荒墟牧神 - 第24章 一念斬破心中神 - 雲海書庫

The things of this world are not so shallow as mortal eyes perceive them. What ordinary people see and what a martial artist with opened eyes sees are two entirely different worlds! The Zhenye Divine Statue looks ordinary, but a martial artist with opened eyes can see the god within the stone statue. Ruins left by gods and demons are everywhere, and a martial artist with opened eyes can see fearsome gods and demons. There are also the Buddha statues in temples: ordinary mortals see Buddha statues, while a martial artist with opened eyes can see the peerless Great Buddha, the peerless Great Buddha that crushes the mind! If a martial artist does not possess a powerful mind, sooner or later he will be frightened to death by the sights he beholds. That is why when the Blind Elder taught Shen Mu to temper his eyes, he first taught him to temper his mind. Only by shattering the god within his heart would he cease to be frightened, and only then could he achieve anything in the future. The Buddhist order says that one who holds a Buddha in his heart will find it hard to become a Buddha. The National Preceptor of Yanning said that it is easy to shatter the gods in a temple but hard to shatter the god in the heart. Both sayings convey the same truth as the Blind Elder urinating on the stone statue. The first two require tempering the mind, step by step shattering the gods and Buddhas within the heart, whereas the Blind Elder's method is crude and simple, even somewhat extreme and mad, yet it is effective. When the Village Headman first met the Blind Elder, the aura the old man carried was immensely powerful, still like a raging dragon sweeping the eight directions. But at that time the Blind Elder's eyes had both been gouged out, and the Blind Elder had collapsed. And now, that Spear Sage had returned. This could not but be credited to Shen Mu. Ever since this little boy, sound in both hands and feet, appeared in the village, the resentment clinging to the villagers had gradually been dispersed. To teach Shen Mu the Nine Heavens Far-Seeing Art, the Blind Elder had first to awaken his own "Sage Pupil," but his Sage Pupil had already been gouged out, leaving him only the heart's eye. It was while the Blind Elder was instructing Shen Mu that the Village Headman sensed the awakening of the Blind Elder's "Sage Pupil" — a heart Sage Pupil! He had no eyes; his heart had taken their place! The Village Headman slowly closed his eyes, basking leisurely in the sun, and said silently in his heart: "The heart Sage Pupil will surpass the Sage Pupil, and the Spear Sage will surpass the Spear Sage of old. Blind Elder, when you walk out of the wasteland, your enemies will tremble..." After Shen Mu finished urinating, he shivered, feeling both body and mind at ease. The stone statue could no longer suppress his mind. When he looked at it again, he saw many things he had never seen before. It was as if a veil had previously covered his eyes, so that all he saw was hazy, and now that the veil had been stripped away, the true colors of the world revealed themselves. He gazed greedily at the colors around him; this beauty he had never discovered before moved him almost to tears. He came before the other stone statues in the village, and his mind was shaken once more. The other three stone statues in the village, like this dragon-headed elder statue, burst forth with intense divine light, exuding an otherworldly charm and possessing a sacred, extraordinary aura! But he could look at them with a calm mind; these statues could no longer affect his spirit. He had cultivated only the first heaven of the Nine Heavens Far-Seeing Art, and already it sent him into raptures. To what heights would the later heavens raise his eyes, and what wonders would he behold? Shen Mu took out a bronze mirror and looked into it. His eyes in the mirror were different from usual: deep in his pupils a ring had appeared, and within the ring were strange patterns like interwoven lightn