Born to Fish

Twenty percent?

Still not enough? Damn it, wasn't it just over ten percent?

Small Fish swam back and forth, Repeatedly Confirming.

Sea Market Master sighed. "Of course I will not sit and wait for death. But Octopus King has withdrawn his tentacles, rendering most of my preparations useless. Octopus King will be weakened after using Invert Yin Yang, yet even with the Luan Phoenix Reversal Pill, I do not have much confidence. Besides..."

Small Fish wagged its tail fin.

"For some reason, Octopus King brought forward his rebirth through offspring. It has only been two full sixty-year cycles since his previous wife passed away. There should have been a gap of twenty or thirty years, but the time left for me to prepare is far too short. At present, aside from Hai Yun, Octopus King has withdrawn all his tentacles, solely to prepare for rebirth at full strength."

Twenty or thirty years early?

Why would he move it up so far in advance for no reason? Though the entire rebirth process had succeeded twice in reality, the actual risks were enormous.

Each lifespan extension was limited. Squandering twenty or thirty years of lifespan for nothing was practically a blood-curdling loss.

After pondering for a while.

A narcissistic thought abruptly surfaced in Liang Qu's mind. Could it have something to do with him? Octopus King could divine and calculate fortunes. Though not omniscient, he could roughly predict simple blessings and disasters. In twenty or thirty years, given Liang Qu's relationship with Sea Market Master...

Had his divinations revealed that things would grow more dangerous the further into the future they went?

The situation was urgent; agonizing over the reason was meaningless.

Too low.

Just over ten percent might have seemed high to others, enough to warrant a try. After all, their