The preliminaries of the First Samsara Tournament took place inside the Inner Universe of one of the mightiest life forms in the known multiverse, the Revenge Thearch.
At simple sight, it seemed like a ferocious battle royale with the uniqueness that none of the participants truly perished, but it was much more than that.
The Revenge Thearch divided the preliminaries into stages, and the main goal was to harvest as much Raw Eternal Flame as possible. There were many ways to do it, with the most accessible being defeating the Flame Elementals spread around the Inner Universe.
Those Flame Elementals were incarnations made by the Revenge Thearch using creatures he captured in the Emptiness along with his Eternal Flame of Revenge. The strength of those beings had a wide range, but at the first stage, they were pretty weak, and most geniuses could easily defeat them with little effort.