105: Mysterious Fish

By the riverside, Xu Shian prepared to cast his line and fish.

Ever since he fished up the 【Guild Token】 a few days ago, the things he got from fishing these past few days were simply unwatchable!

In a fit of anger, Xu Shian simply skipped a day of using his "Fisherman Never Misses" fishing opportunity, wanting to rest his hands and see if he could endure this zen-like period following his burst of luck...

【Congratulations, you have obtained: Weather-Beaten Diary * 1】

Hmm...

Weather-Beaten Diary: Allows you to add the Find Fishing Spot skill to your fishing abilities!

Learned...

From within the fishing skill, Xu Shian found the Find Fishing Spot skill.

After activating the Find Fishing Spot skill, the water surface in Xu Shian's eyes suddenly changed; clusters of black shadows were swimming and gathering underwater.

The surging waves and churning undercurrents beneath the water were clearly visible to Xu Shian...

He closed this useless skill and reopened the Find Mining Spot skill...

Xu Shian's fishing talent already guaranteed a catch; it was just that fishing spots definitely allowed for catching specific types!

Better than nothing...

Cast!

【Congratulations, you have obtained: Blueprint: Underwater Lure】

An Engineering blueprint?

Let's learn it and see.

【Engineering: Underwater Lure】: Craft an Underwater Lure to Enchant your fishing rod, increasing your fishing skill by 50 points!

This item... is useful, very useful!

After all, the second characteristic of his fishing talent was already related to luck and fishing skill!

For items that increase fishing skill, their "Craftsmanship Special Effect" is almost 99% likely to be related to fishing skill points.

By then, his fishing skill wouldn't just be 75 points...

He also wanted to see what good things he could catch when carrying nearly 200 points of fishing skill!

However...

Xu Shian didn't have the materials for this, he'd have to wait until he went back to check the Auction House... Wait, what am I saying!

I have an Auction House right here on me, don't I?

Xu Shian opened the Guild Auction House and bought five sets of materials for crafting the 【Underwater Lure】 in one go...

Ever since he had this Guild Auction House, Xu Shian hadn't been ripped off by anyone for several days.

The guild members came from all over the world; if you bought something too expensive, there would naturally be someone selling it cheaper!

【Ding, you have crafted the Engineering item 'Underwater Lure';】

【Underwater Lure】: After use, it can Enchant your fishing rod, increasing fishing skill by 50 points for 30 minutes.

【Craftsmanship Special Effect】: Additional +50 to fishing skill!

Not bad, looks neither good nor bad!

Continue.

【Ding, you have crafted the Engineering item 'Underwater Lure'; your talent 'Craftsmanship Special Effect' triggered additionally, obtaining Underwater Lure +3】

Five sets of materials yielded nine finished products!

So, if Xu Shian wanted to use this talent to disrupt the market, he could almost ruin an entire profession!

After all, when the quality of a product on the market is better than yours, and it's sold cheaper than yours.

Besides cutting your losses and running, what else can you do?

Of course, Xu Shian definitely wouldn't bother doing such things that harm others without benefiting himself!

Looking at the finished products, the most baffling "Craftsmanship Special Effect" Xu Shian had ever seen appeared!

【Craftsmanship Special Effect】: Can permanently Enchant the effect of the Underwater Lure onto your helmet...

This thing... if it were Enchanted onto a fishing rod, Xu Shian wouldn't have reacted so strongly.

Enchanting a fishing effect onto a helmet?

Do you think this is a 【Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat】? Can it even add fishing skill?

He looked at his own 【White Tiger Helmet】 (Golden Grade)...

Enchant it... anyway, he didn't know any other Enchanting right now!

So let's do it; besides, Enchanting effects can be overwritten...

Holding an 【Underwater Lure】 with a maximum effect of +120 fishing skill, Xu Shian hesitated for a moment.

He only had one fishing opportunity left for today!

Should he really fish now?

After hesitating for a second, just fish!

He could make this stuff himself and it wasn't expensive, why overthink it?

Better finish this one quickly and go to the 【Black Wind Forest】 to see what's going on...

Thus, at the edge of the Novice Village river, Xu Shian, carrying 225 points of fishing skill, started his last talent fishing attempt for the day!

Cast!

【Congratulations, you have obtained: Mysterious Fish!】

Huh???

Xu Shian checked his talent; it was correct!

【Skill 2】: Fisherman Never Misses!

Active Skill: After use, you can fish up anything... aquatic plants? Equipment? Wild monsters? BOSS? Mounts? Skill books? Even products from other worlds... except for fish!

The third skill had already been used!

So... why did he catch a fish?

【Mysterious Fish】???

Well... it was certainly mysterious enough!

Xu Shian intended to put this thing into his backpack!

【Ding, this item cannot be placed in the backpack!】

【Ding, the Mysterious Fish's favorability towards you -5】

...

【Ding, the Mysterious Fish's favorability towards you has decreased to Indifferent!】

【Ding, the Mysterious Fish's favorability towards you -5】

Xu Shian: ...?

Is this right?

Xu Shian carefully examined this fish; he couldn't tell what species it was, its golden scales shimmering brilliantly in the sunlight.

It had been a long time since he caught it, and it was still struggling desperately in Xu Shian's hands...

【The Mysterious Fish hopes you will release it!】

【Ding, the Mysterious Fish's favorability towards you -5】

...

【Ding, the Mysterious Fish's favorability towards you has decreased to Hostile!】

You think you can run after offending the abbot?

Xu Shian examined the golden fish over and over; apart from its color, he couldn't see anything unusual about it!

The key was that Xu Shian hadn't never seen a golden fish on Blue Star...

As a rich person, what hadn't he seen?

Even if Xu Shian didn't recognize the species, he simply attributed it to being unique to this other world!

Could this fish... be put into the Emerald Dream?

Just as he thought of this, the fish in Xu Shian's hand Vanished!

Focusing his mind on the Emerald Dream, Xu Shian easily found this golden fish swimming freely in the river there!

Something was wrong!

Something was very, very wrong!

Clearly, this talent Skill 2 shouldn't be able to catch fish, yet today he had caught one!

Clearly, this Emerald Dream could only store his "Subordinate" units, yet this fish had successfully entered...

More importantly, it couldn't be put into his backpack?

Refusing to believe it, Xu Shian caught seven or eight other various fish.

Then he put them into his backpack, took them out again, and they were still jumping around alive...

Swallowing his saliva, Xu Shian forced himself to forget about that little golden fish.

Let it stay in the Emerald Dream for now...

On the journey that followed, Xu Shian felt a bit absent-minded.

His mind kept probing towards the Emerald Dream, wanting to see how that little golden fish was doing...

At the northern end of the Novice Village.

At the foot of the northern mountains, a Dungeon entrance was quietly rotating there!

Xu Shian looked at the Dungeon before him, then looked at the current time, two o'clock in the afternoon...

He could run an elite difficulty Dungeon to test the difficulty!

What? Can he test it by running a common grade Dungeon?

Do Dungeons have this option?

【Dungeon: Black Wind Forest】 Level 9-10

Please select difficulty:

【common grade】

【elite difficulty】

【Hell difficulty】

Selecting elite difficulty directly, Xu Shian's vision blurred, and then... he was still standing in the same place.

However, the Dungeon entrance in front of him had Vanished, revealing the winding mountain path behind the Dungeon.

Xu Shian looked back, and there was nothing behind him!

Not far behind him, it was shrouded in a patch of white fog...

Walking into the area of the white fog would allow him to exit the Dungeon.

Xu Shian didn't come here to just look around, so of course he wouldn't exit the Dungeon now.

Ink Shadow and Night Pupil took off from Pigsy's back, scouting as they flew up along the winding mountain path ahead.

【Corrupted Shadow Wolf】, 【Withered Treant】, 【Black-Bristled Wild Boar】, 【Sentient Treant】...

At the end of the winding mountain path, a huge Black-Bristled Wild Boar King, 【Trampler · Wuzong】, was wandering around like a Class...

Continuing forward, along the way there were 【Wandering Black Tiger】, 【Crystal Treant】...

And of course, the final BOSS, 【Dark Mother Tree · Jingxin】!