Standoff
Many of the nodes Ryu ran into were damaged and incomplete, disallowing him to get a full picture. But the more he observed, the more fascinated he became.
After running into his 13th formation node, Ryu stopped for a long while, his expression calm and his breathing entering a rhythmic cadence.
It was a shame. If his Heavenly Pupils weren't sealed, he would be able to enter the States of Meditation with ease and this process would become even faster. However, he still had the Frost Clan's ring to rely on, at the very least.
With a thought, Ryu's palm flipped over and his blue steel lightning dagger vanished in place of a hovering ball of white. This ball of white was none other than a Formation Node formed of qi, but it wasn't any normal Formation Node. In fact, this was the Visualization of one of the Zu Ancestors, Morvar.