When the original host died, the Tongtian Marrow Cleansing Pill had just finished purifying her body. The subsequent transformation into a congenital physique had not yet begun. After death, the pill could no longer take effect and simply dissipated.
It could be said that most of its efficacy was wasted.
This was why Ding Yun, upon entering this body, only felt her body was pure and immaculate, lacking any characteristics of a congenital being. The original host had not even endured long enough to transform her body and soul towards a congenital life form.
She had succumbed to the pain and passed away.
Overall, it could only be attributed to the item being too good.
And the original host lacked the fortune to enjoy it.
After sorting through the memories, Ding Yun quickly realized she was currently within the original host's personal space.
It was likely still nighttime outside.
There was no need to rush out.
Therefore, Ding Yun naturally began to take control of the original host's personal space and was surprised to find that the original host was not dead, or rather, not entirely dead.
At the core of the personal space, her fragmented soul was still scattered. Clearly, this was the personal space sensing the host's death and spontaneously attempting to save her. However, this personal space only possessed instinct and its abilities were not particularly strong. Thus, it had merely managed to gather the original host's shattered soul. As for actual repair, it would likely take thousands of years.
At this moment, Ding Yun had two choices: either clear out the residual souls, or preserve and help repair them.
Naturally, Ding Yun chose the latter.
So, in the next second, Ding Yun collected the fragmented souls at the core of the personal space, completely refined the core, and then took out a Nether Soul Wood from her own soul space. She planted it on the spiritual soil at the center of the personal space and placed all of the original host's fragmented souls into the Nether Soul Wood, using it for nurturing and repair.
As the saying goes, each profession has its specialization. The personal space itself had no soul-repairing function. Its ability to repair was less about actual repair and more about providing a safe space for the residual souls to self-repair, which was why the repair speed was so slow.
Measured in centuries.
But the Nether Soul Wood was different. It was specifically for repairing souls. Let alone fragmented souls, even a wisp of a remnant soul could slowly recover its original soul form and repair its body with the help of the Nether Soul Wood.
Ding Yun estimated that even if she did nothing further, the Nether Soul Wood could completely repair the original host's soul within a hundred years. If she were to set up a formation or provide some Yin-element spiritual materials for nourishment, the time could be shortened even further.
However, Ding Yun did not do so. It wasn't that she was unwilling, but rather that she didn't know how long she would have to stay in the original host's body, nor how many years it would take to complete her mission. If the original host recovered too quickly, and she still had to use her body.
It felt rather awkward.
Rather than feeling awkward, it was better to take it slow. Once she completed her mission, she could provide more resources to hasten the repair of the original host's soul and return the body, wouldn't that be better?
Therefore, Ding Yun merely set up a protective formation around the Nether Soul Wood to shield it from disturbance, and then left the personal space.
"Huh, that's not right. This personal space is the original host's golden finger, not mine. My golden finger hasn't even been taken out yet, I almost forgot!"
After coming out, she drank a glass of water and was about to sleep when Ding Yun suddenly remembered what she had forgotten. She then proceeded to check her randomly assigned golden finger for this mission.
[Omni-Functional Workshop]
"As the name suggests, this is a relatively all-encompassing workshop. As long as sufficient raw materials, energy, and item blueprints are provided, the workshop can effortlessly mass-produce them for you. Whether it's elixirs, magical artifacts, mechas, spaceships, or magic wands and potions, nothing is impossible.
The workshop also has an analysis function. If you provide the physical item without a blueprint, that works too. But please note, the workshop can only process non-living objects. Creating humans or animals is not within its current scope of use. Prosthetic limbs or hearts are no problem."
"This machine is quite large. It's fortunate the original host had a personal space golden finger, otherwise I wouldn't know where to put it. I might even have to clear out some items from my soul space to make room for it. Big Wind Novel.
Now, there's no need to worry.
I can just put it directly into the original host's personal space.
As for its specific functions, they should be useful. It's somewhat like the industrial motherships of some technological civilizations, but simpler and more convenient than those, and the scope of manufacturing is broader. The fact that it can create anything does lead to some choice paralysis. Never mind, I'll put it away for now."
Since the original host currently had no other major difficulties besides being dumped and fired, and being somewhat short on money, Ding Yun had no immediate development goals or plans. After reviewing her randomly assigned golden finger and muttering a few words, she then placed the Omni-Functional Workshop, which was still stored in a one-time golden finger item space, along with that item space itself, into the personal space.
Then she opened the item space.
After arranging the Omni-Functional Workshop, Ding Yun went to sleep.
She slept soundly without any dreams.
The next morning, as dawn was breaking, she heard somewhat noisy sounds outside the bedroom door. Ding Yun recalled briefly and knew it must be her mother and younger brother. One had woken up early to make breakfast for the family before going to work, and the other had woken up early to eat breakfast and attend a high school morning study session. They were the earliest risers in the family, as one started work at 6:30 AM and the other started school at 6:30 AM.
Their schedules were perfectly matched. Big Wind Novel Network.
In contrast, the original host and her father woke up later. The original host had no job, so waking up at 8 or 9 AM was normal. If she didn't have an interview, she could even sleep until the afternoon. Her father was self-employed, taking on small renovation projects. Going too early would disturb the neighbors, so he generally followed the schedule of office workers, starting work at 9 AM.
He normally woke up around 8 or 8:30 AM.
Occasionally, if he had no work, he wouldn't get up at all and would just lie in bed playing on his phone, playing games, or watching TV. Nearing fifty, he lived like a teenager addicted to the internet.
The original host's mother persisted in working not because she genuinely loved her job as a supermarket cashier, which started at 6:30 AM and ended at 2 PM, a seven-and-a-half-hour workday.
It was mainly because her husband's job had unstable income. He didn't receive a monthly salary but got paid after each small project or renovation was completed. And he didn't always get paid immediately.
He often complained about having just bought a house or just finished a renovation, having little money on hand, and asked if he could have some time.
Or, after finishing the renovation, he would find fault with this and that.
And hard-bargain over the wages.
In the most outrageous situations, he encountered those who shamelessly refused to pay what they owed for three to five years, during which time the money's value depreciated significantly!
Children's tuition fees, paid once a year or once a semester, could wait, but daily expenses couldn't. Therefore, the original host's mother insisted on working to ensure a stable monthly income to cover the family's daily expenses.
This was to avoid the situation from over a decade ago, when she stayed at home as a housewife and accidentally encountered several debtors who didn't pay her wages even on New Year's Eve, leaving the family so destitute that they couldn't even afford the children's tuition for the next year.