Chapter 87: Space Upgrade, Unexpected Spiritual Spring

After dinner, everyone chatted for a while longer. Once tomorrow’s arrangements were made, the old scholar and Hu Tieniu went home to rest.

Seeing them leave, Aunt Ji urged Hu Zhaodi to go take a bath.

After finishing her bath, Hu Zhaodi quickly lay down in bed, sitting cross-legged to practice her martial arts.

Two hours later, a sudden change in the flow of air around her caught her attention. Of course, this was invisible to the naked eye, but Hu Zhaodi could feel it clearly.

She knew that this change indicated a breakthrough in her inner strength was imminent.

Realizing she was about to break through, she immediately focused her mind, preparing for the breakthrough.

As she concentrated, the bracelet on her wrist, hidden until now, appeared on its own and began to warm slightly.

Unknowingly, her space was also upgrading.

It took her a full half-hour, but she finally succeeded in breaking through a level.

She wasn’t sure how martial arts levels were classified in this era, but based on her previous life’s knowledge, the martial arts system was divided into ten levels: Warrior, Martial Master, Martial Spirit, Martial King, Martial Emperor, Martial Sect, Martial Lord, Martial Sage, Martial Emperor, and Martial God.

Now, Hu Zhaodi had just broken through from Warrior to Martial Master.

The higher the level, the more difficult the breakthrough.

She hadn’t expected to reach Martial Master so quickly.

Just as she was excited about the rapid progress, her eyes inadvertently glanced at the bracelet on her wrist, which had reappeared. It seemed even more lustrous than before.

She placed her right hand on the bracelet and probed her mind into the space. To her surprise, the space had expanded significantly.

In the center of the open area, a water well had appeared out of nowhere.

Hu Zhaodi blinked in disbelief. When did this well appear?

Since the space had not allowed living creatures in the past, she rarely checked the space, mainly using it for storing and retrieving items.

If it hadn’t been for the bracelet showing itself, she would have never noticed the water well inside the space.

Could it have something to do with my breakthrough to Martial Master?

Excited and unable to sleep, she decided to sit cross-legged on the bed and investigate the space.

First, she tried retrieving items, and as before, anything she desired immediately appeared in her hands. Moreover, any items she removed were automatically replenished.

If the silver notes I put inside could automatically replenish, I would have endless money!

Thinking about this, she quickly used her mind to withdraw the silver notes stored in the space.

However, much to her disappointment, after waiting for a while, the silver notes didn’t replenish.

Wait a minute—when she had taken out game and medicinal herbs earlier, they hadn’t been replenished either.

Now, she understood. Only items from her past life would be automatically replenished. Anything stored in the current world would not be replenished.

She then wondered if she could enter the space now.

Without hesitation, she tried, and with a thought, she silently told herself to enter the space.

The next second, she found herself by the water well in the space, still sitting cross-legged, while the bracelet remained on the bed.

“Hey! I can go in now. Does this mean the space can now hold living creatures?”

She stood up and looked at the water well. The water in the well was clear and transparent.

At the bottom of the well, there was a small spring the size of an infant’s fist, bubbling up continuously, but the water never overflowed.

“Wow! Is this the spiritual spring from the novels?”

She turned around and entered the third floor of her space store, where she found a water cup and took a sip of the spiritual spring water.

The spiritual spring water was sweet and refreshing, leaving an aftertaste that lingered delightfully.

As soon as the spiritual spring water entered her body, Hu Zhaodi felt an instant sense of comfort and energy coursing through her.

This is incredible!

Though she wasn’t entirely sure of the exact effects of the spring water, the immediate relief and rejuvenation she felt proved that it was far from ordinary.

Looking at the undeveloped land surrounding the spiritual spring, Hu Zhaodi got an idea and wondered if she could use her mind to develop the land.

Without hesitation, she closed her eyes and focused, thinking hard about developing the empty land.

After a moment, she opened her eyes, and to her amazement, a small section of land had indeed been developed.

“Wow! It worked! I can actually control it with my mind! I’ve struck gold!”

Excited, she closed her eyes again and continued to focus on developing more land.

However, after an incense stick’s worth of time, she felt completely drained, sweat beading on her forehead.

Opening her eyes, she found that only half of the land had been developed.

“Seriously? It’s this exhausting? I spent half an hour using my mind and it’s more tiring than running in the mountains all day.”

She took a small sip of the spiritual spring water to replenish her energy. After a short while, she felt the exhaustion fading away.

“Definitely good stuff.”

Suddenly, an idea popped into her head. She remembered that she had some ginseng seeds from her previous life. She wondered if planting them in the space and watering them with the spiritual spring water would yield some unexpected results.

Hmm, I should give it a try.

Hu Zhaodi dashed back to her room to look for the ginseng seeds. However, she couldn’t remember where she had put them. After searching for quite a while, she still couldn’t find them.

Pacing back and forth in the living room, she tapped her head in concentration.

“Where did I put them? I shouldn’t have been so careless with such an important item!”

She searched through the entire living room but found nothing.

“Dammit! Where are my ginseng seeds? Where did I put them?”

In the next moment, the small packet of ginseng seeds materialized right in her hand.

Staring at the seeds, Hu Zhaodi smacked her forehead in frustration.

“Ugh, I’m such an idiot. I could have just used my mind to find them!”

No, wait—it’s not that I’m stupid, I just didn’t think of it earlier.

She took the ginseng seeds over to the spiritual spring, planting about a dozen seeds and watering them with the spring water.

She didn’t dare plant too many at once, worried about wasting the precious seeds.

If this experiment proved successful, then she would feel free to plant a large number.

She could develop all the land around the spring and fill it with ginseng.

Once she finished planting the seeds, Hu Zhaodi focused her mind and exited the space.

The jade bracelet automatically returned to her wrist and hid itself once more.

She glanced at her wrist, then crawled into bed and pulled up the covers.

However, the excitement kept her wide awake. She tossed and turned for a while, but sleep eluded her.

Since she couldn’t sleep, she decided to sit up cross-legged again, forcing herself to calm her mind and resume her meditation practice.

By the time daylight broke, Hu Zhaodi had still not emerged from her meditative state.

Outside her room, Aunt Ji had already paced back and forth several times.

This girl always gets up before dawn. Why hasn’t she moved today?

Could she be sick?

Or maybe she’s just too tired from yesterday?