In a sealed chamber inside a red castle amid a vast cluster of volcanoes, Primordial Spirit Life-Bound Lamps of every color filled the room. A cultivator appeared in a flash of black light, muttering complaints to himself. "Damn it! Who the hell killed White Jade Fairy and Black Baleful? The Palace Master chewed me out over it! Honestly, all I do is watch the lamp room. I didn't kill them! What bloody good does yelling at me do?"
"Huh?" Still grumbling incessantly, the cultivator was about to clear away White Jade Fairy's and Black Baleful's extinguished Lifebound Primordial Spirit Lamps when astonishment crossed his face. He rubbed his eyes in disbelief. Beneath White Jade Fairy's extinguished lamp, another Lifebound Primordial Spirit Lamp had gone out. Once he was certain it really was extinguished, he hurried over to inspect the label beneath it and cried, "What happened? Another one's gone out! Th-this... this is Grotto-Heaven True Person's Lifebound Primordial Spirit Lamp? Heavens! The Palace Master will scold me to death this time! Should I report it to him?"
The cultivator agonized over it for quite some time before deciding to report the news. After all, that was his duty.
But!
To his surprise...
When he reported the news to Sun Haotian, Sun Haotian did not reprimand him. Instead, he dropped into his large chair and sat there for a full quarter of an hour before weakly waving him away without saying a word. Yet the killing intent radiating from him struck terror even into this Nascent Soul Realm cultivator. The man hastily bowed with the utmost care and withdrew, afraid he might become the target of Sun Haotian's anger. Throughout that quarter of an hour, the killing intent had made him feel like a fish on a chopping block, liable to