Xu Ling led him through the upper reaches at the pace she set when she had a destination rather than a direction, the ancient sword spirit's navigation through the Middle Domain's deepest accessible territory carrying the quality of someone who had mapped what she was moving through rather than discovering it in motion.
He followed and observed.
The territory between the completion Law entity's location and the central wound's position was different from the upper reaches he had been working through during the engagement period. The accord-spaces between formations were present but their character had changed, the dialogues between adjacent formations carrying a different quality than the ones he had been learning to read.
The dialogues here were incomplete.
