In the past two years, Su Hao’s greatest achievement, besides breaking through the Divine Transformation Realm and obtaining the incredibly powerful ‘Divine Sense,’ was also successfully conducting experiments on the Source Device and gaining some understanding of the manifestations of the Source.
This was extraordinarily significant for his future research on the Source.
These manifestations can be summarized into three points:
Firstly, the Source Device is an extremely unique object, so unique that there is nothing similar found in the Bullet Ball Space. This object constantly emits a special force field known as the ‘Source Field,’ comparable to the decay of radioactive elements emitting particles or the positive and negative magnetic fields of magnets.
Secondly, any substance within the ‘Source Field,’ regardless of its type, has a very small probability of being influenced by the Source Field and transforming into something temporarily unobservable, resembling the ‘Source.’
Thirdly, different substances have different conversion periods into the Source. The more active a substance is, the faster it transforms within the Source Field, with shorter periods. Conversely, less active substances, such as wood, soil, metal, rocks, etc., have very slow conversion rates with extremely long periods, especially sand, which is the slowest. Additionally, sand can effectively block the Source Field and is suitable for storing Source Devices.
Through continuous analysis and experimentation during this period, Su Hao believed that the probability of substances transforming into something within the ‘Source Field’ was very high.
Because if these Source Devices could transform substances into the Source, then everything he saw in this world would make sense.
‘Under the influence of some special force, an item undergoes a fundamental change, begins to emit a Source Field to the surroundings, and after a period of radiation, the surrounding objects are affected by the Source Field, becoming unstable and showing a tendency to transform into the Source. Under certain special connections, they combine to form the nucleus of a disaster, which accumulates to a certain degree and suddenly erupts…’
So, there are two key points in this process. One is the power that allows items to change their nature and emit a Source Field, and the other is how the Source Field transforms substances into the Source.
As long as he understands these two key points, Su Hao is not far from mastering the Source.
Of course, the premise is that Su Hao’s speculation is correct: substances transformed into something are the Source.
But he is confident enough in his own speculation.
He approached the experimental table, cleared and arranged everything, and took out a low-quality Source Bead, holding it in his palm.
With his eyes closed slightly and distractions eliminated, he quickly calmed down.
His Divine Sense converged, no longer focusing on the surrounding objects, but instead directing all his attention to the Source Bead.
“Whoosh…” A sound as if penetrating some barrier, reached deep into his consciousness.
In an instant, Su Hao seemed to traverse time and space, arriving in another pure white world.
This was the interior of the Source Bead!
The information that couldn’t be recorded in the Bullet Ball Space, the ‘Source,’ was now displayed without reservation in Su Hao’s Divine Sense.
“What is this?”
Perceiving the true form of the Source with Divine Sense was completely different from perceiving the attributes and tendencies of the Source with spiritual power.
A marvelous feeling that had never been experienced before surged into his heart, leaving Su Hao extremely astonished.
Here, everything was filled with a kind of white, pure white, without light and shadow, without gaps, as if there was something real, yet also as if there was nothing at all.
Like air, yet like water, omnipresent, filling this magical space.
But it’s nothing like air or water.
Air and water, no matter how tightly they may appear at ordinary times, still have gaps.
The ‘Source’ perceived by Su Hao’s Divine Sense has no gaps at all.
The fact that there are absolutely no gaps surpasses Su Hao’s understanding.
When all the ‘Divine Sense’ is focused on an object, the scene observed must be a scene of the microcosm. He can even directly observe molecules, atomic structures, and the gaps between atoms. Using Divine Sense to observe the microcosm of an object is like entering a new universe.
Before observing the Source, everything he observed with Divine Sense, without exception, all had gaps, large or small. For a long time, this was Su Hao’s ‘truth.’
Until today, after observing the ‘Source,’ another truth was shattered!
A discovery that astonished Su Hao: the Source has no gaps!
No matter how much Su Hao enlarges the Source, before enlargement, it appears pure white, and after enlargement, it remains the same, without any change.
But how is this possible?
How could a real existing object have no gaps?
It’s as if… the reverse side of space!
What Su Hao perceived with his ‘Divine Sense,’ without any gaps, is only space. No matter how much space is enlarged, there are continuously no gaps! Even his ‘teleportation,’ uses the ‘duality’ of space, rather than opening a gap in space and then entering it.
Continuing to enlarge his perception, Su Hao decided to try if his Divine Sense was faulty: “Try with other objects.”
He withdrew his Divine Sense from the Source Bead and casually grabbed a stone that was readily available. Then he concentrated his Divine Sense perception on the stone, continuously enlarging the microcosm within the stone.
He quickly saw another ‘celestial universe,’ which confirmed that his Divine Sense perception was not faulty and could perceive the microcosm.
Su Hao murmured, “Does the Source really have no gaps?”
Then he once again focused all his perception on the Source Bead, just like before, a pure white expanse with no gaps.
“The perception is correct. Therefore, the Source is a special continuous object without gaps. Then, let’s see the difference between high-quality Source Beads and low-quality Source Beads.”
The Source contained in high-quality Source Beads is many times higher than that in low-quality Source Beads, so he can clearly perceive the difference between the two.
He reached out and grabbed a Source Bead with a brighter light appearing in his hand. His Divine Sense perception focused on sensing it, and in an instant, he arrived in a pure white world.
How to describe this pure white sensation?
Is a low-quality Source Bead white, and a high-quality Source Bead deep white?
But does ‘deep white’ exist as a color? He didn’t know if ‘deep white’ existed as a color, but in terms of Divine Sense perception, it’s this particular feeling.
If one were to insist on analyzing it from a physical perspective, it could be expressed as, the ‘density’ of high-quality Source Beads in a unit space is greater than the ‘density’ of low-quality Source Beads!
But now the problem is, Su Hao hasn’t found that the ‘Source’ has ‘density,’ ah, without density, can it be said to have high density?
“It’s really a strange thing. Without density, different quantities can still be evenly distributed within the same size of space. How is this achieved? Following this train of thought, can it be said that all sources can be infinitely compressed into the same Source Bead?”
He repeatedly examined two different quality Source Beads, feeling more and more intrigued as he looked.
Having just begun his research on the Source, such a significant discovery has been made, which makes him even more excited for the upcoming research.
Su Hao put away the two Source Beads and flashed to the nearby sea around the small island, using his techniques to float steadily in mid-air.
Next, he wanted to try the process of the Source’s transformation when a Origin Mage casts a spell.
His spiritual power extended into the low-quality Source Bead.
“Boom—”
As if an invisible roar fell onto his spiritual power, bringing an extremely strong sense of oppression.
The Source felt within the Source Bead felt different when perceived by his spiritual power, suppressed and violent, as if containing the energy to tear apart the world.
He fully used his Divine Sense to perceive and skillfully guided a strand of Source out, gradually transforming it into a semi-explosive state, completing the preparation before casting the spell.
Just then, excitement appeared on Su Hao’s face: “I’ve sensed it, the process of the Source’s transformation… it’s so amazing, so shocking!”
The guided Source, stimulated by Su Hao’s spiritual power, tended towards an explosive state. This process seemed short, but in the microcosm observed by Divine Sense, it was extremely long.
The transformation process wasn’t complex, exposed completely under the observation of Divine Sense.
In two words, it can be described as ‘fission’!
This process can be simply described as: a strand of Source guided out is divided into equal parts at the micro level. After decomposition, a certain amount of energy is released inward, making the two parts of the Source more unstable. At the moment of decomposition completion, the two parts continue to split, becoming four parts, releasing energy again, four becomes eight, eight becomes sixteen, sixteen becomes thirty-two…
The exponential function with 2 as the base can represent the number of final splits.
In this way, with each split, a certain amount of energy is released inward. In theory, unlimited splitting can release unlimited energy. When the energy reaches a certain level, it erupts completely, forming a violent explosion.
And this is the Explosive Origin Mage.
Su Hao casually pointed, and the semi-explosive Source in his hand shot into the sea, exploding violently, causing the seawater to surge and splash. Many fish turned belly up, floating slowly to the surface.
“The process of casting spells just now, I can understand it as turning the Source into pure energy! Indeed, the division of Origin Mages into ‘Energy, Matter, and Illusion’ categories in this world has some reasoning behind it. Energy, matter, Source…”
Su Hao gradually fell into contemplation. After an unknown amount of time passed, he exhaled deeply, looked down at the Source Bead emitting a faint glow in his hand, and murmured, “I seem to understand what the Source is!”
This is extraordinary…
