He no longer separated them into the finest individual threads. Instead, he paired the threads in advance according to "the classification criteria they would encounter during passage," combining those that the same boundary layer would send in the same direction into composite threads.
When the composite threads passed through the boundaries, they did not need to be separated and recombined between layers. Their internal structures remained intact.
He tested the first group of composite threads. After passing through five boundary layers, their internal structures remained intact, without any disintegration. They traveled nearly twice as fast as in the fully separated mode.
More than a hundred boundary layers were crossed one by one within several days.
After crossing each layer, Chu Ming gathered the threads again on the other side of the wall, then separated them into composite threads suited to the next layer.
The Thunder Lord advanced alongside him in the same way, their paths running parallel through the many boundary layers.
The second region was a cavity of extreme cold.
Flame laws could not take shape here at all. Heat was stripped from the air, and even the movement of law particles approached a standstill as the temperature fell. Chu Ming's heat-dissipation patterns closed on their own in the extreme cold. He instead drew power from his first bone, the "foundation of order," condensing the power of order into an anchoring pillar that extended outward from the seed's center and embedded itself in the core node of his own law circulation.
The instant the anchoring pillar locked into place, his law activity was "pinned" in place. The cold could not penetrate the seed, and he sensed that the laws flowing within him remained within their normal temperature range.
The Thunder Lord's thunderclap changed form in the extreme cold.
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