"That aura on you... that foxy scent must have come from the fox at Bai Ze's side!"
"I know that scent too well. You must have met Bai Ze somewhere!"
"No, that can't be right. So much time has passed that old Bai Ze must have died long ago. Where could you have met him?"
Before Ji Yuan could speak, an elderly man's voice began chattering away in his ear.
He had no time to examine his surroundings. He immediately bowed again. "This junior, Feng Jiuxiao, greets Senior!"
He kept his head lowered, not daring to look up, while his thoughts raced.
How could there still be a living being inside Fallen Phoenix Mountain?
Could a Phoenix have survived?
Or was this like the Horned Dragon Clan's Inheritance Land, where the bodies of countless Phoenixes gathered in one place and gave birth to a new consciousness?
"That's enough. Come up here yourself, and you'll see me."
The aged voice gave a long sigh, then gradually faded away.
With the crushing pressure gone, Ji Yuan was finally able to stand.
Only then did he see what Fallen Phoenix Mountain looked like within.
The mountain remained dim and gray, covered in strange gray-black rocks. Even the sky was the same color, packed with dark clouds that hid the Great Sun.
It was an entirely different world from what he had seen outside.
And across the mountain, apart from those strange rocks, there were Phoenix remains everywhere.
Stripped of flesh and long since dried by the wind, some skeletons lay across the rocks. Others stood atop boulders, wings spread with all their might, as though they still yearned to take flight.
But the greatest number of remains lay not on Fallen Phoenix Mountain, but... in the sky!
Above the thick dark clouds, countless