It was as though Yuanfeng, uncertain of her eventual fate, had deliberately created a knockoff identity.
She had used her ability to be reborn through fire.
She had created alternate identities such as Vermilion Bird and the Southern Brahma-Treasure Changyang Elixir-Spirit True Lord, the Elixir-Spirit True Lord Red Emperor.
Even if her identity as the ancestor of phoenixes had fallen into nothingness, and the body of an innate divine being that embodied her power had sunk into Void Return...
Still, what did the death of the phoenix sovereign have to do with Vermilion Bird, a mutant of the Phoenix Clan who had once barely managed to serve as a phoenix elder for a while?
And what did it have to do with the Southern Brahma-Treasure Changyang Elixir-Spirit True Lord, who merely liked flames and often refined pills at the mouths of the volcanoes at the South Pole?
Yuanfeng had indeed been sealed within Void Return along with her innate divine body.
Throughout all those years, she had never once stopped trying to crawl out.
She had even made a small move!
Back in the Human Race's late ancient era...
Before Emperor Yang Jian moved against the last ruler of Southern Tang, who was also his younger brother-in-law...
Something important had happened.
A phoenix had suddenly fallen from the sky into his imperial harem, and in an instant, a hundred birds had circled his palace, singing.
Then Yang Jian had founded Great Sui.
Its ruling virtue was fire!
A portion of the phoenixes' fortune had fallen into Empress Dugu's hands.
At the same time, the Human Race and the Phoenix Clan had exchanged a portion of their respective fortune.
Even now...
Within the great thousand world governed by the Great Sui Dynasty, the most numerous members of the Demon Tribe belonged