Eye of the Eternal Night

The blind man touching the elephant

When the lamp goes out, the star spirit becomes blind.

He lay quietly in the darkness and finally had a good sleep. He had hardly ever had a good night's sleep in the valley throughout the year. Curiosity about the body, curiosity about the world, and vigilance that wouldn't allow him to relax himself.

The green Robe master had left the stone chamber, seemingly deliberately allowing himself to adapt to the darkness and solitude.

A person's fear in the dark is magnified countless times more than usual. Resistance is weakened when you are out of sight. Just like a horror movie, thrillers taking place under the sun in broad daylight always feel uninteresting.

The endless darkness puts invisible pressure on people. Perhaps the way the green-clad master trained his disciples was as perverted as he was. Star Soul felt a little sympathetic to him, and the skin of the green-clothed master gave him his first personal experience of vampires.

It's too cruel for a child. Star Soul smiled slightly, yawned and thought bored, he loved this darkness and quietness, felt safe and comfortable, was he a little perverted too?

Just as he was about to have his first peaceful sleep after falling into the valley comfortably, he felt that there was an extra person in the room and reflexively held his breath.

Brother Shadow's floating voice rang out calmly: "I knew you would live up to our expectations and smoothly enter the valley to learn."

Shadow let out a sigh.

Who are you? Who am I? You... Do you know the secret of the soles of my feet? Who came up with this perverted method to get him to squeeze onto the plank bridge? What if he died at the hands of a group of seven or eight-year-olds? A string of questions rushed into his mind, and he just let out the air he held: "Aren't you afraid that the master in green will find you?"

"He won't be here for the first three nights. He's so stubborn that he thinks you're qualified to be his apprentice only if you can stay here alone for three nights."

What does the sound of the shadow resemble? Star Soul felt like a voice forced out by pinching the throat, with a gentle attitude and a voice like that of a duck. He chuckled to the ground. "What are you doing here?"

"Teach you inner strength."

The Star Soul thought for a moment and asked again, "Not the Sunflower Bible, but the wedding dress divine skill!"

"What is the Sunflower Canon, the wedding dress Divine Skill?"

"One was practiced by eunuchs and the other by helping others!"

The shadow was silent for a moment and said, "I knew you would never be an i***t!"

"But I can't remember the past."

"Back then... It's fine if you can't remember! From now on, it's up to fate." There was a hint of melancholy in the voice of the shadow.

"Who are you?" The Star Soul finally asked.

"Me? I am a shadow, a shadow that cannot appear before people. I promise people that I will teach you a skill..."

To take revenge? Star Soul almost blurted out the common second half of this TV series. "You're good at martial arts too. Why can't you teach me? To throw me in this valley?"

"Inconvenient!"

The words almost made Star Soul jump out of bed, pointing at the shadow's nose and cursing that he was in a bad mind. He had walked around the line of life and death many times since entering the Valley, and was almost sent to the Peony Garden to be marked. The Star Soul looked coldly at the shadow and sneered, thinking that he would never accept his affection. No matter what his relationship with him is in this life.

It seemed that the shadow did not want to stay long, and threw down a volume of things as if throwing away a big burden: "Many people want to get this volume of the Inner Classic of the Heavenly Vein. Practice it well."

"Why don't you practice it?" No one eats the Zhangzi by the roadside, not because the passers-by know the rules, but because it's sour and not tasty, Star Soul understands that.

The shadow was very candid: "I've been looking at it for six years, but I haven't found any clue. Maybe... You can."

Star Soul laughed. Maybe this thing belongs to my family, so, maybe... Leave me here and give me my life so that I can know the secrets you can't know. Alas, I was really an i***t before.

"Aren't you afraid I'll go crazy if I practice randomly?" What Star Soul really wants to say is, if I go crazy, aren't you even less likely to get this secret?

"It's your luck if you can get out of the building, and it's your luck if you can master it. That's all I can do for you now. I can only come in because your master in green has this bad habit before taking on a disciple... It's also your luck."

Before the Star Soul could digest everything the shadow had said, countless questions and puzzles welled up in its heart. The shadow had already left straightforwardly. For six years, the shadow had been with him in the valley for a year, and the star soul could guarantee that the shadow had never known the secret of the soles of his feet during that year, and he had never taken a bath. The men in the Valley knew that the thousand children had little chance to live and were too lazy to build public facilities like bathhouses. But what about five years ago? Where did he live, and no one looked back at him? The Star Soul doesn't believe it.

He sighed and was a little excited, and the magical inner strength had finally been obtained for him. He was also curious about whether he really had the luck to master the inner strength.

He stopped thinking about the incomprehensible things, shook his shadow and threw over, suddenly stunned, couldn't help cursing: "How could I know what was written on it in the dark!"

It was a roll of silk that had been framed. The Star Soul was a little dejected. The shadow was the i***t. Did he think he could still steal light through the wall here? Or could he light a lamp and read generously when the man in green came in the day?

There must be stars outside now, right? The star Soul thought bored, his fingers gently stroking the silk, feeling melancholy. Inner strength should be embroidered on silk. He felt the uneven marks. His fingers slowly touched a line. He closed his eyes and followed the raised line, slowly forming a diagram of the human vein in his mind.

He felt and felt, but it was a picture. The star Soul's curiosity was aroused again. He had seen such a diagram in his previous life. It was just an ordinary diagram of the human body structure, connecting the acupoints and meridians in various parts of the body. But when the shadow said it was called the inner meridian of the Heavenly meridians, he still wanted to laugh. Anatomy was originally to be sent to the stake of the Holy See in the West. If China dares to touch the dead, the living will fight you to the death. That is, a diagram of human veins, no wonder they can't see it.

He recognized the writing on the silk scroll by touching it with his fingers, thanks to his father who had opened a small shop for engraving seals. From a young age, he was forced to learn with the idea that he would follow in his father's footsteps and have a bowl of food to eat. It also opened the door for him to forge official seals and obtain fake certificates in the future.

Star Soul turned over and lay on the bed, carefully fumbling through the words embroidered on the silk. Feeling that he had cursed the shadow wrongly, if it were a book, he would have no way at all.

However, he did not know that what he touched was completely different from what the shadow wanted him to see. Even the shadow was unaware of the strangeness of the silk embroidery, and it was only the Star Soul's meticulous touch in the darkness that grasped the true secrets of the silk record.

That night, Starspirit fell asleep with a sinister smile on his face.

During the day, the man in green entered the underworld. The Star soul stood quietly before him, which greatly pleased the man in the green Robe.

Three days later, he stopped lighting the oil lamp.

It took Starspirit three days to get familiar with the surroundings. Make sure you won't bump your nose crooked while walking. But he was still curious about how the man in the green robe could move freely in the dark, including urinating precisely into the bucket, leaving him sighing and stopping.

He pinched his nose to move the toilet, but the man found his place. He walked lightly towards the door of the stone chamber and hit the man in the chest.

Taking the fragrant pancake, the Star Soul couldn't resist asking him at last, "How do you know where my hand is?"

"You'll know it in three years."

The Star Soul asked without shame, "How can I learn martial arts when I can't see your footwork?"

"You touch it on the ground, there are footprints, now it's a straight line, five inches between each step, forty-nine steps in total." The voice of the man in green echoed in the stone chamber. "The best state of lightness is actually the perception of the outside world. Every part of the human body has potential beyond your imagination, and when you are blind, you will naturally activate your ears and your senses. Everything around you is not completely still. When you walk, it stirs up the wind and stirs the breath. There is no object in the stone chamber, but if you put something in it, the breath there changes."

The Star soul sighed: "It's a human, but it insists on being a bat. Sound waves are something that no human can feel easily."

The man in green was a little curious about the sound wave and nodded in agreement after thinking: "If it's like water waves, the flow of breath is like this."

The Star Soul said no more and reached out to touch the mark beneath his feet. Step on it and move on to the next footprint. He walked slowly, and it didn't matter whether his eyes were closed or not. He walked forty-nine steps like this, and then came back. "How long shall I walk like this?"

"Walk to the point where you can dodge my hidden weapon!"

'Master, this is a straight line. I can't avoid it! You're not trying to kill me, are you? ' The Star Soul thinks that once you get familiar with a person's line and then throw throwing knives at him, the hit rate will be 100 percent.

"Just follow the breathing method I taught you." The man in green threw down the words and disappeared.

The Star Soul in the darkness couldn't see him, but felt that there was no one around. He was convinced of the lightness of the man in the green Robe. Helplessly, he thought, practice!

He's gone for three months. He lived a carefree life in the dark with the good qualities of a hitman from his previous life. The Star Soul walked leisurely along his straight line, from one end to the other, thinking about his future life again and again, telling himself over and over again that he was no longer Zhang Lin.

He recalled the feeling of flipping through the window in his previous life and tried to do a somersault, not leaving his footprints behind. It gave him a little sense of achievement. A faint sense of joy welled up in his heart, a little more fun than just walking straight ahead.

While he was doing his somersaults, the Star Soul sensed a change in the air around him and something was flying towards him. Reflexively twisting his waist. The breath in his body was interrupted at once, and he fell to the ground on his back, snarling in pain: "Master, you can't shoot throwing knives, can you?"

"It's arrows!" The man in the green Robe was satisfied with the Star Soul's reaction. His endurance and quick response were worthy of the name Star Soul.

Starspirit was stunned: "What if you hit me?"

"No arrow. At most get a little injured."

The man in the green robe replied indifferently, and then the Star Soul was groaned by the arrows that had taken their arrows, and trembled with pain. He lay on the ground and refused to move.

Every day I only shoot a hundred arrows. There are still twenty arrows left. If you don't get up, I'll still shoot at you. Being a dead target will hurt even more.

"If I had inner strength, I would lift up the inner strength and fly!"

'I won't.'

This time the Star Soul looked at the man in green as if he were a monster, though it was pitch black and he could see nothing. "You mean you didn't use your inner strength when you carried me up the mountain like a pigeon?"

"I only knew breathing techniques."

He was completely stunned, taking deep and shallow breaths. Could it be that taking a breath would turn him into a cloud? A thought came to mind of the inner meridian of the Nourishing Heaven Vein.

But there was no chance for him to think again. The wind rose suddenly, and the star soul turned over and dodged, ran along the footprints, took one step and then backed back, looking around to dodge the approaching arrows. Whether he moved forward or backward, the arrows of the man in green clung to him like bone maggots. When the twenty arrows had been released, the Star Spirit panted and collapsed to the ground.

"Whoosh!" An arrow flew over and hit him on the back, and he nearly lost his breath. He was so angry that he pointed at the green robe and shouted, "Didn't we say twenty arrows?"

"Those who use hidden weapons always have an unexpected move, a fatal move!" The man in the green robe finished speaking with confidence and drifted away like the wind.

Star Soul agreed with Master Qingyi. He was so justified in his previous life when he was using evil tricks behind his back. He walked back to his room, rubbing the sore spots on his body, and smiled as he felt the meridians on the silk. He had found the secret of the inner meridian of the Heavenly vein. In the future, he will also master the secret of this body.