He sat beside the inscription, maintaining contact with it through his divine sense as he continuously observed the progress of its internal structural adaptation.
The process advanced at roughly ten percent every two shichen. By the end of the first day, adaptation had reached about forty percent; by the end of the second, about eighty percent. During the final two shichen of the third day, it reached one hundred percent.
At the instant the tenth day ended, the silver imprint on the inscription's surface changed from dim to bright.
The light spread several feet across the surface of the Grand Collection Point, making the woven patterns of the law fibers within the illuminated area clearly visible.
Then the light slowly dimmed, returning from brilliant white to a steady golden sheen. The inscription no longer needed external support to maintain its form.
At that instant, the Dao Lord Seed let out a violent hum.
The hum was not a sound, but a resonance that ran through his entire body, spreading from the seed's center to every inch of his meridians and skin.
The membrane around the seed thickened amid the resonance, changing from the brittle resilience of an eggshell into the dense texture of a hard shell. Its surface changed from translucent to opaque. The hard shell took on an even dark-gold color, like a meticulously polished metal casing.
The outline of the third condition became clear the moment the membrane hardened.
That outline had remained blurry while the previous marks took shape, like looking through frosted glass. Now, the frosted glass had been wiped clean. The condition read: The divine art imprint must spread throughout the Turbid Source Land until the underlying laws regarded Order-Setting as a part of themselves. The formation of the hard shell had merely completed the