After confirming this positive feedback mechanism, Chu Ming kept his perception near the record and continued observing for roughly a hundred breaths.
The new amplitude of the autonomous pulsation remained stable throughout those hundred breaths, and the waveform's smoothness did not undergo any further change.
Under the new parameters, the system found its point of balance. The record's operation entered a steady state consistent with the surrounding space, like water finding its own level within a vessel, no longer requiring additional adjustment to sustain itself.
He withdrew his divine sense from the Grand Collection Point.
His divine sense returned along the connecting line to the side hall, passing back through corridors and walls at the same speed as when it had departed, returning to the Eternal Seed.
He incorporated the record's autonomous pulsation into his perception as a background signal. The signal flickered at the edge of his awareness in a frequency synchronized with the pulsation, occupying none of his foreground attention, like the bell atop a distant mountain gradually blending into the ambient sound after first being noticed. The next morning, he once again followed the connecting line to perceive the state of the Grand Collection Point's record.
The pulsation's amplitude remained at its new value after the nighttime increase, without falling back to its original level.
Like a recalibrated scale, its needle had stopped at a new point of equilibrium after shifting.
Its stability indicated that the increase was irreversible. The record had already adapted to its new operating state.
After the night had passed, the edges of the pulsation waveform had undergone a further minute adjustment in smoothness of roughly five thousandths. The adjustment was tiny, yet clearly discernible among the rows and columns of measurement data.
At the same time, his divine sense caught an exceedingly