When Xiao Yun returned to the main hall, the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud still rested at the center of its base.
He walked over and crouched before it, placing his palm above its surface. Instead of channeling Spiritual Power into it immediately, he first used his Divine Sense to check how the shroud fitted against the base. He sensed that a path for Spiritual Power to flow between them had already opened naturally.
Once he was certain, he guided Spiritual Power down that path, letting it spread gradually through the base's internal structure and outward along its channels.
As the Spiritual Power advanced, he sensed several pockets of energy inside the base that differed from his own in frequency. They were scattered unevenly, like remnants that had never fully dissipated after a long period of stillness.
He did not force them out. Instead, he guided his Spiritual Power around their edges, letting it approach them slowly.
When touched, the remnants began to move outward. They drifted slowly, like layers of fine sand pushed aside by air seeping through water, traveling through the base's channels in different directions before gradually dissipating into the building's outer structure.
Once the last trace inside the base had vanished, he began sending Spiritual Power into it at a more even rate. It spread through the base's channels and into the entire building, drawing every passage and junction into a single flowing circuit.
After the Spiritual Power had circulated through the whole building, he adjusted its flow until the amount he supplied gradually matched what the structure could hold.
When the flow stabilized, he sensed the layout of the entire building through the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, along with the stresses on its structure, the paths of its internal energy flow, and the positions of its