Having passed through the step of being burned to ashes, it was now time for the most crucial stage: Nirvana Rebirth.
Surrounded by true fire, the pile of ashes gradually began to stir.
After a few more breaths, a tiny figure slowly crawled out of the ashes.
Yet the instant she left the ashes, her frail body was ignited. In the blink of an eye, she too became part of the ashes.
After some time, a palm-sized fledgling crawled out of the ashes once more.
Compared to the last time, her body was slightly larger, and a few sparse feathers had grown over her body.
Boom—
But within this land engulfed by roaring true fire, such a change was clearly still not enough to alter her fate of being burned to ash.
Thus, unsurprisingly, this fledgling likewise failed to achieve any further growth before merging with the ashes beneath her.
For a long time afterward, this place encircled by true fire continuously repeated the cycle of dying and reviving, living and dying again.
While Xuan Youli repeatedly endured the trial of burning flesh in pursuit of a transformation of her phoenix body, the expressions of the three cultivators within the cave shifted slightly.
In that instant just now, all three had sensed the aura of other cultivators approaching from outside the cave.
"Lin Qiao, Senior Sister Yu, hold things steady here for now. I'll go out and take a look first."
Chen Huai'an sent the two a message, then transformed into a streak of azure Dragon Shadow and swam out.
Upon reaching the outside of the cave, he came face-to-face with two groups of cultivators who had just arrived.
He was no stranger to one of those groups. They were the Kudhan Temple cultivators who had encountered the Yang Clan