After Vaan finished rounding up the straggling nobles outside of the Fanghorn Lord's manor, two hundred and seventy Body Refiners on his side had all become Divine Inheritors.
He had made several return trips after the initial batch of thirty were finished.
Although his side now had an extra two hundred and seventy people at Rank 6 and even Rank 7, none of them were necessarily stronger than the Peak Rank 6 Great Devils, individually.
After all, the Body Refiners had only just inherited their Divine Worlds and didn't know how to use their powers effectively. Moreover, they have not learned any divine arts and techniques associated with such a foreign cultivation system.
As such, Vaan left Berucha and the other Body Refiners in Fanghorn City's Cultivation Zone, where they could learn and adapt to their powerful cultivation.
Meanwhile, Vaan learned more about Celestial City through his spirit watch and AI Pangea.
Just as he had suspected, the heart of the Dragon Vein, where Celestial City was situated, was the location of Golden Dragon Pangea's Dragon Heart.
Since the Dragon Heart was where the golden dragon blood was pumped, it was strange for golden dragon blood to gather there after its function ceased.
After all, the closed valve would prevent golden dragon blood from flowing out, and the momentum of the last pump would bring the golden dragon blood back in through the other path.
Still, that only proved the Dragon Heart contained a substantial amount of golden dragon blood, and not most of it. While the golden dragon blood in the Dragon Vein may have thinned over Pangea's long history, it should have other areas to store its golden dragon blood.
For example, the Dragon Bone Marrow and other vital organs like the Dragon Spleen were also areas that could contain golden dragon blood.
In fact, if the Dragon Spleen remained untouched until now, it might even hold more golden dragon blood than the current Dragon Heart.
However, after the long decay of time, many changes took place in Golden Dragon Pangea's body that turned it into the current continent. Its original draconic anatomy couldn't be relied on to pinpoint the Dragon Spleen.
After all, the Dragon Spleen had most likely shifted elsewhere if even the Celestial Kingdom couldn't find it until now.
Nevertheless, that was just one subject of interest.
Vaan had also learned that the large-scale spirit-gathering formation, which robbed all of the world's spirit energy, was not built from scratch by the Celestial Kingdom. Instead, the Celestials simply restored an existing one.
Moreover, it was directly related to the Dragon Heart.
Since the continent was Golden Dragon Pangea herself, all spirit energy on it also belonged to her. As such, the Celestials only needed to restore some functions of the Dragon Heart, even modify it, to resume its collection of spirit energy.
If Golden Dragon Pangea were still alive, she would have been everyone's god due to her control over their spirit energy. However, since her body died, this control fell into the hands of the Celestial Dragons.
Considering the spirit-gathering formation was practically a law of the world, wrestling spirit energy from it would be rather strenuous and bothersome that it might not be worth the effort.
As such, the most direct way to end the Celestial City's monopoly over spirit energy was to seize control of the Dragon Heart from it.
"The two Celestial Dragons are about to arrive in the Cultivation Zone."
"Got it."
Shortly after AI Pangea informed him, Vaan immediately headed up to the Cultivation Zone.
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In the Cultivation Zone, Fanghorn City's Dragon Vein was located not far away from the Golden Blood Refinery. Despite being an express route to and from Celestial City, rarely anyone ever used the Dragon Vein pathway due to the alienating relationship between Celestial Dragons and other Celestial Humans.
Celestial Dragons disdain venturing outside Celestial City, which they consider a holy land, while Celestials have misgivings about visiting due to the risk of maltreatment.
As such, the Dragon Vein was generally sealed to allow golden dragon blood to accumulate before transferring over to the Golden Blood Refinery.
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