The moment the altar collapsed, Pei Yubai saw with his own eyes that the contractors were torn apart by the strange beasts of the mountains and seas - and he was pinned in a pool of blood by the only nine-tailed fox and was on the verge of death.
In despair, the Phoenix bloodline that had been dormant for eighteen years exploded in his chest. The boy reborn from the ashes jumped up on the fire of Nirvana, and was shocked to realize that his contract with the alien beast was not to tame it, but to... Devour it. The nine-tailed fox trembled and backed away, as if it saw the ancient natural enemy engraved in its blood. Pei Yubai clenched his scorching fists, feeling for the first time the madness and loss of control of this power - the flames that burned everything were spreading along his meridians.
But the real fear had just begun. The seal of the Book of Mountains and Seas bursts, all beasts are restless, and all forces are chasing the monster that "swallows strange beasts". And Pei Yubai vaguely heard the neighing of the phoenix in his body: Its nirvana seemed to be born only for destruction...
