"Just... right in front. There is a cliff there. When I was collecting herbs last time, my foot slipped and I accidentally fell down. I thought I was going to die, but on the way, my clothes got caught on a dead branch. Only then was he lucky enough to save his life.
"Then I slowly climbed to the bottom of the valley and found a pool there. It was in that pool that I found the fish." said the farmer who led the way.
After getting the whereabouts of the golden-scaled carp from Chief Tongtu, Lu Jing and Qi Wenren set off immediately and rushed here without any further delay.
After Qi Wenren heard Luo Yingying translate the farmer's words, he walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down.
I saw clouds and mist below, but I couldn't see anything.
"Approximately how high is this cliff?"
"It's not too high, just...just over a hundred feet. I even climbed up from below." The farmer replied.
"More than a hundred feet... I'm afraid the rope we brought isn't long enough, but we can connect a few of them 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 can 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 used hand techniques to perform a lightening technique each.
Then he jumped down from the cliff.
The whistling mountain wind came to their ears, and their sleeves were swollen by the mountain wind, as if they were two big birds, soaring and circling in the sky.
Finally it landed lightly on the ground.
While he was still in the air, Qi Wenren saw the puddle mentioned by the farmer, and then Qi Wenren let out a light sigh.
"What's wrong?" Lu Jing asked.
Qi Wenren didn't answer. He just took out a set of instruments from the backpack behind him and started playing with them. After a while, he put down the scale instrument in his hand.
"It seems that we have come to the right place. The secret power in this place is very thin, and ordinary practitioners cannot feel it at all. We can only measure the extremely weak secret power here with the help of the secret power measuring instrument."
Lu Jing had already reached the pool at this time.
But when he looked under the water, he didn't see any fish.
Qi Wenren crushed the biscuits he brought and threw them into the pond. After waiting for a while, he didn't see any fish coming to eat, so his face couldn't help but become a little ugly.
"There's really only one right?"
As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, he saw that the weeds and vines beside the pool suddenly began to grow crazily.
In just a moment, the weeds jumped up and were almost half a person tall, and the vines on the rock wall were getting thicker at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Qi Wen was startled, and a word of caution came to his throat, but when he turned around, he saw that Lu Jing was holding a spell.
"It's you, what are you doing?"
"Try to see if you can lure those fish out." Lu Jing said.
Qi Wenren reacted immediately after hearing this.
Lu Jing was releasing spells to increase the concentration of secret power nearby.
After these days of research, Qi Wenren has discovered that this kind of golden-scaled carp can sense changes in the secret power and swim to places where the secret power is stronger.
In turn, you can naturally attract this kind of carp by increasing the concentration of secret power.
But this kind of thing is easy to say, but very difficult to do, especially in open areas. If you want to increase the concentration of secret power nearby, it cannot be done with one or two small spells.
Anyway, a half-hearted practitioner like Qi Wenren would never dare to think about such a thing.
As for Lu Jing, Qi Wenren already knew that he was very powerful in martial arts, but with his secret power, even if he was a newcomer who had just entered the academy, he shouldn't be that powerful.
However, now Qi Wenren found that he was wrong again, not only wrong, but also very wrong.
The secret power measuring instrument is at his hand, so he can intuitively observe changes in the nearby secret power.
Looking at the rising scale, Qi Wenren even wondered whether the thing was broken. However, the instrument might malfunction, but the nearby vegetation would not lie.
Looking at the lush greenery all over the mountains and plains, Qi Wenren couldn't help but be shocked.
So much so that when there was a golden light flashing under the pool, he didn't notice it, but Lu Jing on the side reminded him, "Here he comes!"
Only then did Qi Wenren come back to his senses and looked intently at the pool. He saw at least thirty carps emerging from below. Each carp had golden scales on its body, more or less, more than half of them. The body is all golden, and some have only two or three pieces.
Qi Wenren did not dare to neglect, and quickly grabbed the fishing net he brought from his backpack and threw it into the pool.
He was originally worried that the carp would escape after seeing the net, but in fact they did not react at all. At this time, their attention was completely attracted by the rich mysterious power outside, and one by one they poked their heads out of the water, just to Can absorb more secret power.
Qi Wenren took the opportunity to close the net, and almost all the more than thirty carps were included in the net.
Everyone is neatly organized together.
And the only ones that slipped through the net were not frightened away, and were still immersed in the mysterious power around them 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 carps into the fish basket, then attached an oilcloth to cover half of the basket of water. Then he lowered the net again and fished out the two that had slipped through the net before.
But Lu Jing's hand didn't stop and continued to throw lush green leaves.
After a while, about twenty more carp emerged from the water. Seeing this, Qi Wenren also continued to lower the net to catch fish. The two of them cooperated with each other and caught nearly sixty more fish one after another.
In the end, the four fish baskets brought by Qi Wenren were actually a little full.
Lu Jing had to use his hands-on skills to chop off sections of the tree trunk and hollow out the inside to hold the fish.
He released Lush Green for almost an hour, and he didn't stop until no carp appeared under the water for a long time.
Qi Wenren looked at Lu Jing as if he were looking at a monster.
He pushed a fish basket filled with carp in front of Lu Jing and said, "According to our previous agreement, this basket is yours."
Lu Jing accepted the fish basket without refusing, and then asked, "Master Qi, your research..."
"It will start after we get back," Qi Wenren said, "Oh, by the way, I have to go to the academy before that. Do you want to go with me?"
"No, I need to find a place to raise these fish first." Lu Jing pointed to the fish basket and said, "Luo Changshi also has some things to finish. After all, I agreed to let him meet Zhaozong."
"Well, in short, if I figure out how to use this carp to store secret power for monks to use, I will write to you as soon as possible." After Qi Wenren finished speaking, he paused and said sincerely, "What happened this time is really... Thanks to you, it seems that I thought the investigation was simple before.
"If it weren't for you, don't talk about these fishes. I'm afraid I would be a fat ball now. No matter what questions you have about secret power in the future, you can ask me. As long as I know something, I will tell you everything. .”
