The cave walls fractured, and the seawater was annihilated.
In the vacuum created by the sea of fire, a fiery red figure sat cross-legged, the center of an endless cycle. As the churning cyan flames gathered around him, they brought with them wave after wave of destruction and rebirth.
The Cyan Lotus Fire Sea still surged, but as time went on, its essence was subtly plundered and devoured. Though the flames raged, the cyan hue that bloomed like petals within them slowly faded from rich to pale.
The terrifying heat of the fire sea and its annihilating fury both began to slowly dim and subside.
Time trickled by until, finally, the sea of fire remained, still surging, but now a pure, crimson red. The cyan lotus petals that had filled the flames, that pure touch of cyan, were... completely gone.
