I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession-Chapter 276 - 237 Professor Caos Tour of the Spirit Realm

Chapter 276: 237 Professor Cao’s Tour of the Spirit Realm

Chapter 276: 237 Professor Cao’s Tour of the Spirit Realm

Can a person live without a heart?

In other words, can a body without the support of a soul show signs of life?

The answer is: it can, and it cannot.

There are many examples of it not being possible, such as a vegetative person with severe soul-loss syndrome, animals that have turned into Stone Treasures due to the erosion of the Spirit World Aura, and Witch-hunting Knights who have been devoured by the Furnace and turned into statues.

There are also many examples of it being possible, such as Bi Gan from the legendary Shang dynasty, the storied Ground-Bound Spirits, and Sorcerer Zombies where the spirit has taken the place of the soul as the body’s guide.

They follow the traces of the past, carrying out the decisions made by the soul before.

Although they no longer have a future and can never make changes that exceed their past thoughts and decisions, they are indeed showing real signs of life activity.

Why was the ‘Self-sufficient Furnace Improvement Plan of the Leek Garden’ proposed by Lu Tingyu back then supported by the previous generation of Antler People? Apart from the wonderful future that could be imagined if the research succeeded, there was another reason.

That is, if the Antler Furnace Core really devoured the soul, could the Witch-hunting Knight avoid turning into a statue?

Antler People follow the rules of discipline, with the leader proposing a direction, and everyone else putting forth their full effort for it.

Yet, the Antler People also respect no one else, with each Antler striving to go one step further than the others.

Even if the other is the exceptionally talented Lu Tingyu.

Even the plump older brother Chen Fugui would secretly research Doctor Zhang’s Seven Emotions and Six Desires Theory, coming up with a sorcerer’s body skill like the ‘Soft Body Skill’ for digesting emotions, not to mention Professor Cao, who was eagerly hoped by Lu Tingyu before his death to continue his research.

He did it!

No one knows from which generation, but the apprentices of the Witch-hunting Knights have always been ordinary people. Even if they inherited the Antler Furnace Core and obtained transcendental power, they were not sorcerers and found it very difficult to truly feel what it is like to be a sorcerer.

Professor Cao’s approach was to turn himself into a sorcerer.

This was almost an impossible feat in the Supernatural World; hardly had there been any reports of someone without a Sorcerer’s Bloodline becoming a sorcerer.

Luckily, there was a reckless Wizard in Shenhou City, Liu Yuanmou, who delved deep into the ‘Heart to Heart’ Sorcery, turning himself into something neither human nor ghost.

When the Antler Witch Hunter Knight followed the ‘Eyeball Witch Demon’ to the big banyan tree, Professor Cao keenly sensed an opportunity!

If Mr. Zhang could transplant his own soul into this creature, for Professor Cao to graft this creature’s body and bloodline onto his own was simply too easy.

All he relied on was that Stone Treasure banyan tree.

Look, Liu Yuanmou’s research on ‘Heart to Heart’ Sorcery was practically making himself into a platform.

It was a dangerous attempt as well as a failure.

For Professor Cao, who had already reached the ceiling of Witch-hunting Knights, the Sorcerer’s Bloodline of Liu Yuanmou was simply too mediocre.

Tightly suppressed by the Furnace, he couldn’t stir up even a splash of water.

He couldn’t even perform witchcraft.

It was then that Professor Cao figured out why the child Lu Dexian couldn’t perform even a single spell.

Tigers don’t devour their offspring, yet Mr. Lu must have been mad to cruelly lay hands on his own son!

He had been hesitating about this matter, unsure whether to remove the Antler from within Lu Dexian. It seemed like Lu had found a way to accommodate his father’s Furnace Core—perhaps there were other answers.

He did not know.

His thoughts were becoming increasingly difficult; every time he sat in a chair, his head was so empty, not even the sound of water could be heard.

But no matter what, connecting to Liu Yuanmou’s ‘platform’ through bloodlines was somewhat useful.

One day, on a whim, Professor Cao followed the bloodline traces forward.

It was an experience he had never had before. This… is this casting a spell?

The power of the Super Dimensional was simply amazing.

He felt this platform was connecting to Lin An, contending with Chen Xinmi for Lin An.

Seeing his beloved disciple threatened, he instinctively took action.

He swung his blade along the bloodline traces, instantly shattering the coveting desires of the two sorcerers.

But at that moment, ah, he discovered something interesting—the essence of Lin An’s Furnace, which shared the aura of his own Furnace Core, was vastly different from his own!

The Antler’s Breathing Skill Furnace was an integrated whole.

The principle was to enclose one’s life activities and one’s soul, unaffected by the Spirit World Aura.

However, the ‘Wizard Furnace’ he created was open-ended, like a crucible without a lid, its mouth open to the Spirit Realm!

In just an instant, he made the decision to go take a look at the Spirit Realm through Lin An’s ‘Wizard Furnace’.

Then Professor Cao saw a sight that overturned a lifetime of perceptions.

The Spirit Realm…

Was actually the real world!

Or rather, the Spirit Realm is another dimensional real world.

In this world, everyone was frantically popping up with ideas; these thoughts were no longer intangible brainwaves but tangible substances, some like droplets, some like knives, some like glue…

Professor Cao’s increasingly dull brain found it very difficult to clearly describe the texture of ‘thoughts’, but they had become substantial.

These substances, these ideas of each person, were all colliding with each other in a limited space.

Sometimes they won collisions, and the thoughts entered the bodies of others.

Sometimes they annihilated each other, turning into blackish smoke.

Thoughts move at an immeasurable speed, and in an instant, Professor Cao had traveled far in the Spirit World.

He found that the more populated and the denser the population, the more ‘thoughts’ collided in that place.

The gray-black smoke from these collisions began to thicken and stratify.

Drifts of dark-gold fog rose languidly and merged into the sky.

The black oily residue settled and spread across the land.

So…

The origin of the Spirit World was actually due to the emergence of skyscrapers in the real world?

A residential area gathered the population of a village, or even several villages, and a city could easily accommodate the population of an entire nation of the past.

Humanity had entered a density of population concentration that was far beyond any time in the past, and the collision of ‘ideas’ began to occur on a scale far beyond what had been seen before?

Professor Cao didn’t know, he found it difficult to contemplate such a concept deeply.

But he was desperate—the Spirit World seemed indestructible.

It appeared that the only way was for the Sorcerer Zombies to destroy the city, and then the Spirit World would disappear?

What to do, he didn’t know.

Perhaps this was just like a blind person touching an elephant after all—he was not a real Wizard and could not truly touch the reality of the Spirit Realm.

So he thought of the method researched by Mr. Lu’s grandfather, the one deemed useless and harmful by the Antler People – the ‘Witch-ghoul Transformation · Assail the Spirit Realm’ plan, to connect with the Witch Monster here and take on its invasion.

Mind Gambit, something Witch-hunting Knights were best at, enough to let the Witch Monster invade him to a proper degree.

He chose Lin An’s ‘Witch Monster.’

After all, this was a person linked by the Furnace, which would make the Mind Gambit easier.

Interestingly, Lin An’s ‘Witch Monster’ had three forms: a dark-gold statue floating in the dark-gold mist in the sky, a head rolling in the black oily residue on the ground, and another headless body in a deeper shade of dark gold that was the mirror image of Lin An.

What did this image represent?

He didn’t know.

He chose the headless body of Lin An as the object to invade his mind, after all, he was also gradually losing his head (thinking).

The effect was unexpectedly good!

He, a Witch-hunting Knight, had really become a kind of Witch Monster in some sense!

…

In the real world, countless figures flickered and overlapped, each seeming soulless, when suddenly one of the figures ‘came to life.’

Without the suppression of the mind, the Mind Gambit utterly lost control, and in another dimension, Lin An’s spirit completely overtook Professor Cao’s spirit.

Antlers like dark bronze or ink jade protruded from the top of Professor Cao’s head, gradually turning dark gold in color.

These antlers seemed to be turning into a living entity.

They began to take over the soulless body of Professor Cao, completing the ‘Witch-ghoul Transformation.’

It first looked up, noting the spirits of the people floating midair, and saw Lin An as a black cat poised on Liu Yuanmou’s spirit, ready to strike but frozen in place.

It looked down and saw a black cat anxiously watching over here. Upon seeing it look over, the cat’s eyes widened in terror.

“Chen Xinmi’s spirit?”

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It murmured, and the black cat took off running, yelling as it went, “Oh my god, the Witch-hunting Knight has turned into a Witch Monster, scared me to death!”

But after a while, the black cat sneaked back, full of curiosity as it looked at it, raising a black paw as if it wanted to try to touch it.

It didn’t pay any attention to the black cat but just slowly reached out its hand.

The sense of space began to distort, it overlapped exactly with Liu Yuanmou’s body as it raised its arm.

It had completely lost the ability to think.

All it could do was follow its past behavior judgments—Liu Yuanmou must die, Chen Xinmi the child was alright to let go, Mr. Zhang was a fellow traveler, Lin An was one to carry on the legacy.

So, it seemed that only Liu Yuanmou was left to deal with.

Mr. Cao’s movements were always swift and decisive.

The immense force in his arm suddenly tensed.

Crack!

A crisp sound, like Liu Yuanmou’s aged body had been struck by a rammer, instantly shattered.

That still wasn’t enough!

Energy burst forth, grinding bones to dust!

In just an instant, Liu Yuanmou’s body was completely destroyed.

Now it was time for Liu Yuanmou’s giant form, two stories high, to be dealt with; it turned its neck to look and once again reached out with both hands to grasp the giant’s neck.

At its side, the black cat swallowed nervously, retreating subconsciously.

This person was terrifying!

“Chen Xinmi!” the black cat screamed, “Wake up, you’re next to die!”

It anxiously circled the overlaying figure, mewing, “Lin An! Lin An! Wake up! Wuhu, I’m so desperate, there’s nothing I can do now!”

“I can’t turn into a Witch Monster too… ”

“Huh?”

The black cat cocked its head, blinked its eyes, and wondered why not?

Thinking this, it quickly plunged into the continually flashing overlapping figure, accurately entering Chen Xinmi’s body.