The upper reaches of the deeper interior were different from what had come before them in the same way the deeper interior had been different from the high-density region, not a continuation of the previous territory's character at higher intensity but a qualitative shift in what the territory was.
He felt it in the first steps past the threshold where Xu Ling had been standing.
The Law-matter here was not merely denser than the deeper interior. It was more organized, the density carrying a structural quality rather than simply a concentration quality, as though the Law-matter at this depth had been arranged by something rather than accumulated through the realm's natural processes.
The formations were different too.
