The sealed barrier vanished completely as the Human World Fire ignited.
Qing Chen and Lu Rang stepped into the barrier, only to find a white jade altar ahead. Two ancient bronze lamps rested atop it.
At the sight of the two ancient bronze lamps, Qing Chen and Lu Rang both froze.
Because the ancient bronze lamps...
Had been lit!
And the flames burning in them were black...
"What's going on?"
Lu Rang was bewildered.
The Origin Lamps... hadn't they already been extinguished? They were supposed to use their own White Mist Origin and lives to light them again!
But now someone had already lit them—and with black flames, no less...
"Something's strange..."
Qing Chen was deep in thought as well. He said,
"Then how are we supposed to follow the path of sparks setting the prairie ablaze?"
The two exchanged baffled looks.
"Perhaps Senior Li has made other arrangements. Otherwise, why would he personally act to summon Saint Dao spacetime...?"
Just then, Huo Ling'er and Mu Wanqing walked over.
"Why don't we go back first and find Senior Li?"
Qing Chen and Lu Rang nodded. At this point, all they could do was return to the village first.
"I wonder where Master and the others are now..."
Lu Rang said.
Huo Ling'er replied,
"Kaiyuan Continent."
They had been following Heibai all along. Some time earlier, when the Thunder Emperor fell in Kaiyuan Continent, Second Uncle had burned yellow paper at the village entrance, summoned reincarnation, and seized control of Kaiyuan Continent's Heavenly Heart Imprint and power of creation. So Heibai, Huo Ling'er, and the others had already learned then that the Small Mountain Village was in Kaiyuan Continent.
"Good. Then let's head back to the village first!"
Lu Rang immediately brightened.
Without delay, he and the others set off for