Far away, at an unknown distance, a sealed chamber stood inside a red castle amid a vast cluster of volcanoes. The chamber was filled with primordial spirit life-bound lamps of every color. Suddenly, one lamp burning with black-and-white flames went out.
"What happened?!" The instant the lamp went out, a cultivator appeared out of thin air. Seeing the extinguished lamp, he cried out, "White Jade Fairy! How did White Jade Fairy die?!" He examined the primordial spirit life-bound lamp repeatedly, confirming that it had indeed gone out, then muttered, "What happened? Is a great calamity truly about to descend on our Fire Dragon Palace? This is already the seventh Nascent Soul Realm cultivator to fall. I must inform the Palace Master!" With that, he stirred, preparing to leave.
Suddenly!
"Pfft!" Another primordial spirit life-bound lamp, this one burning with black flames, abruptly went out!
"What?!" The cultivator nearly jumped in fright and hastily looked toward it. Seeing that it really had gone out, he exclaimed, "Black Baleful! Black Baleful has fallen too! This... how is this possible?!" He stared at the primordial spirit life-bound lamp in a stupor, his thoughts unreadable.
A long time passed!
Only then did black light flash around the cultivator, and he vanished into thin air.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!" After he disappeared, another Lifebound Primordial Spirit Lamp, burning with dark green flames, went out.
Meanwhile, back at Four-Tower Cave Heaven!
"Whoosh! Whoosh!" A spinning white beam flashed through the air.
"Boom!" In the blink of an eye, it struck Black Baleful in the back just as he was about to fly away! The spinning white beam pierced straight through his back and shot onward.
"Pfft!" Black Baleful vomited a great mouthful of blood and lowered his head in disbelief to stare at the gaping hole in his