God's Gift

Seeing Yu Youyou took the knife, the man in black paused for a moment, then stood up. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Yu Youyou below turning around with the knife in his mouth, sticking the knife into the mud, and muttering something.

"What does it have to do with you?"

After stabbing the knife, Yu Youyou put her feet on the ground, tilted her head to look at the man in black, and said crisply:

"Go eat your poop."

After saying that, she ran past the man in black without looking back, leaving only a white back behind him.

The man in black looked at the silver knife on the ground, his hands hanging by his side gradually clenched, and the black mist around him became much thicker, rolling up like the wind.

He raised his hand and held the silver knife in his hand. Looking at the dirt on the knife, the aura around him became much colder.

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Yu Youyou ran along the village path for a long time and saw Lu Keming on the ridge of a field outside the village. He was sitting on the ridge, seemingly thinking about something, a little absent-minded.

Yu Youyou climbed up the earthen steps to the ridge of the field with a grunt, and sat down next to Lu Keming.

When Lu Keming heard the voice, he turned around and saw the white puppy sitting next to him. He smiled slightly and asked:

"Why are you awake?"

"I don't want to sleep anymore." Yu Youyou moved her buttocks and adjusted to a comfortable sitting position. She crossed her legs, looked at Lu Keming, and asked:

"What did you go to do?"

Lu Keming sighed softly, touched Yu Youyou's fluffy head, and replied: "I just saw Ah Chou, she was possessed by the female ghost you saw."

Yu Youyou opened her mouth and asked in surprise: "Is it possible?"

Lu Keming nodded and looked at Yu Youyou, "The key to time reversal lies with her. If she is unwilling to stop reversing, we will not be able to leave the time loop."

"Why is she unwilling?" Yu Youyou stepped on the weeds on the ground with her paws and turned her head to ask Lu Keming.

Lu Keming frowned, "She seems to be obsessed with Chen Qingqiu. It seems that she wants to trap Chen Qingqiu in this way."

After saying this, he himself was a little puzzled, "But she is the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha, and the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha has been formed for thousands of years. How could she be related to Chen Qingqiu?"

"It took thousands of years for the Ten Thousand Faced Buddha to form, not thousands of years ago." Yu Youyou said to Lu Keming while holding down a cricket in the dry grass.

Lu Keming didn't immediately understand what Yu Youyou said, and looked at her with a frown.

Yu Youyou looked at Lu Keming's puzzled expression, tilted her head, and explained to Lu Keming:

"The Ten Thousand Faces Buddha is made up of countless wronged souls. That sister is just a part of the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha's body. She must have merged with the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha later."

"How do you know that the Ten Thousand Faced Buddha is made up of countless wronged souls?" Lu Keming had fought with the Ten Thousand Faced Buddha several times, but he had never thought that the Ten Thousand Faced Buddha was formed in this way. Yu Youyou's words were completely bombastic news.

Yu Youyou once said that she saw countless ghosts crawling out of the body of the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha, but Lu Keming originally thought that it was the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha who controlled those ghosts.

The evil spirit that can control ghosts and the evil spirit that is directly condensed from ghosts cannot be compared.

If the female ghost was only a part of the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha, it was no wonder that the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha was so powerful when he faced him in the temple. When he met the female ghost alone, she would be trapped by his dragon flame.

But no one in the village knew the origin of the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha, so how did Youyou know it?

"I saw it." While Lu Keming was thinking, Yu Youyou answered as a matter of course, "Many, many ghosts merged together and became the appearance of the Thousand-Faced Buddha."

When Lu Keming heard Yu Youyou's words, he turned his head and looked at Yu Youyou for a while, then said, "You didn't tell me this before."

“Ah, really?” Yu Youyou tilted her head, looked at Lu Keming’s affirmative eyes, raised her paw and patted his hand, and said like an elder brother: “It’s not too late for you to know now.”

Hearing Yu Youyou's words, Lu Keming looked somewhat helpless, and continued: "If that's the case, then the girl that the villagers sacrificed to it will probably be devoured by it."

That is why the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha becomes more and more powerful.

The villagers were afraid of the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha, so they worshipped it while trying to find a way to seal it.

But later, the fire and Ou Xi's recollections fell on the body of the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha, causing its power to surge and grow eyes. Now it can even directly control the patriarch of Li Village.

Lu Keming stroked his fingers, his eyes full of deep thought, "Could it be that the female ghost following Chen Qingqiu was also a person sacrificed by the villagers?"

As the two were talking, there were noises in the village late at night. Flashlights lit up not far away, and a group of dark figures walked over.

Lu Keming quickly picked up Yu Youyou, took a step back and hid behind a tree.

When the villagers came closer, Lu Keming and Yu Youyou saw that the villagers were pushing seven girls towards the village entrance.

The girls were tied up tightly with ropes all over their bodies, with cloth strips stuffed in their mouths. Tears streamed down their faces and they struggled desperately, but were suppressed by the villagers because of the disparity in strength.

"Ali and Brother Minghua are here too?" Yu Youyou noticed two figures following behind the group of villagers and her ears twitched.

Lu Keming followed her gaze and found that there were not only Ye Li and Shen Minghua there, but there were also several students mixed in with the villagers, including some from Lan Long.

But Lu Keming obviously didn't care about them. He looked away calmly. After seeing Yu Youyou's tilted head, he explained:

"Their mission should be to assist the villagers in completing the worship of the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha."

After he finished speaking, the villagers pushed the girls out of the village and walked towards the mountain where the Thousand-Faced Buddha was.

Lu Keming looked at the team heading up the mountain, and then said to Youyou:

"Starting from the first day after the Buddha Worship Festival, seven girls will be sacrificed every day for a total of seven days, sacrificing forty-nine girls."

"We entered the retrospection on the fifth day, and we are two days away from completing the final sacrifice."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Li's voice interrupted him.

"If the backtracking does not stop, the villagers' sacrifice will never end, and the students' mission will also not be completed. This means that we will all be trapped in this trial."

Ye Li and Shen Minghua had just arrived here and were about to continue following the villagers up the mountain when they saw a white tail sticking out from behind a tree nearby, swinging in the air. It was hard not to notice it.

She and Shen Minghua walked to the edge of the field and saw Lu Keming and Yu Youyou as expected.

Lu Keming turned his head to look at the two of them, his expression indifferent, and asked: "So you don't have to follow up to complete the mission now?"

"We had no intention of completing this mission. We came here tonight to check on the girls." Shen Minghua looked at Lu Keming and explained patiently.

"But according to our observations of the sacrifices before the retrospective, the villagers only took the girls to the mountain to bleed, and they didn't seem to want to kill them."

As soon as Shen Minghua finished speaking, Ye Li shook his head with a heavy face, "I'm afraid not, they just don't want the lives of those girls now."

When she said this, several people looked at Ye Li at the same time.

"I learned from the clan leader's daughter-in-law last time that most of the adult women in this village were married from outside."

"Girls in this village probably have no chance of surviving to adulthood."

"I didn't expect that the people in this village would be so cruel to their own children." Shen Minghua's expression darkened.

"Why do they all use girls as sacrifices?" While everyone was thinking about their own things, Yu Youyou rolled her eyes and asked in confusion.

Ye Li's expression froze, and he looked at the confused Yu Youyou, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

Shen Minghua pondered for a few seconds and explained to Yu Youyou:

"In fact, not all sacrifices were made with girls. In earlier times, when people's minds were still immature, they believed that sacrificing living people to the gods would show their sincerity to the heavens, so such things often happened."

"The nobles sacrificed commoners, and the commoners sacrificed weaker ones, and these girls were the final victims."

Shen Minghua sighed, "The strong wield their swords against the weak, and the weak wield their swords against the weaker ones, that's all."