While fighting this phantom, other phantoms surrounded her from all directions. Su Yao dealt with the attacks from the flaming sword phantom while keeping an eye on the movements of the other phantoms. She used spatial teleportation to skillfully avoid the ice spikes and lightning attacks coming from behind.

Suddenly, a phantom resembling a giant bird swooped down from the sky, its enormous claws reaching for Su Yao. Seizing the opportunity, Su Yao used her spatial abilities to appear on the phantom's back, then thrust her enhanced blade into its back. The phantom let out a sharp cry and struggled violently in mid-air.

Just as Su Yao was entangled with the giant bird phantom, the attacks from the other phantoms intensified. Su Yao felt overwhelmed, and her body began to show some abrasions. But her resolve was unwavering; she knew she couldn't fall at this moment.

In the midst of the fierce battle, Su Yao gradually discovered that the attacks of these phantoms seemed to follow a certain pattern. Their attacks varied according to the rhythm of an ancient formation, and as long as this rhythm could be mastered, a way to counter it could be found. Su Yao concentrated, fighting while observing the patterns in the phantoms' attacks.

After a long period of observation and experimentation, Su Yao finally found the rhythm of the formation. She began to dodge and counterattack the phantoms' attacks according to this rhythm. Whenever the phantoms' attacks reached a certain point in the formation, Su Yao would accurately appear in their blind spot and launch a counterattack.

With Su Yao's skillful counterattack, the phantoms' attacks began to become chaotic. She seized the opportunity and intensified her counterattack. First, she knocked the giant bird phantom down from the sky, then concentrated her power on the flaming sword phantom. After a fierce battle, the flaming sword phantom was also defeated by Su Yao, dissipating into light.

As the two powerful phantoms vanished, the power of the other phantoms gradually weakened. Su Yao pressed her advantage, defeating the remaining phantoms one by one. When the last phantom dissipated, the light in the temple softened.

Su Yao walked towards the altar, gazing at the sphere radiating mysterious power. She reached out and gently touched it; instantly, a warm and powerful force surged into her body. This power resonated with the source of power she had previously acquired, and she could feel her connection to this world growing even stronger.

Su Yao knew she had gained the power to change the fate of the world. Now, she would use this power to return to the safe house and rebuild the world destroyed by the apocalypse together with everyone. She turned and left the temple, embarking on her journey home, her figure radiant with hope under the light.

Su Yao left the temple with the power to change the fate of the world. On her way back, she felt that every step she took was full of power. That mysterious power flowed through her body, making her ability to resist the cold even stronger, as if her body had its own warm little sun.

However, when she passed through a once-familiar ice field, she discovered that the environment had undergone an even more bizarre change. A huge vortex appeared in the sky, with lightning flashing and thunder roaring within it. Purple lightning bolts snaked through the clouds, occasionally striking the ground and blasting huge cracks into the ice field.

The once relatively calm areas of the icy plains were now gushing forth large amounts of black slime. Wherever the slime reached, the ice and snow melted rapidly, revealing scorched earth. From the slime crawled many spider-like monsters, their bodies as black as ink, their exoskeletons shimmering with a metallic sheen. Each spider had a red crystal resembling an eye on its back, which was flashing with an eerie light.

These spider monsters moved swiftly, quickly sensing Su Yao's presence and swarming towards her. Su Yao frowned; she could sense a familiar yet dangerous aura emanating from these monsters, seemingly connected to the trials within the temple.

She gripped her weapon tightly and launched the first attack. Flame power erupted from her hands, forming a wall of fire that burned towards the horde of spider monsters. But these spider monsters were not afraid of the flames; they passed right through the wall of fire and continued to pounce on Su Yao. Some even used the power of the flames to accelerate, leaping up and lunging at Su Yao.

Su Yao used her spatial abilities to teleport to the side, deciding to change her strategy. She retrieved some runes with sealing power that she had collected from the ruins and threw them at the spider monster horde. The runes landed around the spider monsters, releasing beams of light that temporarily trapped some of them.

However, more spider monsters bypassed the seal of the runes and continued to approach Su Yao. Su Yao concentrated her mind, combining her mysterious power with her wind-based abilities to create sharp wind blades, which she fired at the horde of spider monsters. The wind blades sliced ​​through the spider monsters' bodies, leaving deep scratches on their hard exoskeletons.

Enraged, the spider monsters concentrated their attack on Su Yao. Some spider monsters spat out black silk threads from their mouths, these threads acting like tough ropes, wrapping around Su Yao; others leaped high into the air, attacking Su Yao with their sharp claws.

Su Yao skillfully dodged the spider monsters' attacks while searching for their weaknesses. During her evasion, she discovered that the red crystals on the spider monsters' backs were the key to their power. Destroying the crystals would render the spider monsters immobile.

So, Su Yao began her attack on the spider monster's back. Using her spatial abilities, she teleported above the spider monster, then, wielding her enhanced weapon, stabbed fiercely at the red crystal. As the crystal shattered, the spider monster let out a sharp scream and collapsed to the ground.

After a fierce battle, Su Yao successfully eliminated most of the spider monsters. But at this moment, the vortex in the sky became even more violent, and a huge bolt of purple lightning struck down towards Su Yao. Su Yao had no time to dodge, so she mobilized all the power within her body to form an energy shield in front of her.

Lightning struck the shield, the powerful impact forcing Su Yao to her knees. She felt her strength being constantly drained in the struggle against the lightning. But she gritted her teeth, determined not to let the shield shatter. While enduring the lightning attack, Su Yao realized that this anomaly might be because she had taken power from the temple, disrupting some kind of balance.

Finally, the power of the lightning gradually weakened, and cracks appeared in Su Yao's shield. She stood up, gazing at the vortex in the sky, knowing that she had to return to the safe house as soon as possible to face this new crisis with everyone and use this world-changing power to repair this collapsing apocalypse.

She quickened her pace and ran towards the safe house, but the danger on the icy plains followed her like a cruel pursuit.