He compared the intricate patterns recorded on the jade stone with the light patterns visible on his spatial ring.
The jade stone depicted the spatial array in its full glory, a blueprint of interwoven lines and symbols.
His ring, however, presented a fragmented, almost ghostly echo of the same design.
The reason for this elusiveness, he realized, stemmed from the very nature of the ring's creation.
The spatial ring, he learned from the jade stone, wasn't constructed in the same way as the other arrays.
Those four were inscribed onto a medium, their energy flowing on the surface.
The spatial ring, however, was the medium. The jade itself had been meticulously worked, the spatial array woven into its very structure at a molecular level.
After three weeks of painstaking comparison, visualization, and meditation, Ye Yang finally managed to trace the complete array within his spatial ring.