Chapter 145 : Ferrying
Chapter 145: Ferrying
“In exchange for the fish, can you first let me know the details about it?” a connected fan said.
Hearing this, the number of barrage comments in the livestream room surged.
【Damn, what kind of fish is this? It looks terrifying!】
【Brother, don’t trade it. If you do, you’ll get scammed!】
【That’s right, Fish-Runner must be taking advantage of you not knowing its real worth.】
Glancing at the barrage, Chen Beiwu said speechlessly, “Fellow Daoists, don’t spout nonsense. The streamer is a cultivator with integrity and usually doesn’t deceive his fans.”
【Circle the word ‘usually,’ it’ll be on the exam later!】
【So here’s the question—right now, is this one of those ‘usual’ times?】
【I’m dying of laughter. The streamer really is honest—when it’s time to scam fans, does he hesitate at all?】
Seeing the playful remarks from the viewers, Guess Who I Am also smiled and played along: “Brothers in the livestream, is there anyone who understands beast appraisal? If so, please give me some advice. I’ll go with what everyone says.”
“You guys just love making conspiracy theories all day long.” Chen Beiwu’s gaze landed on the strange fish in the video, half flesh and half bone, looking rather ghastly.
Its form was bizarre. Its head was covered with a white bony structure resembling a human skull. Two dark-blue fish eyes floated within its sunken sockets, and the pupils carried the pattern of an inverted Eight Trigrams.
The left side of its body was plump like a black dolphin, while the right side was bare white bone, as if half of its body had been gnawed away by some demon.
“This is a Ferry Fish, commonly known as a Nether-Passing Fish. These spirit fish generally dwell in lakes heavily suffused with yin qi. They feed on corpses but also enjoy devouring the flesh and blood of living beings.”
At this point, Chen Beiwu paused slightly. “Brother Who Am I, if I’m not mistaken, the place where you’re fishing should be near an ancient battlefield where many cultivators once perished.”
“The streamer truly is amazing.” The fan’s tone carried astonishment. “My great-grandfather once said that in Immortal Alliance year 21021, about three thousand five hundred years ago, a great battle broke out near our place. Many cultivators died there. It was said that an Outer-Realm Heavenly Demon had crossed over.”
【Three thousand five hundred years ago? Brother, you’re not from Nanyan Prefecture, are you?】
【I remember that war. It ended in less than half an hour.】
【The brother above is right. The Battle of Nanyan lasted twenty-one minutes and forty-five seconds. More than two hundred thousand cultivators died. In the history of the Immortal Alliance, it is called the Demon-Slaying Campaign.】
【Damn, what kind of Outer-Realm Heavenly Demon could be so fierce, killing over two hundred thousand cultivators of the Immortal Alliance?】
Seeing this barrage, Chen Beiwu corrected, “Fellow Daoist named Gao Linji, you may have misunderstood. The two hundred thousand cultivators who perished weren’t from the Immortal Alliance army, but rather county cultivators who didn’t have time to respond.
As for those Outer-Realm Heavenly Demons who dared to invade Sky Abyss Star, they were annihilated to the last, and their planet’s civilization became part of the Immortal Alliance territory.”
Wherever the sun and moon shone, wherever rivers reached, all belonged to the Immortal Alliance domain.
These words weren’t spoken by the high-ranking members of the Immortal Alliance, but carved out on the battlefield in blood.
It was no exaggeration to say that the Immortal Alliance’s twenty-four-thousand-plus years of history had been a conquest of surrounding planetary civilizations.
“Ahem.”
Realizing the topic in the livestream had suddenly gone astray, Chen Beiwu coughed lightly and took the initiative: “The Ferry Fish has a single use. Its fish bones serve as a core for sword embryos and can be forged into a Second-Tier spirit sword with soul-devouring properties. But it cannot be eaten.”
“As for the Jade-Eyed Salmon that the streamer caught, not only can it be eaten to detoxify and nourish the body, but its eyes can also be used to cultivate Second-Tier divine sense secret arts. Its market value is far higher than that of the Ferry Fish.”
Hearing this, Guess Who I Am asked hesitantly, “How does the streamer intend to trade?”
Before appraising the beast, he had already inquired about the price at the local fish market, but hardly anyone wanted to buy. Most found the Ferry Fish’s appearance unlucky.
The only cultivator willing to offer a price had shouted no more than one hundred spirit yuan, which didn’t meet his expectations.
“Other than the eyes, I can trade you the entire Jade-Eyed Salmon.” Chen Beiwu added, “If you don’t want fish, I can also offer one thousand spirit yuan.”
In the Immortal Alliance, Ferry Fish weren’t worth much.
Because the Immortal Alliance had advanced artifact refining techniques, many artificial spiritual materials could replace Ferry Fish bones to grant Second-Tier spirit swords soul-devouring properties.
But the Southern Wastes were different!
In the Southern Wastes, there were only a handful of Second-Tier ores that could replace Ferry Fish bones. As a result, the price of this fish remained high, with the Mission Hall even posting a bounty of three thousand contribution points per fish.
“I’ll take the spirit yuan.” The fan answered without hesitation.
“Very well. Please private-message your contact details to the backend. We’ll conduct the transaction through the Ten Thousand Spirits app with escrow.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the float on the lake surface suddenly sank. Chen Beiwu quickly dropped his phone and pulled up his fishing rod.
Meanwhile, a hundred zhang away from Chen Beiwu, two Foundation Establishment cultivators exchanged glances.
“This fellow really doesn’t seem to have any problem.” The middle-aged burly man judged.
“Impossible! I’ve been fishing in Still Abyss West Lake for a hundred years and have never once caught a spirit fish. This kid must be secretly hanging fish!” The white-haired old man with his hair tied in a topknot muttered.
“Grandpa Sun, you saw the fish just now with your own eyes. How could it have been hung secretly?” The burly man smiled wryly.
As a staff member of Still Abyss West Lake, he could tell at a glance whether Chen Beiwu had used divine sense or magical power. There was no need for doubt.
On the contrary, this old man often bought exotic fish at the market, hung them secretly on his hook, and then loudly claimed that he had caught them himself.
Wasn’t this the very definition of a thief crying “thief”?
‘These two still aren’t leaving?’
Chen Beiwu frowned inwardly as he gazed at the two luminous fate clusters glowing conspicuously under the moonlight in the distance.
He had merely caught a Two-Rites Sturgeon and a Jade-Faced Shark, yet he was already being watched by the Still Abyss West Lake staff.
Clearly, even though he had paid the hefty fishing fee, these people simply couldn’t stand losing.
With this thought, Chen Beiwu tugged at the fishing rod, and a heavy suitcase surfaced on the lake.
‘Crap, did I just fish up another fragment of a corpse?’ Chen Beiwu’s eyes darkened.
Still Abyss West Lake not only had staff patrolling, but also had formations monitoring divine sense and magical fluctuations twenty-four hours a day.
Could that murderer really be foolish enough to believe that the most dangerous place was the safest and then throw fragments here?
【Damn, something’s happening!】
【That familiar suitcase, those familiar fragments.】
【My youth has returned—finally, the Law Enforcement Bureau members lurking in the livestream have something to do!】
【Exactly. This is the real Fish-Runner. That earlier Jade-Eyed Salmon was pure illusion.】
“Whew!” Chen Beiwu exhaled a turbid breath.
It seemed his earlier thought was wrong.
Even without using the Nine-Breath Chaos Divine Ability to convert accumulated fate into opportunities, he would still occasionally be unlucky.
‘Thankfully, the one thousand orders of Yellow-Tailed Dendrobium in the livestream shop window are already sold out.’ Chen Beiwu glanced at his phone screen.
Today’s livestream sales quota was complete.
The popularity of the livestream should be able to last for quite some time, enough for his parents to sell off the remaining stock of Dragon Head Dendrobium.