If he had to choose between fishing and a girlfriend, Zhou Yuan would choose fishing without hesitation.
After all, a girlfriend might leave, but there's only one monster fish like this!
Zhou Yuan was an experienced angler in the real world before an accident transmigrated him into a martial arts game world called Canglan.
Here, martial arts reign supreme, but training is incredibly difficult. Ordinary people spend years just learning the basics, while even geniuses need months to get started.
But Zhou Yuan discovers that he has a status panel no one else can see.
No grueling training, no famous master. He can level up just by fishing, and every level lets him add points to his martial arts.
And so, he understands.
Meditate and cultivate? Fishing is better.
Fight to the death? Fishing is better.
While others work themselves to the bone learning martial arts, he hides by the river and quietly racks up levels.
No one knows how Zhou Yuan got so strong.
They only know there's a strange guy by the river year-round, fishing day and night.
Years later, Zhou Yuan reaches the pinnacle of martial arts.
Someone asks him for the secret to his training.
Zhou Yuan smiles faintly:
"Just cast a few lines whenever you get the chance."