It is said that in the Blue Sea, there is a monstrously colossal creature of unimaginable proportions. This beast is so unimaginably huge that when it reveals itself, people can only ever see its head, its tail, or some single part of its body, never its entirety. One might say it is a beast as vast as a small nation. A millennium ago, someone enraged this creature, driving it into a furious frenzy. It swallowed the coastal city of the person who provoked it straight into its belly. Afterwards, people assumed the city had been utterly destroyed and that everyone within it had surely perished. Yet ever since then, roughly every hundred years, individuals claiming to be survivors of this city appear. They sell off vast quantities of rare heavenly treasures in exchange for massive amounts of basic supplies and sailing ships, before vanishing deep into the Blue Sea.
Thus, legends arose that the city had not completely vanished, but had survived by sheer coincidence within the belly of this giant beast. There are even travelogues of dubious authenticity whose authors claim to have journeyed through this city and experienced all manner of unimaginable encounters within its walls. The city is called Mobiemobie—yes, Hao Qi confirmed time and again that the city is indeed called Mobiemobie. This is the naming convention of the desert civilization on the western coast of the Blue Sea, meaning "Pearl Pearl." According to the customs of the desert civilization, repeating a word twice em…
Chapter 20