At first, it was a loose layer of particles, with gaps between them. When external force passed through, the particles rolled or settled. After dozens of rounds of compression, the gaps between the particles were squeezed smaller, and the edges of neighboring particles meshed together. As the rounds of compression continued to increase, the boundaries between particles began to blur, trending toward a continuous compacted layer.
No movable microparticles remained on the compacted contact surface. The junction between the layer of existing thickness and the foundation of the Turbid Source Land presented as a uniform, continuous interface.
He withdrew his divine sense from the All-Domain Network and focused it on the Eternal Seed's own operation.
Under the sustained influence of All-Domain Wave Convergence, the grid structure remained stable. The relative spacing between every node had not changed.
The spacing values matched the data from when the fusion had been completed.
The straightness of the lines remained unchanged. The warp and weft lines still stayed perpendicular at their intersections, without any trace of slanting or bending.
No minute displacement appeared in the grid structure.
Under the continued coverage of All-Domain Wave Convergence, the pulse of the pinprick-sized point of light at the center showed an exceedingly slow increase in brightness.
The rate of increase rose by roughly a trace every ten pulses, on a scale below his measurement limit, impossible to record as stable data. Yet he could sense it continuing, like the water level at high tide inching upward at an invisible height—unmeasurable, yet its trend could be felt.
The increased brightness did not come from an injection of external energy.
No new energy flowed in from the surrounding space into his Eternal Seed.
The source of the increase lay within. It was a byproduct of the Eternal Seed's "self-confirmation"