Li Yu checked the Koi branch line. The original prompt was that to make Koi, you must first have the Koi's characteristics. Now it has changed. To make Koi, you must first experience the feeling of being Koi.

Li Yu: ???

Li Yu asked the system: Why did the prompt change?

If he remembered correctly, it should have changed when he made a big fuss in the Qianqing Palace.

The system patiently explained: "When the host has a protective heart and can risk his life for the tyrant, he will have the Koi's characteristics."

Li Yu suddenly realized: So... the Koi's characteristics refer to protection.

He always thought it was good luck.

Actually, it makes sense. People hope that Koi will bring them good luck, so why not hope that Koi can protect them?

Because of his unintentional act, the Koi branch line was updated by accident.

However, this update is not completed, and the task is still in progress.

Li Yu was a little worried: What is the feeling of experiencing being a Koi?

System: "That's it - Host, are you ready?"

Li Yu: Huh?

Before Li Yu could react, the scene in front of him suddenly changed.

The spiritual world where the system was originally located was a chaos, but now it has become a vast starry sky.

The system said solemnly: "Please ask the host to choose a target person and experience being a Koi."

Li Yu: ? ? ?

Wait, he is asked to choose someone, and he is not ready for anything.

Li Yu didn't understand what the system meant at all. He looked again and saw a road in front of him, leading to the dark distance.

Li Yu was still in the form of a fish. He tried carefully and found that he could swim along this road without water. This was impossible in reality. Li Yu concluded that he was still in the spiritual world.

The system urged: "Host, please rest assured to carry out the mission."

Li Yu: "..."

The system would always trick him every time it said this.

Li Yu was wary and thought it would be better to exit first. He didn't make any preparations at all. He just came in temporarily to take a look. King Jing was still outside. What if he messed up the mission and couldn't turn into a koi?

But he could easily exit the system before, but now it couldn't.

The system has begun to trick him and didn't give him a way out, temporarily trapping him in the spiritual world.

It seems that if he wants to get out, he has to follow the system's instructions and experience being a koi.

Because he had caused a lot of trouble when he changed his scales before, Li Yu's enthusiasm as a koi fish was somewhat dampened, but this is the life of a fish...

Li Yu swam along the road in front of him. After swimming for an unknown period of time, a bright light appeared in front of him, and the surrounding scenery gradually became clear.

He found that he was actually in the imperial palace, because there were golden tiles on the walls that were unique to the palace.

Because he could still swim around at will, it can be seen that he still couldn't get rid of the spiritual world - this was all an illusion.

The system didn't have any prompts, which meant that he had to rely on himself to explore again. He was used to it.

However, what did it mean to choose a target person? He hadn't seen anyone yet.

As if to respond to his confusion, a voice came from a little further away. Li Yu swam over and found two children fighting in the grass.

Of the two children, one is taller, thinner, and older, while the other is shorter, a chubby kid with chubby cheeks and a round body. The

older one looks no more than seven or eight years old, while the younger one is only two or three years old. For some reason, the two children are tangled together.

The older one is very cunning, pinching and squeezing the younger one, and even kicking him hard in the belly. If it were another child, he would have cried a long time ago, but the younger one not only didn't cry, but also gritted his teeth and hit the older one in the face, giving him a black eye.

Li Yu was standing by, and the two children seemed unable to see him. He tried to separate the two children, but couldn't touch them.

It was really an illusion, and he could only watch. Li Yu thought, could it be that the system's selection of people means choosing between these two children?

The fight ended quickly. The little fat boy bit the big boy's arm hard.

The big boy covered his hand and cried, "Just wait for me, I'll tell my father!" The

big boy cried all the way and ran away.

The little fat boy stared at the big boy's back indifferently, lowered his head, picked up a broken paper ibis beside him, and cleaned it up himself.

From the word "father", Li Yu guessed that the identities of these two children were most likely princes.

But this age did not match the seventh and eighth princes he knew, and the seven and eighth princes had a good relationship. The original book did not say that they would fight.

So who is this little fat boy?

Li Yu continued to read.

An eunuch ran up in a hurry, hugged the little fat boy and said, "Your Highness, why did you fight with the Second Prince again... Did you beat him down?"

Li Yu laughed, the eunuch's words were interesting.

The little fat boy nodded with his dark eyes shining.

The eunuch was about to wipe the little fat boy's face, and turned around with the little fat boy. Li Yu saw the eunuch's appearance clearly in an instant and was extremely surprised.

This was a face that was almost identical to Wang Xiru's, but a little younger.

Li Yu paused: This, could it be the legendary relative of Eunuch Wang?

Li Yu became interested in the two. The eunuch who looked like Wang Xi led the fat prince in front. Li Yu followed quietly behind and found that the two went around a palace. Li Yu looked around and felt that this place was familiar. He looked up and scanned the plaque. The three characters "Jingtai Palace" were engraved on the plaque.

Li Yu was stunned immediately.

As far as he knew, only one prince had lived in Jingtai Palace, and the eunuch beside him looked so similar to Wang Xi...

Li Yu, who suddenly realized the truth, almost screamed: No way? ?

No wonder the fat boy didn't say a word when he was beaten or when he beat others, and no wonder the eunuch looked so similar to Wang Xi. As children grow up, their appearance usually changes a lot, so he didn't recognize the fat boy for a while. However, the changes in adults are relatively much smaller. The taciturn prince who lives in Jingtai Palace and the young eunuch who looks very much like Wang Xi, aren't these - Prince Jing and Wang Xi himself?

He knew that the system loved to trick him. It had only tricked him in small ways in the past. It would have been fine if it didn't let him quit this time, but it actually let him enter an illusion from more than ten years ago?

Wow, it turns out that when King Jing was a child, he was a fat man.

Li Yu thought that he had traveled through time and space, and illusions were nothing. He was just a little happy that he suddenly realized that he had come to King Jing's childhood.

He swung his tail wildly and followed the fat boy. The fat boy King Jing and Wang Xi still didn't notice him.

Li Yu simply swam in front of them and jumped into the yard he was familiar with.

Wang Xi wiped the face of the fat boy King Jing, as if he was going to get something, and left the fat boy in the yard, telling him not to wander around.

The fat boy King Jing was very obedient, and he really sat there with a stern face without moving.

Li Yu swam behind the fat boy's round body and rubbed his back with the tip of his tail, but the fat boy King Jing did not react at all.

Tsk, the fat boy really couldn't feel him. How to "experience kinki"?

Li Yu already knew that the fat boy was King Jing, so he must choose King Jing.

He was just tilting his fish head to think, when the older prince who was chased away by King Jing came again.

Li Yu remembered that Wang Xi called this person the Second Prince. This should be the second prince when he was a child, right?

The second prince ran over, and King Jing glared at him with a fierce face.

The second prince said angrily: "My father asked me to teach you a lesson, so he won't come to see you or care about you!"

King Jing was angry, and the two started to quarrel again.

The fight between the two children was just a fight between two weaklings in Li Yu's eyes. Even if he wanted to help, he couldn't do anything. The two princes fought and rolled together. They were about to roll to the edge of a pond. King Jing was caught off guard and was at a disadvantage. The second prince, with all his might, pushed King Jing into the pond.

The young King Jing couldn't swim. Seeing the other struggling in the water, the second prince was also scared and ran out screaming.

Don't run, come back and save people!

Li Yu swam around anxiously, but Wang Xi was not there, and there was no one else around King Jing for some reason!

No, King Jing must be saved...

even if this is an illusion.

Li Yu jumped into the pond without hesitation. The moment he entered the water, he suddenly felt the long-lost wetness...

He... seemed to be able to integrate into this illusion.

Without time to think, Li Yujian swam to the side of King Jing.

The little fat boy King Jing forgot to struggle for a moment, and looked at a dark fish that appeared from nowhere in surprise, with a dazzling golden belly and tail. The

little fat boy was about to sink, and Li Yu opened his mouth to grab the little fat boy's collar.

As he thought, he could touch the little fat boy, but he was just a small carp. Even if the system gave him more strength, the fish body could not pull a two or three-year-old child.

If only it could be bigger and stronger...

Li Yu prayed sincerely, and at this moment, the fish body seemed to sense his desire and began to grow bigger.

Finally, it became as long as the little fat man's arm. Li Yu tried to hold the little fat man's clothes again. Finally, he was able to hold the little fat man and pushed and carried him to the shore.

The little fat man's cheeks were flushed, his expression was excited, and he stared at the fish with his eyes wide open.

Li Yu was almost dead tired, but he was still thinking about the little fat man. Now he could no longer leave the pond and swim around. He could only stay in the water and let the little fat man hold his back.

The little fat man Jing Wang:?

Li Yu:... Too stupid, you can't even rub a fish! How did you become the man who rubbed his tail until it was soft?

Li Yu resigned himself to the fat boy who didn't know how to rub a fish, and rubbed it himself as a demonstration. The fat boy stretched out a fat and tender finger and poked the fish's slippery back first. After getting used to the cool touch, the fat boy put his hand on it and soon learned how to rub a fish.

Rubbing a fish makes people happy! There's more, fat boy!

While enjoying the fat boy's unskilled rubbing, Li Yu put the fish head in the fat boy's palm and actively rubbed it twice.

Although he didn't know what this meant, every time King Jing did this, Li Yu liked it very much in his heart.

The fat boy was led by him, grinned, and gently touched the fish's head...

This smile on the fat face finally gave us a glimpse of the handsome man's demeanor in the future.

Li Yu swung his tail to make a crackling sound to show encouragement.

He and the little fat man played silently for a while. There were many voices outside. Li Yu could be seen now. He turned around quickly, swung his tail, and hid in the grass under the pool.

The little fat man Jing Wang was soon surrounded by a group of imperial doctors. A man in a dragon robe - the young emperor walked over quickly and was surprised to see that the pool of chaotic water was sprinkled with fine golden light.

This was because the little carp was hiding in the water grass. The emperor could not see the fish, but he could see the golden light reflected from the fish's tail and body. The emperor's eyes were also imprinted with this gorgeous color.

"How do you feel? Are you okay?" The emperor turned his head and looked at the fifth prince who fell into the water with worry.

The fat boy looked at the emperor, then at the pond, but couldn't see any fish. He struggled to get up, swayed a few times, and fell down again.

"Fifth Prince!" The doctors hurriedly hugged him.

A doctor touched the fifth prince's forehead with shaking hands and screamed: "Fifth Prince has a high fever! It's burning his hands!"

Li Yu didn't expect that the fat boy's red face was feverish. He was anxious to get out from under the water plants. Suddenly, everything in front of him seemed to be separated by a layer of mist and gradually moved away from him.

Li Yu finally heard the emperor's angry voice: "Hurry up and treat me. If anything happens to Tianjing, you don't have to live!"

Li Yu: "..."

Li Yu was stunned. The fat boy's name was Tianjing, not Tianchi?

Could it be that he recognized the wrong person? This person is not the tyrant monarch?

... Impossible. He had read the whole book. The emperor did not have a prince named Tianjing. Moreover, Wang Xi, who was a young man, took care of him personally. He could not speak. It should be the setting of King Jing. And...

why was King Jing's title just the word Jing?

Could it be that King Jing changed his name when he was young? After all, among a bunch of princes with the same name, King Jing being called "Tianchi" was very different. If it was "Tianjing", it would be right.

Only the emperor can make King Jing change his name, and most likely it will be so.

But, why?

Li Yu thought about it, but couldn't figure it out. This is not a particularly important matter. Whether King Jing is called Tianchi or Tianjing, he is still his tyrant leader.

"Host, congratulations on completing the 'Become a Koi' side quest. After receiving the reward, you will become a Koi and have the ability of a Koi."

The system reminded him at the right time.

Li Yu's mind was still on the sick little fat man. He kept reminding himself that this was just something that happened in the illusion, not real. King Jing is fine now, he is outside, and he is no longer a little fat man, so

he is not really sick, right? Li Yu: System, little fat...what happened to that child just now?

Even if it was an illusion, Li Yu couldn't help asking.

System: "Later, he fell ill, and recovered after a few days."

Li Yu: "..."

Never mind, he also knew that the system was the most deceptive, and it was good to be able to find out such a result.

Li Yu looked at the fish body. He had just grown bigger in the illusion, and then changed back again. After all, it was just an illusion and it didn't count, so he was satisfied.

The koi mission was completed, it should be because he helped the fat boy King Jing in the illusion just now.

The system wanted him to experience the feeling of being a koi. He already knew that the characteristic of koi was protection, so experiencing koi should be experiencing the feeling of protection.

Just like he just chose the fat boy and helped the fat boy.

Finally, I can turn into a koi after completing the side quest...

Li Yu is not particularly excited about the long-awaited reward.

After turning into a koi, will the color of the scales change?

System: "Yes, the scales will be adjusted again."

Li Yu: Let's wait and see.

He was suddenly forced to complete the koi mission. Because he changed his scales once, many things happened. King Jing finally managed to cover him up. If he suddenly changed again, wouldn't it make people more suspicious?

Even if he was a real koi, it wouldn't change so frequently.

Li Yu: Let's keep it for a while...

System: "..."

Li Yu tried again and was finally able to leave the system. He exited with lingering fear and returned to the real world, where he found King Jing wrapping the fish with a golden thread water grass blanket.