Chapter 976: The Golden Mother's Calculations. Kunlun.
It was the ancestor of ten thousand mountains, the utmost pinnacle of heaven and earth.
Crimson cliffs and strange rocks, sheer walls and wondrous peaks; above, colorful phoenixes sang in pairs, while below, azure phoenixes danced together. Immortal deer and foxes roamed the woods, and spirit birds and mysterious cranes perched in the trees.
This was an immortal summit that mortals could never glimpse, even if they spent their entire lives trying.
And at Kunlun's peak, amid the churning sea of clouds, a pool lay quietly.
Its surface was clear as a mirror, untouched by the slightest dust. Neither falling leaves nor drifting blossoms dared disturb it. Within that pool, whose age no one knew, two enormous fish slowly stirred the water.
One black, one white.
Head following tail, they circled without end.
The black and white fish swam exceedingly slowly.
Yet every flick of their tails sent a profoundly mysterious ripple spreading across the surface.
As the ripples spread, the mountains, rivers, and earthly veins of the Nine Provinces faintly appeared reflected on the water, as though every landscape between heaven and earth flowed endlessly within this pool.
Suddenly.
The pool faltered, and both fish stopped swimming at once.
The previously placid surface inexplicably erupted into a violent disturbance.
At its center, blood-red waves churned.
The reflected image was none other than the Blood Sea blotting out the sky above Cloud Prefecture.
"Hmm?"
Sensing this change, an ethereal voice imbued with the Dao rang out within the pool, as though descending from the nine heavens.
In an instant.
The black and white fish abruptly broke their head-to-tail formation, then condensed into a vortex of energy and leaped out of the water.
As the vortex spun, its radiance dissipated, transforming directly into a