The Female CEO's Personal Bodyguard

Chapter 528 The Fisherman of Yaochi

"This is the Jade Pool..."

Panting heavily, Zhou Yin pointed to the pool in the valley below and said excitedly, "The dean brought me here back then, which helped me successfully break through to the next realm."

A hint of surprise appeared in Lin Chen's eyes, because he had quietly activated the Vast Righteousness Technique and could already feel the rich spiritual energy in the air.

The concentration of spiritual energy here is at least ten times that of outside, or even higher!

The scenery was magical. All around was covered in snow, and it was hard to tell how thick it was, but the small pool in the valley showed no signs of freezing. Moreover, there were lush trees around the pool, making the scene particularly magical.

The surrounding rocks and pebbles display a variety of vibrant colors, making the pool seem alive and full of life.

As Zhou Yin said, looking down from the mountain peak, the pool looks like a giant, bright and piercing eye.

"There's someone there!"

Zhou Yin suddenly exclaimed, her tone filled with disbelief.

Following the direction Zhou Yin pointed, Lin Chen was surprised to find that at the base of one of the large trees that would take several people to encircle, there was a person sitting against the tree root with a fishing rod in front of him.

Lin Chen's eyes widened, and he turned to ask, "Are there fish in this pond?"

Zhou Yin looked completely bewildered: "I don't know."

Lin Chen's eyes slowly brightened.

Although anglers will do many crazy things for fishing, this place is located deep in the Kunlun Mountains, and it is basically impossible for ordinary people to come here.

"Go down and see!"

The two descended the snow-capped mountain and slowly approached the pond, gradually getting a clearer look at the fisherman.

A middle-aged man in his forties, with a short beard and long hair, dressed in casual clothes, seemed unaffected by the surrounding cold. He leaned quietly against a tree trunk, his eyes closed, as if he were asleep.

Lin Chen's gaze fell on the middle-aged man's hair, which was at least thirty centimeters long and was casually tied up, like a woman's ponytail, looking neat yet with a touch of unruliness.

His fishing rod was very simple, seemingly just a tree branch that he had casually broken off. A line was tied to the end of the branch, and it was unclear what was tied to the hook. The line hung straight down into the water, and it was surprisingly taut.

Lin Chen scanned the surface of the pool but did not find any floats.

A master!

Definitely the air of a master!
The footsteps startled the middle-aged man, who turned around and looked over the two of them before his gaze landed on Lin Chen's face, his expression seemingly surprised.

Lin Chen cupped his hands and said, "Senior, I apologize for disturbing you!"

The middle-aged man smiled faintly and said, "The mountains and rivers have no owner, and this pool has no owner either. I am not the owner of this place. Anyone can come and go as they please. How can you say I am disturbing you?"

Lin Chen answered frankly, "It's never a bad thing to be polite." The middle-aged man smiled and asked, "What brings you here? Are you just passing by, or are you cultivating?"

Lin Chen didn't hesitate at all: "Cultivation."

The middle-aged man nodded: "Do as you please, just pretend I don't exist."

Lin Chen breathed a sigh of relief. This middle-aged man seemed to have a good temper. He then tentatively asked, "Senior, are there any fish in this pond?"

The middle-aged man nodded: "Yes, but they are hidden quite deep and not easy to catch. It depends on luck. I come here to fish for a day every now and then, but I'm probably not very lucky and haven't caught anything yet."

Bad luck?

Lin Chen turned to look at the pool and found that the water was too clear. Except for a small area in the very center where the bottom could not be seen, the rest of the pool was clear and transparent, and the colorful stones at the bottom could be clearly seen.

Lin Chen thought to himself, "You say you can't catch any fish? Is it possible that there are no fish in this pond at all?"
If there really are fish, they wouldn't stay motionless in the central area forever, would they? They wouldn't live in the springs that might exist below the pool, would they?
Lin Chen didn't rush to start cultivating. Instead, he just squatted down next to the middle-aged man and watched him fish.

Lin Chen came to Yaochi to cultivate the Haoran Technique and see if he could gain any different benefits. However, with this middle-aged man still around, Lin Chen dared not cultivate. What if the middle-aged man saw through his scheme and killed him on a whim?

In short, safety comes first.

The middle-aged man glanced at Lin Chen: "Why don't you cultivate?"

Lin Chen smiled frankly: "I'm stuck at the Grandmaster bottleneck. The water is already full, and no matter how much I fill it, it's useless. Maybe I'll find a breakthrough opportunity by taking a walk around and looking around."

The middle-aged man smiled slightly and asked no further questions.

"Senior, how long have you been fishing this time?"

The middle-aged man casually raised his wrist and looked at his watch: "Two more hours of fishing, and it'll be a whole day."

Lin Chen's gaze fell on the watch on his wrist, and his feelings were somewhat complicated.

Do highly skilled people also use watches?

Lin Chen remained squatting, intending to stay with the middle-aged man for two hours until he left before resuming his cultivation. For now, he wanted to build a good relationship with the man, since the middle-aged man's appearance and demeanor strongly resembled that of a highly skilled master from a blessed land.

Putting everything else aside, it's so cold, and they're only wearing a thin jacket. Not everyone has that kind of ability.

Time passed slowly, and finally, the two-hour mark approached.

The middle-aged man glanced at the time and sighed helplessly, "Looks like another day of fruitless effort..."

Before he could finish speaking, the fishing line dangling into the water suddenly straightened, the makeshift fishing rod bent instantly, and it shot directly into the water...

(End of this chapter)