Douluo Continent: Reversing Yin and Yang, the Haotian Palace and the Angel Sect

Back in her room, Ye Lingling didn't turn on the lights.

She sat quietly on the edge of the bed and raised her hands. In the darkness, a nine-hearted begonia slowly bloomed in her palms, emitting a faint fragrance.

She stared intently at the martial spirit in her palm, her mind replaying everything that had happened in the training ground that day, and felt an indescribable sadness and confusion.

Today's events, however, caused her beliefs to waver slightly.

When the girl on the other side closed in and she was in dire straits, it was Captain Yu Tianheng who stepped forward without hesitation to shield her. Yu Tianheng had been beaten unconscious, and it was she who used the Nine-Heart Begonia to heal him, allowing him to regain his strength.

She initially helped Yu Tianheng simply because she hoped he could recover and didn't want to see her companion suffer.

But what about the result?

After Yu Tianheng recovered, in order to protect her, he forced himself to fight the opponent, but was kicked even harder and was once again on the verge of death.

Ye Lingling's eyes reddened slightly, and a sense of self-blame and doubt rose in her heart.

"What is the meaning of my healing and saving lives?" Ye Lingling asked herself silently.

Was her rescue really effective?

If she hadn't used the Nine Hearts Begonia technique, if she had just let Yu Tianheng remain unconscious on the ground for a little longer, would he have been able to stand up and continue fighting, and would he have avoided the more severe secondary injuries that followed?

Ye Lingling's thoughts drifted further and further away. She remembered the Soul Masters that her grandfather had treated at the clinic.

Grandpa expended a great deal of energy and soul power to pull those critically injured and dying soul masters back from the brink of death. When they awoke, they were extremely grateful to Grandpa and vowed to live good lives from then on. But what happened afterward?

As soon as their injuries heal, they will pick up their weapons again and continue to fight and kill others.

In the process, they not only inflict new wounds on themselves, but also in the aftermath of the battle, they ruthlessly injure ordinary civilians who have no ability to resist.

Grandpa saved a Soul Master, but that Soul Master turned around and killed many more ordinary people.

Is this kind of treatment actually saving lives, or is it helping to kill people?

If the healing effect of the Nine-Heart Begonia is only to allow Soul Masters to return to the battlefield more quickly and continue killing each other, then what about the beliefs that the Ye family has upheld for generations?

Just as Ye Lingling was caught in this self-doubt and painful struggle, a faint, strange fluctuation suddenly came from the top of her head.

The next second, a gentle, deep male voice, filled with boundless compassion, resounded in her heart.

"Child, do you crave power?"

The voice was not oppressive at all; instead, it was like a spring breeze that instantly soothed Ye Lingling's anxiety.

Then, the voice asked a second question.

Do you aspire to be kind?

"Do you want to break the cruel curse of your family's martial spirit?"

These three questions struck at Ye Lingling's deepest vulnerability. She abruptly raised her head, looked around, and her usually cool eyes were filled with surprise.

"Who?" Ye Lingling asked instinctively.

Her room was empty, and the doors and windows were all tightly shut.

That compassionate voice echoed in her mind once more, its tone carrying a strange, comforting power:

"I am the embodiment of kindness and the champion of compassion. I hear the confusion and pain in your heart."

He paused for a moment, then made a promise that Ye Lingling could not refuse.

"I can help you fulfill your lifelong wish to save lives and heal the wounded, and truly eliminate human suffering, instead of getting stuck in this vicious cycle of treating the symptoms but not the root cause. I can even help you break the family martial spirit restrictions of the Nine Heart Begonia lineage. Child, are you willing to accept my inheritance?"

Upon hearing these words, Ye Lingling was completely stunned.

She was, after all, just a teenage girl who had always lived under her grandfather's protection. Her scheming was far less deep and complex than Tang San's, and she was not as wary or suspicious.

She didn't ponder why the voice appeared out of nowhere, nor did she suspect any conspiracy behind it.

All she could think about now was "breaking the limitations of the family's martial spirit" and "fulfilling her long-cherished wish to save lives."

"Are you... are you really sure you can do this?" Ye Lingling asked in her heart, holding the Nine Heart Begonia in her hands, somewhat timidly but with a hint of anticipation.

The voice she called "the kind uncle" let out a gentle chuckle.

"I can. My name is Kindness." The voice of the God of Kindness carried a gentle yet dignified air.

"My legacy can help you heal the world. Then you will be able to use your power to truly protect those you want to protect and to stop those senseless killings."

As the promise was made, Ye Lingling felt a slight tingling sensation on the top of her head.

Guided by the divine will of the Benevolent God King of the Inner Realm, a wisp of pure platinum light flashed through her hair. Then, silently, a platinum strand of hair, shimmering with a soft luster, grew from Ye Lingling's smooth, dark hair. This strand of hair was hidden among the black hair, completely unnoticed by ordinary people, but it became a mark of kindness.

"You don't need to think too much right now, just focus on your cultivation." The voice of the Kind God King gradually softened. "At the appropriate time, I will step in to guide you."

After she finished speaking, a gentle stream of information flowed directly into Ye Lingling's mind.

That was a technique for circulating soul power. This technique contained nothing domineering or aggressive; it was entirely about how to nourish the meridians and how to absorb the gentlest soul power in the world.

After imparting the techniques, the compassionate voice fell silent completely, and there was no further sound.

Ye Lingling sat on the bed in a daze for a long time before she came to her senses.

She tried to circulate the soul power within her body according to the new cultivation method in her mind.

As soon as it was carried out, Ye Lingling's eyes widened in shock.

Previously, when she cultivated, the rate at which her soul power increased was always steady, not particularly fast. But now, with the operation of this divine-level cultivation technique, the free energy in the surrounding air seemed to be summoned by some kind of benevolent call, rushing into her body.

She carefully sensed it and discovered that her current rate of soul power improvement was a full 20% faster than before! For a support-type soul master whose cultivation was already slow, this 20% improvement was simply an incredible miracle.

What surprised Ye Lingling even more was the change in her soul power attribute.

As she continued to practice the technique, she discovered that her originally pure healing-type soul power had gained a strange yet wonderful attribute.

This is a quality that cannot be accurately described in words. It is extremely gentle and approachable. When this soul power flows through her body, Ye Lingling feels as if she is being gently embraced by the whole world.