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Chapter 158 - 158 150 wont do such a stupid thing
Chapter 158 - 158 150 wont do such a stupid thing
?Chapter 158: 150 won’t do such a stupid thing. Chapter 158: 150 won’t do such a stupid thing. “Heart-to-Heart Skewer Fragrance Witchcraft” is not only particularly dangerous to perform, but even the preparations in the early stages are especially troublesome.
In Lu Tingyu’s analysis, there is an entire page detailing the importance of personally handling the collection of spell materials.
——Because the materials that bear one’s own traces…
Chen Xinmi looked at these words somewhat emotionally, “Golden advice, if only wizards could understand this, many witchcraft that seem to have a low success rate would become easier.”
She saw Lin An intently examining the list of spell materials, seemingly deep in thought, with a complex expression on her face, and finally she shook her head and began to provide guidance.
“You don’t need to follow the list so rigidly.”
Lin An looked up at her in astonishment, “Prepare without strictly following the list for such dangerous witchcraft?”
Chen Xinmi nodded, taking a long drag on her slender cigarette, looking out into the night sky over the city, “When Shu Yun wasn’t as foolish as she is now, she taught me that to succeed in ritual magic, the most important thing is to rely on feeling.”
“Rely on feeling?”
“Yes, relying on feeling!” Chen Xinmi retracted her gaze and looked at Lin An, “A lesser method is to adjust the spell materials in response to one’s own specific conditions, changes in the magical environment, and changes in the timing of the casting.”
“Wizards capable of this are few and far between. In actual practice, it’s mostly about relying on one’s intuition.”
“Especially the point that Lu Tingyu discusses, that personally collecting spell materials will carry one’s own traces. When you do it, you’ll increasingly appreciate the subtleties of this concept.”
“Maybe you can’t find a bitter widow’s wildflower outside the window, but you can find a lovesick girl’s cloth doll in her room. In some respects, they have a similar effect in ritual magic.”
“And as you go collect this cloth doll, as you come in contact with each person, each event, you will be influenced by their emotional experiences.”
“Which is to say, the foundation of ritual magic is actually brewing in your heart as you collect your spell materials.”
She waved her hand lightly, causing the documents to float up into the box. Once the box closed and the red light vanished, a swirl of smoke dissipated, leaving the table completely bare.
“Let’s go, I’ll take you to the headquarters of the Wizard Association.”
She straightened her lightweight coat, “The witchcraft tools and documents for concealing items are all there.”
This witch…
She wasn’t as difficult to communicate with as imagined.
Lin An carefully noted down everything she said, looking thoughtfully at her receding figure.
Miao Miao, the cat, looked on with a smile, meowing at Lin An.
——See, human nature is inextricable; she actually really needs someone to talk to her more.
——Kind-hearted, tender, full of curiosity and longing for everything, full of desire for love, full of expectations for the future… she once had the best of everything.
Lin An stroked Miao Miao’s head but knew he couldn’t influence Chen Xinmi in any way, offering a comforting pat.
Chen Xinmi suddenly looked back at Lin An, considering his movements as he stroked the air with his right hand, and for some reason felt a strange sensation.
She frowned, “What are you doing?”
Lin An’s movements stiffened, and he sighed helplessly, “I don’t know, since I became a wizard, I often have these neurotic behaviors, and they often trouble me.”
Chen Xinmi’s mouth curved slightly, sizing up Lin An, “Losing absolute control over yourself indicates that some emotion, desire, or whim inside you is eroding and snatching away your control over your body.”
“Congratulations~” Her phoenix eyes were full of teasing, “You’re one step closer to a Sorcerer Zombie.”
“Ah, this…” Lin An retracted his hand as if he’d been electrocuted, looking down at it in feigned horror while actually winking conspiratorially at the black cat.
The black cat covered its mouth, giggling secretly.
“We all die, transcendence is a path of despair.” Chen Xinmi squinted her eyes, holding the slender cigarette upright between her fingers, flicking her index finger lightly, causing countless sparks to drift about.
“!!!” Lin An recognized this witchcraft!
It was with this trick that Chen Xinmi had blown up Professor Cao’s house!
What was she planning?
But he clearly couldn’t stop Chen Xinmi in time. The sparks tumbled in mid-air, enveloping the entire vestibule, forming a cloud that seemed to be made of numerous orange-red filaments of light.
Chen Xinmi slowly walked to one corner of the cloud of sparks, her slender white fingers painted with black nail polish, casually pointing to the other side, “Stand over there; I don’t like people standing too close to me.”
Lin An glanced at Miao Miao and, seeing her nod, walked over.
Passing through the sparks felt ordinary, but Lin An keenly noticed his reflection, and that of his spiritual black cat, was absent from the hall mirror. It was as if an invisible barrier separated him from the real world.
Suddenly, a breeze swept through, the sparks flared up, transforming into a pillar of fire that swept through the vestibule, circling in the air before flying out through a crack in the window.
Surprisingly, Lin An felt no turbulence within the flames, as if standing in place, with only the scenery around him changing.
And what was even more astonishing…
He looked doubtfully at the flames, reaching out gently to touch them.
“If I were you, I wouldn’t do such a stupid thing!”
Chen Xinmi scoffed beside him, “Shu Yun must have told you about the Witches’ Assembly’s ‘Five Emotional Systems Theory’, right? These flames result from the interplay and merging of five emotions. If you disrupt the balance, we will be exposed to the Witch Hunter Knights in a particularly conspicuous manner.”
“That won’t bother me—unless that Knight named Cao intervenes, no one else has a hope of catching me. But it will be bad for you because I’m not saving a fool like you.”
Ignoring her, Lin An just looked up blankly at the swirling fire.
It seems…
He swallowed hard and turned to look at Chen Xinmi, hesitating whether to disclose some information about himself, but he really wanted answers at this moment.
So he slowly stretched out his hand and, under Chen Xinmi’s suddenly widened eyes, that hand gradually turned a fiery orange.
It was the color of steel ingots glowing red-hot.
“Chen Xinmi, tell me, doesn’t it look a lot like this flame?”
“Impossible!” Chen Xinmi exclaimed, abruptly leaning in and grabbing Lin An’s hand.
She quickly winced in pain, “Ah~”
As if wanting to retract her hand as though burned.
But she didn’t succeed.
In her overexcitement, she seemed to have done something foolish, just as she had been describing—the extreme imbalance of her body and soul had disrupted the emotional equilibrium necessary for Lin An to perform the ‘Tanning Skill’.
The Tanning Skill was Professor Cao’s deconstruction of a knight apprentice’s stage in the process of cultivating Furnace from a wizard’s perspective.
Making armor, wearing armor, and eating armor are the three main processes, with making armor being one step among them.
Making armor also involved three steps: ‘Skinning Knife Skill,’ ‘Tanning Skill,’ and ‘Slapping Skill.’
The Tanning Skill is a method that uses Breathing Skill to stimulate the five viscera and six bowels throughout the body to awaken the balanced power of the Seven Emotions and Six Desires.
Although Lin An was still at the level of ‘knowing what it is, but not knowing why it is,’ he had a really good handle on it.
Skinning was to confront; Tanning was to guide; Slapping was to forcibly interfere.
At the moment, he was in a special state of guidance.
In just an instant, Chen Xinmi thought she saw a black cat looking at her with an extremely bizarre gaze.
The black cat opened its mouth, and its fangs were so sharp, as if it wanted to devour her, to merge with her!
“You…” Chen Xinmi wanted to back away in terror, but felt that she couldn’t break free from her grip. Instead, it seemed that, she had forcefully pulled the black cat closer.
Her hand felt unbearably hot, and it seemed like the claws of the black cat were fusing with her own hand.
No!
“Lin An, have you gone mad? How dare you try to consume me?”
Her heart and mind violently stirred, and a powerful witchcraft exploded from within her, tearing apart the space between herself and the black cat.
In the real world, the silent sky suddenly burst into brilliant sparks, resembling a firework.
Boom~
The fireworks exploded, the flames spreading like a ring of fireworks, dazzling with light, before ultimately dispersing into the sky.
Such intense witchcraft aura immediately drew the attention of the Antler Witch Hunter Knight Order and the Rabbit Eye Demon Hunters patrolling the city.
“What audacity!” Nearby, Zhuang was the first to arrive, a red light pulsating as he quickly pulled the audacious wizard, who dared to use witchcraft in the city, into Purgatory.
Following was Rabbit-Eyed Demon Hunter Feng Xin.
These two quickly spotted the figure they had been thinking about constantly—the black cat.
Lin An, responding with lightning speed when Chen Xinmi’s fire witchcraft failed, had transformed into a black cat. Feeling his body rapidly falling, he changed again into the Classic of Mountains and Seas Monster Zou Yu.
With a flash, he appeared beside Chen Xinmi, now lying on the sandy ground of Purgatory World.
“Roar~~”
Following his instincts, he gently placed his paw on Chen Xinmi, roaring menacingly at Zhuang and Feng Xin, warning the two not to come closer to his prey.
“I saw him!” Feng Xin glared at Lin An with anger, “Though I only saw a vague silhouette, I know you are a male witch!”
She coldly pointed at the unconscious Chen Xinmi on the ground, “It’s heinous! During our Demon Hunter operation, you dared to show up, all for the sake of finding a woman? And by force! Absolutely unforgivable!”
Zhuang gave Feng Xin a stern look, speaking in a rapid whisper, “Don’t push him too hard!”
As he spoke, he cheerfully set down his hammer; the massive weapon was tossed aside by him, landing on the ground with a dull thud.
He turned to Lin An, his tone as calming as possible, “Hey, buddy, we can act as if we didn’t see you this time, but you have to let this common person go. What do you say?”
He continued, raising his empty hands and moving a few steps closer, “Look, even though you are incredibly fast and can teleport, you can’t really hurt us, and your attacks are just so-so.”
“We are at a stalemate with one another, and you don’t want to get entangled with the two of us, right?”
“Now, while the other members of Antler haven’t surrounded the place, I can let you go if you release the woman. How about that?”
The Monster Zou Yu hesitated for a moment, slowly loosening its claws, and stepped back.
Zhuang raised one hand to signal Feng Xin to stay calm, while stretching out the other hand toward Chen Xinmi, preparing to use Furnace Power to send the commoner who had stumbled into Purgatory back to the real world.
At that moment, Monster Zou Yu suddenly pounced, appearing lightning fast beside Chen Xinmi and picking her up in his mouth.
Pop~
In a flicker, they were already a kilometer away.
The wind howled, and before Lin An could steady himself, he whirled around to find a javelin hurtling toward him like lightning.
Zhuang’s voice, approaching at high speed, sounded like a dragon’s roar or a tiger’s howl, “You witch, I’m warning you not to spurn a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit!”
Sorry, I can’t hold my liquor; I don’t want to drink anything at all.