I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession

Chapter 174 - 174 164 I cant do it

?Chapter 174: 164 I can’t do it! Chapter 174: 164 I can’t do it! Domestic Breathing Skill Schools tended toward the path of the Furnace, and the Antler Witch-Hunting Knight Order had always been at the forefront.

Guided by the ancestral concept of the ‘External Elixir Field’ and the foreign concept of ‘Beast Mastery,’ Lu Jiao was among the first to harness Stone Treasure.

In the era of advanced research of the Furnace, Lu Jiao was similarly among the first.

During the time of the Furnace Core, Lu Jiao became one of the leading pioneers in the country.

Lu Jiao never stopped moving forward.

In the next version of the update, Lu Jiao had already vaguely begun to take form.

That was to replenish the depleted soul energy.

Initially, Lu Jiao’s method was to replenish form with form, using the characteristic of wizards’ strong soul energy to devour and supplement oneself.

This is the path of ‘Witch-ghoul Transformation Armor’ and ‘Reversal Devouring Armor’ for the Knight’s armor.

This research direction had always been dominated by the ‘Armor’ Vein.

For this reason, the leaders of Lu Jiao had always been from the ‘Armor’ Vein.

Can you imagine?

Professor Cao’s great-grandfather, grandfather, and father, they were all leaders of Lu Jiao.

In Professor Cao’s eyes, Lu Jiao was his own family’s.

But in his generation, the spectacularly talented Lu Tingyu emerged, proposing that ‘devouring others is evil while delving into oneself is right,’ which gained the complete acknowledgment of the previous generation of Antler People.

He suggested a path wholly different from Lu Jiao’s previous research—not by devouring wizards to replenish oneself anymore, but by recruiting wizards to become Witch-hunting Knights. From supplementing soul energy by taking from others to wizards exploring their own power.

Professor Cao still remembered the grand and confident words his father had once said to him—Son, if you want to become the leader, find your opportunity in the ‘Witch-ghoul Transformation Armor.’ Otherwise, the position of leader isn’t something you can covet.

Although his father said this, he clearly leaned more towards approving of Lu Tingyu’s research direction. On his deathbed, under his longing gaze, he passed on the leadership to Lu Tingyu.

Before his last breath, he still clung to Lu Tingyu’s hand with an earnestness he never had for his own son, saying, “Magnify our Lu Jiao!”

And so, Professor Cao, whose own research in ‘Witch-ghoul Transformation Armor’ had succeeded, along with Doctor Zhang, who had refined his own Furnace Core, these two individuals of exceptional talent, spent their entire lives in the shadow of Lu Tingyu.

At that time, Lu Jiao subtly branched into three factions.

It was Mr. Zhang who, after sharing a drink with him, said quite freely, “Let’s give it all to Mr. Lu.”

Professor Cao loved Lu Jiao, which was also why he left it.

He packed his bags and set off with Mr. Zhang to find his own path.

He ultimately failed, even though he had become a renowned expert in armor within the country, he still hadn’t found his own path.

As his life’s path remained without a glimmer of light, he found himself weakening, nearing depletion—he began to lose the ability to think.

What despair it was!

This lifetime, how laughable!

Great sorrow!

Professor Cao agreed to Mr. Lu’s request; he was an Antler Person, and he couldn’t disobey the command of the leader—he was an Antler Person, deeply in love with Lu Jiao.

And so, without much ado, he handled his resignation and returned to his hometown, Shenhou City.

After a life of wandering, upon his return, he found that the answer was exactly where he had started.

That was the true irony.

Mr. Lu had also reached a dead end. Wizards ultimately couldn’t become Witch-hunting Knights, a conclusion already verified in the era of Demon Hunters; otherwise, the apprentices of Witch Hunter Knights wouldn’t all be ordinary people by now.

Wizards, after being devoured by the Furnace in their source of emotions, miraculously regenerated yet again.

This was simply a kind of monster.

And so an eerie scene happened: the soul power that relied on the Furnace Core of Lu Jiao, and the new soul power born from the Aura of the Spirit World, began to collide within his body, tearing Lu Tingyu into countless active fragments.

It was as if there was another being inside the body, a former self, and the current self, both fighting for control of the body.

No, not two.

It was the Seven Emotions and Six Desires, thirteen or even hundreds or thousands of one’s own emotional monsters, stabbing and fighting with one’s primary consciousness.

Collapse!

And this was precisely the direction Professor Cao had researched. With ‘Witch-ghoul Transformation Armor,’ he had reached the step of adjusting the Furnace Core; it was exactly the concept of ‘self-constraint’ and ‘self-discipline.’
Confinement and discipline, powerful enough to confront collapse.

Professor Cao was in despair at the end; he hadn’t escaped the shadow of Lu Tingyu, and his lifelong research merely became a supplement to Mr. Lu’s.

Yet Professor Cao was also gratified; he had finally filled the last gap in the new version of Antler Cultivation.

Next, it was time to validate his research findings.

Professor Cao was also anxious.

For he did not know whether he would end up like Mr. Lu, full of confidence but in the end discovering that his own path led nowhere.

But regardless, this was the path that his student Lin An had to walk on his own.

Antler People have always been pioneers, always moving forward without pause.

Lin An couldn’t merely stay on his own path, but had to use himself as a stepping stone and continue progressing upwards.

And that was Lu Jiao, the common belief of both the Conservative Faction of Demon Hunters and the new Witch Hunter Knights, every Cultivator—sacrifice and dedication for the next generation, passing down from one to the next, becoming the steps leading to the great path.