The dark-golden diagram spread across his consciousness like an even base color. Seventeen points of light, arranged in the Optimized Network's pattern, lay across the diagram's central region, while curved connecting lines threaded between the nodes in fractal formations.
He compared the coordinates provided by the Water Lord against the locations of the seventeen nodes one by one, confirming that the coordinates lay beyond the southwestern boundary of Turbid Source Land. The straight-line distance to the nearest, seventeenth node was roughly several thousand li, with an unmarked transitional zone of laws lying between them.
The transitional zone was roughly a hundred li wide. On the topological map, it appeared as a pale-gray field, with no nodes, no connecting lines, and no law structures. Density decreased from the interior of Turbid Source Land outward, and the descending gradient broke sharply at the transitional zone. Density within the fault was high, while beyond it, it dropped to nearly zero.
Its hue resembled that of the northwestern edge region where the Edge Light Point was located, as though the same kind of undefined primordial boundary had been distributed around Turbid Source Land in different directions.
There were no recorded law structures or marks around the coordinate location, like a blank region that had been completely cleared away.
The density of laws at the edge decreased from the interior of Turbid Source Land outward to zero, forming a distinct density gradient at the transitional zone. The position of the gradient line matched the direction of the fault.
He opened a second Reserved Expansion Slot for those coordinates on the topological map.
Unlike the hollow ring of the Edge Light Point, this expansion slot was represented by a pale-gray diamond marker. It lay to the southwest, forming an equidistant relationship with the three nearest among