Douluo: Law of Heaven and Earth

Chapter 735 Definition of Man
"Ahem, old monster, please don't tease me."

Zhou Qing clenched his fist, put it to his mouth, coughed twice, stretched out his hand to Liya, and said, "Welcome to join."

"I am not a human. Can I really integrate into the human race?"

Liya remained indifferent and just stared at Zhou Qing, trying to see his expression.

"Although we mermaids can awaken our martial spirits like humans, we are also spirit beasts. If we are killed, we will still drop spirit rings or even spirit bones."

"And if human soul masters want to break through the bottleneck, they must hunt soul beasts and obtain soul rings—"

“We are natural enemies.”

"you······"

Boom!
Before Leah could finish her words, Ariel knocked her on the head and taught her a lesson: "Don't talk to someone chosen by the will of the sea like that. If he wants, he can become the god of the sea. This is the belief of your clan of sea princesses."

"why is it like this?"

Liya covered her head with her hands, her eyes full of tears, as if the blow just now was very painful, "Aunt, aren't you also a mermaid?"

"Have you forgotten? I am a creature born from the sea, a daughter of the sea. Although I look like a mermaid, I am not a mermaid." Ariel shook her head helplessly, "So, I stand on the side of the sea, not the mermaids, unless your mother and your sister abandon their faith in Poseidon and overthrow Poseidon Island."

Liya lowered her head, quite speechless.

Overthrow Poseidon Island?
Dream on!
Even though she now understood the truth that Poseidon had become a god by gathering faith - at the cost of his grandfather Neptune's life, he made all life in the ocean believe in him and established his position as Poseidon.

Poseidon, the god of the sea, is the enemy of the mermaids!

But the mermaids chose to remain silent. Her mother, the Sea Princess, even recognized the thief as her father and led the mermaids to provide faith to the God of the Sea.

It was precisely because of this understanding that Liya found an opportunity to escape from the mermaid clan and come to Hanhai City. However, she herself did not know what to do in the future...

"Ariel, there's no need to be so harsh on children, right?" Zhou Qing said.

"She is much older than you."

"But mentally, you're still a child, aren't you?" Zhou Qing smiled slightly, leaving Ariel unable to refute.

Afterwards, he said to Liya: "Regarding the fact that soul masters need soul rings to practice, it may not change for a long time."

This is a fact.

In the past, Zhou Qing also believed that studying the aura of soul beasts might be able to break the rules.

But the trip to the Abyss Ruins put his life in jeopardy. The changes at the rule level affected the entire body. God knows if the rule that soul rings of soul beasts will explode after being killed by humans has been changed, and whether the other rules will also be disturbed.

After all, the ability of soul beasts to transform is a glimmer of hope for soul beasts when the will of Douluo Star, or the Earth, is unable to resist the additional rules added to it by other beings.

Changing the rules at will might wipe out this glimmer of hope!
“But please believe that we will keep working hard to find a replacement and promote the coexistence of humans and soul beasts.” Zhou Qing said, “Also, Romantina, Dugu Bo, and I have already opened up our inner scenes. Perhaps you have also heard from Ariel that by opening up our inner scenes, we no longer need soul rings to continue to break through. Even the soul beasts that once became our soul rings have been reborn in our inner scenes.”

After saying that, Zhou Qing shook his shoulders, and a Mooing Spring Ox the size of a fist appeared on his shoulders. Its eyes were lively, and it was definitely not a dead object, or a puppet.

This gave Liya a reassurance.

but--

"But I'm not a human..."

"Do you think you are a human?" Seeing Liya lowering her head, Ariel's eyes also showed a hint of depression. Zhou Qing knew that he couldn't continue and asked the two of them a question. "No, I'm a mermaid." Liya said in a low voice.

"I am... the daughter of the sea." Ariel revealed her identity, but unlike before, her voice was a little depressed.

She doesn't consider herself human either.

"Really? I thought you were human."

Zhou Qing smiled, and in the puzzled looks of the two, he continued, "Indeed, in terms of race and bloodline, you cannot be considered human, but you now live in human society, and your food, clothing, shelter and transportation are no different from those of humans."

"no difference."

"Then you are human!"

"I have always felt that if the concept of human beings is limited to race, it is too narrow. As long as we agree with the thoughts, behaviors and lifestyles of others, that is, we can understand each other and empathize with each other, then even if we are of different blood and race, we can belong to the same group."

"This group is human? The human race? No, I define it as: human. There is no suffix like class or race, just one word, human."

Zhou Qing had long ago come up with a preliminary idea about the future cooperation and development between humans and other intelligent races.

After all, in such an extraordinary world, all kinds of creatures may become soul beasts and develop intelligence. How should humans get along with them?
Kill all non-human races and leave only humans as intelligent creatures on Earth?

So--

Are there other intelligent creatures in the universe?

Was the kill clean?
Therefore, if we redefine the concept of "human" from the spiritual root, then in the future we will definitely be able to win over all intelligent races that are willing to recognize this concept.

And the intelligent races that do not recognize this concept definition——

That is an enemy that will never give way to death. Even if they are killed completely, he or they do not need to have any psychological burden.

“Is this the definition of a human being?”

Liya's eyes trembled.

Ariel was even more stunned.

But the most surprised person was Dugu Bo!

Originally, he thought Zhou Qing just wanted to change the system of the human world so that civilians could have real human rights, but he didn't expect that this kid had already envisioned a broader future between humans, soul beasts, and other intelligent creatures.

"I am a human too?"

Ettarga suddenly asked.

"Well, you can speak human language, so of course you are a human, but you are still in the naughty child stage." Zhou Qing touched the fox ears of Atarja who came forward and laughed.

"Aitalja is a naughty child!" Atalja also laughed. She didn't know what "naughty child" meant. She hugged her feet, arched her back, sucked her fingers, and swayed back and forth like a cradle, with her back against the ground.

"Don't do that, you'll catch a cold." Timitite immediately held Atalga in his arms, rocking her gently from side to side, humming a song, and coaxing Atalga to sleep like a child.

Seeing this heartwarming scene, Ariel and Liko had to admit that what Zhou Qing said was true. As long as they considered themselves to be human, recognized human thoughts, human behaviors, and human lives, and integrated into the human race, then aren't they human beings?
In terms of bloodline and race——

It is indeed too narrow!
(End of this chapter)