This child was Wu Qingyang, the clam spirit Shi Feiyang had met in the Eastern Sea and later rescued in the Northern Sea. He had felt that life as a nonhuman was too bitter and wanted to become human, so he had begged Shi Feiyang to send him to be reborn as one. Shi Feiyang had arranged for him to be born into a fishing family in the Northern Sea.
The Northern Sea of this world was enormous. Although it was the smallest of the four seas, it was still far larger than the Pacific Ocean on Earth.
Considering the North Pole alone, Ancestor Hollow Space's Unfixed Island lay at the outlet of the Earth's Axis. Chaos primordial qi flowed through this axis, which was actually the geomagnetic axis, and Unfixed Island stood at the geomagnetic pole.
Elsewhere lay Eternal Night Island, shrouded in everlasting night, without a glimmer of sunlight for hundreds of millions of years. Opposite the highest point of the Bright Realm, where an illusory sun hung high, it marked the true axis dividing the earth in two. Thus, this world's Eastern Sea was larger than its Western Sea. This axis was offset from Unfixed Island by more than two hundred and ninety-three thousand li!
The place where Shi Feiyang had sent Wu Qingyang for Reincarnation was already close to the far north. The waters where he had gathered ten-thousand-year coral were called the Black Sea. Little sunlight reached them, black winds blew all year round, monstrous waves towered into the sky, and vast numbers of nonhuman Aquatic Beings rampaged there.
Although Shi Feiyang had flown quite a distance south at the time, conditions were still harsh. Fishermen who could survive in such a place were nothing like those along the coast of the Central Land. They