Chapter 23: Wild Blasphemy

Qin Mu's heart was greatly shaken. "Carrying a stone statue is like carrying a god?"

The blind man said calmly, "Walking while carrying a god is incredibly heavy. Back then, when Granny Si and the others saved you, Grandpa Ma carried a stone statue and brought Granny to the riverside. Even for such a short distance, Grandpa Ma's strength was nearly exhausted."

Qin Mu's scalp tingled. Were the stone statues in the village really that heavy?

Who carved these statues then?

What gods were carved onto them? Why would statues made in their likeness be so incredibly heavy?

When he was a child, he used to climb on the statues to relieve himself. Would the gods resent him for that?

"Don't worry, the god who carved these statues is long dead. Mu'er, I'm having you look at the statues not just to see them, but to train your eyes. What I'm having you see isn't an ordinary stone statue, but a statue made by a god, for a god!"

The blind man's voice was deafening, making Qin Mu's eardrums buzz. The blind man roared towards a bamboo basket next to the statue, "Mu'er, the Nine Heavens Eye Opening Technique opens a divine eye! Since it's a divine eye, naturally you must see gods! Use your eyes to see gods, to see their presence, their charm, their aura, their demeanor, their very divinity!"

Qin Mu's mind reeled. "See gods? See the gods within the stone statues?"

"Let your vital qi enter your eyes and open the first heaven of your mortal flesh!"

The blind man's bamboo staff gently tapped Qin Mu's chest. This time, the tap was incredibly precise. Qin Mu immediately felt his vital qi surging powerfully, rushing towards his eyes!

Training the eyes was extremely dangerous. Qin Mu's vital qi had already begun tempering his body, refining impurities and excess fat, but the eyes were the most difficult part to refine, almost a forbidden zone. A slight mistake could lead to blindness!

Qin Mu had once asked the Village Chief how to refine the eyes, but the Village Chief hadn't said much, only advising him not to attempt it casually.

Yet, the blind man was urging Qin Mu's vital qi to rush into his eyes with fierce and overbearing momentum, defying all logic!

Qin Mu felt a searing pain pierce his eyes. His vital qi had surged mightily into them, and though his qi cultivation was formidable, it was being compressed into an extremely fine thread by the blind man's terrifying power.

How big could eyes be?

But at that moment, Qin Mu felt as if his eyes were immense, as vast as the sky!

His vital qi was like a dragon, a colossal dragon entering his sky-sized eyes. Then, it suddenly burst forth, vital qi gushing upwards like a pillar reaching the heavens. The surging qi then flowed across the firmament, forming strange patterns on the celestial canopy, interweaving into a net, like the principles of the Heavenly Dao, spread across the sky.

The searing pain from moments ago suddenly vanished, replaced by an unparalleled, unprecedented comfort.

"Mu'er, remember the patterns in the sky. That is the first heaven of the Nine Heavens Eye Opening Technique, the Divine Heavens' Heavenly Dipper Array Pattern," the blind man's voice echoed from afar, sounding profound and distant.

Qin Mu quickly committed it to memory. His vital qi, propelled by the blind man, formed the Divine Heavens' Heavenly Dipper Array Pattern within his eyes. He could clearly see the flow, structure, and details of these patterns, but the Heavenly Dipper Array Pattern was too intricate and complex, requiring time to memorize.

The blind man continuously urged his vital qi. After a long while, when Qin Mu's vital qi was almost exhausted, he finally removed his bamboo staff from Qin Mu's chest.

"How much did you memorize?" the blind man asked.

"Sixty to seventy percent."

The blind man looked pleased. "Memorizing sixty to seventy percent in such a short time is quite impressive. Recover your vital qi now."

Qin Mu began to run, activating the "Three Primordial Spirit Body Technique" to quickly restore his vital qi.

Once his cultivation returned to its peak, the blind man said, "Activate the Heavenly Dipper Array Pattern I taught you, then look at the stone statue again. See if it's different from before."

Qin Mu immediately activated his vital qi, directing it into his eyes. The vital qi began to construct the Divine Heavens' Heavenly Dipper Array Pattern. He had only learned sixty to seventy percent of the patterns, so it wasn't complete, but as the vital qi spread through his eyes, the cool, all-seeing comfort returned.

He raised his eyes to look at the stone statue of the dragon-headed elder in front of him. His mind trembled. The statue, which had once seemed ordinary, suddenly became dazzling and vibrant!

The statue seemed to come alive, as if it had transformed into a towering god!

He even saw fine rays of light emanating from around the statue, each ray highlighting its sacred and solemn presence!

His spirit was instantly crushed by the statue!

In his eyes, the stone statue was no longer mere stone, but a living god!

The god's divinity, demeanor, aura, charm, and presence overwhelmed his spirit, threatening to crush his body next, making his knees tremble with an urge to prostrate himself on the ground!

"Keep looking. Don't close your eyes, and don't kneel."

The blind man said coldly, "When you were a child, you even climbed on the statues to relieve yourself. If you dared to do that then, why would you kneel now that you've grown up? Mu'er, the Nine Heavens Eye Opening Technique isn't just about opening your eyes; it's also about opening your mind, allowing you to directly confront the power and dangers of the world!"

"For a martial artist, strength isn't just about the power of techniques; mental fortitude is even more crucial! If your heart is defeated by a pile of broken stones, then no matter how powerful your martial arts, you will achieve nothing!"

The blind man struck his bamboo staff on the ground and shouted, "If you resist the statue, and withstand its oppression, your spirit will grow stronger! To become powerful, first strengthen your mind. Be your own god, fear nothing!"

Cold sweat streamed down Qin Mu's forehead as he desperately fought the urge to kneel. The oppressive feeling from the statue was simply too overwhelming, impossible to resist.

The blind man told him to fear nothing, but he couldn't do it.

Not having opened his eyes and having opened them were two completely different matters.

Without his eyes opened, the statue was just an ordinary stone statue; climbing on it to relieve himself wouldn't have bothered him. But with his eyes opened, the statue was a deity, and any action, even merely gazing at it, was blasphemy!

The blind man said, "It's easy to destroy a god in a temple, but hard to destroy the god in one's heart. Do you know who said that?"

Qin Mu's spirit was so awestruck by the statue that he couldn't answer.

"The one who uttered that seemingly blasphemous statement is none other than the current Imperial Advisor of the Eternal Peace Empire, outside the Great Ruins, hailed as the foremost individual below the gods!"

The blind man spoke with imposing authority, shouting, "Mu'er, the gods that exist in your heart are all false gods, foreign gods! You must shatter them to erect your own divine image! Don't just talk about a stone statue; even if a true god stood before you, you must never kneel!"

He stuck his bamboo staff aside, unfastened his waistband, and laughed heartily. "Not only must you not kneel, you must piss on it!"

"Piss on it?"

Qin Mu was stunned. "Piss on a god?"

The blind man urinated on the statue and laughed, "Yes, piss on it! You've pissed on it countless times as a child. Are you afraid now?"

Qin Mu gritted his teeth, unfastened his waistband, and a warm stream shot out, urinating on the statue.

This act of urination was momentous. In Qin Mu's eyes, the divine statue was still sacred and solemn, full of oppressive power, but the feeling of spiritual oppression that made him want to kneel vanished without a trace!

The old man and the young boy looked at each other, bursting into joyous laughter.

The Village Chief was sunbathing by the door. Hearing their laughter, he turned to look and couldn't help but shake his head. "The blind man is a strange genius, using such a method to help Mu'er shatter the god in his heart and strengthen his spirit. No one else would think of such an eccentric approach, yet Mu'er actually dared to pee alongside him—he's incredibly bold. By making Mu'er urinate on the statue, he's not only shattering the god in Mu'er's heart, but also the god in his own heart—the 'god' who gouged out his eyes... The God of Spears has returned."

He knew why the blind man was doing this.

The bamboo staff in the blind man's hand was not merely a staff; it was a spear.

Back when the blind man first entered Disabled Elderly Village, both his eyes were destroyed, and he was severely wounded, utterly miserable, like a dirty beggar.

But the blind man's steps were steady, and so was the bamboo staff in his hand.

When he walked into the village, the Village Chief felt as if an enraged dragon was sweeping across all directions, charging into their small village. In the Village Chief's eyes, the blind man's presence was like a pillar supporting the heavens.

Only the God of Spears could possess such spear techniques and grandeur in the world!

However, the God of Spears' greatest strength was not his spear, but his eyes—a pair of divine eyes capable of seeing through the flaws of all techniques!

And now, the blind man had passed on those divine eyes to Qin Mu.

To practice spear, first train the eyes; to train the eyes, first train the heart!

The blind man's eyes were divine eyes. The stronger his eyes became, the more truth he could perceive, and the more truth he saw, the greater the horrors he would witness.