While the two fought their spell duel, neither noticed that the candle flame on the table had come alive.
The little figure formed from the flame flipped through the materials here as if no one else existed.
After a long while, the little figure sighed. "Wrong. All wrong."
Gareth had been wrong.
He had seen a few celestials eat people and assumed that all celestials in the world grew stronger by eating people.
Yet those who ate people were only a minority.
Marquis Dormyas, who produced moonlight essence, had scorned moonlight essence. He ate people.
Holy Son Medi Lev merely believed that moonlight essence was not cost-effective for high-level beings. He did not eat people.
Deities needed faith. They did not eat people either.
Gareth had been wrong because of his stubbornness, because he had let one leaf block his vision.
He had placed too much faith in everything he saw.
Yet it was precisely this mistake of his that had, by sheer coincidence, revealed the true relationship between Yin and Yang in this world.
It also confirmed the sense of incongruity Chen Yi had felt shortly after arriving in this world.
Nothing laid out in the open could possibly be real.
If outsiders supported one faction in breaking the Yin Yang Balance, there would only be one final outcome.
After overcoming countless hardships and the world's blessing, the mission completion rate would smoothly reach 99%, then stop there.
The complete imbalance of Yin and Yang that the outsiders hoped for would never come.
A Deity who seized the other authority would divide off another version of himself, restoring Yin and Yang to balance.
At that point, making Yin and Yang fall out of balance again would be even harder than it was now.
The information this world had spread