The converging position used his shoulder width as its reference, symmetrically narrowing on both sides, neither left nor right.
When he passed through the gate, the gaps between his shoulders and the edges of the doorframe were exactly equal on both sides.
The difference was smaller than the finest increment his senses could distinguish. He could not mark any disparity between the left and right gaps in his consciousness, because no disparity existed.
The doorframe's convergence was an opening automatically calibrated to his shoulder width. The edges on both sides of the opening remained parallel to the surface of his shoulders. Outside the Heavenly Palace gate, the spacetime folds around the Spacetime Lord on the floating stone platform all stopped for an instant the moment he appeared.
All compression and expansion froze at the same moment, the amplitudes of the folds suspended at their median values.
They were neither compressed nor expanded, but precisely at the equally divided point between the two.
The pause lasted less than a breath. Then all the folds resumed moving at once, their renewed compression and expansion retaining their original rhythm. The frozen instant was joined seamlessly to the resumed motion, like a paused image continuing to play without any visible hitch.
The synchronized halt of the spacetime folds was the Spacetime Lord's way of confirming his change in state.
Throughout the entire advancement process, she had maintained space in its unfolded state, with spacetime folds as the normal state of her existence.
That synchronized halt was the only time she had used her will to intervene in her own spacetime field.
She had paused her own spacetime movement pattern for half a breath, conveying her confirmation through that synchronized halt, then immediately withdrew her intervention after half a breath. Chu Ming did not turn