Chapter 124: Fish-Fixing Gambling
Under the shock wave, Li Fan felt like a dead leaf in the wind, being blown backwards uncontrollably, and only managed to stabilize his body after being washed hundreds of miles away.
Fortunately, the shock wave was just a little louder, and did not have any real destructive power.
As if the power was restrained, it only set off a huge wave that spread throughout the sea of clouds, without causing any other damage.
It felt like thunder was loud but rain was small.
But Li Fan did not dare to underestimate it at all. This extreme control of power further demonstrated the opponent's terrifying strength.
The lock of Wuxiang's murderous intent had disappeared. It was obvious that the unlucky monk had unfortunately died in the battle between the two big guys.
However, Li Fan did not retreat at this moment, but advanced again, and flew towards the direction of Yunshui Tiangong again.
Not long after, he could see Yunshui Tiangong again.
The huge blue transparent building was now stained with a layer of black.
Above, dark clouds gathered and thunder continued.
A huge vortex appeared above the Yunshui Palace, as if it was going to swallow up the building that had just been unsealed.
The entire sky was shaking and trembling, and the continuous buildings became tilted and slowly collapsed towards the center of the vortex.
There seemed to be a faint cry of unwillingness and anger coming from the Yunshui Palace.
However, it could not change the reality of its slow disappearance.
After a while, this ancient sect, which had only appeared in the world for more than five years, disappeared again in this world.
Then, the dark and thick clouds with lightning and thunder gradually dissipated.
There was soon a calm scene between the sky and the ocean.
"The Yunshui Palace was sealed again? This didn't happen in the last life."
"Is it because of the statue of the Heavenly Doctor I sent in?"
In an instant, many thoughts flashed through Li Fan's mind.
"So, in the last life, Sikong Yi embezzled the small statue and didn't send it to Yunshui Palace?"
"How dare you? You are not afraid of death by relying on stealing?"
"No, there is another possibility. That is, the Tianyi didn't give the white jade statue to Sikong Yi."
"But he gave it to Lin Fan's clone..."
"If that's the case, what did he see?"
The strange and terrifying scene in Yunshui Palace reappeared in his mind again, and Li Fan's heart was full of doubts.
"What did the Tianyi do to cause the Yunshui Palace to hate him so much..."
Li Fan recalled the scene when he first met the Tianyi.
"I'm just an old man who deserves to die but hasn't died."
"... Let's use this statue to accompany them all the time..."
When the Tianyi said these words, his expression was sighing and full of emotion, and it didn't seem fake.
But the more so, the more Li Fan felt a chill in his heart.
"No matter what, this old man called Tianyi is too dangerous. His strength is beyond my previous estimation. The clone has appeared in his sight, and the original body must not contact him again."
"After all, this world is not a static game. Often, unintentional actions will cause many unexpected changes."
"I still have to be more cautious in the future."
"And that sword..."
"How many secrets are hidden in this sea of clouds?" Li Fan sighed, and he no longer wanted to wander around, and hurried back to Wanxian Island.
In the Tianxuan Mirror, he searched for information related to "Tianyi" and "Master", all of which were recent discussions among cultivators.
There was no valuable information at all.
Li Fan was not surprised.
For a period of time, Li Fan resumed his previous idle life on the island.
Occasionally, he found a cultivator who was about to break through to the foundation-building stage on the island, and locked him with the phaseless killing intent to comprehend the true meaning of accumulating foundation building.
From time to time, he also accepted some tasks to accumulate contribution points.
He planned to exchange the heavenly and earthly treasures in the Tianxuan Mirror, and then charge [Huanzhen] to unlock the second anchor point.
He now has a rough plan in mind on how to use the second anchor point.
The details will be discussed after it is unlocked.
Boring practice is not the whole life of a cultivator.
Most cultivators are not crazy people like Zhang Haobo who practice 24 hours a day.
They also have their own hobbies.
In Congyun Sea, the most popular one is Dingyu.
On the northwest border of Congyun Sea, there is an isolated island surrounded by cliffs.
The seawater flows upstream along the cliffs and converges in the center of the island to form a lake.
Every month, when the water accumulated in the lake reaches its peak, it will spray into the sky and sprinkle the seawater back into the sea.
At this time, countless fish will be carried and fly into the air.
Among them, there must be a fish that flies the highest.
A few years ago, a cultivator passing by saw this wonder by chance and was inspired.
He refined all the other fish in the lake into essence and fed it to the fish that flew the highest.
The fish was transformed and became as powerful as a monster and returned to the sea.
Since then, more and more fish have gathered in the lake on the isolated island.
Later, the monk had a dispute with his friend over the ownership of a treasure.
He thought of this place again, so he suggested that the two of them each choose a fish from the lake as a representative.
Whoever's fish jumps higher on the day the lake erupts will get the treasure.
The friend thought it was interesting, so he agreed.
This move by the two attracted several more monks who were interested in the idea, and they all took some money and joined in.
They also set rules for the fish selection: set up formations around the island to prevent powerful sea beasts from entering by mistake.
They spent 27 days observing and selecting their favorite fish. Three days before the eruption of the lake, the final confirmation was made and no changes could be made.
The winner takes all. Whoever chooses the fish with the highest jump will get all the treasures bet by the other monks.
And if you are lucky enough to choose that fish, the one that jumps the highest among all the fish will be regarded as the first prize, and the profit will be doubled.
The representative fish is selected by observing carefully with your own spiritual sense, and spiritual energy cannot be used to strengthen it. Once cheating is discovered, the other monks will kill it together.
After the end, all other fish will still be refined into essence and fed to the "fish leader".
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In the end, the fish selected by the monk only came in second place and lost the treasure.
But this person did not feel bad, just thought that he had made a mistake for a moment and had found the key.
So they agreed to come here again next month to decide the winner.
The other monks agreed.
In this way, this "fish betting" gradually attracted more and more monks to participate.
Later, as the number of people increased, the rules were slightly adjusted.
There is a prize pool.
Half of each bet goes into the current reward, and half goes into the prize pool.
The first place gets the first prize, and the second to tenth places get the second prize.
The first prize is divided into half, and the second to tenth places share the other half.
If someone can guess the fish champion, he will take all the rewards.
At the end of each year, the accumulated prize pool will be cleared at once to produce a super prize.