Building an Empire: Starting with a Fishing Bum

Fishing enthusiast Su Lei was unexpectedly reborn on an uninhabited island and awakened the Fishing Recovery System. Whenever he caught a fish listed in the Ten Thousand Fish Compendium, the System would take it back and grant him a matching fishing-related reward.

With just one fishing rod from the start, Su Lei began by digging for earthworms, then gradually exchanged them through the System for:

Lines, rods, bait, floats, landing nets, keepnets, rod holders, stools, pole rods, sea rods

Fishing boats, trawlers, fish-hunting warships, fishing aircraft carriers, fishing starships, fish-hunting stellar ships, fish-hunting cosmic ships...

His catches also went from:

Pond fish

Common carp, grass carp, crucian carp, bighead carp, silver carp, snakehead

River fish

Common carp, grass carp, crucian carp, bighead carp, silver carp, black carp, Wuchang bream, softshell turtle, whitebait, turtle, catfish, snakehead, mandarin fish

Sea fish

Black porgy, yellow croaker, hairtail, Spanish mackerel, squid, cuttlefish, flatfish, cod, pomfret, sea bass, eel, masu salmon, salmon, grouper, filefish, big flower-tail, big sleepyhead, red pomelo, fine-scale fish, green-spotted grouper, oil eel, fire-spotted fish, chicken grunt, sharp-finned fish, red fish, sea bass, golden goby... the Kun... colossal beasts of the starry sky...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.