[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-dao-dust-pearl":3,"chapter-the-dao-dust-pearl-the-dao-dust-pearl-chapter-955":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Dao Dust Pearl",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2360456,4614,"Chapter 955: Without Madness, There Is No Immortal Realm","the-dao-dust-pearl-chapter-955",955,"\u003Cp>Xilin saw that Dou Xiaoyan’s eyes showed no reaction at all under the bright light, and his heart sank—this was the Light of the Father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The eyes are windows to the soul; yet even this holy light, born of primordial spirituality, could not pierce this layer of white opacity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Holy Church, they would have burned the man alive first!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the Father’s Light is powerless? What manner of heretical entity is this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“His eye affliction is a curse of the highest ontological rank, possibly tied to one or several Celestial Regents!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xilin withdrew with a grim expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The foreign physicians whispered among themselves; the only solution they could devise was corneal transplantation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crow sat before Dou Dabiebao and smiled softly. “Do you think they’re right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dou Dabiebao snapped, “After all that talk, it’s just two words—no cure!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crow smiled. “They only see the veil over your eyes, but is your illness truly just this white opacity? I think your sickness lies in your heart—this veil is your mental barrier!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, the entire Medicine King Temple fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the stillness, Dou Xiaoyan laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood, sneering. “Wen Caixia, do you think I’m playing with you? If I weren’t ill, would I have spent all my wealth over these years, fallen into such ruin, just to amuse you? You lured me here with this sea treasure—just to tell me this joke? If you can cure this, I, Dou Xiaoyan, thank you. If you can’t, don’t toy with me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My name is Dou Xiaoyan—not Dou Youwan!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crow shook its head. “Others say that in your prime, you carried three treasures to seize the artifact that grants immortality—but you left behind your entire reputation, your three famed treasures, your wife, children, subordinates, and even your backbone there.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You looked at the treasure once—and went blind.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But did you ever bring that treasure back?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crow’s words struck like daggers; Dou Xiaoyan’s face darkened like the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Perhaps that treasure didn’t blind you—it opened your divine eye, elevating your cultivation to a higher realm. ‘Bie Bao,’ ‘Bie Bao’—if you’ve hoarded an unparalleled treasure, then surely you’ve taken the unprecedented step—achieving the Immortal Saint Realm, forging a pair of immortal eyes!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dou Dabiebao,” the crow whispered, “when you opened your eyes, what did you see? What made you pretend to be mad for so many years?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They all think you’re blind. What if you simply refuse to see? Perhaps you’ve even deceived yourself! If you hadn’t deceived yourself, how could you have survived all these years with your cultivation stripped away, against so many scheming foes?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crow leaned close to Dou Xiaoyan’s ear and whispered, so faintly it was nearly inaudible: “Don’t fear—I saw it too.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dou Xiaoyan trembled violently…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crow crushed the sea toad in its hand, squeezing out its toad oil, then instantly dabbed a drop onto each of Dou Xiaoyan’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the toad oil touched the eyeballs, it spread into a film, enveloping each globe completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that instant, Dou Xiaoyan felt unbearable itching in both eyes—slick, slippery, and when he applied slight pressure, both globes popped out of their sockets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scream startled even Dou Xiaoyan himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two eyeballs dangled, connected by pale-yellow nerves like curled tentacles, hanging limply against his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The physicians watching nearly went mad with horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The sea toad is indeed a servant of the Deep Sea Demigod, but it cannot cure your illness. Only one medicine can.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crow seized one of Dou Xiaoyan’s eyeballs and pressed it against her own eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The optic nerve tentacles lengthened, transformed under the sea toad oil’s power into writhing, aberrant nerve endings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the crow’s true aim—the sea toad oil was not a cure for the eye, but a medium for eye replacement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She pressed the eyeball against her right eye, pupil to pupil, and deep within the abyssal depths of her pupil, a gaze pierced into Dou Xiaoyan’s left eyeball.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the gaze Qian Chen had left within her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So that they might use this gaze to see the ‘Truth.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Years ago, when Dou Xiaoyan broke through using the power of his divine eye, he saw what the eight administrators of the Xuanzhen Sect had seen through Qian Chen’s gaze—the truth of this hidden history.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All was destroyed; everyone was but sparks in the ashes, vengeful ghosts and tormented souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Dou Xiaoyan lacked the secret medicine Qian Chen granted the eight administrators—the Black Taishui—to endure the Truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he did not wish to become a vengeful ghost and restore his true form, he had no choice but to blind himself, forget everything, and cover his ‘heart’ with a pathetic, thick barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, he found that unparalleled treasure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With it, he covered his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is called a ghost obscuring the eyes, what is called an internal traitor, is in fact only one person—Dou Xiaoyan himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body did harbor a ghost—himself, the one who knew the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dou Xiaoyan screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered everything. The optic nerve tentacles writhed like living limbs, swinging the two eyeballs; deep within his hollow sockets, his brain thrashed with countless nerves, emitting the shriek of a vengeful spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had become a demon!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why, why, why?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ve already deceived myself—why must you expose me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Immortals are not human, for they all know they are ghosts! They live madly, Qingxingertongku ，every seemingly lucid Immortal Saint is truly insane! If they weren’t mad, they wouldn’t act human… because we are ghosts! Those Immortal Saints who became demons are the sane ones; those who act human are the most insane of all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m not mad enough—so I can’t reach the Immortal Saint Realm!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why, why, why?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless pale-yellow nerve tentacles erupted from the sockets, lashing toward the crow: “You’re a ghost too—why can you refuse to deceive yourself? Are you even madder than I am?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The countless tentacles deep within Dou Xiaoyan’s sockets groped over the crow’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black, tar-like tears welled from the crow’s corners, greedily licked away by the tentacles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She spoke calmly: “Because the Sect Master will redeem us all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dou Xiaoyan, you have two choices. One: join us to save this world and let it be reborn. Two: I will split your divine eye’s power— one eye sees truth, the other sees illusion. Open the eye that sees spirit and illusion, and continue deceiving yourself—for life.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… is the Immortal Elixir!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The nerve tentacles touched a speck of Black Taishui’s gel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The utterly corrupted, fully transformed demon Dou Xiaoyan seized this sliver of life, regained a sliver of human reason, and made his choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I choose two!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crow seized Dou Xiaoyan’s left eye and ripped the nerve tentacles from his brain—wriggling, snake-like, with a single eye—placing them upon the corpse of the Jiaoren .\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The nerves, alive, slithered into the corpse’s mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deep within the Deep One’s brain, hidden at the pineal gland, lay an undeveloped eye—the “Jiao Pearl.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dou Xiaoyan’s left eyeball crawled into that position, driving its nerve tentacles deep into the Deep One’s brain, becoming the “Jiao Pearl,” hidden away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the eye that saw truth vanished into the Deep One’s body, the exposed Truth around them faded; from the ashes of destruction, the Medicine King Temple reappeared, the surrounding ghosts shedding their confusion and malice, returning to human form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They stared, bewildered, at their surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dou Xiaoyan was shoving the eyeball back into his right socket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened his eyes, delighted: “I can see again!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A miracle doctor!” He had forgotten everything, gazing around with joy through the eye that perceived illusion and spirit—countless spiritual lights wove illusions, countless spiritual essences reflected in his gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unconsciously, Dou Xiaoyan glanced toward the side hall of the Medicine King Temple. His expression changed; he gasped: “The corpse of an Immortal Saint—what a treasure!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The physicians of the Three Emperors Association paled. Dou Xiaoyan immediately dimmed the divine light in his eyes, curled his body, and reverted to the old man he had been, raising a thumb to the crow: “The Xuanzhen Sect truly has living miracles! You’re the best!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xilin pressed his forehead, grimly: “What just happened?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The foreign physician beside him hesitated: “I don’t know? It feels like our brains blocked that memory.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did those Easterners ambush us?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No…” Xilin hesitated. “It’s more like we couldn’t comprehend what just occurred.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That was ‘Mystery’… Mystery itself holds power. Those who comprehend Mystery share its strength; those who cannot comprehend it alone wield its power—that is the fourth element: Secrecy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A very high-level Secrecy just occurred!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The physician’s face turned ashen—“If even we can’t comprehend it… this level of Secrecy…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Eastern Continent truly holds fragments of humanity’s origin!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Impossible…” the physicians of the Three Emperors Association were stunned: “It was truly cured!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Doctor Huo stared, bewildered, at Dou Dabiebao—now a one-eyed dragon, yet his single eye was crystal-clear, piercing through everything, making Huo feel cold, as if his soul had been laid bare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ghost-veiled eyes… could it really be cured by sea toad oil alone?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where did the ghost go?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Doctor Hua comforted him: “The Xuanzhen Sect’s power isn’t orthodox medicine—it relies on this exotic sea toad oil. Only strange prescriptions can cure such strange illnesses. Brother Huo lost only because you lacked this rare medicine. No medicine, no cure—even the greatest physician is helpless.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Doctor Huo shook his head: “In the end, my knowledge was insufficient.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But how can sea toad oil cure ghost-veiled eyes?” He frowned, still unable to understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Doctor Hua was more carefree: “Strange prescriptions rarely follow pharmacological logic—if they did, they wouldn’t be strange. We just record this formula. Strange cures for strange illnesses—Dou Dabiebao’s condition was already extraordinary; that it was cured by this odd remedy is natural.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Speaking of which…” Hua mused, “I know of a few others with strange illnesses.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Doctor Huo frowned: “At this medical gathering, we’re not discussing differences in Eastern and Western medical theory—why focus only on obscure ailments? Isn’t that abandoning the root for the branches?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Hua didn’t care: “Discussing medical theory is just you claiming you’re right and I claim I’m right—who can overpower whom?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But obscure ailments? There, we can settle wins and losses, compete, and determine who’s better.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1713,"2026-06-21T05:40:02.617Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","c3550b37873df1961e80169c2fbc0231a2763c305f8da2a29d174c454a2148d9","the-dao-dust-pearl-chapter-956","the-dao-dust-pearl-chapter-954",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-dao-dust-pearl-cover.jpg"]