God's Gift

After saying this, the old patriarch stared straight at Lu Keming, as if waiting for his reaction.

Unexpectedly, when Lu Keming heard this, he did not hesitate or resist at all. A subtle smile appeared on his face. He looked at the old patriarch and said word by word:

"of course can."

When the old patriarch heard Lu Keming's decisive answer, he hesitated for a second, as if he had not expected it to be so smooth.

"But..." While the old patriarch was thinking, Lu Keming spoke.

"What?" The old patriarch heard Lu Keming's voice and looked at him in confusion.

Lu Keming's mouth curled into an arc, which looked weird and eerie in the dim candlelight. He raised his hand slowly.

"not now."

Before the old patriarch could react, the black mist lingering on Lu Keming's body was dispersed, and he instantly appeared in front of the old patriarch, pressing his thin, cold white hand on the old patriarch's head.

An extremely powerful force gradually eroded the old patriarch's consciousness, and the black mist around him gradually dissipated.

Lu Keming glanced at the old patriarch's gradually confused eyes, the light in his eyes was like a thorn, and he sneered.

"Who the hell are you to give me orders?"

The old patriarch's eyes had lost focus and he was unable to react.

Lu Keming let go of his hand in boredom, turned around and left the room, but before leaving, he saw a few tablets on the table next to him that had not yet been placed on the spirit shelf.

He stopped, reached out and picked up the tablet on the table, looked at it carefully for a moment, and found that the paint on it was still new.

Lu Keming frowned, with unclear emotions in his eyes. He put down the tablet and left the ancestral hall.

-

When he walked out of the room, Ye Li had already washed Yu Youyou's clothes and was wringing the water in the yard.

Lu Keming stopped and looked around the hall and the yard, but did not see Yu Youyou.

"Where's Yuyou?"

Lu Keming's voice rang out in the hall. Shen Minghua looked over first. He pointed to the room next to him and said, "Youyou just entered the water tank and is staying in the room now."

Hearing this, Lu Keming raised his foot and walked in the direction Shen Minghua pointed almost without hesitation, but Shen Minghua added another sentence.

"I've blow-dried her hair, don't worry."

Hearing Shen Minghua's words, Lu Keming stopped, raised his eyes, and his gaze fell on the screen in the hall. He was silent for a long time.

But he did not look back at Shen Minghua. He stayed there for a few seconds and then walked into the room.

Yu Youyou was still lying on the sofa in a daze and did not notice Lu Keming walked into the room.

Lu Keming stood at the door, looking at the dazed Yu Youyou, his eyes softened a lot. He sat down next to Yu Youyou and rubbed her hair with his hands, and it was indeed dry.

Yu Youyou then raised her head, glanced at Lu Keming, and greeted him, "Lu Keming, you're out."

"Yeah." Lu Keming nodded, looking at her absent-minded look, and asked again: "What are you thinking about?"

"I just saw the Thousand-Faced Buddha." Yu Youyou put his head on his paws and muttered.

Hearing the Thousand-Faced Buddha, Lu Keming's gaze froze for a second, and he scanned the room, "The Thousand-Faced Buddha appears here?"

"Yes." Yu Youyou gave Lu Keming an affirmative reply, paused for a few seconds, and then answered: "I saw the fire in its eyes."

Hearing about the fire, Lu Keming paused his hand on Yu Youyou's hair, then continued to stroke it a few more times without showing too much surprise.

The Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha is the most bizarre thing in the world, so it is expected that there is fire on its body.

"Did it hurt you?" Lu Keming did not follow Yu Youyou's words to ask about the fire, but changed the subject to Yu Youyou.

“No.” Yu Youyou quickly shook her head and denied it: “It only appeared for a while and then left.”

"That's fine." Lu Keming nodded slightly, looked at Yu Youyou's expression, and asked again: "Why do you look unhappy?"

"This time the Thousand-Faced Buddha might be quite powerful." Yu Youyou sighed, looked at Lu Keming and said, "You have to be careful."

Hearing Yu Youyou's concern, Lu Keming smiled subconsciously.

"fine."

Yu Youyou glanced at Lu Keming, then looked at the floor and sighed.

This time it won’t be that simple.

Lu Keming didn't know what she was thinking, and said to her: "Things here have been resolved, we can go back."

"Go back?" Hearing this, Yu Youyou immediately became energetic, stood up from the sofa, jumped to the ground, and said happily: "Then let's go!"

Lu Keming smiled and followed behind Yu Youyou.

-

On the way back to Grandma Li, the few of them summarized the information they had received.

Ye Li made some speculations based on the information he got from the clan leader's daughter-in-law.

"The history of the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha should be more than a thousand years. It appeared here before Lijia Village. The people of Lijia Village must have discovered the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha by accident and gained some benefits from it, so they have been guarding it here for generations."

"It is getting stronger." Shen Minghua added after Ye Li's words, "And I sent someone to inquire with the old sedan bearer in the village and got a piece of news."

"What?" Ye Li looked at Shen Minghua.

"The Thousand-Faced Buddha had no eyes a few decades ago, when the previous generation of Buddha keepers lived there."

Shen Minghua sent people to look for the old people in the village, and happened to bump into the former sedan bearers. Those sedan bearers had not carried the sedan for decades, and the students discovered the strangeness of the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha through indirect clues.

According to the old sedan bearer’s narration, the Ten Thousand Faces means no face, and the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha is a Buddha without any facial features.

But now it has eyes.

Hearing this, everyone looked at Shen Minghua at the same time.

"How could this be?" Ye Li asked first. Although the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha was strange, its body was still made of clay. It was too bizarre for it to grow eyes out of thin air.

Shen Minghua shook his head and replied, "Those old sedan bearers don't know that the current Thousand-Faced Buddha has eyes, and the current sedan bearers don't know that the original Thousand-Faced Buddha had no eyes. They stick to their own cognition and have not discovered the weirdness until now."

"The people I sent out were unable to find out the reason, but this probably isn't a good omen."

When the students asked the old sedan bearers whether the Thousand-Faced Buddha could grow eyes, the bearers acted very fearful.

Without five sense organs, there are no five senses. Now that the eyes are opened, one has vision. If it were an ordinary Buddha, it would be fine. Even if one could see, he would not do evil.

But it happened that this evil Buddha grew eyes, which I think would not be a good thing.

Lu Keming walked aside and did not interrupt from beginning to end. His hand was placed at his side, stroking the dragon ring on his index finger.

The fire cannot change its shape, and it cannot make the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha grow eyes out of thin air.

He originally thought that it was the fire that was parasitic in the eyes of the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha, causing the evil power of the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha to increase and do evil, but now he found that even the eyes were not normal.

So why does the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha have eyes?

Yu Youyou raised her head and glanced at a few people, then lowered her head and sighed.

"What about you? Lu Keming." When Lu Keming was silent, Ye Li suddenly looked at Lu Keming.