The Judgment Balance's power was boundless. Zhang Ming felt as though he stood within an immense universe.
This universe was filled with multicolored halos and radiant splendor. Fantastical spheres of light appeared around Zhang Ming, plants welcomed spring, old vines sprouted green, life began to grow, and buds blossomed...
Zhang Ming was utterly engulfed by these scenes brimming with hope.
He finally understood why, in the outside world's assessments, [Unfulfilled Wish] was called a Demon God close to the Ultimate...
"The wish rule really is a completely mind-driven creation, as though it could accomplish every miracle in the world!"
[The wish rule isn't entirely unfathomable. It merely alters cause and effect.]
Miss Gourd continued: [But directly altering causality is simply too expensive. It's very hard to afford.]
[We can settle for the next best thing and make wishes to obtain useful information.]
[For example, we could wish for the method of 'how to make you an Immortal.']
[Then the Source of the World required would drop significantly. Retrieving information involves relatively little causality, so it won't be too expensive.]
That explanation was quite easy to understand.
Directly turning Old Zhang into an Immortal involved a difficult, strong causal relationship, something that could practically be called a "worldly miracle." It was understandable that the cost was steep.
Finding a reliable method to become an Achieving Immortal through his own power involved a weak causal relationship, so the cost would naturally be much lower.
Zhang Ming asked warily, "What if it gives me some garbage method? Say it tells me to kill some Demon God or cooperate with one. Some ridiculous method that takes my money but has no real feasibility... that's possible too, right?"
[That involves the concept of information depth. The shallower a proposal's information depth, the cheaper it is.