The image of the Queen of Spiders was that of a beautiful spider elf. She sat on the high altar, holding a dark staff in one hand and a snake whip in the other. She had a cruel smile on her face as she looked down at the matriarch of the Vigros family kneeling alone below the altar.
If Feng Chou were here, he would definitely recognise this female Drow. She was the one who had stood on the back of the legendary Black Widow and commanded the attack on Princess Drow.
However, at this moment, the priestess of Drow was no longer as awe-inspiring as before. She knelt below the altar, trembling like a fallen leaf in the autumn wind.
As the matriarch prayed, the statue of the Queen of Spiders suddenly seemed to come alive. However, if one looked closely, they wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Moments after the statue of the Queen of Spiders changed, the matriarch of Vigros suddenly let out an extremely shrill scream and rolled on the ground in pain.
She begged the Queen of Spiders for mercy, praying that she would give her another chance.
However, the cold Queen of Spiders was unmoved and continued to torture her until she was on the verge of death.
In the end, the image of a human was projected in front of the altar. It was Feng Chou in disguise. However, after a while, his disguise was stripped off, revealing Feng Chou's true face.
The matriarch of Vigros raised her pale face and stared at Feng Chou's illusion. Her eyes burned with an extremely strong flame of hatred. Suddenly, two streams of blood flowed from her eyes as she let out an incomparably shrill and resentful howl at Feng Chou's illusion.
The matriarch's hatred and resentment didn't just come from the torture she had just suffered.
To a priestess of the Queen of Spiders, this kind of torture was nothing more than routine.
The matriarch's hatred came from the failure of the attack. Not only did she lose the chance to please the Queen of Spiders, but she also lost the Queen's favour.
For the Drow family, the matriarch's loss of favour not only affected the matriarch herself, but also the prosperity of the family. There had never been a family that could continue to prosper after losing the Queen of Spiders' favour.
If they couldn't regain the matriarch's favour, the Vigros family's decline or even extinction was set in stone.
And all of this was because of that stupid human's report!
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Feng Chou didn't know that hundreds of kilometers away in the underground world, there was a Matriarch Drow gnashing her teeth at him.
With the help of Laclais, he obtained the largest share of the trade in the fleet.
Transactions between Nature Elves and merchants weren't necessary for Nature Elves. Therefore, they held an indifferent attitude towards transactions. With this attitude, they weren't willing to satisfy the needs of all merchants. Instead, they allocated a certain trading quota to each merchant according to the quantity of goods they had. When calculating the quota, Nature Elves preferred to leave some leeway so that they wouldn't run out of goods.
With Laslez's help, Feng Chou easily obtained a quota to trade all the goods that nature elves were interested in.
On the third day, all the transactions were completed. The fleet continued to sail towards the final destination of this voyage, Storm City, the capital of the Sutton Empire.
Not long after the fleet set sail, Feng Chou had just returned to the captain's cabin when he was pulled into the Qiankun Pagoda by Qiankun Pagoda.
As soon as Feng Chou entered the Qiankun Pagoda, his vision blurred. Qiankun Pagoda appeared in front of him and said, "Master, I've found the way to restore the cultivation method!"
Feng Shaoyan was overjoyed and said, "Tell me quickly!"
Qiankun Pagoda said, "Rangers. The cultivation method of rangers in this world is very similar to the cultivation method of cultivators. There's a lot of reference for you."
Feng Chou was surprised. "Oh?"
He couldn't help but be surprised. Feng Chou had always thought that the cultivation method of rangers, or hunters, was the same as that of paladins, silver knights, and other religious paladins. It was a profession that relied on the power of the gods to cultivate, so he had never been interested in this profession.
In fact, the inheritance of the hunter profession was very widespread. Even barbaric creatures like the gnolls had it, so it was very easy to obtain. Among the slaves that Feng Chou had just bought, the Troll Hunter, was actually a special branch of the hunter profession. As long as Feng Chou brought this Troll Hunter to Qiankun Pagoda, he would be able to obtain a hunter's inheritance.
He didn't expect that Qiankun Pagoda would find the way to restore the cultivation method from such a common inheritance. If he had known, he would have been able to obtain a low-level hunter's inheritance when he was in Antalya.
After listening to Qiankun Pagoda's explanation, Feng Chou finally understood why he said that the cultivation method of rangers was very similar to that of cultivators.
Feng Chou's biggest misunderstanding about rangers was that he thought that the casting method of rangers was like that of magicians. In other words, they used the magic circuit structure as the core. No matter if the magic circuit structure was in the mind power, the blood, or the body, the core was the same. No matter if it was a magician, warlock, arcane knight, or even paladin, they all used this method of casting spells.
But in reality, rangers didn't use the magician's method of casting spells, but the druid's method of casting spells. In other words, rangers used the connection between their bodies and the laws of nature to pry open the laws of nature and release spells.
Although the appearance of these two methods of casting spells was very similar, the nature of the spells was actually very different.
Unlike druids who used their souls to connect with the laws of nature, rangers relied on the connection between the power of nature and the laws of nature in their bodies.
The most basic cultivation method of rangers was to strengthen the body through the cultivation of the physical body. Then, through some kind of meditation technique, the vigorous blood and qi in the body would connect with a specific law of nature. This connection would slowly change the nature of the blood and qi in the ranger's body, forming a special power that was close to nature. Rangers called this power the "power of nature".
Rangers could simply use the power of nature to strengthen themselves, making themselves stronger, more agile, and more sensitive.
Rangers could also use some special meditation techniques to allow their power of nature to connect with different laws of nature. Finally, rangers could master some nature spells.
All the skills of rangers were formed with this special power of nature as the core.
After listening to Qiankun Pagoda's explanation, Feng Chou suddenly understood. If the power of nature was replaced with qi, wasn't the ranger's cultivation method a living Qi Training Technique?
For the next period of time, Feng Chou and Qiankun Pagoda got into the Heaven and Earth Pagoda all day to study the nature of the ranger's cultivation method.
Feng Chou even brought Troll Hunter slaves into the Heaven and Earth Pagoda for various studies and observations.
After a period of observation and research, Feng Chou gradually figured out the intrinsic nature of this profession. It was indeed similar to the cultivation method of cultivators.
However, there were also great differences between the two. For example, rangers' power of nature could only communicate with the laws of nature, while cultivators could communicate with a variety of different laws according to their cultivation methods.