Outside the deserted county, Buddha Jade Furnace began chanting Buddhist scriptures.
As Buddha Jade Furnace chanted, echoes gradually arose within the previously silent county. Beside him, the abbot of Zhengde Temple took out a wooden fish and, together with two other monks, began to beat it while chanting. Their voices gradually started to weave other sounds into the Buddhist chants.
With the unending incantation, Li Huowang felt every piece of his flesh throbbing, as if it might leave his body at any moment. Buddha Jade Furnace's clothes squirmed, and various tiny Buddhas tumbled out, sitting with their legs crossed and chanting the scriptures along with him.
Just as the chanting reached its peak, the ground suddenly split open. A towering figure wearing a shaman's cowl leaped out, holding two obsidian daggers high overhead and launching a sneak attack on the chanting Buddha Jade Furnace.
