69novels Chapter 1093 Past Events
Chapter 1093 Past Events
Chapter 1093 Past Events
"We've worshipped the Sea God for generations! You brat, instead of striving to protect him, what do you want to do?"
"If Xiao Hai can rise to the position of High Priest in the future, that would be great too!"
"Xiao Hai! You haven't done your prayers for today! Where have you been?!"
The calls from the woman and the man made Huo Yuhao feel as if he had arrived in a secluded village where people had lived by fishing for generations.
The men went out to sea to fish, or went up the mountain to hunt, or farmed to grow food.
The women stayed home to teach their children, weave fishing nets, or tend their own farmland.
With its crisscrossing paths and the sounds of chickens and dogs, this is a secluded paradise, where every household's chimney emits wisps of white smoke.
Commerce here is based on barter, and the men's attire consists of pieces made of sea monster teeth and special furs.
The women's jewelry consisted of pieces made from the sea or produced by shell-like spirit beasts.
Huo Yuhao followed Xiao Hai's perspective, that is, the perspective of Xiao Hai Douluo, and watched the village.
"Xiao Hai! Where have you been?! Did you even do your prayers?!"
"Here it comes!"
Xiao Hai was adorning himself with a scale that looked like the size of a head, smooth as a mirror, belonging to some unknown sea spirit beast.
He has a girl he likes, the village chief's second daughter.
Those strong, powerful arms, slender figure, and bronze skin fascinated him.
It was just a pity for Huo Yuhao, who was watching the memories of Douluo Dalu's life.
Putting aside the issue of social status, the village chief's second daughter's impressive biceps alone would be enough to crush Xiao Hai, this little bronze-faced guy.
At this stage, Xiao Hai is not the kind of powerful figure who can bring terrifying pressure to Huo Yuhao with just his remnant soul. Instead, he is a skinny dog with decent fishing skills, as thin as a bamboo pole.
Like most of the children in the village, he longed to stand next to the village chief's second daughter, while the village chief's eldest daughter was one of the village's priestesses.
Like any other ordinary child, Xiao Hai experiences feelings of inferiority and self-doubt during his innocent romantic relationships, which then leads to a painful period of adolescence.
However, Xiao Hai was very lucky. He awakened a very good martial soul, the Sea Spirit Dragon, a powerful sea spirit beast with a long body similar to a dragon and small wings on its back.
Compared to his father's eel martial soul and his mother's seahorse martial soul, Xiao Hai's awakening of a mutated martial soul was incredibly lucky.
Then Huo Yuhao watched as Xiao Hai, relying on his talent, became an apprentice of a sea god's guardian, triumphing all the way, training in the ocean, swimming in the underwater world, and honing himself with the help of tsunamis and terrifying whirlpools, becoming a strongman day after day.
Xiao Hai also did not forget his first love. With the village chief's recommendation, he entered the temple of the sea god and started as a guard, gradually getting closer to the inner circle.
Xiao Hai's life also had a perfect ending; he married the girl he loved and, with the help of his wife's sister, became a priestess of the sea god.
Under his wife's loving gaze, Xiao Hai was bestowed with the title "Xiao Hai" (meaning "Howling Sea").
Xiaohai Douluo raised his trident high and knelt before the statue of the sea god to swear an oath.
"Isn't it perfect? He married the girl he loved and achieved a position that everyone in the village envies."
The voice of Xiaohai Douluo rang out.
Huo Yuhao knew that a tragic ending was hidden in this seemingly happy and fulfilling process.
Otherwise, Xiaohai Douluo wouldn't have been able to shatter the Sea God statue with a single punch.
In the subsequent memory fragments, Xiao Hai, who had become the Roaring Sea Douluo, suddenly felt strange about his faith.
Why is it that despite people worshipping day after day and year after year, they still fail to receive a response from the sea god or even the ocean?
Because Xiao Hai was once the most rebellious boy in the village, and even had an inherently unyielding personality, coupled with his considerable experience at sea, he had developed a rather wild nature.
Because of his wife and father-in-law's family, he did not voice his doubts openly, but kept them buried in his heart.
How long is their family history?
How long has this statue of the sea god been standing here?
Did our ancestors really receive the protection of the sea god or witness miracles?
One question after another blossomed and took root in Xiaohai Douluo's heart.
He never witnessed the miracles of the sea god while he was fighting in various parts of the sea, but most of the highly intelligent sea spirit beasts worshipped the sea god.
He once asked a sentient being among the sea spirit beasts, who was a Tuoxian sea turtle that had lived for hundreds of thousands of years.
At that time, Douluo Dalu asked, "Does the Sea God really exist?"
Did the ocean truly bestow miracles?
However, the giant sea turtle that had lived for hundreds of thousands of years simply shook its head, leaving behind the words, "The sea will always be the sea, but the sea god will not always be the sea god. Legend has it that the sea god will appear to appease the sea's anger when it is in turmoil."
"A turmoil in the ocean?" Huo Yuhao asked, as it was the first time he had ever heard this term.
He knows about volcanic eruptions, he knows about earthquakes, but what about ocean turmoil? What would that look like?
Xiaohai Douluo glanced at Huo Yuhao, and even his empty eye sockets revealed his disdain.
"The so-called ocean riot is just the extreme agitation of the sea spirit beasts. Kid, humans don't know how many sea spirit beasts there are, but if all the sea spirit beasts go on a rampage, it will be a disaster for the ocean, and even a disaster for the land."
After hearing Xiaohai Douluo's explanation, a scene immediately came to Huo Yuhao's mind.
Countless sea spirit beasts are rioting, disrupting ocean currents, submerging land, and causing the overlords hidden in the deep sea to emerge from the surface, stirring up towering waves.
That's what the end of the world looks like.
"And then? Senior, did you really find the Sea God? Did the sea really riot?" Huo Yuhao asked anxiously.
If a truly colossal wave were to be unleashed, would humans on land be able to cope with it?
"What's your hurry, kid? I've only told less than a fifth of my story." Xiaohai Douluo shook his neck, his bones cracking, as if afraid he would shake his neck off if he used too much force.
Huo Yuhao: ……
Actually, he just came to get the Nautilus. Listening to your old man's stories is no fun!
But if Huo Yuhao needs to know how to enter and exit this Sea God Temple, he needs to know what exactly happened at the Sea God Temple.
So he patiently continued listening.
Xiaohai Douluo could tell that Huo Yuhao wasn't interested, and since he didn't know how long his soul fire could burn, he simply skipped around in his speech.
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"I have never witnessed a major ocean turmoil, but I have seen two large groups of sea spirit beasts fighting. That scene was actually a minor ocean turmoil. The ocean currents in an entire area were disrupted, blood stained the entire sea, the seabed was murky, and corpses littered the sea."
"The sea no longer seemed like a sea, but a red sea."
Huo Yuhao felt a chill run down his spine. Two great sea spirit beast clans covered a vast area of the sea, and all he could see was the Crimson Sea. How many deaths must have occurred?
It's probably in the tens of thousands, right?
Xiaohai Douluo's voice was somewhat intermittent, which was due to his emotions.
Although he was already an undead skeleton and felt no fear, the memories deep in his mind still evoked the emotional illusions he had as a human when he was the Roaring Sea Douluo.
"Even in that situation, the Sea God still didn't appear. Instead, it attracted another Sea God temple. I was welcomed because I am from the Sea God temple on White Fish Coast. But boy, the other Sea God temple I'm talking about wasn't built by humans, and its believers aren't human either, but sea spirit beasts, mermaids!" said Xiaohai Douluo.
"The Merfolk!" Huo Yuhao had seen related records in Shrek Academy's collection of books. They were a unique race of the sea, and legend has it that they were the first believers of the first sea god, Moxia.
"Before I came out, the high priest gave me a token of the sea god, so the merfolk invited me into the sea god's temple located at the bottom of the sea. There, I learned something: gods are not born, but are chosen by the sea through trials in the secret realm of the ocean, and thus become sea gods!"
"In other words, the god I have been worshipping since birth may have originally been a human being. Of course, it doesn't matter, after all, once someone becomes a god, they are a god. It just makes me feel that my faith has collapsed a bit."
Xiaohai Douluo raised his head and stared at the ceiling covered with murals.
"In addition to worshipping the sea god, all the temples of the sea god are also required to fulfill the duty of protecting the sea and ensuring its stability. Furthermore, they are required to regularly select some people and send them to the secret lands of the sea to become the force that protects the secret lands of the sea. However, once they go there, they can never come back."
Upon hearing this, Huo Yuhao began to wonder if the so-called Great Ocean Secret Land had chosen the wife of Xiaohai Douluo.
Did this cause the young couple to be separated?
After all, Ye Nanxiao had said before that killing one's parents, stealing one's wife, and cutting off someone's livelihood were all irreconcilable feuds.
Refusing to let him return is clearly a revenge for taking away his wife.
Xiaohai Douluo suddenly turned to look at Huo Yuhao. "Boy, are you thinking that the Sea God stole my wife?"
"Yes, the hatred of having one's wife stolen is irreconcilable." Huo Yuhao was very honest.
"That's true, but the one chosen is not my wife, but myself."
Fragments of Douluo Dalu's memories began to flash again, and Huo Yuhao saw the so-called mermaid race, whose faces were almost indistinguishable from humans.
One of the mermaids, wearing a crown, said to Xiaohai Douluo, "Since we have met you, the Great Sea Secret Land has chosen you. You need to fulfill the duty of a believer of the Sea God and go to guard the Great Sea Secret Land."
The young Douluo of the Roaring Sea was naturally unwilling to be separated from his wife. He mustered his courage and asked, "Guarding the secret realm of the sea? What for?"
The mermaid's answer was, "To protect the sea from invasion."
"Invasion? What kind of enemy is it?"
"Some enemies secretly covet the secret lands of the sea, and the sea itself."
Huo Yuhao pondered what exactly this so-called "enemy" was.
"Legend has it that before becoming a god, the Sea God defeated a 990,000-year-old sea spirit beast whose cultivation was closest to that of a god, thus successfully ascending to godhood. Could it be that there were forces throughout the sea that did not submit to the Sea God?"
"Your answer is correct. The Sea God rules the sea, but he cannot make all sea spirit beasts submit. In other words, those who worship the Sea God are not powerful enough sea spirit beasts, and this does not include those ocean overlords."
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