Chapter 209: Conquer and catch fish!

“Do you want to know the meaning of life?”

After the strange strong man saved Grols' life and said this.

Grols, who survived the disaster, was completely confused.

When Grols, who had collapsed on the ground, recovered a little his strength and spirit, he came back to his senses from his blank state of mind, got up from the ground in a panic, tidied his clothes, and then looked at the strong man in front of him.

When he saw the image of the strong man, Grols' eyes widened.

A moment ago, the horrible monster in the mirror that abused him like a dog, now in Lu Feng's hands, was like a tender chicken being kneaded by him at will, without any power to resist.

How powerful is this big guy?

His strength is probably even stronger than that of his family’s ancestors?

So, what does this big guy want to do by looking for me?

Let me understand the meaning of life?

Grols was full of doubts, but seeing the boss concentrating on studying the monster in his hand, he didn't dare to disturb him rashly, for fear of making the boss unhappy, so he could only stand aside and struggle.

Conflicted, Grols stood quietly, but soon he was attracted by Lu Feng's study of the monster in the mirror.

In Lu Feng's hands, the monster in the mirror with a pitch-black body and pale claws was wrapped in a layer of five elements magic power and imprisoned inside.

During Lu Feng's observation and research, he found that the monster in the mirror did not have much intelligence. Its actions were all based on beast-like instincts. It longed for life and was greedy for vitality, just like the low-level undead creatures in the wizarding world.

However, in terms of its life essence, this monster in the mirror is different from ordinary undead creatures. There is a curse contained in its essence, which makes it follow the rules of curse when it acts.

Allow the monster in the mirror to move freely through some places where reflections are emitted, killing lives unexpectedly.

This is also the reason why any place in Grols' room that could reflect an image was covered with yellow mud.

The monster in the mirror itself is weak and not much stronger than an ordinary person.

But through this characteristic, plus a little bit of terrifying influence, it can exert a strong combat effectiveness.

The young man Grols, with his weak family skills, was no match for the monster in the mirror. If Lu Feng had not rescued him in time, he would have been murdered and eaten by the monster in the mirror.

Another thing is that this monster in the mirror has an owner!

After suppressing the monster in the mirror in the Qingmu Spirit Realm, Lu Feng looked at Grols who was standing obediently beside him with interest, then smiled gently and asked:

"Tell me, how did you get involved with this monster? This monster has a smell of someone else, and it looks like it was specially refined or enslaved. It seems that you got involved with someone you shouldn't have. You are a poor painter, but you managed to get involved with a supernatural wizard."

Hearing Lu Feng's words, Grols was stunned at first. After thinking seriously for a while, he gritted his teeth and said gloomily:

"Nate, it must be that guy Nate Sweeney! I got a recommendation letter from Professor West because of my excellent painting skills. I can enter the inner courtyard of White Oak University next semester. I squeezed out his position, so he must be holding a grudge against me! I heard that his family is very rich, and his sister is a wizard apprentice."

Grols recounted his experiences and Lu Feng listened quietly.

This is a fairly interesting beginning to the novel, but unfortunately if it weren't for him, Grols would have been an unknown dead body. A young man from a small place and a small family is nothing in this prosperous city of Voorhees, and no one would care even if he died.

However, after Lu Feng came, everything was different.

Lu Feng had paid attention to Grols' experiences in advance. He was attracted by Grols' qualifications to study in the inner courtyard of White Oak University.

The inner courtyard of White Oak University also has another famous name, the Mage Apprentice Training Base of the Grand Mage Tower in Voris City.

The students who can enter White Oak University are carefully selected by the professors of White Oak University. They are reserve mage apprentices with certain talents. Once they enter the inner courtyard, they will have the opportunity to come into contact with the mage inheritance and have a certain chance of becoming a superior person.

With such an important recommendation qualification, it's no wonder that the student named Nate who was squeezed out by Grols would go crazy and take revenge on Grols. Lu Feng would not be surprised at what this idiot who can't bear the consequences of failure would do.

After all, no one expects everyone in this world to be smart.

“Great story!”

After listening to Grols's story, Lu Feng clapped his hands with a smile, and then continued:

"But I don't care about your story that doesn't have much heart. I don't care if you or Nate becomes a student of the inner courtyard. I only care whether you want to understand the meaning of life."

The smile on Lu Feng's face grew brighter. Under the dim yellow light, Grols couldn't help swallowing.

He seemed to hear the moans of the devil and evil gods, luring him into the abyss.

Are you trying to recruit me into your group and make me your younger brother?

Grols thought he was poor and had no property worthy of the big guys' covetousness.

The family's power was pitifully weak. An 'ordinary person' like him could hit several people with a brick thrown from the Mage Tower in Voris City. In this ever-changing steam age, it was really not worth mentioning.

Your own talent, the ability to obtain a recommendation letter from the White Oak University inner courtyard?

Grols vaguely guessed what the big man in front of him meant.

However, Grols did not have the mentality to resist. Not to mention that the big boss had just saved his life, even with the big boss's unfathomable strength, Grols had no intention of resisting.

If he angered the boss, he would probably die again the next moment.

Therefore, various thoughts flashed through Grols' mind quickly, and finally gathered into one sentence: "Think! Please teach me, sir!"

"hehe!"

Hearing Grols' sincere speech, Lu Feng also smiled.

It seems that Grols is also a sensible person!

He is not Lu Feng's only choice, but since Grols is so tactful, it saves Lu Feng the trouble of looking for others.

Anyway, Lu Feng only intended to use Grols as an anchor point in the Western Region world, and to help him spy on the cultivation techniques of this world. There was no big demand, as long as it could be used.

Half a day later, Lu Feng disappeared out of thin air. Grols held a pot of green plants with a nervous look on his face, and a new cultivation method appeared in his mind.

Qingmu Changshengjing

This is the cultivation method that Lu Feng left for Grols, the Western Region version of the Qingmu Changsheng Jing translated by him.

It retains the original flavor of the practice of plants, adds some secret techniques of plant companions from the wizarding world, and removes the fundamental part of practicing the spiritual realm.

Although it is average, it is at least enough for Grols to use for his current practice.

"Huh, this boss is really weird! He let me get in touch with extraordinary power without asking for any price."

Grols held the green plant in his arms, with doubts in his mind, but he soon put them behind him and focused on studying and practicing the Qingmu Changsheng Sutra given to him by Lu Feng.

With Lu Feng's guidance and the help of a green plant containing spiritual energy given to him, Grols had a pretty good talent and got the hang of it after five days.

Early in the morning.

As Grols breathed, bits of pure spiritual energy emanated from the green plant in his arms. As he breathed, the energy was absorbed into Grols' body, nourishing his flesh and blood.

Compared with a few days ago, Grols today is in high spirits, with a rosy complexion and full of energy.

"Hey! Grols, what good things have happened to you recently? You look so energetic."

"Hey, Grols, you've gotten younger!"

Along the way, everyone he met was surprised to see the change in him.

"The extraordinary power given by the boss is really magical. After only a few days of practice, there are such good results. It's great, but the changes in my body are a bit conspicuous, so I still have to be low-key."

Grols listened to the surprise of his acquaintance and said silently in his heart, straightening his collar and lowering the brim of his hat.

Feeling the vitality in his body, Grols had a long-lost feeling.

Ever since he came to Voorhees from his family's seaside town, he had been busy with White Oak University courses all day long, or working to make a living and pay for tuition. His body was getting weaker and weaker, and he would have collapsed long ago. If he were not still young, he could have caught up with his parents.

Putting these wild thoughts aside for the moment, Grols touched the gold coins given by the boss in his pocket, intending to buy paint to paint a picture of "A Seaside Town on a Moonlit Night".

The boss had no other requirements, he was just very interested in the little bit of extraordinary inheritance left in his family.

Grols couldn't explain the inheritance.

The only thing that was passed down from his family was a picture, and he didn't know the rest.

But since the boss wanted it, Grols would naturally try his best to satisfy him. Besides, he didn't have to pay for drawing another picture.

It’s great to be able to get it for free.

Although the city of Voorhees has entered the steam age, the pigments used for oil paintings are mostly still made from a mixture of various minerals, and the various pigments are really expensive.

Most of the money Grols earned from working was used to buy paint. Otherwise, how could he, an intellectual, be so poor that he had no food to eat?

As the boss said, painting really makes you poor for three generations.

Two days later.

Grols threw a drawing of a seaside town into the wastebasket in the room.

Looking at the wastebasket opening, which was as big as a human head, swallowing up a half-person-high painting in an exaggerated way, Grols was still amazed even though it was not the first time he had seen it.

This magical and extraordinary power was completely beyond his understanding and was truly unimaginable.

On the other side, Lu Feng stayed in the Verdant Tower. He took out the painting that Grols had thrown in from the small spiritual realm left in Grols' room and looked at it.

Grols's painting this time is more delicate and has more flavor than the previous hastily drawn painting.

Grols, who practiced the Qingmu Changshengjing, was full of vitality and energy, and naturally he was more energetic when painting.

"It's better than the last time he drew it. It's really tasteful!"

Lu Feng's spiritual power sensed a few wisps of smelly water vapor from the painting, like the smell of sewage left behind by some wet sea creature.

After looking at the pairs of eyes in the sea beside the seaside town in the painting, Lu Feng returned to the small spiritual realm he placed in Grols' room.

"This painting handed down by the Grols family can also be regarded as a kind of extraordinary power. Painting is equivalent to an extraordinary ritual. Painting is also the concentration and application of mental power. Investing mental power, completing the ritual, and summoning monsters."

After practicing the Qingmu Changshengjing, Grols became more energetic, and the paintings he drew were obviously better than the ones he had drawn before to save his life.

"The monster in the mirror is very strange, but if we want to study the extraordinary creatures and extraordinary powers in this world, we still need more samples. The one in Grols's hand is just right."

Lu Feng placed Grols's paintings in a small spiritual realm.

Then he summoned three villagers from the Qingmu Spirit Realm and asked them to pray and offer sacrifices to the painting using crude rituals.

Lu Feng naturally didn't want to take such a dangerous action as directly contacting the supernatural beings in the Western Regions, so the villagers he had kept in captivity in the Qingmu Spiritual Realm were finally put to use.

Normally, the villagers in Qingmu Spiritual Realm would eat and drink well and practice with peace of mind. Today, since Lu Feng had a need, they naturally accepted the responsibility.

The three villagers were randomly selected by Lu Feng. They all practiced the skills of the world of earthly immortals and had developed some magical powers. Their mental strength far exceeded that of ordinary people.

At this moment they were concentrating on praying and worshiping. Although the ceremony was simple and the rituals were full of mistakes, there was no problem with the painting as the core of the ceremony. The wishes generated by their worship were still transmitted into Grols's painting according to specific rules, communicating with the existence in the dark.

At first, the small spiritual realm was quiet, with only the faint sounds of three villagers performing sacrifices.

After a while,

Crash!

The sound of waves suddenly sounded, breaking the silence in the spiritual realm.

In the empty small spiritual world, there was suddenly a fishy smell of sea water, and a fishy smell of sea water flowed out from Grols's painting.

Gurgle gurgle!

A strange cry was heard, and a monster covered with fish scales and human-like limbs stared at a pair of green eyes, struggling to crawl out of Grols's painting along the dirty and smelly sea water.

But the monster was only halfway out when it froze.

The three villagers who were praying in front of the painting just now have disappeared, replaced by two tall and strong fire dragon Taoist soldiers who exude a burning aura.

"Hey, I finally got you out!"

Lu Feng smiled grimly, and two Fire Dragon Taoist soldiers acted roughly, pulling the fish monster out of Grols's painting.

The fish-shaped monster still wanted to run away, but its weak and powerless body was no match for the two Fire Dragon Taoist soldiers.

He was unable to resist at all and was captured by Lu Feng and became a prisoner.

(End of this chapter)