God's Gift

The ceiling seemed to have turned into a black quagmire. Red and black liquid dripped from the ceiling and hit Yu Youyou's fur, making her already wet fur stick together.

Countless hands stretched out from the mire, and strange faces were screaming and trying to struggle out.

The scripture I heard last night rang out again at this moment, noisy and chattering.

Yu Youyou's expression gradually became serious. She reached out and kicked the blanket, but the blanket was wrapped too tightly for her to move.

The struggling hands and faces gradually merged together into a familiar appearance.

Yu Youyou tilted her head and stared at the black body gradually emerging from the mud.

It is the Thousand-Faced Buddha.

But what about without eyes?

Yu Youyou scanned the body of the Thousand-Faced Buddha and indeed did not see any eyes. She thought for a few seconds and asked crisply:

"Where are your eyes?"

But the Thousand-Faced Buddha did not answer her question. Its black body stretched out more and more from the mud. Black sticky liquid on its body kept dripping down, and soon the entire sofa was dyed black and red.

Until it got closer and closer to Yu Youyou, and the face without facial features was pressed above Yu Youyou.

At this time, the mud on its face kept surging, and it suddenly opened a pair of red eyes.

A dancing flame is in the center of the eyes, and countless images are flowing in its pupils. People with different faces flash in the pupils, filled with laughter, despair and crying.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Noisy laughter rang in her ears, and the expression on Yu Youyou's face gradually disappeared, and her eyes without any emotion stared into the eyes of the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha.

A pair of hands stretched out from the body of the Ten-Faced Buddha and grabbed Yu Youyou.

Yu Youyou did not move, but just before the hand was about to touch her, the air around them stagnated and the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha's hand froze in mid-air.

A big hole was gradually torn in the air behind it, and in the dark and twisted hole, a figure wearing a black robe and with his face hidden by black fog walked out.

He raised his hand and swung it towards the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha. The body of the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha was cut in half and scattered into countless faces and limbs.

The air around them began to flow again, the shattered faces screamed, the black fog on the ceiling quickly receded, and the room quickly returned to normal.

Yu Youyou then noticed the man in black behind the Thousand-Faced Buddha. Her eyes lit up and she asked enthusiastically, "Why are you here too?"

The man in black didn't say anything. He walked up to Yu Youyou, looked at the blanket wrapped around her, picked her up, and sat quietly on the sofa.

He placed his hand wrapped in an iron glove over Yuyou and moved it slightly. The moisture on Yuyou's fur left her fur and gathered into drops of water in the air.

The water droplets merged together, and the man in black closed his palms and collected the water droplets into his palms.

"It's very powerful." The voice of the man in black was light, vague and unreal.

"I know." Yu Youyou struggled out from the blanket and nodded without much concern.

"You just saw it. The fire is on it." The man in black looked at Yu Youyou's nonchalant look and continued, "But the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha was not formed by the fire."

"It has existed for thousands of years and possesses extremely strong power."

The man in black stood up and looked at Yu Youyou on the sofa.

"Your body has given the fire a stronger power, and now all this power is gathered in the body of the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha. But you have only recovered two parts of your body, so don't take it lightly."

Yu Youyou paused in pulling the blanket. A gust of wind blew by, and she looked up. The man in black was no longer in the room.

At this time, Shen Minghua, who had gone to get the hair dryer, came back and saw Yu Youyou standing outside the blanket and asked a question.

"Youyou, how did you get out from under the blanket?"

Yu Youyou didn't answer, but stood there looking at Shen Minghua.

Shen Minghua plugged in the hair dryer and then picked up Yu Youyou. However, after touching Yu Youyou's fur, he was in a trance for a second.

"Did it?" He asked subconsciously, but then he suddenly said to himself, "How could I forget that I had already blown it just now."

After saying that, Shen Minghua took the hair dryer down again and walked out of the room to return it.

Yu Youyou did not follow him out. She lay down on the sofa, rested her chin on her paws, and stared straight ahead with her dark eyes.

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On the other side, the old patriarch brought Lu Keming into a closed room. The room was filled with spirit tablets and red candles were burning. This was the Li family ancestral hall.

Lu Keming swept his eyes around the ancestral hall calmly and noticed that there were densely packed spirit tablets placed under the tablet stand in the main square of the ancestral hall.

Those spirit tablets are much smaller than those on the spirit tablet stand, and the space they are placed in is cramped and crowded together.

Lu Keming took a few more glances and found that there were no names engraved on those spirit tablets, and the tablets were all blank.

"You went to the mountain." The old patriarch stood in front of the spirit tablet and said straight to the point.

Lu Keming's gaze paused, a scornful arc appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he did not respond.

The old patriarch seemed to be very confident, fearing that Lu Keming was playing dumb, so he presented the evidence directly.

"Don't try to deny it. Two of the Bodhisattvas enshrined on the mountain were broken. If no one had gone up the mountain, those Bodhisattvas would not have been broken for no reason."

"Patriarch, you are worrying too much." Lu Keming raised his hand and casually turned his thin fingers twice in the swaying candlelight, and said coldly, "I didn't deny it."

They followed the right path with the dog team yesterday and did not find the Bodhisattva in the woods nearby. But after learning about Fang Ziang's incident last night, Lu Keming sent people up the mountain to check.

Those students did find the Bodhisattva in the shrine in the woods, but when they left they discovered that some villagers had gone up the mountain to check.

The villagers seemed to have noticed that someone was going up the mountain, so they headed straight for the Buddhist temple and naturally saw the broken Buddhist shrine outside the temple.

The patriarch probably knew that they had been to the Buddhist temple before they arrived, but when he saw them coming to visit, he did not react at all and instead stood still like a mountain.

Lu Keming looked up and down at the skinny clan leader, with a little more interest in his eyes.

The patriarch must have discovered that someone from the village had gone up the mountain, so he sent people to check.

But, what is the reason?

"You young boy, you don't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is." The old patriarch looked at Lu Keming's fearless appearance and sneered.

"Anyone who disturbs the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha should be punished."

Lu Keming looked calm, his expression not showing any ripples because of the old patriarch's threat.

The old patriarch was despised by him and was filled with anger. His eyes turned blood red in an instant and black mist spread around him, which soon filled the entire ancestral hall.

Lu Keming's eyes then began to waver. He looked at the black mist pouring out of the old patriarch and twirled his fingers.

It turned out to be a puppet controlled by the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha.

But it still looks very weak.

The black fog surrounded Lu Keming. Lu Keming looked at the expectation in the old patriarch's eyes, raised his eyebrows, stood up straight, and pretended to be well-behaved.

The old patriarch showed satisfaction in his eyes and said:

"I should have killed you directly, but since you are the one chosen by the dog, I can let you go. But not your companions. You must kill them."