Chapter 240: The Aquatic Dilemma
Zhong Linger took out the mace and poked it into the holes on the turtle shell. The thorns on the mace made people feel both painful and itchy. Prime Minister Turtle kept twisting his body, and finally said in a crying voice: "Can you be a human being and stop torturing me? Just kill me with one knife."
"Ah, actually, you should understand that I don't mean to kill you. I just want to know the truth. If you tell me, I will let you go."
"But I said I would die, and the Dragon King would not let me go."
"But if you don't say it and I don't say it, who knows if you said it. Why would the Dragon King want to see what I want him to see? If you were tied up when the Dragon King came and you didn't say anything despite being bullied by us, then you are loyal to the water tribe, and the sun and the moon can testify to that. Of course, if you don't say anything, when the Dragon King asks us for you, you will definitely be treated as a guest of honor, and I'm not sure if the Dragon King will think too much about it."
Prime Minister Turtle said in hatred: "You humans are so cunning."
Zhong Ling'er rarely said anything nonsense, but said seriously: "The human race is cunning, we are just trying to protect ourselves, you were the one who planned to harm us first, weren't you?"
"And you have been using the same old tricks time and time again, fooling the human race for more than 20,000 years. Don't you allow us to fight back? You don't think we really know nothing, do you?"
Prime Minister Turtle was silent for a while, then said, "This matter concerns the peace between the South China Sea aquatic creatures and the human race. Although we have done something wrong, we have no intention of becoming an enemy of the human race, and we do not want the two races to become enemies, which would lead to the loss of lives."
Zhong Ling'er felt that there was a chance, and immediately patted her chest and assured: "Don't worry, I am not a warlike person. The demons and fallen angels are already troublesome enough, and I don't want to fight with the water tribe. I just want to know the truth, and I will definitely save your life."
With Zhong Ling'er's promise, Prime Minister Turtle changed back into human form and sat up with difficulty. The human race became defensive, and the Dragon King's plan was doomed to fail. From what Zhong Ling'er said, they already knew a lot of things and now just wanted to verify them, so there was nothing wrong with saying it out loud.
So after sorting out his thoughts, Prime Minister Turtle told everyone what had happened.
After the great war between gods and demons, a hole was punched in the bottom of the South China Sea. Somehow, this hole was connected to the Lethe River in the underworld. There were countless evil spirits in the Lethe River. Since then, evil spirits have often come out of the hole to do evil in the South China Sea.
Every time these evil spirits are eliminated, countless lives of aquatic creatures are sacrificed, but for some reason, the souls of the dead aquatic creatures are incomplete, and therefore they cannot be reincarnated. Over time, they also become evil spirits. This vicious cycle continues, and the aquatic creatures suffer more and more casualties, and they are suffering terribly.
Later, by chance, two monks died while helping the water tribe fight. Their souls actually merged with many residual souls of the water tribe and took them to the underworld. This gave the water tribe hope. As long as the human souls could take the residual souls away, it would not be difficult to guard this evil soul cave.
Zhong Linger frowned, "There's a hole in the seabed. Shouldn't you consider plugging it? It's not a good idea to keep guarding it all the time."
Prime Minister Turtle sighed, "Why don't you want to stop it? We have tried everything. There is no way. The Dragon King invited many great men from your human race to take a look, but they couldn't do anything. What's even more infuriating is that after these people returned, they warned the human cultivators to stay away from the water tribe, and let the water tribe solve this problem on their own."
Zhong Ling'er was a little surprised. Are the human elders so cold-blooded and ruthless?
"He's not wrong." Cang Yu's voice rang out in Zhong Ling'er's sea of consciousness. "The world of immortal cultivation was in chaos at that time. There were monsters and demons everywhere doing evil. Some ghosts also came out to get involved. It can be said that everyone was in danger and everyone wanted to stay away from trouble."
Zhong Ling'er signaled Prime Minister Turtle to continue.
"After several thousand years, there were too many evil spirits. The South China Sea aquatic creatures could no longer control the situation, but the human race gradually settled down. So someone suggested that the Dragon King take out the treasured immortal inheritance as bait to induce the human cultivators to fight and die for it. Then, the souls that had just left the body, that is, the living souls, were collected and the remaining souls were taken away. This way, the evil spirits in the South China Sea could be solved."
"So the Dragon King sent an envoy to say that there was an immortal island in the South China Sea. There was an immortal inheritance on the island, and the immortal world needed to select outstanding young cultivators to inherit it. The selection method was to hold the Five States Competition, and the competition venue was in the innate divine object Dingkun Pearl. Oh, this Dingkun Pearl has the effect of collecting the souls of cultivators."
"Innate divine object?" Zhong Ling'er immediately became alert, "Has this innate divine object always been in the hands of your Dragon King?"
"I heard from the Dragon King that he got it by chance during the war between gods and demons."
Prime Minister Turtle saw that Zhong Ling'er's eyes were sparkling and she was so concerned about the innate divine object, so he immediately added: "Don't think about it, it is the lifeblood of the Dragon King."
Zhong Ling'er smiled and said, "Your Dragon King's life has long been coveted by someone, and she is no different. Of course, she can't say this now."
Qi Haoran angrily kicked Prime Minister Turtle and said, "So you used this lie to trick the monks into giving up their lives, and then you took their souls after death to use for your own purposes. How many people have you killed?"
"You can't blame us for this. As soon as they heard about the immortal inheritance and treasures, they rushed to participate. Moreover, the water tribe never hurt a single cultivator from the beginning to the end. It was the cultivators who killed each other in the fight for treasures and inheritance."
"Then it's not evil that you have done? The lives of your water tribe are lives, but the lives of us humans are not lives?"
"Everyone's life is important, but the big hole in the sea is what my water race has risked their lives to block for generations. Without us, you human cultivators would not be able to live in peace."
After being kicked several times by Qi Haoran, Prime Minister Turtle also lost his temper and said what he had been holding in his heart.
When a big hole appeared on the seabed, everyone left it to the aquatic creatures to deal with it. Why?
The evil deeds of the evil spirits have affected more than just the water tribe. As a result, countless lives of the water tribe have died from generation to generation in order to protect the peace of this world. But who will think well of them, who will help them? They take the lives of a group of monks every two thousand years, and that is the price that the human race should pay.
Zhong Ling'er held back Qi Haoran, who was about to hit someone, and said to Prime Minister Turtle with a cold face: "You water tribes have the evil spirit cave, and we in the world of immortal cultivation also have the battlefield of falling gods. For the peace of this world, there are always some creatures who are carrying the burden forward. We are grateful to these creatures, but this is absolutely not a reason for you to have a clear conscience and kill innocent creatures."
"If there is a problem, we should find a way to solve it instead of taking shortcuts like this. Have you ever thought that this is just a temporary solution and will eventually become a major problem?"
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