Over the past year or two, Su Hao had collected quite a few Source Artifacts. He could observe various substances gradually transforming into Source around them, and he had thought he would soon uncover the pattern behind it. Then, even without a Source Artifact, he would be able to turn matter into Source.
Clearly, he had been overthinking it. The conditions required to transform matter into Source were far more complicated—and far more demanding—than he had imagined.
After he used Runes to simulate the outward appearance of a Source Artifact, he failed to transform matter into Source as smoothly as expected.
Nothing happened.
This could only mean one thing: Su Hao's observations were incomplete, and the conditions he had simulated were not comprehensive either. Some necessary factor must have been missing.
It was like seeing a match ignite dry grass and assuming that a flame could set any combustible material ablaze, without realizing that combustion required more than high temperature—it also needed Oxygen. Or seeing a four-wheeled car race across the land and assuming that fitting four wheels onto something would make it run that fast, without seeing the engine and fuel hidden inside...
Under Su Hao's Divine Intent observation, the entire structure of the Source Artifact had been laid bare. At first, he had thought that as long as he manifested all those structures, he would master the method of transforming matter into Source.
But that was not the case.
What he saw was not everything. At the very least, his Divine Intent could not show him things that were finer and deeper. Or perhaps even if he saw them, he could not understand what those special structures and movements truly meant.
It was like taking apart a computer tower and seeing its internal structure. Did that mean one