Douluo: Law of Heaven and Earth

Chapter 736 Colorful Black

After briefly explaining his own definition of "human", Zhou Qing asked Liya another question: "You ran away from home, the Sea Princess should send someone to look for you, right?"

"I have a way to hide her scent." As the daughter of the sea, it was easy for Ariel to prevent Leah's scent from being tracked by the mermaids.

But Zhou Qing had another idea: "It's not a good idea to keep hiding. Maybe Liya can find a way to win over a group of mermaids."

The mermaid community is huge, and it is impossible for all individuals to believe in the sea god. There must be a small group of people who are willing to pursue the truth.

As a half-human, half-soul beast, mermaids are born with human curiosity and will pursue the truth.

Especially young mermaids, they are bound to have a stronger desire to explore.

Therefore, Zhou Qing hopes that in the future there will be a group of mermaids who can cooperate with humans - the ocean must be developed and utilized in the distant or near future.

If we have the help of mermaids known as sea elves, we will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.

Moreover, since the mermaids believed in the sea god and took away the golden blood of the mermaid, they have long been rejected by the sea. Only by abandoning their belief in Poseidon and obtaining Ariel's forgiveness can they gain the forgiveness of the sea's will.

Why do people say that mermaids have been rejected by the sea?
Ever since the Sea Princess seized Ariel's bloodline and believed in the sea god, the fertility rate of the mermaids has gradually decreased, and the number of males has become even scarcer. All these are the most obvious proofs, so much so that the mermaids have begun to drag human males into the water to reproduce.

The earth, the ocean, and even the entire planet have will.

Perhaps they do not have as complex thinking as humans, but they also have simple and pure emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow and happiness.

"Ah I?"

Liya pointed at herself, a little confused, "I'm still young, it's impossible for me to command other mermaids... Can't my aunt do that?"

"No."

Zhou Qing looked at Ariel for a long time before he said firmly, "Although Ariel has the form of a mermaid, I think you know that she is not a mermaid, but a spirit born from the ocean. She treats all creatures living in the ocean equally, whether they are ordinary creatures, soul beasts, or mermaids."

This is also one of the reasons why Zhou Qing proposed to redefine "human" - even if Leah could not understand, Ariel, the daughter of the sea, would definitely be able to understand his thoughts.

Ariel can be said to be the embodiment of the will of the sea and is much more important than Leah of the sea princess clan.

There was a hint of doubt in Liya's eyes.

Zhou Qing did not continue, but just sighed, then smiled and said: "My fault, after all, you are still very young. For now, you should slowly enjoy your life in the human world. When you find what you want to do, then talk about these things."

The reason why he changed his words was because Zhou Qing realized that in terms of age, his two lifetimes combined was not even a fraction of the other person's, but in terms of intelligence, Liya was really just a child, and might even be worse than Qingzhu Zhu and Ning Rongrong when they were six years old.

Just like now, she had no idea what her aunt Ariel's attitude was towards the mermaids.

Although she has self-awareness, emotions, and was raised by Neptune, the former king of the mermaids, she has a good impression of the mermaids.

but.

When Neptune was killed by Poseidon, no merman dared to resist, and even his own daughter acknowledged the thief as her father, she felt only resentment and anger.

To this day, although Ariel still feels a little close to mermaids, her view of mermaids is not much different from that of other marine creatures.

In fact, Ariel today is relatively close to humans.

And what about Ariel?
Although human hearts are unpredictable, over the long years, compared with the other soul beasts that have transformed for 100,000 years, as the incarnation of the will of the sea, his natural tolerance can show the kindness and beauty contained in the human heart.

Not to mention, in Zhou Qing, especially after he proposed a new definition of "human", she saw a nature of "the sea embraces all rivers, and tolerance is greatness". This spiritual and ideological attribute is far broader than the attribute division of element categories!
"I'm not a child!" Liya felt that she was looked down upon and was a little angry.

"Liya, Zhou Qing means that you have to understand the human world first." Ariel touched her head.

“I’ve been here for two months!”

The implication is that she, Liya, already has some understanding of the human world.

"Two months is too short. We need to stay for at least a hundred years." Ariel said with a smile.

"A hundred years is too long." Zhou Qing coughed, "I guess, with Liya's intelligence, a dozen years will be enough."

The transformed soul beasts can grow rapidly in the human world.

As a half-human, half-sea soul beast, the mermaid's intelligence develops almost the same as that of humans. It's just that they live on the seabed most of the time without contact with the outside world, so their thinking develops more slowly.

Now that Liya has come to the human world, her growth must be extremely fast. Even the people and things she has come into contact with in the past two months have brought a shock to her soul that is far more shocking than the memories of her life in the past ten thousand years.

If Liya's previous life memories were like a tank of clear water, plain and ordinary, then the memories of the two months in the seafood restaurant were like a drop of ink.

Ordinary ink dropped into a water tank will quickly disappear.

But the memory of intelligent creatures cannot be described in this way. People always remember the most impressive memories vividly, and they recall and miss them repeatedly, but they don’t care about the ordinary memories of life at all.

Therefore, Zhou Qing was certain that the memory ink accumulated over the past two months had already dyed Liya's jar of memory water into a variety of colors.

"More than ten years? Don't you think too highly of me?"

Liya held her head high. "In just three years, I will be able to understand everything about humans!"

Zhou Qing: “…”

three years?

I thought too much about you!

"Three years is far from enough." Ariel tapped Liya's head and smiled slightly, "Take your time. Just like Zhou Qing said, find what you want to do first."

"Things? Does selling seafood count?"

Honestly speaking, Liya wasn't really opposed to selling seafood. After all, mermaids were flesh and blood and needed to eat. It was impossible for them to completely replace eating with cultivation.

"certainly--"

Ariel rolled her eyes. "It doesn't count! You're just an intern who's been eating and drinking for free at the seafood restaurant for two and a half months!"

Mermaid selling seafood...

It’s okay for me, after all, I’m not a real mermaid.

But Leah is a mermaid!
If the day really comes when humans and soul beasts coexist, and mermaids start selling seafood to make a living... Ariel can't imagine what that future will be like.

This is definitely a joke from hell!
【But imagine it, it feels quite interesting? 】

(End of this chapter)