Chapter 50: Practical Rewards, Setting Sail!

Today's first release: Chapter 050!
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[Ding, you have obtained an item from the anime world, Doraemon: A Low-Power Take-Copter.]
The fishing hook cut through the air, landing right on the head of Nobita, who was flying with a Take-Copter for the very first time.
"Ah~ Doraemon~"
Nobita landed, and the scene shattered accordingly.
Yu Le was left holding a rather ordinary-looking Take-Copter in his hand.
The system provided a thoughtful description.
[Low-Power Take-Copter]: The remaining power can support low-altitude flight for ten minutes when worn on the head.
Well then...
Truth be told, it was actually quite practical. In case of special circumstances, one could take to the skies; although it only had a ten-minute battery life remaining, it could still come in extremely handy at a critical moment.
"Not bad, not bad." Yu Le smiled with satisfaction, and then killed the final Yellow-tier, Second-grade World Fish.
[Ding, breaking through into the novel world, "Starting by Selling Muscle-Enhancing Pills at a Street Stall", Chapter 11...]
Yu Le's memory was somewhat hazy, but he vaguely remembered this as a rather hilarious novel he had read on Tomato Novel many years ago!
The fishing hook grazed across the carpet of the "upright and kind-hearted" street vendor Jiang Nan, hooking a tiny yellow soybean.
[Ding, you have obtained an item from the novel world, "Starting by Selling Muscle-Enhancing Pills": Detoxification Little Yellow Soybean.]
Reaching out to grab the unpretentious little yellow soybean, Yu Le's lips twitched, and memories long dead began to attack him.
[Detoxification Little Yellow Soybean]: A consolation prize from the Strongest Street Stall System, transformed into an item capable of detoxifying all poisons of the Jade-Plain Realm and below, but taking it will result in side effects, oh~
He recalled those tragicomic scenes from that novel where the protagonist Jiang Nan and other members consumed the little yellow soybean, resulting in endless farting or even severe diarrhea—a malignant gale blowing straight from the netherworld!
"Ugh, if I'm going to use this thing, I must be cautious!"
Be that as it may, while this item indeed had side effects, within the universe of Muscle-Enhancing Pills, the Detoxification Little Yellow Soybean was absolute comedic and practical gold!
"Not bad at all. The rewards from these two Yellow-tier, Second-grade World Fish didn't disappoint me," Yu Le nodded and said.
Compared to the rewards brought by the breakthrough of those twenty-eight Yellow-tier, First-grade World Fish, which tended to be more useless than practical, the two Yellow-tier, Second-grade World Fish delivered quite a pleasant surprise to Yu Le.
This attempt allowed him to roughly figure out some of the system's settings and specific functions.
First: The world dimension of a World Fish's breakthrough has nothing to do with the grade of the World Fish itself. Even a Yellow-tier, First-grade World Fish could enter parallel urban worlds, sci-fi anime, novels, or even fantasy worlds.
The tier of the broken-through world is irrelevant; the grade of the World Fish corresponds to the quality of the rewards obtained from that world.
Second: Although Yu Le cannot be certain, for now, the worlds broken into by the World Fish are all ones he has heard of or read about. Whether urban or fantasy, they originate from movies, television shows, and novels he has experienced.
Out of thirty World Fish, without exception, he had at least some impression of every world he entered.
Third: Although this Nine-Ring Fishing Area can yield full baskets, the rewards redeemed from World Fish are relatively ordinary!

After storing away all the rewards, Yu Le stood at his original fishing spot, gazing into the distant sea.
"Thirty World Fish have all yielded physical item rewards, but for my current self, I should focus on consolidating the foundation of the Boulder Realm and then attempt to break through."
"There are so many body-tempering pills and medicines in various novels and TV shows, not to mention various cultivation techniques and skills. Those are what I yearn for!"
"In this Nine-Ring Fishing Area, it seems catching more doesn't necessarily guarantee satisfactory rewards."
The Nine-Ring Fishing Area is the most basic fishing spot, and Yu Le only needed to find a suitable location on the isolated island.
However, if he wanted to venture deeper into other fishing areas to fish, he had to redeem a fishing boat.
Corresponding to the grade, it required ten spirit cores or demonic cores of the corresponding tier.
Yu Le sorted through his remaining one hundred demonic cores.
"Going all in at once!"
With a plan in mind, Yu Le entered the redemption mall, invested five Tier-9 demonic cores, and supplemented them with eight Tier-8 demonic cores and four Tier-7 demonic cores at ratios of 2:1 and 4:1.
He successfully redeemed a Tier-9 Yellow-tier fishing boat for the price of ten Tier-9 demonic cores!
Boom!
A sleek, streamlined speedboat dropped onto the surface of the sea not far away, kicking up ripples of waves.
With this, riding this Tier-9 Yellow-tier fishing boat, Yu Le could fish at any location within the Yellow-tier fishing grounds.
The cost was that the high-tier demonic cores Yu Le had left were reduced to just one Tier-9, two Tier-8s, and eighteen Tier-7s, with the rest being Tier-6 and below.
Not lacking in funds for the moment, Yu Le exchanged all his remaining demonic cores for fish bait of various tiers, and prepared several sets of tackle lines as well.
Everything was spent; now it all depended on the returns!
Placing a box of Fat Boy Happy Water in the corner of the fishing boat, Yu Le lit a cigarette and cast the Fuling Rod.
"Anchors aweigh, set sail!"
Chug-chug-chug~
Powered by an unknown source, the fishing boat began to move according to Yu Le's instructions, gradually growing further and further away from the coastline.
Yu Le started mixing the ground bait. Having consumed all his demonic cores, the bait he redeemed this time was not low in tier, being at least Tier-4 Yellow-tier.
Therefore, while the boat was taking some time to sail toward the Six-Ring Fishing Area, he prepared the bait in advance.
When sea fishing, pre-baiting was naturally unrealistic; he could only rely on continuous casting and reeling to attract schools of fish.
"Who knows how many fish these baits can catch? It would be great if I could do lure fishing," Yu Le sighed with emotion.
Reusable lure baits naturally did not exist in the redemption mall, so even for sea fishing, the only fishing method available to Yu Le was traditional angling.
"Lower-tier World Fish are easy enough to deal with, but if I hook a high-tier World Fish combined with offshore fishing, I might not actually be able to haul it up."
Yu Le was well aware of his own limitations. Every creature has its own characteristics, and no matter the fish, the water is their home turf. Without adding pulley systems, relying purely on one's own strength, an adult male can pull up around ten kilograms—roughly one-fifth to one-sixth of his body weight—which is already quite good.
In this world, calculated based on physical strength, Yu Le's current physical conditioning had reached Tier-9 of the Boulder Realm. Provided the Fuling Rod didn't snap, he could normally manage to pull up a Tier-4 or Tier-5 fish!

But those were under normal circumstances; Yu Le also possessed another supernatural ability: the Natal Martial Art, World-Shaking Force.
Coupled with Yellow-tier combat skills he had learned, like the "Sticky-Clothing Toss," he could also bring them into play under such circumstances.
Leisurely and carefree, the fishing boat successfully sailed into the Six-Ring Fishing Area. Through observation of the sea surface, Yu Le had already spotted signs of fish swimming about.
Baiting the hook and casting, he then quietly waited!
After a few subtle bites, Yu Le thought a fish had taken the bait, but every time he pulled the rod, it turned out to be a false alarm.
"Such cunning World Fish," Yu Le sighed.
Yet this was normal; these World Fish were essentially no different from the spirit fish he caught in external fishing grounds.
The higher their realm, the higher their intelligence, and they would not easily be fooled.
The previous full baskets had given Yu Le a genuine thrill, but after heading out into the open sea, as batch after batch of bait was depleted, the fish in the Six-Ring Fishing Area truly taught him a lesson.
Fishing, however, has always been a process of challenge.
The shallow-flat fishing of before no longer held much excitement for Yu Le in his current state.
What difference is there between an angler who doesn't dream of catching big fish and a salted fish?
A skunked trip? Getting skunked was simply impossible!
Just as Yu Le finished off three bottles of cola and smoked a pack and a half of cigarettes, the tip of the Fuling Rod suddenly plunged heavily downward.
"Ha, let's see where you run now!"
Yu Le gripped the rod with both hands. Feeling the immense pull of the fish beneath the water, his face flushed red.
Indeed, it was a big fish!
The Fuling Rod bent into a half-moon shape, emitting a continuous humming sound.
After a prolonged contest of strength between man and fish, Yu Le felt the struggle of the fish underwater gradually weaken, and his gaze sharpened.
"Sticky-Clothing Toss!"
Exerting force with both hands, the World-Shaking Force poured into the Fuling Rod, and a large cyan-green fish broke out of the water surface just like that.
Upon receiving feedback from the system, Yu Le was even more overjoyed.
It turned out to be a Yellow-tier, Fifth-grade World Fish!
He directly chose to break through!
[Ding, breaking through into the novel world, Perfect World: The Wasteland Youth Chapter.]
Yu Le was shocked, almost tossing the Fuling Rod away.
Good grief, it's the Heavenly Emperor of the Wasteland!