Chen Cheng waved his hand, and an ochre magical rune flashed into existence in his palm. A stone slab then materialized out of thin air in his hand.
Watching this miraculous scene, no one present showed the slightest hint of shock. On the contrary, they were all considering whether Chen Cheng's method could be replicated.
Seeing their expressions, Chen Cheng knew how he should proceed with the lesson.
Clearly, they were all technical talents. In their eyes, this was not some miraculous ability, but an entirely new technical method.
When teaching people like them, there was no need to dwell on trivial details. He needed to strike straight at the heart of the matter.
"What I just did was called magic in our era. Of course, for you, it would be more appropriate to call it an entirely new Transcendent tool."
Chen Cheng then demonstrated several other types of magic with different attributes.
"In our understanding, the world was not made of the fundamental particles you understand. Rather, it was woven from strands of laws, and above those laws lay the material world as we understood it.
"In the era before yours, under those conditions, we believed the laws of heaven and earth were dense and without gaps. Thus, our understanding of the world could only remain at the material level."
As he spoke, Chen Cheng waved his hand, making the unfathomable laws of the world visible.
They watched strands of law, fine as gossamer, being woven in Chen Cheng's hands into a dense net. Upon that grid appeared all manner of material entities reflected by those laws, and those entities then formed the world they knew.
"But such density was not set in stone. Once a world crossed a certain boundary—once the exploration of the material world by intelligent