Although you had also made some fruit-based vegetarian bait yourselves, it was only for emergencies. After all, it could never compare in quantity to the more readily acquired meaty bait.
Special bait was limited, so you would not rashly use it for fishing. This was especially true for you, the Snow Emperor, and Jin Chang Geng, who were all entering the Boundary Abyss Sea for the first time. Everything you knew had been recorded in books, so the first thing you needed to do was adapt to fishing itself. Special bait was not suitable for such experimentation.
Although special bait more easily attracted "fish," you still needed to imitate the swimming patterns of certain undersea "prey" to coordinate with it. You also had to judge the ocean currents around the area and work with them, lowering the vigilance of the seabed treasures and making it easier to catch the eye of high-grade treasures.
Moreover, hooking a "fish" did not necessarily mean you would gain anything. Truly dragging the hooked treasure—whose underwater form was a monster—from the seabed to shore was a subject full of profound learning, requiring many techniques to master. Otherwise, you might encounter situations such as "unhooking," "line breaking," or even "tearing its mouth."
Some treasures possessed formidable abilities. Those with spirits, or even elemental spirits, could actively destroy the divine soul threads and the restraints binding the bait to those threads.
If the fisher's skills were unpracticed at such a time, the chances of being "cut off" or "unhooked" would also greatly increase. Thus, the fisher's skill became particularly important. Using self-made bait to practice and become familiar with the entire fishing process was something many fishers entering the Boundary Abyss Sea for the first time needed to learn. Otherwise, even with special bait, they would only