"Ah, how could I not have heard? Word spread all over Black Mountain first thing this morning..."
The speaker sat beside Dong Yue. He was a dark-skinned man with a coarse beard and an exceptionally tough, capable air, named Suo Huan, a Nine Refinements Attendant of the Lin Family.
"Anyway, Old Dong, what does your office have to say about it?!"
"Don't you all know what our office is like? Our county magistrate loves governing by doing nothing. I only heard about it just before coming to the banquet...
"But as chief constable, I utterly detest Azure Dragon Hall's use of living people as bait!
"Damn it, if only I'd been at Lost Soul Bay then. I would have killed Chu Dongjiao!"
Dong Yue spoke with righteous conviction.
"And then kept the Silver-Sand Carp King all to yourself?!" Jiang Liuchuan teased.
"Hehe, that was a fish king! You'd be lucky to encounter one in ten years, even rarer than a treasure fish... I'd only ever heard of them before. If I really came across one, of course I'd fight for it!"
Dong Yue did not deny it.
"Indeed."
Suo Huan nodded in agreement. "Every part of a treasure fish is precious, let alone the king of treasure fish!
"Its essence blood can temper the body, its tendons can strengthen your tendons and bones, its scales can be used to forge equipment, and its flesh can nourish the body... I'd love a bite. I even dream about it..."
"Burp."
Wei Sheng let out an ill-timed belch, drawing everyone's eyes to him at once.
"Sorry, I'm full."
Wei Sheng had not wanted to be rude either.
The thing was...
He had eaten so many chunks of Silver-Sand Carp King that day that now, just hearing the words "fish king" made him want