Chapter 778 - Buddha

Chapter 778 - Buddha

Li Huowang sensed something was wrong and started rapidly punching his own head.

He realized that it wasn’t working. He stabbed his head with a long needle instead. The intense pain stopped his thoughts in time.

“Hah!” Cold sweat drenched his blood-red robes as he panted and gritted his teeth. No matter what the Siming was, since he had to defeat the Dharma Sect, he had no choice but to meet them.

Just then, he felt a pair of eyes staring at him.

“Who’s there?!” he shouted. Three tentacles sprouted out, with Li Sui gripping a sword in each of them.

He then saw Chan Du, the Abbot of the Qi Kingdom, shuffling out from a small alley.

“Benefactor Li, I require a bit of assistance. Would you be kind enough to help?”

I knew that there would be a price to pay. No wonder he agreed so fast just now. He wanted me to help him with something...

Li Huowang pondered before asking, “What do you need? I can’t do many things, and I don’t have the time to travel anywhere far away.”

Li Huowang hated doing other people favors to get what he needed, especially when they were allies. Nevertheless, he couldn’t be bothered to argue.

He only needed to find out the method that Xuan Pin had used. Everything else was insignificant at the moment.

“Benefactor Li does not have to fight. Please follow me.”

Li Huowang sheathed his three swords and followed Chan Du.

Even though Chan Du wanted Li Huowang to help him, he never explained what he needed. He just brought Li Huowang deep into the temple.

The monastery still looked beautiful, though the Righteous Monastery was not as clean as before.

Li Huowang walked slowly through the monastery as the sun set and the bell tolled. He stared at the majestic temples, emanating an aura of reverence.

Li Huowang raised his hand, and the marble tiles of the hall slowly began to stick together. Eventually, they formed a marble statue of Zhuge Yuan on the altar.

Chan Du’s eyes widened with shock upon seeing this. “It’s him?!”

Li Huowang sighed and left the newly opened hall.

Chan Du did not move. He stood still and stared at the statue. “So this is what a Buddha looks like.”

Once news spread out of the new hall, every surviving monk who came from the Qi Kingdom put down their work and started making their way to pray to their savior.

Soon, several groups of survivors from the Qi Kingdom somehow caught wind of the newly opened hall. They made their way towards the new hall, carrying offerings and taking their children along. They prayed earnestly to Zhuge Yuan’s statue, and their prayers didn’t stop, even late into the night.

Li Huowang stared at the crowd from a corner in the dark. He looked at the statue enveloped in incense smoke and heard the prayers coming from the devotees with his sharp hearing.

Their prayers were so earnest that even Li Huowang thought the statue would come to life and reply their prayers.

Li Huowang stared at them and realized that Zhuge Yuan had indeed saved a lot of people.

The old monk illusion beside him jumped excitedly. “Daoist, please materialize me! I want to do good deeds and become a Buddha!”

Li Huowang ignored him and turned to leave. Just then, Li Huowang saw the other Abbot leading a group of serious-looking monks into the hall.

They were conducting a ceremony, but Li Huowang didn’t know the details about it.

The Abbot held a roll of yellow fabric and carefully wrapped it around the statue. He then took out a brush dipped in cinnabar before drawing a single red dot on Zhuge Yuan’s forehead.

Li Huowang laughed when he saw Zhuge Yuan with a red dot on his forehead. “HAHAHA!”

His laughter spread out far. Several monks and devotees were looking at where the laughter came from.

“Pfft! Hahaha! It’s alright, just continue doing your things! Hahaha!” Li Huowang laughed as he left the hall.