I Found the Dragon Palace While Foraging at Sea, So I Sealed the Coast That Very Night

After his father disappeared when his ship sank, Chen Zhou was left with three million yuan in debt. To pay it off, he had no choice but to livestream his daily beachcombing. One day, as the tide went out, he found a crystal palace the size of his palm wedged between some rocks. It had everything: palace gates, dragon pillars, and coral trees. There were even shrimp soldiers the size of his thumb patrolling the palace walls. Everyone in the livestream chat said he’d found a fancy fish tank ornament. An antiques expert declared on camera that it was just a modern resin casting, worth no more than eighty yuan wholesale. But Chen Zhou discovered that no matter how he tilted it, the seawater inside the palace never spilled out. He merely tried putting it back in a tide pool. The next second, sea levels along the entire Chinese coast dropped by one centimeter. Far below the surface, a row of glazed rooftops appeared where none should have been. Netizens still insisted it was special effects. The expert also thought it was just a visual illusion caused by an extreme low tide. That was, until satellites rescanned the seabed and found an underwater city spanning three hundred square kilometers, appearing out of nowhere within China’s territorial waters. Countless sea creatures bowed before the city. And behind its tightly shut palace gates, a golden dragon coiled. Then a hoarse voice came from the miniature Dragon Palace Chen Zhou had found. “The Dragon Palace has returned.” “New Dragon Lord, please enter the sea and claim your throne.”