# Chapter 2166: Forgive Me for Not Being Able to Abandon My Own Soul
Insect Right Hand curled its lip: "Why is it chasing you? Do you have no idea in your heart? This Stygian Koi was probably attracted by you, right?"
Ye Hua turned his head, his gaze locking directly onto the two bulging burlap sacks on Jiang Nan's back!
There was no need to even think about what was inside!
"Stygian Koi feed on Stygian Crystals. The burlap sacks you're carrying are filled with Stygian Crystals, aren't they?"
"Putting such a massive amount of Stygian Crystals in the Stygian River, it's no wonder it attracted the Stygian Koi!"
"Hurry! Hurry up and throw the burlap sacks away! If you do, maybe the Stygian Koi will stop chasing us!"
Jiang Nan's eyes widened, a fierce look on his face as he bared his teeth at Ye Hua.
"You're full of shit! Don't think you can trick me into feeding my crystals to your family's fish! Not letting good things go to waste, huh?"
"These crystals were originally stored at Pearl Star Harbor. With this Stygian Koi's strength, it could swallow the entire Pearl Star in one bite, right?"
"It's not the Stygian Crystals' fault at all! I'm not giving them to it!"
Ye Hua was about to vomit blood: "The Stygian Koi didn't take a bite out of Yanshan Warehouse because the warehouse was built with special materials that blocked the aura of the Stygian Crystals!"
"The treasure chests we use to transport Stygian Crystals on a daily basis are also specially made!"
"Just feed those two burlap sacks to it already! I don't want to die here!"
Jiang Nan glared: "You're lying! If your treasure chests can block the aura, then my burlap sacks can too! How did it detect them then?"
"I won't give them! If I do, all my hard work will be for nothing!"
Ye Hua almost burst into tears on the spot.
"My ancestor! What time is it now?! Are crystals more important or your life? Suffer a small loss to avoid a big one!"
"If this keeps up, we're all going to die!"
But Jiang Nan held on even tighter, his face full of reluctance.
Although he knew that there was a tiny, tiny possibility that this koi was coming for the Stygian Crystals on him...
But what if it wasn't?
This was money! Trying to take my money was trying to take my life!
Even Insect Right Hand couldn't stand it anymore. It leaped onto the bulging burlap sack and started untying the opening!
Jiang Nan struggled:
"No! Don't! I worked so hard to steal these!"
Ye Hua was speechless. You know damn well you stole them, don't you?
Insect Right Hand jumped up and flicked Jiang Nan on the head, raising a big red bump.
"Hurry up and throw them to the fish! Look at how pathetic you are! If you die here, who's going to take me out of here?"
"Isn't it just money? Once we get out, I'll take back my family's mine, and all of it will be yours! What's a little bit of this?"
As it spoke, it opened one of the burlap sacks, pulled out another sack from inside, and quickly untied it, shaking the contents out!
In an instant, a massive amount of Stygian Crystals scattered like rain into the Stygian River!
Jiang Nan's eyes shimmered with tears:
"Fine, I'll throw them! But you promised to give me your mine! No backing out! I'll throw them myself!"
"Ye Hua! Zigzag across the river channel! Make the koi have to turn its head to eat the crystals!"
"That'll buy us more time!"
Ye Hua nodded heavily. Finally, the guy was willing to cut his losses!
So he began using the Stygian Star Path to draw Z's in the river channel!
Without the ability to cross using Star Paths, it would be impossible to pull off such a maneuver no matter how hard they tried!
The Stygian Koi's body was simply too massive!
The moment Jiang Nan and the others crossed away, the Stygian Koi opened its mouth and gave a big sip!
All the massive amount of Stygian Crystals that had just been dumped were swallowed into its stomach!
Along with the river water from that entire area!
It was just like a blue whale eating a bunch of plankton...
But the Stygian Koi seemed to be enjoying itself. Right after finishing that pile, it noticed another pile off to the side!
So it turned its head, swished its tail, and swam over to the other side, swallowing the scattered Stygian Crystals there too!
And so, this scene played out:
Ye Hua carried Jiang Nan on his back, racing across the river channel in a Z pattern using Star Path jumps!
Every time they reached a node of the Z, Jiang Nan would pull a sack out of his burlap sack, open it, and scatter Stygian Crystals!
While scattering, he kept wiping away his tears!
He looked just like that fishing brother carrying a bag of corn to the reservoir to chum the water!
Except the fish was a little bigger, and the bait used to chum was also a little more precious!
They chummed all the way, and the Stygian Koi really did follow Jiang Nan's trail!
It swam in an S-shape through the river channel, chasing after the food!
It didn't seem too smart, which might have been the biggest fish Jiang Nan had ever walked!
No contest!
In the blink of an eye, Jiang Nan had already thrown out several hundred sacks. The distance hadn't widened, but at least they hadn't been eaten!
Ye Hua's heart was shattering! Just how many Stygian Crystals did you guys take from Pearl Star Harbor?
You've thrown so many, and you still haven't finished one sack?
And Jiang Nan was carrying two burlap sacks!
But at this rate, no matter how many crystals they had, they couldn't fill the Stygian Koi's appetite!
Soon, one big sack of Stygian Crystals had all been fed to the fish!
Jiang Nan's haul from Pearl Star Harbor had instantly shrunk by half!
Seeing the Stygian Koi about to catch up, Insect Right Hand moved to untie the other burlap sack!
Jiang Nan let out a miserable scream:
"This one! This one is off limits! You might as well kill me!"
If I had never possessed it, I wouldn't be afraid of losing it!
But the problem was, I already had it in my hands, and now I had to take it out?
Wasn't this asking for my life?
Jiang Nan never imagined that after robbing the Ming He Death Prison, he would end up being robbed by a fish!
Insect Right Hand pointed accusingly: "Jiang Nan! Your money or your life! Pick!"
At this moment, Jiang Nan hugged the burlap sack, caught in a difficult dilemma.
Hmm...
Ye Hua breathed a long sigh of relief. Was there even a choice? Of course, it was...
But then, Jiang Nan's expression turned ruthless. He jammed his Small Whip into Ye Hua's nostril, yanked hard, and directly turned the carriage around, charging straight toward the Stygian Koi's wide-open, blood-red maw!
"Do I even need to choose? Of course, I choose my money! As a Southern Man, forgive me for not being able to abandon my own soul!"
"Seven-Colored Koi! I'll fight you to the death!"
Ye Hua stared into the bottomless, pitch-black mouth and was so scared he burst into tears on the spot.
"Don't be impulsive! What do you have to be so upset about? If you want to die, don't take me with you!"
"I'm not on the same underwear as you! Let me go!"
But it was useless. Was the carriage something he could just stop?
Insect Right Hand couldn't help but slap its hand over Jiang Nan's face, utterly speechless.
What the hell was "unable to abandon my own soul"?
Putting that aside, Jiang Nan really had some guts. For a sack of Stygian Crystals, at a level below Star Breaker, he was willing to fight a Stygian Koi to the death in the Stygian River!
Was any normal person capable of making such a choice?
Now, Insect Chong Feiyu was starting to believe that Jiang Nan really was the one who caused the Great Tribulation of Thousand Stars!
Jiang Nan wasn't really looking for death, though. For the sake of the Stygian Crystals, it was worth a gamble!
If worst came to worst, he would take a trip through the fish's stomach! If things got bad, he'd use a bar of soap, form a physical golden body, and become untouchable!
Who said he couldn't slide out of the fish's stomach?
In ancient times, there was Enoki Mushroom! Today, there's Jiang the Reckless!
Watch me See You Tomorrow, you fish!
Maybe he could even fish out those crystals that had just been swallowed into the fish's stomach!
This Stygian Koi had existed for so long; there might be some ancient Starry Sky relics in its belly!
Finding one would be a profit!
And if all else failed, he still had the Vendor Cloth to protect him. Let him just drop this sack of Stygian Crystals and get nothing for all his hard work? No way!
As they neared the fish's mouth, everything ahead was already pitch black!
There was no way to escape even if they wanted to. Jiang Nan lowered his head and looked at Ye Hua.
He couldn't afford to lose him. He was counting on Ye Hua to take him back!
"Hey, Ye Hua? Do you have any last words you want to say? Go ahead! Not that I'll pass them on for you anyway!"
Ye Hua was stunned: "Huh? Last words? If you're not going to pass them on, why should I bother saying anything? I—"
Before he could finish, Jiang Nan had stuffed him into a burlap sack and tied the opening shut!
Ye Hua:!!!
You bastard!
I'm still farting over here! Don't stuff me into a burlap sack at a time like this! This is an enclosed space!
"Cough, cough, cough—so... so blinding! Ugh—ugh! Stop! Stop it! Quit farting!"
Startled, Ye Hua furiously beat on his own backside!
But this was not something he could control!
In no time, the burlap sack used to hold Ye Hua puffed up like an inflated balloon!
[Ye Hua's Resentment Value +1009!]
[Ye Hua's...]
"I'll die! I'd rather just die! Let me out so I can die with you! Staying in this burlap sack is worse than death!"
Ye Hua's voice was full of terror, but Jiang Nan couldn't hear what he was saying!
Seeing no other option, Ye Hua's expression turned ruthless. At this point, he could only solve the problem at its source!
Meanwhile, Jiang Nan was holding one burlap sack in each arm, mentally prepared to take a trip through the fish's stomach!
But the situation he had imagined—being swallowed into the Stygian Koi's stomach—didn't happen!
The Stygian Koi had originally opened its mouth wide, waiting to be fed!
But this time, the little thing hadn't dropped any tasty treats!
In the Stygian Koi's understanding, if it chased after this little thing, the little thing would drop tasty treats!
It had even become a habit!
If it swallowed this little thing, wouldn't there be no one to feed it tasty treats anymore?
So, right before swallowing Jiang Nan, the Stygian Koi actually closed its mouth and stopped its sucking motion!
Then, it used its immensely huge fish head to bump into Jiang Nan!
As if asking why he wasn't dropping any tasty treats!
Jiang Nan couldn't see clearly what kind of fish head it was. He only saw an endless, seven-colored giant wall charging at him at a terrifying speed!
He hurriedly assumed a defensive posture!
With a thunderous "BOOM," Jiang Nan was violently struck by the "seven-colored giant wall"!
His Steel Bones were shattered instantly, and an incredibly terrifying pressure almost flattened him alive!
As the Stygian Koi pushed forward with its head, the violently surging Stygian River water scoured off a layer of Jiang Nan's flesh!
His entire body became a bloody mess!
But struggling to stay conscious, Jiang Nan quickly extended his Small Whip, firmly latching himself onto the "seven-colored wall"!
So that he wouldn't be washed away by the Stygian River!
What Jiang Nan didn't know was that he was now at the position of the fish's lip, being pushed along as the Stygian Koi swam!