I was casually powder mining in the Crystal Hollows when I stumbled across a fairy grotto.
It was a fairly large one, and also had some water!
I only started playing Hypixel Skyblock again starting this summer, after taking a multi-year break. I remember reading an update where the admins added a 2nd fairy soul.
I looked through the fairy souls menu to see if I had it. I knew I didn’t since I didn’t play, but wanted to check just in case it was moved around or transferred, as they tended to do back when they added or updated islands.
When I first read this menu, I thought the counter was just bugged, because when I added 9+4+1+1+1, it equals 16. However, I realized later that those numbers only tell you the breakdown of the total number of fairy souls that exist, not the number of them that you have. I initially interpreted this saying how many you already gotten. I found a few other forum posts with this same interpretation I had, so I know I’m not the only one who fell for this.
Looking at the comments of some posts by other players on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/HypixelSkyblock/comments/17xqf5y/fairy_grotto_fairy_soul/) and the forums (https://hypixel.net/threads/so-about-miscellaneous-fairy-souls.5737965/), I was getting a mixed bag of whether or not there were actually 2 fairy souls to be obtained from fishing in the fairy grotto.
I had already gotten one of them a long time ago. So, I decided to try fishing. The gear I used was just my Shredder from a long time ago. It grants +115 Fishing Speed. I also used the Ammonite pet, since there was no access to the sky, fishing speed is significantly reduced. The Ammonite pet reduces that no sunlight penalty. I also used my Sorrow armor because I only had Shark Scale armor, and that doesn’t give any fishing speed. Only sea creature chance, which I didn’t want.
After about 1.5 hours of fishing, I finally got it.
I can confirm, that there are in fact 2 fairy souls you can obtain from fishing in the fairy grotto.