It took Hei Zi and Jimo Ruxue half a day before they finally managed to capture a single golden fish.
Only then did the two of them realize just how far out of reach their earlier claim of "easy" truly was. Forget legendary item fragments — even an Abyssal-grade item was nothing but a pipe dream.
"I already told you, their strength is far too weak. Don't even think about the Dragon's sacred breath; be realistic, or you'll end up with nothing at all." Felot, hovering in midair, chuckled.
In truth, Felot had only offered legendary item fragments to tease Shi Feng and the others.
In the Divine Realm, even legendary item fragments were incredibly precious — worth more than ten times an epic-grade item. With a bit of luck, one might even be able to restore a fragment into a genuine legendary item. There was absolutely no way he would just give one away.
That was precisely why Felot had set a number so impossibly high.
"Damn that old geezer — he was obviously trying to mess with us," Hei Zi cursed through the team chat.
"Captain, what do we do now? Do we give up on the legendary item fragments and the Abyssal-grade items and just aim for Gold-grade rewards instead?" Jimo Ruxue had already given up on exchanging for anything unattainable.
Shi Feng shook his head. "Keep catching the golden fish. I'll try on my own for a bit."
Giving up on obtaining a legendary item fragment was simply out of the question for Shi Feng. Who knew how long it would be before he got another chance at one, and the difficulty would almost certainly be even higher than it was now. If he couldn't even get a legendary item fragment here, how could he ever hope to obtain one in the future?
With his attributes massively boosted, Shi Feng charged straight toward a wandering golden fish.
Slash!
A streak of black light struck the golden fish's soft flank in the blink of an eye. The fish didn't even have time to react before it was hit. A massive damage number — over fourteen hundred — popped up, followed by a normal swing that dealt another eight hundred.
Then Shi Feng's silver Lake Light flared violently. Thunder and flame surged together as three arcs of lightning swept across seven or eight golden fish, producing a cascade of damage numbers: -1056, -1384, -1758.
In an instant, more than six thousand of the golden fish's HP had vanished.
The terrifying damage drew a flicker of surprise into Felot's eyes.
"Not bad at all," Felot stroked his white beard and offered a nod of approval, though he still didn't believe Shi Feng had any chance of earning the Dragon's sacred breath. An Abyssal-grade item, on the other hand, was quite possible.
"Brother Feng!"
"Captain!"
Hei Zi and Jimo Ruxue saw the damage Shi Feng was dealing and forgot to keep attacking the golden fish. Their eyes were filled with nothing but fervor and excitement — with damage this frightening, there was actually a sliver of hope for completing what had seemed impossible.
"Stop staring and keep going," Shi Feng said through the team chat, though his own attacks never slowed.
Shi Feng's ferocious damage sent the golden fish's HP plummeting.
By the time he finally captured it, Shi Feng had taken only about a hundred seconds — roughly two-fifths of the time Hei Zi and Jimo Ruxue had needed.
"Still not enough," Shi Feng murmured with a slight frown.
At this rate, after five hours of nonstop golden fish hunting, he would collect somewhere between a hundred and seventy and a hundred and ninety. That was still a staggering distance from the goal of one thousand.