The Witch Hunter System

Chapter 1186: Implanting the World Consciousness Embryo

At this depth, the environmental temperature exceeded 4,000 degrees Celsius, making it extremely hot to mortals. Ordinary beings would melt, but it had no effect on Vaan’s body.

Given his high fire affinity, he was essentially immune to this level of heat.

However, even without his divine-rank fire affinity, the high heat still wouldn’t be able to damage his powerful Astral God Divine Body.

Without further thought, Vaan took out the best World Consciousness Embryo he had in his possession.

The World Consciousness Embryo looked similar to a human’s soul core, only less complex, yet more detailed than the system’s hollow shell. It existed somewhere between the two, making its origin rather suspicious.

Nevertheless, Vaan didn’t hesitate to implant the World Consciousness Embryo into the planetary core.

Ba-dump!

Protected by a thin magical barrier, the World Consciousness Embryo avoided the damaging burn of magma but easily passed through the extremely solid surface of the planetary core, merging with it.

In that instant, the whole planet seemed to pulsate with life for a moment before returning to dead silence and inactivity.

However, it only lasted a short while before all sources of energy on Pangea began flowing toward the planetary core with increasing momentum. The planetary core suddenly awakened a bottomless appetite, greedily devouring everything.

"What’s going on?"

On the surface, countless cultivators were shocked to notice the stir in the world’s spirit energy and mana. Despite their efforts, they could only watch the spirit energy and mana disappear into the ground.

It didn’t take long before all traces of energy were gone, disappeared beyond their perception.

No matter how hard they tried to sense them, they couldn’t detect a single wisp of energy.

"A-all of the energy has disappeared!" a Revolving Core Realm Cultivator exclaimed in horror.

As realization dawned on everyone, they felt a chill in their hearts, followed by the darkness of despair. They had just entered the golden age of cultivation, yet suddenly, they returned to the desolate era.

It was as if their spirits, hopes, and aspirations had been raised to the high heavens, only to be smashed back down into the depths of hell.

It felt cruel and unfair.

"Why... why did something like this happen?" another Revolving Core Realm Cultivator muttered, paled and lost.

While the world was in panic and chaos, Vaan watched the planetary core continue to devour all sources of energy with a ravenous appetite.

Its greedy appetite had surprised even him.

He didn’t expect the World Consciousness Embryo to require such a tremendous quantity of energy to transform Pangea into a true life planet.

’No, perhaps it’s only acting this greedy for energy because it’s not receiving the correct type of energy to nurture...’ Vaan quickly guessed.

It could be said that the current World Consciousness Embryo was akin to a drowning baby, gasping for air.

After all, Pangea wasn’t an ordinary dead planet. A normal dead planet was simply devoid of life, while the original Pangea was more like an anti-life planet;its toxic sea would kill any ordinary lifeform. ȓἁΝóΒÈŜ

Thus, if the feeble and undeveloped World Consciousness Embryo was also devouring the toxic energy of the outer sea, then it was akin to poisoning itself.

An anti-life planet like Pangea required more effort to transform into a true life planet.

’This can’t go on. Otherwise, the World Conscious Embryo will die,’ Vaan quickly realized the situation, feeling a sense of urgency.

Although he had multiple World Consciousness Embryos, each was worth ten million contribution credits. Even if he was incredibly wealthy, he would still feel the sting of losses after losing a World Consciousness Embryo.

The World Consciousness Embryo wasn’t just valuable;it was rare and highly sought after.

Vaan instantly sent a thought to Valefor, summoning him from Gehenna. Within moments, a spatial rift was slashed open a short distance away before Valefor stepped out from the other side.

"Hmph!"

Valefor glanced at Vaan and snorted, feeling his mood souring at once. He was like a dog at his beck and call, but what could he do?

Without further thought, Valefor summoned the Profound Pearl of Life, releasing unending waves of profound life energy, which were all devoured by the hungry World Consciousness Embryo within the planetary core.

It didn’t take long before the world quickly calmed down.

Even the missing spirit energy and mana were gradually returned to the surface as the planetary core spat them back out along with the foul and impure energies it had devoured.

Evidently, it much preferred the profound life energy released from the Profound Pearl of Life. Such miraculous energy was much more delicious and desirable.

Vaan and Valefor could both see with a glance.

The profound life energy didn’t just help the World Consciousness Embryo integrate with the planetary core, transforming the anti-life planet into a life planet;it even accelerated the process.

As a result, they saw the World Consciousness quickly forming before invisible waves of law power were released, reforming the governing laws of Pangea, which ultimately altered the environment.

Lush vegetation grew more easily, seemingly accelerating, and even the toxic black sea gradually purified, transforming into a clear blue sea that reflected the color of the sky.

More shockingly, even the people felt something entering their bodies, causing unbelievable changes within. The natives of Pangea all became physically stronger and healthier, and their minds felt clearer and brighter.

"This... What on earth is happening?!"

"I don’t know, but I’m loving it! Keep it coming! Hahahaha!"

"This is simply too magical and astonishing! This must be some sort of divine blessing! But who or what is giving such a huge scale blessing?"

"This incredible blessing doesn’t come with any side effects, does it...?"

Amidst the shock and rejoice, a growing number of concerns also spread among the people of Pangea;they were the skeptical people who believed there was no free lunch in the world.

Naturally, the newly-forming life planet’s blessing to all life forms came with a side effect, but it wasn’t anything directly detrimental to them. It simply formed a connection with all the natives, amassing their collective fortune and misfortune.