If her guess was correct, the portal shouldn’t have been opened by now.

After all, Ivy clearly remembered Ariana looking increasingly fit and fine.

Surely Ariana had already used her cultivation energy to activate the portal.

So if the portal truly remained unopened... then there were only two possibilities.

Either Ariana was somehow still hiding another formation entirely...

Or the team had destroyed Ariana’s backup plan and not the main one.

The more Ivy thought about it, the more violently her head began throbbing.

Still, she silently endured the discomfort.

Recently, she had also noticed another strange phenomenon.

Her power was surging again.

She could clearly feel herself standing on the verge of another breakthrough.

However, unlike before, this breakthrough felt completely different.

A strange instinct deep inside her continuously warned her that she was about to unlock something major.

Sure enough, one day while cultivating quietly inside her temporal storage space, Ivy suddenly felt a terrifying wave of energy wash across her entire body.

A strange anxiety suddenly gripped her heart.

Her eyes snapped open instantly.

The moment she opened them, Ivy immediately began surveying her surroundings carefully.

The storage space looked exactly the same as always, yet something felt deeply wrong.

It took her a long while before she finally raised her hand slowly and exited the temporal storage space.

Once outside the temporal storage, Ivy immediately started running through one of the isolated training areas near the outskirts of the base.

Naturally, she had intentionally chosen a secluded place.

She knew very well that if others saw her current condition, countless questions would immediately arise.

As she continued running, Ivy could feel an overwhelming amount of energy surging wildly inside her body.

The reason she kept running was simple.

She desperately needed a way to vent the excessive energy overflowing inside her.

Otherwise, she felt as though she might explode at any moment.

After running for a long while, Ivy finally stopped.

Then suddenly, the light surrounding her intensified.

Within seconds, the glow became so blinding and beautiful that it illuminated the surrounding darkness entirely.

The brilliant radiance spread across the night like a small artificial sun, causing countless people inside the base to look toward the sky in shock.

Even from extremely far away, the phenomenon was clearly visible.

Meanwhile, Ivy herself had already returned inside her temporal storage space.

The moment she entered, she collapsed onto the floor while breathing heavily.

Her entire body felt strangely lighter.

No... stronger.

It felt as though she had evolved tremendously.

However, even after carefully inspecting herself repeatedly, she could not figure out exactly what had changed.

Her safe-zone abilities had not improved.

Even her supply collection abilities seemed unchanged.

This immediately confused her.

Ivy sat there quietly for a while before narrowing her eyes thoughtfully.

Then suddenly, she thought of something simple.

’A plate of rice and salad,’ she thought inwardly.

The moment she opened her eyes afterward, absolutely nothing appeared.

Seeing that, Ivy sighed softly.

"What exactly did my power even evolve into?" she muttered.

Finally, unable to understand things herself, she directly asked the temporal-storage system.

The temporal storage remained silent briefly before replying calmly.

[This evolution has significantly upgraded your superpower. If my analysis is correct... you have now awakened the ability of creation.]

The moment she heard that word, Ivy became stunned.

"Creation?" she repeated slowly, almost as if the word itself felt unfamiliar to her.

Her brows furrowed deeply.

After thinking for a while, she hesitantly imagined creating a small cloud.

The next second, a tiny white cloud actually appeared floating above her palm.

However, the instant it formed, Ivy’s body became overwhelmingly drained. Her vision darkened slightly, and she nearly collapsed from exhaustion.

Still, despite the weakness flooding her body, her eyes immediately sparkled brightly.

Excitement surged inside her heart.

Suppressing her exhaustion, she quickly closed her eyes again and thought about a zombie crystal.

Several moments later, she slowly opened her eyes.

Sure enough, a crystal had appeared inside her hand.

However, unlike ordinary zombie crystals, this one contained absolutely no energy.

It looked identical on the outside, yet completely hollow internally.

Seeing this, Ivy sighed softly.

She quickly realized the limitation.

Even though her powers had evolved tremendously, she still could not create objects containing true spiritual or energetic essence.

As she thought about this, Ivy immediately questioned the temporal storage again.

"Why did my powers transform into something like this?" she asked curiously. "And will I still be able to collect supplies the way I used to?"

The temporal storage soon answered calmly.

[Originally, your power was never merely a supply-collection ability.]

Ivy blinked in surprise.

The temporal storage continued explaining.

[You possess an extremely rare mutated temporal-type ability. Your powers originally involved creation, teleportation, and temporal manipulation.]

Hearing those words, Ivy immediately became stunned.

The storage calmly continued.

[The food and supplies you frequently collected were never truly created from nothing. At a quantum level, your power was actually reaching across time and dimensions, pulling objects from locations where they had already been abandoned, discarded, or lost.]

The explanation instantly made Ivy’s eyes widen.

"So that’s why..." she murmured softly.

The temporal storage continued.

[The reason supplies continuously fell inside your storage space without direct collection was because your powers automatically summoned them from fragmented dimensional pathways.]

As the explanation continued, Ivy gradually understood.

At certain levels, she might even be capable of summoning objects directly from the past itself.

The more she understood, the more unbelievable everything sounded.

"Wow..." Ivy muttered blankly. "This is way too unique."

The temporal storage replied calmly.

[Not only that. If your powers continue evolving, they may eventually specialize into one dominant ability.]

It paused briefly before continuing.

[You may evolve into a pure creator-type ability user. Or perhaps a temporal summoner capable of retrieving things from the past. Alternatively, your abilities may stabilize into direct dimensional teleportation. Your power is extremely versatile. Even throughout the history of superior beings, mutated abilities like yours are extraordinarily rare.]