Chapter 1001: Grilled Fish
Chapter 1001: Chapter 1001: Grilled Fish
The corners of True Word Venerable’s lips lifted slightly, revealing a relieved smile.
She was in a very good mood.
The Female Spirit Fish is a precious species from the Heavenly State, extremely difficult to nurture.
She had spent three years raising about a dozen, and in another year, they would become mature enough to enhance her Divinity Transformation Realm.
This day, she had been waiting for a long time.
Clapping her hands, she tossed the last bit of Spirit Rice into the pond, saying:
"As long as one of them can grow up, I have a chance to advance to the next layer of Divinity Transformation..."
As she was speaking.
A hair-thin spatial crack appeared without warning above the fish pond.
A golden fishhook emerged from it, hooking the mouth of a Female Spirit Fish.
The Female Spirit Fish struggled in pain, thrashing in the water.
But it was still mercilessly dragged into the void.
True Word Venerable was stunned.
As she realized what was happening, she immediately tried to grab the fish’s tail to drag it back.
To no avail.
Even in her Divinity Transformation Realm, she couldn’t resist that great force, and the Female Spirit Fish slipped from her grasp, helplessly watching it be pulled into the void.
Chen Jing’s eyes widened in disbelief.
Couldn’t believe what he was seeing.
The fish raised by Master was stolen in front of Master?
And Master couldn’t retrieve it?
"Master... what was that just now?" Chen Jing couldn’t comprehend.
Was it a spell? Or some kind of Magical Treasure?
True Word Venerable looked at her empty palm, somewhat dazed.
Recovering, she clenched her fist, her face filled with anger: "Who stole my fish?"
"You better hope I don’t find out!"
"Chen Jing, move this pond into my bedroom!"
The method was too bizarre, she was helpless even as it happened before her eyes.
How dare she let the fish out of her sight?
Chen Jing clicked his tongue.
Who could be such a formidable figure? Forcing a Venerate like Master to become a pond guardian.
On the other side.
Jiang Fan lifted the fishing rod and was surprised to find a fish on it.
"Where did I cast this line?"
"How did I actually catch a fish?"
He initially thought about tossing the fish into a nearby creek, then reconsidered.
The Void Fishing Rod only catches Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects.
Either an empty cast.
If caught, it shouldn’t be something ordinary.
Upon sensing carefully, he discovered the fish contained astonishing Spiritual Energy, something even he, with his Second-stage Nascent Soul cultivation, couldn’t absorb.
"What kind of fish is this? So formidable?"
To his slight dismay, the fish stopped moving after a few struggles.
"So delicate?"
Jiang Fan was speechless; he intended to keep it alive.
Noticing the Spiritual Energy leaking out swiftly from the fish’s body, he decided to eat it.
However.
Before doing so, he glanced in the direction Hua Wuying had fled.
"Silly girl, still running? Do you think you can really escape from me?"
A few uses of Cloud Shadow and Jiang Fan appeared before her.
Hua Wuying was stunned; how was Jiang Fan faster than the Cloud Shadow used in the Ten Thousand Tribulations Holy Temple?
Almost seven or eight hundred miles, yet he caught up in no time?
Jiang Fan sat under a tree, seemingly unconcerned.
He cleaned the Spirit Fish he caught, impaled it on a stick, then lit a fire to roast it.
The fish, aside from being immensely rich in Spiritual Energy, had a delicate body similar to ordinary fish, easily cooked by regular flames.
Hua Wuying knew she couldn’t escape.
Pouting, she silently sat beside Jiang Fan in anger.
Soon after.
A piece of roasted fish tail was offered.
"It’s yours."
Hua Wuying turned her face away, muttering, "I am already on fasting, I don’t need it."
Yet, a faint aroma filled her nostrils, surprising her.
What a delightful scent!
A fish fragrance she’d never experienced before.
Her mouth moved slightly as she bashfully accepted it: "Alright, I’ll try a bite."
Glancing at the meatless fish tail and then at the large piece of fish in Jiang Fan’s hands, she pouted: "So stingy."
Then took a bite.
The fish was incredibly tender, devoid of any fishy smell, melting instantly into streaks of sweet dew absorbed into her body.
Her Golden Core, long at the Ninth Layer Perfection, seemed to swell.
Startled, she exclaimed: "Ah, what kind of fish is this? Such a rich Spiritual Energy!"
"Even liquid Spiritual Liquid isn’t as rich as this!"
Jiang Fan continued eating, saying: "Be mindful, if you overdo it and burst your Golden Core, it would be amusing."
Unable to resist the temptation, Hua Wuying eyed the half-eaten fish tail: "I’ll just have a small bite more!"
Shortly after, her belly was full.
The fish tail was reduced to bones and spines.
"So full..." Hua Wuying rubbed her little belly, utterly satisfied: "This fish is simply too delicious, impossible to stop."
Jiang Fan too showed a deep sense of satisfaction.
On his Nascent Soul, the faint outline of a third aperture emerged.
This was due to the forthcoming breakthrough to the Three Apertures Nascent Soul.
"What kind of fish is this, having such effects even after eating most of it!"
Jiang Fan was in awe.
However, not breaking through was a blessing.
Jumping straight to the Second-stage Nascent Soul left his cultivation unstable.
He needed to consolidate before opening the third aperture.
With his cultivation improved, he should refine his Cultivation Technique.
He took out the Thunder Extension Order of Black Sky Eyes and began comprehending it.
An hour later.
Upon gaining insight, he took out the dozens of Blood Thunders encased in the Sky-reaching Marrow.
Such a volume of Thunderbolt was enough for him to cultivate Black Sky Eyes to the Third Layer!
Immediately, he absorbed the Blood Thunder, promptly solidifying the Black Sky Eyes.
Who knows how long passed.
Suddenly awoken from cultivation by a peculiar sound.
Turning around, he saw.
It was Hua Wuying letting out a faint moan.
She held her abdomen, her pale face sweating profusely, expressing pain.
Jiang Fan immediately understood what was wrong, frowning: "I told you not to be greedy."
"The Spiritual Power in you has reached the Golden Core’s limit."
"Either burst your Golden Core, or transcend now to form a Nascent Soul."
As he considered whether to offer her a Sky Ascending Pill and discuss double compensation from her master later.
Hua Wuying bit her red lips, kneeling on the ground: "Senior."
"I will transcend now, and request your guardianship."
She took out a Sky Ascending Pill, filled with regret and fear.
If she knew the fish was so formidable, she wouldn’t have touched it.
Now hastily transcending the tribulation was bound to be perilous.
Jiang Fan was surprised that the disciple had a Sky Ascending Pill herself.
That Song Lingyu still had some conscience not to seize the Sky Ascending Pill from her disciple.
He patted Hua Wuying’s shoulder: "Don’t panic."
"With your abundant Spiritual Energy now, it’s much easier than usual tribulation sessions, and with the Bodhi Pill, the success rate is significantly higher."
"Calm your mind and face the Heavenly Tribulation."
"If worse comes to worst, I’ll save you."
Upon hearing this, Hua Wuying expressed gratitude: "Thank you, Senior."
"If I succeed in my tribulation, I will surely repay you generously."
With that, she swallowed the Sky Ascending Pill, and quickly a turbulent Thunder Breath approached from the sky.
Jiang Fan floated mid-air, scanning the surroundings, wary of any intruders.
At this time, the Heavenly Tribulation was most vulnerable to disturbances.
But upon looking, he frowned.
"You have really bad luck!"
"To encounter people from Sanqing Mountain here."