Chapter 29: The White-Scaled Ferocious Fish

The candidate for village chief has always been determined by strength.
However, the ten thousand villagers of Bai Shou Village already had their minds made up—Qu Yi’s strength was undoubtedly the greatest among them all.
Therefore, if Qu Yi decided to run for village chief, no one would dare challenge him, and he would easily win the position.
But Qu Yi was currently inside the Stone Castle of “San Ding Men” and hadn’t come out at all, which showed his intention: he really didn’t want to be the village chief.
Just as the ten thousand villagers were at a loss, a voice rang out in their minds simultaneously.
“I am Qu Yi. Sun Bufan shall be the village chief.”
Indeed, Qu Yi used telepathy to convey his decision to the villagers.
Instantly, the villagers’ expressions calmed down, and everyone turned to Sun Bufan. Their determined looks made it clear they fully supported him as the new village chief.
In reality, Qu Yi was the one giving orders in Bai Shou Village, and everyone was willing to follow his decisions for the sake of their divine artifacts.
Although being village chief brought some benefits, they paled in comparison to possessing a divine artifact. After all, with a divine artifact, the villagers could challenge the ferocious beasts in the Ferocious Beast Mountains. There, they could hunt these beasts, obtain their cores, and rapidly expand their spiritual bodies, thus boosting their strength.
In the Divine Realm, strength was the greatest asset.
Meanwhile, Sun Bufan was completely stunned, standing there like a stone, his mouth wide open, unable to speak.
He kept thinking to himself that ever since he had spoken to Qu Yi, his luck had taken a turn for the worse. First, he got a divine artifact, the Swift Flying Sword, for free. Then, by helping Qu Yi communicate with the villagers, he earned their envy. Now, because of Qu Yi, he had become the village chief.
Yet, Sun Bufan felt that being village chief would be boring, so he tried to contact Qu Yi telepathically to express his stance.
“Sun Bufan, if you dare refuse this position as village chief, I’ll chop off one of your hands right away. Do you believe me?” Qu Yi’s voice came through just in time.
In an instant, Sun Bufan’s mouth opened even wider, filled with shock.

“Well, I’m willing to be the village chief.” Sun Bufan had no choice but to accept and immediately looked at Cao Du, speaking loudly. Cao Du and the ten guards also couldn’t believe what they had just seen—the villagers of Bai Shou Village were truly interesting; they had chosen a village chief so easily. In other villages of Huo Xin Town, it took years of conflict among the villagers before a village chief could be selected, yet Bai Shou Village had chosen a new chief right after his words fell. At this point, Cao Du even began to suspect that the former village chief, Xu Qiang, might have been killed by Sun Bufan. “Good, since the village chief has been chosen, I won’t delay any longer. Village Chief Sun Bufan, you’ll come with me to Huo Xin Town now to register your information.” Cao Du didn’t want to pursue further, as since the villagers of Bai Shou Village voluntarily chose Sun Bufan as their chief, he naturally had to agree. Sun Bufan bit his lip, looking reluctant, but still nodded and stepped beside Cao Du. Thus, under the watchful eyes of the ten thousand villagers of Bai Shou Village, Cao Du, Sun Bufan, and the ten guards left the village together. ※※※ Qu Yi, inside the Stone Castle of ‘San Ding Men’, had been in control of everything in Bai Shou Village. “Hehe, the deaths of Xu Qiang and Tian Duo are just that—over.” Qu Yi said with a smile after learning that Cao Du and the others had left Bai Shou Village. This was also one of the benefits of Qu Yi helping the villagers of Bai Shou Village craft divine artifacts—he had kidnapped the ten thousand villagers, and to avoid offending him, they naturally had to help him cover up certain things and not reveal the truth, thus preventing Cao Du from investigating further. Cao Du wasn’t stupid. Hearing from the villagers that Xu Qiang had gone to the Beast Mountain Range, how could he possibly enter the range himself to look for clues? He had no connection with Xu Qiang and wouldn’t risk himself for him. “Alright, continue crafting the divine artifact—don’t get distracted,” came the lazy voice of the Artifact God. Qu Yi responded with an “oh” and then resumed working on the artifact. Over the years, thanks to the illusion array in the stone castle, Qu Yi wasn’t afraid of the villagers’ spiritual senses, so he used the Xing Luo Ding to craft divine artifacts. As a result, his current crafting speed was dozens of times faster than when using the San Fang Ding.

Within the Star Luo Ding, Qu Yi could now control two hundred thousand parallel spaces simultaneously, meaning he could craft divine artifacts in all of them at once. However, the ten thousand villagers of Bai Shou Village each desired a divine artifact with unique properties, so Qu Yi could only craft dozens of them at a time and couldn’t produce all ten thousand artifacts for them all at once. Still, the speed was already quite fast. What was originally planned to take ten thousand years could now be completed within two hundred years, allowing Qu Yi to craft ten thousand divine artifacts of the Divine Human level. Just as he was about to continue crafting artifacts, his identity card vibrated, signaling an incoming message. Qu Yi immediately took out his identity card and scanned it, finding that it was a message from Wu Yuan. “Qu Yi, come quickly to the Savage Beast Mountains,” Wu Yuan sent as a single message. After scanning, Qu Yi realized that Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui were in the Savage Beast Mountains and must have encountered some special situation; otherwise, they wouldn’t have sent him a message. So, he promptly took out the Boundless Star Map. Suddenly, Qu Yi’s body disappeared from the stone castle. ※※※ Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui had been searching for savage beasts in the Savage Beast Mountains to practice their cultivation. Qing Wu Gui had already found his own cultivation method, so the savage beasts he sought now were those with gold-element beast cores, aiming to destroy the gold-element law so that it would no longer have any effect on him. Wu Yuan followed Qing Wu Gui, handling all tasks related to fighting savage beasts unless they were gold-element beasts. Since Wu Yuan wasn’t very focused on cultivation, as long as there were savage beasts to fight, he was content. One day, Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui arrived at a small mountain range and saw a lake at its foot. The lake was home to a large number of white-scaled fierce fish—initial estimates suggested over a million of them. Both Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui knew about Qu Yi’s situation: the number of his gold, wood, and earth element spirits had reached one million each, while those of water and fire elements were only one hundred thousand. Therefore, upon seeing these white-scaled fierce fish, they immediately thought of Qu Yi. These fish contained water-element beast cores. Suddenly, Qu Yi’s body appeared beside Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui, near the lake shore. “Wu Yuan, Qing Wu, what brings you to me?” Qu Yi asked cheerfully as he appeared. At the same time, he expanded his consciousness and immediately detected the flock of white-scaled fierce fish in the lake.

“Ugh, Qu Yi, you must have noticed too—there are many White-Scaled Fury Fish here,” Wu Yuan exclaimed happily, pointing at the lake.
“There are fish, that’s why I brought you here,” Qing Wu Gui replied succinctly.
Qu Yi nodded and immediately focused his gaze on the lake, then asked the Artifact God within the Cun Jie Ball.
“Artifact God, how big is this lake?” Qu Yi asked eagerly.
“The longest stretch is no more than a hundred li, and the narrowest part is only five li. Use the Xing Luo Ding to set it on fire and dry it out,” the Artifact God replied lazily.
Qu Yi was stunned into silence—the Artifact God’s tone was quite arrogant, but he accepted the suggestion. Instead of entering the lake to catch fish, it was better to dry it out outright, so he could get as many White-Scaled Fury Fish as he wanted.
Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui were also speechless. Qu Yi having a divine artifact like the Xing Luo Ding was truly outrageous.
At that moment, Qu Yi turned to Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui with a smile. “Wu Yuan, Qing Wu Gui, I can now craft divine artifacts. Over the years, you’ve practiced in the Fury Beast Mountains and must have obtained some good divine stones. Give them to me later, and I’ll help you craft an even better one.”
Wu Yuan was still using the divine artifact Xu Guang Yin, and Qing Wu Gui was still using the divine artifact Jin Wen Jian—neither of which was at the highest level of divine artifact.
Wu Yuan and Qing Wu Gui immediately laughed.
Qu Yi quickly reached the lake shore and took out the Xing Luo Ding.
A two-meter-long White-Scaled Fury Fish suddenly jumped out of the lake, its mouth wide open, with four long fangs on each side, lunging fiercely at Qu Yi.
“Interesting,” Qu Yi said with a light laugh.
Suddenly, he took out the divine artifact Rui Si Mu, and a thousand strands of silk shot out simultaneously, piercing the fish’s body and creating a thousand blood holes. Its body then turned into minced meat.
Suddenly, tens of thousands of White-Scaled Fury Fish appeared on the lake surface, all eager to leap out and attack Qu Yi.
“I’ll burn you to death,” Qu Yi said. He had no patience to kill them one by one and immediately activated the Xing Luo Ding.
Inside the Xing Luo Ding, the Black Tide Divine Fire rose instantly, with its mouth pointed at the lake surface. Under Qu Yi’s control, the fire transformed into a fierce black dragon that flew over the lake, burning to death all ten thousand White-Scaled Fury Fish. The entire lake surface vanished in an instant, turning into nothingness before it could even turn into vapor.

The entire lake surface, burned by the Black Tidal Divine Fire, continued to drop rapidly. Inside the Xingluo Ding, there was now pure primordial energy of the five elements. Under Qu Yi’s control, this energy ensured that the Black Tidal Divine Fire would never run out, and its intensity kept increasing sharply.

One meter down, five meters down, ten meters down…

The lake was only about thirty meters deep. As Qu Yi kept feeding the Black Tidal Divine Fire to burn it away, after two days, the lake surface had dropped to less than two meters, leaving only a small amount of water in the center.

At this point, Qu Yi stood in the middle of the lake with the Xingluo Ding.

Nearly a million White-Scaled Fury Fish gathered in this shallow lake. Due to overcrowding, they bit each other in the water, turning it into a sea of chaos.

Qu Yi only needed to wait. He didn’t even have to kill these fish himself—his body would easily yield their corpses.

After a day, the entire lake turned red. The dead White-Scaled Fury Fish were tossed onto the dried lakebed by the surviving ones, totaling over five hundred thousand.

Qu Yi didn’t intend to slaughter the remaining five hundred thousand White-Scaled Fury Fish. After collecting them from the lakebed, he left immediately.

It wouldn’t take long for this lake to regain its water from the surrounding mountains and recover once again.

“Ugh, Qu Yi, you’ve done it again,” Wu Yuan said, who had been pretending to sleep on a tree by the lakebank. Seeing Qu Yi return, he quickly climbed down and called out with a smile.

“He indeed has,” Qing Wu Gui Ze replied calmly.

Qu Yi nodded and smiled. “Alright, take out the divine stones you’ve stored. After I return to the Hundred Beasts Village, I’ll help you refine them into divine artifacts.”