Everything before their eyes...
Could no longer be described by conventional concepts of space.
There was no up or down, left or right.
No distinction between front and back.
Even the sense of distance, used to measure the span of space, had grown blurred.
Before Shen Yi and the other women...
There was only a vast, boundless void, its backdrop a deep, dark hue.
And far ahead of them, at the very end of their vision, a hazy barrier stretched across the horizon, as though woven from countless threads of rules.
That barrier exuded an aura that was heavy, ancient, and utterly different from the world within.
It had no physical form, yet it was sturdier than any substance. It was not energy, yet it contained an unimaginably vast power of rules.
It was as if the flow of all matter and the shifting of space came to a halt before that barrier.
Most exaggerated of all...
Faintly, Shen Yi could even sense that the flow of time was also stopping along with that invisible screen.
After resting for a while...
They underwent nearly another two hours of continuous spatial teleportation.
"We're here."
Lilith's voice sounded beside Shen Yi's ear.
There was also a trace of unconcealable emotion in Lilith's voice.
"This is the boundary of my world, and also the final barrier leading to Beyond the World."
"From here on, ordinary spatial traversal powers will be heavily restricted and disrupted by the chaotic, disordered rules of Beyond the World. Precise positioning will be impossible."
"The rest of the way... we can only force our way out with our own strength."
"?" Xilos and Winnie frowned.
They silently felt the pressure coming from the barrier ahead, as well as the faint, chaotic aura beyond it—strange, yet filled with infinite possibilities.