Palm Dipped in Iodine

With the Qianchuan Fishing Rod, never coming up empty, a rod guaranteed to fill the keepnet 100% of the time—wouldn't that mean it could catch anything?

"You two behave yourselves, or I'll throw you back in again."

Little Nangong Wanyu stood on the shore, one hand on her hip and the other holding a stick, looking adorably fierce at Xu Hengliang and Jiang Yao, who were standing in the water and trying to climb out.

Xu Hengliang was so angry he screeched.

"You dead fatty, you stinking pig! Let us up right now! If you don't, I'll tell my mother and grandmother and have them beat you to death with rods!"

Jiang Wan sat beside the charcoal fire they had piled up on the shore, grilling fish. Hearing him, she rolled her eyes speechlessly.

She handed one of the grilled fish to Nangong Wanyu. The little girl pursed her lips. She wanted to eat it so badly.

"Wanwan, I won't eat it. You should eat it instead!"

Jiang Wan walked over and handed her the grilled fish.

"Eat. You're still growing, so don't let other people's opinions keep you from growing properly. Once you grow up, you won't be fat anymore. I guarantee it.

"And what's wrong with being a little chubby? We didn't eat their rice. If he says it again, slap him. Whoever says it gets slapped!"

Little Nangong Wanyu was persuaded. She took the grilled fish and bit into it. Sob, sob—this was the most delicious grilled fish she had ever eaten in her life.

Jiang Wan was also very pleased with her handiwork. She had grilled the fins until they were crisp, the skin lightly charred, and the flesh smooth and tender. Most importantly, this fish was a First-Order Demonic Beast, its meat containing spiritual power and a boost to fortune.

She could vaguely see that after they ate a fish, +1 would appear above the clouds of fortune over their heads.

"Don't go too far, you two! These are Venerable Wanhe's Fortune Koi! Eat his Fortune Koi, and just wait to be punished!"

Jiang Wan picked up the Qianchuan Fishing Rod beside her and lashed the person trying to climb ashore back into the water.

"Did I say you could come up?

"Stay in the water!

"You had Jiang Yao call me here because you wanted to frame me for eating the koi. Congratulations, you got your wish. Why aren't you happy?"

Jiang Wan reeled in the fishing rod. Another koi hung from its line, and she tossed it onto the fire. Beside her, Fat Tiger meowed greedily. The kitty was drooling over it. The kitty wanted some too.

That had indeed been Xu Hengliang's plan, except he had intended for Jiang Wan to eat here while he and Jiang Yao left, then bring people back to catch them red-handed. After all, they had not eaten the koi. Jiang Wan and the others were the ones who had.

Yet the moment this little girl arrived, she kicked him into the pond first. She was too ruthless. She had not even spared her own sister, kicking her into the pond as well.

He had already sent a message to his master. Venerable Wanhe, who was at odds with Venerable Yu Yi, would arrive soon. He definitely would not let this little girl off, but Xu Hengliang could not get away now. When the time came, his master would surely punish him.

Xu Hengliang anxiously slapped the water. "Let me up!"

Jiang Wan gave the fish she had just grilled to Fat Tiger.

"No. Let's see who comes later."

Fat Tiger hugged the delicious grilled fish and meowed. Inside Jiang Wan's sea of consciousness, the sound became the soft, babyish voice of a little girl.

"Thank you, Master."

From the Spirit Beast Bag at Jiang Wan's waist, a little turtle poked out its head. Its two claws clung to the bag as it stretched its neck and looked around, then climbed out of the Spirit Beast Bag.

It was also a babyish voice, but it belonged to a little boy.

"Master hungry, hungry. Fishy. Go eat in the pond."

Jiang Wan understood. She grabbed the turtle from the ground and threw it into the pond like she was tossing a discus.

Splash!

The little turtle entered the pond like a flood dragon plunging into the sea, instantly chasing down the koi within and swallowing them one by one.

Jiang Wan's Double Pupils flashed. She could see the turtle chasing the koi underwater, its cloud of fortune displaying +1 +1 +1 +1 +1.

By the time Venerable Wanhe arrived, only three koi remained in his koi pond.

Sensing a powerful pressure bearing down on them, the little turtle shot back into Jiang Wan's Spirit Beast Bag with a whoosh.

"Who is it? Who dares to ruin this old man's koi?"

An elderly man wearing a robe embroidered with evergreens, pines, and cranes appeared before them in an instant, crossing from far to near.

The big one and the little one in the pond both raised their hands and pointed at Jiang Wan and Nangong Wanyu on the shore.

After all, the two girls still held the gnawed-clean skeletons of two koi in their little hands.

Jiang Wan immediately stepped forward and pulled Nangong Wanyu behind her.

"I ate them, but he caught the fish.

"When we arrived, he had already grilled them. He deliberately wanted to frame me, so I simply went along with it and ate them."

Venerable Wanhe tried his best to rein in his aura, fearing that otherwise he might crush these four little brats to death.

"Good, very good. You little ones ate this old man's koi, did you?

"Yu Yi! You old bastard, get over here this instant and see what good deeds your disciples and granddisciples have done!"

Venerable Yu Yi appeared at the pond's edge in the next instant.

His divine sense swept over the pond, and he inwardly cried out that things were bad. Of the dozen or so Fortune Koi, only three remained. This was going to be trouble.

Then he looked at his newly accepted disciple, her little mouth glistening with oil, and the fish bones she had gnawed down to bare racks.

Venerable Yu Yi had seen all the storms and waves of life, but he had truly never seen anything like this.

It was not as though he could not go head-to-head with Venerable Wanhe.

First, his own disciples and granddisciples had eaten someone else's koi, so they were in the wrong.

Second, he only had a hundred years left to live, while this old fellow could live another five hundred. If he acted shamelessly and offended him too deeply now, once he sat and passed away, his disciple's road ahead would not be easy.

After considering it, he hauled the two little ones from the pond, then used spiritual power to suspend Jiang Wan and Xu Hengliang in midair and gave each of them two swats on the backside with spiritual power.

"Venerable Wanhe, these two little ones didn't know any better. I will surely find items of equal value to compensate you later. Don't bicker with children. Put it on my account."

Venerable Wanhe still refused to relent. He looked at them coldly, his aura icy, and Jiang Wan's grilled fish made an especially glaring sight in his eyes.

"Children who do not know better should indeed be taught a lesson, but isn't Venerable Yu Yi's lesson a little too light?"

Venerable Yu Yi once again swung his spiritual-power palm, spanking the two disciples and granddisciples suspended in midair once more.

"Waaah! Grandmaster, I know I was wrong! I'll never dare again! Waaah, it hurts so much!"

Jiang Wan's head filled with question marks. Did it really hurt that much? It seemed to hurt a little, but was it really that exaggerated?

But seeing him howl so loudly, how could she possibly let a child outdo her?

"Waaah, it hurts so much! Master, I was wrong! I'll never eat grilled fish again! Wuwuwuwu." Unless I can't resist it.

Seeing his disciple weeping like pear blossoms in the rain and his granddisciple crying with tears and snot flowing together, Venerable Yu Yi finally withdrew his spiritual power and set the two little ones down.

He secretly praised his disciple's acting skills.

He had truly hit his granddisciple. This affair had started because of him, and not hitting him would not have soothed his anger.

As for hitting his disciple, he had healed her injuries even as he struck.

What had his adorable little disciple done wrong? She had merely gone with the flow after being set up. How could he bear to truly strike her hard?

Jiang Wan also noticed that when the palm struck her backside, it genuinely hurt, but once the palm lifted, the pain vanished. It was like that every time. In an instant, she thought of a saying: "Palm dipped in iodine—disinfecting while beating."