Martial Universe

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A faint light film covered the place, encompassing the four large stonetablets within it. A deathly silent atmosphere circulated within the lightfilm, causing one to have some difficulties breathing.

However, at this moment, there were two people within the light film. One wastraining while the other was a blind old man, who was already used to it.Hence, the pressuring atmosphere within this place did not cause the two ofthem to feel any discomfort.

The blind old man was hugging a somewhat old and damaged broom. Hisgreyish-white eyes that were without any pupils, were lowered slightly. Evenhis breathing had become weak and inaudible at this moment. At a cursoryglance, he appeared no different from a sick old man who was about to die.

Chi!

After this silence continued for around half a day, Lin Dong, who was sat infront of a stone tablet a short distance away, suddenly trembled. There wasactually a weak light being scattered from the surface of the black stonetablet.

The moment the light scattered from the stone tablet, the blind old man, whohad his eyes lowered, suddenly raised his head. His body moved before hestrangely appeared in front of Lin Dong, even though he hardly moved. Afterwhich, his expression turned a little solemn as he stared at Lin Dong’s face.

At this moment, there was a vague dark greyish colour lingering over LinDong’s youthful face. Moreover, this greyish colour was gathering towards thespot between Lin Dong’s eyebrows. An extremely slight greyish line had actuallyappeared on Lin Dong’s forehead.

That greyish line had an undefined form. It appeared to be connected to LinDong’s skin, appearing just like a worm when it wiggled.

“He has met “Huang” already huh…”

The blind old man’s eyes were focused intensely on Lin Dong’s face. Hiselderly face tensed up while his shrivelled fingers could not help but rubagainst each other. Clearly, there was quite a big ripple on his calm oldwell-esque emotions.

Under the observation of the blind old man, the greyish aura on Lin Dong’sface became increasingly dense. Two traces of blood suddenly flowed from thecorner of Lin Dong’s eyes when the greyish aura became dense. They were justlike two blood tears and they looked extremely startling.

Crack!

Although the blind old man had lost his sight, he was still able to clearlyobserve this scene. His expression immediately changed drastically before thebroom in his hand was directly crushed into powder.

Having once practiced the “Desolate Demon Eye”, he was clearly aware thatpracticing this martial art possessed some risk. It was extremely easy for thatstrange energy to seep into one’s eyes. Moreover, should one’s eyes be erodedby that energy, one would end up becoming just like him.

The blind old man’s face was extremely tense. His shrivelled hand continued totighten and relax. It was as if he was hesitating if he should drag Lin Dongout from the mental realm at this moment.

Chi Chi!

During the time that the blind old man hesitated, the unusual greyish Qi onLin Dong’s face also became increasingly rich. While the greyish Qi gathered,the grey line between his eyebrows also became a little thicker. At the sametime, however, the blood line on the corner of Lin Dong’s eyes also becameincreasingly glaring. Clearly, his eyes were already being eroded at thismoment.

Cluck cluck.

The blind old man took tiny and chaotic steps back and forth in front of LinDong. This continued for a couple of minutes before he violently clenched histeeth. He turned around and his shrivelled hand pierced towards the grey linebetween Lin Dong’s eyebrows like a sharp sword with lightning like speed. Aslong as this thing was broken, it would be possible to awaken Lin Dong.

The blind old man was extremely quick and it seemed as if his finger couldpenetrate through space. In just a flash, his fingers had already arrived infront of Lin Dong’s forehead. However, just as he was about to piercedownwards, a warm white light suddenly rushed out from between Lin Dong’seyebrows and collided with his finger.

Clang!

The two collided but no energy ripple erupted from it. That white light merelyblocked the blind old man’s fingers for an instant before it disappeared.

Although the white light disappeared, the blind old man’s fingers were alsostopped. A surprised expression was clearly present on his face.

“There is no need for me to intervene huh…” The blind old man was quiet for amoment. He could only attribute the white light to something Lin Dong hadunleashed subconsciously. If that was the case, it seemed like Lin Dong did notwant to give up on learning the “Desolate Demon Eye”.

After receiving this information from Lin Dong, the frown on the blind oldman’s face appeared to be even denser. He stood on the spot for quite awhilebefore shaking his head somewhat helplessly. He seemed to have underestimatedLin Dong’s persistence when it came to learning martial arts. However, attimes, persistence may or may not be a good thing…

“In that case, let’s wait a little longer. If things really go wrong, I willforcefully drag you out. Truly a fellow who does not allow others to have apeaceful mind…” The blind old man muttered to himself. After which, he sat downbeside Lin Dong and continued to carefully observe him.

As he continued to observe, the blind old man gradually relaxed. Although theblood trace on the corner of Lin Dong’s eyes continued to flow, fortunately, itshowed no sign of intensifying.

This so-called wait directly lasted for five days…

Lin Dong did not show any signs of leaving his training during these fivedays. The blood tears that had flowed out from the corner of his eyes, hadalready hardened into two blood clots, causing him to look exceptionallystrange.

During this period of time, the greyish Qi on Lin Dong’s face also becomeincreasingly dense and there were no signs of it weakening. However, this alsocaused the blind old man, who was observing Lin Dong, to feel uncertain.Although the greyish line between Lin Dong’s eyebrows was continuouslygathering greyish Qi, there was not the slightest further activity beingemitted. Based on the old man’s experience, the greyish line should graduallyshow signs of turning into an eye if Lin Dong succeeded…

However, if he failed, Lin Dong would not be this calm. Therefore, evensomeone as experienced as him was a little confused. He did not understand whatlevel Lin Dong’s training was currently at. This manner that neither appearedlike success nor failure, really caused him to feel helpless…

“It has already been five days. Time is more or less up. It seems like thislittle fellow will need to battle with that brat Jiang Hao in the Desolate Hallmonthly competition today…”

“It is merely a competition between the younger generation members. Trainingis more important… Forget about it, just let him train. If he misses it, thenso be it…”

The blind old man muttered to himself. However, from his mannerism, it wasclear that he did not wish for Lin Dong’s training to be interrupted because ofthe latter’s match with Jiang Hao. Hence, he did not show any signs that he wasgoing to wake Lin Dong up.

Buzz buzz!

However, everything in this world always surprises people. Soon after themutterings of the blind old man sounded out, a buzzing sound was suddenlyemitted from the stone tablet. After which, he saw the black eye on the stonetablet suddenly shooting out a bright grey light. That light shot onto the spotbetween Lin Dong’s eyebrows and coincided with the grey line.

The ray of light linked the spot between Lin Dong’s eyebrows and the stonetablet. The skin on that spot also began to wiggle. That grey line becameincreasingly obvious and it actually vaguely began to show signs of opening. Adark, cold and evil aura, which caused one great discomfort, was vaguelyemitted from it.

“Is it about to transform into an eye?”

The blind old man’s body immediately straightened when he saw this scene. Hestared intently at Lin Dong’s brows. However, under his observation, the greyline ultimately did not show any signs of splitting apart despite its wigglingcontinuously.

“What is going on…”

The blind old man frowned tightly and softly asked.

While he was knitted his brows, the blind old man did not observe a warm whiteglow under the greyish light that could not be detected.

The light that was connected to Lin Dong’s brows gradually weakened. A momentlater, it finally emitted a ‘chi’ sound and completely disappeared.

Just when the light disappeared, Lin Dong’s eyes, which had been shut for fivedays, finally slowly opened up at this moment.

His ajar eyes were as clear and calm as they were five days ago. Although theblood clot at the corner of his eyes was a little strange to look at, thecurrent Lin Dong did not appear any different from five days ago.

The blind old man was a little stunned as he looked at Lin Dong’s calmexpression when he opened his eyes. He was lost for words at that moment…

“Thank you elder for protecting me during my training…”

A smile swiftly surfaced on Lin Dong’s face. He stood up, bowed to the blindold man and said.

“It’s nothing. If you have finished training, you should leave. Today is theDesolate Hall monthly competition.” The blind old man slowly stood up, wavedhis hand and said.

Lin Dong nodded. He did not say any unnecessary words as he turned around andleft. When he was just about to walk out of the light film, the blind old manfinally could not resist asking, “Although I do not know whether you havesuccessfully learnt it, you should try to use the “Desolate Demon Eye” aslittle as possible in the future. This martial art is a little unorthodox andit will hurt your eyes if you use it too many times.”

Lin Dong’s footsteps paused. He immediately rubbed the spot between hiseyebrows with his hand. The corner of his lips was lifted into a slight arc. Hehad similarly sensed some of the darker aspects of “Desolate Demon Eye” whilehe was training. However, it was likely that this thing would not be able tostir much trouble with the Mysterious Stone Talisman suppressing it…