The Scene at the Underworld Source! The Nine-Colored Six-Winged Three-Legged Mysterious Bird!

The Myriad Tribulations Reincarnation Lotus seemed to have become the sacred treasure of the Underworld Source. Like a ravenous devourer, it plunged its vast, tangled roots deep into countless pools of Mystic Liquid that glowed with an eerie light.

Each root was like a greedy maw, frantically drawing in the essence within the pools. That essence seemed to be the crystallized souls of all things, shimmering with a mesmerizing radiance.

As the Myriad Tribulations Reincarnation Lotus continued to absorb energy, the very air between heaven and earth trembled.

Meanwhile, the beings mercilessly chosen from the various Reincarnation Roads were drawn along the lotus's thick, winding roots as though by invisible ropes, and began to climb.

Their figures appeared and vanished among the roots like ants lost in a dark maze, struggling toward the distant Ultimate Ancient Land.

What awaited them was an ultimate transformation that would decide their lives and fates.

The rules of this cruel trial were simple and merciless: anyone who failed to transform would instantly become nourishment—"fertilizer" for the final victor and the Myriad Tribulations Reincarnation Lotus.

Every being who set foot on this path had wagered their life in a gamble between life and death.

In the past, the Phoenix-Winged Bone Dragon had witnessed the ultimate transformation begin several times along this ancient road, so steeped in mystery and danger.

Each time, the many chosen beings had yearned for power and dreamed of the future, pouring everything they had into their transformations.

Yet fate had proved cruel. On both occasions, not one of them had broken through those shackles.

At last, amid a heaven-shaking roar, all their bodies burst like fragile bubbles. They became a brilliant rain of light that drifted down into the roots of the Myriad Tribulations Reincarnation Lotus and nourished it.

The Phoenix-Winged