Chapter 153: Temptation Potion

Xu Feng’s words seemed to hurt Luo Jing’s pride.

“I know a place where you can hunt high-level sea monsters, and that place can drop high-quality fish eggs, but do you dare to go?” Luo Jing’s face turned slightly red as he yelled, straining his neck, trying hard to act disdainful.

Xu Feng smiled and said, “If I don’t try, how would I know if I can hunt them? What if I manage to hunt high-quality fish eggs? Wouldn’t you get a share too?”

Luo Jing’s expression kept changing, sometimes hesitant, sometimes determined. After thinking for a long time, he slowly nodded and said, “I can take you to hunt for high-quality fish eggs, but I want half of all the loot, witnessed by the Earth’s Will!”

Xu Feng smiled and said, “Witnessed by the Earth’s Will!”

A faint golden light appeared out of thin air, turning into two strange symbols that then imprinted on their foreheads and disappeared.

Originally, Xu Feng only wanted to buy fish eggs, using his past life experience to pick some high-quality ones and take a gamble. With his experience, the chance of selecting high-quality fish eggs was quite high. Moreover, Three-Star Elite fish eggs had a very special characteristic: at the center of the egg, there was a blurry image the size of a fingernail. This image was the monster that would hatch from the egg. This was why Xu Feng was confident he could select enough piranha fish eggs to protect the Village of Sacrifice.

The fish eggs were originally semi-transparent, and from the outside, they looked murky. The appearance of that image was fleeting and easily overlooked. If you didn’t know about it, it was hard to notice. Also, only Three-Star Elite fish eggs had this phenomenon; other fish eggs did not. Unless someone had deep research on fish eggs, it was difficult to discover this phenomenon.

Luo Jing led the way, and Xu Feng followed behind.

The direction Luo Jing was heading was not toward the beach but away from it, seemingly toward a forest.

Xu Feng frowned slightly. This place was nearly ten kilometers away from that dense forest—how could there be monsters there that could drop fish eggs?

However, Xu Feng did not voice his doubts and just quietly followed Luo Jing, waiting for the truth to be revealed.

Soon, Luo Jing led Xu Feng into the forest. The forest was not a safe place either; it had many monsters.

Luckily, there were no very high-level ones. Most were One Star or Two Stars monsters, and Three-Star monsters were rare. When these monsters encountered Xu Feng and Luo Jing, they just glanced at them and quickly left. They knew these two were not food but danger.

“Are you sure it’s here?” Xu Feng asked as they walked, seeing the forest becoming denser.

“Heh, I’ve been waiting for you to ask, but you’re too patient—only asking now.” Luo Jing laughed and pointed ahead, saying, “We’re almost there. There’s a valley ahead, and it’s almost all seawater inside. The fish eggs are obtained from there.”

Xu Feng nodded, and the two quickly arrived at the valley Luo Jing mentioned.

From the outside, this valley was not visible at all. The trees were lush, covering the entire view of the valley. Only a narrow path led to the inside of the valley.

The two followed this narrow path into the valley. Sure enough, the valley was filled with rippling seawater. Xu Feng tasted it—it was salty and bitter, no different from seawater.

“I suspect the bottom of this valley is connected to the ocean outside, and the passage is quite large. But I haven’t gone down to check. The monsters here are mostly Three Stars or even Four Stars. If you want to hunt them, you must be prepared to be eaten by them.” Luo Jing pointed at a fish monster leaping out of the water in the valley.

“How do you hunt these fish monsters? By going into the water?” Xu Feng asked curiously.

Xu Feng observed for a while and noticed that the fish monsters here were few, but most had large bellies. They all stayed deep in the seawater; their figures were completely invisible from the shore.

Luo Jing shook his head and smiled. “In the water, I’m no match for these fish monsters. Even a Two-Star Strength fish monster can rival an ordinary Three-Star monster in the water. I’m simply not their opponent.”

Xu Feng nodded. He had also hunted monsters in lake water before. In water, monsters’ Strength and speed were greatly enhanced. Unless necessary, Xu Feng didn’t like hunting monsters in lakes either.

“I have a way to lure them up, but I can’t guarantee what type of fish monster will come up—it’s purely up to luck.” Luo Jing said with a bitter smile.

Often, what he lured up were fish monsters beyond Two Star Peak. This valley was narrow and not suitable for kiting tactics. Once they lost the advantage of terrain, Luo Jing, as a Hunter, would be at a great disadvantage.

“Lure them up? How?” Xu Feng asked.

“Heh, just watch.” Luo Jing smiled mysteriously.

Luo Jing went to a small ditch and first looked around. Then he widened the connection between the ditch and the seawater lake in the valley. The water in the ditch gradually increased and soon overflowed.

At this point, Luo Jing carefully took out a small paper packet from his backpack. He opened it to reveal some white powder.

Xu Feng frowned slightly. Although he was far away, he could still smell a faint but lasting fragrance. The scent was subtle and refreshing, but after smelling it for a while, it started to feel somewhat fishy and cloying.

“Alchemy?” A spark of insight flashed in Xu Feng’s mind, and he suddenly spoke.

Luo Jing turned back and smiled. This kind of potion could only be made through alchemy.

“That’s right. I was lucky. After discovering this place, I found a Silver Treasure Chest in the forest. It contained a potion recipe, and I learned how to make this Temptation Potion.” Luo Jing said.

He sprinkled the Temptation Potion into the small ditch. Soon, the potion dissolved into the water and disappeared. As the waves rippled, the water in the ditch and the water in the valley’s seawater lake continuously mixed together.

“We need to wait a bit. Let’s step back—we don’t know what fish monster will come out yet.” Luo Jing said.

The two retreated behind a large rock and waited quietly.

After a short while, roars of fish monsters came from the seawater lake. The lake seemed to boil, churning as fish monsters leaped out of the water one after another, scrambling to swim toward the small ditch.

“Be careful. If we go out now, we’ll be seen as stealing food and attacked by all the fish monsters.” Luo Jing whispered.

Thump, thump, thump~

Fish monsters kept being overtaken by those behind them. The stronger fish monsters used their bodies to push the weaker ones aside. Only then did Xu Feng understand that in such competition, only the powerful monsters could swim to the small ditch. Encountering a slightly weaker fish monster was purely luck.

“Three-Star, Three-Star, Three-Star Peak… Oh my, Four Stars!” Luo Jing widened his eyes, watching the fish monsters frantically swimming toward the small ditch in surprise.

The small ditch Luo Jing expanded was not large—less than one square meter. The fish monsters swimming at the front were each over two meters long. Once they swam into the small ditch, they would surely get stranded. Yet, the fish monsters still rushed recklessly to “commit suicide.”