That catfish was enormous, nearly three meters long.
Its mouth was full of sharp teeth, and its body was covered in bizarre patterns, making it look exceptionally terrifying.
On the riverbank, several children seemed scared senseless, standing rooted to the spot.
Whoosh!!
At that critical moment.
A flash of blade light suddenly appeared.
The catfish was instantly split in two, cleaved down the middle into two smooth, even halves.
The halves then separated and crashed onto the ground.
Even then, the catfish continued to twitch and convulse, blood pouring onto the ground like a rolling stream.
The danger had passed.
Only then did the children snap out of their daze and burst into loud sobs.
Qin Zheng's gaze swept over the huge fish on the ground, and he faintly furrowed his brows.
Though this fish was massive and looked rather strange.
It was not particularly powerful.
Its skin, flesh, and bones were all ordinary, scarcely any tougher than those of common fish.
In that slash just now, he had initially used eighty percent of his strength, but after sensing something unusual, he immediately held back.
He had used only ten or twenty percent of his strength to split it apart and chop it into two pieces.
It seemed to be nothing more than an oversized catfish.
Yet this place was only fifty li from Black Goose City.
How could there be such an enormous catfish here?
And yet in Black Goose City, he had never heard of any fishermen discovering or hauling up a fish this large.
Qin Zheng was deep in thought.
The children's crying soon drew villagers from the nearby settlement over.
"Who are you?!"
Holding fish spears, the villagers first shouted warily when they saw Qin Zheng.
Then, upon seeing the huge fish carcass scattered in two