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Thousands of years sailed by after that, and the memories swirled nonstop in a swift timelapse showing the passage of endless seasons.
Each scene depicted Feng Lian and Yu Xuan in varying scenarios...
From strangers who spared barely a thought...
To strangers who at least registered the other's presence...
From strangers curious about each other...
To odd companions that might drink together or sit down to a game of chess...
From friends...
To confidantes...
And to much more...
The visions swirled in quick flashes, showing the unmistakable signs of closeness between the two.
But as their joys grew year after year, the shadows of worry grew with them.
Yu Xuan was running out of time...
His ten-thousandth year had come and gone, but thanks to Feng Lian's strongest flames- Sunfire flames- the Dark Flame had been choked and kept at bay.
In fact, Yu Xuan had acquired Immortal techniques, his black aura turning gold, and his black frost, though more frightening, was now purified into a sheer white, tinged with his gold aura.
However, after so long, Yu Xuan had begun to feel the Dark Flame's will surfacing in tiny ways.
Sometimes he would snap at a fairy maiden or servant who interrupted his reading in the slightest. Sometimes he felt furious for no reason. And sometimes he awakened from nightmares where he had gone on a bloody rampage in Sky Realm.
He was indeed only a half-demon, but he didn't fool himself...
Being a half-demon made him even more dangerous.
He could master both types of cultivation, and was also capable of stronger emotions.
If he ever turned evil, those same emotions would be the perfect fuel guiding and excusing all his evil deeds!
Yet the two couldn't bear to part with each other...
"A-Xuan, didn't we manage to keep it at bay for so long? Let's try purging a few more times, uh?" Feng Lian often cajoled.
But neither of them felt hopeful...
The effectiveness of Feng Lian's Sunfire was growing weaker each day, because Yu Xuan had grown too powerful, and the dark flame had drawn from that power, surrounding itself within layers upon layers of dense qi which Yu Xuan himself couldn't break through.
This prevented Feng Lian's Sunfire from reaching it, and as for her phoenix feather within Yu Xuan, it no longer held much weight...
Feng Lian clearly did not want him harmed, so even the will behind the feather was weak.
The turn of events forcefully reminded this unfortunate couple why they had met in the first place.
A Love Tribulation.
And Love Tribulations often ended in bitterness and sorrow...
Fearing the worst, Yu Xuan had poured himself into studies.
Anything from medicine, to seals, to formations... All were studied in a bid to eliminate the dark flame.
And finally, he found some success...
He mastered several sealing techniques, including one which sealed the dark flame to a certain extent, using Feng Lian's sunfire as an outer shield on the dark flame's own barrier.
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