Fishing Swagger Emperor's Toad (Please Recommend, Please Bookmark)

At dawn, the rising sun slowly climbed into the sky. Its gentle light drove away the darkness, staining the clouds on the horizon a brilliant crimson. It was breathtakingly beautiful.

Xiao Meng got up early today. After casually washing up, he once again headed into the mountain range dozens of miles beyond Wutan City.

He had not come today to fight magical beasts, but to dig for medicinal herbs. His hoe and steel rod were usable again, and since Xiao Yan had been frequently visiting the back mountain lately, Xiao Meng had no choice but to avoid him.

Sun Grass.

Golden-Blood Mystic Ginseng.

Dragon Fruit.

After a round of critical strikes, Xiao Meng obtained more than a dozen precious medicinal herbs. He was quite satisfied with the haul.

"The red fishing rod gets one fixed fishing opportunity every month. There's only one day left this month, and I still have five unused fishing attempts."

After putting away his hoe and steel rod, Xiao Meng pondered for a moment and muttered, "There's nothing to do if I go back anyway. I might as well fish here, change the scenery, and see whether the treasures I catch are any different."

Having made up his mind, Xiao Meng ran toward the depths of the mountain range. Along the way, any magical beast that tried to block him was beaten half to death with a single punch.

Eventually, he arrived in a valley filled with towering ancient trees and winding old vines. He casually found a spot to sit down, took out his fishing rod, and began fishing.

"Hmm? What world is this?"

The scene reflected in Xiao Meng's mind showed verdant mountains hidden in mist and enormous peaks rising and falling. As far as the eye could see lay what seemed to be a primeval forest untouched by human footsteps.

Here, mountain ranges crisscrossed and rose and fell like massive dragons sprawled across the earth. Ancient vines twisted like dragons, while giant trees spread like umbrellas, blotting out swathes of sky.

Xiao Meng could even hear the roars of tigers and the chants of dragons, sounds that shook the soul. It felt as if divine beasts truly lurked here, making his scalp tingle.

"It's impossible to identify a world from a single mountain range alone," Xiao Meng muttered. At that moment, the fishing hook had already extended underground, yet it did not stop and continued drilling deeper.

"Could the treasure targeted by the hook be underground? Heh, I'm looking forward to it." Xiao Meng chuckled, but in the next second, his smile gradually froze.

He saw that the hook had snagged a palm-sized iron sheet, blackened and covered in rust.

"A rusty scrap of iron? It doesn't look like any kind of treasure," Xiao Meng muttered as he reeled in the fishing line.

"????"

"What the hell is this? Don't tell me it really is just a useless piece of scrap iron."

Xiao Meng examined it while wiping away the rust on its surface.

"Miraculous fishing rod, you're not a garbage collector, damn it. How can you even fish up scrap iron...?"

"Huh! There are words on it!"

Xiao Meng suddenly cried out.

After wiping it for a while, he discovered traces of writing on the iron sheet.

"Could this be an iron sheet recording a cultivation technique?" Xiao Meng's imagination ran wild. His heart raced with excitement and anticipation as he began wiping it much faster.

"Li!"

The first character appeared. The mark was somewhat blurry, but still recognizable. Yet the moment Xiao Meng saw it, he was stunned. Why did it begin with "Li"? Was this really a cultivation technique? He had never heard of one beginning with the character Li.

Xiao Meng was slightly disappointed, but his wiping did not slow.

"Qiye... Li Qiye... Hiss, isn't that Swagger Emperor's name?"

Xiao Meng cried out, his pupils abruptly widening as his expression turned vacant. "Could the world I just fished in be Emperor's Domination World?"

After freezing for a moment, he frantically sped up his wiping. His heart instantly burned with excitement.

How could something connected to Swagger Emperor possibly be ordinary?

"Li Qiye Alchemy Experience Card. Take orally. Tomato flavor."

Xiao Meng stood dumbfounded, as motionless as a clay statue.

"I've struck it rich?" Xiao Meng suddenly jumped up in wild joy. He even tossed the fishing rod into the air and began dancing around.

"Hahaha! It's actually Swagger Emperor's alchemy experience card! I'm rich, I'm rich!" Xiao Meng roared, then shoved the iron sheet into his mouth and chewed it hard.

"Fuck, it's so hard. And why does it taste like rust besides tomato?"

Xiao Meng's expression instantly became incomparably pained.

"Damn it, I forgot to wipe the other side." Xiao Meng was struck as if by lightning and nearly cried. He did not even have the strength to complain inwardly.

He wanted to spit it out and wipe it again, but he feared something might go wrong. What if it stopped working after he spat it out and swallowed it again?

After forcibly swallowing the iron sheet, his body suddenly trembled. A surge of heat rushed into his mind.

Immediately afterward, his head swelled with excruciating pain, forcing him to clutch it and scream.

Only after more than ten minutes did he begin to feel a little better.

At the same time, countless memories emerged in his mind.

Iceheart Pill: Eight-Point Mystic Ice Grass, Snow Lotus Seed, Ice-Spirit Flame Grass, Mystic Ice Flower, Ice-Spirit Fruit, Crystal Jade-Muscle Bone Grass, Snow Lotus Essence.

Heaven-and-Earth Creation Pill: Heaven-and-Earth Mystic-Yellow Fruit, Mystic-Yellow Exquisite Ginseng, Nine-Turn Spirit Ginseng, White Orchid Fruit, White Spirit Ginseng Fruit, Red Essence Ganoderma, Spirit Candle Fruit,

Wanmeng Fruit, Dao Comprehension Tea, Heaven's Fate Spirit Leaf, Dao Comprehension Stone.

"My god, countless pill formulas, along with every kind of alchemy experience... This is practically an alchemy scripture that could shake the world. As expected of Swagger Emperor, who lived through countless eras. His alchemy experience is absurdly vast!"

Xiao Meng trembled with excitement, even his soul shaking.

It took him more than an hour to finally calm the emotions in his heart.

"Haha! What Yao Lao, what Yao Clan? Compared to me in alchemy, I'm dozens of streets ahead of you!" Xiao Meng laughed smugly.

The reason he had not rushed to take the Soul-Nourishing Wood back from Xiao Yan was that he wanted to wait until Xiao Yan got through this period of grueling cultivation, then find an opportunity to have Yao Chen teach him alchemy. Now, it seemed completely unnecessary.

"Huff! Huff! Huff!"

Xiao Meng took deep breaths, but his little heart was still beating rapidly.

"I'll keep fishing and see whether there are any more surprises." Xiao Meng picked up the fishing rod and began fishing again.

"Uh! It's actually this place again?" Xiao Meng was dumbfounded. The place he had fished into this time was the same mountain range where he had just caught the experience card.

Xiao Meng was stunned at first, then overwhelmed with joy. Perhaps another surprise was waiting for him this time.

"Hmm! This is a swamp. It looks like someone just plowed through it, and the mud is still fresh."

"Holy shit, is Swagger Emperor fishing for that toad?" Once Xiao Meng recognized the place, he instinctively began recalling the plot he had read. His eyes immediately widened.

Sure enough, he saw a man-made mud hole. At the same time, he saw a young man hiding beside the swamp, holding his breath and staring fixedly at the mud hole with extreme caution.

"T-That's the legendary Swagger Emperor?" Xiao Meng was utterly stunned.

The toad Swagger Emperor wanted to catch was not some immortal beast or divine beast, but a furnace god—an unparalleled furnace god named Myriad Furnace God.

"Croak! Croak!"

However, Xiao Meng was jolted awake by the sound of a toad. At the same time, he felt the fishing line trembling.

"You've got to be kidding me..."

He focused his eyes and was so frightened that he threw away the fishing rod.

"The hook seems... seems to have caught a toad? C-Could that be the Myriad Furnace God that Swagger Emperor went to such lengths to catch?"

Seeing the fishing rod twitching on the ground, Xiao Meng picked it back up. Swagger Emperor was a truly vicious character.

"Good grief. If I steal his toad, he won't come all the way to this world to beat me up, will he?"

Xiao Meng's hands trembled. He steadied himself and looked along the fishing line, only to see an ordinary toad hanging from the hook, its belly merely a little larger than normal.

"Croak! Croak!" The toad croaked incessantly, seemingly trying to break free of the hook, but it was firmly caught.

"Should I reel it in or not?" Xiao Meng could not decide. He did not want to provoke Swagger Emperor Li Qiye. That guy was vicious beyond belief; aside from that damned old heaven, no one could beat him.

"Fuck it, whatever. It's already hooked, so there's no reason not to reel it in. Besides, once the hook catches something, I can't shake it off even if I want to—unless I throw away the fishing rod too." Xiao Meng quickly steadied himself. He refused to believe Li Qiye could reach this world.

"Come on, baby!"

Xiao Meng was now excited. Myriad Furnace God was no ordinary treasure; it was among the finest possible choices for refining pills and medicines.

"Reel it in, hurry!"

Afraid that Swagger Emperor would notice, Xiao Meng used every ounce of strength he had and desperately reeled in the fishing line.

"Ah! What rat dares? You deserve to die!" At that very moment, Li Qiye discovered the toad being fished up into the sky.

"You dare steal my toad? I'll wipe out your entire clan!" Li Qiye roared in fury, launching himself from the ground and charging into the sky.