The Witch Hunter System

Chapter 915: Eating the Tribulation Lightning (2)



Shortly after Valefor swallowed the last trace of tribulation lightning, he immediately isolated himself inside a secluded mountain cave in the Purpleflame Territory.

The Purpleflame Territory had few visitors and fewer who could travel to many places in the burning land. Thus, he figured it was the best place to bury himself in researching the power of lightning tribulation.

The sooner he figured out how to effectively use it, the faster he would grow.

Meanwhile, the Fifth Progenitor and the other high-ranking vampires of Vladigold City were left behind to handle the aftermath of the heavenly devastation.

Although many buildings were leveled to the ground and the underground sewage system became a wreck, the high-ranking vampires in city managerial positions didn't mind the extensive city damage as much.

Instead, they only felt fortunate that the casualties among the livestock were minimal.

After all, they had already lost a significant amount of livestock in the previous battle between Abaddon and Hecate. The city couldn't keep taking such big hits on their livestock count.

It would seriously affect the flow of their blood currency and force a heavier blood restriction on their daily drinking limit. Even if the lower-ranking vampires didn't want to follow it, they would have no choice but to do so.

In times of droughts, humans had to conserve water, while vampires conserved blood. It was the natural solution to sustain themselves.

Nevertheless, while the various demon races and humans worked together to clean up the city and restore their normal lives under the vampires' direction, the scene of Valefor challenging the lightning tribulation was relived in their minds.

The unforgettable experience was etched into their memories permanently.

They didn't expect their new ruler to be so powerful. Even something as powerful as the heavenly punishment couldn't do anything to him.

However, everyone also realized they didn't know anything about the heavenly punishment. As such, the curious ones all visited libraries to look up whatever they could find on it.

The Fifth Progenitor, in particular, was the most curious about the heavenly punishment. After all, he knew a bit about the heavenly laws and understood the heavens wouldn't deliver heavenly punishment for no reason.

As such, there had to be something extraordinary about the lightning tribulation.

Valefor decided to research the lightning tribulation because he also felt it was something particularly extraordinary.

After all, Gehenna was considered a low-rank realm; its mana quality was too poor to birth a Divine Lord ever in its long history. Yet, the lightning-attribute mana contained within the lightning tribulation was of the highest purity.

Mana of the highest purity simply didn't exist in Gehenna. Yet, the lightning tribulation was formed in it.

One couldn't help but wonder where such pure lightning-attribute mana came from. Considering how quickly the lightning tribulation formed, it could have been far when it was gathered. In fact, there was only one answer - it naturally came from the heavens.

Mana was the manifested form of existential power, which was ever-present in all parts of Chaos.

There was no absolute void in Chaos despite the seemingly vast spaces that could be found everywhere. The formless power of the Law of Existence was always around, whether beings were aware of it or not.

'It seems I can only give up on this idea,' Valefor thought after deeming it was impossible to generate such pure lightning-attribute mana from the void of Chaos.

Only the heavens could do something like that.

No, maybe even the fabled Soul Masters, who were like the favored sons and daughters of heaven, could do it. After all, they were said to be capable of bending reality to their will.

Something like drawing out the purest form of mana from the void didn't seem like much compared to that.

Shortly after Valefor fiddled around with the tribulation lightning in his body, he quickly gave up thinking too much. He decided he would just absorb it the same way he absorbed slaughter energy, according to the first volume of the Asura Codex.

Even though he had never absorbed such tyrannical lightning power for his cultivation before, it was still mana of the highest purity.

Something like that was very rare to see in the entire Skymagia Star Kingdom.

Moreover, Valefor's body had already been tempered to accommodate the power of the black lightning after eating so much of it. His body was currently overflowing with it.

Just the slightest bit of movement would cause electrical currents to discharge from his pores and escape.

As such, the longer he delayed, the more lightning power he would lose.

Unexpectedly, the moment Valefor refined black lightning power and added it to his accumulated cultivation of blood and slaughter energy, the new element mixed well. It did not conflict with the existing properties within his energy core.

On the contrary, it easily worked with his existing properties to push his cultivation beyond the Peak Divine Knight level.

However, Valefor did not reach the Divine Lord level; it was something in between, known as the Half-step Divine Lord level. Reaching this level implied becoming a true Divine Lord was just around the corner.

Only further time and consolidation of power were needed to reach it.

Although Valefor had never reached the Divine Lord level in the original timeline, he was quite certain he was only at the Half-step Divine Lord level.

This was because a Divine Lord had absolute control over their laws within a fixed domain. Unless they faced another Divine Lord or stronger being who comprehended the same law, no other being would be able to wield the same law against them.

That was the authority of a Divine Lord-something Valefor felt he had yet to acquire despite sensing his Asura Law and Blood Law strengthening after the breakthrough.

He also felt some control over the Lightning Law but it was still far from one worthy of a

Divine Lord.

Nevertheless, the results were still far better than what he had hoped for.

"I did expect to gain something, but I didn't expect it to be this great," Valefor muttered with

delight.

Although the advancement to the Half-step Divine Lord level was smooth and simple, it wasn't the biggest benefit of absorbing the lightning tribulation's power; it was increasing

his law comprehension.

Just by absorbing the lightning tribulation, he could automatically improve the

understanding of his laws.

How heaven-defying was that?

Valefor figured such an envious benefit had to do with the fact that the lightning tribulation was formed by the heavenly laws and contained some of its secrets.

Suddenly, Valefor didn't mind getting struck by the lightning tribulation a few more times.