At this very moment.
In this broken ruin, which clearly looked like it had been abandoned for a long time.
Over a hundred people had gathered.
Approximately ten of them were awakened ones from Blue Star, while the rest were refugees from Rock Village.
All humans from Blue Star were awakened ones, most of them possessing fifth-tier strength.
The natives of Rock Village, however, were ordinary people.
It was thanks to the help of the awakened ones along the way that they had managed to escape here.
Otherwise, the ferocious beasts that appeared incessantly on the road would have devoured them.
The deeper they ventured into the mountains, the stronger the ferocious beasts became, making it increasingly difficult for them. Some were constantly getting injured.
Finally, they settled in this dilapidated ruin.
They could tell that this was once a village, but for some unknown reason, it had been abandoned.
Originally, they had all despaired.
Nightfall!
They thought they were doomed.
The arrival of Lin Yu ignited the flame of hope within them.
It gave them hope of survival.
"Brother Lin, thank you for snatching back the Soul Suppressing Stele!"
"You truly are a timely rain, a Buddha who saves suffering and distress."
"With you here, we are no longer afraid!"
"Indeed, when I return alive, I will make sure my entire family buys Vitality Pills and basks in your divine light."
Lin Yu, praised to such an extent, couldn't help but want to laugh. These people were getting more and more out of hand.
He was about to say it was nothing, just a simple gesture to help them.
However, Lin Fan stepped forward and said, "Protecting you through the night is possible!"
"But you have to pay!"
As his words fell, the scene fell silent.
Everyone looked at each other, no one speaking.
Lin Fan thought to himself, 'Seriously? Your lives are at stake, and you're still reluctant to spend money?'
At this moment, someone spoke up, "But we don't have much money, I'm afraid it won't be enough to cover the cost."
So that's how it was.
Lin Fan chuckled, "It's alright, paying money is just a ritual. If you don't have enough, you can owe it and pay it back later."
"I see that you can enter the secret realm, so you must all be quite well-off."
"Therefore, I won't ask for too much, one million star coins per person."
"If you don't have enough money, write an IOU, or use treasures as collateral."
Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
One million was indeed not a lot. Being able to spend money to buy their lives was the most cost-effective deal.
Moreover, being able to buy their lives with money meant they wouldn't have to worry about repaying a favor later.
To them, this was an extremely profitable transaction.
Thus, everyone paid the money.
At this point, Lin Yu had his clone, who was carrying the Soul Suppressing Stele, walk over.
He placed the Soul Suppressing Stele on the ground with a thud, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Upon seeing the stone stele, everyone instantly felt relieved. Their lives were saved for tonight.
Each of them looked at Lin Yu with eyes full of gratitude.
However, their gazes towards Lin Fan were filled with complicated emotions.
Lin Fan let out a cold snort and glared back. They jumped in fright and dared not continue looking at Lin Fan.
They were afraid that he would leave with the stele.
This Lin Yu was gentle and refined, while Lin Fan was selfish and self-serving.
Truly born of the same mother, yet their personalities were worlds apart.
Everyone grumbled in their hearts.
Lin Yu surveyed his surroundings and noticed some dilapidated houses in the distance.
Bricks and stones were scattered on the ground, and wood lay fallen.
He shook his head, intending to simply rest for the night and search for other villages at dawn.
Just then, a series of booming sounds echoed through the air.
Everyone looked up at the sky.
Suddenly, a flash of lightning illuminated the darkness.
"Holy crap, it's thundering! No way, it's going to rain!"
"Heaven is purely trying to make our lives miserable. I'm going to smash its temple later."
"Count me in."
CRACK!!!
A bolt of lightning struck a distant mountain peak, kicking up dust. Just as it was about to ignite, a ferocious beast spat out ice, extinguishing the flames.
This scene terrified everyone.
"Holy crap, is Heaven angry now?"
"I should probably offer more incense to the elder in the sky later, and maybe build him a temple."
"Also, that ferocious beast just now was quite powerful."
As it was about to rain, everyone searched for a place to shelter.
However, they dared not go far, and all looked towards Lin Yu, knowing that only by following him could they survive.
Lin Yu also frowned.
Bai Xiaosao said, "If only we had wood-elemental energy."
Wood-elemental energy?
Lin Yu asked curiously, "What's the use of that?"
"Didn't your teacher teach you? Wood-elemental energy can change the structure of wood. We can chop down some trees and use wood-elemental energy as a binder to construct a simple wooden house."
Hearing this, Lin Yu thought to himself, he could convert six energy elements.
However, his senior brother was too lazy and had only lectured him once. He mainly studied alchemy and formation arrays in the library.
He hadn't really researched the application of elemental energies much.
After Bai Xiaosao's explanation, he suddenly had an epiphany.
Since wood-elemental energy could alter the structure of trees, what about earth-elemental energy?
With a thought, Lin Yu's internal energy instantly shifted to the earth element.
He half-crouched and placed his palm on the ground, envisioning a layout of three rooms and two halls.
"Rise!"
He shouted.
The earth-elemental energy within him surged into the ground.
RUMBLE!!!!
Loud rumbling sounds emanated from the ground.
BOOM!
An earthen wall rose from the ground.
With three more booms, three more earthen walls rose in succession.
Following that, within the earthen walls, inner walls continuously rose.
In just over ten seconds, a three-room, two-hall structure without a roof had formed.
This scene stunned everyone.
Not only the natives but also the humans from Blue Star were astonished.
"He's only just enrolled, how can he already know energy element conversion?"
"Damn it, I graduated three years ago and only learned water-elemental conversion, but I definitely can't do what he's doing."
"I can also convert earth-elemental energy, but I can't achieve this level either."
"This level of refinement, the ability to instantly construct a house, his soul power must be very strong!"
The stronger the soul power, the more subtle the manipulation of energy.
As for the natives, they looked as if they had witnessed a miracle, dumbfounded, treating Lin Yu as a divine being.
Lin Yu looked at the roofless earthen house, not entirely satisfied.
Bai Xiaosao stood frozen. I just mentioned wood element, and you've already mastered earth element without instruction?
Is there really such a genius?
"It's missing a roof. Let's build it with wood!"
He had his clone cut down several large trees, and with a flick of his wrist, he chopped them into planks. Then, he converted his internal energy to the wood element.
Green energy flowed over the wooden planks.
The next second, all the wooden planks automatically bonded together, forming a seamless wooden panel.
He had initially wanted to directly sprout trees, but he found he couldn't, lacking the power of life.
Looking at the wood in his hand, he was still not satisfied.
"This won't do, it's not waterproof! And it's about to rain, we need to hurry."
"Let's try the metal element!"
Lin Yu's energy shifted again.
The metal element formed. With a thought, the surrounding metal pieces rattled and flew towards him.
The metal-elemental energy, appearing white, covered the various metals.
Instantly, the metal melted. With a thought, the molten metal flowed onto the wooden planks.
Another wave of ice-elemental energy passed, and the metal instantly solidified, covering the wooden planks.
After completing these steps, he then capped the house.
Seeing that everything was done, Lin Yu began to use fire-elemental energy to roast the earthen walls, and then lined the interior of the walls with wooden planks.
Having completed all this, Lin Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Phew, my 'Three Rooms and Two Halls Technique' is still too crude. Others can finish it with a clap of their hands, but I have to be so troublesome."
But he didn't know that everyone was staring at him with wide-eyed astonishment.
Conversion of five elements!
And the ability to use so many elements to build a house. What kind of control do you have?
This is too monstrous.
At this moment, dark clouds gathered in the sky, and the weather changed drastically.
RUMBLE!!!
CRACK!
WHOOSH!!!
Raindrops the size of peas poured down!
The rain fell in torrents!