I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession-Chapter 207 - 185 Hehe quick praise me (Vote for monthly ticket)

Chapter 207: 185 Hehe, quick praise me! (Vote for monthly ticket)

Chapter 207: 185 Hehe, quick praise me! (Vote for monthly ticket)

Shenhou City Software Park, street-side barbecue stand.

“Boss, four more skewers of kidneys, ten skewers of chives,” Lu Dexian lifted his cup and chugged down the cold beer, his eyes bloodshot as he called out loudly.

“Okay~”

The proprietress responded and hurriedly brought a plate to the barbecue stand at the entrance, picking through the ingredients and helping her husband arrange them on the grill.

She looked at her husband with some concern, “Do you think it’s okay for that man to come here every night and eat so many kidney skewers? Could it be bad for him?”

While sprinkling chili powder, her husband stopped, looked back, and shook his head, “Let’s not concern ourselves too much with other people’s business.”

He believed the ingredients were fresh and he hadn’t added anything improper to the cooking; if a customer had too many kidney skewers and got sick, it couldn’t be blamed on him.

Just then, a figure passed by with the support of a cane, and he quickly called out, “Dad, where are you off to so late at night?”

The old man looked back, his eyes murky behind his glasses, “I’m going to sit in the garden opposite, the smoke and fire here are unbearable.”

“Then watch out for the roads.”

The old man didn’t reply, staggering across the street with his cane, heading for the landscaped garden at the outer ring of the Software Park.

He sat quietly on a stone bench, at peace.

The night breeze was cool, gradually sweeping away the scent of smoke from his body and the restlessness in his heart.

Nowadays, few people had the patience to enjoy the cool evening in the park; most simply wanted to return home and turn on the air-conditioning for quick relief from the heat.

But they wouldn’t understand this principle of life—that the body gradually sheds the heat because the mind has become peaceful.

The evening wind rustled the large banyan tree in the park, and its hanging aerial roots swayed as well.

As they swayed, the old man’s figure seemed to completely blend into the shadows of the banyan tree.

Gradually merging into one.

His wrinkled old hand gently caressed the wooden handle of his cane, the murkiness in his eyes stirred, flipping over like eyelids, revealing a pair of bright eyes.

Sitting under the banyan tree in the park, he was still the same person, but no longer seemed like an old man in his twilight years; he looked more like a lone wolf licking its wounds in the dark.

“Has Lu Tingyu really died…”

There was a hint of confusion in his eyes as he murmured and glanced back at the barbecue stand across the street. His son, Lu Tingyu, had been led to end up like this by him, so why hadn’t Lu Tingyu shown up yet?

Honestly, he didn’t dare to provoke that terrifying fellow, Lu Tingyu.

But now he had no choice but to do so.

“Mr. Lu, you are truly ruthless. I betrayed my brother to follow you with all my heart, and yet you took my fundamental spirit.”

A person without spirit is like a piece of jade without luster, a broken stone that no one would bother picking up if thrown on the ground.

He…

Had become so incomplete.

However, destiny sometimes has such wonderful ironies; when he became incomplete, he also became a very interesting ‘basic platform’ on which he could ‘install plugins’ at will in his body.

Thanks to Mr. Lu, he obtained a Stone Treasure from a great banyan tree and seized its spirit, finally making himself complete.

But the heart of a tree is the heart of a tree, and it inevitably lost some of the agility of a human heart.

What to do next?

He really didn’t know; he wasn’t Mr. Lu, lacking such exceptional talent.

Well, then experiment, that’s what Mr. Lu always did.

Experiments require more control groups; with the long wait over time, it seems the results of each control group are starting to show.

He’d start from himself first.

He would graft onto himself the spirits of others then use that spirit to influence the mind, and ultimately, the body, to achieve the fusion of life.

This experiment had always been troublesome, even when his guise as a foreign student allowed him to find some harmful Dark Witchcraft, those Dark Sorcerers inside the tree hollow remained so uncontrollable.

But…

Thanks to Mr. Cao for destroying his banyan tree body, he completely merged with the tree’s spirit.

At last, everything started to change, and the thought of incarnating into millions seemed not so difficult anymore.

If I’m already an incomplete version of myself, then it doesn’t matter if I am someone else or someone else is me.

Next, it was time to act on his relatives.

Those two foolish nieces, hehe~

The masked one?

This test subject was simply the most perfect result; using Dark Witchcraft to split the spirit of the Wizard, heh, this is called chaos dividing yin and yang.

Then break the balance of yin and yang, urging the negative spirit to devour the positive one.

Indeed, Chen Shuyun became unimaginably powerful in a short time; everyone was astonished.

But there seemed to be a problem with this approach; her power was ephemeral—only lasting a brief moment—before the overwhelming negative spirit almost completely devoured her mind, turning her into a Sorcerer Zombie.

Following the principle of using even the wasted parts, he used this situation to guide Chen Xinmi to start a second experiment.

If an incomplete spirit was unfeasible, what about an incomplete body?

Oh~

The results seemed promising. Though Chen Xinmi wasn’t as powerful as Chen Shuyun had been, she appeared much more stable.

So…

Since this line of thought was correct, the next step was to explore further along this path.

Initially, one could start with something simpler, no need to go as far as Chen Xinmi and destroy half of one’s body.

Castration was an option.

Right, such mutilation was the most tormenting for the soul.

But it still wasn’t enough!

He thought of something even more extreme: destroying the eyes, for eyes are the windows to the soul. He pondered whether doing so would sever the channel between the body and the soul?

Would that make the body and spirit even closer then?

Body, soul, and spirit, a trinity of life states, there were far too many variables to influence.

That cunning Doctor Zhang, hehe, actually thought about messing with him, well then, he would take the opportunity to snatch away your soul.

That would be interesting.

Could it be that a person, stripped of their soul and with their spirit consumed by the Furnace Core, would not turn into a Stone Treasure Statue, leaving only a body behind?

So the Witch-hunting Knight’s Stone Treasure Statue wasn’t just a single, solitary body?

Confusing.

He gently caressed his cane, smacked his lips, and frowned more deeply in thought.

However…

He no longer had that much time for research; it seemed his life was drawing to a close.

“What a pity, I still wanted to thoroughly surpass Mr. Lu along the path of the transcendents, but a person’s life is truly too short.”

All he could do was accelerate the pace and find a way to conduct more experiments.

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To search for that opportunity hidden by destiny.

Mr. Cao, dang it, when will you consume my original spiritual body of the great banyan tree…

In that case, the great banyan body could merge with your Furnace Core, becoming one most perfect, complete life.

That would be so interesting. My soul combining with the great banyan’s, your soul in the Furnace Core merging with the great banyan’s body, and then I could use the principle of “Heart-to-Heart Skewer Fragrance Witchcraft” to inversely utilize this combination to influence your body.

Heh~

Mr. Cao, whom Mr. Lu always described as stiff as a wooden block, had no idea if he could manage that step; if it’s too slow, I might not live to see the day.

Eventually, I’m going to die.

But the experiments I leave behind in this world will continue on.

I…

Though I harbor a bit of regret, if there really is a netherworld after death, I can proudly hold my head high in front of Mr. Lu.

— Look, brother, I’ve gone farther than you!

— Hehe, hurry up and praise me!

— I know you really want to hit me, but before you punch me, you have to offer me a couple of words of admiration. Blurt out one “respect” and I’d feel this life has no regrets.

Right then, he suddenly forced himself to stand up, his aged body making crackling sounds.

“Aiya~”

He staggered back down onto the park’s stone bench, “My old back!”

Hisss~~~

He took a sharp breath, followed by a bitter laugh. “This body is aging too fast, it’s not like one of those avatars, ah, to be young would be so wonderful.”

Saying this, he tilted his head back, looking in a certain direction with puzzlement.

“Dammit, who exactly cut off my connection with my avatars?”

“Was it that Black Cat Wizard again?”

“How did he do it?”

“Spirit? Is there still someone out there researching up to the realm of spirit these days? Apart from me and Mr. Lu, is there really someone else who understands spirit?”

Nowadays, it was an era of high-speed internet communications; how could a person like him not inquire about some international information? Naturally, he knew that the common perception in the supernatural world remained at the stage of the dualistic theory of ‘body and soul.’

Body, soul, and spirit as a trinity—apart from he and Mr. Lu, was there actually someone else researching this?

“Eyeball Witch Monster, Black Cat Wizard…”

His gaze burning, he looked into the distance, “I don’t care where you popped up from, I just want to know, what have you guys discovered?”

If the other party’s research was extensive, and if it could complement his own, could it provide a breakthrough for him as he faced growing despair?

“I will find you!”

Murmuring to himself, he performed witchcraft with his warm palm to repair his body, eventually leaning on the cane and dozing off on the bench softly.

Who knows how long had passed, perhaps not very long; the old man’s sleep was shallow.

He slowly opened his eyes, which were full of murkiness.

Muttering something in his mouth, it seemed like he was envious of the small business owner who could eat so many kidney and leek dishes in one sitting.

He then leaned on his cane and slowly rose, heading towards the barbecue stall across the street.

The night deepened, and his son and daughter-in-law were still busy. The smoke from the barbecue enveloped the area.