Towering mountains and heavenly land, ancient legends are confusing.

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The overwhelming water rotifers went away with the buzzing sound, and there was only a dead silence on the seabed where many creatures could be seen, and even some colorful marine plants were eaten cleanly, leaving some gray mineral remains, as if silently telling the previous encounter.

In a rocky cave at the bottom of the sea, a large pile of rubble blocked the entrance, and this seemingly worthless cave did not attract the attention of the army of hydrobeetles...... Even though the numbers are unusually large, it is clear that this does not increase their intelligence.

At this moment, these messy stones finally began to shake slightly, and after several consecutive shocks, Feng seemed to finally grasp the size of the force, and pushed the messy stones away completely.

Whoa......

A large number of rocks tumbled and scattered on the ground, revealing the cyan figure inside, and he cautiously looked up before he walked out of it completely: "No one in the village has ever mentioned such a catastrophe...... Maybe the adults who saw this scene had already died on the spot. ”

"If you don't get early warning, you won't have time to prepare to hide when those rotifers come into view." The almost invisible body of the aurora fish also quickly swam out of the peak, turning several times above his head, and the signal in the distance quickly fed back a large amount of information detected.

"But at least one thing is for sure, we should be safe now, the swarm is already away from here." Xinglan controlled the signals that monitored the hydrophralists to quickly withdraw, and chuckled, "Now that this crisis has passed, then go ahead, can you still identify the right direction?" ”

After taking a few steps back and forth on the nearby ground to judge the terrain, Feng took a deep breath, then opened his mouth in different directions, and shouted a few words loudly, silently feeling the scattered ultrasounds.

As a species that uses ultrasound to communicate, sea giants actually have a certain echolocation ability, but their ability is far from that of bats and dolphins, and they cannot form a picture detail in their minds as clear as what they see with their own eyes, but more like a hazy intuition...... It feels closer over there, farther away or something, but this intuition is not groundless, it is usually very effective.

Soon, Feng nodded, re-selected a direction and began to walk: "Legend has it that as long as the distance deviation is not too large, follow the upward trend of the ground, and eventually reach the place where the three sacred mountains converge. ”

"Mount Kinabalu?"

Feng had also mentioned this word before, but before Xinglan could ask the details, she was interrupted by the menacing swarm of hydrophores, so she asked again: "I've heard you say before, what are those sacred mountains that are landmarks?" ”

"You don't know?" Feng muttered in some surprise, Xing Lan had already established a knowledgeable image in his heart, but he didn't know these common sense things at the moment, but he also quickly thought that the two sides were not the same kind of creatures at all, "Divine mountains refer to those very tall mountains, very, very high, mountains that can even transcend this world, and extend into nothingness. ”

"Extending into nothingness?" Xing Lan repeated softly, as if she had thought of something, "This kind of sacred mountain, it can't be ......"

"Legend has it that every sacred mountain is inhabited by a god who is out of the world, they are invisible, and even if you can see the whole of the sacred mountain, you will probably not find the figure of those gods." Feng looked up with a hint of reverence, telling the stories of those villages that had been passed down since ancient times, and which may have begun in the early days when the village was first built...... It may even come from the sights of ancient ancestors who have not yet been able to find the site of the village and have been wandering in the vast ocean, "It is said that these mysterious gods may take any form, they may be various animals, they may be just a drop of water or a void of gas, but they will silently watch what happens in this world in the shadows." ”

"That ......," Xing Lan interrupted Feng's description of the imaginary gods of the sea giant, "Is the sacred mountain you are talking about being able to pass through the top layer of planes and enter a place where you can easily wave your arms quickly, but you can't breathe?" ”

The brightness of the light fungus slowly increased, turning into a light source that could illuminate a long distance in front of him at a speed visible to the naked eye, and also illuminated the cyan shell on Feng's body, so that Xinglan could clearly see that he nodded...... The sea giant's nodding and shaking his head is almost exactly the same as that of the earthlings: "Yes, it is said that it is an environment where gods and sacred beasts can live, and all mortal beings cannot survive in that ethereal environment. ”

That's right, that's true. Xing Lan's heart was clear at once, what could extend all the way to the void of the divine mountain, simply refers to those submarine rocks that can stretch out of the sea all the way and even form small islands! As for the so-called Heavenly Realm Sacred Beasts, it is estimated that they are only land creatures that the sea giants occasionally witness. It's really hard for them to imagine how those creatures can breathe freely in an environment without water.

So, the so-called place where the three sacred mountains converge refers to a sea area where there are three small islands that are very close to each other, that is, do you first have to find the nearest place where the three islands converge?

"So, according to this, the heavenly land you mentioned earlier are those continents that are at the height of the sacred mountain?" Xinglan thought back to what Feng had said before, "Isn't this land......

"Land?" Feng was a little puzzled, but he still patiently explained, "Similar to the sacred mountain, it extends into that void space, but the boundless entity is called the heavenly earth, according to the ancestors, the living beings after death will be reincarnated in that void land, and only the most holy souls can continue to fly on that land...... For there is no sin left to make it heavy. ”

"Well, it is estimated that the sea giant never dared to hunt birds...... Xing Lan complained silently, she didn't expect that this sea giant living in a small village in the deep sea still knew so many things, it seems that although hundreds of millions of years of history have not allowed them to develop technology, it has produced extremely rich myths and legends, and has passed down the travel and hearing of their ancestors.

In fact, Xinglan also noticed an interesting problem early on: sea giants can actually go ashore.

If it is an ordinary deep-sea fish, they have long adapted to the environment of deep sea pressure, and can generate the same pressure in the body to ensure that they are intact, but after they are fished out at once, it is easy to explode from the inside to the outside because the pressure in the body is far greater than the external pressure, which is why almost no one can feed these deep-sea fish on the ground.

But unlike the sea giants, they seem to have a system that detects changes in external pressure and adjusts internal pressure accordingly...... Like some cetaceans that are able to dive deep to hunt and surface at the surface, the difference in pressure does not affect them as long as they have enough time to adapt to the changes.

Judging from Xinglan's observations, this adjustment system has a wide range of control, and it is definitely capable of adjusting the pressure in the body to the level of standard atmospheric pressure, which means that the sea giant can go directly to land.

Their cyan shell covers most of the surface of their bodies, preventing both water loss and ultraviolet radiation from the sun, which are very advantageous structures to operate on land, and as for the problem of the shell becoming heavy after leaving the buoyancy of the sea, the sea giant's powerful hydraulic auxiliary system can still support this weight for a short time.

In this way, the only problem that can restrain the sea giant's movement on land is the problem of breathing. The sea giants breathe entirely in their gills and do not have lungs that can breathe in the air, which is also a problem that cannot be solved at all. At most, they can only dive like earthlings, hold their breath and stay ashore for a few minutes, and then they have to go back to the water.

However, although it is short-lived, it should be enough for the ancestors of the sea giants to peek a little into some forms of land creatures.

"From the entrance of the village near the mountain range, follow the direction of a roughly straight line until you reach a place where three sacred mountains converge, from where you can see the nearest heavenly land. Walk in the direction of the Heavenly Land to the World Boundary, and then go around the distance of about four villages to the right, and after passing through an empty boat area, you can find the abyssal rift. ”

Xinglan repeated the route that Feng had said before, "The content of the first half is already clear, starting from the village and following a straight line until you reach the place where the three islands converge, and then from there you can see the nearest continent, and after walking in the direction of the mainland...... The boundary of the world should be the boundary of sea and land, but the four villages, what kind of distance unit is this? ”

"Four villages means the length of four villages." Feng answered this question very simply and clearly.

"The diameter of the village is about a kilometer, so the distance is a little more than four kilometers, which is really a straightforward unit of measurement...... In this way, this legend must have been circulated after the establishment of the village. Xinglan laughed, but there was still a hint of doubt, "But how is this distance measured?" Is it all about feeling? ”

"Nope." Feng shook his head as he walked forward, "It is said that ancestors judged distance by the time it took to move at a constant speed, and it took about four times as long to get there as it would take to cross the village. ”

Xinglan was really taken aback this time: "You have a timing tool?" ”

"Actually, it's not that accurate, the calculation time is mainly based on ......" Feng was about to say something, when he was suddenly stunned and looked down at his feet.

In this dead land swept by the water wheels, they finally saw other living beings again.