Zhou Xuan had heard Yun Ziliang talk about the Heavenly Eye Temple, which was also one of the nine ancient temples. Every disciple had a Heavenly Eye.
When offering incense just now, the Heavenly Eye opened, hidden in the palm, its focus was at the Lao Gong Acupoint.
As the incense smoke rose, the Heavenly Eye would shift its position, gradually moving from the palm to the middle of the forehead.
At this moment, the Heavenly Eye embedded in the human skin tattoo showed signs of trying to escape the human skin and fly outward.
But the tension of the human skin restrained the "Heavenly Eye."
The Heavenly Eye tried to fly outward, while the human skin pulled it back inward, causing grape-sized bulging sacs to form on the skin.
The Heavenly Eye made multiple attempts to escape, each time causing the sacs to swell even more, but ultimately it could not break free.
With a crisp sound, the human skin, as if losing its tension like a spring, returned to normal, and the Heavenly Eye flew toward Zhou Xuan’s forehead.
Zhou Xuan instinctively raised his hand to block it, but the Heavenly Eye passed through his arm and settled on his forehead.
All Zhou Xuan could feel was a blinding dazzle, the light in the room intensified severalfold, making the surrounding objects appear blurry under the overwhelming brightness.
Then, almost instinctively, Zhou Xuan raised his head and looked upward. His Heavenly Eye’s vision pierced through the thick beams of the house, then penetrated the tiled roof, effortlessly skimmed through the dense clouds, and directly reached the grander Heavenly Dome.
Above the Heavenly Dome,
there were pairs of eyes staring at Zhou Xuan.
"Above the Heavenly Dome, twenty-four God-level entities."
Zhou Xuan counted the pairs of eyes, totaling twenty-four, but strangely, he felt there was a twenty-fifth pair of eyes.
This pair of eyes did not have substance, nor could it be traced, it existed only in Zhou Xuan’s intuition.
Just intuition, yet its majesty far surpassed the other twenty-four pairs by an insurmountable measure.
If Gods were towering mountains, then the twenty-fifth pair of eyes would be the Divine Pillar supporting the Heavenly Dome.
While Zhou Xuan was still straining to locate the twenty-fifth pair of eyes, suddenly, a beam of light radiated from the Heavenly Dome, stabbing his Heavenly Eye blind.
Although the Heavenly Eye was not truly Zhou Xuan’s, the moment it was stabbed blind, he was overcome with an unbearable agony so intense it felt like he was dying.
He lowered his head onto the Jingyi Bed, cold sweat dripping layer after layer from his forehead.
It took him a great deal of effort to recover. Folding the tattoo of the "Wordless Heavenly Scripture," he sat in a bamboo chair, lit a cigarette, and tried to calm his emotions.
Yun Ziliang noticed Zhou Xuan’s abnormality and asked, "You’ve broken another taboo, haven’t you?"
What did he mean by "another"? This guy was a rule-abiding citizen.
Zhou Xuan told Yun Ziliang, "This tattoo revealed a Heavenly Eye, allowing me to see the God-level eyes above the Heavenly Dome."
"No wonder you broke out in cold sweat—peering at gods always incurs punishment from them. If they didn’t kill you outright, it’s probably out of respect for your tattoo."
"They’ve already killed me," Zhou Xuan replied.
From the soul map onward, every tattoo contains a divine essence.
These tattoos can be considered extensions of the Gods themselves.
The beam of light destroyed the "Heavenly Eye"; theoretically, it killed a divine extension.
"Lao Yun, I saw God-level eyes—apart from the twenty-four divine pairs, I vaguely saw a twenty-fifth pair of eyes.
This pair of eyes, compared to the other Godly Eyes, is like the Bright Moon among a field of stars.
Who do you think owns these eyes?"
Yun Ziliang initially thought they belonged to a Heavenly God.
But that couldn’t be right.
If there was a Heavenly God above the Heavenly Dome, the Gods would have already brought news of it to the human world.
"The owner of those eyes is perhaps someone even the Gods dare not speak of."
Yun Ziliang didn’t know whose eyes they were, but he was already used to it.
Strange phenomena always seemed to surround Zhou Xuan, constantly pushing the boundaries of Yun Ziliang’s knowledge.
He picked up the "Wordless Heavenly Scripture" and asked, "Who is this tattoo for?"
"Li Chengfeng," Zhou Xuan replied. "The Bone Elder Association received divine guidance to eliminate Li Chengfeng, and I’m helping him through the ordeal."
"How are you helping—just relying on this tattoo?"
"One tattoo isn’t enough, I need three tattoos."
Zhou Xuan raised three fingers and said, "Three tattoos: City God Armor, Heavenly Official Blessing, and Wordless Heavenly Scripture. Guess... "
Before Zhou Xuan could finish, Yun Ziliang suddenly understood and widened his eyes in disbelief, saying, "Xiao Zhou, you plan to punch a hole through the heavens? I wouldn’t even dare to imagine such a thing."
"You’ve guessed it—what am I trying to create?"
"You want to forge a Heavenly God."
Yun Ziliang began to rethink Zhou Xuan. Initially, he thought Zhou Xuan just had a fiery personality, ready to hammer anyone he found unpleasant, but he never expected him to have the audacity to reach this level.
"Spot on! I want to forge a Heavenly God—one I can control."
Zhou Xuan’s inspiration for "forging a Heavenly God" came from Si Yuer’s "Buddha toy": one Buddha could split into three Great Buddhas representing the future, present, and past; unified, they formed the Buddha once again.
He had heard from Gu Ling that the essence of the God of Suffering and Calamity had been divided among three divine entities.
The City God’s "Shui Yong," the Heavenly Eye Temple’s "No-words Heavenly Master," and the Bone Elder’s "Heavenly Official."
Each of the three divine entities claimed a portion of the essence of the Painful God.
Zhou Xuan’s tattoo map contained divine essence—if those three God tattoos were simultaneously inscribed onto a single corpse...
Then, this corpse, with three gods united, should embody the essence of the "God of Suffering and Calamity."
"The Heavenly Official wants Li Chengfeng dead, but the Painful God wants him alive; what do you think the Bone Elder Association will choose to follow?"