He found it before the next native entity.
Not because he was searching for it specifically. Because the upper reaches' distribution of content had its own logic, the same organizational intelligence that placed the accord-spaces between formations with the deliberateness of things that had been in proximity long enough to develop their dialogues, and the entity Xu Ling had described was positioned where the upper reaches' logic said it should be positioned: at the point where the territory's density and character made the illustration most meaningful.
He had learned to trust the realm's logic in the same way he had learned to trust the mountain's deep zone's logic on Tianyuan Star. The structure was not arbitrary. It was organized around producing what it was built to produce.
He stopped at the distance that felt appropriate.
