Douluo: Martial Soul Research Diary

Chapter 617 The Heart of Nothingness, the Heart of Good and Evil

"I don't want to cooperate with Han Tao at all. If it weren't for this guy's inability to assess his own worth, I wouldn't have ended up in this situation."

The god of goodness looked upon evil with an unchanging expression.

Beside him, the God of Destruction, under the influence of the order of good and evil, lost his murderous intent. He could no longer wield his scepter as before, "muttering about how to kill Han Tao, or how to kill the Goddess of Kindness."

"A kind heart."

Within the Blue Silver Realm, a complete heart is beating.

Han Tao carefully examined its structure, pondering...
They don't even understand why it can do all this, or what gives it the right to do all this.
Creating a "kind heart" is simple; you just need to copy it verbatim. But to truly understand it is just too damn complicated.
"I've always arrogantly believed that the human spirit can completely control the body, and that the will has absolute control over the body, but the truth is..."

"The human body also contains a thought, which is called 'physical instinct.' I used my physical instinct to forcibly escape the illusion."

"Ordinary people's physical instincts are not strong; only through the deliberate drive and condensation of the divine can they grow, merge, and sublimate, becoming..."

—The power of the mind.

"Ah!"

The kind goddess smiled dismissively.

The "spirit" that Han Tao spoke of was a power she had realized many, many years ago. She had even forgotten exactly how long ago it was, but being mentioned this time made her fall into a slight recollection.

"Nothing more than that!"

“Even someone as intelligent as you needs to repeat the same mistakes and go through the same path I have walked.”

She smiled with a hint of sarcasm, "Han Tao, this is the power of a god. All your hardships are nothing more than following the path I have already walked."

"maybe"

Han Tao glanced at her; in the sunlight, she was as pure as snow, and her tall neck resembled that of a swan.

"By using good and evil to divide the mind, and by using good and evil to understand the mind, you two god-kings have achieved your status?"

The conversation then took a turn: "I was biased. The elements of light and the order of justice are merely mediums; they are not important."

"Then what's important?" Tianmeng's voice came from behind.

"The body's instincts evolved further, separating humanity from bestiality. The goddess of goodness used elements and order to obliterate bestiality, leaving only purity."

"A pure and kind heart!"

Upon hearing this, the Goddess of Kindness was suddenly filled with fear, for this was the result of her centuries of painstaking contemplation, yet Han Tao had seen through it all in a single sentence.

Although the names "humanity" and "beasthood" are different from hers, their essential meanings are the same.

"To melt away bestiality with light and order leaves behind pure goodness; to embrace bestiality with an order of darkness and evil is to create an evil heart."

"Hey, that's not right!"

Han Tao interrupted himself, “The heart of evil does not need elements and order. Embracing bestiality is much simpler than imagined. Even if I do nothing, it will involuntarily slide into evil.”

"Shut up, you ant!"

The evil god-king walked over, his tone tinged with anger.

Having one's true nature dissected by Han Tao isn't the main issue; the crucial point is, "He actually said it in public! Doesn't he know how to keep a secret?"

"Damn it!"

The scales of justice swayed, and the evil order began to ripple.

The murderous intent in the heart of the God of Destruction returned, and the evil thoughts and hatred that had been erased by kindness resurfaced under the power of evil.

"Goddess of Kindness, what the hell have you done?" Kindness can erase his malice, but it cannot erase his consciousness. Destruction knows everything that is happening right now. He can resist and he can run away, but he cannot attack.

Compared to Han Tao, an indestructible god, the traitor before him was even more detestable to him.

"I can't kill Han Tao because he has control over the entire world; he can travel through time. What about you?"

Have you considered the consequences of offending me?

"Stop!" The Evil God King stopped Destruction. "I let your killing intent return, not so you can use it against your own people. We'll deal with her after we've dealt with Han Tao."

"Deal with Han Tao?" The God of Destruction looked at him with disdain. "What do you mean, deal with Han Tao? We couldn't kill him before, and now we've even given him two hearts—oh, a heart of evil and a heart of good. Are you planning to pack up your own god-king thrones and send them over?"

"You and she, why don't you just reincarnate as soul beasts? That way, you can find an opportunity to sacrifice yourselves all at once. How easy would that be?"

Under the starlight, the clouds and rain drifted gently.

The tiny figure paused, and the two constantly beating hearts in its hands gradually disappeared.

"I have grasped the essence of kindness. My principles are no longer simply about copying. Now I will inherit your path and march towards an even more brilliant future."

Han Tao calmly glanced at the kind goddess.

She immediately retorted, "Impossible, you can't do it."

"Kindness is the culmination of my millennia of deduction. It is the strongest of all perfections, the supreme of all purity, and cannot be surpassed by any other being!!"

"--snort!"

Han Tao shook his head and chuckled.

"It references elements and order, allowing you to understand the deeper structure of kindness, but they..."

"It is your limit, but not my limit, and certainly not the limit of this 'mind'."

Another place,
Unaware of the "false" dimension, Han Tao stood in the sky, waiting for the right moment.

—It has been blurred.
—A heart capable of shifting between good and evil, possessing both humanity and bestiality, is weaving itself within a false dimension.

Ning Rongrong suddenly looked up.

She recognized the logic Han Tao was trying to construct, which was the final form of the former spider lily—"a hybrid of reality and illusion".

"This is."

"A heart that judges good and evil? A heart that is empty?"

She thought to herself, "If Han Tao succeeds, he will have two hearts: a 'Heart of Life' in the real dimension, which uses the Nine-Heart Begonia as a reference for the evolutionary sequence of the life core; and a 'Heart of Kindness' in the illusory dimension, which will be the ultimate sublimation of the second heart."

If Han Tao hadn't spoken up, she might never have understood that the "hybrid of virtual and real" was not the entirety of the structure; it was merely a fragment within a vast system.

The consciousness of the Blue Silver Clan asked the hidden truth, "What else?"

"Besides the fusion of reality and illusion, does this have any additional significance?"

Han Tao smiled with relief, "It's not that simple."

"The power of the mind is the sixth component of illusion, nightmare, mirror image, emotion, and nothingness. When it is placed in a false plane, it can make my false plane more complete."

"At the same time, in its ethereal form, this heart cannot be damaged. If I face a fatal crisis, it can connect with the four Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bones to supply blood through the transformation between the ethereal and the real, although such an extreme situation is unlikely to occur."

"Furthermore, the spiritual power of the void plane can easily transform humanity and bestiality, which is why I possess both good and evil qualities. I am even better than the Goddess of Kindness's 'heart of kindness'."

"as well as."

(End of this chapter)