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Chapter 165: Fish
Of course, people don’t turn into fish themselves, but they are turned into fish by people.

Xu Shun said, “I heard that the Beast Taming Sect is good at taming beasts and also good at animal creation.”

The process of animal creation is very common in the world of immortal cultivation, and many people know how to do it.

However, the ones used by most monks were of relatively low quality. They took sheepskin or pigskin, used evil rituals to refine them, put people inside, and turned them into pigs and sheep, and used them for human trafficking.

But the Beast Taming Sect is different. Their sect's animal-creating technique can not only turn people into pigs, cows, and sheep, but also turn people into tigers, leopards, jackals, and wolves.

They even turn pigs, cows and sheep into tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves, and even turn tigers, leopards, jackals, pigs, cows and sheep into "humans".

The mutual transformation between different species is unique in the world.

It is a very advanced spell and also the special skill of the Beast Taming Sect.

It is said that when the spell was first invented, it was just to satisfy the appetite of the monsters raised by the Beast Taming Sect. Many monsters need to eat humans, otherwise they will be malnourished.

Their sect couldn't really feed humans to the monsters, so they didn't know which genius had invented this magic to turn pigs, cows, and sheep into "humans" to satisfy the monsters' appetites.

"That's right! You are..." Wang Wenbin saw Xu Shun in a purple Taoist robe, who looked more like a monk than a banished immortal.

"I am just a casual cultivator, my name is Xu Shun." Xu Shun said.

Wang Wenbin glanced at Lu Xingxing and said, "Your Excellency should know that the current world of immortal cultivation is not friendly to mortals."

It's not just unfriendly, it's hell!

"I am cultivating in this water palace just to cultivate this spirit turtle, Anan." He pointed at the big turtle under his feet and said, "I couldn't bear to see them in trouble, so I helped them."

"It's easy to save people, but it's hard to keep them alive." He sighed and said, "There are monsters nearby. They have no food and no shelter. How can they survive?"

"So, I used magic to turn them into carp and let them live in this water area."

Turning people into fish is the most helpless thing.

The carp understood what Wang Wenbin said, and swam to Wang Wenbin's side frequently, rubbing his sleeves gently, as if to say, there's no need to be helpless.

Lu Xingxing looked at so many big carps, all of them individually, and remained silent.

Xu Shun understood what was said, and he sighed in his heart. He felt that the people in the cultivation world had suffered this disaster for nothing, so he said, "There is a village a thousand miles away, called Qing Village, which is backed by the Qinghua Sect. I know the people in the village, and I can send them over."

The Qinghua Sect is a famous and upright sect.

After Wang Wenbin heard this, his eyes lit up and he said happily, "Great, great, great."

But when he turned around, he saw the carp behind him shaking their heads frequently.

"Why, you don't want to?" Wang Wenbin was puzzled: "There are Taoist friends who are willing to send you to a new place, which must be safe and worry-free!"

"Don't worry, I'm with him and will ensure you have nothing to worry about," he said.

He thought the group was worried that he wouldn't ask them anymore.

The people and beasts of the Beast Taming Sect are of one mind, which is equivalent to two cultivators of the same level. He saw that both of them were in the Dragon and Tiger stage, so he was very confident in himself.

The carps just opened their mouths and blew out bubbles, as if they wanted to speak, but they couldn't speak in the water.

"Let's go to the shore and talk!" said Wang Wenbin, Xu Shun and Lu Xingxing.

So they went to the shore. Two carps jumped onto the shore, and Wang Wenbin took out a jade knife and skinned the two fish.

The fish skin just fell off, and two naked men came out.

Wang Wenbin waved his hand, and two robes fell on the two men.

"Cough cough..." The two men coughed violently, as if they were not used to breathing through their nostrils and lungs.

After a while, they both recovered.

"Master, please don't abandon us!" Two men, one tall and one short, knelt in front of Wang Wenbin.

Wang Wenbin helped them up and said gently, "I haven't abandoned you. It's just that this Taoist friend and I want to take you to where there are people." "No, no, no..." The short man, who looked to be in his thirties or forties, was in his prime. He shook his head and said, "Can we not go?"

"We don't want to be human beings, we just want to be fish."

"Cooking fish?" Wang Wenbin was stunned.

Not only he was stunned, Xu Shun was also stunned.

Is there anyone who wants to be a fish instead of a human?

"Yes, yes, yes, we don't want to be human, we just want to be fish!" The tall man nodded. He was very young, only seventeen or eighteen years old.

Xu Shun couldn't help but ask, "What's so good about cooking fish?"

The short man looked at Xu Shun with a little fear and said, "This immortal, it's good to be a fish!"

"Being a fish is free and easy!"

"Free and easy!" Xu Shun exclaimed.

How can being a fish be free and easy?
Being a fish is so carefree, so why bother practicing Taoism?
"Now, fish just need to eat, drink, defecate and urinate every day." The short man said, "Don't worry about other things. There are no other fish here to bully us."

"When you go to a new place, you will be ostracized. You will be harassed by the officials who collect grain. You may not have enough to eat after working hard to grow grain for a year."

"I also have to work during the slack season."

“Life is so hard,” he said.

The tall young man said, "It's hard enough, but there are still many man-eating monsters. Our village was destroyed just like that."

"I'm going out to chop some firewood, and when I come back the village and home..." He didn't finish his words, but tears flowed from his eyes.

He added: "It doesn't matter if you go to a new place. If you are not careful, you will end up in a place like ours, with nowhere to go and nothing to do but to jump into the river and commit suicide."

"I was lucky to meet Immortal Wang this time. Can I meet Immortal Wang again next time?"

The three people who were listening were silent.

It is too difficult for them to live in this world.

"As fish, we can eat grass, shrimp, snails, and river clams. There is an abundant source of food, and we won't be hungry." The short man said, "When it gets cold, we won't have to eat anymore."

"Being a fish is much better than being a human."

Xu Shun said in a hoarse voice: "So, you don't want to go to Qing Village? Don't want to go back?"

The short man said, "Thank you for your kindness, Immortal. We don't want to go."

The tall one also echoed, "Yes, yes, thank you for your kindness, Immortal."

Xu Shun didn't believe it, so he worked with Wang Wenbin to turn every fish back into humans.

They are men and women, old and young, but without exception, they all don't want to be human.

Being a human being is not as happy as being a fish.

What should Xu Shun do? He was silent for a long time, watching them one by one turning back into fish while wearing fish skins. He could only leave with Lu Xingxing in despair.

In this world, people would rather become fish than be human.

"I never want to go fishing again! Those people deserve to die!" Lu Xingxing suddenly said.

Those who have not seen misery cannot imagine misery.

　The editor also mentioned the new book and 158 chapters were changed.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)