The records he had seen so far were not necessarily complete. Outer Earth's screening might not have caught everything, and Tang Li's—no, Ronan's—understanding might not be comprehensive either.
Still, after sorting through them, Ronan had plenty of thoughts. The most immediate was this:
The "High-Energy Tides" had probably never followed any natural pattern. They were all the result of indirect connections and influences between Inner and Outer Earth.
Correspondingly, the Tattered Divine Cloak that had created this situation did not seem particularly airtight. The word "tattered" was there for a reason.
Inner Earth and Outer Earth were so closely linked that any large-scale upheaval in the Abyssal Extreme Region, the Fog Maze, or the Deep Blue World produced an immediate response on the "outside."
The difference was that one response was overt, its scale plain to see, while the other was hidden. Judging by events closely tied to Ronan over the past two years, only the Second Extreme Domain Light and the Daydream Nightmare had directly stirred the Sun Wheel Absolute Prison enough to cause a Global Reaction outside. Other disturbances had been weakened thousands upon thousands of times, appearing only as occasional, localized tremors.
What did that mean?
Most importantly, he needed to upgrade his understanding of how vital and sensitive the Sun Wheel Absolute Prison was as the core of the Fog Maze, and how directly it could affect Inner and Outer Earth.
That made sense.
Of the Three Cats Under the Cloak and Outer Earth—the four spacetime domains that seemed at once separate and joined—the most valuable, as far as Ronan knew, was unquestionably the Sun Wheel Absolute Prison. By comparison, even the Deep Blue World, the suspected remains of an Ancient God's body, fell a little short at the most fundamental level.
After all, the latter