The Celestial Race of Destiny: Starting with Farming and Fish Raising

Chapter 33 Hatching the Mystic Water Catfish

Meihua Village is quite far from Yaxi Village, and it was getting late, so Su Qingyan and his group camped and rested for the night on the way, and did not return to their new house until noon the next day.

With so many people, and all being ordinary people, their journey was naturally much slower than when Su Qingyan traveled alone. Fortunately, they all arrived at their destination safely.

Then, the couple spent half a day settling the newly joined servants and guards into their Su family and briefly explained their daily tasks.

After finishing our work, the sun was already close to setting.

The couple returned to their meditation room and embraced tightly.

for a long time.

Under the watchful eye of his wife, Zhang Hui, Su Qingyan recounted the dangers and gains he had experienced on this journey.

"Don't take such big risks to gamble on that opportunity again."

"If you hadn't provoked that demonic cultivator this time, there wouldn't have been any subsequent crisis."

"If we don't have the opportunity, we'll cultivate ourselves slowly."

"To me, your life is more important than anything else," Zhang Hui said, staring into Su Qingyan's eyes with deep affection and seriousness.

"It won't happen again next time, my wife, you know me. I'm a person who values ​​my life very much," Su Qingyan assured him.

Nothing happened that night.

The next day, Su Qingyan led Mei Dong and her brother, as well as Xiao Huihui, through the entire process of cultivating red ginseng, and provided detailed guidance and explanations.

Now that there are more servants in the household, Su Qingyan plans to gradually let go of these repetitive tasks and let his subordinates do them. He wants to devote more time to cultivation and other more profitable things, so as to accumulate the family's foundation in cultivation more efficiently.

After arranging the cultivation of red ginseng, Su Qingyan went to the fishpond outside the cultivation room. Looking at the rich spiritual energy in the fishpond, he felt more confident about raising spirit fish.

However, after taking the spirit fish eggs out of the spirit beast bag, he felt at a loss as to what to do next.

He didn't know how to hatch these spirit fish eggs.

What to do when you're unsure what to do?

Su Qingyan immediately invited his wife, Zhang Hui, who had ten years of experience living in a cultivation family, to come out.

Faced with the arduous task of hatching spirit fish eggs, Zhang Hui was also a little nervous. She first gave Su Qingyan a "precautionary warning," saying, "I've only seen some simple explanations about cultivating spirit fish and hatching spirit fish eggs in some miscellaneous books."

"This is just theoretical; if it fails, don't blame me."

Hearing that his wife actually had a solution, Su Qingyan was overjoyed and urged, "Then give it a try! It doesn't matter if you fail, you'll make a fortune if you succeed!"

With her husband's encouragement, Zhang Hui explained in detail: "For spirit fish eggs, replenishing spiritual energy is the most important thing. Sufficient spiritual energy can promote the rapid development of spirit fish fry inside the eggs."

"In addition, the environment is also very important. It cannot be too cold or too hot. The water in the pond must be flowing water, as stagnant water will suffocate the fish eggs. The water quality cannot be too poor either; clear spring water is better."

"However, we have the source of the spiritual spring, so we don't need to worry about the water quality."

"In other aspects... the spiritual energy in the cultivation room is sufficient, and the water is also flowing water, but the environment is too cold, and the spirit fish eggs definitely cannot withstand it."

After listening to his wife Zhang Hui's account, Su Qingyan summarized and analyzed the information in his mind.

The general conclusion is that hatching these spirit fish eggs requires four conditions: sufficient spiritual energy, suitable temperature, flowing water (that is, sufficient oxygen content in the water), and excellent water quality.

Now that we know the conditions for hatching spirit fish eggs, the rest is very easy.

That same day, Su Qingyan went to the village, found someone to get some oak stone, and spent nearly a week building a small incubation room next to the fishpond.

The reason why the training room is cold is because the walls of the oak stone insulate against the heat brought by the sunlight.

Therefore, based on this principle, if Su Qingyan burns a fire in the small incubation room, the heat can be well retained in the room by the Qinggang stone walls, and the constant temperature effect can be maintained very well.

The temperature condition is easily met.

The issues of water quality and oxygen content are also easily resolved. Fresh water is drawn directly from the spring, flows through a small hatching chamber, and finally into the fishpond, thus satisfying these two conditions.

Finally, there's the issue of spiritual energy.

Su Qingyan decided to splurge this once, directly crushing spirit stones and placing them under the spirit fish eggs, making the concentration of spiritual energy around the eggs even higher than at the mouth of the spirit spring.

At this point, all four conditions for hatching the spirit fish eggs have been met.

"I've been working tirelessly and sparing no expense to incubate you all."

"You two should also try your best to hatch successfully." After all the facilities in the small incubation room were set up, Su Qingyan spoke kindly to the group of spirit fish eggs.

These spirit fish eggs certainly don't understand or hear anything.

Of course, Su Qingyan was just seeking psychological comfort.

On the third day, the fish eggs in the small incubator gradually adapted to the new environment and began to show new changes, appearing to be very active.

When Su Qingyan came in to check, he found that a small portion of the broken spirit stones placed under the spirit fish eggs had been absorbed.

On the seventh day, the spirit fish eggs became fully active. The thick gelatinous membrane on their bodies began to function, like a sponge, greedily absorbing the spiritual energy in the water, and soon absorbed all the broken spirit stones that Su Qingyan had just replaced.

At this moment, the originally jet-black surface of the spirit fish eggs began to shimmer with a layer of oily, bluish luster, a sign of saturated spiritual energy.

On the tenth day, the fish eggs had noticeably increased in size. The outer transparent membrane had absorbed water and swelled, becoming bouncy like jelly. Su Qingyan gently touched them with his fingers and could feel a faint but powerful pulsation inside—a sign that the little life was growing. Occasionally, he could also hear soft "pop, pop" sounds, as the tiny catfish inside the eggs were practicing breathing by swallowing and exhaling water.

At the fifteenth stage, the color of the spirit fish eggs turned into a strange lead-gray, which was a manifestation of melanin settling on the surface of the fry's bodies.

Su Qingyan, who possessed the talent of "Master of Fishing," had a vague premonition that these spirit fish eggs would soon hatch successfully.

Finally, on the morning of the sixteenth day, a ray of sunlight shone through the crack in the door of the Qinggang stone house into the incubation room, and the largest of the cluster of spirit fish eggs finally burst open. There was no blood or flesh flying everywhere; the black membrane instantly melted away, turning into a pure black stream of spirit energy, which was swallowed whole by the newborn spirit fish.

Su Qingyan, who came to observe and record, noticed that the newly hatched fry were only the size of a little finger, and their bodies were translucent charcoal black, which looked very similar to the black catfish he had met in the Blackwater Pool that day.

These are undoubtedly young catfish fry.

Su Qingyan's guess at the time was correct.

"Snap!"

A crisp cracking sound rang out, and the hard fragments of spirit stone at the bottom of the pool were easily chewed up and swallowed by the Xuan Shui catfish fry!

Immediately afterwards, a second, a third... dozens of black catfish fry hatched.

Unlike ordinary fish fry that frantically scatter, they floated neatly in the water, their thousands of golden vertical pupils all turning towards Su Qingyan at the edge of the pond... as if waiting to be fed.

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