This Is Too Much Of A Bargain

Su Fan sat cross-legged before the enormous Buddha statue, endlessly murmuring the incantation for communicating with it from the "Vajra Bodhi Pagoda Dharma Body" technique.

Yet after he sat before the statue and chanted for more than an hour, he still felt no response from it whatsoever.

Seeing that it had no effect at all, Su Fan simply stopped.

He climbed to his feet and paced back and forth through the cavern with his hands clasped behind his back, occasionally lifting his head to glance at the enormous Buddha statue.

The Buddha statue stood there silently, unmoving, as though it had never stirred throughout the countless years.

He wandered around the cavern for a long time, but still had no clue what to do.

Suddenly, Su Fan's heart stirred as he recalled the devout Buddhist believers he had seen in the temples in his previous life.

Could communicating with this Buddha statue also depend on sincerity?

Su Fan had lived two lifetimes without believing in anything. Now that he was suddenly expected to become devout, he did not even know how to go about it.

Whatever the case, he had to give it a try.

With that thought, Su Fan once again sat cross-legged before the Buddha statue and focused his mind, attempting to make himself a little more devout.

He murmured the incantation while trying his best to be sincere, and silently muttered in his mind as well.

"Buddha, bless me... Buddha, bless me..."

To be honest, Su Fan felt that this could not be considered devout at all. It was more like making a wish.

Just like those worldly-minded old women from his previous life, who went to temples to pray for wealth, children, and marriage, to ask for blessings for their descendants' safety, and preferably for them