On the East Sea coast, Zhang Dahai, a boy from a fishing village, had one great dream in life: save enough money to buy a bigger boat and marry a capable wife.
After a shipwreck, he found a seven-colored pearl in the sea. It merged with his heart and became a pocket paradise.
There, spirit rice ripened three times a month, silver pomfret grew a foot long in three days, and thousand-year-old coral could be planted with a casual wave of the hand.
From then on, other people cultivated immortality to fight over treasures, seize territory, and attain eternal life. Zhang Dahai cultivated so he could dive deeper, catch fatter fish, and grow better crops.
Yet for some reason, every time he returned from the sea, his cultivation had risen another notch, his enemies had dwindled, and the mermaid girl's gaze had grown a little gentler.
