The Witch Hunter System

Chapter 988: Divine Inheritors



Given Vaan's surprising visit, Moonwater City's military didn't have enough time to put up a strong defense - This was especially so when most of their experts had left to supervise the reconstruction of the three layers.

After all, Moonwater City was under the governance of the Moonwater Lord now, but it used to be tightly managed by the military like every other celestial city. The important facilities and infrastructure all required military-controlled knowledge and expertise.

As such, the city entrance was at its weakest point in security.

There were mostly Heaven Ascension Realm and Void Realm Celestial soldiers, a few Divine Origin Realm Celestial elites, and only one Divine Star Realm Celestial captain guarding the

area.

While Vaan was mowing down the Celestials, who impeded his path, he suddenly had some doubts.

There was nothing wrong with the Void Realm Celestial soldiers. Due to their overwhelming gap in power, there was nothing they could do to him. Even so, the strength they demonstrated was how he expected Rank 5 Transcendent Beings to be.

Divine Origin Realm Celestial elites, on the other hand, seemed far weaker than ordinary Rank 6 Divine Beings.

They had the aura of the divine, but the power they exerted fell short of it.

Rank 6 Divine Beings were supposed to be god-like existences to most people in Pangea. But these Divine Origin Realm Celestial elites were only stronger than Demigods.

Once Vaan became curious about this contradiction, he immediately sought the reason by taking his time dealing with another Divine Origin Realm Celestial elite.

The ignorant Celestial soldiers cheered the Divine Origin Realm Celestial elite on like he was some battle god when they saw he could hold his ground against Vaan. The person himself did not expect to be so capable.

Unfortunately, the Divine Origin Realm Celestial elite began to think he was an even match for Vaan truly; his confidence inflated, and his attacks became more vigorous and flamboyant. "Yeah-! Take him down, Sir Navas! You can do it-"

The excited cheers were suddenly cut short when the Divine Origin Realm Celestial elite tried to block another one of Vaan's chops with his arms-only to realize its overbearing brute strength.

"No-"

Rip...!

The Divine Origin Realm Celestial got split down the middle by Vaan's bare-handed chop. The arms he used to block the chop got severed along with his body.

Silence immediately drowned the area.

The entire fight between Vaan and the Divine Origin Realm Celestial elite only lasted a minute. However, it was enough time to raise the weaker Celestials' mood to heaven before dropping it back into the abyssal depths of hell.

Although Vaan didn't uncover the entire reason for the Divine Origin Realm Celestial elite's lack of power, he did find some clues.

For reasons unknown to him, the Divine Origin Realm Celestial elite could only draw out a small portion of the power within his inner Divine World. The blood vessels and pathways within his body weren't wide or strong enough to contain the full outflow of divine energy.

However, such a thing shouldn't be happening.

As far as Vaan was aware, when Void Realm experts complete the formation of their inner worlds and breakthrough into the Divine Origin Realm, their bodies would also undergo a qualitative transformation to accommodate the newly formed Divine World within themselves.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

However, most of the Divine Origin Realm Celestials and even the Divine Star Realm Celestials he had encountered weren't like this. They all faced the same problem of being unable to draw out their full strength.

It was like the Divine Worlds didn't belong to them, so they had never received the qualitative transformation of their bodies into the divine.

After giving it some thought, Vaan realized what was going on.

It was also the only reason why the Celestial Kingdom could still have so many Rank 6 and Rank 7 Divine Beings. The spirit energy level of Pangea was too pitiful for the Celestials to produce new Divine Origin Realm experts even if they monopolized all of it.

After all, the spirit energy harvested from Pangea still had to be divided among their celestial cities and didn't focus solely on one Celestial.

Throughout the years, the Celestial Kingdom might have a few Void Realm experts achieve lucky breakthroughs into the Divine Origin Realm.

As for the Divine Star Realm? That was nearly impossible.

Divine Origin Realm experts were not immortal like the Divine Beings of Chaos; they could only live up to ten thousand years.

Given the Celestial Kingdom's long history on Pangea, it wouldn't be surprising if it had less than ten Divine Origin Realm experts. However, the truth was that it still had hundreds to thousands of Divine Origin Realm experts.

As such, there was only one answer for this - Divine Inheritance.

The Celestial Kingdom must have figured out a way to transplant the Divine Worlds of its predecessors into the younger bodies of their successors, allowing the younger generations to inherit the power of their ancestors.

However, it has also become clear to Vaan that such Divine Inheritances were imperfect since the Divine Inheritors failed to receive the same level of cultivation as the original predecessor of their Divine World.

Divine Inheritors only received a strong headstart in cultivation.

Vaan guessed that after receiving the Divine Inheritance, the Divine Inheritors would spend most of their time increasing their compatibility with their Divine Worlds.

Considering the Ocean Master was the ninth stage of the Divine Star Realm, he wondered if the Ocean Master had inherited the Divine World of a Divine Transformation Realm Ancestor.

He figured this was most likely the case.

In fact, he believed all late-stage Divine Star Realm Celestials were Divine Inheritors with Divine Transformation Realm Divine Worlds.

'So this is how the Celestial Kingdom preserved its strength?' Vaan mused.

Before long, Vaan reached the border surveillance room within the military district. He kicked open the thick metal door and was greeted with several horrified gazes.

A path of carnage had been left behind in his casual stroll from the city entrance. When Vaan swept the nervous and terrified group with his gaze, the Celestials shivered subconsciously. Since they were so fearful, they might also become very obedient. "Do you want to resist or submit?" Vaan asked.