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Ning Lu herself did not quite understand why, with genes as outstanding as hers, she had ended up giving birth to such a useless son.

It had to be because of his father. A useless father plus a useless son—only she, the genius mother, remained flawlessly beautiful.

"Cough, cough!" Seeming to notice Ning Lu's embarrassment, Chen Hong took the initiative to speak. "Your Brother Hong is useless. His Soul Power Level is only level eleven right now. Oh, no, it'll be level twelve soon."

Ning Lu: "."

Ye Lingling: "."

All right, Chen Hong had indeed dispelled Ning Lu's embarrassment from another angle. If even the person involved did not care, what was there for her to care about? Bullshit, she did not care! That was her one and only precious son!

Ning Lu helplessly rubbed her temples, then said to the astonished, disbelieving Ye Lingling, "Well, your Brother Hong suffered a bit of an injury before he was born. His Innate Soul Power was not very high, so his Cultivation Speed has been rather slow."

"Ah, that can happen?" Ye Lingling's little mouth fell open, her light-purple eyes filled with shock. When she looked at Chen Hong, there was suddenly a trace of sympathy in her gaze.

"..." Chen Hong felt rather speechless about it. But he had no choice—his mother Ning Lu had already put it that way. If he did not find a way to restore a little face for her, what awaited him would be his mother's righteous iron fist.

So Chen Hong said to Ye Lingling, "Your Brother Hong is not completely useless. He merely put his exceptional Spirit Master talent points into intelligence."

At the same time, before Ning Lu's face could darken further, Chen Hong raised a hand and tapped his head. "What determines a person's worth does not lie entirely in Soul Power. This is also very important."

"For example, I have always wanted to recreate the research system for Soul Tools. Once it succeeds, entirely new Soul Tools will be able to change this world, directly or indirectly. They will give the weak the right to resist the strong, while also giving the strong a path to pursue even greater power."

"Take my mother, for instance. She opened a clinic in Suotuo City and treats countless Spirit Masters and commoners. Would people demand that she possess formidable Soul Power cultivation? Would they require her to have great combat strength?"

Chen Hong's words immediately made Ning Lu beam with delight.

"No. People only know that she possesses the Benevolent Heart of a Healer, devoted to saving lives. That is one way for her to realize her own worth."

"For instance, Aunt Ye, whom my mother often mentions to me—your mother. She clearly possesses the Nine Heart Begonia, the strongest healing martial spirit in the world, yet she still keeps searching for remedies that can cure ordinary people. Do you know why?"

"Why?" There seemed to be something infectious in Chen Hong's voice, drawing both Ning Lu's and Ye Lingling's gazes to him.

Chen Hong smiled faintly, then tilted his head upward at a forty-five-degree angle and said confidently, "Because one person's strength is always limited. Aunt Ye may be able to treat dozens of people every day, hundreds in a month, thousands in a year, and hundreds of thousands in a century."

"But among the tens of millions of living beings on Douluo Continent, even if Aunt Ye exhausted her entire life, she could not treat them all. At such times, human strength is limited, but wisdom is limitless."

"The development of Herbal Medicine is still very slow at present. It is mainly researched by only a few families on the continent, such as your Ye Family, the Yang Family within the Clear Sky Sect, and I heard that the Protector Douluo of the Heaven Dou Empire is quite knowledgeable about it as well."

"You brat, where did you learn all that?" Ning Lu looked at her son suspiciously.

"Didn't Bishop Suotuo want to recruit me as a clerk? I read about it during that time. Though after I finished all the books in their collection, I stopped going," Chen Hong explained.

"All right, Mother, stop interrupting. Be good."

Ning Lu: "."

Ye Lingling: "."

At that moment, Ye Lingling finally understood why Aunt Ning had such a fiery temper. With a son as unreliable as this, it would be strange if her temper were good!

Yet Ning Lu did not discipline Chen Hong on the spot. She quietly waited for him to finish delivering his last words.

"...Prescriptions derived from countless failed experiments can be passed down through the ages. In other words, wisdom can be shared."

"The strength of Soul Power can only leave behind one line in history: such-and-such an era was the age when such-and-such person shook the world with their might. And then? There is no then. Because powerful Soul Power is only personal strength; it cannot become the strength of this world. But what if it is the strength of wisdom? Then it will be written as: after such-and-such person, an entirely new era began!"

"Take an example. If Soul Tool technology had suddenly emerged several hundred years ago and spread widely, allowing the whole world to enjoy the conveniences brought by all kinds of Soul Tools, would the world after that not have begun to change? Once everyone could learn about Soul Tools and make Soul Tools, would society still return to the nearly primitive age of centuries and millennia past?"

"By the same logic, if you developed a prescription that could cure a certain disease and spread it throughout the world, would the tens of millions of people on Douluo Continent still die from that disease because they could not receive treatment from a Spirit Master?"

"So, although my talent as a Spirit Master is merely average, I know what I want to do in the future, and I am working toward that goal. I have even achieved some small results already. No one can laugh at me, and of course, no one is qualified to laugh at me."

As Chen Hong spoke, he gradually poured some of his own feelings into his words. He did not notice Ning Lu's shocked and proud expression, nor did he notice Ye Lingling's admiring gaze. He simply continued in an even but resolute tone, voicing the purpose for which he had come to this world:

"Some people are alive, yet they are already dead. Some people are dead, yet they still live on. Some carve their names into stone in pursuit of immortality; others spend half their lives in silence, leaving behind world-shaking works that endure forever."

"I know this may be overestimating myself. No one would imagine that someone with only level-three Innate Soul Power could possess such arrogant ideals. But I simply want to leave behind a trace that belongs to me in this world. So I do not care about the mockery of fools, because the difficulties I face are far greater than the ridicule of others."

"Heaven rewards diligence. As long as I learn a little every day and improve a little every day, I will eventually reach the realm I seek."

After finishing his speech, Chen Hong lowered his head from its forty-five-degree angle, only then noticing that Ning Lu and Ye Lingling were both looking at him with shocked, admiring expressions. So Chen Hong proudly said, "Have you both been dazzled by my handsomeness? But please do not fall for me. I am only a legend."