Seeing the Tree of Life's aura grow ever weaker, its withering had nearly reached an irreversible point.
Vermilion Bird and Mo Ruier exchanged a glance, each seeing the same desperate resolve in the other's eyes.
"We can't wait any longer!"
As soon as she spoke, emerald light flared around Mo Ruier, and abundant healing power flowed toward the Tree of Life.
A trace of determination flashed through Vermilion Bird's phoenix eyes as she cried to the heavens, "The Tree of Life's revival hinges on this!"
"The survival of all living beings in the universe rests upon this tree! Only through sacrifice can true rebirth be attained!"
Before her words had even faded—
"Boom!!!"
Every feather on Vermilion Bird's magnificent phoenix body suddenly erupted with dazzling crimson flames.
But terrifyingly, those flames burst forth from the very source of her divine spark, erupting from within!
At that moment, she completely ignited the flames of nirvana by sacrificing herself.
"Vermilion Bird! You...!" Mo Ruier's pupils shrank sharply, and she cried out in alarm.
Vermilion Bird was actually burning her own life essence and divine soul as fuel, pushing the process of nirvana to an unprecedented extreme!
"You're setting yourself ablaze! You'll be burned to ashes—even your divine spark could completely dissipate!"
Yet Vermilion Bird's face within the flames remained exceptionally calm. "Within ashes, there are often seeds of hope."
"Grass Spirit King, please believe in me—and in the power of life's cycle!"
"Now, release our powers together, without holding anything back!"
"Bang—!!!!!"
As her words fell, the flames of nirvana around Vermilion Bird instantly expanded a thousandfold, as though they had become an incomparably massive crimson sun.
Within the flames, her phoenix body underwent an incredible transformation.
"Is this... a sign of evolution?"
However, Mo Ruier keenly sensed that beneath this facade