Chapter 68: Ten-Day Holiday! A Hundred Thousand Draws Yields Another Divine Pet!

Not long after returning home, Lu Zheng was blocked in his house.

The visitors were none other than Mu Yunlan and her father Mu Nanshan, as well as City Lord Fan Qingli and Patrol Envoy Sun Jiugong.

Upon seeing Lu Zheng, before anyone else could speak, Sun Jiugong said with a face full of grievance: "You brat tricked me so badly! I kept thinking you were an Assassin-class professional, never expected you were actually a Legendary Summoner! If I'm not guessing wrong, the Ridge Mountain dungeon was your doing, wasn't it?"

How could he admit to something like that? Lu Zheng simply chose to dodge the question, turning a deaf ear and pretending he hadn't heard, smiling as he said: "Seniors, please come inside. We're about to eat anyway, so let's have a meal together!"

Fan Qingli chuckled: "Then we'll be imposing on you!"

This fellow pulled out a chair with practiced familiarity, as if it weren't his first time visiting.

"Lanlan, you and Lu Zheng are the same age, you two sit together."

Mu Nanshan said to Mu Yunlan with a smile.

The latter's face flushed red, but she honestly sat down beside Lu Zheng.

Lu Zheng then spoke up:

"Uncle, when we met the other day, I didn't recognize you as Yunlan's classmate's father. Please forgive my lack of manners."

"Haha! No matter, no blame to those who don't know! From now on Lanlan will be going to university together with you, and I'll still have to ask you to help look after her.

I'm only a second-tier professional, my level isn't even as high as yours. On the road ahead, I won't be able to help this girl anymore, so I'm entrusting her to you."

Mu Nanshan's words were a bit too direct—he simply wanted Lu Zheng as his son-in-law.

Lu Zheng, however, didn't blush and his heart didn't race. He didn't have those thoughts anyway. Having lived two lifetimes, he was long past the age where he couldn't walk straight at the sight of a beauty. His mindset was quite steady. Things like this were all about letting nature take its course—sincerity makes miracles.

Mu Yunlan, on the other hand, was flushed crimson, her head lowered so far it was almost hidden beneath the table.

If she had known her father would say such things, she definitely wouldn't have agreed to come along. Lu Zheng's parents were still right there—how mortifying! Fang Ya glanced at Mu Yunlan. This wasn't her first time seeing the girl either. Having this girl as her daughter-in-law seemed quite nice to her.

But right now everything in the household was decided by her son, so she didn't say anything proactively, just smiled and said:

"You're all classmates, look after each other."

Fan Qingli also chimed in:

"Right, all classmates. Yunlan and Lu Zheng are both outstanding students from Liyang City No. 1 High School, both the pride of our Liyang City!"

They had a simple meal. Throughout the dinner, the three of them—Fan Qingli and the others—kept praising Lu Zheng and his parents, saying that Lu Yuantu and Fang Ya had raised a good child.

The atmosphere was very harmonious, and no demands were made.

Their purpose was simply to come and build a good relationship; it seemed there was nothing else to it.

After lunch, Lu Zheng took his parents out of the city and into a dungeon outside the city walls, and began helping them kill monsters to level up.

Lu Yuantu and Fang Ya were both forty years old this year, with twenty-two years of farming experience, and their level was also twenty-two. They were both the lowest-tier ordinary Farmer professionals.

Lifestyle-class professionals could gain level increases through two methods: one was professional experience, and the other was monster-killing experience.

Both parts had to meet the conditions before a level could be promoted.

Combat-class professionals only had one experience bar—enough monster-killing experience and they could level up—but lifestyle-class professionals needed both experience bars to be full before they could level up.

However, the experience values of the two experience bars could be accumulated. For example, although Lu Yuantu and Fang Ya were only level twenty-two right now, their lifestyle-class professional experience was already enough to reach level twenty-six. The reason their level hadn't increased was still the limitation of monster-killing experience.

With Lu Zheng's help, in less than an hour, they had risen to level twenty-six, and their monster-killing experience had even accumulated all the way to level twenty-seven in one go.

This was still because the low-level dungeon monsters were too low-level. Otherwise, if he found a few monsters above level a hundred for them to kill, they could have completed their first class advancement long ago. Now, what limited the two from leveling up was instead insufficient lifestyle professional experience.

In this regard, Lu Zheng didn't have a good solution either—he could only pile on various resources!

For instance, planting high-grade crops, using experience bonus skill books, and having Lu Zheng cast 'Lucky Halo' on them to increase the probability of crop maturation and harvest critical hits.

Seizing these ten days' time, he let his summoned beasts handle leveling on their own. Experience values accumulated continuously, and attribute point feedback was substantial every day, but he paid it no mind. These ten days, he only cared about two things.

One was the leveling up of both his parents, and the other was drawing new summoned beasts.

With the Lucky Halo's blessing, his probability of obtaining high-quality summoned beasts greatly increased. Ten days of effort successfully replaced all his summoned beasts with elite quality, and the number of rare summoned beasts reached fifty-eight.

Although no immortal-grade or divine pets appeared, at least the number of rare beast pets—which formed the backbone providing attribute point feedback—had seen a significant increase! Today was the eleventh day of the eleven-day holiday, and tonight he would have to set off for Tiannan City.

Rising early in the morning, Lu Zheng looked at the ten newly appeared summoning slots and decided to go for something exciting today. As long as no rare beast pet appeared, he would keep refreshing until all ten became rare quality, or a summoned beast of immortal grade or above appeared! Arriving at a low-level dungeon, Lu Zheng first cast ten 'Mana Sources' on himself, then began frantically refreshing the summoning slots. Whenever he saw something that wasn't 'rare quality,' he would send the newly appeared summoned beast to its death.

He had no sympathy whatsoever for summoned beasts. In his view, these things were nothing but tools for his own leveling.

Only the ones he had spent a long time with—like the little fox, the Dark Abyss Green Snake, and Taotie, pets like these—would he develop some bonds with.

As for other summoned beasts, if they died, just summon new ones. That was the very mission of their existence!

【Consumed 100 points of mana, successfully activated skill Advanced Summoning, congratulations on obtaining four-star common beast pet 'Raging Warhorse'】 ×1987……

Despite having 'Mana Source' cast on him, Lu Zheng still consumed quite a few potions to replenish his mana expenditure, in order to maintain the high-speed drawing state.

In the blink of an eye, he had drawn a full ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times!

Although two rare beast pets had already appeared, he was still a bit short of his goal of drawing ten rare beast pets or getting one summoned beast of immortal-grade spirit pet quality or above.

This couldn't help but make Lu Zheng feel a bit discouraged.

He had the Lucky Halo cast on him, after all. By all rights, his luck shouldn't be this terrible! The luck must have been accumulating all along—so next, it was time for a good pull, right?

Today's hundred-thousandth draw! 【Consumed 100 points of mana, successfully activated skill Advanced Summoning, congratulations on obtaining five-star legendary divine pet 'Qiongqi'】 ×1 【Summoned Beast: Unnamed】

【Race: Qiongqi】

【Quality: Five-Star Legendary Divine Pet】

【Level: LV. 1 (0.00%)】

【HP: 10000/10000】

【Mana: 1000/1000】

【Strength: 200】

【Agility: 150】

【Spirit: 150】

【Constitution: 200】

【Skills: Fierce God Dharma Form, Evil Thought Devourment, Dark Sky Canopy, Fierce Spirit Puppet, Demon God Spirit Body (Passive), Eight Desolations Demon Lord (Passive)】

【Triggered hidden talent 'Summon the Gods' passive effect two, you obtained skill 'Demon God Spirit Body (Passive)'】

(End of chapter)