Chapter 1963 Yaoguang's Legs
The pain Yaoguang suffered during these two years is unimaginable to ordinary people. Perhaps only the elder of the mermaid tribe can understand it, because she had experienced it once hundreds of years ago.
There are many kinds of creatures in the world, and humans are just one of them. As a sea creature, the mermaid tribe is born without legs. To grow legs is, to some extent, no different from Yun Qiyou's changing his fate against the will of heaven.
Even if there is a brilliant and cool figure like the former Wood God, he can only resolve the pain of the mermaids when they grow legs, so that they will no longer feel the pain of needles and fire every step they take, but he cannot resolve the pain that the mermaids experience when they transform their legs.
After the improvement of the Wood God, this kind of transformation pain must be endured for at least ten years.
The first three years are the most difficult, especially the first year. The pain suffered three times a day in the morning, noon and evening is more unbearable than a woman giving birth.
It's like a hot blade, cutting pieces of flesh on your body. If you are not determined, you can't stand it at all.
The great elders of the mermaid tribe in all generations have transformed into humans, but on average only one out of three saints can persist to the end. Giving up means death.
After the first year, the pain will be reduced, and the colorful fish tail will completely transform.
If you survive the second year, the original fish tail will separate into human legs, and you can walk like a human, but every step will be extremely painful.
If you survive the third year, the pain of walking will be greatly reduced. In the following seven or eight years, the bones in the body will begin to transform, from fish bones to human bones, and the internal organs will also undergo a transformation during this period.
Ever since Yaoguang saw Zuo Qiu's legs that year, she has longed to have a pair of human legs, travel around the world, see the prosperity of Middle-earth, taste the delicacies of Middle-earth, and show off in front of the bad guy who likes to touch her chest and throw her into a big iron pot to stew.
It was with these thoughts in her heart that Yaoguang gritted her teeth and persisted for two years, and now her legs have grown out.
Although she still has to suffer three times a day, every time she sees her white and slender legs, she feels that the pain imposed on her doesn't seem to hurt at all.
Sitting on a reef, stretching her legs into the water, Yaoguang's fingers gently slide over her knees, with a satisfied look on her face.
It's really strange. After entering the sea, Qingying and Qilisi, who were originally wrapped tightly, have less and less clothes on their bodies, and finally only have tight pants left. Sometimes they don't even wear bellybands, just bare their upper bodies.
However, Yaoguang, who originally wore nothing, now likes to wear clothes. She used kelp and water grass in the water to weave a top and a skirt for herself. It's just that this girl wants to show off her new legs, so the skirt is a little short... To be precise, it can be called a hip-wrapped miniskirt.
Every day when the elder is not around, she always stands up, leans on a cane, and walks a few steps on the reef, but the burning pain from her feet prevents her from walking too long.
She just finished eight steps, which was better than yesterday. Yesterday, she could not hold on after only seven steps. Today, she walked one more step than yesterday. For Yaoguang, this was a huge progress that could make her happy for several days.
She began to fantasize that after waiting for a year, her legs would completely degenerate and take shape, and she could throw away the ugly crutches and run freely on the island.
Thinking of her running, Yaoguang could not help but be intoxicated by it.
It was dark, and the clear night sky and the stars above her head formed a strong contrast with the dark clouds and lightning in the south that never saw the sun.
Tianhuo Island is very close to the northern edge of the Nether Sea, only a hundred miles away. Yaoguang has long been accustomed to the lightning and thunder in the distance. She lay on the reef, her legs splashing in the water from time to time, and began to sing.
She likes to sing. It seems that every mermaid, in addition to being very, very, very beautiful, has one thing in common, that is, a good voice like the sound of nature.
If the human world holds a "Best Voice of All Races" song contest, it is estimated that few races can match the singing voice of the mermaids.
After singing several songs and blowing a few tunes with shells, the elder has not returned yet, which makes Yaoguang very strange.
Yaoguang's transformation of legs is a secret among the mermaids, and only the elder knows it.
Yaoguang has not been in the Jiao Shen Palace for the past two years, but has been on a reef under a cliff southeast of Tianhuo Island to avoid her tribe members hearing her painful screams.
The elders come to see her every day, especially at night, and bring some food, but today it is almost the second half of the night, and the elders have not come yet, which makes Yaoguang very strange.
Just when she was worried about whether there was an accident in the Jiao Shen Palace, the elders finally appeared, but they were serious.
Yaoguang said, "Elder, what happened?"
The old elder said slowly, "Today, a sea creature from the East China Sea came and brought a message that a catastrophe had befallen the world a few months ago."
Yaoguang was stunned, but then she didn't take it seriously. She took the jumping golden fish from the elder's hand and started to chop it with a flying knife.
For her, the catastrophe was just a war that happened in a distant place, a myth and legend mentioned by the elder. It was too far away from her, so far away that it gave her a very unreal feeling.
Seeing Yaoguang eating sashimi with relish, the elder sighed, didn't disturb her, and looked up at the sky, as if looking for the direction of Middle-earth.
This place is too far away from the Middle-earth, so the big news that the catastrophe had befallen the southern border of the Middle-earth half a year ago has only been reported now.
The East China Sea is very close to the Middle-earth, and the aquatic creatures in the East China Sea received the news of the catastrophe the earliest.
In the catastrophes experienced by the human world, the aquatic creatures of the four seas rarely participated. First, the catastrophes all occurred in the inland of the Middle-earth, and no catastrophe affected the ocean. Even if they did, it was only in the coastal waters of the Middle-earth.
Second, although the aquatic creatures are very powerful, the combat power of most of the powerful aquatic creatures can only be maintained in the water. Once on land, let alone fighting, even survival is a luxury.
However, it is not that no aquatic creatures have participated in catastrophes.
For example, the aquatic creatures in the East China Sea and the South China Sea have some shrimp soldiers and crab generals participating in almost every catastrophe. The most famous one is that more than 100,000 years ago, when the Wood God led the people to fight against the catastrophe, the princess Liudi of the South China Sea mermaid tribe once led hundreds of thousands of aquatic creatures from all over the world to set up two aquatic defense lines in the Yangtze River and the Huangyan River. After these two defense lines were defeated, they quickly resisted in many waters such as Dongting Lake, Huaihe River, Bahe River, Jinsha River, etc., and tied down no less than 100,000 heavenly armies.
There are even some aquatic monsters that can go ashore, such as water snakes, Kui Niu, giant turtles and other aquatic monsters that go ashore to fight.