The moment Ling Xiao and the others stepped onto the Asking Dao Platform, the surrounding scenery abruptly shifted. Eighteen prayer mats emitted a soft glow, enveloping everyone within them. A strange force permeated their Consciousness Sea, stirring up the deepest obsessions and fears hidden in their hearts.
Huo Wu found herself back in the ancestral land of the Phoenix Clan. Flames towered all around, and the corpses of her clansmen were piled as high as mountains. Young as she was, her mother Qingyu tightly shielded her underneath, and her mother's final parting instructions echoed in her ears: "Survive... you must survive..."
"Mother!" Huo Wu cried out with a heart-rending shriek, trying to grab her mother's gradually fading figure. But no matter how hard she tried, she could not change the fate of her entire clan being wiped out. Despair flooded over her like a tidal wave, and the golden flames in her palms flickered uncertainly.
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