Over the past year or so, no matter how she absorbed crystal cores or trained, her ability had been unable to advance after reaching Tier Three.
Her body was like a bottomless pit. Countless crystal cores poured into it like drops of water into the sea, without causing the slightest change.
The crystal cores she absorbed alone were equivalent to what ability users in the past had absorbed.
But compared to the crystal cores absorbed by the man-eating tree, they amounted to less than one-tenth.
Eighty percent of the crystal cores they hunted were used to feed the man-eating tree. That was an incalculable amount.
It was almost enough to nurture all the ability users in a medium-sized base.
Yet today, her massive investment had finally paid off.
No matter how powerful someone was, there would always be people who wanted to control or coerce them.
Only by possessing her own forces and becoming a regional overlord could she make others truly fear her.
But Jiang You did not believe in human nature. In the apocalypse, there were countless people who had been betrayed by trusted relatives, lovers, siblings, and friends.
No one could be absolutely loyal!
Jiang You was currently wanted by all sides. As long as she stayed holed up in Ancheng, there would not be much of a problem.
Ancheng had countless rotten corpses.
But once she left Ancheng, it would be hard to say.
After all, there were people all over the world who wanted to capture them now.
But why should she?
Why should she keep hiding here?
She had to tear off a piece of the land beneath her feet and claim it for herself.
When she had no ability, she could lie low.
But now, she had finally obtained what she needed—the thing