After feeding A Yuan, Bai Qiu played and interacted with it on the water’s surface for a while longer.
It took a full two and a half hours before he finally put A Yuan back into the contract space card and began today’s tasks.
Interestingly, during this period, there was actually a group of fishing enthusiasts hiding somewhere around the reservoir…
Bai Qiu hadn’t noticed them at first.
While he was in the center of the reservoir comprehending the water element, he told A Yuan to move freely—and unexpectedly, A Yuan found them.
Fortunately, nothing like A Yuan biting a fishing hook happened.
It had a stealth ability, so as long as it stayed underwater, those anglers basically couldn’t detect it.
However, A Yuan happened to see them catching fish—and watched as they placed the fish into plastic buckets.
Curiosity got the better of it, sparking its urge to explore.
So A Yuan quietly crawled out of the water and circled around behind the fishermen.
The anglers, fully focused on fishing, didn’t notice anything behind them, their eyes fixed intently on the water’s surface.
“There are three here… small ones…” it muttered, slightly lowering its head into one of the buckets to take a look.
“There’s one a bit bigger here… ah, this one doesn’t have any?”
At that moment, one of the fishermen—who hadn’t caught anything yet—noticed his float moving.
He immediately used all his strength to reel it in.
After a great deal of effort, he finally managed to pull the fish out.
“Hahaha! I knew there’s no way I’d end up empty-handed…” He held the fish, about to toss it into the bucket and take advantage of his momentum to cast again—when he suddenly saw A Yuan silently watching behind him.
His throat seemed to seize up, leaving him speechless.
After staring at each other wide-eyed for a moment…
“AHHH!! A SNAKE!!” The man finally reacted, threw the fish aside, and bolted, causing the other fishermen to burst into laughter.
“Look at Binbin—scared stiff by a tiny snake! Hahaha!”
“Binbin is such a wimp! Let me see what’s going on… ho—ho—holy sh*t!”
When the others turned around, they immediately understood why Binbin had run.
A massive snake head loomed there—its body as thick as a large barrel, and its length at least twenty-seven or twenty-eight meters.
If it were a python that thick, it would probably be even longer.
At that size, swallowing a few people whole wouldn’t be difficult at all!
So the group of fishermen all shouted and fled in panic, leaving only one behind…
The reason? That fisherman was currently locked in a battle of strength with a big fish in the water, continuously reeling and releasing with perfect rhythm—clearly an experienced angler.
…
Only then did the commotion draw Bai Qiu’s attention.
Normally, even if he heard A Yuan’s thoughts, he wouldn’t think much of it—after all, this place was remote, and people rarely came here.
But he had underestimated humans—or rather, underestimated the persistence of fishing enthusiasts.
Not only did they come here to fish, they had arrived even earlier than Bai Qiu—showing up at the crack of dawn!
Stepping forward, Bai Qiu leapt into the air.
His Sevenfold Crystallized Arcane Eyes swept across the surroundings, and in an instant, he located A Yuan along with a group of fleeing anglers.
With a push of his legs, he dove straight down…
Landing in front of A Yuan, Bai Qiu wore a serious expression and questioned in a stern tone, “A Yuan, did you come up here and scare people?”
Hearing this, A Yuan shook its massive head side to side, then moved close to Bai Qiu and rubbed against him.
“No, I just wanted to see how many fish they caught…” its aggrieved voice echoed in his mind.
Bai Qiu sighed.
He decided to set aside the lecture for now and instead turned to the man still struggling with a large fish in the water.
“Sorry, brother. My A Yuan is very well-behaved—it doesn’t eat people or bite. No need to worry.”
“You should worry about the others,” He Qiang replied, tossing out a sentence without pausing his movements in the slightest, still locked in a tug-of-war with the massive creature in the water.
Bai Qiu nodded.
Forming footholds of magic beneath his feet, he sped off at high speed, catching up with the fleeing anglers to explain the situation.
At the same time, he compensated each of them with 1,000 Sanctum Coins.
Only then did the anglers calm down a bit.
Surprisingly, none of them ran anymore—instead, they all wanted to go back and retrieve the fishing gear they had just dropped.
Bai Qiu wiped cold sweat from his forehead.
What kind of people were these…
Still, he sternly scolded A Yuan and warned it that it must never suddenly appear behind people to scare them again, nor frighten away the fish in the water.
The group watched in amazement.
They hadn’t expected the snake to actually belong to him—and that it would behave so obediently when being scolded, like a child who had done something wrong, lowering its head.
A Yuan used its tail to hook up the overturned bucket, then tapped Bai Qiu’s contract space card with its head before voluntarily returning to it.
“Everyone, I’m truly sorry. See you around,” Bai Qiu said.
Only after finishing all this did he step through the air and leave directly, heading in a straight line toward Area 2224.
…
“Damn, who was that guy? He’s insanely strong!” After Bai Qiu left, the anglers finally began chatting excitedly.
“He can walk on air—who does that remind you of?”
“Holy sh*t… could that be Bai Qiu?!”
…
Soon, Bai Qiu finished his daytime journey.
Although he hadn’t gone looking for system resource drops, his constant movement and casual monster hunting still provided steady improvements to his four basic attributes…
To put it simply, even if he didn’t level up or obtain any external resources, his rate of becoming stronger wouldn’t be any slower than others.
That was the advantage granted to him by the Holy Demonic Body.
At noon, Bai Qiu returned to Zone 2233 to help Guinelia brew potions.
While at it, he also improved the final version of the Mental Power Potion, raising its quality to C-, matching both the quality and effects of the ones made by Ning Xingxue.
It was worth mentioning that although Bai Qiu couldn’t produce healing potions with the same effects as Guinelia’s—
Aside from her special high-efficiency healing potions, he could easily replicate ordinary healing potions and other types of potions with near-perfect accuracy after seeing them once.
Time quickly passed into the evening.
After getting off work with Guinelia and enjoying another good meal together, Bai Qiu, feeling satisfied, headed to Zone 2243.
He found Ning Xingxue and gave her thirty bottles each of Mental Power Potions ranging from F- to D++ quality.
Then he found Zhao Daqiang and repaid the 120,000 Sanctum Coins he owed him in full.
Coincidentally, Huang Qi was also there.
He, too, returned the Sanctum Coins he owed Bai Qiu.
The group chatted and laughed together for quite a while before Bai Qiu finally left Zone 2243.
Returning to his room, Bai Qiu checked the chat channels and private messages for a bit.
Seeing nothing particularly noteworthy, he entered his meditative state an hour earlier than usual…
Meanwhile, in the channel chat—
“Orange Cat”: “Has anyone noticed that we can barely see Dragonfang Priest Skeletons anymore lately?”
“Yeah, same here. I haven’t seen any either.”
— The end of the Chapter–
TL note : Join Patreon to support the translation and to read up to 50 chapters of the release :
https://www.patreon.com/DeCakraWnloverz
