The ground temperature continued to rise, killing countless plants and animals.
Rivers dried up, fish in the water were sun-dried into jerky, frogs and tadpoles beca desiccated corpses, and animal remains littered the mountains, fields, and riverbanks. The number of living beings on Blue Star was decreasing at an extrely rapid pace.
The snow mountains of the North and South Poles lted, forcing penguins and polar bears into the sea to survive. The number of zombies in the ocean skyrocketed, while zombies on land beca even more grotesque and terrifying. Their flesh withered, with blackened outer skin wrapping around bones, making them resemble skeleton monsters more than zombies.
Humans were forced to hide underground, and the population plumted once again.
In a certain underground space, three loli-form Huo Linglings and one tall, mature-sister-form Huo Lingling were playing rock-paper-scissors. Yun Xiuzhi soaked in the water, complaining that she was about to beco roasted pigeon.
Li Xuan rested with his eyes closed in the corner. "The night is almost here."
Several months had passed since they killed the Prison of Corpses Forest. During this ti, they had eliminated many mutated zombies based on intelligence, occasionally encountered a few mutated zombies by chance, cooperated with people, and obtained several supernatural characteristics.
Two months ago, the ground temperature beca too high, forcing the three of them to abandon their plan to continue eliminating mutated zombies. They ca to a cave connected to an underground river and temporarily settled there.
Yun Xiuzhi froze for a mont, then beca ecstatic. "It's finally going to end! I'm almost dying from the heat!"
All four Huo Linglings stood up and bounced over to Li Xuan's side. "Can we go up now?"
Li Xuan rubbed the head of the tall, mature-sister version of Huo Lingling. "Soon, just wait a little longer."
The other three smaller versions of Huo Lingling said in unison, " too!"
Li Xuan rubbed the heads of the other Huo Linglings, and only then did Huo Lingling leave satisfied.
The four Huo Linglings naturally originated from the ability of the Splitting Characteristic. Initially, Huo Lingling split off one of herself, transforming from a tall, mature sister into a youthful girl. Then she split off another, shrinking in size again, until after splitting into three versions of herself, Huo Lingling beca four little lolis.
Originally, the splitting ability could only divide herself and couldn't be reversed. Later, Li Xuan found a Plasticity Characteristic for Huo Lingling, allowing her to transform one version back into the tall, mature-sister form. The other three smaller Huo Linglings could hide in the shadow of the large Huo Lingling, an ability derived from the 'Illusion Characteristic.'
The Illusion Characteristic's effect allowed one to hide in their own shadow, with the drawback that the main body couldn't move while hiding in the shadow. Huo Lingling perfectly overca this flaw - the large Huo Lingling moved while the small Huo Linglings hid in the shadow. When encountering danger, they could also use the small Huo Linglings' concealnt for surprise attacks.
So far, in human form within the three-person team, Huo Lingling had the strongest combat power, Li Xuan was second, and Yun Xiuzhi had never transford back into human form, making her the weakest.
In beast form, Li Xuan was the strongest, Yun Xiuzhi was second, and Huo Lingling was the weakest.
Li Xuan had long collected the Perfect Body Enhancent characteristics, with his physique enhanced in all aspects. As ti passed, the Giant Beast had evolved to an extrely terrifying level.
The number of supernatural characteristics he possessed was a figure that people outside wouldn't dare to imagine. If publicized, it would shock countless people.
Perfect Body Enhancent Characteristic (containing three Strength Enhancents, three Speed Enhancents, three Constitution Enhancents, two Outer Skin Enhancents, three Size Expansion Enhancents, two Organ Enhancents, two Bone Enhancents, three Defense Enhancents)
Two Claw and Fang Enhancents, one Venom Enhancent, one Burst Enhancent, two Scale Reinforcents, one Wing Enhancent, two Plasticity Enhancents, two Hardening Enhancents, one Softening Enhancent, one Death Feigning Enhancent, one Sonic Wave Enhancent, two Self-Healing Enhancents, three Adaptation Enhancents, one Hearing Enhancent, one Vision Enhancent, one Wisdom Enhancent, one Fusion Enhancent, one Endurance Enhancent.
A total of over forty supernatural characteristics!
Among them, the advanced enhancent characteristics included Fusion Enhancent, Perfect Body Enhancent, and Wisdom Enhancent.
Perfect Body Enhancent was a pieced-together advanced enhancent characteristic, while the other two were naturally advanced enhancents. The effect of Wisdom Enhancent was mysterious and profound. After absorbing it, Li Xuan naturally understood its effect - it enhanced his learning ability and ntal potential in Giant Beast form.
This was an enhancent that increased potential. The first version might not be very useful, but in subsequent versions, when ntal power would eventually be needed, that would be when the Wisdom Enhancent characteristic would shine.
Enhancent characteristics didn't disappear after the first version ended. Characteristics were forever rooted in transforrs' bodies and would continuously evolve over ti. The evolution speed might be slow, but it never stopped.
Strictly speaking, every ability user who had absorbed supernatural characteristics could beco a strong individual or a heaven's chosen. They only needed ti, but unfortunately, ti was the most precious resource in the apocalypse.
The apocalyptic trial was like a boulder rolling down a mountain - once it started, it wouldn't stop.
Advanced characteristics were extrely rare, and often ca with significant flaws, such as Chaotic Evolution, Hive, and other uncontrollable factors that Li Xuan was unwilling to absorb.
What he wanted were advanced characteristics like Fusion Characteristic and Wisdom Characteristic that provided substantial improvents without side effects.
Currently, he had one Chaotic Evolution characteristic in his possession. He felt it would be a waste to throw away, but didn't want to give it away for free, so he kept it.
Additionally, both Huo Lingling and Yun Xiuzhi had absorbed more than one supernatural characteristic, with numbers that were quite astonishing, enough to make countless survivors envious.
Repeated absorption of the sa supernatural characteristic greatly reduced the effect. By the third absorption, it wasn't even one-tenth of the first absorption. So characteristics had almost no effect when absorbed repeatedly, like the Plasticity Characteristic - he absorbed two but still couldn't change his appearance at will.
Moreover, since Li Xuan had long considered both won as his own people, he distributed the excess supernatural characteristics to them, especially Huo Lingling, who absorbed many. This wasn't due to Li Xuan's favoritism or lust for Huo Lingling's delicate body, but because the two won had different roles.
After Huo Lingling in human form absorbed so supernatural characteristics, she could beco a mini-superhero with greatly enhanced combat power, able to help Li Xuan with many tasks. She could even single-handedly eliminate mutated zombies, while also replacing Yun Xiuzhi in transactions with outsiders.
Yun Xiuzhi's pigeon form had poor defense. If she encountered people with ill intentions, she could easily co to harm - even a simple wooden stick could injure Yun Xiuzhi. Huo Lingling was different - in human form, she could beat up anyone.
Yun Xiuzhi's role was as a scout, not a fighter.
Huo Lingling's current characteristics included: Speed, Strength, Constitution, Organs, Outer Skin, Bones, Defense, Splitting, Plasticity, Illusion, Self-Healing, Adaptation, Softening, and Reproduction - one each.
A total of fourteen supernatural characteristics. The Reproduction characteristic hadn't been used yet, making it essentially a useless characteristic.
After Li Xuan obtained the Reproduction characteristic, he originally planned to trade it for food or throw it away if he couldn't get any food. Seeing that Huo Lingling was very interested in the Reproduction characteristic, he gave it to her.
He specifically warned Huo Lingling not to use this supernatural characteristic lightly.
He knew full well the power of the Reproduction characteristic - it could increase the probability of conceiving life. When used at full power, it didn't even require help from the opposite sex. Just by finding a bit of genetic material from the opposite sex, it could create similar life.
Su Letian had used the Reproduction characteristic to drive even a Demonic Entity into qi deviation.
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