’How could everything I know be overturned by the person before me!’

"Well?"

"Are you planning to go back on your word?" Lu Cang asked again.

At this second question, Xu Zhou finally snapped out of the shock Lu Cang had inflicted upon him.

His eyes swirled with a myriad of emotions.

"No, I will honor my promise."

"It’s just... I still hope to learn your Magic."

"Can I exchange something else for it?"

Lu Cang thought for a moment, looking at the Magic Book floating in mid-air.

"Let me see that book."

"I can’t guarantee I’ll be able to teach you, but I can guarantee that what I show you is genuine."

Xu Zhou glanced at *Magic·Void Creation*.

"Fine."

Lu Cang stretched out his hand, and a gust of wind carried the book to him.

The instant he received the Magic Book,

Lu Cang suddenly remembered.

’Right... I’m not supposed to just learn other people’s Magic willy-nilly.’

’It’ll be a problem if I learn something I shouldn’t.’

’I only remembered after I finished learning it. Ugh, I’m still not careful enough.’

’I can’t be so reckless next time.’

Another Magic Book materialized in Xu Zhou’s hand. He sent it flying, and Lu Cang intercepted it mid-flight.

Throughout their entire exchange, Lu Cang hadn’t lowered his guard in the slightest; his Shield remained active.

After receiving the book *Magic·Void Stab*,

Lu Cang first tossed out several Scrolls, and layers of light pulsed over the book.

He then took out a bottle of some unknown liquid and dripped a drop onto the cover.

Only then did he let out a sigh of relief.

He opened it to read.

A quick glance at the Spell was all it took for him to master the Magic known as Void Stab.

"Void Magic... is truly exquisite."

Chanting, mastering, Ascension, Sacrifice.

The entire process of learning Magic was complete.

[Mastered: Inner Stabbing Void Crystal (Tier Four) (Level: 301)]

A Level 301 Magic, instantly mastered.

Lu Cang skimmed through the rest of the book. Finding no other hidden secrets, he tossed it back.

His understanding of the Magic was now far deeper than anything written on its pages.

"The Magic you want to learn is called Instant White Flash."

"But the prototype for this Magic is Converging Light Strike."

’Converging Light Strike?’

’That Tier Two Light Magic?’

Xu Zhou had seen that Magic before. It was painfully ordinary, and he found it impossible to connect it to the instantaneous flash Lu Cang had produced.

"This is Converging Light Strike." Lu Cang pointed with one hand, light gathering at his fingertip and blasting the distant ground.

But the process was far slower than Instant White Flash, and its range was also very short.

"Dramatically compress your Magic Power before releasing Converging Light Strike, letting it out in an explosive burst... that’s Light Beam Flash."

WHOOSH!

A thin, long white light streaked past, its speed clearly much faster than before.

"For Light Beam Flash, first you determine the path of the Light, then use Magic Power as a conduit... to directly guide the Light along the entire path. That is Instant Light Beam Flash."

ZING—

This time, Xu Zhou saw it clearly. Along a straight line, a thread of Magic Power traveled at extreme speed. The instant it passed, every Element along the path transformed into the Light Element, then coalesced into the Magic: Instant Light Beam Flash.

’Such a divinely inspired Casting method!’

However, the actual operation was definitely not as simple as he described.

"Building on that... sigh, I don’t know how to explain it. You circulate the Magic Power in a specific way to give it more explosive force, then pump it out of your body even faster in a burst. That’s Instant Flash."

The Magic Power in Lu Cang’s body split into threads, flowing simultaneously along thousands of different paths within him before converging...

WHOOSH!

An extremely fast flash of light erupted!

It arrived in an instant!

"Building on that, you purify the Magic Power, increasing the purity of the Light Element to unleash a more violent burst of Light Magic. That is Instant White Flash."

"This involves the concept of Beyond Magic, which you probably wouldn’t understand."

What Lu Cang didn’t say, however, was that he didn’t really understand it either.

Although he had discussed the implementation of Beyond Magic with Iz, their final conclusion was that... while Beyond Magic could indeed be learned, the difficulty was no less than that of comprehending a Root Source.

Lu Cang could feel it, too. Just the pathing of the Magic Power circulation...

...splitting the Magic Power into thousands of threads to circulate inside the body, was vastly different from ordinary Tier Three magic.

Ordinary Tier Three magic involved the flow and variation of ten threads of Magic Power at most.

This was also why Lu Cang knew how to cast it but couldn’t explain it verbally.

’How could I possibly explain that?’

That’s why the difficulty of learning a single Beyond Magic spell was no less than comprehending a new Root Magic, to say nothing of a second or third transcendence.

After watching Lu Cang’s demonstration, Xu Zhou understood the gap between them.

He marveled, "You mean, you created this Magic entirely by yourself?"

"More or less."

"And how did you obtain these Tier Four Magic spells?" 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"Talent."

Xu Zhou sighed again in his heart...

In truth, he’d already had his suspicions after seeing Lu Cang transform *Void Creation* into *Awaken the Void*.

A feeling of utter insignificance washed over him.

Looking at Lu Cang was like gazing up at a great mountain.

’I am but an ant...’

Xu Zhou heaved a long sigh. "I’ve lost all thought of trying to best you."

"Let’s... talk about the Root Source instead."