Chapter 6

Two days later, inside the Spirit Courtyard.

“Uh…”

Murong Jiao opened her eyes, and what she saw in front of her was the clear blue sky. She stared blankly at the sky for a long while before realizing that she was in her own spirit courtyard. She propped her body up off the ground and sat there to regain her senses.

After sobering up, she stood up from the ground and went to take a bath in the house. Dragging her tired body to the bathroom, she filled the bathtub with warm water. While the water was filling the bathtub, she lazily took off her clothes. After working to her body limit and fainting, she felt her body was hurt like she was run over by a truck. Every muscle in her body was so painful.

Seeing that the water level was enough, she turned off the tap and slowly dipped into the warm water. As soon as she stepped into the water, the warm water soothed her tense and tired muscles. Soaking in the warm water, she couldn’t help but let out a satisfied sigh.

Playing with bubbles in the water until her skin puckered, she finally emerged from the bathtub and washed her body and hair with clean water. With her body and hair free of dust, sweat, and zombie blood, her mood was much better.

Gruu…

Feeling her belly growling like a dragon’s roar, she went to the kitchen to prepare a bowl of instant noodles. She wasn’t idle even when eating. She opened the laptop she had brought from the study earlier and began to list all the things she got from the wholesale market street, while moving the supplies to the empty warehouse floor with her spiritual power.

After studying how to use the spirit courtyard, she finally knew why the master needed to have wood element spiritual roots to use it. The first reason is because this spirit courtyard was created by the first patriarch of the Murong family who possesses wood element spiritual roots. And the first test for whoever wants to inherit this place is that the master needs to have the same spiritual root as the first patriarch.

The second reason is that because with owning the spiritual root, the master can use his own spiritual power to move everything in the spirit courtyard without manually moving it. When Murong Jiao saw this, she really wanted to give the first patriarch a bear hug. He is such a considerate man.

The third reason is that the stronger the spiritual power of the master, the stronger the spirit courtyard will be. Fortunately, although the masters of the past have died, their spiritual power will still remain in the spiritual court. The accumulation of spiritual power from generation to generation has turned the originally weak spirit courtyard into today’s heaven-defying spirit courtyard.

After listing the supplies, she moved them to the open space of the warehouse building. The last time she checked, the warehouse building was filled to the 53.853 floors, and there were countless empty floors unused. She believes that the continuous growth of the warehouse building is inseparable from the hard work of her ancestors and the accumulations of their spiritual power.

After sorting out the materials on the 53.854th floor, she saw that after everything was arranged neatly, the floor was only 5% filled. Tapping her fingers on the table, she set a new goal for herself. That is to fill up this supplies room like the other floors below. Happy with her own ambition, she quickly finished eating the bloated instant noodles.

Looking at the time on her watch, she counted the time outside. It was only fifty minutes after she entered the spirit courtyard. There are about four hours until sunset. That’s one hundred and twenty hours here.

Although her time in the spirit courtyard was thirty times faster than the outside world, she was not afraid. That’s because the considerate first patriarch established a rule that the master of this spirit courtyard will not be affected by the passage of time here. Her body will still follow the outside world’s time, and her biological system will flow according to normal time.

So if she eats three times a day with an eight hour interval, she only needs to eat once every ten days in this spirit courtyard. Slowly accumulating goodwill, this first patriarch will soon become her idol. The more she learned about the spirit courtyard, the more she developed love and respect for this ancestor.

After eating the noodles, she used her spiritual power to wash the dishes and clean the kitchen. To sum up, the more she uses her spiritual power, the stronger her spiritual power becomes. When she planted a large number of seeds in two months, her spiritual power had already grown a little bit.

For the first time she awakened her spiritual power, she could only summon a small flower bud and a small water ball. But after using her spiritual power repeatedly for two months to plant countless seeds, she was able to summon at least fifty gallons of water and a thin vine. Although her progress is not fast, she can make up for it with hard work. What’s more, the time in her spirit courtyard was thirty times faster. If she practices here, it can save her a lot of time.

She looked at the clean kitchen with satisfaction before going to the farmland. It’s time to use her wood element powers to urge the growing of her plants. Within the spirit courtyard, there are not many places where she can use her water element power, because there are endless springs around the farmland, irrigating the farmland along the way. Again, this is another work of that considerate ancestor.

Time flies by as she works hard. Five days passed in the blink of an eye. She looked at her watch, and it showed 7:15 p.m. Although the sun was already setting outside, she knew that the temperature was still getting higher and higher day by day. She already realized this temperature change when she was collecting supplies on the wholesale market street in the past two days.

If things keep going on like this, it won’t take long before humans will be forced to stay indoors during the day and can only come out at night. Lamenting the difficulty of human’s survival, she went to change her clothes.

One of the buildings she cleaned at the wholesale market street was a premium leather chain store. They produce all types of leather goods and even sell them in rolls. When she saw the quality of the leather clothes and boots for the first time, she decided to only wear leather in the future.

In addition to the smooth surface making it difficult for blood and dirt to stick to it, it is also very resilient and easy to move. It’s also very durable and able to withstand the claws or teeth of zombies to a certain degree. It’s really better than wearing her jersey or tracksuit. The only thing she doesn’t like is that the leather sticks to her skin when she sweats, so she needs to wear another layer of clothes below.

After changing clothes, she looked at herself in the mirror, and saw a short woman in a leather jacket, leather pants, and leather boots. She frowned, feeling like a child in adult clothes. With a height of 153 cm, it is difficult to have a sexy and mature effect in leather clothes.

With a few more sighs, she accepted her fate of being short. Picking up her backpack, she looked at the baseball bat on the low table for a while. Although it can be used to smash the heads of zombies, it is too messy. Thinking about it, she remembered that there was a floor in the warehouse building full of weapons.

Closing her eyes, she takes a look at the weapon room with her spiritual power. There are various weapons inside the weapon room. From ancient weapons to modern weapons, from cold weapons to hot weapons. All are available in the weapons room.

Unfortunately, as a nerd who only knows how to study and do research, she doesn’t know how to use hot weapons like guns, nor cold weapons like swords. Opening her eyes, she looked at the baseball bat again and picked it up. Holding the baseball bat in her left hand, she touched the pale green leaf mark and flashed out of the spirit courtyard.