Her siblings took away their friends and left in defeat that day.
Lin Yu is sure they are going to come back. Five spirit stone mines is a lot of resources to give up on just like that.
While he made the city wall, his men were using the KanKret powder to paste the wall and upon drying, even Gu Fan praised it non stop.
One of the days, a large group suddenly appeared right outside the wall. Gu Fang's men on patrol pointed guns at them.
"Please don't shoot. Someone said we can ask for lady Lin Yu to send us to the city!" One if the young men shouted seeing the gun aimed at him.
When Lin Yu is brought over, she gave the young man a scroll to break and the entire group disappeared again. Gu Fang happened to see this scene.
In his eyes, Lin Yu is becoming more and more mysterious. He always feel like she is very dangerous. "Where did you send them?" He found himself unable to hold back a question.
"To my city." She answered honestly.
"Where is it?" He had a bad feeling.
"Close by. I can take you to it if you like." She blinked. He looked at her sharply.
"I am not that curious." He said coolly.
"Of course." She said going back to unloading the KanKret sacks for the moment to use. She would also send this powder back to her city for the upcoming construction.
The three mansion master are doing very well in developing their territories. Recently they have taken to recruiting from far away places that has many struggling survivors.
The government bases have many people sleeping in paper tents. They suffer from lack of food, warm clothes and clean living conditions which leads to them getting sick all the time.
This mass recruitment is only possible because of the teleportation scrolls making travel time very short. The snow hasn't relented all this time, traveling by car would be very inconvenient.
Because of the increase in population, Lin Yu had to provide many temporary houses to the three city districts. She accordingly has to provide water and electricity but a payment system has already been established.
After several weeks, the city C convoy finally showed up. They are properly armed too. Lin Yu raised a 8 meters tall wall with her barrier right in front of the convoy. This stopped them from advancing using the main road.
Seeing a wall materialize in front of them surprised them. But Lin Miyue recognized it as Lin Yu's barrier. He just never imagined she could make one so big.
As they are still very far from their goal, they couldn't forfeit. Taking their things, they decided to walk the distance. As if sensing their plans, Lin Yu increased the size and height of the barrier. In her city, she had easily made 800 feet tall wall. Why would she be shy?
The black crystal wall suddenly extended and continued to surround the stone wall at a half a mile distance. The height of the wall also increased exponentially almost reaching the sky.
Only Lin Miyue was able to rush into the barrier before it completely closed off. This move is undoubtedly a powerful prevention strategy keeping all enemies more than half a mile a way from the recently cleared out B base.
"I can't believe she can pull something like this in seconds!" Lin Mei who had been pulled inside the barrier by her brother gawked at the monumental structure in front of her.
She took out her rune weapon and hacked at it. Her hand became numb from the impact. Sparks flew from where she had attempted to slice open the barrier.
When the siblings saw the barrier not having even a small scratch, they both became serious. "What is this think?"
"What do we do now? We are completely isolated!" Lin Miyue asked his sister, absentmindedly scratching the scar on his chest.
"Why is she meddling?!" Lin Mei asked feeling annoyed.
"The mines, why else?" Lin Miyue said disdainfully.
"Does she hate us that much? I haven't settled scores with her for the stunt she pulled last time we met." Lin Mei rants.
"You mean when you were going to arrest her and put her on a leash?" Xu Jun somehow appeared next to them.
"What do you mean 'you?' It was both of us!" Lin Mei doesn't know what is wrong with Xu Jun ever since he woke up from the coma he is almost always indifferent even to her at times.
"It seems I've caught myself a few rats. Whatever would I do?" Lin Yu appeared in front of them with a metal bat on her hand.
Lin Miyue shuddered when he saw this bat. "What do you want to do?" He asked her with fury in his tone.
"Just get rid of some pests." She swung it at Lin Mei's back catching her off guard but she managed to respond with a swift kick and a flick of her hand, the bat and Lin Yu's arm got frozen stiff.
"Ugh! So cold." Lin Yu complained while her black flame consumed all the ice, setting her free.
"You!" Seeing her unscented, Lin Mei pulled out her sword.
"Are you sure about that?" Lin Yu took back the bat and pulled out a rune weapon as well.
Seeing the gleaming runes on the long knife, Lin Mei shot her an apprehensive glance. This girl has rune weapons just like her?
"You have to die Lin Yu!" Ln Mei said to her half sister having made a decision.
"I'm sad you feel that way." Lin Yu didn't seem phased by the aggression.
She took a step but her mind went blank. Luckily she has a rich mental state she managed to react before Lin Miyue's attack could reach her.
She kicked him in the chin sending him sprawled on the ground. Lin Mei attacked with aim to her head. Lin Yu dodged and disappeared only to reappear in the same spot, her knife stabbing the stomach.
Before it touched her, Lin Mei reacted. Her sharp instincts told her to block, she used an ice wall. To her dismay, Lin Yu had covered her blade with that dreadful black flame. It cut through her ice wall like it was butter.
Luckily she had bought enough time to move out of the way. Just as she is about to retaliate again, her mind is disturbed again. Annoyed, she threw a small knife lodging it deep into Xu Jun's thigh.
He wouldn't be able to use his psychic energy with pain distracting him.
Turning to face Lin Mei, she met Lin Miyue's crackling fist. She flicked her blade a bit, tilted her head out of the way at the same time. The trajectory of that powerful fist aimed at the person whose sword is headed for her head. Fist met sword in the air crackling with lightning.
"Aaah!"
"Brother!" Lin Mei let go of her sword, but the damage is done. At this distraction, Lin Yu swung her blade's flat surface on to Lin Mei's face.
'Pah!' "You!"
'Pah!' "Stop it!"
'Pah!' "I'm going to kill you!"
By now, Lin Mei has a swollen face. This is a rune weapon after all. "Getting distracted while fighting me, are you looking down on me?" She swung the blade again but this time Lin Mei moved out of the way in a smooth gymnastic move.
"Oh my, so flexible." Lin Yu said in admiration but followed her closely with the blade wanting to slap her silly.
"What do you want?!" Lin Miyue shouted seeing his sister's swollen eyes.
"I want you and those friends of yours to leave my territory." In mid attack, she changed her blade to that toad poison blade stabbing it deeply into her sister's side, she made sure to deeply get in there.
While she is about to say something witty, a blade of equal size appeared in Lin Mei's hand and she stabbed it into her chest looking to kill her in one go.
Lin Yu had sensed danger and move slightly forcing the blade to barely graze her heart. She disappeared from sight a small black hole appeared where Lin Miyue is standing opposite to his chest, the same blade is stabbed in his chest, grazing his heart.
This is a hundred poisonous blade soaked in hundred poisons made specifically for Lin Yu by her dear elder sister.
After she poisoned her last time, Lin Mei wanted something equally daunting to retaliate.
"Noooo!" "Lin Yu! I'm going to kill you!"
She shouted and looked around but no one responded to her. Lin Yu appeared in the middle of B base spitting out black blood. Gu Fang rushed to her side using wind to increase his speed.
He had seen that fight, while she avoided major arteries, her sister had directly aimed for her heart.
Although Lin Yu stands on their way and hurt them, she obviously doesn't want to kill them. "You foolish person. Can't you see they want you dead?" Seeing her passed out like this with black veins traveling up her neck to her face, she looks like a demonic creature.
"That looks painful." One of the men said.
"Keep and eye on them." Gu Fang said wanting to take Lin Yu away.
A black flame surrounded her, then she disappeared from her spot.
Lin Mei took her brother and Xu Jun out of the barrier and into the group outside. She had used a powerful displacement talisman.
"What happened?!"
"Why are you all injured?"
Lin Mei was about to say something but Lin Miyue spit black blood and fell unconscious. She let out a whimper of sadness. She had made this poison without an antidote. All she can do it delay the poison from spreading to his heart with her spirit power.
Leaving Xu Jun to explain, she took her brother into her space hoping to find something inside that can help her cure him.
Lin Yu is no better, she appeared inside her magic house on the bed, seeming to be coming in and out of consciousness.
She would let out occasional groans of pain. Her skin slowly turned into black obsidian scales her lands and feet transformed into large beast paws. The sharp claws gradually deemed more and more until they became so dark the light seem to be fleeing from them.
In the claws, there's now a sinister black flame silently burning. When it touched the bed, the sheets got corroded as if the flame is not only consuming but also very poisonous.
The hands and feet turned back to normal, the skin and veins that were previously covered in black veins are now completely gone. However, her toenails have turned black as if painted with a black color.
Lin Yu's eyes fluttered open. Feeling the headache, she took out a high level spirit cleansing pill and ate it. Then she drank three full glasses of spirit spring water.
The unclean energy left her spirit palace. After cleaning off the impurities on her body, she saw they were more than the usual amount. She decided to take the three pills again and washed them down with the glass of spirit water.
The next few hours are even more grueling than before. After several tries of clearing her body of the filth from the poison, she received a new skill. Poisonous claws.
It seems Lin Mei has assisted in an early awakening of a new skill. "Sister would be very angry if she knew this.." Although delighted by the result, Lin Yu still can not help but remember the killing intent on her sister's eyes as she stabbed towards her heart.
Lin Yu doesn't like these siblings but she feels and inexplicable feeling of desolation upon realizing Lin Yu actually wants her dead this badly.
"Fine." She uttered with a chilling tone. "If you wish for my death, there's no need fir me to be polite."
A book appeared on her side table again. It is the same book from which she took the three formulas before. It seems the house thinks she is lazy.
Opening the book, she studied it carefully and picked out two new formulas to study after resting for a while since her body is so tired from the multiple cleansing.
The first formula is undoubtedly the most important. Path enhancer. It enlarges the spirit vein paths inside a warriors channels so they can hold more spirit energy than peers.
As a city lord looking to raise an army. She certainly wouldn't want to miss out of this blessing.
This pill requires a lot of spiritual energy to succeed, the more spirit energy available during the brewing process, the higher level the pills will be.
Lin Yu used the high level spirit water to brew the medicine. To her delight, after a few failures she managed to make a high level and superior level pills.
Feeling to be on the roll, Lin Yu ended up making tens of pills in a few hours. By the time she stopped hundreds of pills are stored safely in the warehouse of the magic house.
She also made a lot of KanKret powder, amounting to several hundreds in large sacks just to finish up the residential buildings of the base.
When she came out of her space, she found the outside to be unbearably hot. Immediately after appearing, she disappeared into her underground city.
"Sigh.." As soon as she appeared, she let out a contented sigh feeling the constant cool temperature of the underground.
To her surprise, she saw buildings. Several of them, tall and numerous. Looking around she saw her current position May's territory.
The farm must have been finished a long time ago. But there are no animals inside. She walked in casually and according to the signs, she released chickens, ducks, pigs, goats, cows and fishes into the artificial pond.
There is even stables for horses so she put several horses in there as well. There is a construction going on nearby. They have already made three high-rise builds and are now working on the forth.
Lin Ru went to the warehouse place and replenished the nearly depleted stock of KanKret powder. "Miss Lin, it's been a long time." A man guarding the place welcome her with a friendly gesture.
He pointed at the buildings. "The leaders decided to use superpowers to construct the buildings but they used that KanKret powder to paste over it making the buildings very sturdy. It's like magic!" The man is obviously very talkative.
The outside appearance of the building's is very pleasing to the eyes. That seamless obsidian wood texture is gorgeous.
She put a lot of glass in the already empty pile of windows for the buildings and moved on to the next territory.
Lu Pei also seem to be moving the construction along he already finished the forth building.
"Lin Yu? You're back?" Lu Pei said excitedly.
"I ran into a bit of trouble outside but I am here now. How long has it been?" Lin Yu sat down on the bench and asked him.
Five months. You were gone for five months and we couldn't find you. Until he spoke to the people in B city who told us to wait patiently because it may take a long time to detox the poison on you.
"We searched high and low for earth type ability users and gave them the pills to level up and speed along to construction." He said looking more and more like he has been wronged.
"What's wrong?" Lin Yu asked him.
"My sister had long come to this idea but because she is so far way from us, we didn't know. By the time I went to tell her to start building, she had already finished making a hospital. A hospital!" He said holding his stomach.
"Then she went recruiting doctors, nurses and especially researchers. She used all the KanKret powder you gave all on that damned hospital."
"Well, she is an accomplished student." Lin Yu laughed.
"I also finished building the factory you said I'll be handling." He took her to a three story building that is too long to be a normal building.
"I used the measurements you provided, it should look right." He scratched his head. Lin Yu walked in and put the machines she had confiscated from the factories above.
"I also have a cloth processing factory over there. I brought back the equipment myself, I know it's not part of the agreement but my girlfriend is good at this sort of thing. Her family used to run this sort of place in the past." He said in a low voice.
"I don't mind. As long as it will not exploit and harm others. If this business of yours mistreat people. I will burn it to the ground." She promised and walked to the warehouse that is supposed to be a cold room.
"We don't have another generator." Lu Pei said in shame.
"That's alright. Why don't you give me a while here I will come find you when I finish. Leave the keys so I can lock up."
"Huh?" This place is usually left wide open because it didn't have anything before. But when he looked at the various machines he realized it should be locked now.
Lin Yu took out a few jade stones and started inscribing cold spells and then using high level spirit stones to 'charge' them fully for five years. The jade stones are dissolved into the walls and the floor leaving no trace of where the chilling air is coming from.
The frozen meat filling up a cargo ship had been duplicated in advance and now is pilled up inside the storage warehouse.
She then locked the door and got out. When giving Lu Pei the key, she told him. To start making canned food.
Lu Pei is overjoyed and quickly called on everyone to come and start the job.
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