"What are you?" a hoarse voice reached Yu Huo's ears.
Yu Huo turned, looking behind. There, a human figure was barely visible, too blurry to make out.
"A fish. An intelligent fish. Could you be the one the Lu family is looking for?" came the hoarse voice.
Yu Huo stared at the figure and let out a sharp cry. "Are you Ye Bo?"
The figure approached. Yu Huo grew wary and backed away.
"What are you?" the hoarse voice asked again. The speaker was, naturally, Lu Yin.
When he had stepped onto the island where Lu Qi lived, he had felt uncomfortable, as if something there repulsed him—or rather, rejected him. It wasn't that he himself felt repelled; the rejection came from Primeval Space. He had searched while talking with Lu Qi, and then he spotted the fish.
He had seemed to be chatting with Lu Qi about the White Dragon Clan, but all the while he had kept an eye on the fish. When the White Dragon Clan came up, the fish's gaze had clearly shown humanlike mockery and anger. This puzzled Lu Yin and gave him an idea. It was absurd, but he suspected that Lu Qi had accidentally fished Yu Huo out of the water.
Ancestor Tianyi had severely wounded Yu Huo with a single finger, leaving him able to maintain only his fish form. And these days, Zhongping Sea had few peaceful places. If there was one, the waters around Lu Qi's island certainly qualified. No one dared disturb Lu Qi, so it wasn't strange that Yu Huo had come here.
If that really was the case, Lu Yin hadn't rushed to act. Instead, he had thought of something, which had led to this scene. He wanted to use Ye Bo's identity to learn about the