"Cough, cough, Old Monster, don't tease her."
Zhou Qing clenched his fist, brought it to his mouth, coughed twice, then held out his hand to Li Ya. "Welcome aboard."
"I'm not human. Can I really fit into human society?"
Li Ya remained impassive, merely staring at Zhou Qing, trying to read his expression.
"Although we of the Mermaid Clan can awaken Martial Souls like humans, we are also Soul Beasts. If we are killed by humans, we will still drop Soul Rings, perhaps even Soul Bones."
"And for Soul Masters among humans to break through their bottlenecks, they must hunt Soul Beasts and obtain Soul Rings—"
"We are natural enemies."
"You..."
Thump!
Before Li Ya could finish, Ariel knocked her on the head and scolded, "Don't speak to someone chosen by the Will of the Ocean like that. If he is willing, he can become the Sea God—the faith of your Sea Princess clan."
"How could you do that?"
Li Ya covered the top of her head, her eyes welling with tears as though that blow had hurt terribly. "Auntie, aren't you a mermaid too?"
"Have you forgotten? I am a lifeform nurtured by the ocean, the Daughter of the Sea. Though I have the appearance of a mermaid, I am not one." Ariel shook her head helplessly. "So I stand with the ocean, not the Mermaid Clan—unless your mother and sister abandon their faith in Poseidon and overthrow Sea God Island."
Li Ya lowered her head, utterly speechless.
Overthrow Sea God Island?
Keep dreaming!
Even though she now understood the truth behind the Sea God gathering faith to become divine—at the cost of her grandfather Neptune's life, he had made all life in the ocean believe in him, forging the position of Sea God.
Poseidon, the Sea God, was