Chapter 391

Chapter 391: This Fish is Yours

At the bottom of this lake, a strange figure swayed continuously.

This was the scene Xu Ming saw with his Dao Pattern Eyes; naturally, the others couldn’t see it.

“Your eyes look pretty cool. What kind of magic is that?”

Ao Yiner, sitting next to Xu Ming, asked curiously.

The red patterns in Xu Ming’s eyes gave off an unusual beauty.

Though Ao Yiner hadn’t been to many places, as a woman of the Dragon Clan, her knowledge was definitely higher than most people’s. She had seen many different eye techniques.

But she had never seen this type of eye technique before.

“Sorry, it’s a bloodline limit. Not for outsiders,” Xu Ming casually made up an excuse and lied.

Ao Yiner: “???”

“Stingy!” Ao Yiner huffed and turned away, and Xu Ming didn’t pay attention to her.

He wasn’t lying to her. After all, these Dao Pattern Eyes were indeed a special kind of spell, equivalent to something directly applied to oneself, and there was no way to pass it on. Isn’t it almost identical to bloodline-based techniques?

Xu Ming turned around and continued staring at the lake surface. What he cared about most right now was the thing down below.

A shadow kept moving around.

It circled around Ao Jin’s fishing hook again and again.

Xu Ming sneakily glanced at Ao Jin.

At this moment, Ao Jin looked very serious. Even beads of cold sweat appeared on his forehead. He was highly focused, his mouth moving slightly, as if reciting some incantation.

Xu Ming decided to stop him.

This Ao Jin was secretly doing something suspicious, which probably wasn’t good. If it were something righteous, why wouldn’t he do it openly?

Of course, there was also the possibility that he just wanted some treasure and didn’t want others to know beforehand.

But that didn’t matter either.

Opportunities are originally ownerless.

Who gives you the right to say all these things belong to you? If we must say who they belong to, then they can only belong to the Dragon Empress.

After all, you’re in her territory! Just as the strange figure circled a few times and seemed ready to bite, Xu Ming tapped his fishing rod.

A strand of Sword Qi from Xu Ming’s rod fell downward, following the line into the depths of the lake, finally blooming at the fishhook.

That figure, sensing the sharp Sword Qi, got startled and swam away.

Ao Jin, who was almost successful, glanced at Xu Ming. Xu Ming still looked calm, as if nothing had happened.

Ao Jin wondered if it was his own problem, so he continued fishing, muttering the spell again.

Not long after, that strange figure, without learning its lesson, swam toward the fishhook again.

Ao Jin became serious once more, feeling confident that he would succeed this time.

But Xu Ming released the Sword Qi again.

It was scared away once more.

Ao Jin glanced at Xu Ming again, retracted the hook, changed the bait, and threw it in another direction, trying to stay far away from Xu Ming’s hook.

Xu Ming just smiled, retracted his hook, and threw it again, landing not far from Ao Jin’s hook.

When that figure approached again, Xu Ming released the Sword Qi once more, driving it away.

At this point, Ao Jin was completely sure—it was all Xu Ming’s doing!

Ao Jin didn’t know how this man figured out his sneaky actions, but one thing was clear: this guy’s purpose was to prevent him from catching it! “Could he be someone from the Dragon Empress?”

“Could the Dragon Empress know what I’m planning and sent him to stop me?”

Ao Jin guessed in his heart.

But soon, Ao Jin dismissed his guess.

“No! That’s impossible! There’s absolutely no way my plan could have been discovered by the Dragon Empress. Moreover, if she knew, she would have appeared herself instead of sending someone to stop me. It’s like a ‘warning.’”

“So why? Whose person is he? Which faction wants to stop me?”

Ao Jin was completely baffled.

And he couldn’t even talk about this matter, leaving him no choice but to endure the other’s “annoyance.”

The others had already noticed the oddity between Ao Jin and Xu Ming. Wherever Ao Jin fished, Xu Ming’s hook would appear beside Ao Jin’s.

It seemed like the two were competing over a few fish.

“Brother Xu is truly… youthful at heart.”

Originally, Ling Bisheng wanted to say, “Brother Xu is really childish.”

But Ling Bisheng thought saying that would make him seem resentful, so he changed his words.

However, the others thought the same thing.

They believed it might be that during the fishing, their competitive spirit suddenly arose, leading them to challenge each other.

Otherwise, why would their hooks be so close together? And wherever the Dragon Clan man’s hook went, Xu Ming’s hook would follow closely.

But Zhu Cici didn’t think so.

Zhu Cici believed Xu Ming must have a reason for doing this.

Even though Zhu Cici hadn’t seen Xu Ming for years, she still didn’t think Xu Ming would be such a boring person.

In Zhu Cici’s view, despite Xu Ming being young, he was much more mature than his peers. Not to mention, Xu Ming had gone through countless life-and-death situations.

As for Ao Yiner, who sat between Xu Ming and Ao Jin, she blinked her eyes.

Ao Yiner looked at her brother beside her, then at Xu Ming beside her, thinking that maybe her brother and Xu Ming were vying for her attention, hence the competition.

If Xu Ming knew what Ao Yiner was thinking, he would definitely ask her how fishing could get her drunk like this?

After several attempts, the literary fortune gathered above the lake water gradually dissipated.

Ao Jin finally gave up.

He knew that as long as Xu Ming was here, there was no way he could catch that thing.

Ao Jin was extremely frustrated. His plan was proceeding smoothly, almost succeeding, but then someone came to stop him.

Yet he couldn’t lash out because what he was doing was indeed something unsavory. He could only grit his teeth and swallow his anger.

“If this continues, neither of us will catch even a single fish,” Ao Jin said with a smile to Xu Ming.

“Oh, that’s not a problem. We’ll still catch one fish.”

Xu Ming casually pulled up, and a large golden-blue fish surfaced.

This fish was called the “Jin Lan Fish,” known for its delicious meat, but it wasn’t particularly valuable.

Holding the fish, Xu Ming asked Ao Jin, “I think Ao Brother won’t be able to catch anything else. How about this fish for you?”