Inside the fortress, a huge black panther stood in the middle of the living room. An ice spike was placed in front of it. The panther immediately raised its paws, sharp claws protruding from them, each one gleaming coldly, and struck the ice spike, knocking it to the ground.
Having gained some understanding of the black panther's defensive capabilities, she activated her mental power and retracted her spatial domain. The spatial domain was one of the abilities she used most frequently, and she considered herself to be very familiar with it. Its range was a water-based domain, but there were still many unknowns she had.
With heightened mental control, the black panther slowly approached Lin Ruo, lay down, and began to wheeze. Soon after, numerous animals appeared around Lin Ruo: bears, wolves, lions, rabbits, goats…
These animals, which would never have been able to live in harmony before or after the apocalypse, were now obediently sitting or standing beside her, lifelike and all of them real.
When Afu, Ashou, and Alu ran in from outside, this was the scene they saw. Who could imagine the shock they felt? They had only gone out for a short run, and when they came back, they found that there were so many animals in the house.
When Ah Shou and Ah Lu saw Lin Ruo sitting among them, they worried that the animals would harm her, so they bared their teeth at them, but did not attack her.
Afu tilted his head, his big eyes full of doubt. He slowly walked over and slapped a goat on the head with his paw. The goat's head was pressed to the ground and it was struggling and bleating.
Afu raised its paw again, looking at it in confusion. Was this real? It could touch it; there was fur on it, but these animals didn't have the familiar scent, not even the smell of the blood flowing in their bodies. What was going on?
Lin Ruo just sat there laughing, not explaining anything to Afu. Afu's actions caught the attention of Ashou and Alu, who also picked out two animals. Alu immediately pounced on a rabbit and was about to bite its neck, but although the rabbit kicked, it didn't die, and it didn't feel the warm blood that should have flowed out.
Ah Shou was quite practical, so he went straight for the most powerful lion. The king of the grasslands before the apocalypse couldn't withstand Ah Shou's attack and was pinned to the ground. However, the wounds that had been scratched by the lion's claws not only didn't bleed, but healed in the blink of an eye.
All three of them noticed something was wrong and looked at Lin Ruo. Only then did Lin Ruo withdraw her spiritual power, and the animals that had been surrounding her disappeared one by one.
This scene not only made Ah Shou and Ah Lu stare wide-eyed, but even the usually composed Ah Fu blinked, trying to see if it was just his imagination. But they had tried it before, and they could touch these animals, so it wasn't the illusionary ability their master had mentioned before.
Lin Ruo waved to the three of them, and Afu and the others immediately shrank a little more and all scurried to Lin Ruo's side. Because of its small size, Alu jumped directly onto Lin Ruo's shoulder and squatted down. Afu and Ashou each occupied one of Lin Ruo's legs.
Lin Ruo reached out and scratched the heads of the three animals before explaining, "This is my new ability after the upgrade. The animals in those illusions before didn't have physical forms, but now they can have physical forms and help me fight. I can also conjure up a few more like you. Do you want to see?"
As she spoke, she activated her mental energy, and three animals appeared on the ground, exactly like the three of them.
They became even more curious and immediately jumped off Lin Ruo's body, constantly approaching the three on the ground. Lin Ruo watched them playing together happily, and she didn't withdraw her supernatural power. In any case, once these animals were formed, they wouldn't consume much supernatural power as long as she didn't command them.
For several days in a row, Lin Ruo stayed at home experimenting with how to achieve the best results with the least amount of superpowers, paying little attention to what was happening outside.
But in the past few days, she has also clearly felt that the temperature is rising significantly. It used to be around minus 20 degrees Celsius, but this morning the temperature on the mountain has exceeded 30 degrees Celsius. The snow on the ground has already begun to melt, and the melting speed is very fast. Water has started to flow down from the mountain peaks, and the more water flows, the faster the snow above and below melts.
To prevent any unforeseen circumstances, Lin Ruo instructed Afu and Ashou not to leave the mountain range when they went out to play. This way, as long as she opened her spatial domain, they would be safe.
Suddenly, a loud boom came from afar, followed by a violent tremor from the ground, startling A-Lu, who was watching TV with Lin Ruo in the living room.
Judging from the sound, it should be not far from the mountain peak. Lin Ruo immediately stood up and teleported out of the fortress, standing on the topmost branch of the willow tree. After these two upgrades, the willow and Lao Bai's tree height has reached nearly two hundred meters. Standing on the willow, Lin Ruo could see very far with her eyesight.
Ah Liu thoughtfully moved the surrounding willow branches away, giving Lin Ruo a clear view.
Lin Ruo only saw a thick plume of smoke rising straight into the sky in the distance of the Yanshan Mountains, followed by a fiery red burst from the ground, and then large swaths of white mist emerged, which was a massive amount of water vapor produced after the magma came into contact with the snowmelt.
Seeing this scene, Lin Ruo understood that the magma had finally erupted from the ground, like a volcano that was about to explode. This meant that the underground of Yanshan was now full of magma, but because the mountain was so high, the magma could not erupt for the time being.
Then, one loud bang after another occurred, and the trembling of the ground intensified. Lin Ruo, standing on A Liu, could feel the shaking beneath her feet. The thick smoke and white mist rising in the distance grew heavier and heavier, completely obscuring what was happening inside, making it impossible to see anything.
The commotion grew louder and louder, with more and more places spewing out lava, and they were getting closer and closer. Her eyes narrowed. She couldn't wait any longer. She couldn't let the lava below melt the entire mountain. She immediately spread out her spiritual power, and her spatial domain instantly enveloped the entire mountain. A layer of extremely bright white light enveloped Lin Ruo. The entire mountain only swayed slightly before Lin Ruo absorbed it into her spatial domain.
The amount of things collected this time was too vast. Lin Ruo had to use up 40% of her supernatural power to complete it. At this moment, she was extremely grateful that she had leveled up before the natural disaster, and her supernatural power reserves had increased exponentially. Otherwise, just using up this energy would have cost her more than 80% of her supernatural power at level eight, let alone being able to collect such a large amount of things. It would have been wishful thinking.
The moment the mountain peak was absorbed into the space, her feet suddenly lost their footing, and a stream of water appeared beneath her feet, supporting her body and carrying her into the sky.
The mountain that had been pressing down on the ground disappeared, and the flat ground beneath it immediately surged upwards as if it had been subjected to some kind of violent compression. Then, a huge crack appeared inside, and a plume of black smoke, along with scorching heat, rushed towards Lin Ruo.
Upon seeing this, Lin Ruo immediately activated her mental power and teleported to a higher altitude, rising several hundred meters before she could escape the range of the black smoke.
But the temperature remained scorching. She probed the black smoke with her spiritual power and saw a fiery red expanse. Hot magma slowly flowed from the ground, constantly devouring everything around it.
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