The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#643 - Great harvest

“It’s… it’s just ahead. There’s a cliff there. The last time I was gathering herbs, my foot slipped, and I accidentally fell down. I thought I was going to die for sure, but halfway down, a dead tree branch caught my clothes, and I managed to save my life.”

“After that, I slowly climbed to the bottom of the valley and found a pool of water. I found that fish in that pool.” The farmer leading the way said.

After getting the information about the golden-scaled carp from Chief Tongtu, Lu Jing and Qi Wenren didn't delay any longer and immediately set off to get here.

After Qi Wenren heard Luo Yingying translate the farmer's words, he walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down.

All he could see below was swirling mist, and he couldn't see anything.

“About how high is this cliff?”

“It's not too high, just… just over a hundred zhang, I climbed up from the bottom later.” The farmer replied.

“Over a hundred zhang… I’m afraid the length of the rope we brought isn’t long enough, but we can connect a few together.” Luo Yingying suggested.

However, Lu Jing and Qi Wenren just looked at each other, and then Qi Wenren said, “Okay, let’s stop here. You go down the mountain first and wait for us at the foot of the mountain.”

After everyone else left, Lu Jing and Qi Wenren didn't use any ropes at all. They directly pinched their fingers and each cast a body-lightening spell.

Then, they leaped and jumped down from the cliff.

The whistling mountain wind rang in their ears, and their sleeves were blown up by the mountain wind, like two big birds soaring and circling in the sky.

Finally, they landed lightly on the ground.

While still in the air, Qi Wenren saw the pool of water that the farmer had mentioned, and then Qi Wenren let out a soft exclamation.

“What's wrong?” Lu Jing asked.

Qi Wenren didn't answer, but took out a set of instruments from the basket behind him and fiddled with them. After a while, he put down the measuring instrument in his hand and said.

“It seems we've come to the right place. The mystic force in this place is very thin. Ordinary cultivators can't feel it at all, and they can only use a mystic force measuring device to measure the extremely weak mystic force remaining here.”

At this time, Lu Jing had already walked to the pool.

However, when he looked down at the surface of the water, he didn't see any shadows of swimming fish.

Qi Wenren crushed the flatbread he brought and sprinkled it into the pool. After waiting for a while, he didn't see any fish coming to eat, so his expression couldn't help but become a little ugly.

“Could there really be only one?”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the weeds and vines beside the pool suddenly begin to grow wildly.

After these days of research, Qi Wenren had discovered that this kind of golden-scaled carp could sense changes in mystic force and swim towards places with a higher concentration of mystic force.

Conversely, it is naturally possible to attract this kind of carp by increasing the concentration of mystic force.

However, this kind of thing is easier said than done, especially in open areas. It is impossible to increase the concentration of mystic force nearby with just one or two small spells.

Anyway, Qi Wenren, a half-baked cultivator, would never dare to think about this kind of thing.

As for Lu Jing, Qi Wenren already knew that his martial arts were powerful, but his mystic force cultivation, even if he was powerful, shouldn't be too powerful since he was a newcomer who had just entered the academy not long ago.

But now Qi Wenren found that he was wrong again, not only wrong but also terribly wrong.

The mystic force measuring device was right next to him, so he could directly observe the changes in the mystic force nearby.

Looking at the constantly rising scale, Qi Wenren even suspected that this thing was broken, but the instrument might malfunction, but the nearby plants would not lie.

Looking at the lush greenery all over the mountains and plains, Qi Wenren couldn't help but be greatly shocked.

So much so that he didn't notice when a golden light flashed under the pool. It was Lu Jing who reminded him, “It's here!”

Only then did Qi Wenren come back to his senses and stared at the pool, and saw at least thirty carp emerging from below, each with golden scales on its body, more or less, the ones with more had most of their bodies golden, and the ones with less had two or three pieces.

Qi Wenren didn't dare to neglect, and quickly grabbed the fishing net he brought from the basket and threw it into the pool.

He was originally worried that the carp would escape after seeing the net, but in fact they didn't react at all. At this moment, their attention was completely attracted by the rich mystic force outside. Each of them stretched their heads out of the water, just to absorb more mystic force.

Qi Wenren took the opportunity to close the net, and this net almost wrapped up all thirty of these carp.

Everyone was neatly together.

The only few that slipped through the net were not startled and ran away, and were still immersed in the surrounding mystic force and couldn't extricate themselves.

“This is probably the legendary saying that people die for wealth and birds die for food.”

Qi Wenren put the caught carp into the fish basket, and then attached oilcloth to wrap half a basket of water, and then put the net down again, and scooped up the two that had slipped through the net earlier.

Lu Jing's hands didn't stop, and he was still throwing lush greenery.

After a while, about twenty more carp emerged from the water. When Qi Wenren saw this, he continued to cast the net to catch the fish. The two of them cooperated in this way and successively caught nearly sixty fish.

In the end, the four fish baskets that Qi Wenren brought were not enough to hold them all.

Lu Jing had to use his hands-on ability to cut a section of the tree trunk and hollow it out to hold the fish.

He released lush greenery for almost an hour, until for a long time no more carp appeared under the water, and then he stopped.

And Qi Wenren's eyes looking at Lu Jing were no different from looking at a monster.

He pushed a fish basket full of carp in front of Lu Jing and said, “According to our previous agreement, this basket is yours.”

Lu Jing didn't decline when he heard this, and accepted the fish basket, and then asked, “Master Qi, your research…”

“It will start after I go back,” Qi Wenren said, “Oh, right, before that, I have to go to the academy. Do you want to go with me?”

“No, I have to find a place to raise these fish first.” Lu Jing pointed to the fish basket and said, “There are still some things to finish up with Chief Clerk Luo, after all, I promised to let him see Emperor Zhaozong.”

“Well, in short, if I find out how to use this carp to store mystic force for cultivators to use, I will notify you by letter as soon as possible.” After Qi Wenren finished speaking, he paused and sincerely said, “This time, I really have to thank you. It seems that I had previously simplified the investigation of the case.

“If it weren't for you, let alone these fish, I'm afraid I would have already become a fat meatball. In the future, if you have any questions about mystic force, you can ask me. As long as I know, I will tell you everything.”