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But the little girl’s innocent voice remained clear. "That’s why I have to help Brother save up his hair, so he doesn’t get to a point where he has no hair left to lose!"

"Oh, you little rascal..." Tang Yuan sounded resigned, but his voice was filled with genuine amusement. He no longer tried to stop Xiaxia from collecting his hair.

Su Zhou didn’t go over to disturb them.

He simply stood off to the side, silently suppressing his aura and activating the Divine Technique of the Evil-Devouring Demon Lord to watch it all unfold.

And then he saw them: countless gossamer threads of Desire Power, originating from the kindergarten and flowing toward the nearby hospital, as well as onto Tang Yuan himself.

—The researchers who developed the technology, the medical staff, and Tang Yuan, who provided the power, were all focal points for this Desire Power.

As for the process of how this Desire Power gathered...

’So that’s how it works. I understand now,’ he thought. ’Desire Power and Spiritual Power are two sides of the same coin... it *is* a form of Spiritual Power. Even if the benefactor doesn’t know who they’re helping, as long as a link of Cause and Effect exists within the Spiritual Qi, the Desire Power can follow that path and gather on whomever the provider has in mind.’

’To block Desire Power, one would have to completely block out Spiritual Qi—the same logic applies to Curses. But in a Cosmos teeming with Spiritual Qi, who could possibly manage to do that at all times?’

Su Zhou nodded thoughtfully. The profound inspiration granted by the Wisdom Tree allowed him to grasp every detail of the process.

He could see it all: the tiny yet pure wisp of Desire Power from Xiaxia, and the Desire Power from all the parents and children whose families had been restored to the light by Tang Yuan. It was all gathering, bit by bit, upon the soul of the smiling, pale young man.

This layer of Desire Power, even without any special technique to harness it, was enough to act as a defense, weakening the effects of any Curse, malevolent spell, or covert machination.

"Blessed by Desire Power, impervious to all arts"—while this was an exaggeration, it would at least weaken the effects of ordinary mental, Soul, charm, and hypnotic attacks on Tang Yuan.

By directly observing the genesis and gathering of Desire Power, Su Zhou had a flash of insight. He now had a much deeper understanding of the countless methods for harnessing Desire Power described in the ancient Classics.

And so, he stepped forward without hesitation.

’Tang Yuan can’t harness the Desire Power on his own, but I can help him.’

With that thought, Su Zhou walked to Tang Yuan’s side. He stopped him from trying to stand up and, as the little girl named Xiaxia watched with a curious, puzzled expression, he calmly bent down, reached out, and placed a hand on Tang Yuan’s shoulder. "Imagine," he said.

The young man’s tone wasn’t a command, yet it carried a power that made Tang Yuan subconsciously follow along. "Imagine a light gathering in your hands."

"An unseen power surrounds you. You are its source, and it protects you. But now, you must gather this power. Gather it in the palm of your hand."

With his hand on Tang Yuan’s shoulder, Su Zhou activated the Divine Technique of the Evil-Devouring Demon Lord. He used his own power to guide Tang Yuan’s Soul, gathering the Desire Power the man could not control on his own and coalescing it into a faint, pure-white luminescence in Tang Yuan’s hand.

It was a pure, bright luminescence, like a tiny flame.

[Wish Soul of Restoration]

[A heartfelt Wish Soul, converted from the prayers and wishes of countless children with broken bodies and their parents.]

[A blessed soul that shines with the sincere light of a child’s heart.]

[Consume directly to receive a minor, across-the-board boost to physical and Soul regeneration speed, and to increase overall soul resistance.]

[To see, to hear, to walk, to touch—such simple wishes from an innocent child, yet so often out of reach... Perhaps this is the very essence of sorrow.]

[O, you who End this sorrow and fulfill these simple wishes, please accept this sincere Blessing.]

In addition to the inherent soul resistance, the power granted by the Desire Power also boosted his regeneration ability—though the amount was small, there hadn’t been a large amount of Desire Power gathered on Tang Yuan to begin with.

This was the power of the Evil-Devouring Demon Lord.

"Wh-what is this?!" Tang Yuan exclaimed instinctively. "This ball of light..."

"Eat it, Tang Yuan. This is your destiny."

Su Zhou gave Tang Yuan no time to think. Just as the pale young man stared in astonishment at the fluorescent flame in his hand and looked up to ask a question, Su Zhou had already withdrawn his hand. He clasped them behind his back, a smile playing on his lips. "Don’t let their kindness go to waste."

...

Tang Yuan wasn’t the type to eat strange, unknown things on a whim, and that went double for something like a Wish Soul, which was clearly related to Extraordinary Power.

But if it came from Su Zhou—from Captain Su Zhou, who had been nothing but open and honorable from the very beginning—if it was his recommendation, his request...

Tang Yuan felt he could trust him.

And so, while the little girl at his side tilted her head and muttered, ’Brother’s acting so weird,’ Tang Yuan swallowed the ball of light that no one but he and Su Zhou could see.

Waves of heat, transformed from the Desire Power, coursed through his entire body. Tang Yuan felt as if something about him had changed, yet at the same time, as if nothing had changed at all.

By the time he snapped out of it and looked for Su Zhou to ask what that thing was, Su Zhou was already gone.

’A good deed a day. I’m happy to oblige.’

"Yara, everyone is the hero of their own story, you know?"

Walking along the streets of the Celestial Capital, Su Zhou hummed a tune, his steps light. "In places we don’t even know exist, there must be countless other people, all striving to make the world a better place."

"You can say that again," the Snake Spirit, in its hat form, replied, tilting its brim. It had been tempted to make a cynical retort—’There are also plenty of people working to drag the world into the Abyss’—but clearly, there was no need to dampen the young man’s good mood right now.

And so, the ever-compassionate, kind, and gentle Snake Spirit said with a double meaning, "That’s precisely why the stories of intelligent life never get old."

June 6, 2016, 1:49 PM.

Su Zhou fully mastered his evolved Evil-Devouring Demon Lord Divine Technique, laying the most solid cornerstone for his Commander Tier.

June 12, 2016, 8:24 AM.

The multinational joint reconnaissance mission into the Beast God Realm’s Tree of Life officially commenced in the Kunlun Secret Realm.

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