Chu Ming slowed to half his original speed and swept the surface of the wreckage with his divine sense.
The edges of the sealed patterns were smooth, with no cracks and no residual stress. No law fluctuations emanated from within the wreckage, nor were any law fluctuations absorbed. Once he confirmed that this silence was an adaptive response to his Eternal state rather than rejection, he restored his speed to a steady pace and passed along the side of the wreckage without stopping.
At the exit of the stagnation zone, the edge of the first high-density interwoven region appeared ahead.
The law fibers of the three main passages overlapped here, layered into a dense lattice-like structure.
The surface layer of the lattice was woven from countless fine law threads crossing like warp and weft. The warp threads were dark cyan, while the weft threads were reddish gold. Their spacing remained fairly uniform at the surface, but deeper in, the gaps between layers became increasingly uneven. Some layers pressed together as tightly as sheets of paper, while others were separated by the width of a finger. The lattice thickened toward its center; from the outermost layer to the core lay roughly twelve layers of accumulated fibers.
Chu Ming stopped before the lattice and condensed his divine sense into a single thread.
The tip of the thread was less than one-tenth the diameter of a hair. After shooting out from between his brows, it precisely pressed against an intersection between a warp thread and a weft thread on the lattice's outermost layer.
The tip of the divine-sense thread continued pressing at that point. As it pierced the first layer, the fibers sank slightly at the point of contact, the indentation about a hair's width deep. The thread then passed through the center