Bang!
It was as though an earth-shattering roar had resounded from the depths of their souls. The sight was utterly shocking.
Without a doubt, some powerful existence sealed within the spacetime of the Demon-Trapping Well had reached out with a skeletal claw and come rushing at them.
The bone claw was an eerie shade of green, covered in damp corpse moss. A mottled bronze bracer encircled its bony wrist, while five crystalline bone talons stretched out, surrounded by huge balls of green ghostfire drifting through the air.
In an instant, the surroundings changed color. The void itself seemed crushed and caved in by an immense force. Violent yin energy scattered in all directions, emerald ghostfire exploded one after another, and gale currents burst with explosive force, incomparably fierce as they formed a vast, bottomless power.
Rumble, rumble...
Just as the bone claw was about to descend, that bright lamp suddenly radiated light.
"Heart, lonely amid the web of dust; this body of afflictions must become empty in the realm of form. The dragon bowl has already poured out the rain of Dharma without self; the tiger couch remains, swept by winds of sorrow."
The Water Moon monk let out a long cry. The bright lamp slowly rose, sending up countless rays of brilliance that flickered with sharp light. Within its glowing flame sat a Sun-Moon Light King Buddha in meditation.
This was a bright lamp condensed through Buddhist mental cultivation, and also a form of Buddhist divine power. Only by turning the profound Zen heart could one stir this strange heart-lamp into action.
At this very moment, the strange lamp hovered in the air, casting out ten thousand zhang of radiance in every direction. A glassy, marsh-like dome of light also emerged from the void, forcibly blocking that terrifying skeletal