What? You opened a resort on the battlefield of all races?

The four of them walked westward along the empty street.

The shops on both sides of the street had their doors wide open, and the sea breeze whipped up the dry seaweed on the ground, making it swirl and roll away into the distance on the stone pavement.

Several unidentified seabirds perched on the dilapidated eaves, uttering a few hoarse cries before flapping their wings and flying into the gray sky.

"The courtyard in front with the wooden sign that reads 'Yuanji Lingzhou' is my friend's shop."

A dozen minutes later, Bai Suhuang raised her hand and pointed to a courtyard surrounded by abandoned ship planks to her left.

The group quickened their pace and had just reached the courtyard gate.

"Bang!"

The two half-closed wooden doors were kicked open from the inside.

A round, chubby figure rushed out from the threshold in a panic.

Everyone stared intently.

This is a short, round-figured middle-aged man.

He was wearing a greasy animal skin apron, and his hair was a mess, like a bird's nest.

Most strikingly, the man was tightly protecting a large wooden basin in his arms with both hands.

The act of kicking the door caused a few drops of dark blue water to splash from the edge of the wooden basin, which landed on the ground and instantly produced a plume of white smoke with a fishy stench.

That was the seawater surrounding Haixin Rock, filled with malevolent energy.

"Oh dear! Drinking leads to trouble, drinking leads to trouble!"

The man muttered to himself, then turned and ran towards the other end of the street.

"Uncle Yuan Gu".

Bai Suhuang's calm voice rang out from the street.

The middle-aged man, who was about to run away, suddenly stopped.

He turned around, his small eyes, squeezed into slits by the fat on his cheeks, forced open, and looked Bai Suhuang up and down in the dim light.

A few seconds later, the anxiety on the man's face instantly turned into surprise.

"Boss Bai?!"

"Oh my, what brings you here!"

Yuan Gu, carrying the wooden basin, strode up to Bai Suhuang, his face beaming with a warm smile, even the crow's feet around his eyes were crinkled together.

Bai Suhuang nodded slightly, as if to say hello.

He skipped the pleasantries and got straight to the point.

"I brought a few friends here to take care of some business."

"Yuan Gu, where have all the people in this town gone? We've walked all this way and haven't seen a single person."

Upon hearing this question, Yuan Gu slapped his thigh, and the fat on his face jiggled twice.

"Oh! You don't know, yesterday someone accepted the bounty from the Qi family of Haixin Town to cook the Moon Shadow Flying Fish."

"Now the entire town, including the martial artists who came for training, has rushed to the Qi family's house on the east side of town to watch the excitement!"

As Yuan Gu spoke, he tossed the wooden basin in his arms.

"I'm rushing to the Qi family's house right now!"

"Moonlight Flying Fish? Bounty?"

Liu Bo, who was standing at the back, walked forward with a puzzled look on his face, his eyes fixed on the wooden basin in Yuan Gu's arms.

"Uncle, is the flying fish you mentioned the one in your basin?"

Luo Yurou and Rong Jing also stepped forward and followed Liu Bo's gaze into the wooden basin.

The wooden basin was filled with more than half a basin of inky black seawater.

And it was in the inky black seawater that a fish the size of an adult's forearm was swimming slowly.

This fish is pure white, like the bright moon in the sky, and its fins move like thin gauze in the water.

What's most incredible is...

This fish was not tainted by even the slightest bit of malevolent energy.

"What a beautiful fish!"

Rong Jing couldn't help but exclaim in admiration. She stared at the fish in the basin, her eyes sparkling with surprise.

"That's right, this is the Moonshadow Flying Fish."

Yuan Gu proudly raised his chin and lifted the wooden basin upwards.

"Don't let its small size fool you, this thing cost me ten years' worth of savings and involved countless connections to buy!"

Yuan Gu lowered his voice and said mysteriously.

"I see you all came with Boss Bai, probably for the Moon Shadow Flying Fish, right?"

He stretched out his free hand and pointed in the direction east of the town.

"Hurry up, or there won't be a place to stay if we're late."

"I was hoping to find the master chef from the Qi family to cook this fish for me."

"Uncle Yuan, we're not here to buy fish."

Luo Yurou stepped forward, her tone crisp and decisive.

"We'd like to rent a high-grade Yuanling Boat from you."

"We need to go deeper into the Haixinyan area."

Upon hearing the words "rent a boat," Yuan Gu's smile vanished, replaced by an embarrassed expression.

He blinked his small eyes, looked at Bai Suhuang and Luo Yurou somewhat awkwardly, and shook his head like a rattle drum.

"Rent a boat? Oh dear, you're too late."

Yuan Gu sighed, his fat face drooping.

"Forget about high-level spirit boats, I can't even produce a sampan made of broken planks."

"All the Yuanling Boats I have here, good or bad, have been bought up by the Qi family."

Luo Yurou frowned.

"The Qi family bought them all? Not a single one left?"

Not a single one is left.

Yuan Gu spread his hands, "The Qi family is a powerful and influential family in Haixin Town. They've given the order to requisition all the ships, who dares to refuse?"

"If you want to find the Yuanling Boat to go to sea, the only way now is to go to the Qi family."

Yuan Gu leaned closer and lowered his voice.

"What a coincidence."

"The Qi family's reward is that whoever can perfectly utilize the Yuan Power contained within the Moon Shadow Flying Fish will receive the right to use a [High-Grade Yuan Spirit Boat] for one year, a vessel that the Qi family spent three years building!"

"The catch will be split equally between the Qi family and me!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Bo couldn't help but roll his eyes.

He crossed his arms and looked impatient.

"No, it's just eating fish, why make such a fuss?"

Liu Bo pointed at the white fish swimming in the wooden basin and curled his lip.

"This thing looks appetizing, but if you peel off the scales and stew it in a pot, how much meat will it actually yield?"

"Why make such a big fuss? Are the Qi family just bored and have nothing better to do?"

When Yuan Gu heard Liu Bo's words, he looked at him as if he were a monster.

"Young man, you're quite uninformed!"

Yuan Gu carefully placed the wooden basin on the ground, straightened his back, and his expression became serious.

He pointed to the moon-shadow flying fish in the basin and explained to everyone.

"This is no ordinary fish."

Yuan Gu lowered his voice, his face full of mystery.

"The Moon Shadow Flying Fish lives in the deep sea where the evil energy is most concentrated. Not only is it unaffected by the evil energy, but it can also transform the evil energy into the purest elemental power and store it in its body."

"hiss--"

Liu Bo gasped. "Unaffected by the baleful aura? Converting the baleful aura into elemental energy??"

"Why does this sound so familiar?"

"Don't interrupt."

Rong Jing glared at him, signaling Yuan Gu to continue.

Yuan Gu swallowed hard, his voice beginning to tremble.

"More importantly, if a martial artist can consume a Moonshadow Flying Fish, they will directly gain the cultivation level equivalent to a year's worth of arduous training at the Flying Heaven Realm! There are absolutely no side effects!"

Liu Bo frowned: "It's getting more and more familiar."

Luo Yurou also narrowed her eyes, her expression solemn.

"but!"

Yuan Gu suddenly raised a finger, and the fat on his face jiggled three times.

"This thing is extremely difficult to cook."

"If the knife skills are wrong, or the cooking time is slightly off, the circulation of its internal energy will collapse. All its cultivation will vanish instantly, and the fish will become harder than stone—even a dog wouldn't eat it!"

"So that's why the Qi family issued this reward?" Luo Yurou asked.

"That's right!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Liu Bo pulled out a scroll and was about to tear it open with a "whoosh".

Where are you going?

Rong Jing looked at Liu Bo with a puzzled expression and asked.

Liu Bo held a scroll in one hand and made a figure eight with the other hand, placing it on his chin like Conan.

"There's only one truth!"

"I suspect the koi in the spa pool that the shop owner used to purify with his evil spirits have escaped!!!"

"I'll go and inform the shop owner."