Clear Buddhist light illuminated the Buddha hall, dispersing its murky filth.
The halo behind Bodhisattva Mingji's head shone crystal clear, pouring forth boundless, pristine Buddhist light. Beneath it, the distorted Buddha statues could offer no resistance and could only shrink away in terror. Yet Bodhisattva Mingji had no intention of letting them go.
As the Buddhist light around Bodhisattva Mingji grew ever stronger, it suddenly seemed to cross a threshold. The halo behind his head abruptly transcended its former state, becoming an incandescent sun that shone in every direction and purged all evil. Throughout the Buddha hall, the distorted statues let out agonized howls, as though scorched by a blazing sun.
Yet the statues did not simply sit and await death. One after another, they dropped into seated positions, ignoring their already melting bodies, and began chanting Buddhist scriptures.
"Dipan Kalabhaya!"
"Dusi Kalabhaya!"
"Ataloka Bhaya!"
"Moum Buddha Bhaya!"
As the twisted, grotesque Sanskrit chants echoed through the Buddha hall, its dazzling radiance sank once more into silent darkness. The Buddhist light was veiled, the light of wisdom worn away, and even Bodhisattva Mingji's incandescent halo was obscured. The entire hall became a realm of pitch-black silence. Within that silent realm, only the Sanskrit chants echoed in every direction, deranging minds and troubling souls, making people bleed from all seven orifices without realizing it, until they became lamps of flesh and blood, human candles of fat and wax.
Once the Buddha hall had become a place of darkness, the statues grew smug again.
"Heh heh..."
"Hehehehe..." Amid faint rustling, all manner of strange, absurd laughter came from every direction. In the darkness, hideous Buddha statues extended sharp claws and bared their fangs, lunging at Bodhisattva Mingji.
Little did they know that every movement they made lay utterly exposed before Bodhisattva Mingji's