What Bad Intentions Could I Possibly Have?

The Red Giant Fish blew a string of bubbles at Wu Chu in greeting.

Wu Chu chuckled. He felt that this big fish was rather extraordinary. Every other creature that sensed the aura radiating from the Dragon Blood had long since fled, yet it still dared to remain here.

The lake was only a little over a hundred meters from the Sky-Pillaring Divine Tree. At that distance, it surely could sense the Dragon Blood aura emanating from the bloody mud.

But remembering how it had dared to eat Dragon Meat raw yesterday, Wu Chu stopped dwelling on it. Perhaps this big fish also carried a trace of Dragon Clan bloodline!

He examined the big fish carefully, but found nothing unusual about its body. It seemed that the piece of Dragon Meat it had eaten yesterday had not affected it at all.

Still, Wu Chu felt that was unlikely. Could a tiny fish spirit that had yet to take human form really refine Dragon Meat from the Golden Immortal Realm so easily?

Some of the cells within the big fish had definitely been mutated by the active energy in the Dragon Blood. He simply could not see it.

Bracing himself, Wu Chu crouched by the lake and beckoned to the fish. The big fish swam over obediently. Unfortunately, there was a shallow bank by the shore, with knee-high green weeds growing all the way to the water's edge. Given its enormous size, the fish could not easily approach.

Thus, man and fish remained more than ten meters apart, staring at each other.

Seeing a fish over ten meters long up close would have seemed shocking to Wu Chu in the past. But now, he felt nothing. After all, he saw divine dragons two or three thousand meters long every day. What was a fish just over ten meters long worth? Even if it looked rather pretty, it was still fundamentally a fish. How could it compare to a dragon?

Realizing he could not make anything out, Wu Chu took out his phone and summoned Yibao. "Yibao, take a look at this big fish. See if there's anything unusual about it."

As he spoke, Wu Chu held up his phone and took several pictures of the big fish. Then he turned around, using the lake and the fish as a backdrop, and snapped a few selfies. He even struck a rather silly peace-sign pose.

Aside from his clothes being truly worn-out, Wu Chu was quite satisfied with everything else, especially his increasingly defined facial features and ever-brighter eyes.

Of course, his increasingly smooth skin also pleased him immensely. The blemishes that had once been on his face had long since vanished.

Anyone who did not know better would have thought he was wearing makeup!

Seeing Wu Chu indulging in self-admiration, Yibao rolled her eyes, but she obediently began analyzing the big fish anyway.

When the big fish saw Yibao, it did not underestimate her. It was even somewhat frightened, yet it did not choose to flee. It merely watched Yibao with caution.

After observing it for a while, Yibao said, "There's nothing wrong with its body. It's just that several scales on its head show signs of mutation. Their defense is clearly much stronger than that of the other scales. I uploaded it to your phone and marked it. You can take a look."

Wu Chu opened his gallery and tapped the first picture. At the exact center of the fish's forehead was a patch of brighter color. The scales there appeared redder than those elsewhere. Without looking carefully, it was genuinely hard to notice.

But once he enlarged the picture, it became much clearer.

"Looks like it isn't worried at all about the mutation caused by the Dragon Meat!"

Yibao teased, "It's a fish to begin with. If it can mutate into a dragon, it would be thrilled! What would it have to worry about? It's not like you!"

Wu Chu spread his hands. "You can't blame me for that! I finally became handsome, and if mutating only made me uglier, wouldn't that be a huge loss? Besides, being strong is only temporary, but being handsome lasts a lifetime."

"Maybe you could become even more handsome!" Yibao arched her lovely brows and coaxed, "Think about it. If your head turned into a dragon head, wouldn't you look even more handsome and mighty?"

Wu Chu's lips twitched. "What kind of heretical taste is that?"

As he spoke, he turned and walked back to the little wooden house, slowly slicing Dragon Meat with the kitchen knife.

Compared to yesterday, cutting the Dragon Meat was much easier today. His strength had increased noticeably, and he felt this was a benefit brought by the Dragon Meat.

When Wu Chu carefully carried a chunk of Dragon Meat weighing more than half a jin to the lakeside, the big fish in the lake clearly grew restless. Its huge eyes stared fixedly at the meat.

Wu Chu smiled and raised his hand, tossing the Dragon Meat toward the Red Giant Fish.

The fish swept its enormous tail, and its huge body rose upright from the water. It opened its mouth and caught the meat. Then its body crashed back into the lake with a bang, sending water splashing everywhere.

The water by the shore was too shallow for the big fish to use its water-control ability. Fortunately, Wu Chu raised a barrier of magical power, blocking the splashing water before it could hit him.

In its excitement, the big fish wildly wagged its tail at Wu Chu again. Its body lunged a stretch toward the shore, then twisted around and rushed back into the lake.

Watching the big fish vanish beneath the lake's surface, Wu Chu grinned.

Seeing this, Yibao shook her head and sighed softly. "Poor big fish. It's being used as an experiment and doesn't even know it. How stupid! It's probably thanking you profusely right now!"

Wu Chu curled his lips. "It wants to eat more Dragon Meat! Why do you have to think I'm so bad? What bad intentions could an honest person like me possibly have?"

Yibao giggled. "I like how shameless you are."

Wu Chu turned back toward the little wooden house and said, "I don't dare agree with your taste. I told you already, I'm not a bad person. How could I have bad intentions?"

"Hehe, still talking tough!"

"If I really had bad intentions, I would have used them on you long ago, right? Look at you—you look exactly like the woman of my dreams. But have I done anything bad to you?"

"Do you want to?"

Sigh! There was no way to continue this conversation. Better get to work!

Wu Chu decided to stop trading barbs with Yibao. Her butt was too big; he could not outdo her.

Back in the little wooden house, Wu Chu took a block of wood and began carving it with the kitchen knife. He decided to first use small wooden blocks to try building a beautiful palace with mortise-and-tenon joinery. Though it would require endless experiments, he felt he had all the time in the world to waste.

As for cultivation, at his current realm, he could basically solve it all by eating.

Seeing Wu Chu fall silent, Yibao sprawled on his shoulder as if she had won a battle, kicking her little feet. "Dear Master, I think you need Yibao's help right now!"

"Beautiful lady, please do not disturb your dear master at a time like this."

Yibao chuckled. With a gentle curl of her jade finger, the phone in Wu Chu's pocket floated out and flew before her, hovering in midair. As her finger lightly tapped the screen, diagrams of mortise-and-tenon joinery soon appeared on the phone one after another.

The phone floated before Wu Chu, and diagram after diagram slid across the screen.

"Yibao, you truly deserve to be my treasure!" Wu Chu reached out and gently rubbed the top of Yibao's head with his fingertip. He changed his tune faster than flipping a page.

But the phone drifted back into Yibao's hand. "What did my dear master just say to me? It really makes me sad! Perhaps I shouldn't disturb you after all."

"I'm sure you must have misheard..."

"Scumbag!"

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