Today's second update: Chapter 2052! 2/3!
Ember Sandplain was a barren land where the Yuan-Chu Nine Veins exiled criminals from their race.
But Ember Sandplain had not existed from the very beginning.
The higher-ups of the Yuan-Chu Nine Veins knew exactly what was buried beneath Ember Sandplain.
The ancestor of the Yuan-Chu Nine Veins, the former Yuan Ancestor!
The Yuan Ancestor had died in the War of the Myriad Races five hundred years ago, but she had not been buried on the Myriad Races Battlefield. Instead, she had returned to her roots and fallen within Phoenix Race territory.
It was precisely the terrifying energy she released at the moment of her death that turned Ember Sandplain, once fertile land, into a savage and barren wasteland.
The name Ember came from the earth-shaking radiance released when the Yuan Ancestor fell!
The Yuan-Chu Nine Veins' choice to exile criminals from their race there was an offering to the Yuan Ancestor.
To compete for limited resources, slaughter and being slaughtered played out on Ember Sandplain at every moment.
The souls of the dead returned to Ember Sandplain. This was the ritual the Yuan-Chu Nine Veins used to revive the Yuan Ancestor!
From Xu Kun's perspective, the bottomless abyss the little yellow chick had fallen into, when viewed from high above, was clearly a phoenix soaring through the nine heavens!
Or rather, part of one.
The raised mountain ranges were the Yuan Ancestor's flesh, while the sunken abysses in the land were her veins.
The place where the little yellow chick had fallen was precisely the heart of this phoenix-shaped terrain!
In any novel, when the protagonist fell off a cliff, they were bound to survive the disaster and encounter a great opportunity.
The little yellow chick was the protagonist of its own