The Witch Hunter System-Chapter 1035: Astral Soul Energy

The spiritual world was a mysterious place.

When sentient beings close their eyes, their consciousness enters a realm of darkness, which could become a dreamscape, an inner world, or even an entire universe.

Anything and everything could be created with a thought, transcending the constraints of logic and common sense. Unreasonable laws could be made, unimaginable beings could be birthed, and impossible feats could be achieved.

Within the world of one's mind, anyone could become a god, maker, or maker of gods.

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In some worlds, humans were pitifully weak and undeveloped, doomed to a life of looking up at the stars and never exploring them. But even if their feet were shackled to the land they were born, their minds transcended the world and freely explored regions that even the universe didn't have to offer.

When Hecate closed her eyes, a world of darkness engulfed her. Within this world of darkness, vague particles of blue, red, and white scattered everywhere like stars. They didn't emit light, yet it felt like they did.

In the past, whenever Hecate closed her eyes to perceive this world of darkness, she used to think of it as another chaosverse that belonged solely to her.

However, she no longer thought the same after Vaan enlightened her about Nihility. She began to view this world of darkness as the sea of nothingness that lies outside of her universe.

After all, the vague star-like particles in this world of darkness were inconsistent, dull, and lifeless. They had no radiance like real stars in the night sky. It was a deathly quiet world.

Perhaps these vague, lightless particles were the blurs of countless nihility dust moving about.

Of course, given the speed of nihility dust, it wouldn't even be vaguely observable in the real world. However, inside Hecate's mental world, she was like a creator looking at an infinitely zoomed-out universe.

There was a huge difference between being able to see only a single spot on the wall of a cube from inside it and being able to see the entire cube from beyond it.

Nevertheless, Hecate wasn't really familiar with the dust of nihility outside Chaos. She couldn't really say that these vague, lightless particles or spots were really nihility dust. In fact, they were really just phosphenes created by random neural activities in the visual cortex.

However, everything in her mind was illusory and imaginative to begin with. As such, what they truly were didn't matter. What was important was developing her mindset and how she perceived it.

If she believed it was nihility dust, then it was really nihility dust.

Nothing is born without a thought, nothing is pursued without a belief, and nothing is created without dedication.

The secret of comprehending any law lies in the strength of one's belief regarding it, and the world within the mind was a great place for developing and strengthening such beliefs.

If a Divine Being strongly believed his fire could freeze, then his Fire Law would definitely possess the freezing concept instead of burning. No matter how absurd that sounded, it was possible in Chaos.

Such was the way of the world.

As long as the Divine Being was strong enough, the laws of the world would bend according to their will.

Since Hecate was comprehending the Nihility Law through Vaan's concept and not her own, her achievement in the Nihility Law would undoubtedly be limited. After all, how could a copied idea beat the original?

On the other hand, comprehension of the law would come to her much easier. The height of her achievement in the Nihility Law wouldn't be high, but at least there would be some achievement.

To Hecate, that was good enough.

How many denizens of Chaos wished to comprehend the Nihility Law but didn't have the talent, destiny, or opportunity?

As such, Hecate was plenty content even if she only achieved the most basic understanding of the Nihility Law.

Today, she finally achieved it.

The power of nihility started manifesting after her repeated attempts to consolidate the concept and strengthened her belief in it. Even if she couldn't see or feel it, she could still sense it instinctively due to an established connection to the Nihility Law.

Sensing the power gathered between her palms, she knew it was the power of nihility. She had encountered it before and even seen Vaan use it.

Although it was an infinitely small fraction of power compared to the power of nihility in the sea of nothingness, it was undoubtedly the power of nihility.

The true power of nihility from the sea of nothingness could wipe out entire stars and galaxies instantly. They would simply blink out of existence, and there would be no aftershock or residual force from their destruction.

On the other hand, the power of nihility gathered between her hands would take much longer to erase anything.

However, it was precisely at this level of nihilistic power wherein lies one of the most miraculous and envy-inducing abilities in Chaos—the ability to break down matter into its most basic and purest form of energy.

After familiarizing herself with the power of nihility for some time, Hecate achieved a sufficient level of control. However, she also realized the gargantuan difficulty of the task.

The power of nihility was not easy to control; Hecate wasn't confident if she could ever master it to the minute detail.

Still, this much control was enough.

Hecate took out an impure mana crystal and submerged it in the power of nihility. The impure mana crystal quickly disintegrated, and its impure mana burst out.

Under the deconstructing power of nihility, the impure mana lost most of its volume, and what remained was pure mana. However, it didn't stop there. The reduced fraction of pure mana shortly transformed into a type of pure soul energy that only Soul Masters would normally come in contact with.

This type of pure soul energy was called astral soul energy and was the most potent form of energy for soul cultivation. It could directly nourish and improve the divine soul without any particular method of cultivation.

Naturally, using a suitable method would produce even better results.

However, Hecate was completely content even if she didn't know another suitable soul cultivation method for this particular type of soul energy.

It was said that all Nihility Users could become Soul Masters, but not all Soul Masters were Nihility Users. Although Hecate was hopeful, she was still pleasantly surprised when she verified the truth of this information.

With her access to astral soul energy, the constraints of innate soul constitution no longer posed a problem.