"Why?"
Zhou Qing smiled. "Our Red Assembly respects your culture, traditions, and history. We will not deliberately tarnish them.
It is indeed an indisputable fact that after Poseidon became a god, he forgot his identity as a human, obstructed the cycle of the sea, and disrupted nature's balance.
But—
the courage he displayed while conquering the sea was the greatest hymn of all!
That is something I deeply admire."
At this point, Zhou Qing sighed. "I imagine that what you descendants of the ministers who once followed Poseidon in his conquest of the sea wish to inherit is not merely those glorious memories of the past, is it?
The right path is to find, within that history, the things that move your hearts!
As the Sea God, Poseidon is already dead.
But as a human, the spirit of Poseidon—the man who dared challenge the sea—will never disappear. It will continue flowing forever within the human heart."
After hearing this, tears streamed endlessly from Sea Dragon Douluo's eyes. He fell to his knees and asked almost hysterically, "Were we truly wrong?"
"Poseidon was not wrong, but the Sea God was."
Zhou Qing denied the Sea God, yet affirmed Poseidon. "Perhaps one day, I too will call myself a god and stray onto the wrong path... When that happens, I hope someone can correct me. And if I cannot be corrected, you may kill me. That is all."
Faced with someone who expressed his views so bluntly, Sea Dragon Douluo and the others, as well as Bibi Dong, were all stunned.
At that moment, they realized that what Zhou Qing and the Red Assembly pursued was neither power nor authority, but something that transcended systems, transcended even the realm of gods—
belief!
That was why Red Assembly members never concealed their thoughts!