Phoenix Clan Succession Ceremony

Southern Wilderness, Immortal Volcano range.

The Phoenix race's Ancestral Land had never been as lively as it was today.

Along the steep cliffs surrounding the crater, crimson Phoenix Perch Wood stretched in an unbroken expanse. Fist-sized Bright Pearls hung from the branches, their glow illuminating the entire mountain as brightly as day.

A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix Brocade hung from the Mountain Wall every hundred zhang. The fabric cascaded from the mountaintop to its base, and when the wind blew, it seemed as though ten thousand birds took flight.

The Phoenix race clan members had taken human form, dressed in formal attire, and stood in formation on both sides of the altar below the crater.

The men wore Golden Feather Crowns, Red Feather Robes, and jade belts around their waists.

The women wore their hair in high buns adorned with Phoenix Hairpins, dressed in Rainbow Garments with skirts trailing three zhang behind them.

The altar was built from volcanic rock, circular in shape and ninety-nine zhang in diameter.

Its surface was covered in Golden Phoebe Wood flooring, with multicolored jade inlaid between the planks. Crimson, gold, and white intertwined to form a phoenix and a female phoenix spreading their wings, ready to soar.

Li Zhu stood at the highest point of the altar. Her silver hair was arranged in a high bun, and she wore a crimson-gold Phoenix Robe embroidered with nine soaring phoenixes. Each phoenix's eyes were Obsidian, gleaming darkly beneath the pearl light.

A light layer of powder concealed the withering beneath her face.

She had not taken human form in over thirty thousand years.

She had remained in her true form, crouched within the largest Immortal Volcano crater, using her Life Essence to suppress the Earth Fire.

Today would be the last time she