Chapter 1807: This Fish Cannot Be Eaten

Upon learning that the whole river was formed by gathered spiritual fluid, Xu Jie and the others all sucked in a breath of cold air—how much spiritual fluid would that take?

Probably even if you added up all the spiritual pools of Zhu Tian Wan Jie, they wouldn't even amount to one ten‑thousandth of this great river.

Even Ye Zhangqing's eyes flashed with a hint of surprise and doubt.

Seeing the astonished expressions of the few, the Guo family's Second Sequence instead spoke with a smile, his face relaxed.

"What is this? In the Immortal Realm there is also a heavenly river, its size is thousands, even tens of thousands of times larger than this river; its water is all transformed from spiritual fluid, and within it lie myriad spring eyes, each a source of spiritual energy, a blessed cave heaven."

Upon hearing that, Xu Jie and the others no longer cared about whatever heavenly river, for the great river before them was already enough to shock them.

Knowing that this is merely within a secret realm, stepping on the great river, Xu Jie and the others finally understood how vast the gap between the lower realm and the Immortal Realm is.

This great river formed by the convergence of spiritual fluid is the most direct manifestation.

Under the leadership of the Guo family sequence disciples, everyone continued forward on the river surface.

However, afterward Xu Jie and the others became unusually quiet, evidently their hearts were still in turmoil, not yet calmed.

The great river is very long; after walking a while they still could not see the end, nor did they know how long they had walked, but Xu Jie and the others finally calmed their minds.

Their complexions gradually returned to normal, and just then another large fish swam past beneath their feet in the river water.

As before, the fish was huge; standing on the river surface above it, the people appeared like splashing water droplets, seeming exceedingly small.

Throughout the process, the fish paid no heed to the people, as if it felt nothing of their presence.

According to the Second Sequence, the large fish in this river possesses neither spiritual intelligence nor cultivation; it merely moves instinctively in the river, cycling endlessly until death.

In the eyes of the Guo family sequence disciples, this large fish has no value whatsoever, so naturally they did not bother much about it.

But at this moment, after Xu Jie had calmed his emotions, seeing the fish swim past beneath his feet, a strange color flashed in his eyes; he then looked toward Ye Zhangqing, his face full of expectation, and asked.

"Junior brother, do you think this thing could be an ingredient?"

Earlier, because he was astonished by the truth of this great river, Xu Jie had no mind to think about such things.

Now, having gradually accepted the fact, upon seeing the fish swimming in the river again, his mind instantly sprang to life.

He knew well how delicious those Immortal Beast ingredients unique to the Immortal Realm are.

Upon arriving at the Guo family, on the first night he met Ye Zhangqing, Ye Zhangqing specially prepared several Immortal Beast dishes to welcome Xu Jie and the others.

That flavor, even though Xu Jie and the others were accustomed to Ye Zhangqing's cooking, left them astonished anew.

Indeed, good ingredients truly can elevate the flavor even further.

Unfortunately, Immortal Beast ingredients are precious, and they are all paid for by the Guo family; Ye Zhangqing himself has little, so he cannot let Xu Jie and the others eat without limit.

Usually they rely mainly on cheap demon beast ingredients, and even lack demon race food material.

He had long been yearning for the taste of those Immortal Beast ingredients; now seeing the fish swimming in the river, Xu Jie naturally conceived the idea.

"If this could be used as food, wouldn't it be like picking up something for free? Just one claw of mine and I'd have a fish."

Having spoken, Xu Jie looked at Ye Zhangqing with hopeful anticipation, waiting for his answer before he would act.

"A mere fat fish—when Xu San makes a move, it's not a matter of easily pinching it."

"Right now, only if Ye Zhangqing nods will Xu Jie immediately haul up this fat fish beneath his feet."

But before Ye Zhangqing could answer, the Second Sequence ahead who had heard the words turned first to look at Xu Jie, smiling and shaking his head.

"Daoist Xu, this will likely disappoint you; the fish in the river are innate spiritual beings, different from the myriad races of living beings."

"Therefore they lack spiritual intelligence and cultivation; of course, that is not the point. The main reason this fish is inedible is that its body contains deadly poison, extremely potent—even an Ancestor realm cultivator would struggle to resist it."

"Below the Ancestor realm, touching it means instant death; thus this fish is useless."

Hearing this, Xu Jie felt a bit disappointed—he couldn't eat it, having wasted his daytime anticipation, etc..........

Just as he was thinking, the next second Xu Jie suddenly seemed to realize something.

The star beasts of Zhu Tian Wan Jie also possess deadly poison within their bodies, yet before Ye Zhangqing appeared, no spirit chef had ever used star beasts as ingredients.

But once Ye Zhangqing appeared, the star beasts undoubtedly became a series of delicacies.

Both possess deadly poison, yet the star beasts can be eaten—who says the fish in this river cannot be?

Upon this thought, hope again welled up in Xu Jie's eyes, and he gazed at Ye Zhangqing with fiery intensity.

Faced with Xu Jie's gaze, Ye Zhangqing knew what he was thinking without him needing to speak.

However, for a moment Ye Zhangqing himself was also uncertain.

Because when facing the fish in the river, the system gave no prompt.

In the past, when encountering unseen ingredients, the system would promptly give a hint and directly assign a grade.

For example, demon race food material and star beast ingredients are like that.

Yet this river fish, up to now, the system has shown no reaction at all—perhaps it truly is not an ingredient.

The system had no response, and Ye Zhangqing was also seeing this fish for the first time; thus, faced with Xu Jie's question, Ye Zhangqing could only shake his head and reply truthfully.

"I don't know either."

Indeed he could not be certain; seeing this, Xu Jie thought a moment, then suddenly erupted, lunging with a claw at the fish in the river.

"Heavenly Silk Entwining Heaven Hand."

Only see a massive palm formed by converging spiritual power, suddenly sweeping down from the horizon.

The river surface instantly rolled up towering waves, yet the fish in the water, facing this palm descending from the heavens, showed not the slightest reaction.

Amid the raging wind and towering waves of the river, it continued swimming just as before, unhurried, utterly unaware of the approaching danger.

Or perhaps this creature simply has no notion of danger at all, unconsciously wandering in the water.

The spiritual power giant palm easily seized the water fish, and then, with Xu Jie's low shout,

the fish in the water was instantly lifted into midair.

Although the fish is huge, before the giant palm formed of spiritual power it still appears insignificant.

Moreover, it offered no struggle whatsoever, firmly gripped by the spiritual power palm, still appearing completely unfazed.

"Xu Laosan, what the hell are you doing?"

Just as Xu Jie succeeded in grabbing the swimming fish, a furious shout suddenly rang out from the river surface below.

Looking toward the sound, he saw Zhao Zhengping drenched from head to toe, hair disheveled, stepping on the river surface, his eyes blazing as he glared at Xu Jie, his teeth clenched and clacking.