"What's wrong, Sect Master?"
Wen Xinyan noticed something unusual about Chen Lin and followed his gaze.
Then she saw a goldfish swimming back and forth in the clear river. It was not very big, just over three inches long, but it was strikingly conspicuous.
"Would catching it count as completing the mission?"
Wen Xinyan asked, visibly tempted.
Chen Lin shook his head.
"I don't know either, but we'd better not act rashly. Let's watch it first."
This was his second time entering this secret realm, yet his first time seeing a living creature here. Of course he was curious, but the more unusual something was, the more danger it signified. He did not dare make any reckless moves.
Hearing that, Wen Xinyan grew cautious as well.
However, Chen Lin had guided her all the way here, and they had not encountered a single attack, so she did not feel quite so much pressure.
After giving it a couple of glances, she stepped closer on her own to examine it carefully.
"Huh?"
She immediately let out a surprised exclamation.
"Look, Sect Master. One of this fish's scales grows backward, and its color is very bright."
Wen Xinyan pointed at the goldfish as it gradually swam farther away.
Chen Lin had already noticed it without her reminder.
Moreover, he sensed a faint aura of destiny on the fish, enough to stir his talent.
A destiny fish?
Chen Lin was puzzled.
Why would a destiny fish appear here? Could this river be a tributary of the River of Destiny scenario?
But he immediately dismissed that idea.
He had visited the River of Destiny. Anyone who touched it would turn into a destiny fish, but this river displayed no such strange omen.
Besides.
If it were the River of Destiny, its spring water could