Feng Xi said, her voice not loud, yet carrying a firmness she had never shown before.
She brought that fruit to her mouth and bit down.
The emerald-green peel split open, and a crimson light surged out from the flesh, like a sealed flame that had finally gained its freedom.
That light poured down her throat and into her body, flowed along her meridians, and finally gathered at the top of her spine before surging into her skull.
In that instant, Feng Xi's body jolted violently.
Crimson flames surged from within her, enveloping her entire body in a blaze of searing light.
Her body began to shine, radiating an unprecedented brilliance from the inside out.
Her aura began to climb, rising at a terrifying speed—peak Twelfth Realm, the limit of the Twelfth Realm, and then—
"Nirvana! Rebirth! Breakthrough!"
A cry of Phoenix Cry rang through the cage, through the Divine Wood Forest, through the entire Jiquan Star.
Crimson flames shot into the sky, burning a great hole through the top of the cage.
Within those flames, a colossal phantom of a phoenix slowly rose, spread its wings, and soared high, charging toward the heavens.
That was Feng Xi's true intrinsic form—but larger and more radiant than it had ever been before.
Her feathers burned with an unprecedented flame, one that emanated a sacred aura, like the legendary Nirvana Fire.
It could burn away all sin, and it could also nurture all new life.
In the skies above Jiquan Star, a crimson phoenix was soaring.
Her body blotted out the sky and covered the sun, her flames illuminated the entire night, and her phoenix cry resounded across the whole planet.
The entire Phoenix Clan erupted.
"Your Majesty! It's Your Majesty!"
"Her Majesty broke through! Thirteenth Realm! Her Majesty is Jiquan Star's