The Witch Hunter System

Chapter 834: Five Elements



Nevertheless, before Vaan could even cultivate the Everlasting Blood Mantra, he had already realized the first problem - How could he refine blood essence into origin blood if he couldn't even manipulate the blood?

The Everlasting Blood Mantra explained the 'how' of refining blood essence into origin blood but not the 'what' of refining.

'Is comprehending the Blood Law an unstated prerequisite to cultivating the Everlasting Blood Mantra?' Vaan frowned in wonder.

However, he felt like there was a problem with this line of thought.

After all, it was like saying that in order to learn how to become a blood immortal, one had to be a blood immortal already.

'Maybe the Everlasting Blood Mantra is only suitable for a certain Blood Race?' Vaan guessed. However, he quickly scratched the idea.

After all, Hecate had already told him she had given up because it was a broken technique for her.

In other words, she failed to produce any desirable result, as recorded in the Everlasting Blood Mantra. Even if she wasn't compatible with the technique, she should have been able to refine the origin blood.

However, since that wasn't the case, suitability wasn't the issue but something else.

Vaan couldn't control blood, but he could control pure mana. Thus, he could try using pure mana to manipulate the blood essence and refine it into origin blood.

However, this alternative method was also problematic since the pure mana came from Chaos. It might not produce the desired result recorded in the Everlasting Blood Mantra.

Furthermore, Hecate must have already tried using mana to guide the refinement of blood essence into origin blood.

Nevertheless, Vaan decided to give it a test run since Hecate didn't use pure mana. It might discover a different result.

Ding!

<You have successfully increased the blood potency of the Snow Tiger Blood Essence>

<Low-rank Snow Tiger Blood Essence has become Mid-rank Snow Tiger Blood Essence>

...

After Vaan withdrew a drop of blood essence from the blood bottle and refined it with pure mana, he received a positive result.

However, it wasn't the desired result - Blood essence didn't turn into origin blood.

'Well, that was to be expected...' Vaan thought.

He had already predicted the same result in his mind. The practical experiment only confirmed it.

Since that was the case, he decided to review what he knew.

'If the Everlasting Blood Mantra came from the Primal Chaos Era, where Chaos and mana had yet to exist, the primordial beings of that time must have relied on another source of energy to refine the blood essence...'

'Something more primitive but natural...'

After a little bit of thinking, Vaan was quickly enlightened to the answer. The truth had been quite simple from the start.

However, it had been buried by circumstances.

Most denizens of Chaos probably wouldn't know of its existence since the overabundance of mana had replaced it.

On the other hand, every living being on Pangea was stripped of it by an unknown force. 'Spirit energy...'

Suddenly, Vaan couldn't help but feel amused. Hecate had dismissed the value of divine energy. Yet, little did she know that it was required to cultivate the Everlasting Blood Mantra that she failed to study.

Despite her great wisdom, such a simple truth had completely eluded her eyes for so many years because she was a denizen of Chaos.

Even he would have missed the answer had he not been enlightened to some knowledge about the Divine Realm.

'I don't have spirit energy, but I do have a lot of divine energy, its higher form... However, I still need some foundation in energy cultivation before I can officially start cultivating the Everlasting Blood Mantra...'

'But while I do know the True Divinity-rank energy cultivation method of an Empyrean God, it's not really suitable for me...' Vaan frowned.

Empyrean Scarletsea's True Divinity-rank energy cultivation method was too heavily aligned with the fire element.

On the other hand, his past lives were that of a Heavenly God of Space and the Lord of the Boundless Seas and Skies. Furthermore, he had also dabbled in fire and earth in his present

life.

In other words, he had a connection to all five elements. He had messed around with too many elements to be singularly devoted to fire.

Fortunately, the element specialization aspect of energy cultivation wasn't a concern until after the fourth realm of energy cultivation, the Heaven Ascension Realm.

'The Energy Gathering Realm, Spirit Condensation Realm, Revolving Core Realm, and Heaven Ascension Realm are mainly about accumulating spirit energy and transforming them through the three states of gas, liquid, and solid.'

'If I refine divine energy, I will most likely reach Heaven Ascension Realm extremely quickly... That should be more than enough spiritual control to cultivate the Everlasting Blood

Mantra...'

'As for what comes after the Heaven Ascension Realm, I may have to devise my own energy cultivation method if I can't find a suitable one within a year...' Vaan decided.

The fifth realm of the energy cultivation system, the Truth Manifestation Realm, was special because it was the first aspect of element specialization. It was also the most important realm in energy cultivation.

After all, a cultivator's entire future was centered around the type of elements they comprehended during Truth Manifestation.

Suppose their comprehension was too poor to comprehend any laws. In that case, they may not even be able to set foot into the Truth Manifestation Realm.

The relationship between the heavenly laws and Truth Manifestation was like water and a plant seed. Without any watering, the plant seed would not have much hope of germinating. Should Heaven Ascension Realm cultivators fail to enter Truth Manifestation, their only hope of continuing cultivation would be to shatter their core and enter the Void Realm. Although Truth Manifestation and Void cultivators could both enter the Divine Realm, the difference between their power and lifespan would be like heaven and earth.

Of course, Vaan was completely confident in entering the Truth Manifestation Realm. However, there was still a difference in how perfectly it could be done.

Ding!

<Rich amounts of divine energy detected>

<Would you like to open the Lower Dantian and initiate energy cultivation?>

...

Shortly after Vaan took out a divine energy crystal from his Heaven-Swallowing Space, the

system prompted him.

'Yes!'