This is an incarnation story of Yu Menglong that he shared with us himself, through one of his secondary souls.
The topics we've been discussing lately have been too heavy, and we were concerned that everyone's emotions and mental state might not be able to sustain them over the long term. So we consulted with Yu Menglong about whether we should occasionally switch things up. Yu then shared some interesting anecdotes from the experiences his secondary soul had across their cycles of reincarnation.
The Little Mermaid is the first story that Yu asked us to share with everyone. Let's see if you can guess which character Yu's secondary soul plays in this story.
Many of the stories written by Andersen are actually cultivation stories — though not all of them are one hundred percent historically accurate. Yu told us that the story of The Little Mermaid is based on the true past-life memories of one of Andersen's cultivator friends.
However, Andersen's version diverges from the true life history of the Little Mermaid, and Disney's radical reimagining caused the story to lose its divine essence entirely.
In truth, the Little Mermaid did not come ashore for love at all — love is only a small part of this story. What the Little Mermaid truly sought was cultivation.
In the kingdoms of the Little Mermaid's era, kings required their children to practice cultivation, because true kings are appointed by Heaven. A prince who did not cultivate would be unable to perceive the will of the divine and would have no way to serve the welfare of the people. The prince in The Little Mermaid was in fact a monk of that time.
When the prince encountered a great storm and the ship was about to sink, every person aboard was a monk, reciting prayers — and this scene was witnessed by the Little Mermaid. Seeing that humans could cultivate and become divine, she was filled with longing. But she was a mermaid and could not cultivate the way humans did.
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