From Family Fisherman to Water Virtue True Immortal-Chapter 28: Pest Extermination

The youth's words were filled with sincerity, and for a moment, the fish pond was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop.

Li Quanshu's smile stiffened on her face: "Junior Brother, although you are handsome, you actually don't need to speak."

Li Quanqing felt wronged: "Senior Sister, that hurts my feelings. I always respected you like Elder Brother Quanlin!"

Li Quanshu couldn't be bothered with him: "Open the array, is it because of demon worms causing mischief, making the big green fish aggressive and increasing their desire to attack?"

Li Quanqing nodded, somewhat hesitant: "Senior Sister, those bugs are quite difficult to deal with."

"Keep your cool, I'm confident."

The young girl stood at the bow, her robe fluttering in the sea breeze, her eyebrows soaring, looking valiant and formidable.

As soon as she entered the array, with a splash, a big green fish infected with parasites leaped out of the water, hurtling towards her like a cannonball.

Li Quanshu's expression remained unchanged, and with a wave of her hand, the temperature where her mana passed dropped sharply, instantly forming a layer of cold ice on the seawater.

Crack! Crack!

The cold surged, the ice spread, and after a few struggles, the big green fish was frozen solid in the thick, hard ice.

"Ice-based cultivation method!"

Li Quanqing's eyes widened in astonishment; the young girl had actually switched from her original practice of the "Cloud Water Technique."

Wind, thunder, and ice, as the most notable of the three abnormal spirit roots, have very few matching cultivation methods. It was a wonder where she got this from.

"Water and Fire Spiritual Roots are naturally conflicting, making cultivation difficult. My father, after much effort, finally found the 'Ice Clearing Technique.'"

"He hopes that with the power of ice, I can completely suppress my Fire Spirit Root, indeed making my cultivation much smoother than before."

A bone-chilling coldness hit him, stirring some desire in Li Quanqing.

For low-rank cultivators, water magic indeed had much weaker offensive power compared to ice.

Li Quanshu looked amused: "Junior Brother, do you want to learn as well? Although this cultivation technique doesn't include a Foundation Establishment Chapter, it's powerful enough for us."

When Li Quanqing heard this, he immediately gave up the idea.

Chirp! Chirp!

The big green fish trapped in the ice couldn't move, and soon, the painful, piercing buzz of the bugs could be heard as the cold seeped in.

The green scales bulged, and one by one, the monster-transforming worms wriggled out, slender like hooks, making one's scalp tingle just by looking.

Their fierce jaws opened wide, full of saw-like teeth, beginning to gnaw at the ice, making a rustling sound like silkworms eating mulberry leaves.

"These demon worms are extremely afraid of the cold, we can use it to force them out of the big green fish's body, minimizing the loss to the fishermen."

Li Quanqing thought of the moonlight condensed by the Bright Moon Shells, also belonging to Taiyin Objects, which naturally had a restraining effect.

The young girl watched unwaveringly, then suddenly sighed deeply, "What a pity..."

With dozens of monster-transforming worms emerging, the entire big green fish suddenly cracked, its body splitting into pieces.

The boiling demon blood stained the ice layer red; the once strong and fit fish, now fragile as though made of paper.

The tails of those worms had completely fused into the backbone of the green fish, forming segments of green bone mingled with flesh, trailing behind its body.

Only a large fish head remained, staring with wide eyes, mouth gaping, futile and helpless.

Seeing this skin-crawling scene, Li Quanqing felt a sudden aching in his old waist.

"This fish is beyond saving."

Li Quanshu concluded firmly and gently pressed down.

Crack! Crack!

The ice layer collapsed entirely, the cold bursting forth, freezing the worms together with the big green fish into icy chunks.

They stood on lotus platforms, guarded by arrays, quickly bustling in the fish pond.

Some big green fish had been recently infected, their skeletal system not yet assimilated by the demon worms.

Just a push with the cold was needed to drive the worms out of the fish's belly.

As soon as the worms exited the ice, Li Quanqing immediately applied the Geng Metal Sword Qi, chopping them into minced flesh, cutting off all signs of life.

At this time, Li Quanshu would thaw the ice layer and release the badly frozen big green fishes, at least saving their lives.

Golden Finger by his side, any big green fishes that were not completely rid of worms would be singled out and executed on the spot.

One day went by, and they had dealt with a total of five hundred big green fishes, with only a mere seventy or eighty that could be saved.

"What a heavy loss!"

Li Quanqing crushed a few green fish scales, brittle as decayed rotten wood, his heart bleeding.

Monster Transformation worms that parasitize the spine and skeleton would, when on the brink of death, swallow up all the essence within the host, leaving nothing behind.

Those dead big green fishes really died in vain.

Flesh and essence qi, fish scales and bones, all served to nourish these worms.

Li Quanqing grieved over the loss of spirit sand and Spirit Stones, but he grieved even more for those unharvested rewards of Light Groups.

Unexpectedly, those Stone Spirit Loaches, lacking fish scales and possessing a layer of skin harder than rock itself,

miraculously escaped the calamity.

"The loss is indeed not small, but to call it a tragedy, Junior Brother, you're not quite there yet."

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Li Quanshu sat cross-legged on the other side of the reef, holding a Spirit Stone and cultivating under the moonlight to recover the Mana extensively expended during the day.

"The infestation in Zone B's fish pond, now that was terrifying. There were even Green Jade Carps parasitized, hollowed out completely, and out flew Demon Butterflies of the Qi Refining Realm!"

The scene was truly horrifying, with Demon Butterflies swarming, covering the sky and blocking the sun, breeding new life upon the corpses of the spirit fish.

The big green fishes hadn't even started their Devil Immortal dreams before their insides were hollowed out, their efforts only contributing to others' gains.

Hearing that even the Foundation Establishment members of the Li Family were alerted, instructions were given to the clan's upper echelon to temporarily seal the news, wanting to identify the orchestrator behind the scenes.

However, Li Quanqing felt the chances were slim.

Those Elders hadn't even figured out the names and origins of these worms.

"During this period, all family Cultivators of the Cold Ice Path have been secretly summoned, but there are simply too few."

"Fortunately, with the assistance of a large number of Ice Attribute Talismans, we've managed to prevent the infestation in Zone B's fish pond from worsening."

Li Quanshu lay on a rock, teasing the Iron Bone Crab, tapping the water's surface with the tips of her toes, her delicate brows carrying a rare fatigue:

"But since you've found Demon Worms here too, I fear that the other fish ponds will hardly avoid disaster!"

The young girl's conjecture wasn't wrong. In just two days' time,

the infestation began to break out one after another across Zone B's fish ponds spanning hundreds of miles, causing an uproar among the whole clan, with faces filled with sorrow.

With time pressing and tasks heavy, after resolving Li Quanqing's issues,

Li Quanshu didn't even get a chance to rest before she proceeded to other areas under family arrangement, continuing the great task of pest extermination.

Looking at the empty fish pond, where big green fishes swam leisurely through the water in twos and threes,

Li Quanqing felt somewhat unaccustomed for a moment.

Slurp! Slurp!

Discordant noises rose, timely breaking the sorrowful atmosphere.

The Iron Bone Crab King was holding a Monster Transformation worm with its pincers, eating it with relish and excitement.

Like munching on spicy strips, he swallowed whole ones and tapped the rock surface nonstop with his crab legs, making a tapping sound.

The other Iron Bone Crabs were also competing, some slurping on the same worm until – pop – the worm's body snapped in two, its juices flowing everywhere.

"Is it really that delicious?"

Li Quanqing was actually somewhat curious.

These were the frozen dead worm bodies he had suddenly thought to save some of and try feeding to the Iron Bone Crabs.

The results were surprisingly good.

[You have gained a Qi Refining Early Stage Iron Bone Crab, rewarded with one High Grade Vajra Charm!]

After eating a few "spicy strips," the Iron Bone Crab King finally reached maturity.