Chapter 644 — Strange Species of the South Sea

As they drew nearer to the phenomenon, even the First Ancestor Human Emperor could not help but feel his heart pound. The bubbles bursting from the churning sea were enormous—each one a hundred li across. Dozens, hundreds of them surged up from the seabed together, and the ocean seemed to boil. Wave after towering wave rolled out in every direction.

Deafening roars came in waves, terrifying beyond measure!

Shen Mu frowned slightly and looked toward Jingping. Then he turned and flew back, chasing wave after wave. The First Ancestor Human Emperor followed him, perplexed. "Why turn back? " "A tsunami!

" Shen Mu charged at full speed toward the coast, saying in a low voice, "It is a tsunami!

If it comes ashore, it will lay waste to dozens of li of coastline—and there are people there! " Light dawned on the First Ancestor Human Emperor.

Suddenly his body plunged from the air, head down and feet up, and he pressed his palm lightly against the surface of the sea.

Then he sprang back up and stood beside Shen Mu, saying calmly, "You may rest easy.

The tsunami has been stopped. " Shen Mu halted at once and looked back.

In an instant the sea had gone calm and still; the earth-shaking tsunami waves had been flattened by the power of that single palm seal from the First Ancestor Human Emperor! "Remarkable! " Shen Mu marveled, and raised his thumb in praise. "Truly remarkable!

I only meant to fly back to the coast ahead of it and save people, to get the common folk out of the way. I never expected you to be greater still—to quell the tsunami outright! What a divine ability!

" The First Ancestor Human Emperor smiled faintly.

"Do you want to learn it? In swordsmanship I am no match for you, but in the art of seals I am far above you. If you would only learn. .

. " "I will not learn it!

" Shen Mu turned away and rushed toward where the treasure light burst forth.

There were no terrifyingly huge bubbles there—only rainbow-hued treasure light pouring out without cease. The First Ancestor Human Emperor could not help shaking his head.

He quickened his pace to follow, thinking, 'There will be a way to make you learn. ' Shen Mu drew a long breath, then suddenly dove into the sea, plunging toward the seabed.

The First Ancestor Human Emperor followed.

Shen Mu looked at him and saw vital essence surging around him, forming a great sphere, while he walked through the seawater as though on level ground. Seeing Shen Mu's glance, the First Ancestor smiled. "Do you want to learn.

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" "Hmph—" Shen Mu activated the Art of Creation, and his body transformed into a great fish a zhang long. Wagging its head and tail, it swam along the trail of treasure light.

The First Ancestor Human Emperor did not know whether to laugh or cry, and followed behind him. Suddenly Shen Mu stopped swimming and blinked at what lay ahead. The First Ancestor Human Emperor hastily halted too. Before them appeared a vast and magnificent ancient continent. Ancient temples blazed with misty divine light, and towering, majestic statues of gods stood upon the seabed, the seaweed and mud clinging to them sloughing away one after another! Shen Mu was shaken to the core.

Slowly he swam into this immeasurably ancient continent, and suddenly recalled the star chart he had seen in the temple of the God-Slaying Platform on the alien star of Luofu Heaven. He opened his mouth and spat out a bubble: "The star chart from three hundred and fifty thousand years ago—the place it marked is here! This is. . . the ancestral land of the Chiming Era, the place the Chixi Divine Man sought!

" In the form of a great fish he swam past one vast, imposing structure after another. He was not alone here; there were strange creatures too—many great fish with three heads and six fins cruising through the continent, as though on patrol. A blue-white fish a hundred zhang long swam over their heads, giving out a long, low cry that set their chests humming! "These great fish.

. .

" The First Ancestor Human Emperor's expression shifted.

He hastily seized Shen Mu's fish tail and pulled him into his sphere of vital essence, saying in a low voice, "These great fish are strange! Do not act on your own! " Shen Mu resumed his true form and asked, puzzled, "What is strange about them?

" "You must know of how, in the Kaihuang Era, the bodies of gods and demons turned to stone while their primordial spirits hid away in Fengdu?

" The First Ancestor Human Emperor's gaze swept over the three-headed, six-finned fish. "The gods and demons of the Chiming Era likely used another method.

They changed their own species, and by this means evaded the Heavenly Court's pursuit! "