Chapter 19: The Fruits of the Mission

After confirming that the bugs in this world were nothing more than trash, and after being suppressed and demoralized by the protagonist, Mu Yin finally took action. She used her supernatural ability to draw a bottle, pouring all her energy into its creation, and clearly marked its effect: it could absorb anything and anyone alien to this world.

She then found a way to locate all the members of their group. Following the trail of Lan Huan, it wasn’t difficult—there were only five of them. Most were ordinary people, with only one possessing some abilities; after all, someone had to be capable of capturing the heroine’s soul.

Mu Yin killed all five without the slightest qualm. In the apocalypse, she had taken lives before, and not a few at that—let alone these people, whom she despised and hated as nothing but bugs.

With their deaths, her mission was complete, and she could leave. She transferred all the remaining money to her parents. Fortunately, the original owner still had siblings, so she didn’t have to worry about her parents’ future, and with the money in their own hands, they wouldn’t have to rely on a daughter-in-law’s goodwill.

Her account now held two million, a reward from Guo Yuhao for the information she’d provided last time.

Afterward, she left this world in accordance with the original owner’s fate—without implicating anyone else. It happened one day when she saw someone about to be hit by a car and pushed them aside. She departed her body just before the impact; she had no desire to experience death again, though last time she had felt nothing before consciousness faded.

Returning to her own body, Mu Yin opened her eyes and blinked. The world around her was shrouded in darkness. On Blue Star, only half an hour had passed. She retrieved her space key—a key that doubled as a storage space, not large, about ten cubic meters, reserved for her mission rewards.

She checked inside and was overjoyed: her reward was a source stone the size of a fist. The value of a source stone was immeasurable—a single grain of source energy could be diluted into ten thousand grains of pure spiritual energy.

One could only imagine how much energy this source stone contained. Thrilled, Mu Yin didn’t take it out immediately for fear it would dissipate.

Fortunately, she quickly learned that as long as she held the key, she could draw the energy from within the space while cultivating.

Naturally, Mu Yin immediately began cultivating with the source stone. What she hadn’t anticipated was that, until now, she had only ever absorbed spiritual energy to cultivate, which, while enhancing her abilities, was fundamentally different.

In reality, her soul talent, awakened through the absorption of source energy, had never truly reached full awakening because she’d been using the wrong energy.

The energy she required was source energy, but she’d never had the chance to absorb it before.

So, when she finally absorbed the village’s source energy, her body turned into a black hole, greedily devouring the source energy at an alarming rate, startling Mu Yin. She tried to stop it, afraid that taking in too much at once would cause her body to explode.

But could she stop it? Of course not. In an instant, the slow-moving energy in her body spun out of her control and began rampaging wildly through her meridians.

All she could do was try to prevent her meridians from being damaged, but the powerful energy still forced them to swell and crack, only to be quickly repaired, then battered again, and repaired once more. Mu Yin gritted her teeth so hard she almost cried out.

The energy within her, along with her body, was repeatedly scoured by this force. By dawn, her lips were raw from biting down, and if not for her willpower, she might have fainted.

Luckily, the storm of energy within her finally subsided. Her ability level remained unchanged at Level One, but a qualitative transformation had taken place.

If she were to compare this to before, previously, creating something required her to comprehend the essence and fundamental laws of the object. In truth, it was more manufacturing than true creation. Now, however, she could create things out of nothing—her power had become true creation.

Of course, there were still limits. She was only Level One. Anything below Level Three that she could create would be inanimate objects, and there was still a chance of failure if she tried to create something she had never seen before.

But as long as she had enough energy, she could, in theory, create legendary objects—machine guns, quantum brains, even spaceships. However, intelligent brains and energy sources were excluded, as those were high-level items. Only upon reaching Level Seven could she create those without prior understanding.

That said, if she comprehended the underlying laws of such items, she could create them even at a lower level. The high-level distinction simply meant she could create them without such comprehension.

Other than that, nothing else seemed to have changed. Or so Mu Yin thought—until the next morning, when she accidentally snapped her toothbrush while brushing her teeth.

Alright, there was a change—the physical training she’d practiced had finally paid off. Previously, it had only strengthened her body. But after the massive influx of energy that night, her basic body-refining technique broke through to the first level of transformative body refinement.

The result was a surge in strength—so much that she couldn’t control it for the time being. Thankfully, it was summer break, giving Mu Yin plenty of time to adjust.

That morning, the Mu family found her chopping firewood with an axe. "What are you doing?" someone asked.

"Chopping wood," Mu Yin replied offhandedly.

"Put that down! You shouldn't be doing that. What if you hurt yourself?" Zhou Qi rushed over to snatch the axe away, but Mu Yin dodged her.

"Mom, be careful! What if, in trying to take it, I accidentally hit you?" Mu Yin jumped aside, feigning fear.

"So you know it's dangerous? If you know, then why do it?" Zhou Qi’s expression darkened.

"Alright, alright," Mu Yin said helplessly, putting down the axe. She figured she might as well go up the mountain and look for some stones.

After Mu Yin left, Zhou Qi started to tidy up the chopped wood, only to find that nearly all of it had already been split, with just a few logs left untouched. She was speechless.

With such a source stone in hand, Mu Yin was in no rush to accept her next mission. Instead, she chose to focus on cultivating. After all, if every future mission involved dealing with those kinds of bugs, she couldn’t guarantee she’d always come out on top. The only sure path was to strengthen herself as quickly as possible.