Soul Returns

  "I already know about the Taiguang matter." Du Kongyang sat in the center surrounded by everyone, she let out a deep sigh and said: "This child has been strong-willed since childhood, taking on all the burdens herself. I think this time she's not just suppressing the zombie poison, but also feeling a sense of crisis from reality, forcing herself to become stronger."

  "But Cloud Master, how did you suddenly appear? You're not...?" Jing Jie said, Du Kongyang stayed by Peng Haotian's side, everyone knew.

  "Is... Qing Zhu?" Ye Huanxi spoke up.

  Du Kongyang nodded, which was both an answer to Ye Huanxi's guess and a greeting to her. After all, the two of them were meeting for the first time.

  "What's wrong with Qing Zhu?" Fang Feng escaped the calamity of his soul flying and his spirit scattering, but he was still severely injured, speaking weakly.

  Feng's question made everyone's eyes fall on Ye Huanxi, including Du Kongyang. Because she was also surprised that Xiao Qingzhu suddenly appeared at Peng's house and asked her to come back to save Feng Chufeng.

  Ye Xuan Creek fell silent for a moment, sorting out his thoughts in his mind, and roughly explaining what had just happened. The living room suddenly fell silent, the atmosphere was dull and oppressive like the weather before a thunderstorm. The little guy didn't understand emotional things, seeing everyone frowning, he also became well-behaved, a pair of eyes looking at this one and then that one.

  "At least for now, it's not the worst situation." Du Kongyang originally wanted to say something to ease the tension, but suddenly slapped his thigh and excitedly said: "Right! I remembered!"

  She rummaged through her backpack and pulled out a wooden box, the top of which was inlaid with a ring dragon pendant. The craftsmanship was exquisite, with a lifelike dragon carved on it, as if born from heaven. The only thing lacking was that the dragon's eyes did not shine, because the craftsman had not carved any eyeballs for it.

  "Could this be the legendary dragon's finishing touch?" Jing Jie observed the wooden box in Du Kongyang's hand, and clicked his tongue.

  Du Kongyang stretched out his hand to stroke the wooden box, as if it were a rare treasure. After a while, he looked at Fang Feng and said: "Fang Feng, I'll go take a look at Tai Guang, you all rest well."

  Feng nodded silently, without saying much more. She knew, perhaps Du Sulin could be saved now.

  Du Kongyang entered the room where Du Silin was in seclusion. The secret room had no light, and Du Silin didn't even turn on a lamp. There was not a sound, only a mess, as if a fierce battle had taken place.

  Du Sulin sat cross-legged at the end of the jade stage, motionless. Her three thousand strands of black hair were disheveled and scattered behind her head, looking haggard and worn out.

  It seemed that Du Kongyang had heard the sound of footsteps, and Du Silin's eyes suddenly opened wide. The deep and enchanting purple pupils were filled with bright red blood vessels, and a low growl revealed sharp fangs as he pounced towards Du Kongyang.

  "Tai Guang!" Du Kongyang shouted, dodging Du Silin. But Du Silin seemed to have not heard him and instead became even more ferocious, several streams of spiritual energy smashing towards Du Kongyang.

  "Bad, she didn't suppress the zombie poison!" Du Kongyang's heart chilled and he suddenly understood.

  But she couldn't do anything about it, and hurting Duslin was out of the question. Just as Duslin pounced on him again, Du Kongyang grabbed Duslin's hands, but only managed to hold on with great difficulty. Duslin's strength was simply too great.

  "Taiguang, wake up!" Du Kongyang turned his head to avoid Du Silin's sharp teeth, but Du Silin was undeterred and repeatedly stretched out her neck to nuzzle against Du Kongyang's.

  "Empty space is also empty." Du Kongyang almost exhausted all his strength, he silently recited the mantra of quieting the mind, and couldn't even speak coherently.

  "Emptiness is empty of emptiness. The emptiness being empty, there is no emptiness either."

  "Hah!" Du Sulin exclaimed in a low voice, and with one swift motion, he broke free from Du Kongyang's grasp, pushing him to the side.

  "Nothingness is nothing, yet it is always serene and still." Meanwhile, Du Kongyang took advantage of this empty space, with his two fingers together transforming into a pen tip writing out line after line of talismans in the air. "Stillness has no place to be still, how can desires arise?"

  "Ah——!" The calming mantra that Du Kongyang was reciting seemed to have had some effect on Du Silin, as she suddenly hugged her head and let out a loud cry, her expression extremely painful, but this only lasted for an instant.

  Duslin stood quietly on the spot, her black hair fluttering in the wind. Her originally noble and cold eyes now had a hint of redness to them. She twisted her neck slightly, watching as Du Kongyang's talisman gradually took shape.

  She suddenly exerted herself and jumped up, her hands transformed into claws as she swiped at Du Kongyang.

  "Desire is not born, that is true quietness. Du Si Lin, don't you still calm your mind and awaken?! Just as Du Si Lin's hand was about to grab Du Kong Yang's neck, Du Kong Yang leaned his body back, causing Du Si Lin to pounce into thin air. By the time she turned around, Du Kong Yang's fingertips were already pointing at her brow."

  A blue light flashed into Du Si Lin's brow as Du Kong Yang's incantation was activated.

  At this moment, Duslin's pain cannot be described in two words. She only feels that her internal organs are burning, and her consciousness is also getting lost bit by bit. Her head is splitting with pain, and she has no idea what is happening outside. She can only rely on her instincts to control her body.

  "Duslin, aren't you awake yet?!" Du Kongyang's voice suddenly came in, Duslin trembled, and the burning sensation in his body also seemed to weaken a lot.

  "Aunt... Aunt..." She struggled to open her eyes, moved her dry lips, wanting to say this sentence, but found that she didn't even have the strength to speak.

  Du Kongyang stood right in front of her, less than three steps away. She wanted to walk over, but her body was unable to move.

  "You were just controlled by the zombie poison, and I cast a spell of immobilization on you." Seeing Du Shilin wake up with some clarity in her eyes, looking at him with a confused expression, Du Kongyang explained.

  She walked a few steps further, bent down to pick up the wooden box that had fallen out during the fight with Du Sulin. But the movement behind her made her dodge and retreat.

  "Tai Guang!" Du Kongyang was forced into a corner, she called out for Du Silin's name.

  The response was Du Shilin's attack. What Du Kongyang did not expect was that he had always overestimated his ability to judge Du Shilin, but the result was still underestimated. Because the time she struggled free from the binding spell was really short and terrible.

  Du Kongyang was paying attention to Du Silin's movements while her mind had not left the wooden box. She remembered what Xiao Qingzhu said when she handed her this wooden box: "This box can only be opened when you see Silin. This is the only way to save her."

  She must open the box! She said secretly in her heart.

  It's easy to think about opening the box, but it's not that simple. Du Sulin seemed to have guessed Du Kongyang's thoughts and attacked more frequently and fiercely, let alone picking up the wooden box, she didn't even have a chance to leave the corner of the wall.

  "Pffft!" Du Kongyang's skills were no match for a normal person, and his physical strength had finally reached its limit. On the other hand, Du Silin was getting more and more ferocious, and the clarity that had appeared in his eyes earlier had long since disappeared. As a result, when Du Silin's palm struck Du Kongyang's chest, Du Kongyang could no longer hold on, and a sweet, pungent taste suddenly rose up in his throat, followed by a mouthful of fresh blood spewing out the next second.

  Watching Du Si Lin's uninterrupted movements, Du Kong Yang closed his eyes in despair and shouted: "Ancestors! Yun Xing has arrived."

  But after a while, she found that Du Sulin didn't attack her again. With a puzzled expression, she opened her eyes to find Du Sulin kneeling on the ground, holding his head in both hands, looking extremely painful. It seemed that Du Sulin had started suppressing the zombie poison again.

  Time was no longer, Du Kongyang rolled to the side of the wooden box on the ground, and at this time, Du Silin failed again. Scarlet began to occupy more than half of her iris, a pair of eyes turned purple red, with bloodthirsty desire, ruthless and cold-blooded.

  When she looked at Du Kongyang, Du Kongyang's back felt a chill, but she still opened the box without hesitation.

  A critical moment when the fate of everything hangs in the balance.

  The moment she opened the box, she found it was empty, with nothing inside. Du Kongyang smiled, knowing that this box was exchanged by Xiao Qingzhu, that silly girl, but she couldn't explain it in front of everyone. Because Nie Yinniang was too strong, she wouldn't ask anyone to take such a meaningless risk. Even she herself didn't know why she smiled, perhaps because before her death, she could still see the woman she loved most and spend so much time with her.

  Du Sulin opened her mouth and rushed towards Du Kongyang's neck, with one hand on the wooden box as a fulcrum. However, before she could bite him, her body suddenly convulsed as if struck by lightning.

  All that was seen was a ring of dragon pendant on her chest, where strands of pale golden light entered her arm along with her hand.

  Her pupils suddenly enlarged, her eyeballs bulged out, and blood vessels were all over.

  "Ah——!" Duslin tried to pull out his hand, but couldn't, as if it was stuck to the Huanlong Pendant.

  Only after those pale golden lights disappeared could she move freely.

  "It's actually the soul...!" Du Kongyang was a bit dazed, she hadn't expected that the secret of the wooden box was actually on the Ring Dragon Pendant, and inside the Ring Dragon Pendant, it was actually hiding Du Silin's lost two souls and six spirits for over twenty years!

  Yes, Duslin has never been able to suppress the zombie poison and was controlled by it, a major reason being that she only had one soul and one spirit. Although the fetal light of the life soul merged with the dragon soul, it was ultimately difficult to match Peng Haotian's zombie poison designed for Duslin.

  But now it's different. Because Du Sulin's lost soul has come back!

  Douslin only felt the surging air currents impacting her body, she was left with just a last thread of clarity, but her body, impacted by those air currents, not only didn't have any pain, instead had a kind of pleasant and intimate familiarity.

  It is well known that there are three souls: Tai Guang, Shuang Ling and You Jing, which are respectively Yuan Shen, Yang Shen and Yin Shen, existing in the spiritual world of human beings. The seven Po, on the other hand, are Shi Gou, Fu Shi, Que Yin, Tun Zei, Fei Du, Chu Hui and Chou Fei, corresponding to joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hatred and desire in the mortal world, existing in the material world.

  Du Sulin's soul had been sealed in the Huán Lóng Pèi, absorbing spiritual energy and growing exceptionally strong. Because it had never experienced the many things of the mortal world, it was extremely pure. Therefore, when it returned to its original body, there would be no rejection whatsoever.

  Of course, these are all Du Si Lin's own feelings. But in Du Kong Yang's eyes, it was another scene.

  She struggled to get up, Du Si Lin lay flat on the ground, her eyes tightly closed and no longer violent. She carried Du Si Lin horizontally and placed her on the jade platform. Looking at this niece who had been tortured since birth, all she could do was heartache.

  When she was young, she could still shield her from the wind and rain, teaching her spells. But now, Du Si Lin's wings were full, and she was no longer the eaglet who hid behind her needing protection.

  What Du Si Lin is facing, even Du Kong Yang and the ancestors of the Du family have never experienced. There is no precedent to follow. Therefore, Du Kong Yang knows that everything can only rely on Du Si Lin herself. Life and death are also decided in her own hands.

  "Why does Peng Haotian have the soul of Taiguang? Even if it was taken away, it's just placed in the Huánglóng Pèi to be nurtured?" She thought while taking care of Du Siling.

  Author's note: I fell asleep on the desk while typing and the update is late, forgive me.

  Flowers received! The exam is about to start, wish me good luck and high marks!