This was no way to live!
Zhang Yuan grumbled as he reeled in his fishing rod—another day of coming up empty.
Having lived two lives, he had some ability to cultivate his temper.
Unless he truly could not bear it any longer, he would never become this irritable!
Recently, Zhang Yuan had moved to Wu Manor, making life much more convenient.
While training in martial arts and tempering his body each day, he would go fishing by the river bend morning and evening.
Anything he caught could either be eaten at home or used as an offering.
Yet for several days in a row, aside from a few negligible little silverfish, Zhang Yuan had caught nothing but air.
He had not even hooked a crucian carp three or four fingers wide.
It was simply absurd!
The reason lay in the fishing boats crowding the river bend.
The stir caused by the White Dragon Loach had not faded with time. On the contrary, it showed signs of growing ever more intense.
Although no one had caught this precious, rare fish yet.
Under the temptation of the Qi Accumulation Pill, nearly every fisherman had thrown themselves into the hunt.
Even though most of them had no idea what a Qi Accumulation Pill even was.
There was no resisting the sky-high prices people were offering for it.
It was said that the highest bid had already reached five thousand taels per fish.
What did five thousand taels mean?
It was enough to let an ordinary household live comfortably in the County Town for decades.
You could buy three hundred maids like Xiang Xiu!
Thus, red-eyed fishermen steered their little boats and wielded extermination nets, repeatedly fishing the upstream and downstream reaches of the Celestial Steed River as well as this river bend, day