Xu Changqing had not expected an unexpected windfall, and he could not help grinning.
He then stored the Liquid Water Essence in the Jade-Green Gourd and placed the Water Spirit Fruit Tree in his Portable Space.
He immediately released his Spiritual Sense, sweeping everything around him as thoroughly as possible, afraid he might miss some valuable treasure.
And sure enough, he found something new.
There was actually a corpse in a pit nearby.
No, to be precise, it was the corpse of an angler.
He wore a tattered straw rain cape and a bamboo hat.
His hand clutched a mottled fishing rod tightly, as though he had still been fishing before his death.
After Xu Changqing dug it out from among countless fish skeletons, he discovered that this fishing rod was far from ordinary.
Since Lao Zhao and Lao Hu both enjoyed fishing, he knew a fair bit about such things.
Most fishing rods consisted of three parts.
The rod.
The hook.
And the line.
The seemingly ordinary fishing rod before him was anything but simple.
The rod was made of Deep River Bamboo.
The hook was a Swallowing Abyss Hook.
The line was made from Fish Demon sinew.
Put plainly, this was not merely a fishing rod—it was also a spirit artifact.
Five spirit runes had been inscribed upon it.
They were:
Water-Gathering Mark
Spirit-Binding Mark
Water-Hiding Mark
Insight Mark
Water-Tracing Mark
Although the spirit runes upon it were indeed closely related to fishing, they would not be especially weak if used in battle.
After examining it for a while, Xu Changqing found a storage pouch at the corpse's waist.
Though its owner was already dead, the imprint upon it remained, so it could not be opened.
Xu Changqing put away the storage pouch, then grabbed the angler's corpse