The Witch Hunter System

Chapter 916: Astral Essence



Meanwhile, in the Profound Pearl of Life, Vaan completed his aura avatar and began to superimpose it over his physical body from the front side. At the same time, life avatar merged from behind.

In order to achieve the theorized divine body in the Heaven Forging Dragon Art, his physical body had to be perfectly fused with the aura avatar on a 1-to-1 cellular scale.

The life avatar was only there to help with the fusion process.

However, while aura existed and was formed inside the body, this seemingly intangible power only flowed in free spaces outside of blood, which was its natural carrier.

If humans didn't have the seven orifices and countless pores, aura users would have never been able to release aura power outside their bodies. It would have simply been trapped inside.

After all, this was a type of power that could become harder than rare metals and heavier than mountains if sufficiently accumulated. It was a type of energy that wasn't really energy. In fact, it was closer to matter.

As such, the aura would naturally resist merging the flesh, muscles, organs, and bones since it was no different from forcing two matter to become a single mass.

Nevertheless, Vaan's aura was originally created from his body, so it had a certain level of affinity with him. It was also the reason why the possibility of fusion even existed.

However, it wasn't an easy task, even with the help of life energy.

Moreover, it was going to be an excruciatingly painful process. After all, the two colliding forces would grind against Vaan's physical body as he forced them to merge and become one with it.

This type of forceful grinding process wouldn't be as simple as the physical body assimilating the properties of aura power and life energy. No, it was the process of breaking down the body and reforming it to create a more powerful fleshly body.

As such, his theorized divine body was expected to be incomparably heavy and dense, akin to a celestial body like the sun and moon.

Once the preparations were done, Vaan didn't hesitate to begin the fusion process.

It was a race against time.

After all, the longer the aura avatar existed outside the body, the less potency it would have and the more uncertain the success of the fusion process became.

"Ugh..." Vaan gritted his teeth after feeling the pain of the initial grinding process.

However, he also saw how strongly the aura avatar refused to merge with his fleshly body. Even with the help of the life avatar, he couldn't just forcefully jam the two together with his body in the middle like a sandwich.

Brute force wouldn't work and would only increase the risk of failure.

Nevertheless, Vaan had expected this.

He had no choice but to move on to the more painful option to grind the two powers against his body in a high-speed rotational motion.

Concept of Cosmic Flow!

Swoosh!

The surrounding space around Vaan's body suddenly became curved as all matter and energy gravitated towards him in a spiral motion. The closer they were, the faster they were pulled.

Vaan's body was like a black hole but not a black hole.

When the matter and energy of aura and life contacted his fleshly body, they rubbed against it with increasing rotational speeds. An intense heat was immediately generated from the friction, and his flesh threatened to peel off.

Even the aura avatar and life avatar failed to maintain their forms.

They simply broke down into clusters of matter and energy particles that assaulted every part of his body. Even more life energy from further away was reeled in under the powerful concept of his Spatial Law.

Nevertheless, Vaan chose not to stop it.

He had already commenced the fusion process and could only keep going, seeing it through to the end.

Rip!

A piece of flesh was suddenly torn off his body before getting ripped to shreds in the storm of revolving matter and energy particles. Blood leaked from his open wound, but it was quickly healed under his powerful regeneration.

Meanwhile, the loss of blood and flesh blended with the aura and life, transforming into astral essence - the product of a complete fusion.

It was only considered a success if his fleshly body was reformed into a body made entirely of astral essence, which formed the dense core of stars.

Unfortunately, the astral essence was created from a part that had been separated from his body.

The heat of friction continued to grow as Vaan's fleshly body was flayed alive. As more skin was ripped from his body, he also felt the increasing danger.

The potency of his aura power was dropping faster than he anticipated!

When the potency of his aura power dropped, it became less energy-like and more matter- like. As such, the rapidly revolving cluster of aura power was like turning into sandpaper as it rubbed against his body.

Vaan could sense the increasing rate of damage inflicted on his body. With its current trend, his fleshly body would be reduced to a bloody mess if nothing was done.

Suddenly, Vaan's eyes flickered a decisive glint.

In the next moment, he increased the range of his Concept of Cosmic Flow, drawing in even more life energy.

However, at the same time, it also hastened the destruction rate of his fleshly body.

Even so, Vaan didn't stop.

In order to forge a complete body of astral essence, his entire fleshly body had to be broken down into a mass of blood and bone powder. It was an insane procedure that no sane person

would go through.

However, Vaan dared to because his soul was already at the half-step divine rank.

Even if his mortal body was destroyed, he still had the power to continue running the Concept of Cosmic Flow to complete the fusion process and create his astral essence divine body!

His body may be destroyed, but his soul was eternal!

When Elder Willowthorn saw Vaan transform himself into a blood cocoon, he was greatly shocked by his madness.

What kind of cultivation method required such cruelty towards themselves? Or did Vaan just decide to unalive himself?!

Someone, please tell him what was going on!