The next morning, at the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.
Normally, the area outside the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower would have been bustling at this hour. Countless Jia Nan Academy students would be standing around the basin, waiting for the tower—of which only the tip emerged from the ground—to open.
But today, there were hardly any Jia Nan Academy students in the surrounding area. It had been completely encircled by the academy's Inner Academy elders, while quite a few students watched from afar.
Yesterday, the academy had suddenly driven out all the students cultivating inside the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower and announced that it would be temporarily closed starting today. Such a major event naturally could not go unnoticed by the Jia Nan Academy students.
Especially since this huge group of students had little to do every day besides cultivate. Now that they did not even have a place to cultivate, of course they had to watch the excitement first.
If Su Qian had not mobilized nearly all the elders to guard against the Fallen Heart Flame escaping, while also maintaining order and preventing the students from approaching, the place would probably have been packed to the brim already.
Standing at the edge of the basin, Yang Chen looked down at the ancient, enormous black tower within it. A faint light flickered in his eyes, and the scene before him suddenly changed.
The towering giant tower vanished, leaving only an entrance several yards wide, sealed by a formation. On the other side of the formation, an enormous invisible python floated amid endless magma, its cold serpent eyes staring directly into Yang Chen's.
But after only exchanging a couple of looks, the enormous invisible python immediately lowered its head. Some strange hiss seemed to echo through the subterranean magma.