Gathering Medicine

If Xu Yi had still been alive, he would have recognized the little red fish at a glance. It was the same little carp that had received the gift of his Yin Extremity Bead that night and successfully leaped through the Dragon Gate.

Curiously, a closer look revealed that the little carp was covered in fine wounds, as though it had endured countless bloody battles.

The little carp had only just leaped above the lake when its little golden-red tail, faintly marked with dragon patterns, swished lightly. The entire lake seemed to be struck by a sudden gale. Waves surged up several zhang high, rolled onto the shore, and swept nearly a hundred zhang inland, instantly inundating the bank.

Like a giant waterfall washing over the land, it erased every trace along the shore, leaving behind only battered flowers and weeds, and damp, fishy mud.

"May my benefactor be rewarded for his kindness."

Muttering to itself, the little carp slipped beneath the lake and disappeared.

As it happened, Xu Yi's corpse had not been taken away thanks entirely to Little Red Carp.

At the time, the power of space and time had ravaged his demonic body. By the time it fell into the Dragon River, he was already at the end of his strength.

The Dragon River roiled, its current swift. The moment his demonic body entered the water, it was swept into a whirlpool and carried downstream.

Half an hour later, he had already drifted dozens of li away. Only then did the Third Prince order the cultivators to search the river.

Even with dozens of li between them, thousands of cultivators chasing upstream from downstream would surely have found Xu Yi's unconscious demonic body.

As luck would have it, just as Xu Yi's corpse reached the mouth of