"Rest assured, everyone! This is the Wild-Gazing River. Beyond it lies the Sand River Battlefield. Reinforcements from Soul-Repelling City will be here soon!" the Wood Cloud Sect Void Refinement cultivator who had narrowly escaped death earlier shouted as well.
As he shouted, he continued activating the array. Streaks of spiritual light emerged from the Ancient Wilderness Ark's array foundations and converged high in the air.
The spiritual barrier, riddled with countless fine cracks, gradually began to recover, like a sheet of ice reinforced several times over.
Its original cracks instead resembled inlaid frost flowers!
This eased the minds of the cultivators who had been preparing to abandon the ark and flee.
Their only reassurance was that the Ancient Wilderness Ark's spiritual barrier remained intact, and that there were only a limited number of Painting Spirit Race members aboard.
Moreover, these Painting Spirit Race members seemed to be the kind that could only possess bodies. Their other spells and divine abilities were not particularly powerful.
As long as the cultivators avoided being enveloped by their ink washes, they would not be in much danger.
Conversely, once the bodies these Painting Spirit Race members possessed were destroyed, they too would turn into ink washes.
Their defenses were not especially strong.
With the seventh-stage Painting Spirit Race member held at bay, three more sixth-stage members were slain.
"The spirit skins of the Painting Spirit Race are the most natural talisman paper there is. Spirit talismans crafted from them are thirty percent more powerful than ordinary ones!" the Beast God Sect Void Refinement cultivator declared again, holding up a painted skin.
"And even if you cannot craft spirit talismans, you can exchange a complete sixth-stage painted skin with our Beast God Sect or the Wood Cloud Sect at any time for a low-grade spirit