Year Fishing Event For Amethyst Thorned Fish

“The body of an Amethyst Thorned fish contains rich spirit power. The spirit power from one Amethyst Thorned fish has the same amount of spirit power as one piece of green-colored crystal stone. As a result, everyone on the continent wants to catch an Amethyst Thorned fish.”

“However, the Amethyst Thorned fish is very clever and rarely can be seen normally. Only on the night of July 15th would they gather around the periphery of the Amethyst Thorned Island on the East Sea. Thus, if you want to capture an Amethyst Thorned fish, this opportunity only comes once a year.”

“Why would it only happen on the day of July 15th?”

“Nobody knows the answer to this mystery. If people know, then very likely no one needs to wait for this day every year.” Beichen Ying told it as it is.

When fishing, it was not as simple as just carrying the fishing rod in hand. Rather, you must pour your spirit power into the fishing rod and carefully sense the situation on the seafloor, then little by little, lure the Amethyst Thorned fish to take the bait.

Bet Between Su Luo and Nangong Liujue
While Su Luo was comfortably fishing the proud Crown Prince came once again to tease her, leaving Su Luo speechless.

Seeing this crown prince in front of her always being arrogant and bossy to her, a lightbulb turned on in Su Luo’s head, and a split second later, an idea appeared.

Wasn’t Nangong Liujue disdainful of how few Amethyst Thorned fishes she had caught? Then…Could she use this pretext to extort some stuff from him, making this crown prince die from heartache of the loss?

Su Luo’s smile was not quite a smile as she cast a sidelong glance at the crown prince. She lifted an eyebrow and said sarcastically: “You actually look down on the number of Amethyst Thorned fish I caught? Then, do you have the courage to engage in a contest with me? Let’s see within a fixed time, which one of us will catch the most number of Amethyst Thorned fishes!”

How could the crown prince know that Su Luo had already found the trick to hooking the Amethyst Thorned fish? In his eyes, it had taken this long for Su Luo to catch only one Amethyst Thorned fish, and that’s all. Also, it was so small there couldn’t be another that was smaller.

Therefore, Su Luo’s words hit directly on the crown prince’s intent, and he could be seen smiling coldly: “Loathsome girl, such big courage, you actually dare to compete with this prince.”

Su Luo faintly smiled: “Then, what are the rewards and penalties for this competition?”

The crown prince thought about it, suddenly, his mouth hooked into a sneer: “How about this. Just use the amount of Amethyst Thorned fish hooked to decide things. Whoever has more will win, as for the rewards and penalties, then the winning side will get the rewards. If the winning side hooks ten Amethyst Thorned fish, then the losing side will compensate the winner with ten pieces of green-colored crystal stones, and so on.”

“Three hours is the limit, whoever hooks the most Amethyst Thorned fish will be the winner.” With a wave of Beichen Ying’s hand, the competition officially started.

In order to maintain the fairness, equality and the openness of the competition, Su Luo and Nangong Liujue sat in the same place to fish.

Everyone’s fish bait was their own secret recipe mix. No one would inspect the other’s fish bait. As long as it could hook an Amethyst Thorned fish, then it’s enough.

Result
Since the beginning, Su Luo had already calculated everything well. This time she must swindle the crown prince fully and well. So, she never had any intent to hold back.

Following the passage of time, one after another, the Amethyst Thorned fishes were hooked by Su Luo.

Sometimes, one hook had two fishes, and other times, it had three.

Moreover, every time the bait was taken, it would absolutely not exceed ten seconds. It was almost like, once the fish hook was cast, it would always be like pulling up a string of fish.

At the end of the three hours stipulated by the bet, both sides laid down their fishing rods and allowed the referee to examine the result.

This examination of the results was really entirely focused on inspecting Su Luo’s catch, because the crown prince didn’t hook even a single fish.

The root cause being; one, his mood was unstable, two, he had given up from despair, and the most important third reason, was that with Su Luo’s fish food as contrast, it was therefore even more impossible for the crown prince to hook a fish. All the Amethyst Thorned fishes went over and were circling around Su Luo’s fish hook.

Therefore, this time, his success was the most rotten since the beginning of history, harvesting zero fish.

Beichen Ying laughed loudly: “According to the recently checked numbers, Nangong Liujue… that’s one thousand five hundred heavenly Amethyst Thorned fishes ah! That is to say, you owe one thousand five hundred green-colored crystal stones, ha ha ha——!”

Amethyst Fish Palace
Amethyst Fish Palace is related to the Amethyst Thorned fish. Almost every hundred years, it would appear once, therefore drawing out all the experts from all directions who would fall over each other in their eagerness to come. Also, every time, it’s practically a bloodbath.

“Indeed, because within the Amethyst Fish Palace, are countless treasures, enough treasures that are regarded as important to all parties.”

“It would appear once every hundred years? For what reason?”

“Nobody knows why, we only know that there are countless number of treasures in the Amethyst Fish Palace. As long as your luck is good, your harvest will not be lacking.”

Amethyst Crystal Fish
It was said that every time the Amethyst Fish Palace appeared, there will be a treasured Amethyst fish inside.

This treasured Amethyst fish did not have any other skills besides spitting out crystal stones.

Just like the manner of a silkworm spitting out silk and a hen laying eggs, this Amethyst fish could spit out crystal stones. Moreover, it was not only once a day, but it spits out according to the three meals timetable, so three pieces a day. If you obtained this Amethyst Crystal Fish, then in the future, you wouldn’t need to worry about crystal stones.

Furthermore, there were no rules to the crystal stones it disgorged, it was said that it depended completely on luck and a person’s character. If the character was bursting with greatness, then spitting out a purple crystal stone was also possible!

And also, this Amethyst fish’s lifespan was only one hundred years. Until the next time the Amethyst Fish Palace opened, the former Amethyst fish would have accomplished its glorious task and retired from use.

Since it was like this, the Amethyst fish was still the main target that all the influential parties wanted control of.

Life and Death Monument
Ahead was a long and endless passageway, and on both sides of the passageway, were rows of stone rooms right next to each other. There were so many that it couldn’t be counted visually. It was estimated that a row was a least composed of several hundred rooms.

In front of the passageway, was erected a life and death monument.

The left side of the monument was written ‘a narrow escape’, and the right side was engraved with ‘heavenly gifted treasure.’

Below the small words, were carved the rules for the life and death monument.

The life and death monument said that there were a total of four hundred and ninety-nine stone rooms, every room was different.

Good luck, maybe just going in, there would be a heavenly gifted treasure.

Bad luck, maybe just going in, would be confronted with a ferocious, prehistoric beast,

A room with heavenly gifted treasure was fortunate for you, you could come out at anytime. However, a stone room with a ferocious, prehistoric beast, unless you killed the defending beast inside, otherwise, just wait until you were torn apart by the opponent.

Stone Room 123
With the help of Meng Meng, Su Luo and Nangong Liuyun managed to fend off Li Yaoyao who was about to enter the stone room 123.

This stone room was approximately about one hundred square meters in area, all around was empty. Only on the stone altar up ahead, there seemed to have something laid out.

Nangong Liuyun and Su Luo followed behind the little divine dragon, and walked quickly towards the stone altar, full of curiosity.

The stone altar, it was more accurate to say that it was a jade altar.

The jade altar was about the size of a ping-pong table, and was carved from top-notch white jade. The surface of the jade was bright, clean and exquisite. It was so clear that it was able to reflect a person’s image.

On top of the jade altar, calmly swimming for a long time, was a palm-sized, purple-colored goldfish. Also, in front of her, was a dark green, sea-colored bowl. Under this comparison of the two, the purple-colored goldfish seemed even more pitifully small.

This dark green sea-colored bowl had now actually been filled with chunks after chunks of crystal stones.

Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan… unexpectedly, every color was there!

Also, the sea-colored bowl was packed to the brim!

Just now, she merely took a very small guess, she didn’t expect it was the real Amethyst Crystal Fish.

Just at this time, the Amethyst Crystal Fish suddenly opened up its mouth. Immediately, a cyan-colored crystal stone was spit out of its mouth. It quietly shot towards that sea-colored bowl.

However, that sea-colored bowl was obviously filled to the brim with crystal stones and was already unable to hold this piece.

It was an event that occurred which made Su Luo surprised and also extremely regretful.

One could only see that piece of cyan-colored crystal stone being launched to the top of that pile of crystal stones in the sea-colored bowl. However, due to gravity and inertia acting on it, this cyan-colored crystal stone actually slid down from within the sea-colored bow, landing on top of the jade altar.

One could only see and hear a ‘thump’ sound as that piece of cyan-colored crystal stone landed on top of the jade altar, then right after——

Afterwards, with the speed exceeding that of the naked eye, it disappeared without a trace!

“It should have been swallowed by the jade altar.” Nangong Liuyun observed it for a while and arrived at a conclusion.

“This jade altar can also swallow it?” Su Luo was simply incredulous, could it be that the jade altar also had the intelligence of a spirit?

Nangong Liuyun nodded his head: “In this world, all living things engender and subdue each other. This Amethyst Crystal Fish can spit out crystal stones from its mouth, really defying the natural order of things too much. According to the laws of the world, it would be correct to say that there must be some restrictions eventually.”

After a pause, Nangong Liuyun continued to say: “Amethyst Crystal Fish can spit out three pieces of crystal stones in one day, every grade of crystal stone appearing in random order. Spitting it out for one hundred years, then how astonishing would the amount of crystal stones be? As long as it appears in the world, it absolutely would cause the unrest of the entire continent. Therefore, it must be limited, which ought to be that any which exceeded what the sea-colored bowl could hold, would be swallowed up by the jade altar. Also, it could be interpreted as automatically taking it back for the Amethyst Crystal Fish, because this jade alter is linked together with the Amethyst Crystal Fish, resulting in an irresolvable situation.”

Secret Collection Library
The Secret Collection Library, as the name implied, was a library with a collection of rare books. It was said that the library collection was abound with rare and secret martial arts technique books, and every kind of elemental system’s cultivation methods also existed.

This was the real reason why everyone entering the Amethyst Fish Palace would fight over the Amethyst Crystal Fish. This was their true objective.

And as to the place everyone was standing on now, it was a vast platform. Up ahead, with clouds and mist curling up and making it hard to see, appeared nine roads in front of everyone. Nearly every road looked exactly the same, basically, there was no way to distinguish them apart.

However, among these nine roads, there was only one safe road that led to the Secret Collection Library. The remaining eight other roads were very dangerous, after a narrow escape, it still might not lead directly to the Secret Collection Library.

After following the path indicated by the Amethyst Crystal Fish, the middle path, Su Luo's group had a smooth ride and virtually no problems, except for the Great Black Tiger who was tricked by Su Luo.

Along this path, they really hadn’t encountered another magical beast, not even a first ranked one. It had been so safe they were close to being bored.

A stone door was at the end of the road.

Three strikingly huge words were engraved on the stone door: Secret Collection Room.

Finally, they had found the place. Everyone had a feeling that a weight had been lifted from their shoulders.

However, they didn’t know until later that this was merely the beginning.

Having approached the stone door, Su Luo was astonished to discover that this really wasn’t an ordinary stone door. Rather, it was made from a special material.

It was white as suet white jade. The material was cold and stiff like frost. This door seemed to be emitting a faint cold air interwoven with some spirit force. If someone hit it with a fist, the force would be rebounded back by a transparent bright screen.

“There is a seal on the stone door, very unyielding.” Nangong Liuyun examined the door in about the time it would take a stick of incense to burn before arriving at a verdict.

“Then what should we do? Can it be undone?” Su Luo asked with some concern.

To make Nangong Liuyun say these two words “very unyielding” in assessment, it was clear that this seal was really hard to unravel.

Nangong Liuyun’s smiling and ingratiating face had already become serious and imposing. He muttered to himself for quite a while and gradually said: “Will try with all my effort.”

After some time Nangong Liuyun managed to figure out a method to unseal, however as soon as the seal was broken the surviving group of Crown Prince and Li Yaoyao arrived and rushed through the door taking advantage of Nangong Liuyun's hard work, but only Su Luo noticed that Nangong didn't seem to mind this and assumed the attitude that he expected to see a good piece.

Su Luo followed Nangong Liuyun to enter the jade door. A stone room that was not small appeared in front of her, moreover, the surrounding space was extremely large. This place seemed like an independent palace, rows and rows of stone rooms were lined up within it.

At this moment, a small stone room appeared in front of them, with words “Secret Collection Room” written on it.

The door was lightly closed, just a push and it would open.

The inside of the stone room was filled with a faint fog. The degree of visibility was quite low, even if it was Su Luo, this kind of vision, when looking, she was only able to see the area within a range of ten square meters in her surroundings.

She only saw that the area inside the stone room had stacks of bookshelves made from pear tree wood against the wall. Books were placed in twos and threes on the bookshelves, on the books, stuck some more category entries, written with various titles.

Apart from a stone desk in the middle of the stone chamber, it was completely empty. There was nothing else at all.

Above the stone room, hung sphere-like transparent objects, one after another. Su Luo could clearly see that every globe contained a person.

Beichen Ying, Lan Xuan, Anye Ming, the crown prince, Li Aotian, the Jade Lake’s Fairy….

There were no less than ten spherical objects, and altogether they imprisoned more than ten people.

It seemed as if they were stuffed into a sack and hung high up in the air, being blown by the wind and thus swaying back and forth. It looked comical and also very distressing at the same time.

The corner of Su Luo’s mouth stiffened slightly: “This…” In the end, what had happened?

Nangong Liuyun smiled tenderly and in a bewitchingly charming manner: “This is just the consequences of them fighting for and scrambling to come in first.”

Trivia

 * Su Luo mixed some Celestial Spirit Water into his bait, making the Amethyst Thorned fish fight to be the first to be hooked by it.
 * Anye Ming and Lan Xuan, before the fishing began, solemnly swore that they would not covet any of Su Luo's fish, however after seeing how easily Su Luo caught the Amethyst Thorned fish all they could feel was regret.
 * Su Luo with the help of Meng Meng obtained a spiritual pinball with power comparable to the full strength of a seventh-degree specialist in one attack.
 * Meng Meng and Su Luo managed to trick Li Yaoyao into giving up her stone room due to her extreme anger, but what she didn't know was that she had also given up on the Amethyst Crystal Fish everyone dreamed of getting.
 * Nangong Liujue got an Amethyst Crystal Fish in one of the rooms and arrogantly bet Nangong Liuyun that it was the real one and the winner would pay thousand five hundred green-colored crystal stones, but what he didn't know was that his was fake and that the real was already in the possession of Su Luo.