Chapter Four: Procurement of Materials

After burying all of the original owner's belongings, Gu Zuozuo realized that she had nothing left to use.

The space contained only a pair of gold and silver jewelry, rice, flour, and cooking oil. There was plenty to eat, but very little to use.

[Host, as long as you keep signing in, you'll have everything you need.]

Niu Haokelas's proud little voice reached Gu Zuozuo's ears, and Gu Zuozuo rubbed her forehead in exasperation.

Do you think I'll make it in time for your daily sign-in reward?

Cow-Good-Claes blinked innocently; it had forgotten.

Gu Zuozuo took out the cyan jade bottle from her spatial storage, hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to take it.

For someone who started practicing martial arts as soon as they learned to walk, having no internal strength is like being a fish on a chopping board—extremely uneasy.

[Host, would you like to take the Marrow Cleansing Pill?]

After receiving Gu Zuozuo's answer, Niu Haokelas immediately took out a small porcelain bottle.

"Inside is a high-grade spiritual spring, which I'm giving away as a friendly gift. You can take a drop and put a drop in a bucket full of water. It will only benefit you and won't do you any harm."

Gu Zuozuo smiled, picked up the bottle and shook it, as if trying to confirm something.

"Thanks."

You're welcome, it's my pleasure to help you.

"So this is how you helped Huating?"

The system went silent instantly; it was feeling guilty.

Ignoring the system, which remained silent again, Gu Zuozuo swallowed the Marrow Cleansing Pill and the spiritual spring, then sat cross-legged on the ground with her five hearts facing upwards, and began to silently recite the inner cultivation method passed down in her family from her previous life.

Gu Zuozuo's past life may seem complicated, but it's actually quite simple.

She was the illegitimate daughter of the head of the Gu family, an ancient martial arts family. Her biological father, who was the head of the family, got into a fight and accidentally injured his manhood, making it impossible for him to have children. So he took her back to the Gu family while she was still breastfeeding.

As an illegitimate child, one can imagine how much contempt and disdain she would experience, even if she was the only child of the Gu family patriarch.

From childhood, she was forced to distance herself from children of the same age, and for twenty out of twenty hours a day, she was subjected to grueling training.

Martial arts, literature, music, chess, poetry, painting, medicine, poison, and flowers—these were all part of her education from a young age.

She cried, felt exhausted, resented, and even thought about destroying the Gu family.

In the end, in order to survive and to save her mother from being looked down upon by others, she desperately studied all kinds of knowledge and had to endure the occasional provocations from other members of the Gu clan.

Day after day, year after year, it never stopped.

She worked tirelessly for 25 out of 26 years. Even in the one year she couldn't speak, she was still constantly taking medicinal baths to build a foundation.

She never imagined she would die, let alone die so unjustly and dramatically.

At that time, she had already reached the tenth level of internal strength, making her one of the top experts among her peers, even surpassing some of her elders.

But she never expected to encounter a lunatic.

He flirts with her every day like a conspicuous bag, and every now and then he'll show off his mediocre skills like a peacock spreading its tail feathers. He thinks he's cool and unrestrained, but he's actually so greasy that it makes people want to vomit.

What's even more absurd is that his target wasn't just her; it included all the unmarried adult girls from the four ancient martial arts families, and even one or two pretty women who were about to become mothers!

They've really been poisoned by novels, thinking they're the center of the world and the protagonist of their own lives. How naive, even a little stupid.

She had rejected him for half a year, but she never expected him to resort to force when he was desperate. As a result, she kicked him away, and he almost became the last eunuch.

Perhaps out of embarrassment or resentment, or perhaps feeling that if he couldn't have it, he should destroy it, he directly used firearms, specifically high-powered bombs.

Recalling the look of terror and horror on that guy's face when she pulled him close to the center of the explosion, she was distracted and almost messed up the mental cultivation technique she had just been practicing.

With a start, Gu Zuozuo dared not be distracted any longer and began to concentrate on cultivating her internal energy.

She doesn't particularly miss the hard-working version of herself from those years, so she wants to go through all the hardships again.

This body is very beautiful, but the environment of this era is not tolerant of beauty. If she wants to live freely in the sunlight, she must have a way to protect herself.