Passing through the gates of the Plane Passage, the Dream carried Gu Ding and his companions into the Higher Plane.
Seeing the new star fields in the distance operating normally, Gu Ding and the others began to brighten up. Everything was different from the chaotic, disorderly movements of the star fields they had witnessed during more than fifty days in the Plane Passage. They knew they had entered a new world.
"What's going on...?" Amid Sea Emperor's surprise, the spaceship came to a stop on its own.
Suddenly, a streak of white light shot from between Gu Ding's brows and sank into the cabin floor.
Somewhat bewildered, Gu Ding traced the light back to the spot between his brows and discovered that it had come from the Great Will Sky Tablet in his Soul Space, which he had obtained from the Gate of Purgatory.
Sea Emperor, meanwhile, noticed that the white light had entered the spaceship's control center. Afterward, the entire ship began undergoing dramatic changes.
The spaceship began expanding on its own. Its weapons and defense systems improved by more than one tier, and even its overall performance underwent a qualitative leap.
The transformation continued for over half an hour before it finally ended. Once the ship resumed normal operation, Gu Ding and the others found that it looked completely different.
After inspecting it, Sea Emperor nodded in satisfaction. "Quite an impressive self-evolution. It seems I never realized that this spaceship was actually a giant member of the Mechanical Race. He simply kept his consciousness system shut down most of the time. Our arrival in the Higher Plane probably exposed him to external stimuli that triggered his self-evolution."
"Self-evolution? Then what was that white light that shot out of the Great Will Sky Tablet?" Gu Ding could not help