As for how to define this range, the answer is actually quite simple.
Initially, the coordinates resonating with the staff were at the end of the left path. But when they arrived at the crossroads, the resonance at the end of the left path suddenly disappeared and shifted to the right path.
At that time, Angel felt very strange. Why did the resonance position suddenly change, and after the change, the coordinate point completely contradicted the original?
It could be said that they were two extremely opposite positions.
After pondering for a moment, Angel decided to first go to the left path’s resonant coordinates to see what was happening. When he reached the end of the left path, he found that the resonant coordinates were not "on the road", but in the dark void.
To his surprise, on the way to the void, Angel perceived space fissures! Space fissures are a type of disaster that is extremely destructive yet very hidden; once you collide with it, the consequences are endless.
If it were just one space fissure, that would be the end of it, but later, after Angel and Kaier explored the void together, they found that this was actually a deathly path filled with space fissures.
The deeper they went, the greater the danger. Angel had no choice but to retreat in time to minimize losses.
Until the end, Angel never found the resonant coordinate point.
At this time, suspicion had already begun to arise in Angel’s heart: Is the resonant coordinate point a trap or an invitation?
The resonant position on the left path is not one that ordinary people can enter; even an official wizard might easily suffer a setback here if not careful. It doesn’t seem like an invitation but rather a trap designed to ensnare.
According to this speculation, if the coordinate resonance is indeed information sent by the Wood Spirit, then perhaps it doesn’t want to meet Angel but is preparing to eliminate him.
Thinking this way, the logic becomes clear.
The Wood Spirit is inherently timid; it couldn’t possibly want to place itself in a space filled with rifts. It specifically lured Angel to that dangerous area.
However, there were still things Angel couldn’t understand.
For example, if the Wood Spirit really wanted to get rid of him, why didn’t it firmly execute the plan, but instead changed the location of the resonant coordinates at the crossroads?
And how did the Wood Spirit create the resonant point at the end of the left path’s void?
The answers to these two questions couldn’t be worked out on the left path because of missing necessary pieces of the puzzle. It wasn’t until Angel went to the right path that these pieces were found one by one.
At the right path’s resonant point, Angel first confirmed one thing: what was resonating with the staff?
Ultimately confirmed, it was... a vine sculpture resonating with the staff.
And the material of the vine sculpture came from the Wood Spirit’s derivative objects, which actually proves one thing: the Wood Spirit can perceive its derived objects within a certain range and can make them resonate to transmit "information."
This led Angel to speculate whether the resonant point on the left path was because the Wood Spirit threw its derived object into the void, allowing it to resonate with the staff?
This speculation is actually not rigorous because the left path’s resonant point would pass by a large number of space rifts, which makes it difficult for the Wood Spirit’s derived objects to precisely avoid the rifts.
Angel did not think deeply about the specifics because the answer to this issue wasn’t of high priority at the moment and could be temporarily set aside.
Back to the right path’s coordinate point.
After proving that the Wood Spirit could perceive its derivative objects, Angel immediately grasped one thing.
The Wood Spirit had actually already sensed that its derived object had been "moved" out of the oil painting after Angel acquired the Round Wood.
The energy within the Round Wood derivative was extremely abundant, unmistakably attracting the Wood Spirit’s attention. However, previously, it had been sealed in the painting, and inside that painting was the "blonde woman," making the Wood Spirit cautious.
Now that Angel had taken out the Round Wood, the Wood Spirit naturally noticed it immediately. Initially, the Wood Spirit probably didn’t understand what had happened and dared not make any moves.
Until later, perhaps the Wood Spirit confirmed that the one who took the Round Wood was not that blonde woman, it began to have some subtle ideas.
Hence, there was the initial resonance on the left path.
At that time, it was clear that the Wood Spirit had intentions to eliminate Angel. But later, it suddenly retreated.
This retreat happened when Angel reached the crossroads.
Why did the Wood Spirit retreat and change the resonant point from the left path to the right path? Angel didn’t understand at that time, but visiting the right path’s resonant point made it clearer.
Because the right path’s resonant point was safe.
The left path’s resonant point was extremely dangerous, but the right path’s resonant point was void of danger. The only possibility Angel could think of was that the Wood Spirit gave up its plan to kill him.
Why choose to give up?
By analyzing the Wood Spirit’s character, there are only two possibilities. The first is intimidation by power. It might have realized that Angel was too powerful and possibly couldn’t be easily killed, thereby risking hatred, causing it to abandon the initial trap plan.
The second, it saw Angel’s staff.
It can basically be confirmed that the Wood Spirit’s main body is the staff. Regardless of the Wood Spirit’s thoughts about Angel’s self-created staff, there is no doubt that the Wood Spirit cares deeply about the staff’s head ornament.
From Cicia’s narrative, it’s known that the Wood Spirit would rather stay forever on Cicia’s platform than surrender the only ornament on its main body, indicating how much it values these seemingly ordinary but actually significant ornaments.
Both scenarios could make the Wood Spirit abandon its plan to kill him.
However, Angel did not make a judgment at the time because there was no clear evidence to rely on.
Regardless of the possibility, they both share a common point: The Wood Spirit saw him.
Due to being intimidated by power, the Wood Spirit backed off. This means the Wood Spirit saw Angel, found him to be powerful, and thus abandoned its initial plan.
If it’s because of the staff, then the Wood Spirit saw Angel up close, or else it would be hard to notice the staff’s head ornament at a glance.
Which leads to the question: Where did the Wood Spirit see Angel?
In Angel’s mind, there is only one answer, which is the crossroads.
Because it was there that the Wood Spirit changed its decision.
Of course, it might be that the Wood Spirit was calculatingly clever, anticipating Angel’s judgment and deliberately setting a decoy at the crossroads. But after thinking carefully, if the Wood Spirit had such cunning and depth, would it have been hiding in the Hanging Jail Stairway for hundreds of years?