The night passed quietly, and Lin Ruo was still unaware of what had happened at home. At this moment, she was standing at the foot of Hengshan Mountain, with a thick layer of ice beneath her feet. She was firmly placed on the snow, which supported her body so that she would not sink.
The strong wind around her swirled up the snowflakes on the ground, making a loud "pattering" sound as they hit the outer layer of her clothes. Some snow also got on her hat. The snow that fell on her slowly melted into her clothes because of the warmth of Lin Ruo's body. Behind her, A Liu stretched out a willow branch and draped it over her shoulder.
The wind was too strong outside, so she didn't delay. With a thought, she enveloped herself in a spatial domain, keeping both the falling snow and the accumulated snow on the ground outside the domain.
This time, the spatial domain she opened was not large, only one meter square.
Then, with her powerful mental energy, she manipulated the spatial domain, and the snow under her feet instantly disappeared, followed by the soil layer below. The mutated plants in the soil layer were moved by Lin Ruo to the surrounding soil.
These mutated plants had already sensed A-Liu's aura on Lin Ruo. Naturally, they couldn't afford to offend such high-level mutated plants, so they all started to play dead. Even when they were pulled out and moved to other soil layers, they didn't dare to resist in the slightest, let alone have any thoughts of attacking them.
Lin Ruo's mental energy stretched downwards to its maximum extent, surrounded by the rustling sound of the earth being pushed apart by the spatial domain. As her body sank, her vision was slowly covered by a thick blackness.
She simply closed her eyes and focused on using her mental energy to scan her surroundings. Her body sank downwards at an extremely fast speed, and in just a few minutes, she had reached a depth of 500 meters. At this point, she could feel a faint energy seeping out from the surroundings.
She narrowed her eyes slightly, increased the downward spatial domain, and her body instantly fell downwards.
When they reached a depth of fifty kilometers underground, the surrounding energy had become extremely dense. Even the willow tree behind Lin Ruo couldn't help but stretch out its branches and rub against the surrounding soil, absorbing the energy.
In this environment, Lin Ruo's superpowers became extremely active due to these energies. She became increasingly interested in what was below, which was the ultimate version of Lao Bai's abilities. If she could get her hands on it, Lao Bai would definitely love it.
But when they fell another 20 kilometers, and she was now nearly 70 kilometers above the ground, she suddenly felt that the soil around her had become extremely hard, and the temperature was rising rapidly. Based on her familiarity with temperature control, the temperature should now be over 300 degrees Celsius.
Before coming down, Lin Ruo had naturally done her research and had some understanding of the underground structure. Based on the current situation, she guessed that she had reached the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle—the lithosphere. The temperature would only increase further down, and the mantle was fluid. She couldn't distinguish directions inside, so there was a certain degree of uncertainty.
This would cause her powers to be consumed faster below. She stopped at the upper layer of the lithosphere, her brows furrowed tightly, and her mental energy probed downwards for eighteen kilometers. After passing through the lithosphere, the energy density below became more balanced.
Although the energy was much denser than where Lin Ruo was now, it wouldn't increase further due to the change in depth. Lin Ruo's previous assumptions seemed to have been overturned. It wasn't the energy emanating from the thing that made A Liu feel dangerous. If that were the case, then the energy in the mantle must still have a hierarchical progression.
Moreover, the temperature in the area that Lin Ruo's mental energy could reach had already reached over 1,000 degrees Celsius. According to what she knew, the highest temperature in the mantle was 1,300 degrees Celsius. She didn't think that any plants or animals that A Liu felt were dangerous could survive in the mantle.
This information was all jumbled together like a tangled mess. A flash of inspiration seemed to pass through Lin Ruo's mind, but she couldn't quite grasp it. She squinted slightly, observing the texture of the mantle below, and continued to descend. She needed to go back and organize this information, but she still had to find the thing that made A Liu feel threatened.
At this moment, Lin Ruo's mental power was not as effective as A Liu's senses. She raised her hand and touched A Liu's delicate willow leaves. "A Liu, in which direction was the thing that made you feel dangerous earlier?"
A-Liu lifted the willow branch above Lin Ruo's head, extending several more branches into the air, as if carefully sensing the direction before pointing it out to Lin Ruo with willow leaves.
Lin Ruo looked in the direction that A Liu's willow leaf was pointing. If her sense of direction was correct, that direction should be the foot of Hengshan Mountain. She reached out and touched her chin, manipulating her spatial domain to quickly leave in that direction.
They entered this land at the foot of the mountain, so going downhill now is not far.
After walking dozens of kilometers in that direction, Lin Ruo's scattered spiritual energy finally sensed a different kind of energy fluctuation. This was different from the dense energy underground; it actually carried a strong wind element.
She raised an eyebrow slightly. It seemed that this was the reason why Hengshan was always surrounded by strong winds. She was curious about what could make the wind so strong.
As they drew closer, more and more willow branches extended from above Lin Ruo's head, waving around him, and the oppressive aura emanating from him grew stronger.
Suddenly, the surrounding soil began to press inwards towards them, as if the soil itself had come alive and transformed into a giant beast that opened its massive maw at them!
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