Guarding the River of Time-Chapter 374 - 364: Has Su Mu Become the Source of Weirdness? Using All Heavens and Myriad Realms to Raise Gu?

Chapter 374: Chapter 364: Has Su Mu Become the Source of Weirdness? Using All Heavens and Myriad Realms to Raise Gu?

The bubbling area was precisely at the end of this polluted tributary.

As he approached, Su Mu reached out and grabbed toward the bubbling water surface.

Then, his fingertips touched something slippery.

Immediately, that slippery thing started to run away.

Run?

Su Mu concentrated, making this part of the waters static, then reached out again and caught it, yanking it out of the water.

It was a pitch-black giant fat catfish, with two pitch-black eyeballs. Looking closely, one could see a hint of black light swirling in its pupils. It was quite large, about 1.2 meters in length, with two long, black-red whiskers on its upper lip.

After capturing this giant fat catfish, the color of this section of water turned slightly lighter. The change was very subtle, but it did not escape Su Mu’s eyes.

Then, after Su Mu released the giant fat catfish back into the water, the color of the water deepened again, returning to its previous blackness.

Seeing this, Su Mu’s eyes lit up.

So... you’re the culprit!

It turns out you’re the one making this waterway so severely polluted!

Su Mu finally found the reason.

Gazing at the giant fat catfish in his hand, a wicked and bold plan welled up in Su Mu’s heart!

He didn’t kill the giant fat catfish but instead put it away.

Soon after, with a wave of his hand, he purified this heavily polluted blackened water area.

[Congratulations, Host! You have purified the waterway, maintaining the stability and peace of the river, Favor Points +7000]

Because this tributary was small, after the entire purification, there were only five thousand Favor Points, but these five thousand were enough to meet today’s quota.

It was getting late; the work for today was done.

...

Early the next day, Su Mu returned to this water area.

Since he had already purified this tributary yesterday, now the tributary’s river was clear and clean. Even within just one night, some beneficial green algae had grown, and some fish happily leaped out of the water, forming a stark contrast to the dead atmosphere of the previous day.

Looking at the tributary, Su Mu felt a bit conflicted.

Isn’t doing this a bit too much... violating his principle of maintaining river courses?

After a long period of bitter internal struggle, Su Mu decided to proceed.

He took out the giant fat catfish he caught yesterday from his sleeve; after a night of fear, its eyes had become clear, afraid that Su Mu might kill it.....

Taking a deep breath, Su Mu threw the giant fat catfish into the water.

Since he had left a mark on it beforehand, he wasn’t worried about it getting lost.

As the fat catfish entered the water.

The tributary’s water visibly darkened slightly; it had an effect almost immediately after it was thrown in.

To prevent the fat catfish from running to other tributaries, Su Mu reinforced the stone dam at the boundary.

Having done all this, Su Mu clapped his hands and left the tributary, continuing to patrol the river course.

.....

A few days later.

Su Mu returned to the tributary.

He found the tributary’s water had turned "grey" in such a short time. The pollution ability of this giant fat catfish was incredibly strong.

This is like a walking malignant tumor!

At this moment, Su Mu waved his hand and caught the fat catfish again.

Once more, he purified the water area.

[Congratulations, Host! You have purified the waterway, maintaining stability and peace of the river, Favor Points +2000]

However, this time, there were only two thousand points, last time there were seven thousand.

It’s likely because this time the pollution was not as severe, plus there were some artificial factors involved, so the Favor Points were halved.

Still, in this short time, earning two thousand Favor Points was equivalent to half a day’s work.

...

So, what Su Mu did was essentially using another "medium" to indirectly cause pollution, then purifying it himself, taking advantage of a system bug.

This is why Su Mu felt extremely conflicted.

After all.... he could easily just kill the giant polluting fat catfish and eliminate the root cause.

Mainly, now that it’s been over a year since the flood, most of the benefits have been reaped, and it’s very hard to earn Favor Points each day.

Su Mu was also eager to leave this dreadful place, so.... he had to think of ways, taking some shortcuts.

However, Su Mu had his limits.

He would control the degree of pollution.

Only when the water turned "black" would it affect the fish in the river.

Su Mu would purify the river when the water remained "grey," so as not to harm the fish in the water and still earn Favor Points.

In this way, Su Mu used this black catfish as a tool to earn Favor Points.

Every now and then, he would come here to purify the water area and harvest, essentially earning some extra cash.

To comfort the little fish suffering in the river, Su Mu would feed a small piece of the Medicinal Fruit from his vegetable garden during each purification, dividing it into several portions to feed into the water, seeing which fish was lucky enough to snatch it.

Since Su Mu’s medicinal garden had grown quite large, with an overflow of Great Medicine Spirit Fruits, he couldn’t consume or use them all.

A piece of ordinary Spirit Fruit could be divided into three feedings, with one-third fed each time.

These Spirit Fruits were very ordinary to Su Mu, but the energy contained within them was too much for the ordinary fish in the river; it wasn’t that Su Mu was stingy with feeding more, but if they ate too much, they would explode!

Wouldn’t that be like feeding them explosives?

And indeed, after Su Mu fed them a few times, a few decent Treasure Fish were born in the river.

However, Su Mu didn’t bother with catching these Treasure Fish; he was no longer the person he once was, relying on the Treasure Fish for cultivation. But if he encountered an exceptionally fine Treasure Fish, he would still catch it.

But nowadays, there were very few Treasure Fish that caught Su Mu’s eye.

Sometimes patrolling for a month, he would only encounter two or three Treasure Fish that he deemed worthy, bringing them home to raise in his water cellar.

...

Sigh, if only there were more of these giant fat catfish.

In this way, Su Mu’s progress in earning Favor Points would be greatly accelerated.

That day.

Su Mu patrolled to a larger tributary.

As soon as he stepped into this tributary, a foul smell hit him.

Looking closely, my goodness, this tributary had become a shining black and reeked with many rotting fish carcasses floating on the river’s surface.

However, upon seeing this, Su Mu’s eyes lit up.

Just as he was about to purify it.

He noticed some movement at the end of the tributary.

Upon closer inspection, although there were no bubbles, he could sense something beneath the water.

Could it be another new giant fat catfish?!

Immediately, Su Mu reached out to grab it.

The next second, he felt something hard, and then his finger seemed to be bitten by a mosquito.