175 Poison King (1/2)

‘A pearl?’

Fang Yuan looked at the enormous pearl in his hands with curiosity.

The bright rays of light faded away to reveal the pearl in Fang Yuan’s hand. It had the size of an infant’s fist.

The surface of the pearl was flawlessly smooth. It was even glowing slightly. Just by looking at it, one could straightway tell that it was not a common item.

‘This is the treasure that Yang Fan left behind?’

Fang Yuan sighed in disappointment.

He would have preferred if Yang Fan kept the true dream world for him to explore on his own.

After all, Fang Yuan reaped immense benefits from that dream world. It was as if he had gone to Da Qian Empire on his own.

‘What is so special about this pearl...’

As Fang Yuan muttered, some of his elemental force shot into the pearl as he tried to figure out the gem.

The pearl vibrated for a moment and came to a still. The elemental force that entered it was useless.

‘It seems like the equipment for dream masters can only be used by them!’

After using elemental force to test out the pearl, Fang Yuan had a rough idea about how to deal with it. Next, he used dream elemental force.

”Voom Voom!”

After Fang Yuan projected his dream elemental force into the pearl, it vibrated again. This time, the pearl shot out rays of bright light.

Immediately, Fang Yuan felt there was some form of connection between his magical will and what seemed like another universe.

This ‘universe’ was a huge area of space way beyond one’s imagination and the door to this universe was in Fang Yuan’s hands.

”A spiritual spatial container?”

As Fang Yuan wondered under his breath, he flicked out a silver coin onto his palm. In a flash, the coin vanished.

At the same time, the glittery silver coin appeared in a corner of the spatial container. This sent Fang Yuan into deep thought.

‘There is almost an entire universe inside this pearl, this must be the Mountain River Pearl!’

He then used his magical will to search about and finally found his answer.

‘The spiritual treasure, Mountain River Pearl?’

Fang Yuan scratched his chin.

This pearl was a storage device. The space inside it was incredibly vast. It could even fit entire mountains and rivers. The only limitation it had was that it could not fit living organisms into it.

‘It almost seems like this space inside is almost like an incomplete replica of this world...’

Fang Yuan seemed to have understood a little.

In Fang Yuan’s opinion, the Mountain River Pearl was the original version of the Green Peak spiritual land, except that it was an inferior version of the current one.

However, the advantage was that he could take it with him anywhere and everywhere. It would be incredibly convenient if he could fit the pearl onto a ring and wear it.

‘What a pity...Yang Fan is such a stingy fellow to not leave anything for me inside...’

Fang Yuan shook his head and sighed.

The true dream world was evidently not in the Mountain River Pearl, but on the White Jade Square.

Sadly, Fang Yuan only had one chance.

...

After the Drunken Moon Festival, the thick fog gradually dispersed. The Wine Lake and the spiritual fish also gradually disappeared.

As the treacherous waves and currents calmed, several fishermen began to return with a plentiful haul. Smiles of joy and satisfaction were plastered over their faces.

Occasionally, there were a few martial artists who miraculously reeled in spiritual fish. These people were harassed constantly by offers almost everywhere they went. Of course, there were also many who were secretly envious and some who dueled either to get to fish or to find out the benefits one could enjoy from having it.

The entire Drunken Moon Lake bustled with activity in no time.

It was a pity that all these people who were enjoying themselves immensely had no idea that the Drunken Moon Festival that year was the last one they would be having.

Golden Dragon Sect.

There was a small lake behind the temple which had some fishes.

There was a queer development in the lake. There was the movement of a figure that took the shape of a dragon which transformed into a bright silvery light. It sprang up forcefully like a dragon.

It was the Spiritual King Fish.

As it swam, it constantly shot out jets of water, as though it was expressing its unhappiness with its tiny living quarters.

Behind it, several other spiritual fishes and even more Drunken Fishes and Silverfishes followed loyally.

‘Haiz...’

Yu Xiaohong stood by the side of the lake. She had her hair tied up into two long braids which extended beyond her waist. As her energetic eyes scanned the surface of the lake, a pained expression appeared on her face.

‘The movements of the Spiritual King Fish are really too large. Even if our sect takes every precaution possible, this news would still leak out!’

As she played with her braids, she glanced towards the great hall and sighed helplessly, ”With Granddad’s abilities, we might not be able to fully control even those few spiritual fishes. What more the Spiritual King Fish? If the elder had not appeared, others might have already used force to rob this place! But, that elder is now nowhere to be seen...”

Even though Yu Feishui tried his best to play up Fang Yuan’s abilities, there were no limits to one’s greed.

It might have been effective had Yu Feishui not overdone it. Now, the accomplishments of the Wu Zong that many people had in mind were all the lies painted by him!

Especially...after finding a strong support, he had become more complacent.

”Old Yu!!”

The atmosphere in the great hall was instantly spiritless.

Yu Feishui sat on the throne and looked at everyone else expressionlessly.

”A word of advice, you will not be able to keep the Spiritual King Fish!”

Then, a one-eyed martial artist barked out threateningly, ”We are only politely discussing this exchange with you because we see you as an established veteran sect in Zhu country. Aren’t you willing to return us this favour?”