Lin Ke's words struck the Black Tortoise Ancestor like a resounding slap, jolting him awake.
In a towering rage, the Black Tortoise Ancestor manifested the Fission Insects he had raised for years and plunged into battle with the Rong Household and the Tan Household of the Third Elder, who had been watching the tigers fight from their mountain perch.
Almost instantly, the Fission Insects devoured more than half the Rong and Tan cultivators.
The Household Head Rong revealed her trump card as well: she had long since refined every plant on Tortoise-Back Mountain into an avatar of herself.
With a Plant Dharma Form and her own spring day hundred flowers fragrant enchanting spirit body, she fought the Black Tortoise Ancestor, and their strength appeared evenly matched.
Meanwhile, the other three elders, each with one foot in the Fusion Realm, harbored their own schemes: one tried to ambush the Black Tortoise Ancestor and was blasted apart by a single palm strike; another attacked Lin Ke and was surrounded by the Ten Villages cultivators' Mechanical Insects; Lin Ke slew this elder outright with the Windglow Spirit Dragon Saber, turning him into a blade spirit forever bound to extract spirit oil in the Remote Antiquity Spirit Oil Mine.
The last, the Tan Household's Second Elder, led the core members of his lineage straight out to sea to flee, but the Fission Insects marked them as prey, and most were devoured.
Seeing that the Tan Family's cause was lost, the Tan Household's Second Elder cast the Death Curse Art upon the Black Tortoise Ancestor: whoever slew the Black Tortoise Ancestor would receive eighty percent of his cultivation power, transferred from the ancestor through the Death Curse Art.
From then on, winds rose and clouds surged throughout the Black Sea. Countless cultivators came to slay