To ordinary people, those patterns were merely decorations, but Zhou Heng could vaguely sense that each one contained an exceedingly faint trace of compassion's power. When they came together, perhaps they would produce some qualitative change he could not yet understand.
Zhou Heng took it all in with a smile, then joined the army of engravers...
He crouched down, braced his left hand against the rough, rocky surface of the cat's paw, and held that utterly ordinary engraving knife in his right. He activated "Pattern Eye" to examine the finer details, then made his first cut with the "Knife Engraving Method."
[You engraved a simple pattern] ["Knife Engraving Method" experience +1] [You engraved a simple pattern] ["Knife Engraving Method" experience +1]
Zhou Heng quieted his mind, immersing himself completely in engraving the statue.
One cut, one pattern, one breath.
There was none of the Sea of Stars Lord's grandeur, none of the profundity of "Divine Truth," none of the immensity of 1eeeeee(Crystal★) will. There was only an ordinary believer, painstakingly carving patterns into the little paw of an enormous cat statue.
And so, time ticked away...
One day.
Ten days.
Fifteen days.
"Bei'er, you're really something~"
A believer in compassion beside him struck up a conversation, impressed after seeing Zhou Heng work for fifteen days straight. He was a kindly middle-aged man, and he smiled at Zhou Heng, a little stone dust still clinging to the engraving knife in his hand.
"To sit here doing this for fifteen days straight-I couldn't take it~"
Zhou Heng did not put on a superior air because the man's level was too low.
He did not look down upon all beings from a deity's perspective as "Lord of Compassion · ...%￥%...￥ · (*^▽^*) · (•́へ•́╬) · Yixuxi" did. He was trying