Present World.
Ancient Basin.
Path of Pain.
"Has it gone quiet?"
Lin Qinfeng tilted her head slightly and looked around.
Within the mysterious space, the gray haze still drifted lazily about, neither hurried nor slow.
"Babayak probably severed the connections between the Soul Realms..."
Lin Qinfeng guessed without much certainty.
"I wonder how things are on Earth. I really hope I can get over there and take a look soon."
Not long after that thought arose, Lin Qinfeng suddenly felt a tremor from within her body.
Upon careful inspection, she discovered that it came from the change in the extra "limb" she had gained when she touched Abhoth's fragment of will.
Like a drowning person suddenly breathing fresh air, it continuously sent her excited signals of having survived a catastrophe.
"This..."
Lin Qinfeng frowned slightly and tried to control it.
The moment she took over, she discovered a mass of power surging within that "limb."
Like red-hot charcoal, it scalded her with extreme discomfort.
So much so that she instinctively drove the "limb" to resist.
Although Lin Qinfeng herself had no idea what form that resistance took, the searing force, like burning charcoal, abruptly vanished the moment that thought arose in her mind.
At the same time, Babayak's urgent reminder sounded by her ear:
"The passage has been opened. Come to the 'midpoint' of the fifth section and head to Earth with Liu Wenjian."
"It's already open?" Lin Qinfeng froze slightly, unable to process it for a moment.
"I have to meet Liu Wenjian at the 'midpoint' of the fifth section... but how am I supposed to leave this Gray Haze Space?"
"Do I have to enter Babayak's Soul Realm first, like Xing Anlin did?"
"But I have a physical body now. I'm not entirely in soul form, so there's