On the other side of the rift, there was no gravity and no sense of direction.
The instant Dawn and Mirror stepped through, everything they knew about the world was turned upside down.
All around them, endless streams of twisted light rushed past like living nerve fibers racing through the dark void.
There was no sound, yet a billion clamoring whispers were forced into the siblings' minds.
They were fragments of the final moments of countless souls, stolen by Valak.
Despair, ecstasy, hatred, love.
Every emotion had been stirred into a chaotic mire that threatened to overwhelm and dissolve their sense of self.
Mirror's face went pale.
Without a moment's hesitation, she summoned her Divinity, Mirror Flower Water Moon.
An invisible, perfectly smooth "mirror" spread outward from her, forming a spherical space ten meters across.
The raging torrent of information struck its surface without raising a ripple. It was smoothly refracted away, flowing into the distant darkness.
Inside the sphere, the clamor that could have shattered their souls vanished at once.
Dawn stood in front of Mirror, Mekong Jaw Blade in hand, without a word.
He had not fully unleashed his Divinity, Flash Shadow. Instead, a thin Barrier Law of Kinetic Energy formed around his body.
Anything that slipped through Mirror's defenses was instantly accelerated by the barrier, then torn into the most basic fragments of information.
He guarded her. She cleared the way.
The siblings needed no words between them.
"Found it."
Mirror's voice sounded in Dawn's mind.
She pointed ahead. There, countless light-like nerve fibers converged into the thickest torrent of all, leading into unknown depths.
It was the main route to the anchor point that Qin Chuan had marked for them.
The two became streaks of light and raced along it.
The scene around them flew backward.