radicalducati Chapter 78 Don't Tell the Truth
Chapter 78 Don't Tell the Truth
Lu Mingfei was speechless and almost laughed.
What on earth is Douluo Tiandao muttering to himself?!
He's just an ordinary loser.
Although his parents might be exceptionally powerful, both being S-level, giving him an S-level bloodline rating from birth.
But isn't this just because he went astray during puberty?
Lu Mingfei subconsciously didn't want to admit the shady dealings with the little devil.
What problem could there be? Dragons exist, so why can't demons exist?
It's just that some devil took a fancy to his unique soul and wanted to make a deal with him!
The transaction was consensual; what's there to say...?
Lu Mingfei lowered his head, looking dejected again.
I cannot understand your emotions.
Lu Mingfei was like an ostrich, unwilling to face reality or escape. He just wanted to bury his head in the sand and hide from everyone... Anyway, he would regret it in the end, so he would deal with it when the time came.
How does it feel to be a human being?
Douluo Heavenly Dao raised a new question. It sounded like He was genuinely curious about it.
Lu Mingfei told the Silver Dragon King to go find Di Tian first, while he himself took out his small wheelchair and sat by the lake to enjoy the scenery.
The lake water is so green...
"How so?" Lu Mingfei stroked his chin thoughtfully. "Emotions are a rare and precious characteristic of living beings."
"As for being a person—" he paused, his voice softening, "of course there are good and bad aspects."
Lu Mingfei didn't even know if he liked being a person.
He had thought about being a hero, after all, that's so cool, you get flowers, applause and praise wherever you go, but it doesn't seem to matter if he doesn't.
Being an ordinary person, living each day in a daze, seems quite normal.
"Humans are contradictory; any opposite can be found among them."
"You favor humans." This is what Douluo Tiandao said.
Lu Mingfei was stunned.
"Where did you get that conclusion?"
Lu Mingfei felt like he was talking to the Douluo Heavenly Dao in a completely different way.
You are speaking to me with a human mind, but shouldn't your true nature be that of a black dragon?
Lu Mingfei was speechless: "I've already said I'm not the Black King, I'm just a descendant of the Black King."
"Of course you can deceive yourself." In any case, Douluo Tiandao wouldn't refute him.
Why do you insist that I'm the Black King?
[It's not that I'm giving you this identity; it's that this is who you are. Just like I am part of the collective consciousness of Douluo Continent, I won't become any one person and become incapable of experiencing human emotions.]
Lu Mingfei: ...
"If you say so, then so be it."
He was powerless to refute it.
"Why don't you like dragons?" Douluo Tiandao asked again.
"Dragons are handsome, strong, and domineering, but they always appear as villains." Lu Mingfei was not unaware that there were big differences between the "dragons" of the East and the West, but what he was facing was not Loong, but Dragon.
How interesting it would be if Loong's successor became a Dragon Slayer Warrior!
"If the dragon that Black King created was an Eastern dragon, perhaps he wouldn't have been betrayed so many times?" Lu Mingfei's thoughts began to wander.
Although Loong has its own legends and conflicts, and even villains who cause trouble, people seem to have a good impression of it, and even feel a sense of awe and a vague sense of closeness.
At least the Dragon King does some proper work, like controlling the clouds and rain, and maintaining favorable weather for the land...
And what about Dragon? He steals princesses, hoards treasures, and breathes fire, bringing mostly destruction and panic.
One is expected to be protected, the other is assumed to be conquered.
"Perhaps it's not that I dislike 'dragons'... it's just that I dislike the fate of being destined to stand on the opposite side."
Wouldn't it be better if everyone loved each other, obeyed the law, and were good children?
Why do we need to fight and kill?
"If I really were the Black King, and if I created both dragons and humans, then I probably wouldn't raise children."
Lu Mingfei rested his chin on his hand, as if speaking to himself, or perhaps answering the omnipresent Dao of Heaven.
The Black King granted the dragons near-eternal life, earth-shattering power, and innate nobility, but not the temperament and wisdom to harness this gift. Thus, over the long years, the dragons became brutal and arrogant, regarding all living beings as mere ants.
Perhaps after witnessing all this, the Black King fell into some kind of "reflection." So He created humankind.
This race was born weak and short-lived, yet possessed a vibrant wisdom that even dragons could hardly match. But the Black King seemed to have a change of heart, unwilling to let the dragons be bullied by this newborn race, and thus did not grant humanity power commensurate with their strength.
But He forgot that wisdom itself breeds desire. The weak humans struggled to survive under the oppression of the dragons, and their resentment and longing gradually transformed into ambition, which in turn drove them to spy, study, and ultimately... plunder power.
After the two sides engaged in open and covert struggles, the dragons also went astray.
They were no longer satisfied with their natural authority; they began to crave the supreme power that did not belong to them.
That power that belongs solely to the Black King, the power that truly controls everything.
"Look, this is like a terrible parent," Lu Mingfei chuckled softly, but there was no real amusement in his eyes. "He gave the eldest son his fists, the younger son his brains, sat idly by while the eldest bullied the younger, and then expected them to be harmonious brothers... How is that possible?"
Lu Mingfei sighed.
He didn't know why he was assuming all of this from the Black King's perspective, but perhaps this guess was the truth?
So the eldest and youngest sons teamed up to go against their parents?
It has to be said that even if Lu Mingfei doesn't consider himself the Black King, he still finds Douluo Tiandao's words too hurtful.
Lies don't hurt, truth is the knife.
Lu Mingfei finally understood the meaning of those words.
"Neither humans nor soul beasts were created by me," Douluo Tiandao said. "They live here together, fighting and killing each other, but occasionally they fall in love. However, soul beasts, being the suppressed party, always yearn to become humans. I have never seen a human fall in love with a soul beast, only soul beasts who have become humans and then fall in love with humans."
"You're quite biased towards humans too," Lu Mingfei said, pursing his lips.
What have humans done to soul beasts? The Heavenly Dao of Douluo Continent still wants to give another human the fortune to become the Child of Destiny, so that he can continue to exploit soul beasts.
"That's everything humanity has achieved through its own efforts," Douluo Tiandao said. "Contrary to your guess, I'm trying to save the soul beasts."
Douluo Tiandao slowly said, "Fifteen thousand years ago, I stole the bloodline of the Golden Dragon King from the God Realm, giving birth to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and making it an Imperial Auspicious Beast. As long as it lives in the Star Dou Great Forest, every soul beast here will receive double the growth rate."
Ten thousand years ago, after the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's defeat, I blocked the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's demise, allowing him to escape successfully to the Star Dou Great Forest.
But I didn't expect that the soul from another world, after becoming a god and leaving Douluo Continent, would still try to control it.