"Luckily, although the Stone Buddha Prison-Suppressing Seal has had its foundation destroyed, it can still be put to use." The severed arm's palm made a grasping motion in the air, sending a vast amount of Formless Profound Flame into the Stone Buddha, which had already melted away by nearly half.
Buzz... The Stone Buddha immediately blazed with light, though its original radiance was replaced by the azure glow of the Formless Profound Flame. As soon as the flame poured into it, the severed arm sensed the cacophony of savage, frenzied ant cries beneath the Stone Buddha. The cries were so dense that even with its Primordial Spirit, the severed arm couldn't tell how many Void-Devouring Ghost Ants there were.
If the severed arm hadn't received advance warning, it and the Tongtian Devil Lord would have been caught completely off guard. Not only would the Tongtian Devil Lord's plan to reclaim his demonic body have fallen apart, but if they were trapped in the swarm, there was no telling what price they would have to pay to escape. Now, though, there was still hope of buying some time.
It all depended on how long the Stone Buddha Prison-Suppressing Seal could hold out. The Formless Profound Flame wasn't originally suited to this seal.
However, the Stone Buddha Prison-Suppressing Seal had subdued countless ghosts for ages, and its lingering might remained. Treasures had spirits of their own. Even though Kongming had damaged its foundation, its instinct to suppress ghosts had not entirely faded. Now, bolstered by the Formless Profound Flame, the Stone Buddha blazed with azure light as one Buddhist seal after another crashed down. Beneath it, cries of agony rang out without end.
The Void-Devouring Ghost Ants had been trapped in this dead end for so many years, and only now saw