The Humiliated Fish Demon

Quiet Heart Studio was utterly silent.

The small room where Li Chengjie was in seclusion was enveloped in a pale golden Light Screen; from the outside, nothing seemed unusual.

Gao Chen sat cross-legged beside the stone table, eyes closed as he regulated his breath.

Yan Xingci leaned against the wall, bored out of his mind as he counted the runes on the floor.

Master Lakong, having just broken through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, sat cross-legged in the corner, fingering prayer beads while muttering under his breath.

One month.

Two months.

Three months.

The Golden Dragon Fish did not come.

In the corridor outside Quiet Heart Studio, cultivators occasionally flew past in a hurry, but no one stopped, and no one discovered that four people were hidden behind this ordinary wall.

Gao Chen opened his eyes and looked toward the small room. The Light Screen remained as before, without the slightest movement. He sighed, closed his eyes, and continued regulating his breath.

The Golden Dragon Fish stood before the Main Hall of Primordial Beginning Hall, the Golden Long Spear suspended in front of him, the golden light at its tip dim.

He lowered his head and looked at his hands, silent for a long time.

He had lived for a very long time.

Longer than any cultivator in the Cultivation World.

Golden Dragon Fish was the name those humans had given him. His main body was a koi.

The Koi Flower was the race with the longest lifespan among all Fish Demons in the world.

His parents had been two koi brought down from the upper realm by upper-realm cultivators. Later, the hall master of Primordial Beginning Hall took a fancy to them and contracted them as guardian Demonic Beasts for the sect.

He had been born in Primordial Beginning