Upon the azure platform lay a wooden coffin, its surface branded with tens of thousands of ant-sized immortal sigils.
A woman dressed in a blue immortal gown lay within the wooden coffin.
Her features were peerlessly delicate, like an immortal blossom in the night sky—transcendent and unworldly.
The Bright Jade Ancient Immortal, clad in an azure immortal robe with sword-like brows and starry eyes, sat cross-legged before the wooden coffin.
Floating before him was a fragmented diagram, within which stretched a Bloody Ocean.
The ocean was crimson as blood, like the Blood Sea of the underworld from true myths and legends.
Looking closely, the Blood Sea was filled with living beings of every shape and appearance.
Some bore eight wings upon their backs, some had human bodies and dragon heads, and some resembled Phoenixes. These densely packed beings all bowed and worshipped toward the center of the Blood Sea as though on a pilgrimage.
A kaleidoscopic vortex spun ceaselessly at the center of the Blood Sea, where boundless Dao rhythms of Reincarnation intertwined.
"Senior, what is the origin of this immortal diagram?" Meng Nanxi asked.
"That is a long story. Back then, the Underworld Soil Immortal Venerable wished to evolve reincarnation. His Dao of Reincarnation could already be called supreme within the Immortal Realm, yet he was never able to evolve reincarnation."
The Three Primes Seal answered, "Later, the Underworld Soil Immortal Venerable concluded that the Dao of Reincarnation alone might be incapable of evolving reincarnation. Just as the Dao of Stars could evolve stars but not life, the Dao of Reincarnation needed the support of other Great Daos if it wished to evolve true reincarnation."
"The Underworld Soil Immortal Venerable chose to use the Dao of Life and Death—no, rather, the Power of Life and Death—as support?"
Though Jiang