God's Gift

It stretched out its hand to Ah Chou again. Countless hands kept appearing in that black hand: the old and dry hands of an old man, the tender and fair hands of a child, the broad and strong hands of a man, the thin and delicate hands of a woman...

After a long time, Ah Chou stretched out his hand and held the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha, as if he was holding countless hands.

“Hahahaha…” The Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha turned into black mist and surged into Achou’s body.

A voice was heard from the bottom of the cliff. Ah Chou rolled his eyes, glanced at the place where Chen Qingqiu was buried, and then climbed down the cliff again.

She first walked into the Buddhist temple, smashed the mirrors in front of the Buddha statues, tore off the red cloth, and then smashed the Bodhisattva statues in the niches along the way.

After a while, the seal that the villagers had painstakingly set up turned into a mess.

After doing all this, Achou went around to the stone gate at the back mountain.

The white messenger dog was placed in the center of the rune, inside the rune sat the bodies of the dead girls, and the old patriarch with a bandage on his head was angry.

Ah Chou walked in naked. The faces of the villagers present changed. The clan leader shouted angrily, "Asshole, you dare to come to the Buddha in such a disheveled state."

Ah Chou raised his head, looked at the old patriarch expressionlessly, and said, "Let me do it, your Buddha."

The old patriarch did not believe Ah Chou's words at all, and kept muttering: "You and that teacher let the sacrifice run away, so you will be the sacrifice."

Ah Chou still had no emotion on his face, as if he hadn't heard the old patriarch's words, and continued to speak: "It asked me to kill you."

The old clan leader widened his eyes in astonishment, took a few steps forward, and stretched out his hand to hit Achou, but before his hand touched Achou, a black mist rushed out of Achou's body and penetrated the old clan leader's body.

The old patriarch died before he could even utter a single sound.

The sudden change happened, and the faces of the villagers all changed, and they quickly recognized that the black mist in Ah Chou's body came from the Wanmian Buddha. They were so frightened that they knelt down on the ground, kowtowing and begging: "Please let the Buddha spare!"

But the black mist did not listen to their prayers and poured out from Achou's body continuously, soon submerging the kneeling villagers.

The black fog seemed to have grown countless mouths. It stuck to the villagers' skin and began to eat their bodies. The villagers fled in panic, but were unable to escape the black fog.

From their skin and hair to their bright red flesh and internal organs, the villagers were eaten alive. The voices of their prayers gradually became quieter, and soon, they disappeared.

When the black fog finally stopped, only a pile of bones was left on the ground.

But the black mist in Achou's body had not yet stopped. It flowed down from the mountains and forests like a flood, quickly submerging the entire village and plunging the village into eternal sleep.

Achou stood for a long time, then slowly raised his feet and dragged the corpses of the villagers on the ground down the mountain. He then dragged all the villagers out and buried them one by one outside the village.

After doing all this, she returned to the mountain, only to find that the stone door that had been closed had been opened.

Ah Chou looked at the open stone door and walked in.

But inside the stone gate, there was a scene that was enough to shock people.

This is a cave several tens of meters high, with countless small caves on the cave wall, and each cave has a Buddha statue. The Buddha statues are of various shapes, stacked up in the cave, and there are tens of thousands of them.

But what is even more magical is that those Buddha statues are not made of clay, they are pure white and appear to be natural.

From the moment Ah Chou stepped into the Ten Thousand Buddhas Grotto, the sound of chanting sutras sounded in the grotto, and the sounds were different, coming from the stone walls in all directions, blending together noisily and deafeningly.

In the very center of the cave stands a huge Buddha statue, which looks exactly like the Thousand-Faced Buddha in the Buddhist temple, but like the other Buddha statues, it is all white, and several times larger than the Thousand-Faced Buddha in the Buddhist temple.

There is a dark red flame burning in the right eye of the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha, but his left eye is more special, as it is a blue eyeball.

There are intricate roots and countless bones piled up at its feet. Those bones are connected together and melted into countless roots that spread out and connect to the Buddha statues on the cave wall.

As he got closer, Ah Chou realized that this Buddha statue and even the Buddha statues on other cave walls were all made of white bones.

"This is us." The Thousand-Faced Buddha came out of Ah Chou's body again, looked at the stone statues and said to Ah Chou: "A thousand years ago, a white pine tree from Lijia Village broke into this place, ate our bones, and took us out of the cave..."

So the Lijia Village began to worship the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha from generation to generation, hoping to gain blessings and eternal life, but the tribute was too little, and they even tried to seal it up.

Ah Chou walked to the center of the Wanmian Buddha and looked at the Buddha statue.

This is the Buddha that the people of Lijia Village have worshipped for generations.

“Now…” The Thousand-Faced Buddha floated behind Ah Chou and placed its black hand on Ah Chou’s shoulder. Its voice was mournful and mixed with joy, which was extremely strange. It stretched out its hand again, “You have to become us too…”

Ah Chou looked back at the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha but ignored the hand that the Buddha extended to her again. She picked up a leg bone from the ground and smashed it on the back of the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha, creating a big hole.

"Ah!!" A loud cry came from the body of the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha, and the Buddha statues in the surrounding stone walls also began to scream. The noisy sound echoed in the cave, but Ah Chou just lowered his head to look at the blood-stained letter paper in his hand, and crawled into the body of the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha.

The black mist of the Ten Thousand-Faced Buddha gathered and entered its body together. The huge broken hole on its back began to heal and return to its original appearance.

The noise in the cave became smaller and smaller, and gradually became quiet, and the stone door outside closed again.

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The flashback ended here and Lijia Village returned to its true appearance.

The beams were rotten and broken, the walls had collapsed, and weeds were growing on the broken walls.

All the students who entered the trial stood in front of the stone gate, looking at the wild grass and trees around them, and slowly reacted.

"The sacrifice was successful." A student looked at the successful mission notification sent back by the intelligent computer, and a smile gradually appeared on his face.

Gradually, more students reacted and cheered, "My mission was also successful!"

"Me too!"

Shen Minghua stood outside the crowd, looking at the cheering students in front of him, and gradually realized that something was wrong. He frowned tightly, stepped forward and asked the students:

"Your mission is to help the villagers complete the sacrifice?"

"Yeah." A member of the White Dove team quickly answered, and the other students followed suit, "Me too!"

After they answered the questions, they realized something was wrong. Thinking about the initial prompt from the intelligent computer, they said in surprise, "Didn't they say the tasks were different?"

Why is it that when I ask now, everyone’s tasks are the same?

The students who had been cheering for the success of the mission fell silent. The air was silent and everyone looked at each other in silence.

"Youyou's mission is different from ours because of the different mode." Ye Li's brows were twisted into a knot, and she gradually had a bad premonition in her heart, and her hands gradually clenched.

Shen Minghua continued, "But no matter what our mission is, it is actually to help complete the sacrifice."

At this point, Shen Minghua looked at Ye Li and made eye contact with her. They both saw suspicion in each other's eyes.

"The ultimate goal of completing the sacrifice is to open the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave."

"Why does the academy want us to open the Cave of Ten Thousand Buddhas?" Fang Ziang scratched his head in confusion, his voice bewildered.

Fang Ziang looked at the other students and found that they all looked confused.

Shen Minghua pressed his eyebrows, but his eyes suddenly swept to Lu Keming who had been silent beside him. His heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly asked, "Lu Keming, what is your mission?"

After Yu Youyou left, Lu Keming didn't say a word along the way. There was no emotion in his eyes. The hair on his forehead fell down to his eyebrows, like a stone statue.

After hearing Shen Minghua's question, Lu Keming raised his eyes and looked at Shen Minghua calmly. Then he stretched out his thin white fingers and pointed at the stone gate in front of him expressionlessly.

"Open the Cave of Ten Thousand Buddhas?" Shen Minghua immediately understood what Lu Keming meant and spoke in disbelief.

He looked at Lu Keming's calm eyes, his hands gradually dropped to his sides, and he finally understood.

There is only one task here.

Open the Ten Thousand Buddha Caves.