Yan held the Thousand Fractures sequence while the central pulse pressed against his back. The ruin’s pressure was external and real. It shoved through the stone into his shoulders and made the floor vibrate beneath him.
The first destructive pulse should have broken the foundation he was forming. Instead, the harmful pressure became strengthening warmth before it could injure him. The cycle’s intended increase remained. His foundation did not collapse into damage; it re-formed more solidly than before.
The room still shoved against him. His back pressed to the stone, and the shoulder bruise complained under the wrap. That was outside force. It had not changed into warmth, and he did not pretend it had.
Within the method, the pressure that should have fractured his forming foundation became reinforcement before injury. The System kept the intended capacity increase. Each destructive pulse that the method produced made his foundation stronger and more coherent.
The outside wave did not become a benefit. It stayed hard against his back, pinning him toward the stone. Yan separated it from the cycle inside him and held the sequence steady.
“Pulse is strong but stable,” Qinghe called from the threshold.
“Vent remains sealed,” Gu said.
Wei kept one hand near the control panel. “The outer seal is bright.”
