A master by sheer talent

In an instant, the demons pouring through the gap in the battle line caught fire. Blue flames erupted across their bodies, their flesh sizzling.

They were not actual flames, but an effect produced by converted spiritual energy. Even when demons and humans were packed together, the flames would not burn allies. As though they had eyes of their own, they appeared only on enemies that had been soaked in wine and charged into the array.

Their destructive power, however, was very real.

The searing heat sent the demons writhing in agony and rolling from side to side, but nothing could put the flames out. Before everyone's eyes, their shells turned from blue-green to red, then from red to white, finally burning into cracked gray plates of stone. Upon death, their flesh dissolved straight into puddles of bubbling blue liquid, leaving them scattered across the ground.

The cultivators absorbed the spiritual energy that dispersed from them, replenishing their reserves and nourishing themselves.

The cultivators of the Ascension Terrace excelled at array formations. Those words suddenly came back to Chen Xuan.

The Drunken Army-Breaking Array Xu Yuanqing had laid down covered nearly a hundred meters in every direction. He had single-handedly checked the demons' offensive on the flank, while the cultivators and French troops could move freely within the array without worrying about friendly fire. That was an array's greatest advantage—lasting effects that served both offense and defense.

Xu Xuanling's Thousand Mechanisms Lock the Moon also used array talismans, but it worked in an entirely different way. If carrying a wine flask everywhere was a prerequisite for setting up the Drunken Army-Breaking Array, his daughter certainly would not be following in her father's footsteps.

There was also that Heaven's Pride cultivator from the Heavenly Evolution Tower. His sound-based spell was clearly his