"Awooo~ aaah~~ mm~ aw-awoo~~"
The long, lilting whale song drifted over the blue-white gleam of the sea, like an ancient summons from the ocean. The singing of those primordial creatures was so distant and vast, and so soul-shaking. Even from hundreds of li away, it could be heard clearly.
"Woo~ ohhh~ ah~ awoo-awoo~"
Seven or eight enormous Humpback Whales gradually surfaced amid the whale song. They turned their graceful, arcing bodies, rolling up the waves by the shore as well. From several hundred meters beneath the sea, they had heard the song from the distant south, and so they too raised their voices, using the ocean children's similar melodies to answer, joyfully and leisurely, the whale pod far away at the edge of the sky.
In this age, these whale pods roaming carefree in the deep sea were the "children of the ocean" with no natural enemies, sacred beasts worshiped by boundless coastal tribes, and the true rulers of the ocean depths. And the far-carrying whale songs with which the pods communicated with each other were this age's fastest, swiftest means of communication!
These low-frequency songs, full of emotion and greetings, could travel through the endless blue sea at 1.4 kilometers per second, and be heard by their own kind within two to three thousand kilometers. And at this very moment, of these two whale pods singing and answering each other, one had come from the whale port where whales gathered five thousand li away, while the other was swimming around Divine Whale Port. Their joyful antiphonal song, even across five thousand li, had only an hour's delay!
"Oh! Main God, Buddha! What an entrancing song! High one moment, low the next, never stopping... It truly sounds like the chanting of Jiaoren in the sea, able to sink deep into