Lin Ke said nothing and immediately stepped forward, a thick layer of nine-colored glazed crystal armor covering his body.
Then, with a great flap, a pair of enormous flaming wings spread wide behind him.
The crystal armor slowly covered them as well.
To the onlookers, Lin Ke shone like a divine statue sculpted from crystal...
"Hmph, ignorant junior."
"The four of us cultivate the Physical Body-Sanctifying Black Tortoise Dao, the purest path of body cultivation."
"You would compare your unorthodox tricks to ours?"
"How absurd!"
At these words, discussion broke out among the crowd again.
Public opinion leaned toward Lin Ke losing.
Lin Ke, however, remained completely unaffected.
"If yours is the Black Tortoise Physical Body-Sanctifying Dao, you should follow the body cultivators of High Antiquity and temper yourselves with poison that seals the throat at the sight of blood."
"Or use Witchcraft and Gu Arts to draw down heavenly thunder to strike your bodies day and night."
"Or leap into an ancient demon beast's nest and strengthen your bodies by letting countless demon beasts, spirit insects, or poisons eat away at them."
"May I ask which of these methods you four elders have used?"
His words thundered in their ears.
Everyone present agreed once more.
The old men, apart from the Fusion Cultivator, looked troubled.
But the Fusion Cultivator was ultimately more calculating. Rather than falling into the trap of proving himself, he immediately said, "Then what methods of High Antiquity have you used for your body cultivation, you wet-behind-the-ears brat?"
Lin Ke had long expected the old man to say this.
He murmured under his breath, "Old man, oh, old man. You still fell into my trap."
The next instant, Lin Ke manifested Dragon Pearl Fire. As he activated his natal spiritual qi, nine fire dragons bearing the