A Buddhist chant boomed forth, equally swift and abrupt, echoing through the great hall like thunder in an instant and shaking the mind. The auras around Shuang Qingqing and Li Yan surged in response.
Just as Shuang Qingqing's already rapidly circulating spiritual power stirred, her vision blurred, and piercing whistles suddenly came from all around.
Then she discovered that eighteen figures had appeared around her and Li Yan, closing in in a ring as waves of Buddhist Vajra aura soared into the heavens.
"Eighteen Arhat Formation?"
The instant Shuang Qingqing clearly saw the appearances of the eighteen Arhats, she could not help blurting it out.
As Shuang Qingqing's Divine Sense swept over the surroundings, she discovered that many statues along one wall had vanished in an instant, leaving exactly eighteen empty spaces.
The eighteen statues surrounding the two of them seemed to have come alive. Amid the Buddhist chant, streaks of golden light also burst from their bodies.
Li Yan narrowed his eyes. The strand of force he had flicked out earlier had been launched with his physical strength, yet these statues, which had possessed no spiritual energy at all, had come alive in an instant.
He had only acted to test the thought in his mind. He had not expected that more than one statue would prove problematic—an actual Buddhist formation had appeared and encircled them!
When Li Yan had floated about investigating this place earlier, he had naturally activated all kinds of defenses to guard against accidents.
Yet when he reached this Seated Deer Arhat, its eyes had seemed to move. Li Yan felt that he could not have sensed it wrongly.
That was why he had asked Shuang Qingqing which Arhat it was, and her explanation made Li Yan's heart stir.
Both he and Shuang Qingqing had