The Divine Asura Domain, the Realm Lord's Hall.
The grand hall was paved with white divine jade, its radiance held within.
At its head, on an even loftier divine throne, sat a middle-aged man dressed in dark robes.
He was Xuanji, the Lord of the Divine Asura Domain.
At that moment, Xuanji's expression was grim.
More than a dozen figures stood in rows below him. Each possessed an unfathomably deep aura, and all were core leaders of the Divine Asura Domain.
The atmosphere in the hall was oppressive, so quiet one could hear a pin drop.
Just moments earlier, three Life-Soul Lamps enshrined in the Divine Asura Domain's central forbidden grounds—the lamps representing Luo Tian, Luo Qingshan, and Huo Ling'er—had all gone out without warning.
This meant that not only had the three died, but their True Spirits had been utterly erased at the source.
"Can anyone tell me what exactly happened?"
Xuanji's icy voice echoed through the hall.
"A mere Flowing Light Domain, an insignificant disturbance. We sent Luo Tian, and he even took the Heaven-Inspecting Mirror. How... could he have died?"
His voice was not loud, but the fury it contained sent a tremor through the hearts of every peak Hunyuan Wuji expert present.
An elderly man in gray Daoist robes, bearing a composed air, stepped forward and bowed.
"Domain Lord, this matter... is indeed deeply strange."
He was Ming Luo, the Grand Elder of the Divine Asura Domain.
"Immediately after the three lamps belonging to Luo Tian and his companions went out, I contacted the Ten Great Dao Realms of the Flowing Light Domain."
"The Ten Great Dao Realms sent word that the Life-Soul Lamps of the dozens of Hunyuan Wuji cultivators they sent to assist Luo Tian have not gone out."
"Yet those cultivators have likewise