This time, the two opened their hearts to each other.
Wang Shi told him a great deal about the world outside.
That included the invasion of darkness they had experienced, and he was frank with him as well.
The reason he had always been reluctant to fall out with the World Spirit was that they might share a common enemy. They were not natural adversaries.
Their enemy might be stronger than him.
"Interesting. The outside world is far too interesting."
"Your world actually faces an invasion of darkness?"
"Your world must be close to falling, right?"
"Then how did you survive? Why does that world have so many powerful beings? And what are the laws like where you come from?"
Wang Shi's brows furrowed slightly.
"I don't know whether the laws as I understand them are the same as the laws you understand, but that's how they are..."
He explained the laws he had comprehended bit by bit, but every point he made met with a rebuttal.
"How could the laws of force work like that? You're merely using power. Your laws have always been reciprocal. When you use power, something else must lose power. The energy of a world is balanced. When one kind of energy disappears, something else must come into being."
"Even the destruction of a world is only destruction from the perspective of a particular form of life. To the world itself, it has never been destroyed, because it has always existed right there. Destruction as you understand it is different from destruction as I understand it."
"Still, I do think the destruction represented by the invasion of darkness truly resembles destruction."
"Because they come from outside and are devouring this world."
The two kept exchanging ideas, with Houtu occasionally interjecting.
At that moment, Wang Shi's