It spread evenly from the center toward the sixteen surrounding nodes and through every channel.
When the silvery white covered the regions of dark gold, the dark gold did not fade. Instead, a transparent, uniform silvery sheen layered itself over the dark gold, like a metal surface thinly silvered by moonlight.
The halo expanded from the center to the edges, passing through every recorded Law node and every marked channel on the topology map, covering all marks and paths across the entire Turbid Source Land. Upon reaching the boundary, it extended no farther and came to an even stop at the outermost ring of the map.
After the silvery-white halo finished its coverage, the overall pulse frequency of the underlying Laws underwent a global calibration.
The pulse rhythms that the seventeen nodes had each minutely adjusted during their autonomous transformation were gathered under the coordination of a unified signal into a single calibration value.
The calibrated frequency flowed from each node into the channels, traveled through them to every endpoint of the domain-wide network, and locked into place at the exact moment the silvery-white halo dissipated.
The pulse waveforms of the seventeen nodes aligned at the same moment.
Their rising edges synchronized, their falling edges synchronized, their peaks matched in height, and their troughs matched in depth. Nodes throughout the entire domain emitted dark-gold pulses at the same frequency and phase.
At the instant the calibration was completed, the temperature inside the Eternal Seed stopped rising.
The warming process of the preheating phase came to a smooth halt as the global frequency locked in. The temperature curve flattened at its peak, then the temperature gradually declined from its maximum value back to its steady state.
During the descent, every stream of Definition Flow within the grid structure retained the same