The invisible barrier within her body that hindered her from progressing further, under the impact of accumulated insights and energy, emitted a faint cracking sound that only she could "hear."

The accumulated longing and majestic energy found an outlet at this moment; it wasn't a violent explosion, but a fierce "blooming" from the inside out.

"Ngh..."

An extremely soft grunt, almost dissipating into the air, escaped from her lips.

Her cross-legged figure trembled uncontrollably, and her back instantly tensed like a bowstring.

The Black Scythe resting across her knees seemed to sense something, emitting a low hum that resonated with the surging power within her.

That peak experience rising from the depths of her soul, accompanying the breakthrough of her limits, swept through every inch of her perception like a silent tsunami.

It wasn't simple pleasure, but a mixture of the sharp pain of tearing and reshaping, the dizziness of understanding vast truths, and the ultimate thrill of reaching the world's pulse brought by the instant leap in power levels.

The feeling was intense and fleeting, like the momentary weightlessness and overlook when walking on the edge of an abyss.

Her fair neck arched in a supple curve, her jawline tightened, and all her senses were heightened to the limit in that instant, only to begin slowly receding and settling in the next.

Outside the window, the light and shadows of the vortex continued to swirl.

Inside the carriage, the aftershocks of energy gradually subsided.

Bai Cheng remained sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed, but her aura had already changed.

It was more solid, more restrained, as if she had achieved an unspeakable harmony with the surrounding space.

The brief and intense internal process from just now left no external mess, only her slightly damp temples, her breathing that gradually steadied after being somewhat hurried, and a trace of the awe-inspiring aura belonging to a new realm of power between her brows that had yet to fully dissipate, silently telling of everything that had just happened.

Outside the bedroom door, there was a silent vigil.

Inside the door, a lonely and complete transformation had already been accomplished.

Bai Cheng slowly opened her eyes; stars seemed to perish and be reborn within her pupils as a pure, restrained, yet abyss-like majestic momentum silently rippled out from her body.

Though it vanished in a flash, it caused the air in the entire carriage to freeze.

Leng Ningxue and Yu Nian, who had been guarding outside the door, turned their heads simultaneously the moment this aura appeared, expressions of surprise and joy appearing on their faces in unison.

They could clearly feel that Bai Cheng's aura was completely different from before, more unfathomable, as if it were faintly merging with the surrounding space.

"She broke through!" Yu Nian lowered her voice, her tone full of excitement. "Now we have a much better chance!" 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Although Leng Ningxue didn't speak, her furrowed brows relaxed a bit, and she nodded gently.

Just then, the bedroom door slid open silently.

Bai Cheng walked out. Her face was slightly pale—a sign of the intense exhaustion of mind and energy—but her eyes were brighter and sharper than ever before, as if they could pierce through illusions.

She didn't speak of her breakthrough first, but instead immediately cast her gaze toward the giant vortex outside the train window that was still frantically devouring heaven and earth, her brows slightly furrowed. "This phenomenon... how long has it been going on?"

"It's been ongoing since you began your meditation, and the suction seems to be getting stronger."

Leng Ningxue answered quickly, also looking toward the sky following her gaze.

"Look, the mist of the Cloud Heaven Sea has thinned by nearly half, and the sky's light has become eerie."

Bai Cheng focused her perception; she could see things that were more fundamental.

It wasn't just the mist; the elemental energy of various attributes in the air, and even a certain foundational power contained within space itself, were being crudely torn, stripped, and absorbed by that vortex.

This process seemed rapid, but because the total amount of energy being seized was so massive, it gave off a slow and unstoppable sense of pressure on a macro level.

"What about Liu San and the others' train?" Bai Cheng suddenly asked.

Yu Nian froze for a moment and shook her head. "It hasn't appeared. After our detection console went blank, our contact with them was also cut off. Logically, they should be right behind us..."

A flash of realization crossed Bai Cheng's eyes, confirming a certain suspicion in her heart.

"It seems this entrance before us might not be the only passage."

She said in a low voice, her tone carrying a cold insight. "The system... or rather, He, might have arranged different 'entry methods' based on different chess pieces.

Ye Liangchen took one, we are taking this one, ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) and Liu San and his group... probably have a third path."

This speculation made Leng Ningxue and Yu Nian's hearts turn cold, feeling more and more the chilling sensation of that invisible hand manipulating fate.

Just then, the abnormal change in the sky outside reached its peak!

The giant vortex covering half the sky seemed to have finally gorged itself on energy, and its rotation speed began to slow.

But it didn't dissipate; instead, it collapsed and condensed toward the center to the extreme!

The vast and boundless devouring power converged on a single point. All the mist, halos, and torn elemental light were compressed into a light ball so intense it was beyond words.

It hung in the middle of the sky, which had become pale and transparent, emitting a light millions of times more blinding than the midday sun.

It was as if a second sun had been born out of thin air, illuminating the already eerie 'White Night' into a brilliant glare that was impossible to look at directly.

All shadows inside the train were dispelled, everything bathed in this pure, domineering, and terrifyingly energetic intense light.

【Entering the Infinite Realm shortly!】

The system prompt, which had been silent for a long time, finally displayed a message on the screen at this moment.

Everyone was slightly stunned, their faces full of surprise.

This felt like a notification, but even more like a judgment from the system upon them.

As soon as the prompt appeared, before anyone in the carriage could react—

That light ball hanging high in the sky, compressed to the extreme, suddenly... bloomed!

There was no sound.

Or rather, any sound was devoured and covered by that white light, which was so pure it occupied all senses.

Vision, hearing, touch, and even the perception of one's own existence were submerged in boundless whiteness in that instant.

That wasn't ordinary white light; it was the manifestation of energy, rules, and space being violently connected—the momentary brilliance of a passage to another completely different realm being forced open.

Everyone felt their bodies become light, as if they had lost all support, or as if they were being swept away by an irresistible torrent.

The world turned into a void of pure white.

In the final moment before her consciousness sank into this void, Bai Cheng forcibly gathered her even more resilient will after her breakthrough, firmly locking onto the auras of Leng Ningxue and Yu Nian beside her. Her Black Scythe was already gripped in her hand at some point, its cold touch being her only connection to the outside world.

The next moment, pure white swallowed everything.

The train and everyone inside it completely disappeared under that pale sky, which had been drained of all its strangeness and returned to a dead silence.