Holding the fishing rod, Fang Yun could clearly feel that it had changed, and he received a message from it.
As long as a fish's mouth was within one inch of the hook, the hook could catch it instantly. As long as a fish was within two inches of the hook, the hook could wound it and slow it down.
After reading this, Fang Yun understood at once. "An Inch of Time, an Inch of Gold" had become the hook's power: within one inch, it could catch a fish outright; within two inches, it could wound one. In the Sea of Learning, this was practically equivalent to a Sainthood Literary Treasure!
The powers granted by learning poems in the Sea of Learning came in many varieties, and books had even catalogued them. Yet no one had ever heard of a hook that could cross one or even two inches of space.
Those one or two inches seemed very short, hardly different from before, but often they meant the difference between catching a fish and missing it.
The most important point was not the extended reach, but that within that range, the hook was "absolutely" guaranteed to catch or wound a fish.
Without this new ability, the angle sometimes caused the back of the hook to strike a Literary Heart Fish, accomplishing nothing. With this ability, however, the space within one and two inches of the hook would become forbidden territory for Literary Heart Fish!
And there were nine hooks!
With this new ability, the Dragon-Scales Fishing Rod's success rate soared more than a thousandfold!
Fang Yun smiled slightly, joy flashing in his eyes. Paying no attention to anyone else, he resumed casting his rod to practice fishing.
When he was still three li from the Outer Sea, Fang Yun spotted