Chapter 311: Chapter 222: Passing Air, the 800-Jin Bluefin Tuna King
Moreover, his body was suspended in the sea, unable to find any leverage. Luo Feifei could also manipulate the seawater around him, dissipating his force.
It was like a Tai Chi master holding a sparrow in their palm. No matter how the sparrow flapped its wings, it couldn’t fly away.
This is because for a sparrow to take flight, it must first push off with its feet. A Tai Chi master is extremely sensitive to this kind of force, a skill known as the Listening Skill. Following the Listening Skill is Transforming Power, which involves neutralizing the force from the sparrow’s push. It’s the principle of using four ounces to deflect a thousand pounds.
That’s why the *Tai Chi Boxing Theory* contains the line: "Not a feather can be added, not an insect can land."
Not only can a sparrow not fly away, but a mosquito cannot even land. And if it does, it can’t take off again.
Luo Feifei must have used the Transforming Power technique to perfectly restrain him without causing any injury.
Otherwise, with over five hundred thousand tons of pressure crushing down, he would have been forced to deploy his Armor or the Golden Light Shield.
Li Xiang had been quite proud of his one hundred thousand jin of Giant Power, but now it seemed so insignificant. Tiny. Minuscule. He couldn’t even withstand a few hundred thousand tons of seawater, let alone the entire ocean.
Luo Feifei stopped swimming. With a beckoning gesture, she made the distant bluefin tuna drift toward them involuntarily.
As it neared, the system prompted: "Detected one Tier Fourteen Mutated Creature: Bluefin Tuna King."
This tuna was even bigger and better than the one Li Xiang had lost before. He stored the Bluefin Tuna King in his system warehouse. The tuna died instantly, and the rewards were credited to his account.
In addition to 1,400 Achievement Points, there were three palm-sized pieces of Tier Seven Spiritual Medicine, Murex Shells, and a blue Space Gemstone.
Li Xiang inspected it and found it contained about three cubic meters of space.
Space Gemstones were rare. It was difficult for an ordinary Extraordinary Being to get even one, yet Li Xiang now had two. He had previously obtained a red Space Gemstone.
Li Xiang pointed toward the surface, signaling that he wanted to go up.
Luo Feifei moved in close again to give him some air.
Li Xiang blinked. ’I meant let’s go up and eat the tuna, not that I need more air.’ But he couldn’t speak deep underwater, so Luo Feifei just thought he couldn’t hold his breath any longer and pressed her lips against his.
This time, Luo Feifei didn’t forcefully hold him down, so Li Xiang gently pushed her away and started swimming upward.
Luo Feifei followed behind him, her cheeks puffed out in a pout.
But after a moment, perhaps finding his swimming too slow, she came over to give him a tow.
The moment Luo Feifei exerted her power, Li Xiang shot up like a rocket. Soon, the two of them were back on the beach.
"Hmph~" Luo Feifei was still a little angry. Her expression seemed to say, ’I made the first move and you still had to be difficult? You even pushed me away, and so hard it hurt. How many people could only dream of such a chance?’
Li Xiang was speechless. "..."
After a moment’s thought, he took out the blue Space Gemstone and handed it to her.
Luo Feifei had helped catch the Bluefin Tuna King, so it was only right to share the spoils with her.
But Luo Feifei didn’t know that. How could she know that Li Xiang received spoils for killing potential Mutated Creatures? She thought he was giving it to her to win her favor, and she immediately cheered up.
’Mm, Brother Xiang really does think about me, giving me something so precious again. A Space Gemstone... that’s incredibly rare.’
However, after playing with it for a moment, Luo Feifei handed it back to Li Xiang.
"What’s wrong?"
Luo Feifei said, "It’s a wonderful gift, but I can’t wear it right now. It would be terrible if I lost it. You should hold onto it for me."
Li Xiang said, "You’re right, I wasn’t thinking. How about this? I’ll keep it for now, and later I’ll find a jewelry store to have it set into a piece of jewelry. Would you prefer a necklace or a ring?"
"Hee hee, a ring!" Luo Feifei chose the ring without hesitation, an item with a much more special meaning.
As for wearing a gold and Gemstone ring at such a young age—well, she had the means. Who was anyone to say otherwise?
Li Xiang immediately put it away.
Then, he took out the massive, over-400-kilogram Bluefin Tuna King and began preparing it on the spot.
"Let me borrow your White Tiger Rapier," Li Xiang said.
So, Luo Feifei handed the White Tiger Rapier to Li Xiang.
Li Xiang actually had the White Fang Dagger, but it was too short. The White Tiger Rapier was much more suitable.
The tuna looked exactly the same coming out of the warehouse as it did going in. In other words, it had just died, and without any struggle.
As a result, there was no bruised blood in its flesh.
First, Li Xiang bled it, then cleaned it, then broke it down... After a series of deft movements, he had cut the tuna into smaller sections.
During this process, Luo Feifei helped with great interest. She had never cooked at home and wasn’t skilled in the kitchen, so she could only assist with simple tasks.
In the end, Li Xiang kept three small sections each of the otoro, chutoro, and akami—about eight or nine jin in total. These were the most delicious parts of the bluefin tuna. The rest he placed back in the system warehouse for easy access later.
"How do you even have plates and seasonings?" Luo Feifei was stunned. ’Brother Xiang really knows how to live,’ she thought.
She watched as Li Xiang laid out plates, saucers, and forks one by one. He sliced the most delicious parts into small pieces, arranged them on a platter, and then prepared the condiments. It was nothing too fancy, just soy sauce, wasabi, lemon, parsley, and pickled ginger.
He also took out two cocktail glasses and poured some Singapore Slings (a famous cocktail he had bought earlier).
"Here, please enjoy. If the seasonings aren’t to your taste, you can mix them yourself," Li Xiang said with an inviting gesture.
"Thank you. I definitely won’t go hungry when I’m with you." Luo Feifei smiled gracefully and dug in.
The two ate and chatted. It had to be said that the freshly caught and prepared Bluefin Tuna King was absolutely delicious. Its freshness and texture were naturally incomparable to what you could buy outside.
There was no need to age the meat. Tuna sold on the market has often been dead for some time, so aging is necessary to relieve the rigor mortis. But Li Xiang’s was killed instantly, and the system warehouse had a "preservation" feature, meaning the storage time was effectively zero. It was as if they were eating it the moment it was caught, maximizing its fresh, crisp flavor.
As for parasites, first, the infection rate in deep-sea fish is relatively low. Second, with their Spiritual Power circulating, no parasite could possibly survive inside their bodies.
After eating and drinking their fill, they rested until four or five in the morning. After "waking up" and washing, they began their Cultivation and waited for the sunrise over the sea.
Then, Luo Feifei suggested a morning swim.
Swimming in the morning, accompanied by the sunrise, was an exquisite pleasure.
Li Xiang took out the suitcase, and Luo Feifei changed into another swimsuit.
Perhaps because they had kissed earlier, Luo Feifei was a bit bolder this time. The swimsuit she changed into was so stunning it was impossible to look away, and it left Li Xiang frozen in place for several seconds.
The enchanting scenes underwater went without saying. While they were diving, they caught a great deal of seafood.
In this part of the ocean, the coral was breathtakingly beautiful and abundant, covering nearly every inch of the seabed. Schools of fish were dense, sometimes numbering in the tens of thousands.
Li Xiang and Luo Feifei only caught the most valuable and delicious ones, like tuna, sea bream, red-spotted groupers, leopard coral groupers, Emperor groupers (leopard star-spotted), Haisong groupers, moray eels, yellow-skinned tiger groupers, bullmouth helmet shells, humpback cowries, queen conches, spiny lobsters, sea cucumbers, and eels. Li Xiang had done his homework beforehand and could recognize most of them.
Some fish were hiding deep within the coral reefs, but they were detected by Luo Feifei’s Insight Superpower. She manipulated the water currents to "roll" them out and into Li Xiang’s system warehouse.
They caught both small and large ones. The big ones easily weighed dozens or even hundreds of jin each. It was a continuous stream of fine goods.
This would all be Li Xiang’s New Year’s stock.
Among their catch were quite a few with Extraordinary potential. As Li Xiang stored them in the system warehouse, the corresponding rewards were credited to his account. However, most of them were Low Tier, yielding only Achievement Points and Spiritual Medicine, but no Extraordinary Items.
Luo Feifei also gained experience in catching fish, becoming much more skilled than before. Now, when she spotted a target, she no longer rushed over frantically. Instead, she would stealthily approach. Once she was within about a hundred meters, she would launch a surprise attack, controlling the seawater in a hundred-meter radius, leaving the fish with no chance of escape. This saved her the effort of chasing them.
