Chapter 1498: Chapter 769: Domain
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"Big brother, why are you here?" Nier blinked curiously, staring at Qing Shui.
"Brother, do you need more fish and turtles? Is that why you’re here today?" Nier excitedly grabbed Qing Shui’s hand, leading him to the other two children.
"Let me ask more of my friends to help fulfill brother’s request! This way, the process will be faster."
Hearing Nier’s enthusiasm, Qing Shui was touched.
"Alright, sister, have all your friends help, I’m willing to pay 10 copper coins per bucket of water?" Qing Shui’s price was about five times higher than the normal price of water.
"Big brother, the price is too high, just one or two copper coins will do." Nier frantically refused Qing Shui’s offer.
"Listen, listen to big brother, even if I’m not wealthy, I won’t mistreat you all."
Upon hearing Qing Shui’s assurance, Nier ran off with a joyful laugh, gathering her friends.
Not long after, Nier brought 10 more people, spending about half a day catching countless small fish, shrimp, and sea turtles.
Qing Shui felt soft-hearted watching these poor children’s hard work. In the end, he filled each bucket loaded with sea creatures with two silvers.
Now, Qing Shui had become more accustomed to the concept of money in this world, knowing that one silver tael was equivalent to about 100 dollars in his previous world!
After half a day, more than 20 buckets were filled with marine creatures caught by the children. Entering his Space Domain, Qing Shui poured more than half of the contents from 20 buckets into the Crystal Pool.
The children’s efforts should be truly rewarded. Qing Shui was very satisfied with the capture results. There were many types of fish, with black fish, grass carp, and catfish being the majority, and other fish being in the minority. For turtle species, there was only one type - black turtle.
Qing Shui took a long wooden shaft, balanced the remaining eight buckets of water, and then quickly left his Space Domain, hurrying back to the Qing Clan’s medicine shop. Qing Shui balanced four buckets on each side and hurried to the pond located in the Hundred Herb Garden. Each bucket was filled with water from the Crystal Pool. To increase their growth rate, Qing Shui replaced the seawater with water from the Crystal Pool before putting the marine creatures back into the seawater.
On the way there, Qing Shui met Qing Shi, who couldn’t help but chuckle after witnessing Qing Shui’s anxiety. His laughter caught the attention of Yuan Ying and Qing Yi, who smiled at Qing Shui amiably.
Qing Shui ignored Qing Shi and hurried towards the pond, then awkwardly placed all the sea creatures from the eight buckets into the pond. He hoped his assumption was correct, that the spiritual Replenishing Energy Water could somehow stimulate growth.
Only by achieving this would he feel secure inside. The next step was to find a business partner to sell them the live feed. Uncontrollably, memories of Yuhe Inn bubbled up in his mind, that turtle soup and that cheeky young girl. Especially the cheeky young girl, Qing Shui found himself wanting to interact with her.
When lost in his fantasies, he could almost see Yuhe. The kind of expression on her graceful face, her soft and elegant body, wearing a bikini from his previous world, smiling invitingly, drawing closer to him. As he suddenly swallowed, his heart rate quickened...
"What are you thinking, you brat, why are you drooling?!"
Qing Shui started, hurriedly wiping his hands, but found no trace of saliva. His demeanor was highly ironic, and when Qing Yi laughed, she clutched her belly.
Qing Shui stood beside Qing Yi, observing different-sized fish, shrimp, crabs, and turtles lazily swimming in the pond. In his Space Domain, one day was equivalent to a hundred days here. Qing Shui’s plan was to replace some of the fish in the Space Domain with the fish here.
However, an unexpected issue occurred a day later. The earlier batch of black fish placed in the Crystal Pool grew larger and fiercer. They actually started a feeding frenzy, devouring other smaller fish. "...." Qing Shui had considered many aspects before implementing his plan but overlooked some simple things.
Qing Shui sighed, looking down at the few remaining fish and turtles in the Crystal Pool. All these remaining fish were the cream of the crop. The reason for the black fish’s cannibalistic behavior was unclear, be it because of their same species or some other factor. Nonetheless, the turtles were safe. The black fish’s teeth still couldn’t penetrate the turtles’ defensive layers.
Due to the effect of time dilation, within a few days, the black fish had grown to about a foot long. The Black River Turtle had grown to the size of about a palm. Strangely, as the black fish became fiercer, the Black River Turtle became more agile and nimble.
In the Hundred Medicine Garden pond, Qing Shui slipped in some fish and river turtles he had taken from the Space Domain. Perhaps it was due to the presence of the Water Lily, or because there were more kinds of marine life in this normal pond, or because of the change in environment, but the black fish did not seem as fierce. They no longer had any desire to eat other fish.
Farming had always been Qing Shui’s main focus. Therefore, Qing Shui spent most of his time in the Space Domain, trying to break through the barrier of the 48th cycle of circulating Qi. Although Qing Shui was stuck at the 48th cycle, years of relentless cultivation had enlarged his energy channel and greatly strengthened his bones and muscles. After all, the ancient enhancement technique is a technique focused on body training. It was no surprise that Qing Shui gained other benefits even though he couldn’t break through. In addition, Qing Shui had a strong intuition that once he broke through the "Qi" cycle of the 49th cycle, he would be at least at the peak of the acquired level.
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