Starting from the two realms, cultivating immortality by taming beasts

Chapter 17 Side Hustles

After hesitating for a moment, Chen Beiwu decided to pretend he knew nothing and, as usual, finished his dinner and went upstairs.

"Aren't you going to tell Beiwu?" Chen Dong murmured.

"There's no need. Telling us will only make one more person worry," Huang Xiaoling shook her head. "Besides, this is a crucial period for Chen Beiwu's cultivation, and he can't be disturbed."

At this point, she looked at Chen Dong and couldn't help but say, "Can't you just listen to my advice and quit your job making bricks at the factory?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Dong frowned involuntarily, his tone heavy: "You said that cultivation loans are unacceptable and will implicate the Northern Martial Arts Academy. Fine, I'll listen to you and not borrow."

Now you're trying to stop me from going to work and earning money. Are you suggesting I just watch you die?

Huang Xiaoling fell silent.

After a long silence, she finally replied, "Alright, stop talking. Just be stubborn for now. When we're both gone, I'll have Beiwu bury us closer together so we can sleep side by side. Then I'll eat your offerings in the middle of the night when I have nothing to do."

Chen Dong: "..."

On the other side, Chen Beiwu changed his original plan, grabbed his filming equipment, and went straight out.

Panjiang, also known as Mingzhujiang, gets its name from Mingzhu Island, which it flows through.

Unlike the tributaries of Jingyuan West Lake, the Mingzhu River allows fishing, making it an excellent fishing spot for locals in Yuankong County, where there's no risk of encountering pollution. Chen Beiwu regularly livestreams his fishing trips on the Mingzhu River.

After making preparations, Chen Beiwu started the live stream.

[Damn, I waited three days for the streamer to come online! Streamer, can you please be a little more proactive?!]

[The person upstairs is overthinking it. The streamer is a student; it's already a miracle they're not stopping broadcasting.]

[Checking in today, keep it up, streamer!]

Chen Beiwu was already used to seeing the numerous comments floating on his phone screen.

Make money, not shabby.

Self-media is very profitable now. Even if he's not very popular and his live stream only has a little over 10,000 viewers, the spirit stones he earns each month from live streaming are still much higher than his side job of reporting phishing scams.

Through live streaming, Chen Beiwu earned enough spirit stones in a year to not only pay for the tuition at Shouhe No. 2 Middle School, but also to cover his mother's annual medical expenses.

"Good evening, fellow Daoists. This is Tianyuan Fishing. Tonight I'm going to try fishing with a hand rod and see if I can catch a big catch." After saying his usual opening remarks for the live stream, Chen Beiwu pointed the camera at the Pearl River, which was as dark as ink under the moonlight.

[A lucky catch? You'll be lucky if you don't end up with a corpse. Looks like the streamer isn't fully awake today.]

I bet a bag of spicy snacks this guy won't catch a fish tonight.

I bet two bags.

[Fill it up, I bet ten packs of spicy strips.]

Chen Beiwu remained calm in the face of the audience's reaction.

If you can't catch it, that's for sure!

Chen Beiwu has been live-streaming his fishing trips over a hundred times, and he has caught almost everything except fish.

Examples include exotic objects, elixirs, corpses, jade slips, iron boxes, pocket watches, stones, shoes, weeds, condoms, clams, snakes, and so on.

At first, not catching any fish was an accident. Later, he found that this kind of live stream was popular and could earn him spirit stones, so Chen Beiwu deliberately caught all sorts of odds and ends, but not any fish.

Over time, he became known as "Fish Runner" among the viewers in the live stream.

As the name suggests, even fish would run away when they saw him.

[I am a future Imperial Censor of the Enforcement Bureau, giving away 1 membership card to the streamer - please follow!]

As soon as the gift-giving comment appeared, the live stream's popularity soared.

[Wanla, the streamer is being watched by the law enforcement department!]

[Holy crap, is this really the Enforcement Division?]

Dude, trust me. You might be suspicious of other livestreams, but it's perfectly normal for law enforcement officers to be present in Tianyuan's livestream.

Brothers, believe in the superstition. This guy can catch anything except fish, he's even caught corpses three times, it scared me half to death.

[So the streamer was a corpse fisherman; no wonder he was being targeted by the Enforcement Department.]

[No, the streamer should be a treasure hunter; he caught at least five discarded magical artifacts.]

Seeing these comments, Chen Beiwu felt somewhat helpless.

This is outrageous!

It wasn't that he wanted to create a sensational show; it was just that the evil cultivators in the Fallen Dragon Mansion lacked martial ethics and professionalism. They didn't even know how to dispose of a body properly. After killing someone and stealing their treasure, they simply threw the corpse into the Panjiang River, and by sheer coincidence, he caught it.

"Ahem. I'm a professional fishing streamer, viewers in the chat, please don't talk nonsense." Chen Beiwu said, trying to stop the flow of conversation while casting the fishing hook onto his rod.

【? ? ? 】

[Hilarious! He can't even catch a single fish in a year, and he dares to call himself a professional angler]

[Host, can you share your secret fishing spot so we can avoid it?]

After sending the comments, Xu Ziqing smiled and lay down on the soft couch woven from silk, then tapped her phone screen barefoot to zoom in and watch her classmate's performance with curiosity.

Ten minutes have passed.

Chen Beiwu caught nothing but some weeds.

"That's outrageous! How come this idiot can't even catch a single fish?" Xu Ziqing couldn't help but laugh.

Gazing idly at the lotus-shaped dome of the room, Xu Lingling speculated, "Do you think this might be a script written by Chen Beiwu?"

"It wasn't in the script." Xu Ziqing shook her head. "If this idiot hadn't discovered the body, those murderers wouldn't have been caught."

Just then, as if she had noticed something, she quickly sat up straight, a sudden movement that startled Xu Lingling.

"What's wrong?"

Shh! Don't talk, look carefully.

Xu Ziqing shook her index finger, her eyes fixed on the metal box hooked by the fishhook on the screen.

The surface of the tin box was rusty, and a small serrated leaf was visible on the edge, with some sparse red hairs on it.

[Holy crap, streamer, something's up!]

What's going on? Isn't this just a broken metal box?

The tin box itself is worthless; what's valuable is the Blood-Faced Vine!

[Huh? You mean the streamer caught a second-tier spiritual herb!]

In an instant, a dense array of question marks covered half the screen.

"What blood-faced vine? This is clearly red algae from the bottom of a river." Chen Beiwu deliberately closed the iron box to prevent the medicinal herbs inside from revealing any more details.

[Host, I'll offer 500 spirit stones. Can you sell me the red algae you mentioned?]

[The streamer is selling to me; I'll offer 800 spirit stones!]

[Host, I'll offer two thousand spirit stones. If you sell, then forget I said anything (laughs)]

Some viewers in the live stream believed that Chen Beiwu had caught the second-tier spiritual herb, Blood Face Vine, but others thought that someone was deliberately making a joke and deliberately stirring up trouble.

"Lingling, did you see clearly?" Xu Ziqing said without turning her head.

"I see clearly, it should be Blood-Faced Vine," Xu Lingling said hesitantly.

Although it was just a fleeting glimpse through the screen, as a mid-grade first-level alchemist, her basic ability to be familiar with all kinds of herbs was enough for her to tell at a glance that the contents of the iron box were not red algae, but the branches and leaves of the Blood-Faced Vine.

Just kidding, how could ordinary algae possibly possess such a hazy, spiritual glow? It looks so obvious.

"Grandpa is right, Chen Beiwu does have a bit of good fortune on his side," Xu Ziqing thought to herself.

(End of this chapter)