Ten-Thousand-Year Coral

Shi Feiyang looked at a stretch of sea that was extraordinarily dark, yet there was not a trace of haze overhead. The daylight here was exceptionally clear.

He parted the waters and descended to the seabed, where an enormous underwater ring-shaped mountain stood. The entire mountain was made of coral reef, which had been growing for who knew how many tens of millions of years. Corals of every shape kept growing and fusing together, forming hundreds of millions of caves, large and small.

These caves became natural dens for fish, shellfish, shrimp, crabs, and other marine creatures, which flocked here to settle, inevitably slaughtering and devouring one another. Some aquatic creatures that had attained considerable power used their supernatural abilities and magic to excavate and build. Passages crisscrossed the interior, while many strange structures sprang up outside.

At the bottom of the ring-shaped mountain lay a great reef platform. Magnetic Primordial True Qi could occasionally be glimpsed flashing Lan and violet within it, and an expanse of colorful coral grew at its very center.

It was an expanse because the thing stretched more than twenty zhang long and stood two or three zhang tall, like a long wall covered in coral of every color—red and green, Bai and black. Drawing on the Magnetic Primordial True Qi, it shone continuously beneath the sea, its lights rising and falling in turn, bathing a vast stretch of water in bizarre, dazzling colors.

"What a treasure indeed!" Coral grew extremely slowly. For coral this large and so rich in spiritual energy to grow, ten thousand years would scarcely have been enough!

Shi Feiyang recalled passages in the manuscripts Geng Peng had left behind saying things like, "With Ten-Thousand-Year Coral, much painstaking labor can be spared." Such remarks appeared more than once, but they never