Chapter 260: 224 Humph! (Asking for monthly votes) Chapter 260: 224 Humph! (Asking for monthly votes) Professor Cao didn’t completely catch his breath.
When the red light spread to his waist, it stopped because Professor Cao had finally finished speaking and closed his eyes again.
Statuesque and immobile, he caused the Furnace to cease its erosion of the soul.
But everyone knew that this situation could not last long.
After the eting, the crowd dispersed, but Lin An was left behind. Doctor Zhang pulled him aside and whispered to him.
“Try to get Mr. Cao to speak as little as possible. His soul is struggling with the Antler, and every distraction is an irreversible erosion…”
Lin An nodded silently.
Doctor Zhang looked deeply at Lin An, gently patted his shoulder, and then left the courtyard.
And so the courtyard fell completely silent.
The wind rustled the treetops, causing the patches of sunlight filtering through the leaves to sway. Lin An looked down at an ant crawling in the gaps between the paving stones, becoming transfixed.
“It seems you don’t resent …”
Professor Cao slowly opened his eyes and looked woodenly at Lin An, “Yet I feel increasingly indebted to you.”
Lin An shook his head, “You are my only master.”
Professor Cao laughed abruptly, his emotions inexplicably surfacing, “That’s good, very good~~”
He slowly stood up, his legs and waist making a crackling sound like breaking wood. His towering, over two-ter-tall figure still appeared imposing and powerful.
He looked up at the sky and exhaled, apparently pondering sothing.
After a long while, he said, “The thing I refined inside you is a standard Antler Furnace Core. I hope you do not inherit my Antler, but instead practice the ‘Wizard Furnace’ I taught you and completely refine it.”
“You can take it as a sort of ‘witchcraft mold’ that Wizards obtain through their practice of witchcraft. Start from your truth and condense your own Furnace.”
Lin An nodded but was sowhat puzzled, “Then why create the Antler Furnace Core for ?”
After all, he had already been taught by Professor Cao both the Breathing Skill Furnace and the Wizard’s Crucible knowledge.
“Because I won’t have ti to teach you anymore,” Professor Cao said, smiling genuinely at Lin An for once.
That smile had a truly human quality to it.
“Lin An, do you think you understand a lot? No, actually, it is still far too little, the very foundation of the Furnace is not even mastered yet, not to ntion the Furnace Skill.”
“The concept of the Furnace itself is not particularly complex; any Demon Hunter in the country could co up with a theory, and overseas they’re beginning to study this concept too.”
“But, Lin An, there are good and bad Breathing Skill Furnaces, and eight types of Furnace Cores are the most advanced techniques in the country and even worldwide.”
“Antler, Rabbit Eye, Serpent Body, Fish Tail, Eagle Claw, Lion’s Mane, Catfish Whisker.”
“Do you really think that by casually practicing the Breathing Skill Furnace you can achieve one of these types? That you can grow Antlers?”
Lin An paused for a mont, “Dragon?”
Professor Cao laughed and nodded, “It’s a dragon, but it’s also not a dragon.”
“We have no intention of cultivating each Furnace Core to then create a dragon.”
“In fact, these eight Furnace Cores are not parts of a dragon.” His expression beca very serious, “Rather, they are our interpretation of the concept of a dragon. We from the Antler School believe that the dragon is Antler.”
“Of course, for example, the Rabbit Eye group would say that the dragon is the Rabbit Eye.”
“Rember these words, the dragon is Antler, Antler is dragon, Antler is not a part of the dragon.”
“Don’t be foolish in the future, trying to learn each one to make your own dragon, that would be too stupid. Antler itself is a complete dragon, trying to learn everything will only subconsciously make you incomplete.”
Lin An nodded; he had to admit, he had just had such a thought.
“There is a very profound theory supporting this, but I no longer have the ti to explain it to you clearly,” Professor Cao’s voice beca increasingly light-hearted, and the hellfire red light on his waist began to slowly dissipate, retreating back towards his legs.
His expression was a bit serious but with a tinge of a barely noticeable warm smile, “Antler captures the dragon’s deer essence, noble, proud, transcendent, and daring to lead.”
“That’s why we Antlers have always been the rebels, guides, and leaders in the cultivation world.”
“The Wizard’s Crucible I’ve been researching is definitely a viable path, Wizards can surely cultivate their Furnaces according to this thod. The only thing missing is the Antler Furnace Core, which cannot sh with the Wizard’s way of cultivation.”
Regret tinged Professor Cao’s voice.
“So I’ve given you a shortcut, allowing you to possess a pair of Antlers, so that you can first complete the ‘Antler Wizard Furnace’. But in the future, you must figure out how to let a wizard practicing the ‘Wizard’s Crucible’, create a Furnace Core, or a will of the wizard, that is the Antler!”
Lin An was sowhat puzzled, “Does it have to be an Antler?”
Professor Cao was very serious, “It must be an Antler!”
Seeing Lin An did not understand, he could only explain patiently, “The Antler represents the dragon, and the dragon is the embodint of our country’s collective subconscious. Lin An, the blood flowing in your body is the blood of our country’s ethnic groups, and it will be profoundly influenced by the dragon.”
“It is the bloodline that already flows in your body, and it isn’t just a bloodline.”
“It can protect you from external corrosion, such as the Sorcerer’s Bloodline granted by the Spirit World Aura.”
Lin An blinked in amazent, “There’s such a theory!!!”
“There is much you do not understand,” said Professor Cao with so helplessness, “Unfortunately, I am not able to provide guidance for your future cultivation. When you later complete the ‘Antler’, you can go to my villa. There is a secret room underground, where you can find the knowledge I have spent my life researching.”
Lin An wanted to see it now!
However, this was obviously not appropriate; Mr. Cao wasn’t dead yet, and it was really inappropriate for him to think about his teacher’s inheritance.
So…
It’s really interesting, my own blood and the Sorcerer’s Bloodline flow in my veins. And the symbol of the dragon, sothing that cos from my own bloodline, can help resist the Sorcerer’s Bloodline.
It seems to be a study of the ‘body’ in the ‘body, mind, spirit trinity’, but it’s not just a ‘physical bloodline’.”
“Furnace Skill is also a very complex knowledge system,” continued Professor Cao, “but since you like Whip Skill you can continue to learn from Zhuang in the future.”
“But there is sothing to be cautious of!”
“Witchcraft varies from person to person, and so does Furnace Skill!”
“Witchcraft is the transmission of knowledge and the erosion of others’ wisdom, and the sa is true for Furnace Skill!”
“We must not give up our exploration of this world; we must not stop drawing upon others’ wisdom out of fear, but we should also know that I am myself, and after absorbing and digesting, we should have our own thoughts.”
Professor Cao was usually a man of few words, and each word seed to be coming with difficulty now, which only added to their importance.
Lin An carefully recorded every sentence.
“Besides…” Professor Cao smiled teasingly, “The living environnt for wizards in our country is harsh, even if a wizard learns the Breathing Skill Furnace, it is difficult.”
“But as soon as you show off a pair of Antlers, I guarantee you will get the basic respect.”
He spoke of respect, but it was more a fear ingrained by the Antler lunatics within the cultivation world of our country; they were afraid of being beaten.
“You are a wizard after all, and this pair of Antlers will be your best umbrella, as well as the key to the full recognition from the Antler mbers!”
This has nothing to do with cultivation.
There will always be wizards who want to cultivate the Breathing Skill Furnace as well, especially the younger generation of wizards influenced by web novels, who always believe that practicing both magic and martial arts is the most powerful.
But wizards will always be wizards, no matter how talented ones that did manage to cultivate would still not be acknowledged.
Instead, they will be targeted for secretly cultivating the Furnace.
Like Mr. Liu, Liu Yuanmou.
The Antlers might be the only sign of successful wizard cultivation that allows a wizard to have the identity of a Witch-hunting Knight within our country.
Because if the Antler Witch-Hunting Knight Order recognizes them, others in the country have to begrudgingly do the sa.
What can you do about it?
Professor Cao was really struggling to hold on; as he spoke, his body emanated a red glow again, prompting Doctor Zhang, who was guarding the door, to co over and shoo people away.
“An, you should go back. You must rember what your master said, and in the future…”
He looked at Mr. Cao with so sadness, “Don’t talk to your master anymore.”
Just then, they didn’t notice that Lin An’s expression had beco sowhat strange.
Because he was sensing the transmission of information from the Antler Furnace Cores of his two masters:
——Aren’t you holding on to this breath just to prepare to deal with Liu Yuanmou? Why are you wasting it on talking about this with An? Huh? You’re about to die, but I’m still in good health! I won’t teach in the future! (Doctor Zhang’s Antler)
——Hmph! (Professor Cao’s Antler)
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