The life and death of a Celestial Phoenix Divine Guard rested on a single thought from Pang Lin. With her strength and the Heavenly Daos under her command, reviving a Celestial Phoenix Divine Guard was a trivial matter. The real challenge lay in restoring that guard to their former cultivation realm. If not for the massive outpouring of life energy from Ling Yun's divine domain, even she would have found it difficult to recover Dong Tianze's lost cultivation realm. Fortunately, Ling Yun had been right in front of her! She had gathered not only his life energy but also everything he had stripped from Dong Tianze before, using it to restore her Celestial Phoenix Divine Guard to his peak. As Dong Tianze's eyes swept over the baffling turn of events in the Bewildering Dustlands, he could not help but wonder if he was dreaming or if this was perhaps the afterlife. Why would Pang Lin, the person I protected for so long because of Pang Jian, be hunting Ling Yun? Why are so many terrifying Fey Gods chasing down the Outer Gods? What cultivation realm has Pang Lin reached? What kind of existence is Pang Lin?! An endless stream of questions flooded Dong Tianze's mind. "Big Brother Dong." Pang Lin smiled, still wielding the Spear of Ruin and the Eye of Destruction as she pursued Ling Yun. "It's good that you've awakened. Don't worry. Your life and soul imprint are preserved in my hands. As long as I'm alive, I can always bring you back to life." Her words caused Dong Tianze to finally realize that this was no dream—he had returned from the dead. Life energy continued to rain down upon the World Tree, restoring its withered form into a lush glow. Pang Ling's tangible body emerged from the canopy. Her skin shimmered like polished jade, and the life energy radiating from her surged like a tide, gradually enshrouding the World Tree. Vibrant vitality gushed forth from the World Tree, birthing new branches and leaves at a pace visible to the naked eye. These new emerald-green leaves had natural veins that hid the profound mysteries of life, some from Ling Yun and others from the Life Crystal. The World Tree grew ever taller and stronger. Its life energy seemed to reach the heavens. "I'm about to break through!" Pang Ling's eyes were filled with joy. Bowing slightly to Pang Lin, she sincerely expressed her gratitude, "Without your help, Ling Yun would've already refined me by now. I would've become nothing more than a stepping stone for his cultivation." "It was nothing. Don't mention it," Pang Lin assured. Then, catching Zhu Ji's longing eyes fixed on the destroyed Spirit-Nurturing Hollow, she sighed. "Fine. I'll grant you a stroke of fortune as well." A mysterious force compressed the shattered Spirit-Nurturing Hollow. The complex array patterns and principles etched on its walls were redrawn and reconnected, enabling it to devour myriad energies once more. With a flick of Pang Lin's finger, the reassembled Spirit-Nurturing Hollow silently landed before Zhu Ji. The imprints that Fu Ya and the other Gods of the Spirit Race had once left within it had been completely erased. "If you refine this artifact, you'll be able to ascend to the Transcendent God Realm. In time, you'll undoubtedly become a pillar of the human race." With that, she drifted away to pursue the light that Ling Yun had transformed into. She intended to properly annihilate him within the Bewildering Dustlands, leaving not even a sliver of hope for resurrection. "Many thanks!" Zhu Ji bowed gratefully. With that, he entered the Spirit-Nurturing Hollow to start refining it with his divine power. Meanwhile, ancient True Gods like Lin Baixiang and Mu Qingya stared blankly at the battlefield, stunned to realize that their strength had not been needed at all. "Is it over already?" "That ancient God of Life, Ling Xuan of the Spirit Race, and Zi Wu of the Void Race didn't even put up a fight." "The Fey Gods of the Fey Race are truly unbelievable." Pang Lin's abilities, command over the Fey Gods, and possession of supreme divine artifacts were beyond anything they could have imagined. "Sect Master Su, when you took her as your disciple, did you know?" Li Wang asked quietly. Su Wanrou shook her head, looking perplexed. "I would never have dared to take her as a disciple if I'd known she was the Black Empyrean Phoenix from the Seventh World of the Abyss! "But what puzzles me is this—she's clearly the leader of the Fey Race, an ancient being whose existence spans the history of the starry skies. So why does she even bother acknowledging her identity in this lifetime?" The others considered her words, but were left similarly confused. There was no reason for Pang Lin to care about the human race or the fate of the Abyss. Despite that, she seemed to regard herself as one of them, part of the human race from the Abyss. She still recognized Su Wanrou as her master, Dong Tianze as her Celestial Phoenix Divine Guard, acknowledged the World Tree, and even accepted Pang Jian as her older brother. "I was the one to rescue her when Long Xiao captured her," Li Zhaotian said with a proud grin. "The two smartest things I've ever done in this life were going to the Sacred Soul Continent to save her, and taking Pang Jian as my disciple!" A spatial rift tore open in the shadowy fringes of a distant starry region. Tian Yu, the God of Space, stepped out. Shards of space shattered behind him as he emerged, with each shard reflecting a different universe, alongside manifestations of his divine power and Dao. Together, they formed his divine domain: the Shattered Void. The stable starry region fractured as the Shattered Void spread out and engulfed it in its entirety. This vast region of the starry skies became part of his divine domain in the blink of an eye. "Zi Wu." Tian Yu's divine consciousness echoed as a voice through the scattered shards arranged in an intricate array. Zi Wu's figure flickered into view within one of the shards. "Patriarch, save me!" Zi Wu cried in panic. A spatial rift tore open before him, and he desperately tried to rush into it. Suddenly, a sea of flames swept over, engulfing him before he could reach it. A piercing cry rang out as a resplendent Vermilion Bird emerged from the multicolored flames. Tian Yu's expression turned cold. A Vermilion Bird from the Fey Race. This confirmed his suspicions. The Black Empyrean Phoenix really had descended into the Bewildering Dustlands through the Illusory Void Realm and saved the True Gods of the human race. Fresh chapters posted on 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹~𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮~𝚗𝚎𝚝 "Black Empyrean Phoenix!" Tian Yu called through the shard. Pang Lin responded, "I'm here."