Tongtian Market dock.
"How about one White Jade Coin for five baskets of small fry?" A scrawny man rummaged through Chen Mu's catch and said.
Th-this... was worth a whole White Jade Coin?
Thinking of the countless baskets of fish the Five Ghosts Bag had devoured, Chen Mu's face twitched.
What it had eaten wasn't fish—it had eaten White Jade Coins!
"Fine." Chen Mu looked utterly dejected.
He returned the boat and headed straight back to the Low Hill courtyard.
"No rush to get the deposit back. I'll have to come rent a boat again tomorrow anyway."
"This is actually a pretty good source of income." Chen Mu perked up.
He had Drunken Bait and the Heartless Bell. Combined with the Five Ghosts Bag, catching fish couldn't be easier.
"There's no need to go after those huge, powerful Mutant Beasts. Too dangerous."
"I'll just deal with small fry like today's."
"I can make money easily!"
Chen Mu's eyes lit up.
"This can work!"
For seven or eight days in a row, Chen Mu cultivated the Hundred Intents Shattering-Illusion Technique as usual in the mornings, then went fishing on the Heaven-Reaching River around three in the afternoon.
The improved Drunken Bait knocked them out, the Heartless Bell finished them off, and the Five Ghosts Bag captured them.
As long as he found a calm inlet, he could catch five or six baskets of fish in less than half an hour.
He fed all the rest to the Five Ghosts Bag.
Though the Five Ghosts Bag still showed no signs of growing, Chen Mu did not mind.
"One a day makes thirty a month. What an unexpected bonus!"
That alone covered a third of his expenses.
"If I weren't worried about attracting attention from the people at the dock, I could