I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession

Chapter 73 - 73 071 Cat Instinct State

?Chapter 73: 071 Cat Instinct State Chapter 73: 071 Cat Instinct State “Ahh~~~”

The piercing scream echoed throughout the training room, and Zhou Xiaoxiao turned her head, revealing a deeply empathetic expression.

“No, no, let go of your hands, my waist, my waist is going to break!”

Even Lin An, who considered himself to have strong emotional control, couldn’t help but feel terrified, wailing in panic.

Because…

He truly felt his waist was about to break.

Break into two halves.

He could feel his tendons being stretched to the limit, starting with soreness to numbness, and now his whole body was transmitting a tearing pain.

Muscle tears, joints rubbing against each other sending sharp pain signals, brain congestion causing dizziness…

Yet Chen Shuyun still didn’t spare him, one foot as heavy as a thousand pounds pressing against his pelvis and belly, her other two hands crazily pulling his arms forward.

Lin An felt as if he was enduring the torture of being dismembered by five horses, with Chen Shuyun being the terrifying wild horse.

Crack~

Lin An could even hear his bones crying out in sorrow.

“The first time you practice the Soft Body Skill, the feeling and effectiveness are the best,” Chen Shuyun’s voice remained soft and weak, gentle and smooth.

Her hands, however, fiercely exerted force, and with another strong pressure from her left leg, she completely pulled Lin An’s upper body, which was leaning back, through from between his feet.

“The rhythm of fear that the Fear-style Softening Skill gives your body will counteract your anger, and the better you feel in your first practice, the more anger you can contain.”

“Then it’s practice, over and over again. Human emotions are endless. As anger builds up, you also continuously elevate your body’s fear to suppress even more anger.”

“This is a gamble, a long tug of war.”

“When you find that practicing this pose is no longer useful, you’ll start learning new Fear-style Softening Skills. Don’t worry, there are a total of seven movements for the Fear-style Softening Skill. Enough for you to use the Joy-style Softening Skill to digest all your anger before you can no longer contain it.”

“Every time you practice the Joy-style Softening Skill, it will turn your anger into body strength, making you more flexible, more enduring, and stronger, allowing it to have better effects and perform better Soft Body Skill motions.”

“So, in the struggle between suppression, digestion, enhancement and the confrontation with emotional anger, your body gets stronger and stronger, and the effect of your witchcraft directed toward anger will get better and better.”

“At the same time, there will be certain improvements in the effects of witchcraft in the directions of fear and joy.”

“Then you will start to hope that this Emotional Fluctuation Period lasts as long as possible…”

“This is the most difficult time of rebirth for a wizard, as well as the best time to lay a solid foundation.”

“Many people miss this stage of laying the foundation and venture early into trying powerful witchcraft, making their emotions even more uncontrollable. This is the most dangerous.”

Finally, with the help of medicine and brute force, she twisted and positioned Lin An into the most standard angle of the Fear-style Softening Skill.

Then she flipped over and sat down on Lin An’s belly.

Crack~

The pelvis was about to split open!

Lin An’s eyes bulged as he felt like his whole body was about to give out.

Chen Shuyun continued to explain, “I find that your plasticity is much better than Zhou Xiaoxiao’s. Your ‘big dragon,’ namely your spine and the entire set of core movements involving the surrounding muscles, bones, skin, and nerves, has special potential.”

“It seems you haven’t fully utilized it.”

As she said this, she shook gently, and the Lin An beneath her felt like he was a dough ball being kneaded and twisted, rolling around.

“Feel the softness of this strength carefully; this is what distinguishes the Soft Body Skill from other martial arts. I shouldn’t continue to apply weight to you, but it seems you can grasp this very well.”

Her words evidently woke Lin An up.

The biggest difference between the Spirit Cat Spinal Stretching Technique and the Fear-style Softening Skill is that one is like a cat arching its back while lying on the ground, while the other is to twist into a roll while leaning back.

But whether arching or leaning back, the requirement for flexibility seemed to be the same.

Adjusting his breathing, he entered the state of the Deer Frolic Breathing Skill, meditating on that image of the black cat, feeling its essence.

Soon, he entered the rhythm of the ‘Spirit Cat State.’

This was not right!

Very not right!

There was a step missing!

In the past, Lin An needed to activate his spirituality to assist with the ‘Spirit Cat Body Stretching Skill’ to enter the ‘Spirit Cat State.’

But now, he had already entered that state.

He could feel a sudden strong grasp over his body, the degree of twisting in his spine, the details of various parts of his body, even the elasticity of his belly along with the rhythm of abdominal breathing, everything quickly transmitting to his mind.

It was so clear.

Moreover, he could feel that entering this ‘Spirit Cat State’ with feline instincts had given him a deep understanding of the soft, flexible strength required to twist his body with the Soft Body Skill.

“Huh?”

Chen Shuyun looked down in confusion, raised her bottom, placed her hand on Lin An’s belly to feel it, and exclaimed in admiration, “My goodness, you’re the most gifted person I’ve ever seen, you’re really well-suited for the Chen-style Flexibility Skill.”

“Quick, take a few steps and see.”

No, it’s not that I’m talented.

Lin An knew this was because cats inherently have a talent for Soft Body Skill.

Twisting his body, he looked upwards and could see his own standing legs growing long, black and crimson fur, and his hands extending forward, turning into a pair of cat paws.

On a spiritual level, he had actually become a cat.

With the instincts of a cat, the talents of a cat.

Thus, he easily assumed the position described by Chen Shuyun, crawling forward on hands and feet.

As he crawled faster and faster, he eventually simply started running, quickly sprinting around the practice room.

“Wow~”

Zhou Xiaoxiao stared with wide eyes, getting up in disbelief, unable to trust what she was seeing Lin An, “You… you just started learning!”

Heaven have mercy, to learn this terrifying Soft Body Skill, even with the help of medicines, she had already paid too much, much more.

Why could Lin An learn it so effortlessly?

Why?

It’s too unfair!

Although Chen Shuyun was also surprised, she had long passed the Soft Body Skill training period during her apprenticeship and knew more clearly the impact of this stage’s training results on long-term development upon seeing Lin An with talent, her expression became even more serious.

She forcefully pinched a tendon in Lin An’s thigh with one hand, “Relax, relax to the point where you don’t feel the pain from the force I’m applying, let yourself relax, don’t tense up too much.”

Her other hand pressed against Lin An’s left ribs, “You’re used to exerting strength with your right hand, causing a slight imbalance in your body, which is amplified in the details, exert force with your left hand, too.”

…

In this manner, Lin An quickly reached every detail of Chen Shuyun’s high standards within just two days of the weekend.

Zhou Xiaoxiao was insanely envious.

Lin An felt no pride, because even though he used methods from Witch-hunting Knights and spiritual abilities, opening up two cheats, every step of learning was still so difficult.

It was as if he had walked through hell itself.

After two hours, when the medicinal effect ended, Chen Shuyun would teach him some yoga poses.

These were all poses tailored to his current physical condition, and occasionally she would also explain some yoga meditation content.

Then, after enough rest, he would continue to drink the medicine and practice, keeping at it until he could easily perform the movement without the help of the medicine.

On the weekends, Zhou Xiaoxiao was only free to come by in the mornings, and Chen Shuyun often had to leave to teach the regular students next door.

Sometimes, as he looked at himself in the large mirror that took up the entire wall of the practice room, contorting his body like a bizarre creature crawling, he too would get a fright.

A feeling of sheer terror suddenly enveloped his entire body.

Goosebumps rose all over his skin.

On Sunday afternoon, while practicing in the practice room, he suddenly thought of the ‘Spirit Cat State’ issue; the need for spiritual assistance in the past seemed to be replaced by the inherent functionality of Chen-style Flexibility Skill.

So, what would happen if he activated his spiritual abilities again at this time?

With that thought, while twisting his body as he ran around the practice room, he suddenly stopped in front of the mirror, quickly mobilizing the spiritual energy inside him.

“???”

Lin An cocked his head at the mirror with a puzzled expression.

It seemed like…

There was no sensation?

With his eyes slightly closed, he looked inward at a place deep within his body, the space where Chen Shuyun’s dark gold statue resided; it seemed to have consumed a lot of blood, but there was still enough for him to harness.

At this moment, as if he smelled something particularly fragrant.

Lin An’s nose twitched slightly, akin to the motion of Chen Xinmi the black cat, and with a curious look around, he eventually saw a greyish-blue furry ear.

How fragrant~

Instinctively, he licked his lips as though calling upon spiritual energy, or perhaps opening his mouth to inhale greedily, the greyish-blue wolf ear transformed into a mist of greyish-blue sandy particles and entered his mouth.

No, it should be ‘it’.

‘It’, the self in Cat Instinct State.

Lin An finally noticed that in this state, many of his instincts were becoming closer to those of an actual cat.

As he swallowed the ear, Lin An felt his own cat ears begin to itch.

He shook his ears and suddenly felt countless sounds buzzing yet distinctively around him.

——(Next door, Chen Shuyun) Remember, in Camel Pose you must open up the whole body, the hips, the chest, the shoulders, especially the shoulders, I see some people using too much strength in their neck and head, everyone needs to practice this well…

——Whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~, the sound of a breeze blowing through the trees outside the yoga studio.

——You’re crazy! I told you to help me kill Lin An, I didn’t say to do it here, this is the witch’s territory!

That is…

Mr. Liu’s voice?

Lin An was startled, his body jumped up, contorting in mid-air, rapidly landing on the floor with the posture of a cat on all fours.