"Young man, hello. My name is Xiao Qinghai, and this is my daughter, Xiao Feifei! Here's my business card. If you get any more of this good stuff, notify me first. The price will only go up, never down!"
As Xiao Qinghai spoke, he handed Ye Feng a business card. Ye Feng took it and his eyes widened.
On the business card was a name and contact information, but what shocked Ye Feng were the six large characters above the name and contact details: General Manager of Dragon King Hall.
What was Dragon King Hall? It was the most high-end, most luxurious restaurant in the entire Dongchuan City, bar none.
It was a gathering place for countless wealthy and powerful individuals, and a place that countless ordinary people dreamed of entering.
He never expected that this middle-aged man, who looked so ordinary, was actually the General Manager of Dragon King Hall.
After a moment of surprise in his heart, Ye Feng put away the business card and said, "Okay! Thank you, boss!"
With that, Ye Feng didn't linger and went straight home, eager to understand the miraculous encounter he had just experienced.
Back home, after giving the small fish and shrimp he had found to his mother, Ye Feng immediately retreated to his room.
Ye Feng sat cross-legged on the bed, closed his eyes, and carefully felt the golden, shining trident in his mind.
The next moment, countless characters appeared on the trident, with four large characters being particularly conspicuous: "Sea God's Cultivation Method."
Ye Feng eagerly studied it in detail, then began to cultivate according to the descriptions. Time flew by.
In the blink of an eye, it was the next morning.
Ye Feng slowly opened his eyes, and a golden light flashed in them.
"Sea God's Cultivation Method, first layer, finally cultivated successfully!" Ye Feng said excitedly, feeling a warm current emanating from his dantian.
After a night passed, Ye Feng hadn't slept at all, but he felt incredibly energetic and full of vitality. This was because he had successfully cultivated the Sea God's Cultivation Method to the first layer, inheriting a small portion of the Sea God's divine power.
The Sea God's Cultivation Method had a total of ten layers. With each layer cultivated, one would inherit a portion of the Sea God's divine power sealed within the trident and gain corresponding abilities.
Having successfully cultivated the first layer, Ye Feng felt that his entire body had undergone a great transformation.
The most obvious external change was his physique. He had become much stronger, feeling as if he had inexhaustible strength, and his power was at least two to three times greater than before.
However, what excited Ye Feng the most was that after cultivating the first layer of the Sea God's Cultivation Method, he had gained an ability called Underwater Detection.
This ability allowed him to see everything within a hundred meters in the seawater, regardless of water quality or turbidity.
Moreover, as the Sea God's power he inherited grew stronger, this ability would continue to enhance.
Ye Feng was extremely excited to gain this ability. With such a capability, would he ever worry about not catching fish again?
As soon as it was light, Ye Feng didn't even eat breakfast. He grabbed his bucket and tools and ran to the seaside.
The seaside in the morning was exceptionally deserted, and the tide had not yet receded. There wasn't a soul around.
Ye Feng arrived at the seaside, took off his clothes and pants, and jumped in. The cold seawater submerged his entire body, but he felt nothing at all.
On the contrary, Ye Feng not only didn't feel the coldness after entering the seawater, but he felt extremely comfortable, as if he had returned home to warmth.
"Underwater Detection, activate!" Ye Feng whispered in his mind.
The next second, he saw a miraculous scene. The seawater within a hundred meters, centered on him, was crystal clear.
All sorts of fish swam leisurely, moving up and down, full of joy; long seaweed grew from the seabed, swaying left and right in the water as if dancing; and the various reefs on the seabed were strangely shaped, colorful, and in myriad poses...
All of this was clearly presented in Ye Feng's mind, stunning him for a moment before he erupted in joy.
With this ability, why bother looking for a job? He could just catch fish and sell them.
Where on Earth were the most abundant resources? Of course, it was in the sea!
Oceans occupied two-thirds of the entire planet, and their resources were practically inexhaustible.
Ye Feng was excited for a while before calming down and preparing to show off his skills.
He looked up and saw a school of mullet swimming leisurely in front of him, seemingly unafraid of him.
"Hmph, daring to be so leisurely in front of me, the great me! I'll start with you!" Ye Feng said, pushing off with his legs and giving chase.
But after a few minutes, he was dumbfounded because the fish were swimming too fast, and he couldn't catch up at all.
"Damn it, I'm exhausted! They swim so damn fast!"
Ye Feng had thought that with the Underwater Detection ability, catching fish would be easy!
However, reality told him that he had thought too much!
Although he could move freely in the water as if he were in the air, without being restricted by breathing, and could clearly see everything within a hundred meters underwater.
But the fish he saw underwater were like birds he saw on land; he couldn't catch them with his bare hands.
"Damn it, it seems I still need tools!" Ye Feng muttered to himself.
Understanding this, Ye Feng immediately went ashore to get his tools and went back into the water.
"Those fish swim too fast, I'll catch some slower ones!" Ye Feng said helplessly, looking at the many mullet swimming around in front of him.
This time, he wasn't so reckless, as he already knew that even with tools, he couldn't catch up to those fish.
After entering the water, he activated the detection function and carefully searched the seawater.
As he slowly descended in the water, he saw more and more types of fish.
Before long, he found his target. About thirty meters in front of him, under a rock, a fish estimated to weigh four to five pounds had half its body sticking out of the rock crevice, looking like a grouper.
Ye Feng immediately swam over quietly, then extended his clamp and carefully grabbed the grouper.
When he pulled the fish out of the water, he was stunned. It was a Coral Trout!
Coral Trout, while not the most expensive of all groupers, was definitely one of the most expensive.
This was because the price of groupers varied in different regions, seasons, and even among individuals.
However, the price of Coral Trout remained high everywhere, especially wild Coral Trout, which could fetch over three hundred yuan per pound in some restaurants.
This Coral Trout, weighing four to five pounds, was worth over a thousand yuan! Ye Feng was ecstatic.
However, what almost drove him mad was the scene he saw the next second.
Just as he was happily holding the Coral Trout, preparing to take it ashore, he suddenly noticed that about ten meters away, under a large rock, seven or eight lobsters were having a "meeting."
These lobsters were about half a meter long, with green bodies and slightly blue cephalothoraxes. Their antennae and walking legs had conspicuous pale yellow and black bands, and the dorsal middle of each abdominal segment, including the tail stalk, had wide black transverse bands. Their antennae and walking legs had alternating blackish-brown and yellow stripes, and the base of their antennae had four pairs of spines, with the posterior pair being smaller...
Seeing this, Ye Feng's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but swallow. "Gulp, my heavens, this, this is a Chinese Spiny Lobster?"