Bzzzz—!
A humming sound streaked across the night sky, shattering the silence.
An ancient, majestic dome enveloped the entire mountaintop, blotting out sky and moon as it covered everyone within.
The leading woman in White Robe looked somewhat grave before saying, "The Star-Suppressing Tower truly does have someone else aiding it. A single tower alone cannot save you."
The woman pressed her palms together and began chanting scriptures.
Streams of golden divine light coiled forth behind her. The next moment, the five-zhang-tall Buddha statue at the very rear of the altar began to crack apart.
It was like a clay figure shedding its gray outer layer, revealing its blue-red true form beneath.
Amid crackling sounds, the Buddha statue, which had been motionless, began to move, like someone who had stood too long and was stretching their joints.
Its once kind and benevolent face began to develop strange, crescent-shaped hollows. When those hollows opened and closed, they emitted a dim crimson glow.
Only then did Lin Heng realize they were eyes.
Nine-Eyed Strange Buddha?
A lone voice surfaced in his mind. It seemed he had seen this so-called Nine-Eyed Strange Buddha somewhere before.
The Buddha statue glanced at him, then slowly raised its head and fixed its gaze on the Star-Suppressing Tower overhead.
With that single glance, the nine-story treasure tower, massive and weighty, radiating immortal might, began to sway as though it might collapse at any moment.
Immediately afterward, the Buddha statue leaped in an eerie posture, charging straight into the tower.
In an instant, the tower twisted as if under immense suppression, rapidly withering, shrinking, and vanishing into the void.
Lin Heng stared in stunned disbelief. "It disappeared?"
The woman in White Robe let out a lewd laugh and said coldly, "And now? The incarnation left behind by the