But after Hai Guang shouted "Four Seas Refining Demons," the giant Buddha's phantom abruptly changed its expression. Its face instantly turned savage, its eyes bulged, its brows bristled, and its mouth opened to reveal a full set of gleaming white steel teeth, assuming the wrathful demon-subduing aspect of Buddhist legend!
Immediately afterward, the enormous Buddha phantom suddenly split into eighteen, becoming eighteen Dharma-Protecting Arhats of different forms, all wearing equally wrathful expressions!
Each of the eighteen Arhats stepped onto a floating white lotus throne and aggressively surrounded Cui Jiuyang.
Normally, the ritual implements held by the eighteen Arhats should have included vajras, vajra bells, vajra bracelets, treasured swords, monastic sabers, demon-subduing pestles, and the like.
But their Sea Buddha Lineage was completely different from ordinary Arhat guardians.
The demon-subduing ritual implements held by these Dharma-Protecting Arhats were all closely connected to the sea.
Vajras had been replaced with oars, vajra bells were studded with colorful shells, and the treasured swords were actually fashioned from the long bills of giant swordfish, honed to an incomparable sharpness.
Even the creatures coiled around the Arhats, which should have been Buddhist dragons, had been replaced with ferocious sea snakes!
"Kill!"
Once the eighteen Arhat phantoms stepped onto their lotus thrones, they seemed to come alive. Silent roars issued from their mouths as the assorted oceanic ritual implements in their hands came smashing toward Cui Jiuyang with crushing force, filling the sky!
Cui Jiuyang's gaze sharpened. He immediately directed the thunderfire power within the formation to condense into sabers, spears, swords, halberds, and other weapons, which shot skyward and clashed with the incoming demon-subduing implements!
For a time, an endless clanging rang through the air above the square!
One moment, Buddhist oceanic implements were shattered and flung away by the violent thunderfire, dissolving into specks