The Limits of Healing Martial Souls

A soft ray of morning light fell through the window onto his face, waking Lin Huo from his comfortable sleep.

He had felt somewhat mentally exhausted last night. Since becoming a Soul Warrior and learning Meditation, this was the first time Lin Huo had replaced Meditation with sleep.

He climbed out of bed and patted his face to clear his head, but the feedback from his body left him frozen beside the bed.

After a night's sleep, both his thoughts and strength were incomparably weaker than they had been at their peak yesterday.

No, that wasn't right!

Lin Huo quickly realized that it was not that he had grown weaker!

Rather, the fourfold enhancement from Belly Drum and Meditation had been dispelled while he slept!

Dropping straight from a fourfold-enhanced state back to normal meant being weakened by a full four times. It would have been strange if he had not felt uncomfortable.

After pondering for a moment, Lin Huo came to an understanding and muttered by the bed, "So, to remove an enhanced state, I have to lose consciousness on a subjective level?

Or is it because I haven't mastered the skill well enough yet, so I can't voluntarily cancel its effects?"

He would not figure it out anytime soon just by thinking about it. Lin Huo decided to head to the training grounds first and assess his physical condition.

If there was nothing wrong with his body, he could simply spend some time stacking the enhancements again.

The strength boost from Belly Drum was not that important, but Meditation's boost to his spiritual power had to remain active.

It was only a fourfold boost in spiritual power, but how could his learning efficiency have improved by merely four times? He could not abandon this enhancement no matter what.

His stomach let out a growl. After washing up, Lin Huo carried all the food boxes the servants had delivered to the dormitory entrance over to the tea table, then personally headed to the cafeteria for breakfast.

He exchanged a few casual words with Little Li at the cafeteria entrance, then his empty stomach urged him to begin stuffing himself.

Only after finishing his meal did Lin Huo finally notice something was wrong.

Compared with yesterday, his appetite this morning had nearly doubled, perhaps even tripled.

According to the cafeteria staff, even a Soul Grandmaster's appetite after extreme training was roughly at his current level.

Soul Masters had greatly enhanced physiques, so the stronger they were, the greater their appetites tended to be.

For a six-year-old Soul Warrior like him to eat as much as a Soul Grandmaster, it was clearly impossible for there to be nothing wrong with his body.

Anything concerning his own health could not be delayed. Rather than return to the dormitory and wait for Huo Wu, Lin Huo rushed alone toward the training grounds.

Professional healing-type Soul Masters and medical teams were stationed at the training grounds. They would surely be able to answer his questions.

Not long afterward, Lin Huo found one of the academy's teachers.

"Little Huo, you're saying you think there's something wrong with your body?"

The young female teacher silently recalled yesterday's events. Lin Huo had accomplished the glorious feat of descending like a god and knocking out seven opponents with one hammer at the training grounds.

Yet now Lin Huo was telling her that something was wrong with his body, leaving her visibly puzzled.

After all, his absurdly powerful body did not look like the sort that would develop problems.

"Big Sister Huixin, when I woke up this morning, I found that my appetite had increased several times over."

"Your appetite increased?" Ye Huixin became alert. As a physician, she naturally understood that a person's appetite would not suddenly increase without reason.

If this happened, it could only mean that something had gone wrong somewhere in their body.

"Little Huo, sit still first. Let big sister use the Healing Book to examine you."

As soon as she spoke, an ancient, worn book appeared in her hand. This was the Healing Book, Teacher Ye Huixin's Martial Soul.

"Let all illnesses reveal themselves without trace. First Soul Skill of the Healing Book, Body Detection!"

Ye Huixin recited the soul incantation. The Healing Book opened on its own without any wind, and green light burst from its pages, sweeping back and forth over Lin Huo's body.

As he underwent treatment, Lin Huo curiously examined the unusual Martial Soul that was the Healing Book.

Like Jiangzhu's staff Martial Soul at Blue Tyrant Academy, the Healing Book always made one feel as though one had encountered a mage on the Douluo Continent whenever it was used.

The first Soul Skill would take some time to finish. Seeing Lin Huo sitting obediently with the expression of a curious child, Ye Huixin smiled happily.

With nothing else to do, Ye Huixin casually found a topic to chat with Lin Huo about. "Little Huo, are you curious about big sister's Martial Soul?"

Lin Huo nodded rapidly. The library contained very little information about healing-type Martial Souls, so of course he was extremely curious.

"Big Sister Huixin, could you tell me more about the traits of healing-type Martial Souls?"

"Of course. Little Huo, just ask whatever you want." Ye Huixin readily agreed.

Under normal circumstances, she would not have had so much free time, but Lin Huo was simply too sweet-tongued.

She looked young, but she was actually already nearly forty years old. Every honeyed "Big Sister Huixin" from Lin Huo truly struck right at her heart.

Lin Huo happened to have many questions about healing-type Martial Souls, so he took the opportunity to ask, "Big Sister Huixin, can healing-type Martial Souls really heal any injury or illness?"

"How could they be that powerful?" Ye Huixin laughed at herself. "If healing-type Martial Souls could truly heal anything, healing-type Soul Masters would probably have held an extraordinary status long ago.

Perhaps more powerful healing-type Martial Souls have not yet appeared. In any case, healing-type Soul Masters currently have extremely limited healing abilities, and their effects are generally excellent only on fresh injuries.

Once they encounter stubborn old injuries that have lingered for years, or a Soul Master whose vitality has been severely depleted, even the Nine-Heart Begonia of our Ye Clan is equally helpless."

Lin Huo sharply caught the phrase, "the Nine-Heart Begonia of our Ye Clan," in Ye Huixin's words.

He had previously wondered whether this big sister might be from the Ye Clan. It turned out that he had guessed correctly.

"Nine-Heart Begonia? Isn't that the number-one healing-type Martial Soul famous across the entire continent?"

Hearing Lin Huo's praise, pride welled up from the depths of Ye Huixin's heart, and her mood became even brighter.

"That's right. Your Big Sister Ye comes from the Ye Clan of the Nine-Heart Begonia! The Fire Clan behind Blazing Fire Academy spent a great deal to invite big sister here to work."

Without hesitation, Lin Huo began clapping along. "Amazing, amazing! But, big sister, what did you mean when you said that even the Nine-Heart Begonia is helpless against old injuries?"

Ye Huixin's proud expression immediately fell, but she had no intention of getting angry with Lin Huo. She simply explained patiently:

"Little Huo, first you need to understand something. Healing a wound does not come without cost. Depending on the severity of the injury, the human body often needs to expend varying amounts of vitality to restore the wound to its original state.

When healing, our healing-type Martial Souls can use Soul Power or Soul Skills to convert a small amount of vitality and help the patient recover.

However, vitality is an energy of extremely high quality, so Soul Power and Soul Skills can generally convert only a small portion of it.

Even the Nine-Heart Begonia of our Ye Clan, famed for its abundant vitality, cannot avoid requiring the Soul Master's own vitality to take part in the healing process.

Thus, when an extremely severe injury leaves the patient themselves severely depleted, even healing-type Martial Souls can be powerless.

Who knows whether more powerful healing-type Martial Souls will appear someday, but for now, no one can break free of this limitation."

After hearing Ye Huixin say this, Lin Huo thought of Tang Hao's condition.