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Chapter 134 - 134 126 Skinning Knife Skill
Chapter 134 - 134 126 Skinning Knife Skill
?Chapter 134: 126 Skinning Knife Skill Chapter 134: 126 Skinning Knife Skill Lin An discovered that after becoming a wizard, the most useful ability was not the controllable emotions, but the prophetic ability of the ugly head.
However, he still couldn’t control this prophetic ability very well, or rather, he didn’t yet have enough strength to manipulate it at will.
But with this ability, bringing him sporadic visions and intuitions, Lin An was quite satisfied.
He went out to the mall and bought twenty-eight scented candles, all of the lavender essential oil variety.
He didn’t know why it was twenty-eight, nor why lavender was necessary, but this was the marvel of intuition, and he just went with it.
He arranged the scented candles in a circle around the room, lit them all, then found a ceramic basin and filled it with the super expensive mineral water he also purchased from the supermarket.
Lin An sat cross-legged in the center of the candle circle, placed the ceramic basin in front of him, closed his eyes to feel the intuition, then bit his finger and dripped three drops of blood into the basin.
After that, he placed the ‘Life Gambit Curse Slaughter Scale’ behind the basin, took out the hollow crystal weights from the box, and took out paper and a pen, writing down the real names of the ‘Da Susu Male Witch’ and ‘Rabbit Masked Wizard’.
He stuffed a name into each weight and placed them on the respective left and right sides of the scale.
Lin An glanced at the head beside him and began to recite the content on the base, —”All life is equal, life for a life. Life has weight, those with lofty aspirations live.”
Over and over again.
It seemed to have no effect.
Until Lin An suddenly had another intuition and tried humming in the strange tone of the ugly head singing, and abruptly, everything changed.
The flames on the scented candles suddenly surged up, turning from tiny sparks into columns of fire a foot high.
Countless streams of purple smoke began to fill the room.
Vaguely, Lin An thought he saw himself in an endless plain, covered with lavenders swaying in the wind, fragrant and pervasive.
Quite abruptly, the scale in front began to rock wildly, at times tipping more to one side, then to the other.
Lin An had no idea whether the ‘Rabbit Masked Wizard’ would win or if the ‘Da Susu Male Witch’ would prevail. This was a mind gambit, not measured by their respective abilities in casting spells.
The only thing he knew was that both ‘Dizzy’ Sorcery and ‘Substitute Straw Man’ Sorcery were very good lifesaving techniques.
The smoke wafted…
The candlelight flickered…
The lavender rustled loudly…
The Life Gambit Curse Slaughter Scale shook violently…
An almost real, almost illusionary image suddenly appeared in the blood water of the ceramic basin, as if two dense and tension-filled substances were fiercely contending against each other.
“Hmm~”
Lin An grunted, frowning, and finally understood why his intuition had suggested this approach might work — because these two spirits were in the depths of his own heart.
They were on the same battlefield.
And that battlefield was also bearing the brunt of terrible devastation.
Though there were no direct attacks and the intensity was much lessened, it was still a side caught in the gambit’s tug-of-war.
Just then, the ugly head suddenly screamed, “Oh no, Lin An!”
“Hmm, what’s wrong?” Lin An’s voice was hoarse, as if he were enduring some kind of pain, and his expression strangely held a mysterious smile.
As if he found the method, the repercussions, the pain to be thrilling.
“Your smog made me feel so drowsy, and then I actually fell asleep, and then I had a dream!” Ugly Head said anxiously.
Lin An rolled his eyes and turned to look at it, “If it’s… hiss… If it’s something urgent, please mention the main point first next time!”
“Oh, okay.” Ugly Head showed an embarrassed smile, “I dreamt of a girl who came looking for you. Dude, although her figure isn’t as good as that of Peachy Bottom or Long Legs, her aura was incredibly cool. Wow, let me tell you…”
Lin An struggled to suppress the instinct to smack Miao Miao and gritted his teeth, squeezing out a few words from between them, “Get! To! The! Point!”
“Then it seemed like you were in a real hurry…”
No shit!
“Exactly when?” Lin An narrowed his eyes, his brow furrowed as he looked at the ritual magic before him. He had pretty much guessed that Ugly Head might be referring to Rabbit-Eyed Demon Hunter Feng Xin.
“How would I know!” Ugly Head was, as always, unreliable, but the fear on its face turned into an expression of excitement, “In the blurry scene I saw, you seemed to forcefully push the woman onto the bed, tsk~”
Tsk your bloody fur!
What’s the use of such messy bits of information?
Feng Xin is a Demon Hunter who’s been in the Supernatural World since childhood, his hands filled with the lives of Wizards. Is he someone I can overpower?
That’s wrong, how could I possibly force myself on a girl?
Lin An knew himself; he was the passive type, preferring the other person to make a move…
Um… now is not the time to think about these things.
Lin An’s expression changed, uncertain when Rabbit-Eyed Demon Hunter Feng Xin might suddenly appear at his house, while the ritual magic in front of him couldn’t be stopped, and the spiritual energies of the two mad wizards were locked in an endless gambit.
He finally understood why such an impressive Wizard’s tool would end up in Mr. Liu’s hands.
Emotions are somewhat like a chicken rib – tasty but not much meat on it.
The gambit of the mind isn’t a matter of data judgment, where you score one point less and I score one point more, alright, you die and I live.
The human heart is so complex that it’s not easy to simply rank them.
Lin An rapidly mobilized his Spiritual Energy to assist his brain’s mental power, analyzing various situations, while also trying to use the Spiritual Energy to enhance his intuition.
He quickly had an inspiration.
It seemed as if Destiny had already placed a tool right before him, yet he had failed to realize it.
He tapped his temple thoughtfully and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses soon appeared on his face.
Then, from the Red Light Purgatory World, he opened his private storage and took out the bone-picking knife Mr. Cao had given him.
Skinning Knife Skill!
To confront the spirit with the spirit, and yet, it’s not just a confrontation. It’s about mobilizing everything within one’s body and spirit, converging into a blade, to make a cut in another’s spiritual essence.
The blade cut straight across the palm, and Lin An, holding the knife handle with one hand, gently pressed the bloodstained other hand onto the back of the knife and placed the boning knife into the basin of bloodied water.
Gurgle gurgle~~
The ceramic basin began to boil.
White steam spread out, swirling above the basin like fog.
Boom~
The flame of the lavender candle surged upwards dramatically, and the rich purple smoke exploded instantly, filling the entire room.
Lin An only felt his body lighten, suddenly falling from the water’s surface.
His agile spine twisting, with a strong and forceful thrust from his core, he flipped over and landed on an endless plain of lavender.
In the distance, two people with contorted faces were entangled in a struggle on the lavender field.
That scene…
Was oddly captivating.
One Demon Hunter was yanking on Da Susu’s hair while firmly squeezing the flesh of Da Susu’s waist with the other hand.
Da Susu was biting the Demon Hunter’s ear, his chubby feet forcefully trying to hit the opponent’s lower abdomen, but instead kept hitting his own big belly.
This…
Is this some high-level Mind Gambit?
Lin An’s mouth twitched.
He thus oddly and quietly lay down, burying his body in the lavender, moving stealthily and quickly towards the two like a large cat.
What happened next was more ridiculous than imagined.
Da Susu’s headbutt ended up making his own nose bleed, while the Demon Hunter laughed wildly and grabbed Da Susu’s vulnerability.
Awwoo~
Da Susu let out a mournful howl, biting fiercely into the Demon Hunter’s neck.
Lin An even felt that his approach was overly sophisticated. He somewhat incredulously stood up, walked over, and looked down at the entangled duo, hesitating over the boning knife in his hand.
He felt…
To kill these two with this knife, might dirty the blade a little.
“Tch…”
But he was always decisive, no matter how ludicrous it was, he fiercely thrust the knife into Da Susu’s back.
The blade accurately pierced through the heart, emerging from the chest.
“Hm…”
Da Susu’s eyes bulged, trying to turn and see who killed him, but the Demon Hunter gripping his hair prevented any neck movement.
His body started to crumble, first a bloody crack from head to right foot, the wound from a previous axe blow by a Witch-hunting Knight.
Then his body turned black, skin peeling, filled with burning red glow from within, quickly disintegrating to ashes.
“Aha~”
The Demon Hunter kicked him away, blowing up into a burst of embers in midair, obviously the recent fight was no plain brawl, he possessed immense strength.
“Now it’s our turn!”
No sooner had he spoken than Lin An had already lunged with the boning knife.
Along the wound on his neck, a swift whoosh.
Boom~
Before long, he too turned to scattering cinders.
As the spirit of both faded, the entire lavender field began to shake and crumble.
Lin An staggered, his vision returning to the real world.
He closed his eyes to feel, and couldn’t help but be amused.
Both the ‘Da Susu’ dark gold statue arm and the ‘Demon Hunter’ flesh and blood fragments turned to pure dark gold, the black grime seeming to disappear with the departing spirits.
As you may know, this sort of spirit is a combination of witchcraft and Spiritual Energy.
Which means…
Da Susu’s ‘Dizzy’ Sorcery had vanished into thin air.
However, Lin An wasn’t too heartbroken since this sort of blood-relative substitution sorcery went against his principles.
And the ‘Demon Hunter’s spirit, due to Lin An’s interference, won the Life Gambit, and in that moment, the sorcery was caught in the mouth of Lin An’s black cat spirit.
It was thus not dissipated.
Now, insights and experiences from countless ‘Demon Hunter’s’ utilization of the ‘Dizzy’ Sorcery were flooding into his own mind.
All in all, Lin An’s intuition was correct. With such a maneuver, not only did he rid his mind of two troubling elements, he also gained a life-saving sorcery.
But the process was…
Seemingly a series of fortuitous coincidences.
These intuitions through the head, it seems, don’t care about the process, they just point directly to the outcome.
Lin An reminded himself not to rely too heavily on such intuitions in the future, as they seem as unreliable as the mind itself.
Even less reliable was this so-called ‘Life Gambit Curse Slaughter Scale,’ no wonder it fell into Mr. Liu’s hands.
He climbed up somewhat helplessly, briskly preparing to clear away the ceremonial magic setup.
But suddenly his expression changed.
He looked up with some confusion.
No, it seemed he gained something else.
Lin An squinted, feeling the influx of new content in his memory. It contained not only information about the ‘Dizzy’ Sorcery but also…
The battle of spirits between the Da Susu Male Witch and the Demon Hunter?
Oh, not the ridiculous physical squabble on the lavender field, not that absurd visual scene, but an understanding of a subtle Mind Gambit.
With this new understanding of the Mind Gambit…
Lin An instinctively swung the boning knife in his hand, suddenly opening his eyes, and with a light flick of his wrist, he sensed a flash of blade light around him.
Whoosh~
The ceramic basin cracked neatly into several pieces, and the surrounding candle jars were shredded into numerous irregular fragments.
“Wow, wow~”
Ugly Head exclaimed in shock, leaping onto Lin An’s shoulder, looking down at everything in fear, “Have you gone mad? You nearly hit me! What was that?”
Lin An blinked, “Seems like… the Skinning Knife Skill?”