The towering wave peak was formed from strange seawater. At its summit, the current slowed, and the Dragon Boat glided forward.
The Dragon Boat stood at the highest point of the peak. Ahead lay a gentle slope, and beyond that, a steep, sweeping descent.
Between the gentle slope and the steep descent lay a Sea Lake as still as any ordinary lake. Rivers of many different colors branched out from it in every direction, the narrowest over ten zhang wide and the widest nearly a hundred.
At that moment, three tower ships stood at the entrances to three pale golden rivers. The instant they saw Fang Yun, all three men smiled, then steered their ships into the pale golden rivers. Those three rivers vanished behind them.
The rivers here fell into three main colors-white, silver, and gold-with lighter and darker shades within each.
Fang Yun's eyes lit up at the sight of the River in the Sea, for it was renowned among the human race.
At the end of a white river, there would always be an ordinary lower-grade Literary Heart Fish longer than one foot but shorter than five. While sailing along the river, one could encounter Literary Heart Fish of varying lengths, though most were under five feet. In the darker white rivers, middle-grade Literary Heart Fish longer than five feet occasionally appeared.
At the end of a silver river, there would always be a middle-grade Literary Heart Fish, which might embody either an ordinary literary heart or a peerless literary heart.
Silver rivers contained all kinds of Literary Heart Fish, and the proportion of lower-grade and middle-grade fish was far greater than in white rivers.
As for golden Literary Heart Fish, accounts had always differed, because so few people had made it through a golden river. Only