The legendary lord of the mermaids, the Heaven-Mystifying Immortal Emperor, had cultivated the mermaids' innate voice to an extraordinary realm. With a single soaring song, he could intoxicate all living things, summon a response from every race, overturn rivers and seas, and make heaven and earth bow before him. Even the three thousand Great Daos could be briefly beguiled and commanded at will. Nothing was beyond him-that was the origin and renown of "Heaven-Mystifying"!
The deed that established his fame occurred during a Sea-Beast Storm calamity that struck once every ten thousand years. After repelling the beast tide, the Heavenfall Sea resolved to exterminate the Sea Clan of the vast, boundless Endless Sea and eliminate the threat forever! An allied army of myriad races launched a powerful counterattack against the Endless Sea, occupying countless islands and hundreds of millions of leagues of ocean in a short time. Innumerable sea beasts were slaughtered, their blood staining the sea and their bones carpeting the waters.
Just as the Sea Clan faced extinction, the little-known lord of the mermaids stepped forward. With just one soaring song, he intoxicated every race. Blood rained from the sky, rivers and seas overturned, and heaven collapsed as the earth shattered. Hundreds of thousands of cultivators from the myriad races died on the spot, and hundreds of immortal warships broke apart and sank. Corpses fell like rain, staining the heavens with blood. Then the sea clans covering the waters went berserk, their combat strength multiplying several times over. Their furious counterattack drove the Heavenfall Sea's allied army back hundreds of millions of leagues. Finally, an Immortal Venerable was provoked into intervening, and only then was that Sea-Beast Storm quelled!
The exact deeds and course of events were difficult to verify; even the identity of the Immortal Venerable who