The same staircase, the same people, the same scene appeared once again, and Lin Ruo felt the same excitement in her heart.
She looked at the bright red fruit in front of her and calculated the time. It had indeed been more than three months since Ah Liu's fruit ripened last time.
When A-Liu was leveling up, Lin Ruo was hoping that A-Liu's fruit would ripen directly. However, at that time, the fruit had not yet started to grow, and A-Liu had no way to bring the fruit from nothing to full ripeness. She could only bring forward the ripening time of the fruit.
Lin Ruo took the red fruit from Ah Liu's willow branch, smiled at the branch, and said, "Thank you, Ah Liu. You've worked hard, Ah Liu..."
A-Liu's willow branch gently rubbed against Lin Ruo's hand. Before Lin Ruo could finish speaking, it pushed her into the training room. It knew how much its master was looking forward to breaking through her mental strength.
These days, she has been exhausting her mental energy every time she cultivates. After each time her mental energy is depleted, her condition is much worse than before. However, after each cultivation session, she cannot help but feel a little disappointed because her mental energy has not broken through.
Ah Liu saw all of this and could only silently speed up the growth of her fruit so that her master could get what he wanted and stop making things difficult for her.
After pushing Lin Ruo into the training room, it stopped bothering her and quickly left, thoughtfully closing the door behind it.
Once outside, it quickly moved its roots back into the original tree pit, and its main body rapidly expanded and grew, instantly transforming back into its original form, which was a hundred meters tall. Thick, long, and tough willow branches surrounded the entire fortress, making it airtight.
Old Bai, Afu, and Ashou also noticed these things and seemed to immediately understand something. They also began to be on guard, and the five partners divided the work and dispersed in different directions of the fortress.
Lin Ruo "saw" all of this through her spiritual power, then looked down at the fruit in her hand. She sensed the feelings of the animals at home and shook her head with a helpless smile.
This situation is not so simple. Because of the power crystals she absorbed before, her water-based and space-based abilities have been fully stored. In other words, if her mental power can be successfully upgraded this time, her space-based and water-based abilities are very likely to be upgraded together.
She took a deep breath. She had never faced such a situation before, and she didn't know what would happen or how long it would take. Everything was unknown, and she had to explore and figure things out on her own.
But the thought of becoming a level 8 dual ability user filled her with boundless anticipation. Strength had always been her goal, and now that she had this opportunity, she couldn't let it slip away easily.
Recalling the pain she experienced while eating the fruit last time, her heart began to race uncontrollably. Regardless, the pain from so many times had left a mark on her body.
She took a deep breath, calmed her heartbeat, and mentally prepared herself. She then took out a large number of crystal cores from the static space and piled them up in the training room, where she sat cross-legged.
Because this time it's very likely that two types of crystal cores will be upgraded simultaneously, and from level 7 to level 8, she took out nearly ten times more crystal cores than before. The height of these crystal cores piled up in the training room already exceeded Lin Ruo's own height, which shows how terrifying the number of crystal cores was.
Having made the preparations, she looked at the red fruit in her palm, swallowed hard, and immediately put the fruit into her mouth.
In an instant, the familiar situation reappeared. This time, her mental power expanded to a greater distance, slowly exceeding the 10-kilometer range, and finally stopping at the 15-kilometer boundary. Everything within this intense range was projected into her mind, crystal clear. At the same time, the mental power in her mind was being consumed at an extremely rapid rate.
After her mental energy was completely depleted, Lin Ruo felt a clear cracking sound in her mind, followed by an overwhelming pain that instantly engulfed her.
The clock on the wall was still ticking away. The interior of the fortress was quiet, but Lin Ruo, sitting in the center of the crystal core, was deathly pale. She was covered in cold sweat and her body was trembling slightly. Two streams of blood slowly flowed from her nose, the two bright red marks standing out starkly against her pale face.
At this moment, the excruciating pain in her mind was intensifying. Lin Ruo felt as if her head was being repeatedly hammered by a giant iron hammer, her soul being torn into pieces, then slowly "stitched" back together, only to be torn apart again...
Lin Ruo didn't know how much time had passed, but she finally felt all the pain disappear, replaced by extreme comfort. This extreme contrast made her groan.
With the growth of her mental strength, her water-based abilities also began to recover. Her water-based abilities detected her injuries and immediately began to circulate throughout her body, repairing the damage that Lin Ruo had caused to her body due to excessive pain.
At this moment, Lin Ruo felt as if she were in the middle of the ocean, swaying with the wind.
When her mental strength returned to its peak, her body suddenly stiffened, and the two supernatural energy crystals in her mind began to frantically absorb the surrounding energy. The huge suction force made the energy in the surrounding crystals seem to receive some special guidance, and it actually rushed into Lin Ruo's body in a spiral.
Lin Ruona's complexion, which had just recovered after being healed by her water-based superpower, instantly turned as pale as paper again.
She felt two energies surging wildly within her body, constantly surging and churning within her, like two forces probing and tearing at each other, neither willing to yield, colliding repeatedly. She felt that her body was their battlefield, a battlefield that could be destroyed at any moment.
She dared not be careless and quickly divided her mental energy into two streams, guiding each stream of energy and constantly soothing and controlling it so that it could eventually return to its core.
Soon her entire body was once again encased in ice, forming a giant ice cocoon. This time, the situation was even more severe than before, not only encasing the entire fortress but also continuously expanding outwards, finally stopping on a platform three meters away from the fortress.
The ice emanated a bone-chilling cold, forcing the five guards protecting Lin Ruo to stay far away, as they were simply too weak to withstand such a frigid temperature.
Ah Liu returned to the flowerpot and was placed on Ah Shou's head. At this moment, the ice was already at the edge of its tree pit. If it hadn't run fast, it would probably have been frozen solid by the ice.
Old Bai, on the other hand, was not affected because the tree pit was below the platform.
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