Mages didn't compete to see who would win in battle.
They walked the path of seeking the Source.
This was the first time Lu Cang had discussed his understanding of the Source with someone of his "generation."
Things were different now.
Lu Cang was no longer the inexperienced apprentice who had first heard of the Source and understood little.
Now, Lu Cang had developed plenty of his own ideas about the Source, and he had long wanted to discuss them with someone.
Unfortunately, there weren't many people who could talk about the Source.
He and Xuzhou exchanged ideas.
Their differing understandings of the Source clashed, yet each could make a coherent case for its own view of the Source and the world's laws.
The exchange brought them a fresh kind of insight.
Xuzhou said the Source devoured everything.
As magic evolved, those who were left behind were devoured by the Source. In the end, the Source seemed to point toward a method that led to termination.
Xuzhou's idea drew on the histories of the Void and of magic.
The Void was a place of ruin and remnants. Legend had it that the Void was once a highly prosperous higher-dimensional realm, but now it had become a desolate wasteland of exile.
The legend claimed that, as the Source evolved, it devoured other laws and made them part of itself.
Magic, too, had suffered many losses, with much knowledge no longer passed down.
The Source guided the creation of magic, yet it also devoured the magic people created.
This wasn't baseless speculation or a wild guess. Xuzhou had provided many historical records and canonical accounts...
The most famous example was the lost Space Magic.
In ancient times, there had been a great teleportation spell that could send creatures across vast distances, spanning