Su Mo quietly watched the Brush of All Living Beings show off, rubbed his nose, and said, "Speak plain language!"
"Oh!"
The Brush of All Living Beings flew before Su Mo and slowly began, "Here's how it works. The Pen Lord possesses the power of creation. You can imbue the Pen Lord with your power of law and use the Pen Lord to draw whatever you envision."
"The power of law combined with the power of creation can make whatever you draw become real!"
Su Mo curled his lips. "I can do that directly with my power of law."
The Brush of All Living Beings shook itself and explained, "It's different. Your power of law can only use something to create something else."
"But the Pen Lord can create something from nothing!"
Su Mo froze, then sank into thought. "That defies reason. How could anything in this world come from nothing?"
"Do you know about universal gravitation?"
The Brush of All Living Beings looked at Su Mo in confusion, momentarily stunned.
Su Mo sighed. "All right, that has nothing to do with this."
"But the law of conservation of energy tells me that something cannot come from nothing!"
Seeing Su Mo puncture its boast with a single remark, the Brush of All Living Beings immediately chuckled awkwardly. It had no idea what energy or law he meant, but it sounded very sophisticated.
"All right, it isn't exactly creating something from nothing."
"The Pen Lord's power of creation also consumes the Pen Lord's spiritual energy, which the Pen Lord has slowly accumulated."
Su Mo looked at the Brush of All Living Beings and asked, "What's spiritual energy?"
The Brush of All Living Beings thought for a moment, then answered matter-of-factly, "What makes up a Spirit Artifact's Spirit Consciousness. In other words,