Su Mo's three-hundred-meter Divine Body kept striding across the void, with the Phoenix Carriage pursuing relentlessly behind him.
The Phoenix's enormous body kept chasing Su Mo as he covered ten thousand miles with each step. His mountain-sized body was clad in a Confucian Robe as white as jade, and his long hair danced wildly like flying silk.
Su Mo had to stop and recover after every step, while the Phoenix Carriage behind him was likewise growing sluggish in flight.
Inside Su Mo's Spirit Sea, the Great Calamity watched the Phoenix Carriage pursuing relentlessly outside yet growing slower and slower. Gradually furrowing his brows, he asked the Mysterious Maiden in puzzlement, "Why do I feel like something's wrong with the Phoenix Race?"
The Mysterious Maiden nodded, looking equally perplexed. "By rights, they should have caught up long ago. But why are they getting slower and slower too..."
"And the aura inside the Phoenix Carriage keeps weakening..."
Suddenly, the Great Calamity seemed to remember something.
"They say every generation of the Phoenix Race faces a death tribulation, and only through nirvana can they be reborn. I hear the Phoenix Race has failed to achieve nirvana for several generations now..."
A Phoenix entered nirvana and was reborn in fire.
The Mysterious Maiden froze. "You mean... the Phoenix Race wants Frost to borrow its power to survive the tribulation of bathing in fire?"
The Great Calamity nodded, then shook his head. "Possibly."
The Mysterious Maiden thought for a moment and said nothing more.
"Stop! Hear me out!"
In the void above a vast stretch of unbroken mountains spanning ten thousand miles, the Phoenix Carriage caught up with Su Mo once again.
Seeing that Su Mo was about to stride across the void again, the voice inside the Phoenix Carriage sounded distinctly anxious and