mountain ghost

Chapter 37

As the sun sets, the tired birds return to their nests.

The fiery clouds in the sky rolled up the red clouds, covering the sky, spreading the last ray of heat in the mountain wind, sweeping across the forest, the plants and trees lowered their heads listlessly, trying to preserve the water in their bodies as much as possible, and the land that had been scorched all day was also constantly burning. Evaporate heat.

The world is like an oven.

Summer evening is always the hottest time.

Lu Chen sat on the edge of the mountain spring pool. The crown of the bayberry tree was wide enough to shade the sun. The mountain spring was clear and cold, exuding a trace of water vapor, so he didn't feel hot. In this weather, he could fish leisurely, enjoy the wind, and listen to the mountains and forests. The sound is indeed a very pleasant thing.

But his complexion is not very good.

Because Lu Chen didn't catch a single fish all afternoon.

"This is unscientific! With my skills, it is impossible not to catch fish. Could it be that fish in this world don't like to eat earthworms? Or, I was wrong before, and there may be no fish in this pool at all?"

Lu Chen couldn't accept the fact that he was in the air force all afternoon.

At this moment, suddenly, the feather float floating on the water trembled, as if a fish had been hooked.

"finally come!"

He was overjoyed, and picked up the fishing rod quickly with his hands and feet, and saw a colorful object flying out with the hook, and then fell into the stone tank next to it, splashing water with a plop.

Lu Chen hurriedly stepped forward to check, but was disappointed.

It wasn't a fish, but a fist-sized snail. From its color, it had a strange shape. It didn't look like a common snail, but a sea snail.

"A conch was caught in the mountain spring pool? Are you kidding me? This thing won't be transformed by some monster. Come out tonight to be a snail girl?"

Lu Chen was speechless.

Using spiritual energy to control things, he grabbed the conch and looked at it, only to find that it was hollow inside, obviously it had died long ago, and could only leave an empty shell.

Well, even the snail girl is gone.

It's total rubbish.

Lu Chen shook his head, and wanted to throw it away, but saw that the conch was bright in color, and it was considered a rare thing in this mountain, so he put it aside, thinking that it would be good to make a decoration later.

"I haven't caught any fish for so long. I guess I was really wrong. There are no fish in this pool. It's a waste of my time."

After trying for another half an hour, Lu Chen's patience was exhausted, and he was about to leave, but he saw the ripples in the water, and a bright red fish swam over. It looked a bit like a carp, but it was different, red Among the scales are white jade-like ice flowers, which look very beautiful.

"Come, come, bite the hook!"

Lu Chen shouted in his heart.

As a result, the red fish came to the side of the hook, turned around twice, sniffed, seemed disgusted, wagged its tail, and was about to escape into the depths of the water.

"If you want to run, there is no door! Since I go fishing, I will never return empty-handed!"

Seeing that the red fish was about to escape, Lu Chen was in a hurry. He immediately raised his hand and slapped it out, without caring about his demeanor.

The red fish probably never dreamed that he would receive such destructive treatment when he just came out to look for food.

He was directly blown out of the water, and the scales on his body fluttered, reflecting fluorescence in the sunlight.

Lu Chen flicked the hook, hooked the red fish precisely, and then dragged it back in front of him, only to find that his hand was a bit heavy just now, and the fish was dying, and it seemed that it would not survive.

'Anyway, it's a catch, no air force! '

Lu Chen comforted himself cheekily.

Then he took the red fish off the hook. Although the fish was blown to death, the process of retrieving the hook cannot be missed. This damn sense of ritual.

"This fish is a bit like the mullet fish recorded in the annals of mountains and rivers. Its body is bright red, and its scales are fine and cold, like ice flakes of jade. They all live in a place with abundant aura, so could it be that there might be some hidden mystery under this pool of water?"

Lu Chen was a little puzzled.

He looked down the pool and tried to detect it with his spiritual sense, but he couldn't see the bottom, let alone dared to detect it rashly.

"Forget it, don't worry about it, let's taste the mullet first at night."

Thinking of this, Lu Chen put down his fishing rod, quickly cleaned up the scales and internal organs of the fish, and then took the conch shell he caught just now, and went back to the temple gate. come out.

"It smells delicious. If Xia Xueyi was here, I'd probably be drooling long ago."

Lu Chen rubbed his hands, separated the grilled fish, and put a piece in his mouth. It was really delicious, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and the taste was excellent. Although it was cooked food, after entering the stomach, there was a kind of icy cold moistness. The feeling is very strange.

This should be the so-called water spirit essence, right?
He tried to refine and absorb it, and suddenly he felt as if he was wrapped in a weak water flow. Wisps of water mist aura kept floating out from the pool not far away. The affinity of the water spirit made it easier for him to perceive and absorb it. The breath of water spirit between heaven and earth.

'It turns out that eating this rouge fish can also increase the aura affinity of the water system?This was a pleasant surprise. '

Lu Chen was both surprised and delighted.

Immediately without hesitation, he quickly sacrificed the five-element seal, taking advantage of the gathering of water spirit energy, he can try to refine the water-element seal in the five-element seal.

If the refining is successful, he will be able to master one more water spell.

The ice-cold water mist lingered, Lu Chen calmed down, and with the help of the spirit of water, he kept trying to refine the water rune on the ancient seal, but the effect was not obvious.

The reason why he refined the fire talisman before was because he first practiced the fire control art of Yujian Villa, and he had a solid foundation, so it was easy to get started from here.

Now the water spirit affinity brought by the rouge fish alone is not enough to refine the water seal.

After trying several times in a row, Lu Chen gave up.

He still can't fully grasp the mystery of the power of water spirit, and forcibly refining it has little effect. Water spirit energy is different from fire spirit energy, soft and gentle.

"There must be more than one mullet fish in this Tan water, right? From now on, eating one every day will enhance my awareness of the water spirit and help me refine the water talisman."

Lu Chen thought so in his heart.

Then he stood up and stretched his waist. The sky had not completely darkened yet, so he just took advantage of this time to loosen the cleared space in front of the door, and then sprinkled the vegetables.

The long sleeves waved, and a handful of spring water came, like raindrops.

The ashes from the previous burning of weeds have become natural nutrients and fertilizers.

In the future, as long as it is watered every day, it is estimated that it will not be long before green vegetable seedlings will grow.

After finishing these, Lu Chen got up and went back to the temple. He did a lot of trivial things today, but he also felt fulfilled. Maybe this is life. questionable.

Sitting cross-legged at the altar, he planned to restrain his thoughts and start refining Qi.

But at this time, suddenly, the conch not far away vibrated, and there was a sound like a sea wave and tide, resounding in the shell.

(End of this chapter)