The Witch Hunter System-Chapter 1019: Valefor, I Choose You!

After Vaan finished rounding up the straggling nobles outside of the Fanghorn Lord’s manor, two hundred and seventy Body Refiners on his side had all become Divine Inheritors.

He had made several return trips after the initial batch of thirty were finished.

Although his side now had an extra two hundred and seventy people at Rank 6 and even Rank 7, none of them were necessarily stronger than the Peak Rank 6 Great Devils, individually.

After all, the Body Refiners had only just inherited their Divine Worlds and didn’t know how to use their powers effectively. Moreover, they have not learned any divine arts and techniques associated with such a foreign cultivation system.

As such, Vaan left Berucha and the other Body Refiners in Fanghorn City’s Cultivation Zone, where they could learn and adapt to their powerful cultivation.

Meanwhile, Vaan learned more about Celestial City through his spirit watch and AI Pangea.

Just as he had suspected, the heart of the Dragon Vein, where Celestial City was situated, was the location of Golden Dragon Pangea’s Dragon Heart.

Since the Dragon Heart was where the golden dragon blood was pumped, it was strange for golden dragon blood to gather there after its function ceased.

After all, the closed valve would prevent golden dragon blood from flowing out, and the momentum of the last pump would bring the golden dragon blood back in through the other path.

Still, that only proved the Dragon Heart contained a substantial amount of golden dragon blood, and not most of it. While the golden dragon blood in the Dragon Vein may have thinned over Pangea’s long history, it should have other areas to store its golden dragon blood.

For example, the Dragon Bone Marrow and other vital organs like the Dragon Spleen were also areas that could contain golden dragon blood.

In fact, if the Dragon Spleen remained untouched until now, it might even hold more golden dragon blood than the current Dragon Heart.

However, after the long decay of time, many changes took place in Golden Dragon Pangea’s body that turned it into the current continent. Its original draconic anatomy couldn’t be relied on to pinpoint the Dragon Spleen.

After all, the Dragon Spleen had most likely shifted elsewhere if even the Celestial Kingdom couldn’t find it until now.

Nevertheless, that was just one subject of interest.

Vaan had also learned that the large-scale spirit-gathering formation, which robbed all of the world’s spirit energy, was not built from scratch by the Celestial Kingdom. Instead, the Celestials simply restored an existing one.

Moreover, it was directly related to the Dragon Heart.

Since the continent was Golden Dragon Pangea herself, all spirit energy on it also belonged to her. As such, the Celestials only needed to restore some functions of the Dragon Heart, even modify it, to resume its collection of spirit energy.

If Golden Dragon Pangea were still alive, she would have been everyone’s god due to her control over their spirit energy. However, since her body died, this control fell into the hands of the Celestial Dragons.

Considering the spirit-gathering formation was practically a law of the world, wrestling spirit energy from it would be rather strenuous and bothersome that it might not be worth the effort.

As such, the most direct way to end the Celestial City’s monopoly over spirit energy was to seize control of the Dragon Heart from it.

"The two Celestial Dragons are about to arrive in the Cultivation Zone."

"Got it."

Shortly after AI Pangea informed him, Vaan immediately headed up to the Cultivation Zone.

…

In the Cultivation Zone, Fanghorn City’s Dragon Vein was located not far away from the Golden Blood Refinery. Despite being an express route to and from Celestial City, rarely anyone ever used the Dragon Vein pathway due to the alienating relationship between Celestial Dragons and other Celestial Humans.

Celestial Dragons disdain venturing outside Celestial City, which they consider a holy land, while Celestials have misgivings about visiting due to the risk of maltreatment.

As such, the Dragon Vein was generally sealed to allow golden dragon blood to accumulate before transferring over to the Golden Blood Refinery.

When Sir Mugim and Lady Nurla found their path obstructed, they did not bother waiting for the other side to open the tightly sealed gate. Sir Mugim simply rammed into it, smashing it open with brute force!

Boom!

The thick metal gate flung out of the water containment area and embedded itself into a training facility in the distance. At the same time, seawater immediately poured into the water containment area, causing the existing water level to rise several inches.

Nearby Fanghorn Soldiers and trainees in the area were immediately alarmed, but even more so, nervous. They didn’t know if the sudden commotion had startled the Mantis Prawns. It would be terrible if they started attacking indiscriminately because of it.

Meanwhile, Sir Mugim and Lady Nurla quickly noticed the sea monsters in the Cultivation Zone. While Lady Nurla was surprised, Sir Mugim was even more taken aback.

What the hell were sea monsters doing here? The situation seemed quite different from the mail he received.

No, more importantly…

"Sea monsters have invaded the Inner Sea?" Sir Mugim and Lady Nurla both uttered in shock before their gazes became sharp and fierce.

Just as they were about to take action, they suddenly noticed the situation within the Cultivation Zone was too quiet. It was far from the chaotic mess full of fear and destruction due to the rampaging sea monsters that they imagined.

How was it possible for sea monsters not to attack the Celestials?

"Hmm?"

It didn’t take long before the pair sensed a particular gaze on them from a distance.

They quickly discovered a land-dwelling human sitting atop a tall building, silently staring back at them. It almost seemed as if this person had been expecting their arrival.

Although the people in the Cultivation Zone were not warned about the Celestial Dragons, Vaan was informed beforehand. As such, he had also commanded the intimidating Manitis Prawns to seal off the area.

"It’s your time to shine," Vaan commented, seemingly talking to himself, as there was no one else around.

However, he reached his hand into a spatial rift and dragged a short-tempered Valefor out.

"God dammit!! I swear to god! If you keep doing this to me, I’m going to fight you to the—Fuckkk!!!"

Valefor’s angry threat was cut short as Vaan hurled him in the direction of the two Celestial Dragons.

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Bang!

Sir Mugim reflectively swatted Valefor out of the way with a single palm strike, causing the latter to smash into the ground heavily and become unmoving.

Sir Mugim glanced up at Vaan and then looked at Lady Nurla beside him with the same questioning expression, as if they couldn’t make sense of Vaan’s actions.

Was that a suicide attack or a greeting?

Although it was just a casual palm strike, Sir Mugim was confident that there wasn’t a single being outside Celestial City who could withstand it other than the Ocean Overlords.

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Only those whose strength has touched the very peak of Divine Star Realm truly understood how vast the gap between Divine Transformation and Divine Star was.

The dual-path cultivation of Energy Gathering and Body Refining had made Celestial Dragons like them as powerful as Divine Transformation Realm cultivators. However, it also deprived them of the chance to reach such heights.

It was not that they had absolutely zero chance of advancing to the Divine Transformation Realm, but it was much more difficult for them due to their powerful physiques.

Their powerful physiques hindered the cumulative divine energy within their Divine Worlds from transforming their bodies.

As such, every Celestial Dragon hoped the Celestial Dragon King would succeed in his breakthrough. If he succeeded, it would mean that they would also be able to.

"Sir Mugim, watch out!" Lady Nurla suddenly cried with wide eyes, seeing the "dead" rise from the ground.

"Hm?"

Although Sir Mugim sensed something behind him, he still reacted too slowly. He got his dragon tail grabbed by Valefor before a tremendous force robbed his feet from solid ground.

Bam, bam, bam!

Valefor furiously slammed the lizard man into the ground repeatedly, causing the entire floor to tremble and crack. This threatened to collapse the Cultivation Zone into the Residential Zone.

Such a brutal slamming would have shattered every bone in a normal person’s body.

Lady Nurla immediately wanted to assist, but Valefor immediately hurled Sir Mugim in her direction.

Bam!

Although Lady Nurla caught Sir Mugim—or rather, he slammed into her. The strong force pushed her back until she was pressed against the wall of the sturdy silver building.

"Strong!" Lady Nurla exclaimed with wide eyes, genuinely surprised.

Never would she have imagined that land-dwelling humans were capable enough to produce an expert at the same level as them!

"Are you alright, Sir Mugim?" Lady Nurla hurriedly focused on Sir Mugim’s condition. Besides being shaken and disorientated, he was mostly fine otherwise.

"Stay back, Lady Nurla," Sir Mugim pushed Lady Nurla back after recovering to his feet, glaring at Valefor venomously. "He is mine!"

Boom!

With a strong stomp, Sir Mugim instantly catapulted toward Valefor.

However, who was Valefor? He had long mastered the realm of minute subtlety. Sir Mugim’s big movement only made him an easy target.

Peng!

Valefor casually sidestepped Sir Mugim’s flying charge before kicking him squarely in the stomach and launching him straight into the high ceiling.

"Ahhh! Damn you!"

Sir Mugim glared at Valefor furiously as he saw himself getting further and further from the latter. He couldn’t stop the momentum of Valefor’s kick from carrying him away.

Nevertheless, he gave his body a twist in mid-air, lightly landing against the ceiling before catapulting toward Valefor with another powerful launch.

Bang!

Alas, Valefor sidestepped his straightforward charge and kicked him again, but in a different direction. As Sir Mugim flew away in disbelief, he also noticed a slight crease in Valefor’s eyebrows.

It was as if the person was thinking, "What kind of mad dog is this?"

"Damn you!" Sir Mugim roared furiously in the distance.

Meanwhile, Lady Nurla was completely astonished by the brief exchanges. She knew about Sir Mugim’s speed and power. Many Celestial Dragons at the same level would find it difficult to make such a clean evasion.

Yet, the opponent did it so easily, always evading by a hair’s breadth. The first time might have been a coincidence, but the second time was definitely certainly.

This person’s battle experience was no joke!