Undead Soul Fire

As the source of the Twisted Treant Clan's bloodline, Sadi only needed to provide the True-Name Totem Rune and Third-Ring True Blood to give clan members who had reached their bloodline limit a chance to break through its shackles.

But once Phil Sadi broke through those shackles, he would stand apart from the entire clan and could no longer provide Sadi with bloodline power.

Worse, a clan member of the same tier posed a threat to the Tree Ancestor. Such a situation normally never arose, but now Sadi had run straight into one!

Crack!!!

Phil Sadi did not care what Yin Ming thought. His crown kept splitting off branches to create Second-Ring Twisted Treant Avatars.

Each avatar was an empty shell without a will of its own. Extraordinary creatures were not wizards; their control over the mental power fused into their True Blood was limited.

Even a Tree Ancestor like Sadi, who could sever his connection to an avatar completely, could only leave a lingering thought to control the Samadhi Divine Flame briefly without losing control. That kept the flames from spreading back to his main body through the Clone Avatar spell.

Perfect control over the mental power within True Blood remained vanishingly rare.

"Crack, crack..."

They followed commands delivered through plant pheromones, used innate spells, or simply attacked with their bodies.

They poured in like products off an assembly line. They neither dodged nor defended against the Lava Troll's attacks. For Second-Ring extraordinary creatures, they were weak.

But their numbers stayed steady—never too many, never too few. Yin Ming could neither break away nor spread the Samadhi Divine Flame, while wide-area spells could not inflict meaningful losses.

For the first time, Yin Ming felt the tactical pressure of an information gap. "A Third-Ring extraordinary creature is fighting a First-Ring