The Legend of Fangren

Chapter 137 Fishing with electricity is illegal, but fishing with electricity... is spiritual!

As the giant tree collapsed, the soldiers and cultivators who had been guarding the area disappeared without a trace, fleeing into the distance, leaving only the Black Stone Dragon Carp in the forest, frantically drawn to the tree monster's wooden beads.

The profound energy within these wooden beads originally came from the dragon carp's body. It was natural profound energy that had been attracted to and gathered by the dragon carp but had not been fully refined. Now, this profound energy flowed back into the earth and was absorbed and refined by the trees into the wood core, becoming even more gentle and easily absorbed. One can imagine how attractive it was to the dragon carp. It was like fish food being sprinkled into a fish tank, which was fought over by the fish. However, there was only one dragon carp, but the "fish food" was everywhere in the forest. It swam around among them, constantly swallowing the wooden beads into its mouth, turning them into residue, and then spitting them out.

As long as the dragon carp doesn't leave the vicinity, the giant tree will topple over in three minutes, causing massive damage to the dragon carp. Only then will the surviving soldiers and cultivators who escaped have a chance to attack the injured dragon carp.

Fang Shi was unaware of these things. He had come to cut down the tree, but when he arrived at the tree, he found a large number of haggard and emaciated "corpses" lying haphazardly. These were soldiers who had been absorbed by the dragon carp after they had fainted.

"They're still breathing—they're still alive!"

These soldiers were not highly skilled; they had only trained their bodies to be strong. Although much of their profound energy had been drained, leaving them extremely weak and on the verge of death, they were still alive.

Fang Shi roughly counted that there were at least a dozen people lying here, and there were many more in the surrounding forest, whether they were soldiers or rogue cultivators. They were all in the same situation. The retreating soldiers could not take everyone with them. These people could be said to have been abandoned by the situation. Once the giant tree fell, they would surely die.

Wood or human life, which should you choose? Is there even a question?

Fang Shi stopped abruptly, pulled out a shovel, and dug a square pit several meters deep in the ground with lightning speed. He then quickly placed smooth gray fine stone blocks in the ground. These stones had become denser after being fired, and their strength and weight had been significantly improved. When he released them with the power of dissolving, the stones would automatically connect with each other, and stones of the same material would completely fuse together, making them stronger than the most perfect welding process.

The smooth stone blocks are quickly filled into the pits, then two blocks are placed on top, then blocks are joined horizontally, and then folded downwards to insert into another pit.

In just five or six seconds, Fang Shi erected a stone frame with a foundation in a desolate forest of ruins. He then widened the stone frame by two or three meters and added stone blocks for support in several directions. In less than half a minute, he had built a bunker.

He threw all the people on the ground nearby into the space one meter below the stone fortress. The inside of the stone fortress was supported by multiple stone blocks and was made of a single piece of stone, making it extremely sturdy. Even if a dragon carp crashed into it, it would be difficult to shake it.

The difference in strength between flesh and blood and natural stone is enormous.

For those who lived further away, carrying the load back and forth was too time-consuming, so Fang Shi used stone blocks to build a temporary small stone cover to cover the people.

Every time he enveloped a few people, he would turn around and look at the blue light array at the base of the giant tree. Each time he turned around, he could see the traces of the array breaking. More and more pieces of wood were falling from the sky, especially the straight trunk, which was more than ten meters in diameter. The pieces of wood and bark that had fallen off the surface were like an avalanche, gathering into a wave of broken wood that surged in.

Fang Shi deliberately positioned the opening of the stone fortress's stone shield away from the trunk of the giant tree to prevent wood fragments from flooding into the fortress. However, it wasn't until he witnessed this scene that he realized the purpose of the azure light array was to inflict a heavy blow on the Black Stone Dragon Carp after the personnel had evacuated.

He had covered everything that the people nearby could find with stone blocks, and it was obviously too late to cut down the wood. It would be better to use himself as an ear to lure the dragon carp to come.

Looking back, the nearby forest had been almost completely leveled by the dragon carp, and the corpses of tree monsters were scattered everywhere. The dragon carp sucked out several wood beads from the pile of wood debris, continuously feeding to replenish its Xuan Qi.

As the dragon carp's internal energy grows larger, it will attract surrounding natural energy like a vortex, forming thunderclouds. The surrounding air will also become closer to flowing water. These water cloud domains act like a thick protective shield, providing stronger protection against attacks with larger contact surfaces and more ferocious rigid collisions.

Clearly, the wave of wood shards from the overturned giant tree was such an attack. Moreover, since the wood floated on the water, the power of the broken wood shards was greatly reduced when they hit the water. Once the dragon carp's thundercloud domain spread to more than ten meters, the wood shards would not be able to cause any real damage to it.

Having only Fei Xuange as a fifth-level cultivator is still too disadvantageous. The higher the level of the mystic beast, the more high-level cultivators are needed to work together to kill it.

If we're talking about being safe, a fifth-tier great mystic beast should require four to five fifth-tier cultivators to capture. But if we're talking about absolute safety, even eight or nine fifth-tier cultivators couldn't guarantee absolute safety.

The Great Mystic Beast, in essence, is a living natural disaster. In the face of natural disasters, people cannot guarantee their safety 100%.

Fang Shi understood that he absolutely could not let the dragon carp continue to absorb the profound energy. He also had to snatch the wooden beads scattered all over the ground. Not only did he have to snatch them, but he had to snatch them right from the dragon carp's mouth. This was the fastest way to stop it.

Come out, fishing rod!

He grabbed a fishing rod—yes, a whole bunch of four fishing rods held in both hands—and charged toward the dragon carp.

The dragon carp floated about a meter above the ground. It only needed to get close to the pile of miscellaneous wood where the wooden bead was to open its mouth and suck. Fang Shi saw this and swung his fishing rod to throw out the float, intercepted the wooden bead, and then gently pulled it.

Bring it to you!

The dragon carp reacted instantly, turning around and following. The horizontal pulling force of the fishing rod was not great, so the speed of the wooden bead after being hooked was not fast. However, Fang Shi relied on his invisibility and rushed forward, managing to snatch the bait from the fish's mouth and put the wooden bead into his Heavenly Ring.

The moment Tianfang Ring collected the item, it released a surge of profound energy, finally exposing Fang Shi to the dragon carp's perception for a moment. The dragon carp was immediately attracted by this larger living creature, and it charged forward at an accelerated pace, with lightning striking its surroundings in an instant.

Oh!!

Three bolts of lightning struck Fang Shi simultaneously, causing him to scream and fall to the ground, his clothes torn to shreds. The dragon carp then grazed his back and rushed past him from above, before turning around in confusion and looking around.

No, where did that huge living thing go? The lightning clearly struck it, how could it just vanish into thin air?

Dragon Carp: Oh my god, there really is a ghost!

Obviously, given the intelligence of the dragon carp, if it can't sense something, it simply can't sense it. It can't think about it, nor will it try to figure out how its prey hid itself.

So it wandered around in confusion for a while, and then prepared to suck up the nearby wooden beads. At this moment, Fang Shi stubbornly got up. Although he was shocked by the electric shock, he had to admit that he felt his body was full of electric sensation, as if he had been charged. He had a powerful yet uncontrollable detachment feeling - a twitching sensation.

Thinking back, the last time I had this feeling was when I traveled through time in my past life.