"Screech—!"
A phoenix cry, so clear and bright it seemed to pierce the firmament, suddenly resounded through heaven and earth!
That phoenix cry was completely different from the calls of ordinary members of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan! It was more desolate, more ancient, and more majestic!
Within that voice, there seemed to be an aura from the remote primordial past, as though it had crossed endless years from that distant ancient era to reach the present day!
Amid that ringing phoenix cry, the old man's hunched figure began to swell rapidly!
The ragged clothes on his body instantly turned to powder! Beneath his shriveled skin, faint streams of golden light could be seen circulating madly!
Each time that light completed a circuit, his figure swelled a little more, and the aura on his body grew a little stronger!
At the same time, the dense Death Qi on his body was also surging wildly!
That Death Qi had originally been corroding his life force, but at this moment, it seemed to be forcibly suppressed by some power, driven back bit by bit by that golden light!
But this retreat did not come without a price!
For every bit of Death Qi the golden light forced back, the old man's facial expression turned a shade paler, and what little life force he had left was consumed a little more!
He was using the last of his life to exchange for this brief burst of power!
"Screech—!"
Another phoenix cry rang out!
The old man's figure had already expanded to several thousand zhang in size! His form was also changing rapidly.
His body was stretching longer; his arms were turning into wings; on his skin, enormous plumes began to grow one after another!
Those plumes did not have the color of an