After recovering his breath, Ming Xin did not rush to delve deeper into the vortex's center again.
He carefully put away the deep-blue ore and the Silver-White Broken Staff, then entered an observational state once more.
This time, his purpose was clearer: he was not merely searching for items.
More importantly, he wanted to analyze the vortexes' "breathing" rhythm, their energy patterns, and even the hidden "laws" behind that chaotic spacetime.
Like a fisherman lurking along the shore of time, he patiently waited for the tides to rise and fall, trying to discern the direction of the undercurrents beneath the water.
Several eruption cycles slowly passed under his focused observation. Deep within his soul, Ming Xin constructed a dynamic model.
It recorded the starting times of each towering pillar's eruptions, their intensity peaks, decay curves, changes in the vortexes' angular velocity, and the gradient distribution of their suction fields.
It also tracked the mutual interference and overlapping effects of energy and spacetime disturbances between different vortexes.
Gradually, deeper patterns emerged.
First, the five towering pillars were not entirely independent. Although their eruptions were not synchronized, a subtle "resonance" existed between their energy fluctuations and spacetime ripples.
Whenever the eruption phases of two or three towers drew close, the spacetime disturbances in the area between their vortexes became exceptionally violent, forming dangerous Turbulent Belts.
When their eruption phases were at their furthest apart, however, disturbances in the middle region became relatively mild—perhaps this could be called a "relative safety window," though it was still dangerous.
Second, Ming Xin noticed that whenever an eruption reached its peak and the suction was strongest, the dark region at the vortex's center was not entirely impossible to investigate.
At that instant, amid the extremely chaotic spacetime turbulence, some exceptionally brief yet relatively "clear" fragments of