Silver Dragonfish
Fang Yuan placed the iron dragonfish into treasure yellow heaven and caused a small commotion, and Gu Immortals judged its maker very likely to have very high food path attainment or a food path true inheritance. You Chan took the news as a huge blow. She knew that her earlier work on copper dragonfish had already spent her foundation, so she could not match iron dragonfish alone in the short term. Needing help, she thought of Qin Bai He, owner of white crane sea area and one of Eastern Sea’s six beauties, who kept female lovers inside her Immortal Gu House, Bai He Palace, instead of men. ch. 1483
Qin Bai He agreed to help, but first she grasped You Chan’s hands and declared that You Chan would become empress of her Bai He Palace. You Chan coldly told her to let go and held her to the promise. Qin Bai He let go without forcing her, since the two had already struck their bargain and she knew You Chan could no longer escape it. The two then worked together inside Bai He Palace for more than ten days and succeeded in breeding an iron dragonfish of their own, giving You Chan a breeding method to match Fang Yuan’s. You Chan warned that the seller was very mysterious with very deep food path foundation, and that they had merely drawn level with him, not surpassed him. ch. 1483
Fang Yuan’s third attack, silver dragonfish, carried even more food path dao marks than iron dragonfish and caused a larger commotion in treasure yellow heaven, though other Gu Immortals who investigated found nothing. The new species was an immense blow to both women. After researching it, they found its superiority deeply pressuring, judging that several years of hard work would be needed or there was no hope, and they could not even give the work all their time alongside cultivation and their other duties. You Chan despaired that she could no longer match him and would have to give up the dragonfish business completely, while Qin Bai He, unable to help her, bit her lips until they bled. ch. 1483
An unexpected force then intervened: Heavenly Court, which had never stopped hunting for Fang Yuan, and whose Fairy Zi Wei had been watching the dragonfish sales since the copper dragonfish first appeared. Though not absolutely certain the seller was Fang Yuan, she reasoned that Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s food path inheritance had passed to Shadow Sect’s new leader, and judged that given enough time and resources he would grow into an immense threat. She chose to help You Chan and Qin Bai He secretly. Helping them let her avoid exposing herself while gaining a hidden foothold in Eastern Sea ahead of the coming five regions chaotic war. Heavenly Court was extremely affluent with unfathomably deep foundation, and held many food path inheritances though not the inheritance of its source. With Heavenly Court’s aid the two worked without sleep for dozens of days and created a silver dragonfish of their own, an outcome Fang Yuan had not expected. He had thought silver dragonfish would settle the contest, but the dragonfish business fell into deadlock again. ch. 1483
