Xin rode on horseback for three days.
Volume one covered the western territories — ley line mapping, convergence point conditions, structural weaknesses, cultivation event records going back two centuries. The documentation was extraordinary. Not just accurate — predictive. Dao Chen had identified patterns in the network that allowed him to anticipate problems before they manifested.
He had predicted the Hollow's activation window within six weeks. Three years ago.
Ren read volumes two and three simultaneously somehow, making notes in his own system that cross-referenced Dao Chen's observations against the Sacred Order archive records Master Zhou carried.
By the second day of riding they had found four critical network weaknesses that none of them had known existed.
By the third day t
