After Upper Firmament Heaven separated from Celestial Xia, the Profound Court knew there would inevitably be a battle between them. From that time onward, Celestial Xia had begun preparing to attack Upper Firmament Heaven.
This matter had originally been entrusted to Chen Tingzhi, who was most skilled in array mechanisms. But later, Nether City split away, the Turbid Tide surged, Upper Firmament Heaven invaded, and the gods and monsters of the Inner Layer ran rampant, causing the work to proceed in fits and starts.
Moreover, Celestial Xia was growing ever stronger. There was no need to actively attack Upper Firmament Heaven; if they merely delayed, they could sit by and watch it fall apart. Thus, the matter had continued to be postponed.
Still, Chen Tingzhi had ultimately prepared a method for breaking the array, along with many array-breaking implements.
After Daoist You took over as the array master, he had not completely overturned the previous approach. Instead, he intended to put those remaining magical artifacts to use as well.
But because the two men followed different approaches and had different ideas about breaking the array, using those things directly without proper control would not actually benefit the effort. Thus, he had put considerable thought into this.
The crystalline jade lights now descending had been personally refined and consecrated by Chen Tingzhi: Void-Exterminating Fire Thunder.
Once these things came into contact with any external object other than themselves, they would meld into it on their own and, at tremendous speed, contaminate it until it possessed the same properties as themselves.
Then, whenever their master required it, a mere activation of the incantation would make them erupt abruptly, shaking the array's foundations from within.
Even Upper Firmament Heaven's array could not possibly contain nothing but Azure Spirit vitality within its mechanisms. There