I counted them and saw that there were twelve of them.

The walls of the hall were still lit with scorching skull torches, the faint green flames were dancing, the sculptures in the mist were hazy, and they were not all facing us, so we could only vaguely distinguish the faces of a few.

I saw that the nearest sculpture was a bald man.

His face was not angry and arrogant, he seemed to be a monk, with a string of small fist-sized Buddhist beads hanging around his neck, and a large banana leaf in his hand inexplicably, hunched over his head as if he was blocking the rain.

Not far from him was a balding man with hair on both sides, with a long beard on his mouth and a smile on his face, standing straight, with one hand erected on his chest and the other hand stretched forward, holding a round bowl in his hand.

And those who are too far away from us, their faces are not clear, but it is obvious that some of them are sitting cross-legged, and some are lying on their sides, all in different postures.

The sculptures stand in the mist, all surrounded by an eerie purple color, which is also black, and faintly exudes a metallic luster against the light of the floating ghost shark scales, as if they were cast in copper.

Because of the soul hooking boy who appeared before, everyone was trembling, and now they saw these strange sculptures in the hall, so that everyone didn't dare to venture for a while, and looked at each other.

There were also the five stone caves that appeared on the walls around them, and they seemed to be parallel to the hall, and they didn't know where they led.

However, according to the experience of the upper two layers, the passage into the Void Demon Tower should spread downward in a spiral, and it often needs to be cracked before it can appear.

Seeing that everyone was standing in place and didn't dare to move forward, I beckoned the fat man to go forward with Amorous, wanting to see what was going on with these bronze sculptures.

Little Black followed me closely, the little one's body tense, his tail raised to the sky, and his throat whining, a look of alarm.

Qian Ziqiang stretched out his hand to stop me, his brows furrowed, and he looked very confused.

"Don't worry, don't worry, do you know what these bronze men are?"

I was stunned, and said isn't it a bronze statue, what else can a bronze statue be?

Qian Ziqiang was upright, saying that if he guessed correctly, these bronze statues were the twelve Arhats.

My eyes widened, and I thought to myself that this senior brother of Nafutang might have broken his skull due to nervousness.

The Twelve Arhats? Even a three-year-old child knows that there are a total of 18 Venerable Beings who were instructed by the Buddha Shakyamuni to "never be nirvana in the past and stay in the mortal world forever", which is what the folk often call the eighteen Arhats, where is there a saying of twelve?

Although I don't know much about Buddhism, I still know the names of the eighteen arhats. The fat man also looked confused, looking at Qian Ziqiang in confusion, but he was affectionate but thoughtful.

Qian Ziqiang told us, saying that you don't know that the time when Buddhism was introduced to our country was not the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty as we know it now, but as early as the Warring States Period in the sixth century AD.

Although no temples were built at that time, Theravada Buddhism, which is based on the concept of "selflessness", has become popular, advocating self-cultivation. Following Theravada Buddhism, there were 12 disciples of the Buddha, called the "12 Arhats".

It was only in the Han Dynasty that Emperor Ming appeared in the West, and Buddhist temples began to be built on a large scale, and the people's worship of foreign religions deepened day by day.

By the time of the Five Dynasties, the rise of culture and art was closely related to Buddhism, and the 12 Arhats gradually evolved into 16.

In the late Song Dynasty, it became 18, and was respected by a large number of artistic murals and literati, until today, but only 12 disciples of the Buddha who live forever in the mortal world.

I was a little surprised, and it wasn't until this moment that I realized that the eighteen Arhats that the people had been talking about were wrong, and the real situation was that there were only twelve.

But what does it mean that the bronze statues of the twelve Arhats appear in this Void Mi Pagoda?

Qian Ziqiang continued.

"If you look carefully, the location of these twelve Arhats is very ingenious, all of them are distributed according to the palace of the seventy-two earth-shattering stars, and each bronze statue is the center point of the six stars, which is clearly a earth-shattering array......

What are the 72 Earthshas? This comes from the ancient people's worship of the stars and nature.

Legend has it that after the Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou, the Central Plains was unified, and there were a total of 36 cities in the world, which were named after the 36 Tiangang stars. Underground, there are two altars in each city, and these altars are the seventy-two earths.

Tiangang Star shines in all directions to pray for blessings, and the Earth Evil Star is buried deep underground to suppress evil, and only by echoing up and down can one side be peaceful.

Thinking of this, I asked Qian Ziqiang.

"Brother Qian, you said that these twelve Arhats are the Earth Demon Array, what are they suppressing?"

Qian Ziqiang sighed and said that he was also very confused now, but his intuition told him that it was very likely that this Arhat Earth Demon Array was used to suppress the leyline qi here and stop its surging and spreading.

I couldn't believe my ears, it felt like it couldn't be.

Since entering the Void Demon Tower under the leadership of Xiao Hei, we have gone down two floors. As we go deeper, the leylines become thicker and thicker, like water in the air, and even worse in the fog.

It is even suspected that these fogs are formed due to the influence of the leylines.

Needless to say, in the tower, when we were in the ancestral house of the Wang family on the top of the mountain, the breath of the spewing leylines was already incredible, if this aura was still suppressed by the formation, what would be the extent of the leylines in the formation?!

Under the action of the extremely dense leyline aura, even if it can give birth to demon kings and beasts, resurrect the dead, and become immortals!

But even so, we don't seem to have any other choice.

Judging from the Yin-Yang Pool that he encountered just now, under the crazy vibration, that platform is likely to have collapsed, and there is no way back.

If you want to investigate the five stone caves around this hall, you must also enter the Arhat Ground Evil Formation, so you can only go inside.

I looked at these twelve bronze statues of Arhats, and I couldn't help but think of the four Bodhisattva temples I encountered in Yancheng before, and I always felt that these bronze statues of Arhats were alive in my subconscious.

But fortunately, relatively speaking, these bronze statues are only the size of a human figure, and compared to the golden-bodied Guanyin, who could tear a human with his bare hands and was three meters away, the sense of oppression in his heart was much smaller.

I secretly prayed to myself, hoping that these Arhats were really as Qian Ziqiang said, they were only used to suppress the leyline qi, and since they were distributed according to the seventy-two earthly evil stars, it was impossible to move easily.

But what is the mechanism here, and how does the downward passage open?

Taking a deep breath, I took the fat man, the amorous and the little black and began to walk cautiously into the Luohan array, Qian Ziqiang and the people of Nafutang followed closely behind us with the mountain knife and the Luoyang shovel, everyone was walking on thin ice......