Inside the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, everything was pitch-black.
With a flash of firelight, the Falling Heart Flame Spirit swiftly slipped into the tower through its blasted-open spire. Its long body wound forward, quickly passing through the lowest level of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and entering another place.
This was a cavern, surrounded by stone walls that gave off a faint glow. Below lay an uneven platform of obsidian.
The platform was covered in protrusions of all shapes and sizes—some smooth, some sharp. Pits were scattered unevenly across the obsidian platform, and through them, the scorching magma flowing below could be clearly seen.
However, above the lake of magma below was also a barrier emitting a faint Seven-Colored Light.
This was also the seal once placed upon the Falling Heart Flame Spirit by the dean of Jia Nan Academy, meant to prevent the Falling Heart Flame Spirit from escaping through this magma lake.
After all, with the temperature of a Heavenly Flame like the Falling Heart Flame, if left unrestricted, it could easily melt through earth and stone and bore its way out from underground. This had to be guarded against.
After entering the cavern, under Bai Ge's control, the Falling Heart Flame Spirit immediately opened its mouth and spat out the two humans in its belly.
Amid splashing transparent flames, two humanoid masses of flame—one blue, one green—were spat from the Falling Heart Flame Spirit's mouth and rolled onto the uneven obsidian platform.
After landing, the flames around the blue humanoid mass quickly went out.
At the same time, the blue flame mass rolled over, then leaped to its feet. As it quickly moved away from the Falling Heart Flame Spirit, it revealed its true form: a blue-robed young man clad in blue Dou Qi Armor.