Chapter 124: Fixing Fish for Betting
Chapter 124 – Fixing Fish Gambling
Under the shockwave, Li Fan only felt like a withered leaf in the gale, uncontrollably being blown backwards until he was washed out hundreds of miles away before he managed to stabilize himself.
Fortunately, the shockwave was only a little louder, and did not have any substantial destructive power.
As if the power was restrained, it only set off a huge wave that spread throughout the entire Cong Yun Sea, without causing any other damage.
It was quite a bit like a loud thunderstorm with little rain.
However, Li Fan did not dare to take it lightly at all in his heart, this kind of extreme control of power was more indicative of the other party’s horrendous strength.
The lock of the Phase-less Killing Machine had disappeared, and it was obvious that the unlucky cultivator had unfortunately perished in the battle between the two big brothers.
However, Li Fan was not retreating at the moment, but rather advancing, and resumed flying in the direction of the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace.
It didn’t take long before the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace was visible again.
Only that huge blue transparent building was at the moment colored with a layer of black.
Above, dark clouds gathered and thunder continued to roar.
A huge vortex appeared above the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace, seemingly about to re-swallow this building that had just been unsealed not long ago.
The entire canopy shook and trembled, and the continuous buildings became tilted, slowly collapsing towards the center of the vortex.
There seemed to be faintly unwilling, angry howls coming out of the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace.
However, none of it could change the reality of its slow disappearance.
After a long time, this ancient sect, which had been in existence for just over five years, disappeared back into the heavens and earth.
Immediately afterward, the black thick clouds with lightning and thunder also gradually dissipated.
Between the sky and the ocean, there was soon a calm scene of light clouds again.
“The Cloud Water Heavenly Palace has been sealed again? In the previous life, this didn’t happen.”
“Is it because of the Heavenly Doctor statue I sent in?”
In a flash, many thoughts flashed through Li Fan’s mind.
“In that case, in the previous life, Sikong Yi had privatized that small statue and did not send it into the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace?”
“So bold? Not afraid of death by virtue of the Stealing Heavenly Decree?”
“No, there is another possibility. It’s that the Heavenly Doctor didn’t give the white jade statue to Sikong Yi.”
“But instead gave it to Lin Fan’s doppelganger ……”
“If that’s really the case, is he the one who saw something?”
The eerie and flamboyant howling and terrifying images in the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace once again surfaced in his mind, and Li Fan’s heart was full of doubts.
“What exactly did the Heavenly Doctor do to cause this Cloud Water Heavenly Palace, up and down, to be so resentful of him ……”
Li Fan again recalled the scene when he first met the Heavenly Doctor.
“I am nothing more than an old man who deserves to die before he does.”
“…… Just use this statue to accompany them all the time instead of me ……”
When the Heavenly Doctor said these words, his expression was sighing and infinitely emotional, and it didn’t seem like he was faking.
But the more so, the more Li Fan felt a vicious chill in his heart.
“No matter what, this old man called Heavenly Doctor is too dangerous. The strength is also going to exceed my previous prediction. The bilocation has already appeared within his line of sight, while the main body must never make contact with him again.”
“This world is not a static game after all, and often unintentional actions will cause many unexpected changes.”
“It’s better to be more careful in the future.”
“And that sword ……”
“How many more secrets are hidden in this Sea of Clouds.” Li Fan sighed, and with no desire to wander around in his heart, he hurried back to Ten Thousand Immortals Island.
Inside the Tianxuan Mirror, he searched for “Heavenly Doctor”, “Husbandman” and other related information, all of which were discussed by some recent cultivators.
There was no valuable information at all.
Li Fan was not surprised.
For the next period of time, Li Fan resumed the kind of idle life he had previously lived on the island.
Occasionally, when he found cultivators on the island who were about to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, he would lock them down with his Phase-less Killing Machine, and use it to sense and accumulate the Foundation Establishment True Intent.
From time to time, he also took on some quests to accumulate contribution points. He planned to exchange heaven and earth wonders in the Heavenly Xuan Mirror, and then recharge the [Returning Truth] to use to unlock the second anchor point.
He now had a rough plan in his mind for exactly how the second anchor point would be used.
The specifics would have to wait until after it was unlocked.
Dull cultivation wasn’t the whole of a cultivator’s life.
The vast majority of cultivators were not maniacs like Zhang Haobo who cultivated twenty-four hours a day.
They also had their own amateur leisure hobbies.
In the Cong Yun Sea, the number one in popularity was fixing fish.
On the northwestern edge of the Cong Yun Sea, there was an isolated island with cliffs on all sides.
The seawater ran along the cliffs, against the current, and converged in the center of the island, forming a lake.
Every month, when the water accumulated in the lake reached its peak, it would erupt towards the sky, spilling seawater back into the sea.
At this time, countless fish would be carried along, leaping into the air.
And among them, there must be a fish that flies the highest.
A number of years ago, when a passing cultivator happened to see this strange scene on a whim.
All the other fish in the lake will be refined into essence, fed to the highest flying fish.
That fish was thus metamorphosed and became as powerful as an almost demonic beast, returning to the sea.
Since then, the lake on this lonely island has gathered more and more fish.
Later, this cultivator had a dispute with his best friend over the ownership of a treasure.
He remembered this place again and proposed that the two of them each pick a fish from the lake as a representative.
To see whose fish leaped higher on the day the lake erupted, the treasure would go to whom.
The friend found this interesting and agreed.
This move by the duo attracted a few more good cultivators who took a bit of color and joined in.
There were also rules for this fish fixing: formations were set up around the island to prevent sea beasts with superior strength from entering by mistake.
With twenty-seven days, each observation selected their favorite fish. Three days before the lake eruption, the final confirmation, no further changes.
Winner takes all, whoever selects the highest leaping fish will receive all the treasures wagered by the remaining cultivators.
And if you are lucky enough to select that one, the one who leaps the highest out of all the fish, is considered the jackpot, and the profit will be doubled again.
It is all up to one’s own divine sense to observe the selected representative fish, and one may not use aura to strengthen it. Once caught cheating, the rest of the cultivators will be executed.
After the end, all the other fish will still be refined into essence and fed to the “fish leader”.
……
In the end, the fish chosen by that cultivator only came in second place, losing the treasure.
However, this person did not feel any pain, but thought that he had lost his eyes for a moment and had already found the key to it.
So they agreed to come back here next month to fight it out.
The rest of the cultivators agreed with a roar.
In this way, this “fixed fish betting”, gradually attracted more and more cultivators to participate in it.
Later, when the number of people increased, the rules were fine-tuned.
With the existence of a prize pool.
Half of each bet goes to the current reward and half to the prize pool.
First place is the top prize and second through tenth place are the second prizes.
The first prize is split in half, and the second through tenth place winners split the other half.
And if someone can guess the fish leader, they will bag all the prizes.
At the end of each year, the accumulated prize pool is emptied at once to produce the super prize.
(End of chapter)