Compared with the Demon Dispatch Scroll, the Hong Jue Lotus Platform was fundamentally different. The former was a true wolf cub with rebellion in every bone, difficult to tame; you could only tie it down with a rope and turn its power to your own use. The Hong Jue Lotus Platform, however, was more aloof by nature. Its attitude of ignoring others and refusing refinement had never been directed at you from the beginning—it treated everyone this way, including Jue Honglian of the Seven-Colored Lotus Realm.
Only after you gained the True Phoenix Form did your shared origin with her cause this lofty treasure's origin spirit to begin accepting you. Step by step, through countless encounters and events, the two of you had become true companions.
When faced with the choice between entering the core region of the Immortal-Demon Battlefield to contend with the immortals and demons of All Heavens for the treasures that might appear, or aiding the Hong Jue Lotus Platform at this crucial moment and helping it pass the first trial of Spirit Origin Transformation, you chose the latter.
For this, you spent four days, continuously using up five Five-Ring Dao Grade Immortal Fate Stones to swiftly replenish your Immortal Essence. Only then did the "Spirit" trial of the Hong Jue Lotus Platform's Spirit Origin Transformation finally pass.
Four days had gone by. It was already your twenty-fifth day in the Immortal-Demon Battlefield. At this point, you should originally have reached the core region and begun the final fifteen days of fierce contention.
Yet your own condition was still poor. Restoring yourself would take half a day, and by the time you set out again and reached the core region, the struggle within would likely already have been decided. Once the treasure's winner had obtained it, why