Chapter 265 - The Appearance of Whirlpools (1/2)
The game book showed the funny golden koi’s statistics clearly.
[Dragon Carp. Sex: Genderless, can change voluntarily, Likes: Boasting, sleeping, swimming, good wine, good food etc. Age: N/A. Identity: A servant of the Dragon Clan, contains a really diluted true dragon bloodline.]
[Alignment: Neutral.]
[Power Level: … Description: Used to be a Lake-level powerhouse, but lost its power and is currently as weak as a chick, comments not needed.]
In the System Space.
Fang Ning was reprimanding the System with a serious face, “Look, now even the scouts of the Dragon Clan are here. You always just fly around in the air, basically never landing, and you never go into the people. Were it not for my foresight, this thing will definitely become a huge threat to a fake like us when it recovered its full strength…”
The System retorted, “We’re not impostors, our dragon bloodline is much thicker than its own.”
Fang Ning was stunned, then nodded as he said, “That’s right. My baby game book’s judgment is exactly right. This thing is such a boast. It’s just a koi but it dared to impersonate a true dragon. I guess, in that regard, it’s similar to Daqing, both of them only knew to descend to boast their way through anything.
“But Daqing has a certain imposing bearing, if we didn’t appear, it might actually have succeeded. Not this one though, it could only revert to its old ways of living…”
The System asked, “What do we do now?”
Fang Ning had already thought of an idea. He said, “Of course we’ll use it to deepen our dragon identity. This is our brand, we can’t lose it. Don’t you see that anything would double in price as long as we brand it with ‘made by the Dragon Clan’? Their effects are as wonderful as they said, so no one would ever suspect that you’re the impostor.”
The System said, “So you play by ear. If you need me just holler.”
Fang Ning stood up and walk toward the fish tank.
“I’ve heard what you said. I am not a talented person, but because of my job, I’ve seen plenty of seafood ingredients. You look like a normal koi, but you do have some minute differences from the others. You don’t look like you’re of this world.”
The golden koi heard the word “ingredients” and hid fully inside the fake mountain, shivering. By the time it heard the last part, it swam out again smugly.
“Hmph, you are young, but you have more sensibilities that the two old farts. That’s right, I am a true dragon evolved from an Upper Realm dragon carp. However, when I descended, all my powers were gone and I devolved into my previous koi appearance and my true dragon aura was gone.”
Madam Zhao tugged Fang Ning aside and said, “Xiao Fang Ning, listen to me. It’s not that I didn’t trust it, but this thing claimed to be a true dragon of Upper Realm as soon as it appeared, but when we asked it questions, its answers were all vague. Furthermore, it asked to be fed and worshiped, promising to give us a handsome repayment after it had recovered its power.
“I suspect that it’s just a normal koi that had gained sapience. It heard about the Upper Realm from somewhere and wanted to pretend to be a true dragon to scam cultivation materials.”
‘So that’s why,’ Fang Ning nodded emphatically. ‘No wonder Madam Zhao would think that way, she was pretending to be a Dragon Princess herself.’
If her Four-legged Dragonization Ability was mastered, she might still be able to appear as a Dragon Princess, this is just taking advantage of her future identity.
In that vein, Madam Zhao would naturally think the koi with no real ability, yet boastful without substance was pretending to be a dragon.
Basically, it was trying to scam the Zhao family out of their cultivation materials. Maybe it might repay them, but most likely, they would have their whole fortune eaten away.
A female warrior like Madam Zhao would not make a high-risk deal like that in such a situation.
Fang Ning knew it was actually from the Upper Realm. Making it talk about the secrets of the Upper Realm was easy enough to achieve, he knew exactly who to call.
He said, “The Venerable One deals with a host of problems every day, it wouldn’t waste its time to check out a sapient koi. However, I do know someone else from the Upper Realm. It has plenty of free time, and as long as it heard about food, it would rush over…”
The three Zhao family members were curious. Since it was Fang Ning who said that, they believe in him, but Descended Ones were usually dark and mysterious, could there be anyone who was so down-to-earth?
…
Within half an hour, a great green insect flew into the Zhao mansion excitedly.
“Hey Chef Fang, you said you wanted to make me braised koi and wanted me to inspect the ingredient first. Where is the ingredient?”
It entered without having any sense of being a stranger. It also did not care about the Zhao’s and headed straight to Fang Ning.
Fang Ning pointed at the fish tank and said, “The ingredient is in the tank, what do you think about this koi?”
The great green insect brightened up and zoomed over, circling the fish tank.
The golden koi which was snobbish just a moment ago immediately seized up upon hearing the great green insect’s voice, as if it met with its natural enemy. It shrank into the fake mountain and kept squishing itself inside.
“Hmph, you wanna hide from me? That’s not gonna happen.” Daqing spat its saliva on the fish tank, which seemed fine, but the entire man-made mountain turned into sand.
The three from Zhao family was stunned. As expected, the people Fang Ning knew were all weirdos.
Madam Zhao was impressed with her own foresight. She could feel Fang Ning’s fantastic cooking skills would come in handy. Plenty of deities in mythologies were gluttonous.
In the era of vitality recovery, as powers grew and lives lengthened, their hobbies would be exaggerated just so that their lives did not seem as boring as they might be.
“Miss All-mighty of Celestial Clan, please don’t eat me. I am Dragon Carp, we knew each other.” The golden koi begged as it realized that it had nowhere to hide.