Hearing Shi Hao's shout, San Zang and Shen Ming snapped out of their daze.
Both rubbed their eyes, confirming that they had not seen wrongly. It really was a fish, and an enormous one at that.
Huang was hauling hard on his fishing rod, leading the fish back and forth through the Sea Waterfall as though playing it out.
The trio from the Foreign Realm also stared blankly. Why had they never heard of living creatures in the Sea Waterfall?
Thousands of zhang from shore, high in the air, a terrifying dorsal fin broke the water's surface. It was immense, hideous, and intimidating, its species impossible to identify.
"Come help already! This fish is tens of thousands of zhang long. It's really hard to haul in," Shi Hao urged.
"Check!"
San Zang spoke.
He and Shen Ming took out a pile of ancient books. They were exceedingly old, many predating this epoch, and some had even begun to crumble.
The two leafed through them, searching for records of the Sea Waterfall.
"There really is something!"
Shen Ming stared at the tattered jade book in her hands and spoke in astonishment.
It was an anecdote of questionable credibility, so no one had ever paid it much attention.
The account claimed that Ancestral Fish Fry lived in the Sea Waterfall, swimming over from its far end. They were extraordinarily rare; one might not see even one or two in an entire epoch.
Countless years ago, a Burial King had once seen one. He had not yet become a Burial King then. After encountering the Ancestral Fish Fry, he followed it and vanished for a time. Upon returning, he embarked on the Burial King Path.
San Zang and Shen Ming's hearts pounded after reading this account. Could an Ancestral Fish Fry set a