A regular pentagon in the topology map gained one vertex and one edge, becoming a regular hexagon.
The six sides were equal in length, the six angles equal, its regularity matching that of the previous two.
After the hexagonal circuit formed, the flow speed of laws within it increased by roughly twenty percent compared to the pentagonal stage. The gravitational links between nodes grew denser, signal transmission paths increased from five to six, and the overall network density rose.
Once the hexagonal circuit took shape, Chu Ming sensed that the surface halo of the seventh gray-white region had begun seeping inward.
Its rate of penetration was comparable to when the first three regions had been individually covered, advancing roughly a hair's breadth with every breath. Its direction remained steady without deviation. The halo layered inward from the surface, like a glaze gradually solidifying from the outside in.
In the topology map, he marked the seventh location as "self-integrating."
The mark was rendered in pale gold, slightly dimmer than the dark gold of completed nodes.
As the mark was completed, its display in the topology map shifted from gray-white to pale gold, its pulse frequency climbing slowly from stillness. At the same time, new fine threads appeared in the topology map between the first six integrated nodes and the seventh region currently integrating on its own. The rate at which these threads formed was proportional to the seventh location's integration progress.
For every ten percent the integration advanced, the connecting threads extended by another segment. They grew from the edges of completed nodes and steadily stretched toward the seventh pale-gold mark.
Chu Ming did not wait for the seventh location to finish integrating.
He shifted his attention from the seventh location to the path ahead. The hexagonal circuit continued maintaining its