Dolphinfish

"This... I can have my husband give you half the realm!"

Yang Huan thought for a moment, then her eyes lit up.

"What right do you have to make your husband give me half the empire he worked so hard to build?"

Su Mu asked with a smile.

"Because he loves me!"

Fine, fine, it was love again. Love truly was great.

Su Mu did not want to say anything more.

Still, Su Mu did not make things difficult for that hard-luck emperor he had never met, who had worked so hard to build his empire.

He did not write that condition into the contract.

He took out a contract, wrote "Yang Huan" on it with dark river water, then handed it to her. "Bite your finger and press your fingerprint where your name is."

Yang Huan looked at the paper in her hands. Once she saw the words clearly, her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief.

There really was an IOU??

She could hardly believe her eyes. She had actually seen an IOU here! What was owed was listed as "to be determined."

"Can you accept it?"

"If you can't, I'll just stand here and refuse to move."

Su Mu lay before the boat, his hands clasped behind his back.

Hearing this, Yang Huan immediately panicked. "No, no, no, I'll sign it, I'll sign it."

"Please, just move."

Only after Yang Huan pressed her fingerprint did Su Mu remove the stillness restriction from the waters beneath the boat and clear a path for it.

"Do well. Don't be empress—just become emperor."

Su Mu waved at the departing figure and offered his earnest advice.

You have maintained River Order. Favor Points +100.

As the system announcement rang out, one hundred Favor Points were credited!

Host: Su Mu

Cultivation: Qi Refining Fifth Stage

Controlled Divine Abilities: Water Manipulation, Swimming

Controlled Water Beasts: None

River Affinity: 0.016%)

River Favor Points: 1500 points

After patrolling diligently for so long, he had accumulated fifteen hundred River Favor Points.

He should raise his affinity first! Would he consume 1,400 River Favor Points to increase River Affinity?

"Yes."

Increasing!

Affinity: 0.016% → Affinity: 0.03%

One hundred points left?

What should he do??

Of course... gamble! Su Mu opened the lottery panel and tried a single draw first! Favor Points -1.

Normal draw in progress.

Congratulations! Special reward triggered: hundredfold Favor Point cashback!

Favor Points +100.

Upon hearing that, Su Mu's face instantly darkened. What a huge loss!!!

Why had he not gritted his teeth and drawn the 100-point option?

With a hundredfold cashback, wouldn't that have been ten thousand Favor Points!

He had lost so badly. This was a massive loss.

With 199 Favor Points left, Su Mu's heart began to stir. A voice in his mind kept tempting him. Draw the hundred-point one! Draw the hundred-point one! If it multiplies, that's ten thousand!

Su Mu clenched his teeth, hardened his heart, and drew! Favor Points -100.

Silver-tier draw in progress.

Thank you for participating!

At those four words, Su Mu's vision went black. He slapped himself hard and cursed, "Gamblers deserve to die!"

The hundred points he had just gotten were gone in the blink of an eye. It would have been one thing if he had failed to trigger the hundredfold cashback, but he had not drawn anything at all. Su Mu could not stand it.

"Ten-draw, activate!"

Favor Points -10

Ten normal draws in progress.

One Top-Grade Spirit Stone

One Fifth-Grade Foundation Establishment Pill

Thank you for participating

Thank you for participating

Top-Grade Golden Silk Armor - Earth Grade

Spider-Man's First Generation Suit

Thank you for participating

Ninth Uncle's Peach Wood Sword

Thank you for participating

Thank you for participating

His luck in this ten-draw was not bad. He got five items.

Su Mu lightly sorted through his loot. He picked up Spider-Man's First Generation Suit, but after putting it on, he felt like an idiot. He took it off and tossed it aside.

The Golden Silk Armor was good, and it was even Earth Grade. Once worn, it merged with his skin. He could not feel its weight, and it could not be seen.

Then he picked up a peach wood sword and waved it around, but he was not interested. He tossed it into his Stone House.

There were no zombies here. What use was a peach wood sword?

There was also a Fifth-Grade Foundation Establishment Pill and a Top-Grade Spirit Stone.

What Su Mu had always wanted to draw was a cultivation method he could practice, no matter how trashy it was.

Yet after drawing for so long, all he got was junk. Not a single cultivation method.

He was trapped here guarding the river. He could not possibly guard it for the rest of his life, could he? Looking at his remaining 89 Favor Points...

Su Mu decided to spend them all.

He refused to believe he could not draw a cultivation method??

Favor Points -10

Bronze-tier draw in progress.

Congratulations, you have obtained "Azure Sky Sword - Earth Rank."

Favor Points -10

Bronze-tier draw in progress.

Congratulations, you have obtained "X-Virus Injectable Solution."

Favor Points -10

Bronze-tier draw in progress.

Congratulations, you have obtained "Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art."

The next second, cultivation instructions for the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art appeared in Su Mu's mind.

Hard work paid off. He had finally drawn a cultivation method he could practice.

Over the next few days, Su Mu explored cultivation on his own while guarding the river.

But as he practiced, Su Mu realized why ordinary cultivators could not cultivate even after obtaining martial arts manuals. This was fucking hard!

After several days, Su Mu could barely understand the literal meaning of the words. He had no idea how to begin cultivating at all.

Host: Su Mu

Cultivation: Qi Refining Fifth Stage

Controlled Divine Abilities: Water Manipulation, Swimming

Mastered Cultivation Methods: Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art

Controlled Water Beasts: None

River Affinity: 0.03%)

River Favor Points: 59 points

Su Mu opened the detailed panel for the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art.

Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art: Level 0 (0/10)

Seeing this, Su Mu raised an eyebrow. Could he add points to this too?

With a try-it-and-see attitude, he began adding points.

Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art +10

Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art: Level 1 (0/100)

The next second, Su Mu's aura began to surge. All the experience, improvement, amplification, and other effects gained from cultivating the method manifested at once.

It was equivalent to years of hard cultivation for Su Mu, and his cultivation rose to the Qi Refining Completion Stage!

Su Mu suddenly opened his eyes and circulated the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art. Vast azure spiritual energy burst from his palms and coiled around his body. Su Mu lowered his head to look at his hands, slowly clenching them into fists as he felt an unprecedented sense of power.

Good. Now he did not need to study it, nor did he need to figure out those obscure characters. It did not matter whether he recognized them or not—he just had to add points.

That day, while taking a break from cultivation, Su Mu noticed a disturbance by the riverbank.

He got to his feet and quickly walked over, only to find a fish tangled in the aquatic plants along the shore.

When Su Mu approached, he saw that it was a dolphinfish.

The dolphinfish, also known as the Ten-Thousand Fish, Flying Crow Tiger, or Ghost-Head Knife.

Its body was elongated and laterally compressed, tall at the front and gradually narrowing toward the rear. Its head was large, its back narrow, and its forehead had a bony protrusion. Its body was greenish-brown, its belly silver-white to light gray, and green spots were scattered across its sides. Its dorsal fin was bluish-purple, while its tail fin was silvery gray with a golden sheen.

Su Mu rolled up his sleeves, pulled aside the grass, and caught the dolphinfish in his hands.

Actually, Su Mu did not intend to eat it. Eating an ordinary fish like this would only fill his stomach. He might as well release it and gain some Favor Points.

Then Su Mu remembered that his system could also control water beasts.

If he contracted this dolphinfish, could it earn him Favor Points?

With the intention of giving it a try, Su Mu began forming a contract.