"Fellow Daoists, look!"
The Sacred Spirit Cult Saintess suddenly raised her voice.
As her words fell, the pure, sacred figure that had been standing atop the Phoenix's back rose once more.
Her hands intertwined as she formed another Buddhist seal in midair.
In an instant, a Buddhist seal in the shape of a swastika, spanning dozens of li, stretched across the heavens.
The seal's radiance was not particularly dazzling, yet against the boundless darkness, it appeared exceptionally clear.
As the swastika Buddha Seal slowly turned, golden rain suffused with a pure, sacred aura poured down from the sky.
The golden rain gathered in the air into a spiritual spring and rushed toward the summit of Ten Thousand Zhang Mountain below.
As the golden rain fell, before everyone's eyes, a Wutong Tree shimmering with brilliant Buddhist light burst from the mountaintop and soared deep into the clouds.
In no more than the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the swastika Buddha Seal in the sky vanished without a trace, and not a drop of golden rain remained.
Only a towering Wutong Tree, over a hundred zhang tall, with lush branches and leaves, glittering with golden light and shining resplendently, bloomed amid the clouds.
The Wutong Tree stood atop the mountain, firm and unmoving.
The Phoenix hovering in the sky, however, made another move at that moment.
A piercing cry rang out across hundreds of li as the flames around the Phoenix surged wildly.
In an instant, it transformed into a vast, terrifying fireball, a hundred zhang in diameter, like a blazing sun hanging in the sky.
The fireball spun in midair, dyeing a vast stretch of sky red and illuminating the land below.
Scorching heat spread swiftly. Fierce winds became waves of heat, sweeping across a hundred li.