Chapter 1275: Slaying the Golden Carp

"Don't kill those fish, A-Yang. You only need to subdue this golden carp. The other fish are likely not part of the Koi clan. If my judgment is correct, this large one must have, in some way, either directly or through its special energy body, permeated the other fish. It then forcibly controls them through a unique method. If I'm right, these fish have already become its puppets, not true warriors of its clan."

As expected, Queen Talia's words were immediately echoed by the Xuanwu clone beside her. "The Queen is right. These fish don't look like they're in a state for independent combat. They must be controlled by this large golden fish. If we want to uncover the truth, we just need to subdue this big golden fish, and we'll get all the information we need from it."

Xu Yang nodded slightly. In fact, he had already formed his own judgment; even without their reminders, he knew how to end this battle.

In an instant, the golden carp found that the space around it was undergoing a dual change in both properties and state, all at Xu Yang's command.

The environment that was originally optimal for the golden carp's combat vanished completely in an instant. The reason was simple: this area was the most crucial part of the lake.

As the inheritor of the Sea God's domain, all water elements could be altered according to his commands.

Fighting in such an environment, Xu Yang could control the fate of all living beings at will, naturally including this audacious koi before him.

"Even in this desolate far northern region, a golden fish like you should be considered an extremely rare species. Unfortunately, you couldn't see your true place and are ultimately destined to become a puppet."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Yang lightly snapped his fingers. Immediately, all the space around the golden carp was completely ensnared by a pure, aqua-blue light.

Xu Yang was mobilizing the purest water elemental energy from the lake below, using it to firmly bind the golden carp.

As the saying goes, "water can float a boat, but it can also capsize it." Water elemental power is the most fluid and also the most difficult to control.

However, for someone like Xu Yang, who possessed absolute control over water elements due to his inheritance of the Sea God's domain, it was effortless to disrupt the koi's original combat rhythm and compel all the water vapor energy, which previously obeyed the golden carp, to submit to his own command.

Thus, stripped of its most powerful reliance, the koi had no means or capital to resist Xu Yang. It could only meekly become a plaything in Xu Yang's hands.

"How do you feel now? Do you still think you're superior?"

Such a question was undoubtedly a great insult to the golden carp, but what could it do?

With a helpless sigh, it gave up resistance in despair.

Then, with a gentle wave of Xu Yang's right hand, the giant carp rapidly shrank under the absolute control of his water elements.

In reality, it wasn't that it willingly altered its physical form; rather, it was forcibly reduced by Xu Yang's incredibly powerful water elemental control, shrinking just enough to fit into a cooking pot.

Subsequently, bound by an aqua-blue beam of light, the golden carp was forcibly transported into Xu Yang's large pot.

Of course, Xu Yang didn't immediately cook it. Instead, he wanted it to experience what it felt like to be food on someone else's plate.

"How is it? Tell me your most genuine feelings right now. Consider carefully before you answer. I don't want a perfunctory reply or for you to continue offending me to defend your pathetic dignity. Doing so will only make your death more gruesome. However, if you can give me a satisfactory answer and actively seek cooperation, I might spare you from such a terrible end."

The golden koi finally succumbed to Xu Yang's might and sighed helplessly. "As long as you spare me, I will answer whatever you wish to know truthfully."

Xu Yang nodded in satisfaction, then looked towards Queen Talia. He had already noticed that Queen Talia seemed to have a question she wanted answered by the creature.

"Feel free to ask whatever you want; it no longer has any right to resist."

Queen Talia didn't hesitate, immediately approaching the koi lying in the pot.

"If my memory serves me correctly, this lake originally belonged to the Pufferfish clan. Yet, we've been in this lake for quite some time now and haven't seen a single member of their clan. What exactly happened?"

The Pufferfish clan was, of course, one of the eight major clans under the Tiger King.

When the Pufferfish clan was at its peak, it controlled all the waterways within the Ten King Regions of the Tiger King's territory, demonstrating just how powerful this clan once was.

Fortunately, the clan's patriarch had a significant connection with the previous generation's Naga Queen, who had fallen at the hands of the Scorpion clan.

It was said that they were once lovers, but for various reasons, they never ended up together.

After Queen Talia ascended to the throne, she had always maintained a friendly relationship with the Pufferfish clan.

However, in recent years, Queen Talia had been preoccupied with dealing with the Scorpion clan and hadn't contacted the Pufferfish clan for some time. It was only then that she realized the Pufferfish clan's recent actions were truly suspicious.

It wasn't until she arrived here with Xu Yang's team that Queen Talia became aware of this issue. "Could something have happened within the Pufferfish clan?" Hearing Queen Talia's question, the golden koi before her answered without any hesitation.

"You must be the Naga Queen, aren't you? What you don't know is that a major upheaval occurred in the Pufferfish clan five years ago. What exactly happened, we outsiders aren't clear.

The only thing we learned was that after that upheaval, the Pufferfish clan's strongest member lost their qualification to be leader and was directly expelled from the clan.

The newly appointed leader, after gaining control of the clan, immediately led all the pufferfish clan members on a great migration.

Where they are now, we don't know.

Since then, all the fish species previously controlled by the Pufferfish clan have been taken over by our Koi clan and several other slightly stronger fish species, and the territory that originally belonged to the Pufferfish clan has been divided. This very lake is one such example."