The mutated trees were dense and towering, almost completely blocking out the sky. The ground was covered with mutated grass, leaving no extra space to step. Mutated poisonous insects and snakes roamed among them. At night, the breeze rustled through the leaves, creating an eerie and terrifying sound.
Lin Ruo walked ahead of Afu and Ashou. Although she had been here several times, she had entered from different directions each time, so she definitely couldn't recognize the way.
Finally, Lin Ruo found a relatively open and flat place near the center of the forest. She spread out her mental energy, and her spatial domain immediately covered a range of 600 meters around her.
She dug all the mutated plants in the area into the stone box in her space. She wouldn't be staying there for long, so the fire barrier didn't need to be too big. She then turned the ground over again to make sure there were no mutated plant seeds left behind before digging a large pit in the middle, placing the fortress there, and manipulating the spatial energy to fill the gaps with the surrounding soil. Only then did she put the excess soil into her space.
As soon as A-Liu emerged from the space, its towering trunk surpassed the tallest mutated tree in the forest by more than ten meters, and its thick, long branches began to stretch out everywhere, exuding an invisible, powerful pressure.
The mutated plants around them originally just disliked the smell on Lin Ruo and the others, feeling that there was something on them that could harm them. Now, sensing the threat posed by the thick, long willow branches around them, they all wished they could shrink into quails. No... where did this human get this mutated willow tree from?!
An outsider comes to their territory and acts all high and mighty—isn't that bullying the plants?!
Asu's willow branches danced in the air. Several mutated trees, perhaps thinking they could rival her strength, tried to attack together, hoping to absorb her essence and increase their power. Their branches quickly reached out towards her, but were blocked by the shield she wove from the branches. Instead, the branches nimbly pierced the trunks, draining her essence and turning the trees into withered trees.
After absorbing the essence of these level 2 mutated plants, Liu Zhi thoughtfully dug out the crystal core from the roots of the mutated tree and handed it to Lin Ruo, who was still watching the show from the side.
Lin Ruo put the fist-sized crystal cores into her spatial storage, turned around and returned to the fortress. Only when A Liu could suppress these mutated plants could she safely upgrade her superpower.
Afu and Ashou swaggered around the mutated forest with Aliu. After Lin Ruo had completely set up the fortress, she sprinkled insect repellent all over the outside of it before entering the training room. She took out the water-type crystal core she had obtained earlier and was finally able to absorb it.
Besides this crystal core, she also took out many Level 1 crystal cores from her space. Because of her experience in upgrading her space ability last time, Lin Ruo took out nearly 100,000 Level 1 crystal cores this time, fearing that it would not be enough.
She sat among the piles of crystal cores, holding the water-type crystal core in her hand, took a deep breath, and probed the crystal core with her spiritual power to begin absorbing its energy.
The energy within the water-based crystal core was extremely active, showing no resistance to Lin Ruo's mental power. The energy rapidly rushed into her body, circulated once, and then flowed into the crystal core in her brain. As the energy in her crystal core increased, it reached a critical point. A cracking sound rang out, and a familiar vortex appeared around the water-based crystal core in her brain. Her water-based ability could finally be upgraded!
Just like last time, her body was quickly enveloped by a large number of water molecules, forming a thin ice cocoon. At first, the ice cocoon was transparent, and Lin Ruo could be seen inside. As the energy increased, the ice cocoon became thicker and thicker, until finally only a white blur could be seen, and Lin Ruo could no longer be seen inside.
Finally, the ice cocoon slowly rose into the air, gradually emitting a blue light, like a butterfly waiting to transform.
All the surrounding crystal core energy was drawn into the giant ice cocoon by a powerful suction force, transformed into water-based energy, and then flowed into Lin Ruo's body.
At the same time, water molecules in the surrounding area were rapidly gathering in this direction, and frost began to slowly appear on the walls of the entire training room, causing the temperature of the entire fortress to drop rapidly.
A-Liu, A-Fu, and A-Shou outside the door quickly sensed something was wrong. They rushed back home, but before they even reached the training room door, they saw that it was covered in ice, and the surrounding temperature was extremely low. A-Fu and A-Shou exchanged a glance and took a few steps back. They had seen this scene before and knew that their master's superpower had been upgraded again.
The three willows silently protected the entire fortress from three different positions. Even though nearly half of the fortress was covered in ice, Ah Liu's willow branches still enveloped the fortress completely, showing no fear of the rapidly dropping temperature. Slowly, a layer of ice formed on its willow branches as well.
Lin Ruo felt a long-lost sense of comfort again. This time, she didn't feel like her body was about to burst; all she felt was comfort.
She felt every cell in her body opening up, constantly absorbing abundant water energy. Her cells were slowly changing, and she quickly became immersed in it.
Time passed slowly, and the outside world went from dawn to dusk. Cracks began to appear in the ice cocoon around Lin Ruo. The cracks grew larger and larger until the ice cocoon shattered into several pieces and fell to the ground, revealing Lin Ruo sitting cross-legged inside with her eyes closed. She was carried by streams of water and slowly fell back to the ground.
At the same time, the ice that had spread to the outer walls of the fortress began to disappear, and the temperature of the entire fortress began to rise.
As soon as Lin Ruo opened her eyes, she was overwhelmed by a stench that made her vision go black. Sure enough, the water-based ability upgrade process was improving her physique.
Moreover, during this process, impurities in her body will be expelled. Just thinking that all these smelly things are coming out of her body made Lin Ruo feel terrible. It turns out that she usually has so much garbage accumulated in her body.
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