Douluo Continent: I, Huo Yuhao, am the Master of Spirit

Chapter 76, Side Story 1: Feng Jin: "Is the world sick?"

The Dreamland – the Night Curtain Garden – is the most mysterious place in the Douluo Continent, accessible only to children under ten years old in their dreams.

Legend has it that a Cyclops will sail across the Sea of ​​Dreams to welcome visitors from the real world.

Every child who has been to the Garden of Night has said that there are beautiful angels, pure white dragons, houses made of candy, and rivers flowing with milk and honey.

Countless powerful figures from the Douluo Continent have tried to forcefully open the door to that strange land using their strength.

But without exception, no one succeeded, as if that place were a paradise for children.

It is a place where innocence and fantasy gather.

In the songs and ballads that circulate about Douluo Continent.

The weaver who sleeps beneath the curtain, holding the key to the threads of all things, the master who opens the unborn world and the creation of thought, the observer and embodiment of countless possibilities.

The Lord of Spirit, above all things, sits quietly in the center of the Court of Night.

To disregard the foolishness and folly of all living beings.

However, there was once a blasphemer—Anaxagoras—who sharply criticized that being above all things.

"Ha, above all things?"

"They are nothing but pitiful creatures imprisoned by divinity and authority."

"Ignoring all development on the mainland?"

"Or perhaps it was the little humanity He had left that made Him unable to comprehend the changes in life."

No one heeded the madman's words, and many believers above all things wanted to put him on the barbecue grill because of it.

However, he was rescued by Shrek's Whitebeard and taken to Shrek City to continue his research.

No one knows whether this continent is developing in a positive or negative direction.

For Soul Masters, this is the best of times. The Lord of Spirit illuminates the path of life's evolution, and everyone can vie for the legendary position of a god.

For soul beasts, this is the greatest era, a time when the restrictions on life are lifted above all things, and benevolence is spread to those who are flourishing, running, soaring, and swimming.

But for a doctor, this is the worst of times.

Slaughter, weeping, plague, death, war, and madness infuse this world with a chaotic undertone.

The deaths of patients, the cries of children, and the desperate cries for life numbed Feng Jin's heart.

When exactly was it?

Feng Jin sat on a high platform, holding a small white pony and looking at the fading sun in the distance.

That wasn't the real sun; it was the afterglow of a fallen god.

The real sun has long since vanished into history, vanished into dreams.

"Oh, it seems to be when we parted ways with Bai Er and the others in Shrek City."

Feng Jin stroked the white horse's horn, her green starry eyes slightly cloudy, a color born from years of witnessing tragedy.

It is a doctor's lament for the world.

"Bai'er told me he would change the world!"

"Tibo told me she would guide this world!!"

"Medemos told me he would protect the world!!!"

"That moment Xia told me that he would unravel the mystery of this world!!!"

"But in the end, the world is still the same."

"This is a world that is hurtling headlong into hell."

"The sun has gone out, and the stars have not been greeted by a savior, but by a tyrant."

"The Lord of the Spirit?"

"Above all things?"

"If you truly exist, and you truly have eyes, why would you allow such a world to exist!"

"Is your heart truly devoid of divinity, as Anaxagoras said?"

Feng Jin sat on the high platform. Her once lustrous pink-to-blue twin ponytails had long since disappeared, leaving behind a neat single ponytail.

She didn't know what the world would become; she was just a doctor providing medical care to her patients.

After that, she followed in the footsteps of her former medical teacher, Roman, as she traveled across the continent.

He measured every inch of land with his own two legs, witnessing every tragic fate and the painful cries of every newborn.

Feng Jin didn't want to think; she just focused on treating every patient who came to her.

"Doctor, I'm in so much pain! Is there any hope for me?"

This was an ordinary person affected by alchemy; half of his body was petrified. Feng Jin forced a cheerful smile and said, "Yes!"

"Doctor, I feel so bad, I want to die."

"Mom says people go to heaven after they die, is that true?"

This is a child who has contracted the plague.

Feng Jin said sadly, "It's true."

"Doctor, I can't see the light anymore. The dark world is so peaceful."

Will I still be able to see the light?

This is a pitiful person whose eyes were blinded by a soul beast.

Feng Jin said expressionlessly, "Yes."

Is it really possible? Feng Jin knew the answer better than any of them.

She often closes her eyes and recalls the cries of those children; every tone of their voice pierces her heart.

"What would Dr. Roman do?"

Feng Jin often thinks of her mentor who always had a smile on his face.

She wondered what he would do, but in the end, she realized she couldn't.

She couldn't smile.

And so the girl continued her travels across the continent, gazing at the afterglow of the divine realm and recalling the image of the sun.

The girl has grown up, and her cultivation level has become unfathomable. Is she a Limit Douluo? Or a Level 100 True God?
She herself was unsure; she only cared whether her patients were cured.

The world is a circle, and she eventually returned to her original starting point—Shrek City.

In Shrek City, she often saw Bai E, who was once one of the Shrek Seven Devils and is now the master of the Sea God Pavilion, running around on the Soul Guidance Screen.

He remains the same as before, a ray of sunshine that warms friends and burns away enemies.

They swept away evil and drove away plagues, wanting to save this poor world.

Feng Jin put on her hood, her dim eyes no longer looking at Bai E on the screen.

"Bai E is still the same as before."

"But the world is sliding into the abyss."

"Heaven?"

"Does it really exist?"

Feng Jin asked many patients, and the answers she received were very consistent.

"exist!"

"Does not exist!"

A voice came from beside Feng Jin. A man with a black eyepatch over his left eye, eyes that were a gradient of red and blue, and long light green hair tied in a low ponytail suddenly spoke.

It was Anaxagoras, the blasphemer.

"That's just how humans are; they like to deceive themselves."

"Heaven does not exist; what exists is merely a hell disguised as a human world."

After bidding farewell to the blasphemers, the girl did not stay in Shrek City any longer. After many twists and turns, she returned to her hometown, Xiru City.

I saw the orphanage that had been reduced to ruins.

His mentor, Roman, had long since disappeared.

Some say he followed the footsteps of the One Above All Things to the deepest part of human consciousness.

Feng Jin knew her mentor's character; he loved humanity and would not venture into that depths of consciousness.

She sat in the ruins for a long time until night fell.

The stars remained the same, bright and clear. The dilapidated divine realm hung in the sky like a courtyard, with the stars like potted plants.

Kaze Sumire seemed to have figured something out and said:

"I can heal people when they are sick, but what about when the world is sick?"

Feng Jin seemed to have thought of something, and ran to the spot in the ruins where the infirmary used to be to start digging.

Until a thick book was lifted into the air by Feng Jin's hands, as if she were looking up at it.

The night breeze helped her open the book, which contained a technique for healing the world—the Humanity Incineration Technique.

　This is the first side story, just for fun. It has nothing to do with the main plot; it's a purely parallel world. I'll write more later depending on the situation.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)