The Disabled Tyrant’s Pet Palm Fish [Transmigration] - Chap 49
Chap 49
Ever since Li Yu was famously labeled a “Koi” by Honorable Master Liao Kong in front of the
Emperor, he could no longer be just a regular food ingredient carp. The reward of the already
completed Koi branch mission continuously beckoned its hands at him. Li Yu stubbornly
endured the enticement. Although he has been raised nominally into the same clan as Koi, he still
couldn’t make a grand transformation right under the Emperor and Liao Kong’s eyes. After
returning back to the Jing Estate for several days, Jing-wang’s injury completely recovered. Li
Yu figured there was no one watching right now and finally picked a fine and sunny day to
secretly enter the system for the reward.
He had already learned from the System before that the reward this time would change his outer
appearance again. Li Yu examined the reward full of anticipation. He discovered that the main
reward was split into two parts. One was picking the color of his fish scale again. The choices
were still gold, red, green, silver, and purple. The other part of the reward was a so-called Koi’s
good fortune. The shitty system was extremely stingy and wouldn’t bestow him an all
encompassing good fortune. It only allowed him to increase his luck in three randomly selected
aspects.
Nevertheless, it’s better than nothing. Li Yu was extremely good at comforting himself by now.
Thinking about how he can increase his luck on three different aspects, it’s better than not
increasing anything at all, right?
Even if it was a bit random and he couldn’t pick himself. Anyways, Li Yu first went to pick the
color of his scales. Because he picked gold previously, and gold scales ended up growing on top
of his black base, Li Yu thought that this time, some other color would also grow on top of his
base. He already thought about the three color combination for a long time. This time, he picked
silver. He wanted to be a dazzling cool Koi.
After picking the color, there was no change to his fish body temporarily inside the system. Li
Yu figured it was the same as last time. The effect would only be applied after he exited the
System. He was in no rush. Next, he went to check the increase in luck. The result of the increase
received from the reward was already tabulated. The shitty system listed the three aspects that
increased in luck for him.
1. Face-slapping the villain, Luck 10
2. Food and clothing, Luck 10
3. One shot into the soul, Luck 20
Li Yu: “…….”
He could understand the first two. There seemed to be some kind of strange thing that got mixed
in here in the end. And it got quite an increase too.
Li Yu: Can I ask what does “one shot into the soul” mean?
The system said all mysteriously: “This is an attribute needed to advance special missions. The
more points there are, the easier it is to finish the mission.”
Li Yu: Why did it sound a little weird……However, since it was related to missions, it’s better
to take it. He’ll understand better once it’s put to use in the future.
Li Yu finished receiving the reward and then exited. The first thing he did was looking excitedly
at his fish tail to see if he had already grown silver scales.
With this look, Li Yu got quite a fright. His originally black tail that had a thread of gold has
changed to silver-white with a thread of gold.
Li Yu: “……”
Where did his dazzling, cool mixed color go!
Li Yu swallowed. Don’t tell him, this time the color that he picked wasn’t simply adding another
color on to his fish body but completing changing the base color?
Li Yu swiftly jumped out of the fish tank. Using his tail as a small skateboard, he slid in front of
the bronze mirror in Jing-wang’s room in an instant.
He faced the mirror. A silver colored fish appeared inside it. From afar, the silver white scales
looked just like sparkling and translucent pearl. His stomach and tail still had threads of gold.
Li Yu took a deep breath. He…… a black fish, changed into a silver fish!
Not only his base color, his shape also increased in size and looked more like a Koi. This was
truly worthy to be called the reward of the “become a koi” branch mission. With how he looked
right now, he was pretty much a Koi.
The change this time was even more drastic than when he grew gold scales. Even though Liao
Kong gave him a label before, who knows if Jing-wang could handle this or not.
However, recalling that when he had to pick colors, black wasn’t a choice; this meant it was
foreordained that he could no longer have a normal base color.
Li Yu was a bit worried about Jing-wang’s reaction, afraid that Jing-wang wouldn’t be able to
handle the little black fish suddenly disappearing in exchange for a big silver fish. After
changing, Li Yu didn’t care to swim around. Instead he dove into the fake mountain, hiding
away most of his body, leaving only his fish mouth exposed. He planned to wait until Jing-wang
came over and then reveal himself little by little for Jing-wang to see.
Like this, the shock wouldn’t be too big right?
Along the way, Wang-gonggong came over to feed fish. For once, Li Yu didn’t swim over
delightly after seeing things he loved to eat.
Wang Xi felt it was somewhat strange, but still went along with the fish. Using the jade scepter
again, he pushed the fish food to where the fish was hiding inside the cave so that the fish could
reach it easily.
Li Yu was just starving; this really helped out a lot. Wang Xi only saw a fish mouth flashing out
from the dark. Then the fish food was gone. Vaguely, Wang Xi thought that the fish’s head
looked kind of shiny.
Scratching and rubbing his head, Wang Xi walked away in bewilderment.
When it was time for Jing-wang to appear, Jing-wang already noticed that Xiao Yu had been
staying inside the cave for several hours.
The normally lively and vigorous carp demon suddenly stopped moving; that meant something
fishy was going on. Jing-wang directly reached his hands inside to pull the fish out.
However, after reaching his hand in, Jing-wang discovered that he couldn’t move the fish at all.
Jing-wang: “…….”
Li Yu: QQQ Got stuck again.
This fish already got stuck before. Jing-wang figured that the carp demon’s shape had changed
again. He immediately ordered servants to move the fake mountain and rescued the trapped fish.
In the end, after the fake mountain was moved away, a fish with a pitiful eye expression and
shiny silver scales swam out.
Jing-wang: “…….”
Terrified that his tyrant master wouldn’t recognize him, Li Yu immediately blew a bubble
flatteringly at Jing-wang and then hooked his silver colored tail around Jing-wang’s fingers.
Unexpectedly discovering the huge color change on the fish, no matter how prepared he was
mentally, Jing-wang still needed some time to accept this.
Helpless, Li Yu flipped over and revealed his stomach, showing Jing-wang the gold scale on his
stomach.
Fish is really the same fish as before. The base color just changed, that’s all.
Jing-wang: “…….”
Jing-wang recovered from his shocked state. Raising his hand and hesitating for a moment, he
gave a poke at the fish’s belly.
Li Yu: Ao! This is for you to recognize fish! No poking randomly!
The silver fish rolled around under his palm. Jing-wang then touched its slippery back. Although
the black color changed into silver, the touch still felt the same. The fish’s reaction also didn’t
change. This was Xiao Yu, no mistake.
The little carp spun around twice in the water and saw the tyrant master starting to pet fish again.
Li Yu slightly let out a breath of relief yet at the same time, the bewilderment increased in his
heart.
Why would Jing-wang accept this so quickly?
It was the same as before. When he grew gold scales and increased in size, as the master, wasn’t
Jing-wang way too calm?
Other than calm, Li Yu couldn’t find any other words to describe him. Perhaps this was part of
the protagonist aura? Thinking for a second… if Jing-wang reacted like Ye-shizi and was so
shocked that his jaw dropped, that would seem a bit OOC.
Jing-wang unhesitatingly pulled fish out of the water. After making a comparison, he discovered
that this fish really did grow bigger. Now it was already the size of his lower arm.
At first it was a palm sized little black fish. Then it was a two fists sized black and gold fish.
Now it was a lower arm sized silver and gold fish.
What will be next?
Jing-wang discovered that this fish always managed to surpass his imagination. He was strangely
somewhat expectant.
Because this fish suddenly grew again, the various teacups and fish tanks no longer could be
used. Carrying the fish, Jing-wang quickly walked and placed the fish into the big pond outside
first. Then, he ordered people to hurry up and take out the bigger sized teacups.
Jing-wang had already considered this issue the last time the fish became bigger. It has to be said
that Jing-wang was a person with a very far vision. When he reselected teacups, he even got a
larger size prepared ahead of time. Now, it only needed to be taken out to be used.
Li Yu very quickly received a new red lotus teacup that matched his size.
Jing-wang also took the chance to remind everyone inside the estate, including Wang Xi.
Regarding Xiao Yu’s various changes, he asserted that the fish was the descendent of Koi. With
Liao Kong’s legendary assistance and golden words from the Emperor, no matter what kind of
changes occurred now and in the future, Xiao Yu was only growing more and more like a Koi,
that’s all.
Also with this change, at least there was one good aspect, which was that it fully confirmed Liao
Kong’s words. Jing-wang considered the pros and cons. After three days, he finally made some
slight amendments regarding the matter of the little carp’s change into a koi and wrote it into a
report to be delivered to the Emperor.
It’s not like he could say that Xiao Yu suddenly changed base color to outsiders. He still
continued to use the original excuse of changing scales. This made people believe it more easily.
On Jing-wang’s side, he painstakingly took all the troubles of covering up for the little carp.
Meanwhile on Li Yu’s side, once he realized that Jing-wang accepted this matter, he didn’t have
any more worries. The tyrant master always protected him completely every time. He had a
strange belief in the tyrant master.
The koi branch mission finished perfectly. What’s next was to turn his focus on the “Revitalizing
a bloodline” task. This new main mission still halted on the first step of “Wind, flower, snow and
moon.”
To do this step, according to Li Yu’s deduction, he needed some liquor. A certain day after his
big Koi transformation while Jing-wang wasn’t present, Li Yu changed into a human. He still
remembered that Jing-wang seemed to love reading cultivation books lately. First he hid the
cultivation books in a hard to find place inside the bookshelf. Then, he went to find Wang Xi in
order to settle the matter with the liquor.
“Wang-gonggong, can I ask you where I can find liquor here in the estate?” Li Yu actively found
Wang Xi and asked carefully and politely.
He held a present box. When asking for help, it’s always good to prepare something nice in
return. This was especially true for ancient times. Li Yu didn’t know what he could give. Many
of his things were given to fish by Jing-wang. He couldn’t give those away. Thinking back and
forth, Li Yu gathered some desserts that he really liked and placed them in a box. Then he tied it
up using a red rope and made a pretty butterfly bow. When Wang Xi smiled at him, he stuffed
the present in the other’s hands.
This time, Li Yu was wearing a pearl white garment. The collar and lapel were threaded with
continuous ocean waves of gold silk. The cuffs of the garment were embedded with rice sized
little pearls. The belt was a loose, five colored silk waistband. Li Yu wore these little white shoes
that had silver patterns on them. Every few days, Jing-wang would give Li Yu a few of his “old
clothes.” One of those, this one, Li Yu thought looked extremely like his current fish appearance.
After receiving it, he immediately made it his new favorite and wore it everywhere to show off.
Li-gongzi clearly didn’t know anything about the clothes that he was wearing, however, Wang
Xi can’t be more clear. This was made all according to Jing-wang’s wishes. Wang Xi found the
best embroiderers in the Imperial City to rush this product out overnight. Then it was washed
clean and handed over to Jing-wang.
Who knew what kind of crazy stuff his highness was thinking. Why did he need to call the nice,
new clothes ‘old clothes’ every time and come up with all sorts of different ways to give them to
Li-gongzi. Also, Li-gongzi didn’t realize anything at all.
However, everytime Li-gongzi changed into the new clothes, his highness always had to hide
and secretly look for quite a long time.
Wang Xi can tell that his highness really cared about Li-gongzi a lot, even though the method
that he used to display care was completely unfathomable. When Wang Xi looked at the white
clothes youth before his eyes, he also couldn’t help but want to smile always. Li-gongzi very
rarely left the room and didn’t really interact with many people. However, he treated everyone
politely and amiably, not the least bit arrogant.
Wang-gonggong weighed the gift box in his hand. What a likeable boy. No wonder his highness
would fall for him.
“Why is gongzi asking about liquor from this old servant? Do you want to drink?” Wang Xi
asked back with a smile.
Li Yu nodded his head. His true objective was actually to do his mission. Drinking was only part
of it. But to say he wanted to drink wasn’t wrong.
Wang Xi said: “His highness had ordered, if Li-gongzi wanted something, then I should do my
best to comply. Gongzi, please come with me.”
Holding the gift box, Wang Xi brought Li Yu to a wine cellar.
Li Yu looked at the rows and rows of liquor jars inside the Jing Estate, staring in shock: “This
many?”
Wang Xi said with a smile: “Given by different families. The Palace often sends them as gifts as
well. Gongzi, what kind do you want? Do you know the name?”
Li Yu blinked. Gongzi wanted one that could instantly finish his mission.
Li Yu said with difficulty: “I don’t know either. Other than green plum wine, is there any that
won’t make you drunk too fast?”
“Yes. There’s one named Amber Light. It’s fermented from grapes. Even women and small
children can drink a bit of this.” Wang Xi patiently explained for Li Yu. In the end, he helped Li
Yu pick out a small jar of Amber Light.
Li Yu excitedly carried the wine jar and left. Loyal and devoted to Jing-wang, Wang Xi turned
and immediately reported to Jing-wang.
Xiao Yu wanted liquor?
In a rare moment, Jing-wang felt worried. According to what he knew, the carp demon’s
drinking ability wasn’t that good. In order to stop this fish from getting drunk and changing back
randomly, Jing-wang decided to accompany the fish.
Wang Xi volunteered to lead Jing-wang to find Li-gongzi. After walking a few steps, Jing-
wang’s gaze landed on the gift box that Wang-gonggong was carefully holding in his hand.
Jing-wang: What is it?
Wang Xi: “……”
One teacup of time later, Jing-wang expressionlessly put away the gift box that Xiao Yu made
personally. Wang-gonggong held the banknote that his highness gave him in compensation,
feeling regretful and also somewhat amused.
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