However, these newly appeared Painted Skins had no vitality at first. They were like thirty-odd specimens imbued with a special spiritual pressure—stiff and lifeless.
But the Seventh Stage Painting Spirit Race member blew again with all his might, sending out a streak of spiritual light that swept over every Painted Skin. The Painted Skins began to swell slightly.
Expressions appeared on their faces, too.
Some looked angry, others delighted, and their expressions varied. A few even looked languid, as if they had just woken from a nap.
But almost at once, they all began chanting incantations and forming spiritual seals.
The first to form seals were the three Seventh Stage members of the Painting Spirit Race.
One performed a fire technique. Like a volcano made of paper skin, it erupted with a terrifying Seventh Stage Spirit Flame.
Even the Cloud Jiao Demon Venerable had to avoid the brunt of that terrifying Spirit Flame.
Of the remaining two members of the Painting Spirit Race, one was a Phantom Painting Clan member, just like the Seventh Stage member who had appeared earlier, capable of possessing another's body.
The other belonged to the Wood-Method Phantom Spirit Clan. Countless seeds flew from it and landed on the cultivators.
The seeds sprouted in an instant and began draining their vitality. Some weaker Spirit Transformation cultivators even died as the seeds sucked them dry.
The Wood Cloud Sect cultivators controlling the Ancient Wilderness Ark's Array were also caught in the seeds' reach.
Most of the Spirit Transformation cultivators struggled briefly before dying.
Only a small number of Spirit Transformation cultivators and a few Void Refinement cultivators managed to sever their own bodies, sacrificing their limbs to survive and eke out a slim chance of life!
The sight left the Human cultivators even more stunned and horrified.