Whats the name of this mythology story?

Question

a guy brings a king 2 stones he says have the power to create endless ammounts of anything he wants them to and that he will give them to the king and the secret of there use aslong as he does some simple task for him (i forgot what he wanted, it had something to do with his fammily and hellping the city.) the king instantly realizes he could have it spin endless amounts of gold for his own personal use and doesnt feel like helping the man. so he says show me the stones secrets or ill have u killed. the man says okay but we need to go on the water. they go out into the bay with a boat and the king says now make it spin endless gold. the man throws the stones on the deck and yells "stones, spin salt and never stop.". then the man jumps out of the boat and swims to shore. then men onboard are so amazed they dont notice him leave and yell for him to tell him how to make it spin gold. they try to make it stop when they realize the salts weights sinkin the boat and thats why ocean is salty

Answer 1

The legend of the salt sea. That's the name of the original story the one you read was probably the slightly newer one but it's the same thing.( :