Blindness

  Douslin left the secret room half a month after the transcendence event.

  In these two weeks, Xiao Qingzhu almost came every day to take a look.

  She started by preventing the wind and also told her not to come again, and later got used to it.

  That day was just the time of thunderstorm, without Du Si Lin, Fengfeng left the puppet's body and drilled into a jade bottle with his soul.

  Jade is the best vessel for nourishing the soul. Under thunder and lightning, all demons and evil spirits will be suppressed.

  So Du Sulin thought of this method for Fang Feng.

  Du Sulin came out, and suddenly thunder and lightning flashed, as if they were about to split the sky open, frightening people terribly.

  "Feng." Duslin called out softly in the room.

  "Taiguang, you've finally come out!" Hearing the familiar voice, Fangfeng flew out of the jade bottle and stayed by Du Shilin's side.

  Du Shilin's pure Yang energy suppressed all kinds of evil spirits and monsters, which was a natural reaction of his physical instincts rather than something he did intentionally.

  In the past, Fang Feng's body would always carry a drop of Du Si Lin's blood, which could reduce the rejection of pure yang energy. Now that she has an obstacle symbol made from Du Si Lin's origin, the rejection of pure yang energy towards her can almost be reduced to zero.

  "Tai Guang... you..." The moment he saw Du Si Lin, Fang Feng felt something was off.

  Although Duslin's eyes were still clear, they wouldn't move.

  "I'm blind." These words came out of Du Si Lin's mouth as naturally as eating and drinking. "The origin is damaged, I forced the condensation of my soul, and suffered a backlash."

  Now Duslin carefully recalled Du Kongyang's serious warning when he told her not to condense her spirit again, as if Du Kongyang had foreseen such a situation.

  Was Du Shilin destined to live her whole life with a soul and a ghost?

  "How much of your origin has been damaged?" Fengfeng asked as he helped Du Siling sit down on the bed.

  "After twenty-three years of cultivation, I've only retained three years' worth of power; everything else has dissipated." Du Sulin said.

  This sentence was said by Du Siling with a calm tone, but Fang Feng knew that this was a huge blow to Du Siling.

  Du Sulin was born with a shocking talent, and her cultivation speed naturally exceeded that of ordinary people. With daily hard work, her one year was almost equivalent to ten years for others.

  "Douslin, are you stupid or what? You had to sacrifice the origin to save people, now look at this!" Fangfeng's voice sounded a bit tearful, but Douslin couldn't see her, her world was only one color, pitch black.

  This is also the first time Fang Feng has called Du Si Lin by her name after knowing her for so many years.

  "It's just temporarily out of sight." Du Sulin said with a slight curl of his lip.

  "How long will it take to recover?" Fengfeng asked hastily.

  "At most one month, at least, I don't know." Du Sulin was very honest and spoke straightforwardly.

  Born with the Heavenly Wheel and Heavenly Eye, one naturally possesses the function of self-repair.

  "If you still can't see me after a month, then you're in trouble!" Fengfeng held back the tears that lingered in his eyes and said angrily.

  "Hmm. I'm hungry, Feng." Duslin said, she didn't know the exact time, just felt like it had been a long time since she last ate. "Hand me your Obstacle Symbol," she added.

  Fengfeng took out the jade pendant from between her neck and put it into Du Siling's hand, instantly a green light burst forth.

  A faint red glow emanated from Du Sulin's body, and upon closer inspection, one could see that the red color was interspersed with threads of gold. A low hum, like the sound of a dragon's roar, accompanied it.

  At this moment, neither of them had the heart to pay attention.

  "Alright," said Du Sulin, "with this, I'm not afraid of thunder and lightning."

  The refined seal of Benyuan is no longer a ordinary seal, as its power far surpasses that of an ordinary seal.

  At that time, Du Sulin was too weak and had not performed any operations on the barrier symbol. At this moment, she transmitted all her remaining three years of cultivation into the barrier symbol.

  Now she can be considered an ordinary person, with no special abilities. Except for some of the hand and foot techniques she learned before.

  Of course, she wouldn't tell Fang Feng about this matter.

  After completion, the obstacle character turned into a golden dragon-shaped curve, with a faint sound of dragon roar.

  "Uh-huh, I'll go make something for you to eat." Fengfeng put away the talisman, and his soul reattached itself to the puppet. All the emotions and gratitude were once again buried deep within his heart.

  "Okay." Duslin blinked her eyes, "I'll take a nap." She was indeed tired.

  Congealed soul, having experienced the gathering and dispersing of her soul, only she herself can know this kind of suffering.

  She has been severely damaged and is now as fragile as a newborn baby.

  Feng Wei covered Du Si Lin with a quilt and quietly went downstairs.

  Outside, thunder rumbled loudly, but Du Siling closed his eyes and fell asleep, completely unaffected.

  Just as I finished cooking a bowl of noodles and was about to serve it, the doorbell rang.

  She put the noodles on the tea table, opened the door to take a look, and just happened to see a flash of lightning tearing through the sky, scaring her into a tremble. Ghosts are afraid of lightning, which is also an instinct from the heart.

  As soon as the door opened, Xiao Qingzhu closed her umbrella. The difference between opening and closing it was almost negligible, because she was completely soaked from head to toe, with water droplets sliding down her green silk hair one by one.

  "How did you get here? Come in quickly." Fang Feng stepped aside to make room for Xiao Qingzhu to enter the house.

  "Has Master Taiguang gone out?" Xiao Qingzhu asked as soon as she entered the house.

  "Hmm, she's fallen asleep." Fengfeng took the umbrella from Xiao Qingzhu's hand and put it away, then handed her a dry towel.

  "I'll lend you some of Taitang's clothes, go change." Fangfeng looked at Xia Qingzhu with a frown.

  Her clothes were specially made and ordinary people can't wear them.

  "Don't bother, I just came to take a look at her." Xiao Qingzhu hurriedly shook his head and said.

  "You're all wet, it's a wonder you don't catch a cold. If you do, then Taitang's efforts will have been in vain!" Fangfeng said, seeing Xiao Qingzhu brought back memories of the twenty years of hard work Du Sili had put in. Although it wasn't entirely because of Xiao Qingzhu, he couldn't help but feel a connection.

  After speaking, she went upstairs and casually took Du Sulin's daily change of clothes downstairs to hand over to Xiao Qingzhu, and asked: "Have you made noodles, do you want to eat?"

  "It's really no trouble," said Xiao Qingzhu. The weather was already bad with the rainstorm, and staying for dinner would be even more embarrassing.

  "I see you don't look too good, you're really pale. You go out healthy and come back looking so weak. Eat some noodles, I made extra." She said as she brought the noodles from the tea table to Xiao Qingzhu's face. "You eat first, I'll take some to Tai Guang." After Xiao Qingzhu took the noodles, she went into the kitchen and scooped out another bowl.

  "Want some noodles?" Feng said as he entered the house quietly, but still woke up Du Siling.

  "Did I wake you up?" Fang Feng said, putting his face on the desk.

  "After losing sight, various senses have become much more sensitive, especially hearing." Du Sulin got up and felt his way to sit in front of the desk.

  Feng Wind saw the situation and hurriedly went to support her. "You're getting more and more troublesome as you get older," she said in a bad mood.

  "It's delicious." Du Sulin took the chopsticks and tasted a mouthful of soup, couldn't help but sigh that Fang Feng's cooking skills had improved again. "Is there someone downstairs?" She seemed to have heard some footsteps other than Fang Feng's.

  "Xiao Qingzhu has arrived, since you closed your door, she almost comes every day." Fangfeng said.

  "Oh, go take a look then." Du Sulin said as he put down his bowl.

  "Finish your noodles," Feng said.

  "Good." Du Sulin finished eating the noodles and didn't leave a single drop of soup behind, which made Feng Wind satisfied enough to nod in approval.

  In just over a dozen days, Du Sulin had become a skeleton of a man, his bones and veins visible under his skin, a pitiful sight to behold.

  Xiao Qingzhu waited downstairs for twenty minutes before hearing slow footsteps.

  Dou Sulin came down the stairs hand over hand, one step at a time, like a toddler just learning to walk.

  "You... your eyes..." By the time Du Sulin carefully walked up to Xiao Qingzhu, Xiao Qingzhu couldn't say another word besides this sentence.

  "It's gone," said Duslin. "Feng said you've been looking for me for a long time?"

  Xiao Qingzhu wanted to help Du Siling, but Du Siling shook his head indicating that he didn't need it. So, in front of Xiao Qingzhu, Du Siling stumbled and staggered until he finally made it onto the sofa.

  "Feng said you've been in seclusion, I was a bit worried about you, so I thought I'd come take a look." Xiao Qingzhu sat down next to Du Siling, turning her head to gaze at his profile.

  His originally sharp and delicate face now only had a skeleton, from the side, Du Siling's mouth was slightly raised, as if he had been smiling all along.

  "Oh." Duslin nodded, "I'm fine now," she said.

  "It's raining heavily outside, why don't you wait until it stops before leaving?" Du Siling paused for a moment and then added another sentence.

  "No, seeing you... I'm relieved now, the company still has a meeting to attend later." Xiao Qingzhu said this with her mouth, but in her heart, she felt a pang of heartache. What's going on here?

  "Alright." Du Sulin didn't try to persuade him further.

  "Right, Taito... Master." This thought came suddenly, Xiao Qingzhu was anxious and shouted out Du Sulin's name, then added a sentence very uncomfortably.

  Duslin was still younger than her, and she looked even smaller, like a child who hadn't grown up. After going through all this, letting Xiao Qingzhu call Taiguang Shifu suddenly felt strange.

  "If you don't mind, you can drop the honorifics from now on," said Du Sulin, who had exhausted her strength and could no longer bear the title of "Master".

  "That's good." Xiao Qingzhu nodded, she didn't know what Du Siling was thinking. She just felt from her heart that Du Siling's words carried the intention of wanting to be friends with her. Suddenly, she felt that after this trip out, he seemed to have become much gentler, and even spoke a little more.

  "Hmm." Duslin had nothing to say, she couldn't see Xiao Qingzhu, so she just kept facing the TV in front of her.

  "Tai Guang, I have a question for you." Xiao Qingzhu hesitated for a moment before speaking up.

  "Ask."

  "Is your real name actually Tāi Guāng or is Tāi Guāng just your milk name?" This was just a sudden thought that occurred to Xiāo Qīngzhú, after all the surname 'Tāi' was indeed rarely seen.

  "Tai Guang is the Daoist name my aunt gave me, my real name is Du Si Lin." This was the first time Du Si Lin introduced his own name to someone else, even in the files of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Du Si Lin used the name Tai Guang.

  For over twenty years, the name "Du Sulin" was called no more than ten times. This period of time was so long that even she herself almost forgot it, and Taitong was just her own Daoist name.

  Yin Yang Master, the name Tai Guang already implies endless responsibility for the Du family.

  No matter how hard it is, as long as she is Tai Guang, she must take on the burden.

  "Douslin, what a nice name." Xiao Qingzhu muttered to herself for a few moments before asking, "So should I call you Silin or Taiguang from now on?"

  Si Lin? In the darkness, Du Si Lin heard this name and felt a strange sense of familiarity, as if someone had called her that a very long time ago.

  "But in the end, Du Si Lin still suppressed the feeling that the name Du Si Lin brought to her heart and chose a Daoist name that meant responsibility."

  Douslin herself didn't know, when she said this name, there was a hint of bitterness in her eyes.

  All efforts have been in vain, and previous efforts have been abandoned. Perhaps it's not necessarily a bad thing.

  At least during this period of time, she was an extremely ordinary person.

  The destructive power caused by her strong spiritual energy in her childhood is still deeply etched in her memory. With just a flick of her wrist, she could destroy something and she couldn't control it.

  Later on, after learning how to control spiritual power, it was easy not to use it again.

  Deep down inside, she also wants to be an ordinary person.

  "Alright, Silin." Xiao Qingzhu's mind was sharp and naturally wouldn't miss the changes in Du Silin's eyes.

  She wasn't clear about Du Sulin's past, and when she first found her, it was also through connections to ask, with a try-it-out attitude, because when she heard the introduction, it said that this was a generations-inherited yin-yang master family.

  "Si Lin, I know an ophthalmology expert, let her take a look at your eyes, okay?" Xiao Qingzhu said.

  Du Sulin shook his head: "Backlash from practicing martial arts, it's nothing, I'm used to it."

  I'm used to it. It's just that in the past, even when I had a severe case of conjunctivitis, my vision was only blurry for seven days, but it wasn't as bad as this time.

  This sentence just confirmed Xiao Qingzhu's speculation. She didn't understand cultivation, but she had also watched martial arts dramas and knew that backlash from practicing was a serious matter, so Du Sulin must have been pretending to be fine.

  "We'll talk about this later, give me your phone." Xiao Qingzhu stretched out her hand, but then remembered that Du Siling couldn't see and took it back.

  "I don't have it," said Du Sulin.

  "Alright, I'll go attend the meeting first. Come find me tomorrow." Xiao Qingzhu glanced at the time and stood up to leave.

  Du Sulin was perplexed, she didn't know why Xiao Qingzhu was so good to her.

  Also don't know why I always can't say "no" to Xiao Qingzhu.

  Perhaps it was because of that one call of "Silin" that Du Silin thought so in his heart.

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