Lu Xuan waited patiently.
With such enormous temptation before it, that Rank 1 Sea Fish did not completely lose its reason. Instead, it observed its surroundings while constantly testing the Demon Beast Meat on the bait.
After a while, once it confirmed there was no danger, it opened its huge maw full of sharp teeth, swallowed it in one gulp, and fled far away.
"Already on the hook and still want to run?"
Lu Xuan's eyes lit up. He grabbed the Copper Bone Bamboo fishing rod, controlled the hook with Spiritual Power, lodged it tightly in the Sea Fish's body, and gave it a hard backward swing.
A three-foot-long Sea Fish was brought up from the seabed and landed on the Wooden Tower, its deep-black tail continuously slapping, the two rows of sharp teeth in its mouth biting wildly.
Lu Xuan looked at this lively, flopping Sea Fish and felt rather satisfied.
The instant the Sea Fish bit the hook, the sense of accomplishment in his heart reached a peak, second only to the Light Orb reward produced from a mature high-grade Spirit Plant.
When his Spiritual Sense detected the Sea Fish's existence, he could try to directly control the hook to snag it. It was just that undercurrents surged on the seabed, weakening his control over the line and hook considerably.
More importantly, doing that would rob him of the joy of fishing.
He firmly grabbed the Rank 1 Sea Fish with one hand and arrived before a huge pool Shi Zhong had dug out.
The pool was more than ten zhang in both length and width. Various runes were drawn on the stone walls in front, behind, left, and right, while a spiritual energy barrier above covered the entire water surface, preventing the Sea Fish and Sea Beasts