A young genius from another world furrowed his brows as his aura flickered. "What is this feeling?" he muttered under his breath.
He could feel the divine essence empowering him, refining his body and soul. Yet beneath that growth, something else coiled through his veins like a faint whisper. It was neither painful nor heavy, but its presence unsettled him.
A silver-haired prodigy from the Ice Lotus Sect gasped softly as frost began to gather on her arms. "This energy… it isn't divine," she whispered. Her ice physique reacted sharply to it, sensing something foreign within her meridians.
Yet no matter how she tried to isolate it, the unknown power blended too seamlessly with the divine essence to be removed. It was as though the two had been fused together from the very start.
Even within Max's dome, some of the Acaris geniuses stirred uncomfortably as they felt the strange energy spreading through them.
