I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession-Chapter 34 - 0 Cultivation 4.0 version
Chapter 34: 034 Cultivation 4.0 version
Chapter 34: 034 Cultivation 4.0 version
“Indeed, domestic Witch-hunting Knights have a poor international reputation,” the young boss said, obviously seeing the expression on Lin An’s face and sharing the sentiment.
With a cigarette in his mouth, he gazed deeply into the world that could be seen but not touched, “As for what Witch-hunting Knights are, that would take too much to explain.”
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“In ancient times, when the Qi of Heaven and Earth was present, those cultivators were called Qi Cultivators.”
“Back then, internationally, the cultivators’ practice was known as ‘Breath Consumption,’ which the foreigners neither understood nor took seriously, often ridiculing it.”
“Later, something happened, and both the Qi of Heaven and Earth and the Qi Cultivators vanished without a trace.”
“The foreigners went mad; it was then that they realized what they’d been mocking as ‘eating air’ actually involved transcendent powers of heaven and earth. With the disappearance of Qi of Heaven and Earth, they also could no longer cultivate. They unanimously believed that our domestic cultivators had consumed all the transcendent powers.”
At this point, Lin An’s expression turned bizarre, “Consumed all?”
The young boss chuckled, “Those barbarians do not understand what ‘the Way’ is, and due to translation issues, they believe our ancestors absorbed and consumed it all; ah, these fools.”
“But the problem is here; the legacy of the Qi Cultivators was lost, yet the foreigners still had their own traditions.”
“However, it was of no use; without the Qi of Heaven and Earth, they really could only ‘eat air.'”
“At that time, knowledgeable cultivators from all over the world gathered to seek a way out, even those from our country who longed for transcendent powers joined them.”
With a flick of ash, the young boss wore a teasing look, “Those with legacies abroad didn’t come up with anything, but it was our own past ‘transcendent power enthusiasts’ who found a solution.”
“From exploring hidden potential within the human body to sensing spiritual energy from higher-dimensional worlds, our ‘transcendent power enthusiasts’ opened a new path for cultivators around the world.”
“Because it was no longer harvesting the Qi of Heaven and Earth, but harvesting the Spiritual Energy from the Spirit Realm, the practice was called ‘Spirit Consumption.'”
“Then, the older generations in modern times successfully led the whole world into this pit.”
“Cackle cackle cackle~~~” The young boss laughed viciously, “A wholesale harvest, now everyone has turned into demonic creatures and entered into that world of spiritual energy, unable to come out.”
Lin An raised an eyebrow, the young boss’s story was essentially concerning the same matter as what Witch Chen Shuyun had mentioned, just from a slightly different angle.
“Later on, the method of ‘Spirit Consumption’ was updated to 2.0, and at last, it was not easy to turn into demonic creatures.”
The young boss shrugged, “All the domestic big shots turned into demonic creatures and entered the Spirit Realm, and in the absence of tigers in the mountains, the monkeys were kings. During that period, what the foreigners said went. Those foreigners began to call the practitioners of ‘Spirit Consumption 2.0’ wizards.”
“Not all demonic creatures would enter the Spirit Realm, they are extremely powerful, cruel, and possess a terrible desire for destruction, and thus Demon Hunters appeared.”
He snapped his fingers, raising an eyebrow at Lin An and whispered, “All that crap about upholding justice is just for show. The reason why Demon Hunters hunt terrifying demonic creatures is primarily because they take on the ‘Spirit Consumption 3.0’ version.”
Lin An was stunned, “What is the 3.0 version?”
“Demon Consumption!” said the young boss gravely, “Spiritual Energy is poisonous, filtered through the human body, it finally becomes a jumbled but human-compatible Demonic Qi after a wizard turns into a demonic creature. That’s what Demon Hunters harvest.”
“How exactly do they do it? What do you guess?”
Lin An blinked, “I reckon it’s not just by hugging and sniffing with their noses?”
“Hahaha~” The young boss laughed for a while, but then his face turned somber, “The great Dao competes fiercely; where is the fun in that? Cultivation is like rowing upstream; the methods are especially cruel.”
His eyes grew distant, “After killing those demonic creatures, they would flay and strip them, turning them into armor, and just as they would process medicinal herbs, they’d craft the armor. Then using ancient military armor training techniques, along with the methods recorded in ancient texts for converting external alchemy into internal alchemy, they would draw power from the armor.”
“As battles became more and more frequent, and they grew more and more accustomed to wearing the armor, they eventually completely consumed all the Demonic Qi in the entire armor.”
“Later, when there weren’t enough demonic creatures, wizards were also reluctantly okay. Wizards and demonic creatures, just like the monsters in the ‘Classic of Mountains and Seas,’ are all utilized for nourishment.”
“Possessing armor made one a soldier, and ultimately they should have been called the ‘Demon-Hunting Army’ or ‘Witch-Hunting Army,’ but everyone wanted to go on hunts abroad, so they had to integrate with the International Witch-Hunting Knight Organization, claiming themselves as Witch-hunting Knights as well.”
Lin An took a cool breath~
My goodness~
So, Witch-hunting Knights and Wizards are in a food chain relationship like lions and rabbits, huh?
It looks like the Witch-hunting Knights are the ones who are unjust!
He had so many questions, but the shop owner just chuckled, “But that’s just the modern version of the story.”
Lin An stared at him in astonishment.
The shop owner spread his hands, “Can’t help it, the world of cultivation is changing rapidly, everyone’s updating their versions too quickly.”
“Now everyone has moved on to version 4.0, for example, Mr. Cao and the other Witch-hunting Knights are practicing the ‘Lu Jiao’ cultivation method. I haven’t been in touch with the specifics, so I can’t tell you too much about it.”
“It is said that the Wizards have also upgraded to 4.0, and they seem to have been forced by the Witch Hunter Knights to completely abandon the consumption of Spiritual Energy. Instead, they’ve integrated themselves with Spiritual Energy, um… I don’t know the details. But it’s said that their power has become incredibly strong, so strong that it’s terrifying.”
At this point, the shop owner narrowed his eyes.
He looked at Lin An, “Domestically, the Witch Hunter Knights are incredibly powerful, and the Wizards are no match. But that doesn’t mean that the Wizards are weak.”
“It’s said that in many places abroad, the Wizards are more powerful than the Witch-hunting Knights. Often a whole brigade of Witch Hunter Knights hunts one Wizard and they still might not succeed.”
He flicked his cigarette butt into the ashtray, and tapped on the computer on the desk, “Unlike the Wizards in our country who hide and dare not show their faces, the witches abroad seem more rampant and their influence has even spread to the world of ordinary people.”
“In foreign cultures, the image of Wizards has always been synonymous with evil. But suddenly, in modern times, many novels, movies, and comics have emerged portraying Wizards and magic in a positive light.”
“Clearly, there’s some force promoting this change in cultural perception.”
“Up to now, as you know, the theme of Wizards has even become the hottest direction in gaming, influencing us from abroad and making countless people fall in love with it.”
Lin An smacked his lips, glanced at the computer, then at the strange red world around them, and finally turned to the shop owner, “In that case, if you go ahead with developing a game with a Wizard theme, wouldn’t Professor Cao and his colleagues…?”
The shop owner sneered, “What do I make money for!”
He slapped the desk forcefully, “Ever since my grandfather carried needles, threads, and fabrics to sell in the streets to support the Antler Knight Brigade, we from the Antler ‘Yi’ Branch have been thinking of ways to provide for everyone. They shouldn’t count on me for anything!”
“What’s the use of them being able to fight? Can they send the kids to good schools? Or buy them villas and find them good partners? Or deal with some official matters for them?”
As he said this, the shop owner seemed to remember something, and shrunk his head as he spoke softly, “When the time comes, just make the Demon Hunters look cooler, and the Wizards can be portrayed as weird and bizarre.”
Heh~
You had such strong confidence just now, so why are you cowering all of a sudden?
Lin An watched quietly as a group of Witch-hunting Knights approached from afar, feeling their fierce and malevolent aura, and inexplicably feeling a chill through his body.
Unable to capture demons, they go after Wizards, flay them, and make armor?
Gulp~
He nervously swallowed.
The Witch Hunter Knights stopped in front of Lin An and the shop owner. The muffled voice of Professor Cao, wearing a ‘Jia Shen’ mask, faintly carried from the Red Light World to the real world, “When I’m healed and back in the community, you will continue to learn from me!”
His tall and mighty figure swayed in the Red Light World, becoming increasingly distorted, “I’m looking forward to your performance learning the proper ‘Deer Play’ techniques, seeing as you managed to cultivate the Spirit Cat Spinal Stretching Technique, which is quite rudimentary.”
With that, he walked on, and the others followed him in silence.
As they walked, the Red Light World, oh, the shop owner called it ‘Purgatory’, this desolate purgatory began to crumble and disappear with their steps.
In the end, all that was left in Lin An’s vision was the sunlit office. He pursed his lips, careful not to show any extra emotion in front of the shop owner.
