Once Chen Cheng understood, his lips began to tremble.
Seeing him like this, Wisdom Shield and the others finally came to their senses.
"Isabel, stop scaring him. It may never have happened before, but Brown might just be that one in ten thousand.
After all, he's the first person in history to become a god."
Melinda clutched Isabel's hand tightly as she spoke.
Isabel poked her in the forehead and said:
"Can you stop letting your crush do your thinking? I never said the kid wasn't impressive, but do I really need to explain the relationship between Battle Aura and Magic Energy to you?
Even if he's a god, unless he purges both the Battle Aura and Magic Energy from his body, he'll end up just like that grain of Mithril."
Hearing Isabel's words, Chen Cheng finally understood where the physical limit he had sensed earlier came from.
The limit he had sensed back then was how long his body could contain those merged forces.
Yet at the time, he had foolishly thought it marked the moment he would shed his body and become a god.
Thinking back to Brother Octopus chattering away beside him, Chen Cheng suspected the fellow had known about his condition all along and had probably been laughing at him in secret.
Seeing Melinda on the verge of tears again, Chen Cheng let out a long breath and said:
"Now that I know what the problem is, I can find a way to solve it.
If these forces have become a jumble of black and white, I'll find a way to separate the clear from the murky."
As he spoke, Chen Cheng recalled the notes left by the Grandmasters of the hundred schools, which he had read after completing the Ascension Trial.
It seemed the answer