Watching the electric eels madly scramble for food in the water, Xu Yang smiled and turned away.
On either side of the small island, along the eastern and western shores, he had established two aquaculture bases.
The western shore held net pens stocked with vast quantities of ordinary fish, along with all manner of precious Exotic Fish.
The eastern shore, meanwhile, remained in its original state and raised only one kind of fish: the electric eels he had gone to enormous lengths and endured countless hardships to find.
Among other fish species, only Exotic Fish were qualified to enjoy White Corn.
Yet even ordinary electric eels were fed White Corn by Xu Yang.
Besides White Corn, Xu Yang caught great quantities of fish and shrimp each day as meat feed, providing for the eel colony to the fullest extent. He also continually expended his own cultivation to enlighten the mutant Spirit Monsters among them and nurture an Electric Eel King.
With such no-expense-spared investment, the electric eels grew rapidly. In barely three years, more than a thousand electric eels had matured. He had also cultivated several dozen mutant electric eels, over a dozen Spirit Monster electric eels, and one demon-level Electric Eel King. It was the strongest exotic beast under his command, with a rate of growth surpassing even the golden eagle's.
Why did Xu Yang place such importance on raising electric eels?
It was not merely because of the power of "lightning," but because they had one extraordinary use.
He brought over another two sacks of White Corn and poured them into the lake for the eels to fight over, then returned to the western aquaculture base and carried the black carp kept as reserve ingredients back to his cabin.
This black carp was a Spirit Monster, over seven