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    ☆、Hai’s daughter-in-law 12

    The Emperor of the Sea, the supreme leader of the mermaid clan, has been in this position for more than two thousand years.

    Legend has it that after the First Emperor unified Liuhe, he kept sending people overseas to search for the Penglai Fairy Mountain. It was at that time that he discovered mermaids living in the sea.This wonderful creature with a human body and fish tail was immediately regarded as a natural creature by humans. They have graceful figures and beautiful faces. Not only do they have beautiful singing voices, they are good at weaving croakers worth thousands of gold, and their tears can turn into pearls.

    How could such a creation not attract human greed?After the emperor learned about it, he was even more delighted, and ordered that all the mermaids must be captured as proof of his outstanding achievements. The mermaid clan was now facing annihilation.

    In the process of fleeing and resisting, the number of mermaids decreased sharply. In order to protect the group, under the recommendation of all the mermaids, they elected a leader whom everyone expected – this is the first Poseidon Emperor.

    Compared to the huge number of humans, the mermaids were ultimately invincible. Under the leadership of the Sea Emperor, the mermaids left the offshore sea and looked for a new home in the vast expanse.However, although the ocean is huge, not every place is suitable for mermaids to live. They drifted with the ocean currents until they discovered a huge eye of the sea in the deepest part of the South China Sea.

    The eye of the sea is ten thousand feet deep and surrounded by turbulent reefs. Only mermaids with excellent water skills can enter and exit freely.In the eye of the sea, countless corals, hawksbill turtles, snails, clams, and pearls grow among them, like thousands of stars dotted on the sky.Just under the stars, in the center of the eye of the sea, is a temple.

    “God… Temple?”

    “Yes,” Haiyuan’s voice was soft and indifferent, as if he was recalling the magnificence of the temple, “To be precise, it is the ruins of the temple.”

    Why is there a ruined temple in a place where no living being should have ever set foot?It is certain that with human power, it is absolutely impossible to enter the Eye of the Sea, so this can only be a relic left by the gods.

    The mermaids worshiped this, because they were afraid that the unknown god would not allow them to settle here, so the Emperor of the Sea did not hesitate and entered the ruins alone.No one knew what was found inside. While everyone was waiting anxiously, Poseidon finally returned safely and announced in public that the gods allowed them to stay here and would protect them.And that temple enshrines the artifacts left by the gods. From then on, they are the sacred objects of the mermaid clan.

    “Such a sacred object has since become the basis for mermaids to select a new Neptune Emperor. The first Neptune Emperor left a last word before his death. Only mermaids recognized by the sacred object can become Neptune Emperors.”

    And every child born on the day of the death of the Poseidon will be selected as a candidate for the Poseidon. They need to be sent to the temple to touch the sacred objects. If the sacred objects bring revelation, they will be crowned as the new Poseidon.

    After becoming the Sea Emperor, the mermaid will abandon her past surname and be given the surname “Hai”. This is why Chaoyuan is now called Haiyuan.

    The surname “Hai” and the sea map are the two symbols of the Sea Emperor.The sea map is made from the essence and blood of the previous generation of Poseidon, and is drawn on the new Poseidon using a special secret method.Therefore, in order to obtain the sea map, the reigning Poseidon must die.

    “I think you still remember the mermaid who attacked me that night.” Seeing Yao Ji nodding, Haiyuan smiled faintly, “He, like me, has been a candidate for the Sea Emperor, but unlike every previous candidate, we both received divine enlightenment when we came into contact with the sacred objects.”

    That is a rare event that is still talked about by mermaids more than three hundred years later.Whether it is written records or hearsay, it is said that thousands of golden lights suddenly bloomed in the temple that day, and all the fish present were stunned, because on the sacred object, there were two baby hands.

    “Both of them were recognized as holy objects at the same time. Even the great elder of the Presbyterian Council couldn’t make a decision, so Xunzhou and I, the mermaid, were left in the Sea Palace together to be trained as Sea Kings at the same time. The Presbyterian Council decided after discussion. When we become adults, we will decide who will be the Sea King based on the performance of both parties. You also know the result,” the mermaid lowered her eyes, “I was the one chosen.”

    “So…Xunzhou is resentful and wants to kill you in order to seize the throne of Poseidon?”

    Haiyuan shook his head: “That’s not the case. Xunzhou is just a puppet of the Presbyterian Church.” He smiled, “Just like me in the past.”

    “The reason why I was being hunted and had to flee was simple – I touched something I shouldn’t have touched.”

    What is that thing?The mermaid commoners think it is tradition and habit, the mermaid nobles call it rules and regulations, but the Presbyterian Council knows full well that it is actually benefits.

    “But I think it should be called the truth.”

    The truth is that Haiyuan was chosen not because he was more suitable to be the Emperor of the Sea, but because he was born in the Chao family. According to the unspoken rules, it was the turn of a child of the Chao family to be the Emperor of the Sea.

    Originally, the Presbyterian Church had secretly arranged everything, and the lucky person from the Chao family would receive divine enlightenment when he touched the holy object. However, they never expected that the real divine enlightenment would appear, and it should also be in two people.

    “What divine revelations and sacred objects are all fake.”

    When the Poseidon made up lies more than two thousand years ago, he might just want to calm the hearts of his subjects, but this lie was passed down from generation to generation, and eventually became a tool for ordinary people to worship and for nobles to gain profits.

    “From more than 2,000 years ago to the present, a total of eleven sea emperors have been born in the mermaid clan. Each sea emperor comes from the four families of Chao, Xi, Xun and Cang. Can you imagine? Yaoyao, the gods are so favored by those four families, and they are not willing to let the glory go to other people, even just a little bit!” The mermaid sneered, “Compared to the human emperors who are inherited directly by blood, I really don’t know what he is.We are more shameless, or we are more despicable.”

    Yao Ji was speechless for a moment, silently holding Haiyuan’s hand and shaking it gently.This action calmed down the mermaid’s anger a little. At the moment when he learned the truth, he was even too painful to accept it. Thinking about it at this time, he was left with only deep powerlessness.

    Sometimes Haiyuan will think that maybe he is happy not knowing the truth.

    Look at Xunzhou, look at those uninformed mermaids, whether they are civilians or nobles, they think there is nothing bad about life now.Led by the Sea Emperor who is recognized by the gods, there are four major families that have protected the mermaid tribe from generation to generation. Most of the mermaids originally had few desires and little demands, and lived aloof from the world. Sometimes they could sing songs at the bottom of the sea for a whole night, and even just picking up a pearl would make them happy for the whole day.

    “But more than two thousand years have passed, and even the eyes of the sea will one day no longer be able to protect us.”

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