The ideal is robust, but reality is stark, even more so without the blessing of luck.
Wei Yuan looked at the slender yellow bamboo fishing rod in front of him and gained a new understanding of life's harshness. If one relied on fishing for a living, this rod would leave Wei Yuan struggling at the subsistence line day and night.
Once the fishing gear is crafted, the final step is selecting the bait. There are countless choices here, and much knowledge involved. Sometimes, an ordinary little thing can, due to unknown karmas, lure immortal items.
In the history of cultivation, someone once used the unknown bloodline descendant of a powerful contemporary immortal as bait, luring that immortal into a deadly trap and accomplishing a great feat of immortal slaying.